The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-07-17
indian Dhnredntions.

We learn from the st. Louis Reveiile that a
Gentleman who arrived there from Westport on
he 2lst, reports that a friendly Indian of the
Delaware tribe had arrived at Westport with in
diligence that a combined force of Arrapahoes
Jamanches and Pawnees, numbering in all
lbout one thousand, met and attacked a train
If thirty wagons, near Wilmut Springs, and
Silling all the teamsters, together with the
men who accompanied the train, sue
ceeded in carrying off all the wagons which
were loaded with Government stores and the
The Indians surrounded the train, and
charging suddenly, drove the teamsters from
their saddles and massacred every man Of the
party.
Nacoma, the Indian who brought this sad
news, is a son Of Nacoma, the principal chief
Of the Delawares and is said 10 be q man Of
%veracity. He says, after leaving Santa Fe
where Col, Price found him a prisoner and re-
leased him, at the Arkansas he was met by
this body of Indians and made a prisoner, and
his life was only spared on condition that he
would join them against the whites. The day
after the massacre he was released.
Mr.. John DOugherty was at westpcrt, rails
ing a party to search for one hundred and fifty
head of cattle, which he lost by a Stamped
near Council Grove.
The ReveiIle also learns that the Dela%ares
are preparing to send a wal party against the
0sages. The latter tribe have recently taken
three Delaware scalps. The Indian who gave
the information respecting the murder of the
teamsters says there were few Osages among
the murderers.
Late advices received at St. Louis from Gown
Gil Bluffs confirm the previous accounts of
bostilities existing among several Of the Indian
tribes, and a strong disposition on the part of
some Of them to make a war upon the whites.
There being no military force to hold them in
awe, they talk boldly of a%ssailing every cara
van on the Santa Fe road, and the Grand Paw
nees, who, with the Sioux, are the tribes who
avow their hostilities to the whites, had attack
ed a company Of Oregon emigrants, killed num-
bers Of their cattle and succeeded in carrying
off several horses. Maj. Miller, the Indian
Agent at Council Bluffs, who brought the in.
formation to St. Louis, info rms the Reveille
that the Otoes and Mahas, friendly tribes, ant
the whites were when he left in a state Of a.
larm in consequence of the YanOtsR Sioux
having threatened to attack them. To guard
against the threatened descent, the two tribes
near Mount Bluff will remain at home and uni
ted as much as possible. Their villages are
but som five miles distant, About one hun
dred of the Yanctons, it is said, have taken up
the Ratchet, and they were in expectation of
being joined by some two hundred more from
other hands and be able to make their demon
STATIONS by the 18th inst.
Early in the spring a party Of Yancton Sioux
came down to the Maha village and murdered
two squaws. The Mahas and Otoes are neigh
bors, and though ancient enemies, have latter
ly united for the purpose of mutual defence
On this occasion q party composed Of the two
tribes went in pursuit of the Sioux and killed
eight, losing on their own side one Maha and
one Otoe. They returned to their villages with
the scalps of the enemy, and subsequently some
of the traders among them were so impolitic oil
to expose these s%calpsto view as trophies of thu
bravery of their friends. This latter act led t.
a threat of vengeance from the Sioux, ant
hence the apprehension that the whites may be
included in any hostile demonstration.
The ReveilIe learns from another source that
two men with the Government train, returning
from Santa Fe, were attacked in advance Of the
train, near Wilmut Creek, by Indians, and one
an American, was wounded, and the second b
spaniard, was wounded severely. -Rcayupe.