Chapter VII. Contemporaneous Reports.--Progress of the press since 1812; Niles' Weekly Register our main authority; 113:--First published statement of the massacre; the schooner Queen Charlotte; 114:--Absurd story regarding Mrs. Helm; 115:--Still more absurd story, signed Walter Jordan; 116:--Possible leaven of truth; 117:--Nine survivors reported arrived at Plattsburgh from Quebec; 118:--Familiar names; harrowing tales they told; 119:--Pitiable fate of Mrs. Neads and her child, Kinzie family return to Chicago, where the bones of the massacre victims are buried by the soldiers sent to build the new fort; 120:--Letter from Fernando Jones; 121:--Solution of the Indian problem treated; 122:--Present condition of the Pottowatomies; 123:--Wonderful progress in five generations; speculations concerning the renewed interest in these old tales; 124:--Sculptured mementoes of the past slowly being provided by public-spirited citizens; Lambert Tree, Martin Ryerson and EH Bates; George M. Pullman's splendid bronze group of the massacre; 126:--Eugene Hall's verses at the unveiling of the Block-house Tablet in 1881. APPENDIX =A.= Pointe De Saible.--First settler, 100 years after Marquette etc.; 133:--Col. de Peyster mentions him in 1778 in his "Miscellanies," Burns's verses to De Peyster; 134:--De P. also mentions George Rogers Clark, 135:--De P's verses; 136:--His foot-notes, naming Chicago; what is known about De Saible; 137:--E. G. Mason's remarks about him and Shaubena; 138--Perish Grignon (Wis. Hist. Soc. Collection) on the same subject; 139:--Guesses as to the character and fortunes of De Saible; 140:--"_Point de Sable_," no sand. =B.= Fort Dearborn Records at Washington.--Probable reason why records are scanty; 143:--Letter from Gen. Dearborn, Secretary of War; statement compiled from the adjutant-general's records; memorandum of the destruction; order for rebuilding; successive commanders; evacuation of 1823; 144:--Re-occupation in 1828; Major Whistler ordered to Fort Dearborn; final evacuation in 1836; 145:--Demolition of fort in 1856; old paper found, dating from first fort; familiar names; 146:--One building survived until the great fire of 1871; the Waubansa stone; 147:--Daniel Webster speaks from its summit; its later vicissitudes; 148:--Who were the victims of Aug. 15, 1812? Oblivion the usual fate of martyrs; 149:--Muster and pay-roll of 1810, the last now existing; 150.