

 Indian Hostfluies.--Extract of letter from an Officer ofthe Army, dated

 PRAIRIE Du CHEN, May G.

 < sWhen coming down the Mississippi on the faftof timber, war party of Si- oux came to me, and landed on the raft. but did not offer any violence. They were seventy strong, and well armed; and when they arrived at the Prairie. they were joined by thirty Menominies, and then proceeded demn the river il ii pursuit of theSacks and Foxes, wholay below. This morning they all returned, and reported that they had killed lOof the Foxes, and two squaws.--I saw all the scalps, and trophies which they had taken; such as canoes, tomahawks, knives, guns, war clubs, spears, &c. X. paddle was raised by them in the air, on which was strung the hand of squaw. and sealps.--They killed the head Chief of the Fox nation, and took from them all the treaties which the nation mad made since iSi5. l saw them, and read such as wished. One Sioux killed, and three wounded, was all the loss of the Northern party. The Winneba- goes, have joined with the Sioux and Menominies, and the Potawatomies have joined with the Sacks and Foxes We shall have great battle ina day or two.''