July 2d.  The Wisconsin Democrat, of this date, contains an interesting sketch of the history of the Brotherton Indians, which is represented to be “composed of the descendants of the six following named tribes of Indians, viz., the Naragansetts, of Rhode Island; the Stoningtons, or Pequoits, of Groton, Connecticut; the Montauks, of Long Island; the Mohegans, Nianticks, and Farmington Indians, also of Connecticut.  Several years before the American Revolution, a single Indian of the Montauk tribe left his nation and traveled into the State of New York.  He had no fixed purpose in view more than (as he expressed it) to see the world.  During his absence, however, he fortunately paid a visit to the Oneidas, then a very large and powerful tribe of Indians residing in the State of New York.  With them he concluded to rest a short time.  They, discovering that he possessed ’some of the white man’s learning,’ employed him to teach a common reading and writing school among them.  He remained with them longer than he at first intended.  During this time the Oneida chief made many inquiries respecting his (the Montauk) tribe, and the other tribes before mentioned, and received, for answer, ’that they had almost become extinct—­that their game was fast disappearing—­that their landed possessions were very small—­that the pure blood of their ancestors had become mixed with both the blood of the white man and the African—–­that new and fatal diseases had appeared among them—­that the curse of all curses, the white man’s stream of liquid fire, was inundating their very existence, and the gloomy prospect of inevitable annihilation seemed to stare them in the face—­that no ‘hope with a goodly prospect fed the eye.’  The Oneida chief, actuated partly with a desire to extend the hand of brotherly affection to rescue the above tribes from the melancholy fate that seemed to await them, and partly with a desire to manifest his deep sense of the valuable services rendered to him and his nation in his having taught among them a school, gave to the schoolteacher a tract of land twelve miles square for the use and benefit of his tribe, and the other tribes mentioned.”

The treaty of the 14th of January, 1837, with the Saginaws, is confirmed by the Senate.

3d.  The Arkansas Little Rock Gazette, of this date, states that the long existing feud in the Cherokee nation, which has divided its old and new settlers, has terminated in a series of frightful murders.  Its language is this:—­

“We briefly alluded in our last to a report from the west that John Ridge, one of the principal chiefs of the Cherokee nation, had been assassinated.  More recent accounts confirm the fact, and bring news of the murder of Ridge’s father, together with Elias Boudinot and some ten or twelve men of less distinction (some accounts say thirty or forty), all belonging to Ridge’s party.

“These murders are acknowledged to have been committed by the partisans of John Boss, between whom and Ridge a difference has for a long time subsisted, growing out of the removal of the Cherokees from the old nation to the west, Ridge having uniformly been favorable to that course and Ross opposing it.”