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- The Indians came over about 7 oClock in the morning, and having met the Commissioners in Council - the old Chief who spoke last night arose, and said, they perfectly understood all that was said to them yesterday, and had only to say, that in regard to the several Treaties mentioned yesterday, they did not acknowledge any of them to be valid, and as the Commissioners had said they could not remove the white People over the River, so they, the Indians, could not consent to give up any of their Country, and concluded with saying, they came as Men wishing for Peace, but as that could not be obtained, they should return to their Council, and speak to their warriors:- And as for the Commissioners. they the Indians had nothing more to say to them, they might go home, and tell thePresident Washington what the Indians had said.- -After the Indians had retired a few minutes, Simon Girty their interpretter, and several of their Chiefs, came back, and said, there had been a mistake in the last part of the -