The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-04-10


measures of vital interest to his constit-
uency, he is unfaithful to his trust.
Murder of IA defenceiess Chippewas,
by Is baud Of GO Sioux Warriors!
We have to record one of the most
foul and dastardly acts of wholesale as
sassination, that ever disgraced the an
mails Of Indian ruffianism. AtApple riv-
'er, about 20 miles cast of the ST. Croix
Falls, upon ground ceded by a treaty
with the Sioux to the United States, was
an encamp.nent, of Is Chippewas, old
men, women and children, making maple
sugar. On Tuesday last week. the villagers
of Saltwater considerably alarmed
by the appearance in Saltwater OF 60
Sioux warriors from the different bands
of Dakotas in Minnesota, painted and
armed for the war path. They left Still
water or Tuesday and travelling all
night, at about day-break. surprised the
camp of Is Chippewas, six Of them wo-
men and the remainder, old men and
children, above described, sleeping quiz
city; and murdered ersry solitary soul Of
them, except one little boy whose father
and mother were amongst the butchered;
him they took prisoner. They took Ii
scalps, mostly the scalps of women and
children, scalping off the ears of the
women, loaded with their jingling jew
elry They then started back, and stop
ped in Saltwater and had a scalp dance
.-(infernal hell-houndsD dancing in a
ring with the scalps on poles, around
the little boy their prisoner, whom they
compelled to keep time for their dancing,
by shaking a rattle-box. Tonight,
Thursday night, these devils incarnate,
are doubles holding their savage orgies
at Little Crow village, almost in sight
and hearing Of St. Paul! Meantime,
the ice in the river is impossible, and
there is not Dragon nearer than Fort
Gaines, and Cor infantry to pursue and
try to overtake them, is of no sort Of
use. So these savages will have it all
their own way; and the next news we
shall hear, the Chippewas will sneak in
upon the lodges Of Sioux women and
children and murder at least an equal
number in revenge. Hot hell ought to
overtake all these dastardly butcherers
Of defenceless women and children; yet
we can do nothing but look on and see
these blood-curdiing murders. The ca
gle cannot protect the soil of our own
country; and innocent .'blood in vain
cries from the ground" because our
Government is too niggardly to maintain
q company Of dragons at Fort Snelling,
TO hold these tribes in check AS these
murders were committed on Government
lands and within the sovereign jurisdic-
Of Wisconsin, the murderers ought to
be arrested and delivered over to the civ
il authorities Of that state for condign
punishment.
We are informed that ten Of the Sioux,
who were from Grow village, were OPP
posed to butchering the women and chill
dren; but could not restrain their fellows
from doing the dastardly deed. This
fact shows, that savages as they are,
they are not wholly destitute of that
principle Of humanity, mugnanimity and
gallan.ry which ought to influence man,
however degraded, to spare women and
children; aod that some of them yielded
to these more generous dictates of ma
ture. The leader Of these fiendish as
sassins, is en- old one-eyed Sioux, who
was put in the guard house. at the fort,
last summer, for numbering and scalping
his own wife.