Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

CESSION
OF INDIAN LANDS.

Copy of a letter from governor Mitchell,
agent for Indian affairs, to governor
Rabun, dated Creek Agency, Jan. 28

Dear Sir,—I have but barely time to
announce to you the execution of a treaty
with the Creeks on the 22d instant, by
which they have ceded to the United
States, for the use of Georgia, two considerable
tracts of land. The one lying to
the east side of a line, to be run from
what is usually called Jackson's treaty
line, by the head of a creek called by the
Indians Al-cau-hatchee-likie, a direct and
the nearest course to the Ocmulgee river.
The creek referred to empties into the
Ocmulgee somewhere near the Big
Bend, and not far above Blackshear's
road, but how far the head of it extends
is uncertain; although, from its size being
considerable, it must of course throw
the line considerably above its mouth.—
The other tract lies between the Flint,
Chattahoochee, Appalachicola and Chattahoochee,
and is said to be of considerable
extent and value.

The price stipulated for the two tracts
is one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

I expect to leave this for Georgia the
first fair day, and will then have the
pleasure of presenting for your consideration
an exposition of facts and circumstances
attending the present state of affairs
in the Creek nation, upon which you
can rely; for I perceive by the public papers,
that as usual false impressions
are entertained, and mere conjecture taken
for real facts.

I am, &c.
D. B. MITCHELL