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DOMESTIC. TIIK MISSOURI TKItHITOltY. i ?.\mvi.7i? cr:ruct4 if alfHtr from an officer at t\>ri Otag* tloteJ ,tpril 28. >Ye wore ordered to thin pout, where wrtf arri ved mi the 'Mill of March, from IKiMe-Fontaine, 1.5 miles: above Ht. I.oui*. This fortii*' beautiful - I v *itu .tc<l Hi) the bank of th? Mlwouri river, a IV-.ut 4<>0 miles* above its month, anil on the boun dary line between tho Missouri territory and the Itidian lands n<ft vet purchased. There arc tlicee .,r four small settlements on tho river btftwuen ;'u, }n>st anil it* month. Our nearest white i.r'mhbiirft ore those <lf llonn't settlement, about ; 00 miles below us, near the mouth ol th? Lc Muinn river, and about 00 mile* above tho mouth of the Osnge river. 'lite greater part of the country between thin place ar.d tho mouth of \!i?*ouri, over which I have travelled or hunted. equal or superior to any part of tho United ^lale* in point of situation and fertility f and, iiuir>4 some nnloicaecn occurrence should pre rut. this vast tract mubt oiu* day be the garden uf \tuerica. t >ur nearest residents and daily visitor# arc III-: and Little Osa>;o nations and the Caic m?iiloii: some id' iIickc tribes arc always with us. ?Mum are numerous and powerful, but frieudly i., us. The Invaii and Hattc nationi) arc below ... mi tin* tirund river t they arc frequently with ?;<. Though they took an active part in the late i ?u r against us, they now profess friendship?! i.u: \\ e keep a sharp eye on their conduct. None ..i the tribes farther iiortli or west have vi.itcd us. Some ofthein oro expected in the course ol the summer. They aro not so friendly ; they continue to commit murders and robberies, par runlarlv when they meet our hunters near the mountains or Spainsh lines. A Mr. Greenwood, a hunter and trader, came into the fort a fow days a<ro. who was robbed by the Puwnce In dians ol" about 1300 or 2000 dollar* worth of pro pei 1 v t he and his three comrades esciqied with nothing but their lives. A repot t has reached us ihnui"h him and two other channels, that a Mr. t 'hoiiteau, with a party of 20 or 50 men hasbcun nMarked and robbed ) that some of them were hilled and the rest dispersed, by the Indians near the mountains. 1 intend, by next autumn, if I can obtain permission, to tuke two or three \,bites and a party of l>sage Indians, and visit i ho f'alt mountains, lakes and ponds, and sue the i ami-ill curiosities of the country along the moun 1 ains. The salt-mountain i? but 3 or GOO miles we?st of tliis place. . . , r> We have been honored by a visit from to. lonel Boon, the first settler of Kentucky \ he lately spent two weeks with ns. This singular n,an could not live in Kentucky when it became x'tliod. He has established a colony or settle r;ent, as mentioned, on the Missouri, about 100 milt's below Ms, which has been nearly destroyed bv the Indians during the late war. The colo nel cannot live without boing in the wooils. lie {foes a hunting twice a year to the remotest wil derness he can reach ; anil hires a man to go ..it!, him, whom ho binds in -V r.li\ e. lie left this for the river /'/off, some dis tance above. C olonel Iloon is eighty-live years id'asjC, fix o feet seven inches high, stoutly made, arid active for un* of his years t is still of vigo rous mind, and is pretty well informed, lie lias taken part in all the wars of America, from be fore Braddock's war to this present hour, lie has held respectable state appointments, both civil and military j has beun a colonel, a legisla tor, and a magistrate ; lie might have accumula ted riches as readily as any man in Kentucky I hut A* prefvrn the woods, w here you see him ill ihojIaM of the roughest, poorest hunter. ^ to a oiurrtiMAK is mcsMOxn, viso. >1. is, May 13th.?It Is at length asccr lained that every thing will immediately beA i.uil on thin fiMtta Vou will recollect ..'iter the treaty at fortngede* Bloux last autai tho Sn? s and Foxes of lttfblt River wero the ii?? ? ii?? "? " ------ Vi -mIHb v Inutile Indians who refused to IdentifjM ?:our??' of policy thev designed to pursue. 1 <li*tuitt cause whirft governed their disposition .,t that period is not known \ but it is generally i, si i ibed to the artful and insidious tampering* ol the. trader# who are permitted to go among them. However, be this as it may, ten daysago a deputation of the jnincipal chiefs ami warrior* arrived at tliis plfcce pursuant to an in timation from our government j and last week met the American commlssisioners in Council. The condition* 6f a treaty were presented these Indians (with nutch energy on our pvrt) as a M"wr qua non to m-gociate. At first they besita ted and cavilled?and scorned desirous to soften down the offered tenns. Thi* howover had no *ll'ect { and the condltion? of the treaty were o* ureed to, which will this day be presented and Vimied. They are to confirm all former treaties ?"to relinquish the prisoners of war?and to res tore the property they have stolen since the con-v elusion of peace with Great Britain. The people of your state seem to have * Pr?t ty just estimate ol the great advantages anordei adventurers on this side of tho Mississippi# I mow of no department of life where ft reapec table Virsrininn could no. enhiinco nil wWWJi and at tlie same timo prese.*e Ins social bappt nrf i and tranquility. Ther*: is an ample fetun dity of soil to invite the agriculturist. Inooi*', trions maiiiilarturers and mechanics IH'?fco*c<! * and in a rapidly rising country like this, tliey are.certainly a very useful people. rjwttWj prfvemeuti* are rommencing, and no<M? wm fi'iicfforwerd lie continued with grc?ffleFIV~ Vi-t it is difficult to procure workmen I ?vln'ii procured, you have them of the weit ?n* difierent order, and at the most extra*agan uric*. This great misfortune ran only be reme died by drawing from the elate, virtuous atuler. terpri?;ing mechanic*. *mA Tho vast quantities of mineral** ?aline* and furs on tho llpper Missouri, Mississippi *n"f l inois shortly promise to be a great sjiurco of A ?. i-rii an *|?.'Culation. 1 radewnwedjatelr in the nrticlcs is inevitable. But how far reader** a?Jy interest by tho govern ofliwwryf rt.ccl individual entorpnse, I know plosion nf; thc rc.,ortof tho Secretary of the ytorm, w? \o a Ino It Ticasury upon that subject, but little hope is entertained that the administration will .aban don their system of factories, so "baneful to the aood of the western country. Official'agents lis'c already established trading hoiiseiyitrrai rc do Clucii and at Port Osage. None as yet ! is Axed on tho Illinois. ?" Lands can be purchased in thiv territory'at the pricc of from two to three Honors f which, were they in many parts of Virginia could not bo had for fifty or ono hundred dollars ber aero. Why the great difference of valu^ God only knows. Kvery thing a farmer raise? here can bo literally roflcd to the river, and conveyed to any uuarter of the globe. Private claims are certain j and but rarely indeed do we hear of a land dispute. The public lands ro into market this summer. They of course admit of no con testation. 'With regard to profession!, I must confex* that this town is sufficiently furnished. Law and Phyftic aro pretty well dealt wit, and upon tolerably easy terms. However, in other parts of the territory, there in a scarcity even of these people who aro generally as plenty as the locusts of Kgypt in any American climate but this. I am not prepared to pronounce upon tho qualifi cation* of the medical faculty ; hut I apprehend it is highly respectable. The bar i? considera bly meritorious in point of legal information. Oratory or Elo<|Ucnco is not to be reckoned a mongits characteristics. Nevertheless* manv of the lawyers arc expert in managing tho feel* I iiura of our backwoods jiiries. I Judging by my own experience. I would pro nounce the climate tiie most healthy I have ever lived in?and really there is at little tdckness and disease of ony liind prevailing as in any part of America west of the mountains. Those that do occur are generally of a bilious character, and easily checked. 1 do not believe that more than ten persons have died in tho wholo district of 8t. Louis, including tho town, within tho last two years. Where could so small a bill of mor tality 1 h! elsewhere found ? Upon tho whole, I conclude that Missouri is to be tho most formi dable link in the great western chain before ten yearn elapse ?Enquirer. Nkw-Ohlraks, May 9.?" Hefore this reach es you, no doubt you will have seen many ac counts of our recent calamity, the overflowing of the river. This, like all other great and sud den misfortunes, will be exaggerated by some, and made insignificant by others. I will endea to give you a description of It as far as it has come immediately under my observation.?Last Monday, the levee at M'Carty's plantation, a bout eight and an half miles above the city, gave way, and a body of about twenty feet of water broad aud six feet deep, rushed in and made its wav towards the swainp. The levee was abso lutely undermined by the craw fish (with which the river abounds) about 5 or 6 feet tinker water, so that human foresight could scarcely have guarded against it. l ne flood toting swollen the river very high, the watet* toon> made a chan nel way for itself over the levee, of about one unceulnii ~M'V " ** ***? " Tho swamp was filled in about two days, and it is now filling back parta of the Fauxbovtg* and the city, next to the swamp.^ It, however* will not rise much higher in the city | because, even it the crevice ia not stopped, the awamp be ing so much lower than the city, the water con stantly forcing in on it, will Una an otltlet ovrr its extreme edges into the lake*. Th? persons appointed by the authorities to repair me breach in the levee, are very sanguine they can do It iu A or 4 days ; but there are many well informed men who differ with (Item In opinion. The city runs on a very considerable inclined plane from the levee to the swamp. The water will never be able to tin than one third of It About twenty yaa?*ag6, a similar accident took place very near the same spot, and at this sea* son. The water then rose not much higher than it is now. lite levee remained open a consider able time. It was eventually closed, and the water in and about the city shortly disappeared. I am inclined to think the breach will lie repair ed in the course of a week, and that business will not be interrupted, as th4 parts of the town overflowed and oveHlowiug, are principally in* habited by the poorer class of whites and mulat toes. In short, we apprehend nothing, except a : pretty smart yellow fever, if we have a dry sea*! son f but, if it proves to be a rainy, one, we are1 as safe n* vou are." i The Latent.?A letter received by a gentle man in Baltimore from New-Orleans, dated May lft, confirms the statement of the Louisia na Gazette of the 17th, that they have no hope of stopping up the crevasse In tho bonk of the Mississippi, until the water in that river shall fall to its usual level i and that the v had ceascd from the attempt to stop the inundation. The citizens of New-Orleans have in many instances suffered great loss, and those whp have not beon directly injured by the inundation, arc so much alarmed by tins dread of its causing a pestilenti al disorder, that numliers are preparing to leavo the city. It is greatly feareu, that this calami tous occurrence will tend to check the growing prosperity of Now-Orleans^?Federal Gazette. Distressing Fire at Nalelgh, *V. f.?On Tuesday night last, about 11 o'clock, our citi /ens were alarmed by a cry of fire, which was found issuing from Bnaw's counting roc in, and Itapread with such wonderful rapidity that in two hours upwards of fifty buildings, compri sing dwelling houses, stores, shops, &c. were cousunicd. Tho wind was light and favorable or the destruction must have been much greater. The progress of the flames was finally arrested by the streets in other directions, and at John Htuart's dwelling house on the north, principal ly by the blowing up of one house, nulling down part of another, and by tha fortunate interventi on of a number of trees. The heat was so in tense that the hand could not endure a contact with the weather-lKMrding of tho houses on the west side of Payettevillo street, which is 09 feet wide. Thft 9tar offico wa* twice on fire, as woo also John ffotloway'* new house, hut with oxtrcme difficulty they were saved. To the mirth tlio flakes of burning cinder* were carried to a great distince. The roof of tbe 8tato House was Hoverat times on fire* an wan niiiothatofthe Kagle Hotel* yet more distant j tin; Stato Houhc was saved by placing a number of men in the steeple and on tlio roof. Ttie Are fell upon Judge Beawell's house which is more than ,a quarter of a mile Irom tlio scene ol devastation. Mrs. Casso'a buildings wero also several1 times on fire,.but were happily saved. , This dreadful visitation found us wholly unprepared for it.? We had neither Are engine*, buckets, ladders, matches,, nor pulleys j Ind the few hooks we had were useless tor tlio 'want of ropes. W* were slso unprovided with regulations to ensure a covert of exertion. The greater part of the ffood# and household furniture was saved from those houses which were not attacked in the com mencement. Kvcry thing that our almost help less situation permitted ua to r!o, was done.?? Many ladicx, during the conflagration, wero ob served exerting themselves, with the greatest e ncrgy nml effect, and thoy displayed. in some in stance*, wonderful presence of tuinu an well as tlie most heroic contempt of danger. Tho seve ral strangers who were present also distinguish ed themselves, and deserve our warmest acknow ledgements t and we must be permitted to ?ay, that the blacks conducted themselves with great propriety, rendering every where all possible as sistance. The principal sufferers are John Mar shall, Mathew Shaw, Win. 8haw, T. fit J. Scott, Clark & Smith, R. Harrison, l)r. Rattle, 0. Tho mas, John Duiiii, Joseph Ross, Randolph Webb, O. .Scott, Samuel Rogers, A. M'Daniot, John Miller, I?. llolloman, Uco. Hall, Neate lfrown, Jan. Menrs, William Curtis, C. Christophers, M. P. Mayes, & Co. R. Nutt, A. M'Kethen,G. W. (iriincs, T. Powers and John Stuart. The great eat looser in Gwtdn were T. W. 6c J. Scott, and It. Webb. [Here follows a list of lite Tenements destroyed.] It is estimated that the whole loss exceeds onu hundred thousand dollars including that sustained by tho United States. One or two gentlemen lost their books, papers, and even the citih they had on hand, such was the vio lence with which the dames progressed. Fortu nately, in a few instances, insurances had taen effected; but upon the whole, we do not re member that any town of the site of ours, has within many years. Suffered so severely from fire ns we havu in this instance. Tho spectacle yet presented by the smoking ruins is gloomy be yond description. Titer* seems to be but little doubt that this conflagration was the work of some vile incendiarle^ iConjectures as to the persons are uniform} and expectations are en tertained that they will bo detected and brought tvJustice. At the eommcncement of the fire, Captain /Parsley* keeper of tho prison, very SSsfeStpS Information, we understand*TOttl been received thf^ery day before, that somodes)tftrate attempt fm that pur|H?se would In all probability be tnado!?Star, June 14. Mlllfdgtvillfi June 1&?Rxtrnct of a letter irom an frtlviiiKvui. v> th<\ Kdiior? ?f this paper, dated Fort-8t6dd?rt, t(kh May, 1816. "I have just heard of tlie safety of Mr. I?aw*on ono of the Surveyors who was sup posed to have been cut off by a party of tho lios tiles. Ho passed unmolested, though considers hiuiself fortunato ; the Indians ^rere frequently near him, and often discharged their rifles, &c. I doubt not they w ill commit some depredation at a period not very distant, notwithstanding c very public exertion is made, and will be en forced, to suppress their present, opposition to the completion of the Survoy. Tliu murderers of Johnson and M'llasky have not been disco vered, but such steps ere ordered to be taken as will doubtless ensure their apprehension. Re connoitring parties will bo kept out, with in structions to treat as enemies, every party of Indians found on the ceded territory, after al lowing those who are not provided ror by the treatyof Port-Jackson, but still remain within tho united States limits, a reasonable time to re meve. For the moment this will create commo tion, but there is sufficient force to crush any Indian tribe. Should the murderers of Johnson and M'Gaskey have taken refuge in Pensacola, they will be formally domandedj and if refused, I hope the government will take such steps as to have them forthcoming. Tho commissioners have as far as practicable, completed tlie boun dary line between the United States and the ('reek Nation. Tho government will have to treat with the Chock-taws. Che-ro-kees, and Chick-a-saws, before any thintr more can lie done | those tribes object to tho limits as defined by the treaty of Fort-Jackson. You havu doubt less, ere tlifs, seen the treaty ns concluded with the Deputation of the Che-ro-kees. subject to tho ratification of the Nation?there is no doubt of its being sanctioned. Comparing tlio.AC limits or boundaries with tho treaty of Fort Jackson, we lose an immense valuable tract of country.? There will lie a strong work erected on tho Ks cainbia, near the Hue of demarkatiou with Spain, which it is to bo hoped will prevent the present intercourse with our red brethren." The Communication which follows disclosing an act of villainy almost incredible, was fur nished by an intelligent gentleman of undoubted veracit v. " Two persons armed by the names of Sirolto and John Castellow were on their way, passing through the county of Jasper, on the 28th ultimo, enquiring for the road leading into the Cherokee Nation, having in their custo dy five Spaniards, in Sailors dress, whom they say it is their intention to sell to tip Cherokee*. Oil enquiry, they say* they purchased thorn in Telfair county, and that one of the two paid part down and gave his note for the balance of the consideration money, to which tlie other in a witness. Itut the unfortuiiate persons in custo dy, intimate, in terms hardly Intolligjibto, not be ing able to speak English, that they are from Kurope,and being strangers in Peti*acola whore they landed, were docovcd by theso two Wwf rtcnnn out of town by fair promises j and having got tlie'm in their power, confined them in such a manner an to render resistance useleM. In this manner, it appenn, they havo been driving thej-c men on foot, (tidy on horse-back and well armed) these Spanish prisoner* (bat indicates any mix ture of African blood In weir vciua > ami tosuf* fjurfpreigners unacquainted with our language, cuatomsand manner*, whom mlnfurtiine liiiadri ven upon our coaat, to be treated with aucli iu li u inanity and tiioHe who are4he author* of audi brutality, to escape with impunity, would bo a reflection upon the government, and a slur upon the American character. It iahojH'd that prompt meaaurea will bo taken to rcleane tlieso unfortu nate men, and tip putiUh tlio oftenden*, who, lit naaning throMgh'tho country, take unuaual pain* to avoid detention and elu*de the officers ol jus \\co.?(JeorglnJuurnat. IFanHington, June 10?There ban been in IliU city, fur soino dsys nut* A Delegation from tho Chickasaw Nation or Indians, cohiintinK of Ge neral William Colbert* tliq great War Chief of tho Chickasaw*? Mnjor James Colbert* Inter preter of the United States | Kt-tli*sue, Mingo, I tliogreat Orator; Appa-sau-tub-bce, a Chief) I Chas*tau-ny, and Col-leet-chee,. Warriors? j conducted by Mr. Wigton Kin*. These Chiefs j and Warriors, with tho rest of Their nation,took an active part in tho late war against our com bined white and red foe* in the South, and can boast they never spoiled the blood of a white man, except in wnr, nntl then have alwava taken part with tho United (States. Gen. Colbert lion particularly distinguished himself. He with se ven other* of his Nation fought with us an long ago as at St. Clair's defeat | nnd, in the late war, beforo his nation was ready for tlie fight, ho singly ioined tho fld Hcgimont of tho United i States infantry) after remaining with them nino , months, he returned to his nation, collected his ' wartfprs, and marched to Fort Montgomery on tl^oPnobama, from thenco against Pensacola, crossed the Escambia and pursued the flying lios- ) tile Creeks near to"Apa)achicola, killing many of the enemy and returning to Fort Montgomc' ry with 85 Creek prlso ners. The business of < tnejDetegattphatthis city was to obtain a iwr manent adjustment of boundaries between tnom and the Creeks, Cherokces and Chactaws j for which purpose Commissioners have been ap pointed. They have been satisfactorily paid, also, at the'War Department, for thoir Milita ry services daring the lsto war, and return home, touse their own expression." with gratitude and thanks to the President, and their white brothers, as well as glad hearts to their wives tc children." It is bat just to add* their appearance and de portment are such as to entitle them to respect 1 fHOM KNCiLANI) ANI> FHANCv The Rditors of the New-York Gasetto have received, by the ship Chauncey, Captain Dow ilall, the London Courier of tlio 22d of April.? The trial of sir Robert Wilson was to commence at Paris on tlio 22d, and it was supposed would occupy the wholo wcek. The indictment ap potu*'ln tho CouHoiv JThoS*mo p?por announ ces the death of tho F.mpress of Austria, at Ve rona, on tlio 7th, in tho 29th year of hpr ago.? The Budget in the French Chamber of Deputies, had been brought,to a conclusion?257 being for it, and only 0 against it. It wns immediately to be communicated to the Peers, where it would probably pass. After which tho King would prorogue the Chambers to the middle ofDctober. Tho French funds had advanced ? little. A case of great importance was to come before the tribunal of commerce at Paris in a few days. A Fort Folio, containing Paper to tl^p valuo of 2,000,000, was left atthoThuilleries on tho 20tli of March. Bonaparte on his itrtval. took pos session of it, and carried it to Waterloo, having, when ho fled, abandoned his eftrriajp* the Port: Folio remained In it: tho Bills were after wards negociated at a Hanking House in Lon don | the validity of which transaction will b? decided by tho nbovo Tribunal. Tho marriago of Prince Cobourc with the Princess Charlotte, wan not postponed?it was to take place the 2d of Muy. Wheat had advanced in London 6s. per quarter, and flour 10 per sack. The Mar uuis D'Osmoud, had succeeded the Duko do Chatre, as FrcnclHministcrnt the English court. American papers to the 17th of March had been received at Loudon. The project of sir Sidney Smith, for tho repression of the IJnrbary Pirates, ami the rescuing Christians from slavery, meets the approbation of tlio French governments? Another largo disembarkation of troops' from France, was almut to tuko place at Dover, which hasbccome tho grand depot for all tho regiments from France. Tho report* of disturbances at Strasburg, and tlio bloody contests between soma Austrian soldiers and the French peasan try, In the VoHges, are contradicted. Talley rand was to pass tho spring at his estate at Va lencay. At f?ondon, .1 per cent, Consols were, 01 1-13-8?Four per cents. 7.1 l-H?Omnium 18. A luto London paper says?44 A new musical drama, called Uny Mtmwriiig (taken from tho novel of that name was performed for the first time last night. M'g Mrrilirn, the most pro minent character, an nhe bursts from the author's imagination, is u creature of which mortality hardly presents the model. Impassioned, aw ful and irresistible?swaying tho destiny of all around her, and carried away huadloug by her own, she borders on the preternatural in the powers ascribcd to her. She is u portrait for tho pencil of Michael Angelo. It would be impos sible fully torealir.e on tho stage, to embody in an ordinary mortal form, and to give cxprc*si ons through human organs to tlio spirit of that indefinable. I>cing, tinged with melancholy, clothcd with fierce grAii'loiir, and breathing pro* pheecy, to which, wo are sum the mind of eve ry reader of Uthj. Mminirlu* must hit# paid in* voluntary homage*">The play begins with the return of Guy Mmmriup; to'Kllengowan, after many years absence, thus embracing only the e - vents which immediately preceded the grand catastrophe, the rtfttriram of He it ram, apt! the destriiction/dl MrklMUraltk k his associates. Vyiiom.?'Tho nubllo aro aware of the separa* ! (Son of Lord nnd JUdy Byron whoso marriage is