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The Runner, or Indian Talk.

Of Savage Nations the polished European, and even American, speaks with contempt. We resort to them for examples of the fiercer passions, unconscious that we too hate, and we revenge, but—in the silken garb of civilization! If such a novelty could be found, as a Creek or Cherokee Press, an Indian Editor might publish a paper like the following:]

ADVERTISEMENT.

MONS. BELLISLE, Hairdresser, Complexionist, and Perfumer, from Esquimeaux, at the Talapooa, dresses young men's heads for the War Dance, with or without Snakes and Feathers: he is master of the Cherokee cut, the Muskogee braid, and the Choctaw twist. He paints faces to admiration, with his genuine crow blacking; he raises the cheek bones, and affords the true rattlesnake cast to the eyes; he gives to the most squaw-faced young man, that horrid manly look so frightful to the enemy, and so pleasing to the young women.

He has, at great expense, procured the genuine Hottentot, Caffrean PeaSe Bladder, from the Cape of Good Hope.

N. B. Mons. Bellisle was body Hairdresser to Little Billy.

Vermillion, Red and Yellow Ochre, Lampblack—and other Cosmeticks; Deer's leg Oil, Esqui meaux Blubber, Bear's Grease, and other perfumery, wholesale and retail.

Extract from the White Men's Publick Talk. From the great Council Torun, on the Schuylkill.

"The Old Beggar, who was found starved to death, on a dunghill, in this city, proves to have been a soldier, who served with reputation, during the whole war, in the late continental army."

"The body of a young woman was found in the water, near a wharf in this city, with her throat cut from ear to ear. By other marks of violence on the corpse, it appears that this unfortunate young person had been first ravished, by some villain."

From our brethren of St. Tammany, at New-York.

"Yesterday was executed in this city, seven men for forgery, three for perjury, and ten for Horse Stealing. As these sights are common, few persons attended."

"We hear from Black-River, North Carolina, that on Sunday, the day dedicated by white men to the Great Spirit of Love, a set battle was fought, for forty-one guineas, between Sawney Mac Broughton, and Frank ap Dowe, to the infinite diversion of a numerous collection of gentlemen and ladies. Broughton, with inconceivable dexterity, broke the jaw-bone of Dowe, and the odds were in his favour for twenty minutes, when Dowe gouged both the eyes of Broughton from their sockets, which decided the battle. The parties shook hands, and drank a quart of whiskey together, to shew that they had no malice at heart."

From Charleston, South-Carolina.

"Last Sunday evening, a duel was fought in this city, between Col. Carte and Lieut. Pierce, in which the latter was dangerously wounded, and harm." These gentlemen were particular friends. The dispute arose about the character of an actress. The parties seemed inclined to adjust this difference amicably, but: the rigid laws of honour prevented. They shook hands before they fired. The Col. has left a widow and five small children to lament his loss, which is the more inconsolable as they depended entirely upon their deceased parent for their education and support. But the seconds say, this affair was conducted according to the strictest rules of HONOUR."

From over the Great Pond.

"The young Sachem of the Bull tribe, over the Great Lake, owes even beavers' skins. His father, the Mad Bull, has offered to pay his debts, if the Bull Nation will give him from their hunting stock, two beaver's skins every twelve moons, until the sun and moon shall be sunk in the swamp without borders."

"We hear from France, that our ancient brethren, the French, the friends of the Hurons, have tomahawked their chief Sachem and his Squaw, and half starved the royal papooses. They have scalped and tomahawked more men, women and children, than are in the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Missouri, and Five Nations, and all of their own tribe. It is said they made great canoes, and bound their brethren, their sisters, and their infants, with moose thongs, and then sunk them in the river, without allowing them time to sing their death song."

Great Spirit! Those who give thee accounts of themselves in their publick talks, are those people who call thy red children barbarians and savages.

[Indian Editor.]

Shuewegee, who visited the Great Wigwam in Philadelphia, twenty and sixteen moons ago, says it is not true, as is commonly believed, that the Big Book of the white men teaches them all that deceit, cruelty and ferocity, which they exercise one towards another; but that in one talk of it they are expressly commanded to love one another, and even to love their enemies. Tho' we apprehend from the white men's doings, that Shuewegee, not well understanding their tongue, must have mistaken this talk. No-No-Doubtless their Big Book tells them to deceive, hate, gouge, scalp, tomahawk, and murder each other.

THE MONITOR.

The first man, as the white Powwows say, was called Adam: because he was made of red earth, he was a red man. You, who are nearest to him in colour, are most excellent among his children. Do you act with the spirit of red men. The white men, who have been adopted among us, must not let the white of their faces sink into their livers; but shew the tribes, that it is possible for a white skin to cover an Indian spirit.

PUBLIC SALE.

To be sold, by pine knot, twenty piles of mu kele, twenty bundles of pike, twenty strings of great war horses, twenty heaps of camp kettles taken at the fight of the Miamis, from the great white runner, St. Clair, with a curious crutch, supposed to belong to some Great Captain; also one bay horse, taken one day's journey, from the camp of the flaming warrior Wayne.

BEN. SCALPUM, Manufacturer, from England, at Lake Erie, near the Miamis, makes and sells cutloes, scalping knives, and tomahawks, and has on hand a large quantity of brimstone matches, and seasoned pine knots, for the tormenting of prisoners.

N. B. Wanted, a young lad of good disposition, as an apprentice.

OBITUARY.

Gone to the world of Spirits, Talothefke; he was a great Cherokee warrior, had twenty scalps in his wigwam, and the cup he drank his black drink from, was the skull of a chief. His wife has dreamed twice that he has conversed with him, and is soon, therefore, to go to him; his wolf dog was sent to him yesterday.

Also, at Tucorara, Fox Feet, the great hunter; he killed more Wauppanaughs, than Frenchmen have killed Frenchmen; he would dive the falls and catch a salmon; he changed the religion of his fa- ther because the Jesuit Powwow told him that St. Peter, his chief Sachem, was a good Atherman, and would teach him to take mummychog in the lakes of the moon.

MARRIAGE.

Yesterday deposited the shivers of the live oak. Ouabi, the son of the white chief, Ind Azakia, the daughter of Ouabi the big warrior, who ma- ny moons ago rushed into the land of Spirits, to demand of the Great Man, why he was not before called to his seat beyond the woods and waters.

DOMESTIC TALK.

Last moon, a party of the big knife, of fifty young men, came upon a Wh d f-oibo souiit ing or an old man, his squaw, three young wo- men, and four children, and barbarously murdered them.

Yesterday thirty white warriors, supposed to be Yankees, by their trail of Molasses, stole two horses from the banks of the Chattahoochie. Same day, they got an old Cherokee drunk, and stole his beaver pack.

Last moon, Natewego delivered an Elegant, Spirited Talk, or Oration, in commemoration of the Bloody Massacre at Wyoming.

It is said, that at the grand council of the Mis- souri, a Shawanee chief proposed to send a large number of canoes to take possession of a certain savage Isle in the Great Lake, called Rhode-Island, to bring away some of the inhabitants, to learn them their language, and then send them some warriors to civilize them, and some powwows to teach them the true religion.

When the white prisoners, taken at St. Joseph, were carried among the men of the Bear Nation, they would not allow them to be in the same rank of man with themselves. Doubtless, said they, their ancestors were red men, as we all came from one common stock: but these creatures are whitened by disease, like the decaying leaves of the woods. They therefore painted them with red earth and coals, to make their appearance supportable to the young men and women.

Published at TALAPOOSA—One string of Wampum for twelve Moons, and one Talk each Moon.