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indian hostilities cease.

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fellow aid of Owen, was mounted ou a horse of the Governor's; hut Taylor was not injured, though the horse he rode was killed under him.

The battle of Tippecanoe was fought upon the 7th of November. In a few weeks afterward, Harrison addressed the Secretary of War as follows:

"Vincennes, 4th December, 1811. " I have the honor to inform you that two principal chiefs of the Kickapoos of the Prairies arrived here, bearing a flag, on the evening before last. They informed me that they came in consequence of a message from a chief of that part of the Kickapoos which had joined the Prophet, requiring them to do so, and that the said chief is to be here himself in a day or two. The account which they give of the late confederacy, under the Prophet, is as follows: ' The Prophet, with his Shawanese, is at a small Huron village, about twelve miles from his former residence, on this side of the Wabash, where, also, were twelve or fifteen Hurons. The Kickapoos are encamped near to the Tippecanoe. The Pottawattamies have scattered and gone to different villages of that tribe. The Winne-bagoes had all set out ou their return to their own countiy, excepting one chief and nine men, who remained at their former village. The latter had attended Tecumthe in his tour to the northward, and had only returned to the Prophet's town the day before the action. The Prophet had sent a messenger to the Kickapoos of the Prairie, to request that he might be permitted to retire to their town. This was positively refused, and a warning sent to him not to come there. He then sent to request that four of his men might attend the Kickapoo chief here   this was also refused. These chiefs say, on the whole, that all the tribes who lost warriors in the late action, attribute their misfortune to the Prophet alone; that they constantly reproach him with their misfortunes, and threaten him with death ; that they are all desirous of making their peace with the Hnited States, and will send deputations to me for that purpose, as soon as they are informed that they will be well received. The two chiefs further say, that they were sent by Governor Howard and General Clarke, sometime before the action, to endeavor to bring off the Kickapoos from the Prophet's town ; that they used their best endeavors to effect it, but unsuccessfully. That the Prophet's followers were fully impressed with the belief that they could defeat us with ease; that it was their intention to have attacked us at Fort Harrison, if we had gone no higher; that Racoon creek was then fixed on, and finally Pine creek; and that the latter