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tribe. An investigation was made in Washing-ton by the President's orders. William Wells was found to be a defaulter to a large amount, and was discharged from the agency at Fort Wayne; he shortly after went to live in Canada, and in 1811, joined the party ofTecumseh and the Prophet, in their warfare against the United States, very contrary to the desires of the Little Turtle, who with his allies had remained deaf to all the arguments of Te- cumseh, loyal to the government of the United States, and faithful in his friendship to his friends the Quakers. William Wells after a short residence in Canada, was taken prisoner by the Indians whom he had defrauded in his agency, and was put to death with great barbarity. The Little Turtle had died a short time before, of an attack of the gout in the chest. The following matters of interest in the his-tory of the Indians, together with the copy of the Treaty of Greeneville, has been kindly fur-nished from the records of Washington, by a gentleman of that city. The treaty of Grenville* *The treaty purports to have been made at Greeneville, but the place is frequently, perhaps most generally, written Grenville. was concluded on the 3d day of August, 1795, at the Head Quar-