Rhode Island Republican

CARLISLE, (PA.) Feb. 11.

By a gentleman who left St. Louis, (upper Louisiana,) on the 31st of December last, we are informed that a party of the Sioux Indians, took the opportunity when the Osages were out hunting, came in on their Towns killed about a 100, consisting of old men, women, and children, and took about as many prisoners. A number of the Osage Indians asked protection from the United States, upon which General Wilkinson sent a Lieutenant Hughes, with a detachment of thirty men to demand the prisoners. A few days previous to his leaving St. Louis, an Indian Chief sent down by Captain Lewis, from about 500 miles up the Missouri, had set out from St. Louis for the City of Washington, attended by Lieutenant Clifton, and an Interpreter: he is for the Rickara Nation, of a dark complexion, and remarkably corpulent. At the time of our informant's leaving that place they had received no account of the destruction of captain Lewis, and his party. It is therefore hoped, that the report that has been in circulation of their being cut off, is without foundation. as we have reason to suppose, had such an event taken place, they would there have received the earliest intelligence.