The Arkansas advocate., 1831-03-09
DESULTORY.
From the St. Louis Bpacon

fadaom Outrages.-SIR: Many Of your req. ders are aware, that, during the month of Octo- Der last, there was considerable assemblage of the Chiefs and Braves of Mississippi ard Mis- sour Indians In your city. With regard to the object oi their visit it is not my present business to inquire. butt isllude thereto, inasmuch as it has somewhat close connection with the fact l am about to detail, and which has neither been distorted through the medium of distance, or garbied by the tongue of rumor; for give ptain, true, unyarnished tale, that will at once excite sympathy and indignation, surprise and horror.
 I've men of the Yaucton band of Sioux. who accompanied their Chiefs on the Sth September last from Fort Tecumseh, Upper Missouri, un- der charge of Major Bean, sub-agent to their nation, and who was conveying deputation of their principle men to your city, left their com panions before the boat reached the Poneas viii lage, and very shortly after fell in with two clerks of the American Fur Company, viz: P. N. Leclerc and Baptiste Defond, and boat man, Pierre Gausln, who were journeying from St. Louis to one of the trading establish ments on the Upper Missouri. The Indians, whose names were O-e-noppl, or the one that goes through, and iSu-sumah. or the entire man.
 
 Fort Tecumseh, where their band was encamp- ed. The request was cheerfully granted, and for three days they travelled, ate and drank to- gether with the most perfect harmony but on the fourth morning, September 25th, tnes de- sired to ride the baggage !.orses; on it's being objected to, no sooner had the party mounted their horses, than four arrows were discharged at them by the Indians, who were not more than fp; S1<t, 4b ] and another passed through the hand of De- tonds and wounded his horse; q third passed through the body of Gauslns the fourth arrow, directed at Leclerc, missed it's aim, in eonse- quence of sudden start of his horse, ant! be- fore he could be leigned in, the Indians had ta- ken to their heels and found shelter in the woods. Pursuit was not attempted, Leclerc's attention being required by his wounded companions. The arrow was extracted from Defond's side. the wound staunched, his hand bound up pin it's blood. and in short time he found himself able to resume his seat, though necessarily in great pam. GauslIn's case was much more serious; the arrow had entered near the spine and came out at his navel-be soon fainted from loss of hiood-the only restorative within reach, was a little cold water; he was placed in his blanket on the ground; his two friends watched by his side
 
 hrm, saying, he was a dead man. AIthouphIife was fast ebbing, he still fingered on; expressed his anxiety that Defends wounds should be at. tendedto, that his life might besaved, and begged Leclerc to proceed with him to Fort Tecumseh. Satleast one hundred miles distant.) They con- sequently moved rapidly forward, with faint hope that timely assistance might be sent out to l the poor sufferer. How melancholy his situa- .,t I, l
 no lire bat the fever that was consuming him: 1: exposed Tn severe chill of long autumnal night; and possibly to the attack of wolves or bears; or, what would have cruelty aggravated bis sutferlngs in his last moments, the scalprc knife of the dastardly Indian whose arrow had Iso nearly carried his spirit on its shaft. Extra ordinary despatch was used, and the fifth day the best aid ofthe country arrived, buttoo late Pierre Gauslin's soul was gone to its account-- his body lies on the margin of Ponca creek. 1 have other authentic accounts before ne, wherein the Indians of the Upper Missouri have used the scaping knife, with dire effect, on the unofending whites; sand as the facts are not gen. erally known present them to your readers, leaving them to make their own melancholy comments.
 In August, 1899, Baptste Allard, servant of the American Fur Company, proceeding to Fort Union, near the mouth of the Yellow Stone, stopped awhile at the Aricara village; many marks of friendship were exchanged by the na- tion and the boats's crew. When ready to em- bark, an Indian offered to accompany him to the river: on the way, without uttering word, he suddenly drew Allard's own knife from his |girdle and stabbed him to death.
 In February, 1880, Joseph Revit, also in the service cf the American Eur Company, was base ly murdered by an Indian of the Assinabon na- ton. The Indian Agent was at that period with the tribe, but, we believe, it was passed over without notice.
 In March, 1880, Narcisse Coursol, belonging to the same company, was shooting ducks with