a successful attack in the summer of 1 747, but at the Cascades

they were defeated with loss. Pending formidable aggressive movements against the French, the war was closed by the treaty of peace at Aix la Chapelle. The news of the conclusion of this treaty reached Governor

Clinton on the eve of the assemblage at Albany of a grand con ference, with the Six Nations and their allies.

Great effort had in point of

been made for the success of this conference, and

numbers these

efforts

were rewarded.

If the

Nations

Six

could do nothing

else, they could always rally a host at a dis tribution of presents ; the flow of rum was an attraction which

they could not resist. Albany never saw such a gathering of a warriors larger number never, perhaps, assembled painted ;

in one place, or one in which there were more tribes represented.

The

enmities of years seemed to

be forgotten ;

Mabicans

and Minsis joined hands with the Senecas ; the descendants of Miantonimo smoked the pipe with the Mississagies. Except numbers, however, the conference was a

in

failure.

The

" covenant chain " was brightened in ancient form, but instead " of the command, " Onto Canada which Clinton had expected !

" Peace " was the to issue, injunction which fell upon the ears !

of the assembled chiefs.

The Mohawk's, and Mahicans, the representative tribes ad dressed, were disappointed. While the other tribes in the English alliance had, with the exception of a few of their warriors, ab stained from hostilities, they were seriously compromised.