Daily National Intelligencer

INDIAN HOSTILITY.

TO THE EDITORS.

St. Louis, June 19.

On the "wings of the wind," and under the whip of the express, each week brings us sad news. Peace is proclaimed throughout the land—but war, savage, cruel war, rages on the frontier, on our waters, in the heart of the settlements. The soldier engaged in carrying the news of peace; the brave officers and men, aiding their brethren in arms and their defenceless fellow citizens, are slain; the unsuspecting father, mother, and lisping babes, are butchered in the yard, as is the traveller within three miles of a town; yet, in this scene of blood and destruction, our men in authority feel themselves bound by the instructions under the treaty, not to carry on war at all, against wretches who wage every day the most sanguinary and odious species of warfare. We could raise men enough to crush those monsters, at this moment butchering defenceless families, yet called to the treaty; but, the Governor, blamed by many without cause, it is supposed, would not sanction, or would feel himself bound, to oppose such an expedition. This is a most dreadful state of things! The detail of those horrid transactions, more alarming than they ever were in the heat of war, you will find in our newspapers. Seven chiefs of Ioways, Sacs and Foxes, our most sanguinary enemies, arrived last evening in a U. S. boat from Rock river, with the messengers sent thither to invite those and other tribes to the treaty. Nought in this letter is produced "in malice." They are unadorned statements of facts—of events that have occurred, and those now passing. Brig. Gen. Bissell arrived here on the 10th inst. the day on which the military command of Col. Russell ceased. The latter gentleman sets out for his residence near Lexington on this or the next day.