a hundred dollars' worth in goods for the body. Obtained the title of a distinguished warrior among his nation.
May 12.Majors Dougherty and Davis held council with the Potawatomies and proposed an exchange of country. The Indians unanimously refused to treat, and declared upon the wampum belt (equal to an oath among the whites) they would not and could not enter into any engagements, a great majority of their brethren being absent. They expressed a desire to see all former treaty stipulations first executed: they had no confidence in a new treaty.
24. A war party of Sauks discovered three lodges of Omahas on the head waters of the Boyer consisting of nine men and twelve women. Invited them to a friendly smoke; accepted, be lieving them to be Potawatomies. They were treacherously murdered and their women taken prisoners. Danced nine days round the scalp post in the Sauk village. Huzza ! for the Indian braves.
25. Two Potawatomies killed on the Chage [?] river in a drunken frolic.
27. Three Potawatomies drowned in the Missouri, supposed to be drunk.
28. A Potawatomie poisoned on the Mosquito while drunk. Frequently the case.
30. Arrival of the steamer Wilmington with provisions. A war of extermination appears preparing around the poor Potawatomies. Fifty large cannons have been landed, ready charged with the most murderous grape shot, each containing thirty gallons of whiskey, brandy, rum or alcohol. The boat was not as yet out of sight when the skirmishes com