The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-07-07


INDIAN WAR. Extract of letter from
gentleman at Green Bay, dated the 9Th OF
June tr
81 returned about ten days since from b
Prairie des Chiens; while there, battle
was fought between a party of the Memo
monee and Sioux tribes of Indians, ana ;
party Of the Sacs and Foxes. These tribes
have been at war during the winter. Two
days after my arrival at the Prairie, band
of the Sioux, AZ in number, came to that
place, and was joined by about 40 Memo
monees. They danced the war dance, and
proceeded down the Mississippi about Tour
miles and encamped; the next evening,
they proceeded to attack the Fox village, I
situated at Debukes mines. Soon after
their departure, they discovered party OF !
! Foxes on shore they attacked them by |
surprise, and killed or wounded all hut three
of the seventeen, of which number the par
" consisted ;4of the Sioux one WAS killed
II and three wounded, one of whom died next
day. The attacking party returned to the
Prairie the same night, singing and hrlng
about three hundred guns in celebration OF
4 their victory. The next day they danced
the scalp dance, and displayed an appalling
, spectacle of scalps, hands, fingers, and SKINS
, taken from the bodies of their enemies
part eaten by those savages. The party OF
5 the Sacs and Foxes consisted of some of
. the chiefs and principal men of the nation,
: who were going to the Prairie to offer the
: pipe of peace to the Menomonees and Win
nebagoes. Their loss is severely felt: bat
as they and their tribes were the first ag-
L gressors in the war, they receive but little
= sympathy Efficient measures have been
, taken by the government for the preven-
# ton of further bloodshed among the tribes"
t. Almost everv body that has been to New
u York, knows of the Whispering Gallery at
D. the Park Theatre. Its formation was, how
IS ever, the result of accident, not design, but
:, it is a wonderful curiosity to those who are
~ :" unacquainted with the science of sound.
ID By placing the lips TO foot of the arch tina;
/ marks the separation Of the stage from the
lv body of the house, whisper, so indistinc'
D. that il cannot be heard by person sitting
ms next to you, will be head audibly on the
other side of the house, by a person who
may have his ear at the opposite foot OF the
n arch. A man some years ago, unacqualnt
Of ed with this fact, sat accidentally leaning
an over the edge of the box, with his ear III
We rectly against the foot of the arch: W.
Ill saw at the other foot, a gentleman who wa
Of He whispered, and as we afterwards learn
his ed, his words were, "woe unto the wicke
GU for the end of his days is at hand" Tn
ire subject of the fun started, looked round til
ole box, but no one was there, and loOkin
be somewhat alarmed. he sat down agalI
ra- The warning was repeated. He jumped IL
again, looked round the box, under tn
his seats, leaned over the box and looked abov
ON and below, and then was seated again
in evident perturbation. The invisible repea
DRY ed again the alarming sentence, and adde
rly " fy as you love life" The stranger dar
de- ed out Of the box, and shot along the lobt
lief like streak of the electric fluid. "StC
was him, stop thief, "cried twenty voices at ono
and supposing he had stolen a pocket boo
ex- The poor fellow rushed on, with party
ate, his heels, gathering in geometricsl proPo
to ton; he dashed down the stairs as thong
iFa alderman b. and bis Il hin ups e.
entering the Theatre at fashionable hot
1te- and sped like an arrow into the Park, whe
lion he dropped down in ft.-.NobiLe Regist,
ress
of ALBANY, June IL.
b. PARENTAL BRUTALITY. A man nam
by Sheehan, living in Green-street, and
leja, wife, were yesterday brought before t
IS of police, for inficting severe wounds on thu
'ere peared tina: this man and his wife were Q
enc gagged in a fight with each ether, duri
wer which earthen plates, &c., were hurled
OBJ each other. Some of The missiles it seem
ent, missed their objects, and struck the child
far the head, which was most dreadfully lac
Ella. rated. When the neighbors, hearing I
;on- noise, rushed into the room, the pareI
" were engaged in bloody battle, and t
was child was lying OH the floor between the
der occasionally being struck and trod on, a
With uttering the most dreadful cries. T
Der child's head has been dressed by surge
II in and some large pieces of earthen wa
par were extracted from the wounds; but it
3 of believed that its life is not in danger. T
res man and woman, who were much intoxiGi
his ed, were committed 10 prison. 1t did I
dent appear that they maliciously or intention
enc ly injured the child.
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zen: THE SEASON. The Albany Event
still Journal states that the heavy rains at I
N OF west have already done great injury to I
not crops, and unless it comes off dry soon, t
ter destruction will DO most calamitous. T
corn, from the constant cold and wet wea
er, is puny and yellow, and cannot reco,
lalrs SO as to yield half crop. The Whe
mas Oats, &C., ia badly lodged, and is in dang
~ 10 of rusting. The streams were never kno
tne SO high in June. The bridge over M
nnc, Creek on the road from Canandaigua
hud Rochester. has been swept away. r
the break upon the Erie Canal proves to
luce more formidable than was first report,
e III Sixty feet of the Ironduquoit Embankme
that fifty feet deep, has been carried of: Fl
re- hundred men are employed in repairing
mr. There was another break near Port GIBBS,
NOT occasioned by the heavy rains on Saturd
: .n ne and Sunday.
sred n.o corro,. IT.. c.uo,,;n;
fish n,rasivs .ts,ement Of the s,norts ~ someS
med Cotton mamfactures from tie United Sin,
for the years ending September 80, 1923 a
rep 1929, as, extracted from the Treasury repol
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