The New York Packet

The Maryland Gazette informs us, that Mr. Alexander Dromgoole had lately arrived in that town, on his way to Congress, with an Indian Chief, one of the Cherokee nation. We are told that this Chief's business is principally concerning a treaty held at Hopewell, on the Keowee, between the Commissioners of the United States of America and the Head Men and Warriors of the Cherokee nation. By this gentleman we learn that the Creek nation are encouraged to war against the settlements of Georgia and Cumberland; and it is said that all their towns at this time are supplied with large quantities of powder and lead, by the Spaniards for that purpose. It is also said that the northern Indians are all determined to take up the hatchet this summer, in retaliation for the depredations committed by the Kentucky people in burning their towns last fall. That there have been some French traders at the Muscle-Shoals, on the Tennessee river, last winter, trading from Detroit, who have been encouraging the Cherokees to go to war, but they pay little attention to their council.