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from the whites. - An Indian stood before the commissioners clad with the most ragged garments, his hair dishevelled & his face blackened & wearing the expression of grief & fatigue. His daughter with three others had been murdered & scalped by some hostile war-party -- He had just arrived from the scene of slaughter, his heart was sore, he said, & he could not rest until he crossed out: reached here told his father, (the commissioner). They had been set upon by some ten men as they were travelling in a hitherto safe country & fired upon from an ambush - They at first ran