"Blackhawkiana"

BLACK HAWK AND THE SENECAS, &c.

The party of western chiefs, under the conduct of major Garland, consisting of Black Hawk, the Prophet Napope, the Prophet's adopted son and brother, and Black Hawk's son, arrived at this place on Friday of last week, and remained until Sunday morning, when they took passage in the steamboat for Detroit. On Saturday morning they rode over to Black Rock for the purpose of looking at the union of the grand canal with the lake at that place, and also to have a fair view of the Canada shore. Black Hawk immediately pointed out Fort Erie, and appeared to be familiar with the country around. He was there during the last war in the British camp, at the time when, as he expressed himself, the "Americans walked in the fort." In the afternoon the party visited the Seneca Indians, who had collected at the council house on the reservation to receive them. They were addressed by capt. Pollard, an old and very respectable chief of the Seneca nation, who, after expressing the pleasure which it gave them to meet the chiefs of the Sacs, and after alluding to the present state of the aborigines, counselled their brothers to return home with a peaceable mind, to cultivate their land, and no more to fight against so powerful a people as the whites. To this both the Prophet and Black Hawk replied. The former said, "We have heard your talk---it is full of truth and good advice---we shall go home in peace, we wish that all the tribes were collected on the fine lands west of the Mississippi. I will not make you a long talk---we only came over to see how our brothers the Senecas lived, and we are glad to see you." Black Hawk said, "Our aged brother of the Senecas who has spoken to us has spoken the words of a good and wise man. We are strangers to each other, though we have the same color, and the same Great Spirit made us all and gave us this country together. Brothers, we have seen how great a people the whites are. They are very rich and very strong---it is a folly for us to fight with them. We shall go home with much knowledge that we have got on our journey. For myself, I shall advise my people to be quiet and live like good men. The advice which you give us, brother, is very good, and we tell you now that we mean to walk the straight path for the future, and to content ourselves with what we have, and with cultivating our lands."

The chiefs of the Black hawk party behaved themselves with much decorum and propriety. They were visited by most of our citizens, and every opportunity was furnished by major Garland to gratify the curiosity of all who came.

They will proceed over land from Detroit to Chicago, where a military escort will receive them, and convey them thence to the Mississippi.

A large party of the Oneida Indians, under the charge of the agent, mr. Savage, left this port on Wednesday last for Green Bay, in the schooner Globe. They are numbered in all, men, women and children, 145---were well provided with every thing necessary to render them comfortable in their new habitations, and seemed happy in the prospect before them.