Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

STAUNTON, (VIR.) MAY 27.

Extract of a letter from Gov. Sevier, of Tennessee, to his friend in this place, dated Marble Springs, May 14.

"By last mail, I received an express from Gen. Jackson, stating, that 440 Creeks and 12 whites, have taken a position on the south bank of Tennessee, near the mouth of the Duck river, and had killed near about 20 persons, and took some horses, &c.

"If this be true, we shall have warm work this summer; I have given him orders to dislodge them, and otherwise to take defensive measures only, until further orders."

INDIAN MURDERS.

Gen. Isaac Roberts, of Tennessee, has issued orders to the militia of his brigade, requiring them to be in readiness for actual service in consequence of an apprehension that the Indians intended to commence a warfare on the whites.—Gen. Roberts, in his brigade orders, bearing date the 27th April, says, "I have lately received information from Gen. Andrew Jackson, that the Indians have murdered three families, consisting of twenty-one persons, a small distance below the mouth of Duck river, and two days previous to that, they attacked a boat of Maj. Colbert's, in Tennessee river, on board of which were five white men. They killed two, and wounded three, one of whom has since died of his wounds.—The general's informant reports, that there are encamped on the south bank of the Tennessee, a hostile band of Creek Indians, amounting to four hundred and forty, and with them twelve white men."