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Recollections of the Little Turtle and other Indians. The Little Turtle, with several other Chiefs, spent two days at Ellicott's Mills, during Christ-mas week of 1807, attended by Wm. Wells, the United States Agent for Fort Wayne, as inter-preter. They had been to Washington on busi-ness, had had an interview with the Indian Com-mittee in Baltimore, and were returning home through the State of Maryland. George Ellicott called to see them soon after their arrival, and gave them an invitation to dine the next day, at his house, which was not far distant from the hotel where they lodged. The delegation was composed of the following persons:-The Little Turtle and Rusheville, Chiefs of the Miami nation; the Beaver and Crow of the Delawares; two Shawanese Chiefs, and Marpau and the Raven, Chiefs of the Potowatomies; of the two last named each was accompanied by his wife. All accepted the in-invitation but Marpau, who positively declined both for himself and his wife. He was of a very warlike disposition, and the brother of Tecumseh, and the Prophet, who, in 1811, openly revolted from their allegiance to the United States, and were the cause of much bloodshed on the Cana-dian frontier. Already the spirit of disaffection had taken hold of his mind; he refused to wear any article of clothing manufactured by the