The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

SHEPHERD'S-TOWN, June 20.

A person by the name of Welch, passed through this town on Thursday last, who very industriously circulated a report that the Indians, to the number of 8000 were embodied in Kentucky, waiting to oppose the army now on their march against them; and that a reserve body of 6000 Whites and Indians were collected at Niagara, to reinforce the 8000, if necessary.—This same Mr. Welch said, that he was from Carlisle, and that his information might be relied on as authentic—but, on examination, it appears, that he is a refugee-surveyor, directly from Nova-Scotia, and, in all probability, was on his way to Niagara with secret dispatches to the British garrison there, and that his design in propagating so daring a falsity was, to discourage the recruiting business, now prosecuting with great success in this quarter.—The public would do well in apprehending such reporters of improbabilities, and detaining them until some colour of evidence could be adduced, by which such information could be grounded.