The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-08-20
IMP ORTANT FROM THE INDIAN COUN
TRY

The ST Louis Republican publishes al extract
OF a letter received in that city, from u gentle
man ut Fort Smelling, dated July 10, by which
we learn that most unhappy state ofafiairs is
now existing between The Sioux and Chppeway
tribes of Indians, and great slaughter had been
made OH the latter. Mercy seems TO have formed
no part Of the savage character One indis-
crmnale massacre OF men, women, and child
rem, appears 10 he the rule of warfare
1t may eIucidate the extract to state that
large number OF the Chippeway tribe had
sc mhied ar Fort Smelling to receive their annu-
ties, and the events which followed, related be-
low, occurred a few days prior to the date OF the
letter. The extract says:
'The Sioux and Chippeways have had brush
us two different points on The ST CroiX, and
again about thirty lies above the Falls of ST,
Anthony. The Chippeways, just before leaving
the Plluecrs, believe, had killed, Il; Lake Cal
houn, Sioux Crave, one much liked and
esteemed by his tribe, and took his scalp; an
hour or two after sunrise, the news having
spread like wild fire, the Sioux about TWO
hundred strong, left the Falls, Is. Anthony
HaIe-in-theday Chippeway Chief, had push
ell on with his party, and was not ovcrtakcu.
The Sioux who left the Falls, came across IL
party of the Rum River Band, attacked them
about sunrise the next morning about sunrise,
and killed one hundred and Miriy three men
women and children. Big Thunder, Il Sioux
chief, crossed the ground in pursuit of the
Strong Ground Band OF Chippewuys, and over
ook and fought them ut St CroiX. Big Thuu-
der told the Sioux not TO fire where the whites
were, (Messrs Atkins and McLoud's party and
as the Oh ippewnys huddled round the Whites
many Of them thus escaped. Notwithstanding
the Sioux killed about thirty siXlmcn OF the Chip
peway party, and some women and children.
NINnN iS q Xcifp and wi III
continue So tar some time. There will, no
doubt, be general engagement between the
Sioux and Chippaways, before many months
more. liae-in-the-day is n chief not TO be
rihcd with, and the Sioux consolidating
under Bad Hail, n first rate warrior who has
been at Washington
This is the substance of the extract referred
to, and is an evidence OF the unhappy state of
affairs existing between those tribes. The next
news. in all probability, will be an account Of
the slaughter fan equal greater number Of
Sioux, by some band of the Chippeways.
INTERESTING CEREMONY: Marriage Of deaf
mutes.-On "Wednesday, 3lst ult., Mr. J Il Bur
ried by the Rev. DR.. Minor, at the institution Of
the lie and dumb in New York, 10 Miss Phe-
be Osborne, of CASTLE, n. York, pupil of the
institution. The marriage ceremony of two
deaf mules excited of course, much interest,
and the editor of the New York Com nercial,
who was present. gives us the following descrip-
ton of it, The annual examination had just
passed, and summer vacancy was common
cling.
At nine and half A. NJ, the bride and her
MAIDS were dressed and dcckcd with flowers,
and'th bridegroom and several of his relatives
and friends arrived in carriages from the town.
Four pretty deaf mutes girls oiiiciated as brides
maids, accompanied by two deaf mute young
men, and TWO the young gentlemen professors
Of the institutions. Attended by these four coup
les, the pair betrothed, at ten clock, entered
the large apartment in the west wing of the in
stitution, where in the presence of an assem-
b'nge of some 200 persons, consisting of the pu-
pills of the institution, the professions, natrons,
&c, the principal and his iamy-,he officiating
clergyman, and numerous invited guests, they
were to be united in the holy estate of matr-
mony was solemnized after the episcopal form,
by the Rev. DIR. Minor, president of the insti.u-
tion) IN his happlest and most Impressive man
ner. The Interpretation OF the spoken words,
sentence by sentence, to the mute married pair,
and the mute portion of the audience, was per-
formed by MIR Peet, in his peculiar elegant torc-
bic mode of exhibiting the language; nor could
| it for moment be doubted that those most in
teIesed in the exercises OF the occasion fully
conprehended the sense of the Interpretation,
when in answer to The several questions with an
expression of most devout meaning and emphat-
gyman, each in turn seeming to say yea, surely,
and mean it too The soemnites of the oc-
casion were terminated by prayers and the ben
edict ion, by DIR Minor and Mr. Peet in words
and in signs. Then followed the usual snula-
TONS refreshments, &C.. and at II the bride
nftcr taking AN affeclionate leave of her fellow
pupils her instructors and friends at the insttu-
ton, departed with her husband and his friends,
to her new home west Of The PnsSaic.
05FThe Patriot is shocked at the exhibition
of the eXtravagant expenditures of the admins,
tration, and it declares that the wings and con.
servatives did it all! Hold, there-tho extrava-
sant OF s. cts S" b
self-the very man of whose popularity among
the Locofocos in Tennessee the Patriot will THIS
,oeek boast. The expenditure for snuff, soap,
locotoco office holders--he appropriations re-
ported, urged and advocated by loco foco com
miliee--voted by locofoco members of the House