Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-05-07

went, DIS well DIS neI husband, In search OF her
sister and children. Passing by different
routes. they did not meet on the way, nor at
the place of death. She jumped on horse,
as she went, carefully noted every discernable
lying near burning log. There was not suf-
ficent light for her to discern the size, sex, or
condition of the person, and she called the
name of one and another of her children,
again and again, supposing it to be one of
them asleep. At length she allighted, and app
preached to examine more closely. What
must have been her sensations on placing her
land upon the back of a naked corpse, and
feeling, by further scrutiny, the quivering flesh
from which the scalp had been torn In the
the gloom of night, she could just discern
something, seeming like little child, sitting
SO near the body as to lean its head first one
side, and then the other, on the insensible and
manged body. She saw no further, but thrill
ed with horror and alarm, remounted her horse
and FASTENED home, and when she arrived,
quickly put large kettle of water over the
fire, intending to defend herself with scalding
water, in case of an attack.
There was little rest or refreshment as may
we'll be supposed, at the fort that night. The
women and children of the vicinity, together
with the few men who were at home, were
crowded together, not knowing but that large
body of the savage foe might be prowling
round, ready to pour a deadly FIRE on them at
any moment-a neighbor and six children of
the settlement were probably lying in the
wood, within mile or two, dead and mangled
by that dreadful enemy! What about subjects
Of thought and feeling! About three o'clock
messenger was despatched to Fort Russell
with the tidings.
In the morning the inhabitants undertook
the painful task of ascertaining the extent Of
their calamity, and collecting the remains for
burial. The whole party, Mrs. Reagan and
six children, were found lying at intervals
along the road, tomahawked and scaped, and
all dead, except the youngest of Mrs. Rea-
gan's children, which was sitting near its
mothers corpse, alive, with a cash, deep and
large, on each side of its little face. 1t were
idle to speak of the emotion that filled the
souls of the neighbors, and friends, and faith
ers, and mothers, and husband, who gathered
round to behold this awful spectacle. There
lay the mortal remains of six of those whom,
but yesterday, they had seen and embraced, in
health; and there was one helpless little one,
wounded, and bleeding, and dying, an object
OF painful soIicitude, but scarcely Of hope.
To women and youth chiefly, was commits
ted tie painful task Of deposting their dear re-
mains in the tomb. This was performed on
the six already dead, on that day. They were
inferred in three graves, which were carefully
dug, so as to lay boards beneath, beside, and
above the bodies-for there could be no collins
provided in the absence of nearly all the men
and the graves filled, they were left to re-
ceve in after times, when peace had visited
the settlement, a simple covering of stone,
bearing an inscription descriptive of their
death.
1t was solemn day, observed my inform
ant, TO follow seven bodies TO the grave, at
once, from so small settlement; and they
too, under such painful circumstances. Gould
we have followed that train to the grave in
which their little church and cemetery were
empowered, would we not feel that the process
sion, the occasion, the ceremony, the emotions,
were Of a character too awful, too sacred 10
admit Of minute observation then; or accurate
description now! The seventh, however, was
no, then buried. The child found alive receiv-
ed every possible attention; medical aid was
procured with great difficulty, bnt in vain. It
followed within day or two, at most.
On the arrival of the messenger at Fort Rus
sell. fresh express was FASTENED TO captain
(now GENERALLY Samuel Whiteside's company,
which was on Ridge Prairie, some four miles
east of Edwardsvile.
1t was about an hour after sunrise, on Mon
day morning, when the gallant troops arrived
on the spot-having rode some fifteen miles
ready to weep with the bereaved and to avengc
them of their ruthless foes. Abel Moore, who
who was one Of the rangers then on duty, and
of course absent at the catastrophe, was pei
mitted to remain at home 10 assist in burying
his children and relatives, and the company
dashed on, eager to overtake and engage in
deadly conflict with the savages. regret
that have no recent account of the particulars
of this interesting pursuit; and that my mem-
ory does not hold them with sufficient dis
tinctness to warrant an attempt at the nara
ton. At Indian Creek, in what is now Morgan
county, some three or four of the Indians were
seen, and one killed; and it is current report
among the rangers, tnat not one Of the ten that
composed the party, survived the fatigue OF
the retreat before the eager troop.-Western
Monthly Magazine.
WHY THE FEDS DISLIKE THE Sub
TREAsuRY.-The Sub-Treasury law will
not answer for a Federal administration,
that is very evident; and why 2! Because,
saws the Hartford Times, it Furnishes with
Imprisonment in the penitentiary, public
defaulers. When swindling spectators,
bankrupts and gamb]ers-men who are IN
yolyed in debt to the amount of not less
than all hundred thousand dollars, are Sc
lec,ed for the most responsible stations.
the penal enactments against swindlers anu
defaulters must be repealed, and we are
less surprised at the early call of the Extra
Session of Congress.
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