N^o 3 Holston Dec^r 21^st 1789 Further Intelligence from the Indian Country announces that M^cGillivray has sent a deputation of Creek Headmen to the Nash Indians to encourage their hostilities against our Western Settlements. — These deputies it is said passed down the Tennessee — in a light Canoe and went thence to proceed up the Ohio to the Wabash. — It is not the [undecipherable: result] of Common Information [undecipherable: only] — delivered the Chickasaw chief at Richmond [undecipherable] danger of being intercepted — And peace is not the [undecipherable: prospect] while [undecipherable] the Guarantee of the United States are not [undecipherable: apprised] of the disposition of the [undecipherable: Indian] nation for war against the Creek Indians, previous to the [undecipherable: obtaining] of [undecipherable: their] Supplies Might not the weight in some degree be yet counteracted, if an intelligent Officer of the American Troops on the Ohio — were before spring [undecipherable: introduced] into the Chickasaw Country, to sound the Chiefs on [undecipherable: amity] and promise and if [undecipherable: possible] promise them all the decisive [undecipherable: action]. The same dispatches might be encouraging among the Chactaws I have the honor to be with the Esteem & Respect Sir Your most Obedient Serv^t Arthur Campbell The business can be done at half the expence, if [undecipherable: proper] marches are [undecipherable: pursued] and [undecipherable] provisioned [undecipherable] only a number of pack horses and Waggons and [undecipherable: Boats] carry them and [undecipherable] Army — May not the business be [undecipherable: preceded] by placing the whole of the [undecipherable] on the frontier — this will make the propriety of [undecipherable] We all know the deep part of the [undecipherable] as at this [undecipherable: Season] — this [undecipherable] may be at [undecipherable] one of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and notwithstanding — the face of [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] post at the [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] will not be [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] who will be [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] materially [undecipherable] adopted by a [undecipherable] Nations — and if [undecipherable] cannot [undecipherable] extend in [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] will be very [undecipherable] and not [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] to be already [undecipherable] from a [undecipherable] source [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] Spaniards — [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] as to [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] passage [undecipherable] furnished and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] is of [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] under the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] advantages in [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] shall not [undecipherable: carefully] would not be [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] — for [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] by a further [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] there [undecipherable] alliance [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] — The Garrison must be [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] to Muscle and bring the [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] — the [undecipherable] [undecipherable: taken] [undecipherable] into a [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] an [undecipherable] It is a [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: natural] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] Indian [undecipherable: tribes] to [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] for their [undecipherable: provisions] — the [undecipherable] is the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] Trade — it is a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] I have the honor to be &c. [undecipherable: for] I [undecipherable: am] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Carolina [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] — and I know it is [undecipherable: so] the [undecipherable: wish] of [undecipherable: this] to [undecipherable: call] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] is from [undecipherable: near] the Kentucky Country [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] river from Cumberland [undecipherable] and from the [undecipherable: last] Settlements [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: boundary] [undecipherable: Yellow] Ridge and the Alleghany [undecipherable: Mountains] — [undecipherable] the Western Counties in Virginia and [undecipherable: parts] of Pennsylvania [undecipherable: thereof] ought to be [undecipherable: put] to the [undecipherable: order] of Governor S^t Clair [undecipherable: Three] Men [undecipherable] may [undecipherable: rendezvouz] [undecipherable] at the mouth of the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] may proceed in [undecipherable: Boats] down the river to the [undecipherable: most] [undecipherable: convenient] [undecipherable] which is within [undecipherable: 60] miles of [undecipherable: the nearest] [undecipherable] Town on the Mobile. Their [undecipherable: Boats] may [undecipherable: serve] as [undecipherable: cover] and Store. The [undecipherable: other] 1000 [undecipherable: which] ought to be [undecipherable: light] Infantry and Cavalry can proceed [undecipherable: over] land [undecipherable: thro] the [undecipherable] South [undecipherable: side] [undecipherable: Cumberland] Mountains and [undecipherable: form] a junction [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable: other] [undecipherable: Division] as may be appointed — [undecipherable] the Chactaws [undecipherable: ought] to be [undecipherable: called] with a view to attack the enemy in [undecipherable: flank — the] other [undecipherable: and the] Georgia Militia [undecipherable] ought to [undecipherable: advance] on the [undecipherable: Oconee] and [undecipherable: menace] [undecipherable: our Lower] Creek Settlements — [undecipherable: An experienced] and [undecipherable: spirited] Commander ought to be [undecipherable: appointed] to [undecipherable: direct] [undecipherable: these] operations — General [undecipherable: Lincoln] is the man that seems [undecipherable: now] to be the [undecipherable: popular] [undecipherable: favorite] — He ought to [undecipherable: early] to [undecipherable: have] his [undecipherable: head] quarters [undecipherable: somewhere] on the [undecipherable: waters] of the [undecipherable: Tenasee] [undecipherable: near] the [undecipherable: Boundary] of [undecipherable: this] State — at [undecipherable: Big] Creek [undecipherable: near] the [undecipherable: line — from] [undecipherable: thence] the [undecipherable: navigation] of the [undecipherable: Tennessee] will [undecipherable: be convenient for conveying] the [undecipherable: troops] It can hardly be expected that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] General [undecipherable: Lincoln] could be induced to go at the head of [undecipherable: 2000] Men [undecipherable: make] a [undecipherable: fatiguing] [undecipherable: expedition] — He will only [undecipherable: consult] on the [undecipherable: expedition] from [undecipherable: which] much may be expected — And if he will only come as far as the general [undecipherable: rendezvous] give orders [undecipherable: be] [undecipherable: transmitted] to the whole — [undecipherable: undertake] the [undecipherable: rest] — I [undecipherable: promise] that there will [undecipherable: be] [undecipherable: active] capable officers [undecipherable: in] the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: dangerous] [undecipherable]