Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-09-28

SENATORS ELECTED -Beanington-Leon
Safeeant Norman Nj llugton
tFtRdhdm-Russell Hyde, Pardon T. Kim
ball. Ialnes II. Phelps
Rataad-Alanson A lien, Ira Button, Luther
Daneis
H'ndsor-Csilos ca lidge Dudley G. Den
nlson. Daniel Head Norman Williams
Add'son-Erasmus d. v arner, Rol in J.
Jones.
Washing tOn-Hoaco Hollster, James Green
Orange-Joseph Atkinson, John v ate
Chttenden-G. " Benedict, Rolla & eason
E. H Wheeler.
LdmoiHe--iiorace Powers
Caledonia-Geo ge II. Page Asa L French.
Grand ISte--N adsworth probab y.
Frankha-Romeo H. iioyt, d., James II.
Farasworih Pascal p. Leavens.
Orleans-Elisha White
EsSer-Wm. H Hartshorn.
WASHINGTON COUNTY SENATORS The fol-
lowing s the official canvass of votes for 1854.
Horace tlolster 2l40
James Green 2ll5
Roderick Richardson 1853
Ezra Kidder 1888
oshua living LOG
Henry Jones lO6
Tue RECENT SLAUGHTER OF u. S. TRoops
NEAR Fort LARAMfE.--A correspondent of the
81. Louis Republican, writing from Sarpy's Point,
Nsbraska, eight miles from Fort Laramie, gives
the particulars of the destruction Of detach-
ment of troops, some twenty five in number,
under Lieut. Grattan. The writer of the letter
says he was an eye witness of the battle, and he
gives the following account: -
In the first place, on the 18th of August a
train of Mormons passed this Place. The In
dians, who were encamped here waiting for their
payment from government, and had no provls-
ions. and were of course anxious for some hing
to eat
As the Mormons were passing lame cow,
belong to man in the rear OF the Mormon train,
became frightened, and ran into the Indian camp.
The Mormon left the COW behind SO ore of
the Indians, Minnesota, shot it down, and,
with his companions, ate it up. The Mormons
then went to the Fort, and reported that the
indians had xiii one of their cows
On the 10Th, about clock in the afternoon,
Lieut.. G'attan, with command of twenty se' en-
soldiers, and Auguste Lucien interpreter arrived
here to arrest the indian who had killed the cow
accordingly sent for the chiefs to go with the
Lieutenant and make the arrest. They &C
complained him but the Indian was not willing
to give himself up, saying he would die first
While the b ar Chief of the "A azzazies was
standing with three other chiefs the Little hun
der, and tie Big Partzan. and the Man who is
afraid of Horses. among the soldiers the Lieu
ienan, ordered his men TO fire They did So, and
wound d the Bear Chief and his brother. But
one round was 6rrd when the indians in turn
charged, and succ eded in routing the soldiers.
and killing them, with The exception Of one
private who is no expected to recover.
Lieut.. Grattan and two of his men were
killed while standing by their cannon, the Lieut..
receiving twenty-four arrows, one of which pas
sed through his head As soon as the soldiers
saw their commander fall, they took to flight
but were all killed within half mile of this
pace.
The Indians. about a thousand in number then
threatened to kill every whit man in the neigh
borhood, and burn the fort
A party hen rushed into the house. and de
mandod of me to give them everything they
wanted 10 save our lives, gave them every
thing that had in my store, 10 The amount OF
$4,000.
The next day they went to the post of the
American Fur Company, took al the goods that
were sent to them by government and piilaged
the sore
The Republican, says that the Indians had sur
rounded Fort Laramie, the garrison Of which
numbered one commissioned officer and about
fifty men. The fort VS. supposed to be i'll NJ
danger however. as it is All adobe building Will
walls three feet thick, large enough to accommo
date all the whites and impregnable against al
the assaults of the Indian Troops have beer
ordered from Fort Rilry to the assistance Of the
besieg party at Fort Laramie
The tornado, tie same felt in VT, which sweep
portions of the South, was particularly destruc
+ tive in savannah, Georgia. Houses were un
rooted, chnnneys blown down, doors wrenchet
off. fences swept away, and trees postrated
More than half of the tire that ornamented the
city were own down. And thu next morning
it was almost impossible to get tn oul the town
the streets were so blocked up. The loss by TIT
inundaon of the rice and Sea Island cotton crops
caused by a flood at The SAM time is to be est
mated by millions of dollars. 1t is singular, tina
Just fifty years previous, 10 day, the coast O
, Georgia was visited by the most fghtlul hurri
cane known since the state was settled Wit
! this scourge, and the yellow fever at the sam
time, Savannah appears truly like doomed city
Geo. M. Dexter. Esq, was chosen presiden
of the Vt. Central Railroad by the new boar
of Directors at meeting on Wednesday of las
week.
All the family of the late General Taylor
i who occupied the White House, are dead-th
= noble general himself, his wife. his daughe
. Mrs Bliss, and Col. Bliss Mrs. Fillmore
also dead, and also her daughter.
E. X. Collins, Proprietor of the Collin line
r. European steamers. placed state room at tn
n service of Miss Dix, who went out to Enrof
4 by his line recently, for which he refused an
n compensation. and with the money thus save
If she paid the first years premium on the insurant
of her life for $4,000, which sum she wished
secure, (and did so before sailing) to the lnsar
is Asylum at Trenton.
IS SIX PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH.-The hou
he of Mr. Bartlett, at Moriah Essex county N
re was destroyed by fire on the night of the ST
al Mr. Bartlett, his wife and four children persht
g in the flames
10 Pishop Wainwright died at New York on Il
Ut 22d inst.
~ There were 60 deaths by cholera in Pi,tsburl
in yesterday, (Sepl. 2Oth)
~ Patent Potatoe Diggers,
AT OLIVER & HELMER's.
ch Having purchased the right to make and 81
y the celebrated Potatoe Diggers wsthin the cou
T. ty of Washington, Vt. We are now prapar
ng to furnish the farmes of onr county, with t
en- hest thing ever offered or used either as Pot
ia toe Digger or a Cultvator. 1t is simple al