quantity of trinkets, blankets, clothes, guns, and other articles and implements, the Indians concluded a treaty of alliance with Great Britain, and took up the hatchet against the united colonies. At the close of the treaty, each Indian was presented with a suit of clothes, a brass kettle, a gun, a tomahawk and scalping-knife, a quantity of ammunition and a piece of gold. MARY JEMISON, from whom we quote this statement, says, "as late as 1823, the brass kettles received at Oswego, were in use by the Senecas." Here CORNPLANTER, no doubt, secured the "gun and kettle" which he had, in vain, expected from his father. And the contrast between these munificent gifts, and the fact stated by BRANT, that General SCHUYLER, at the treaty of German Flats, was not able to afford to the Indians the smallest article of clothing, no doubt assisted to turn the scale in favor of the King. During the military operations which followed this important transaction, CORNPLANTER fought against the United States. It is said that he was in the bloody battle of Wyoming, which occurred on the 3d of July, 1778. It is considered to be a doubtful point, whether the celebrated BRANT was in that battle. There is high poetical authority[N] in favor of it, and some corroborative evidence of the fact. But there is no evidence that has come under my notice, that CORNPLANTER was present. [N] CAMPBELL'S Gertrude of Wyoming. CORNPLANTER was with his tribe, in endeavoring to resist the advance of General SULLIVAN into the country of the Six Nations, in the year 1779. He was present and took part in the battle of New Town, the present site of Elmira, New York, where the Indians and British troops, the latter under the command of Colonel JOHN BUTLER, were signally defeated. CORNPLANTER and RED JACKET were with the Senecas. We do not know which of these Chiefs had the immediate command of the warriors of that tribe. It is known, however, that BRANT, who had by general consent a superior authority, charged RED JACKET with being the principal cause of the disaster of that day, and said that although he was a great orator, he was no warrior; on the contrary, he was a coward. In a council held some years afterwards, CORNPLANTER made a similar charge against RED JACKET, to which the latter replied, "I am an orator--I was born an orator."