From the Political Clarion of Oct. 9. 2

 THE BATTIF-GR
THE BATTLE-GROUND.

 twill be nineteen years on the 7th ol next month, since the combined forces of the Northwestern Indians under the Shawnee Prophet, brother of Tecum- seh-were defeated by the U. $. Troops under Gen. HARRISON. The battle Ground lies only few miles above La fayette on the Wabash, near the Proph- cts town-a region which was then un- tanned, and where the Indians had been undisputed lords from time beyond tra- dition. This bloody battle was princi- pasly fought before the dawn on the morning of the 7th Nov. ISIl. Dur.

 ing that day and inc succeeding, the American forces remained on the bat tie held-interred thier dead, and pre- pared for return down the Wabash, which was commenced on the 9th. A few days after the departure of Gen. Harrison and his gallant army, the rout- ed Indians returned to the field to their oyerthrow-tore our killed from their graves, scalped them, and left their bones to bleach on the open plain. And according to the Kentucky Gazette, of that time, the Indians buried their own killed in the same graves where our honored dead had been deposited The bones of our Countrymcn laid whi- tening, scattered over the field until a few wears ago. At which tinn Cant Huntington of Terre Haute, with com pany of young men, revisited the bat tie field, partially collected the bones of the fallen, and inhumed them in a diff ferent place from their original deposit.

 Soon after the return of the veteran HARRISON from South America. we were informed of his determination to revisit the field where his valiant follow CTS fellicollect all their remains and er- ter them with appropriate honors.