Funk, Myers, Blayer, +2 killed in Indian Attack

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FREDERICK, (Maryland June 17.
Last week a person passed through this town, on his way from Kentucke, who informed us on the 22d of May last, he and eleven persons more in company, at the distance of four days journey from the Crab-Orchards, in the Wilderness, where fired on by a party of Indians; five of the company were killed, the rest made their escape, but lost all their horses except two. A young man of the name of Funk, from Funk’s Town, another of the name of Lewis Myers, from Pipe Creek, and a Mr. Blayer, from near Harper’s Ferry, were among the unfortunate victims. — As this fact is to be depended on, it induces us to credit the many various reports that have been lately so much circulated respecting the horrid murders and depredations committed by the Indians, upon the frontiers, and makes humanity shudder at the idea of the bloody consequences which must ensue from a war with those barbarians.