Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-02-02
TROUBLE AMONG TEIEiNDIANs.

rio Ionisyille Journal of the is. brings US
tho items Of intelligence:
cop.r IsDiAS BATTLE.-A letter from
-.s,le.an q, Council Bluffs, dated the l7.h
r. December, to his correspondent IN -. Lou
:" s,,tes TIA. on the previous day, band OF the
n..l.s were mot by bnnd Of tic Sioux, in the
sa;abbo,hood Of the Bluffs, tina, batllo ensued
,o,.acn them; and that the Sioux, killed sixty of
,so 0mahas before tho conflict terminated.
rbe following particulars We find in 4 letter
70 the ST. Louis Republican:
,,was cold blooded butchcry Of women and
children. in the absence of all tho warriors of
,bo village Ga tho night Of the 18th and 18Th,
,he letter states, war party Of lnncton Sioux
,ndans defeated and destroyed fourteen lodges
&C tho Omaha tribe of Indians, LOCATED al the
,;ne n, Woods Bluffs, situated nbout sixty mics
rom this -Bcl,ogiew. The men and
warrors OF Tho Omahas had left the camp
bnnt: nnd tho Sioux, soon after thoy reached tie
camp discovered That they only lad women and
children to contend with. The slaughter was
mrrbie-sovcnly-threo were killed, and nineteen
mor,atly wounded. Two made hoir escnpe
ono Of them named Jos. Lafechc trader IN
,ho employ Of Mr.. Peter \. Sar7y and at the
,mo IN charge OF stock OF goods.
Hc ran from the scene of blood bnro-foo.ed,
and arrived at Bceview with both feet frozen
Mr. Sarpy and Mnj. Miller, the present rgent,
despatched party Of men 10 ascertain tho facts
tbGy n,
IaDecho. They also reported that five Of Tho
Sioux Indians had been killed, no doubt stabbed
bv the Onnhu squaws. Going twenty miles
further than Tho ground Of the massacre, they
found the places where tho goods of the trader
had been divided among tho robbers.
1t seems, ndds tho letter TINT. fate is against
the Omaha Indians. -Four or five days before
this event took place, lodge, camping a
Cabanne's Old trading house. WINS attacked by 4
81 A. nd al bI " ell
known cticf White Cloud, aud four Of tho men
wounded, md one woman killed.
In tho Same number of the Republican VIC find
the following:
We aro in possession of another lct:or from
For, Scott, dated on the 18th December. descrlb-
ing tho exposed condition of our western tron-
tier. Wo arc told in this letter Of daily outroges
BY tho Indians, committed east and west Of the
Slate line It is SAID that tho Osagcs. returning
from their fall hunt, met the rnmor tfnt Their
acen, had been robbed of part of their annuity,
and that the remainder had been taken for their
safety, aud deposited in tho banl. ut Springfield,
a distance Of $50 miles from the place Of pay
ment. The Indians caused tho agent TO be
arrested. BY aid of the civil law, sixty-fve miles
east of tho State boundary line, and no per-
mit,ed 10 proceed only after several days detcn-
ton. To secure his snfe progress to Jefferson
city, he was compelled 10 employ twonty armed
men, in addition 10 the L. States forco with HIM
'Wo IN posscssloD, says tho letter, 'of IN
formation thu, tho Sac and Osngo Indians recent
w held a council III the Usage nation. tho object
Of which was to unite their forces and influence,
to rob and plumber the whites, possibly under tho
impression TINT they could obtain aid from Mexico.
The Government should look to ii at once. Fort
Scott should be occupied by troops without delay,
because its position makes it most available in
queing disturbances, should they break on: IN
tho north, the west. OF the South.
.Wo hear, also that the principal mon Of the
Creek nation are sending hostile lostors 10 the
Osages, demanding remuneration for losses which
thoy have sustained from time 10 time. They
also state that, if tho value OF the property is not
returned, they will rally thoir forces and take it,
Nothing bu. the presence of an adequate military
force can keep in subsection tho thousands Of
Indians on our frontier. placed there by
treaty stipulatlons violated in almost cvory partic-
uar'
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