The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-19
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States troops by the Sioux indians.
Our information is that about the middle Of August
Sioux Indian killed belonging 10 emigrant
Fort Laramie The chief thereon sent messenger Lieu
tenant Fleming the officer in command of the Fort
quesng him to send force him, and he would deliver
up the offender Lieutenant Graan of company G, 9th
United States infantry, with Sergeant Favor corporal
aud twenty priyates detailed on this service. They
were accompanied by an interpreter How, or at what
place, il is stated but the whole OF Lieutenant Graf
tan's party killed without exception They must
have been victims OF deiberatey contrived plot the
part of the Indians TO wayay and murder them In
other way could such number OF have all been
killed without al least equal number of the foe falling
in the encounter. The massacre committed the
18th ult
1t is stated that when the express left Fort Laramie
surrounded by them The garrison numbered one COM
missoned officer and about fifty me-altogeher TOO mad
equate a force exposed frontier
81. louis Republican, Sept TO-
p Sit is doubted by some whether the Sioux Indians
committed this arocty BY persons familiar with the In
dams il is attributed TO the Cheyennesa band of bold fine
looking savagesand not TO the Sioux although il is sup
posed that they there waiting for the payment of their
annuite The death of Fitzpatrick the old and fayorite
Indian agent and the absence Of the appontee de-
ed the pay Of the annutes and they there
in starving condition they may have been led into
But it is not characteristic of that tribe
der American citizens and il may turn out that other
Indians guilty.
As the taking of Fort Laramie by the Indians that
is not regarded very probable by those best acquainted
with It's situation The Indians may invest it, but il is
well known that they provided with provisions
&C. for such undertaking. they must fail unless they
fire the fort This they cannot do They burn the
soldiers quarters and the outside buildings but the troops
retreat TO the fort which contains all the eommssary
stores and defend themselves The fort is adobe build
ing, with walls three feet thick large enough accommo
date all the whites and mpregnable against all the assaults
of the Indians. In any event they safe enough and
the Indians much more likely to Starve than the
occupants of the fort But troops be sent there
Gen Clark has done right in ordering troops from Fort
Riley to the relief of the besiegea party Fort Laramie
and if they mp with the sayages il is TO be hoped that
they viii give them wholesome chas,sementone which
win be remembered for years to come
81. Louis Rep,shican.
correspondent of the st, Louis Republican writing
from Sarpys Point Nebraska eight miles from Fort Lara
me gives the following particulars of tho slaughter OF
government troops by the Indians
An affair has happened here between the soldiers and the
Indians which ought 10 be properly noticed by the United
States government Having been an eyewitness to the
battle consider it my duty furnish strict account of
il and its causes In the FIRST place. the 18th of August
train of Mormons passed this place. The Indians who
were encamped here waiting for their payment from
ernment had no provisions ana were Of course anxious
for something 10 eat
AS the Mormpn3 passing lame cow belonging 10
man in the rear of the Mormon train became frightened
and ran into the Indian camp The Mormon left the COW
behind and 50 one of the Indians Minneceha shot it
down. and, with his companions ate il up The Mormons
then went 10 the fort and reported that the Indians had
killed one OF their COWS.
/ On the 10TH about o'clock in the afternoon Lieut.
Gratan witn command of twen.y-seven soldiers and
Auguste ncien interpreter arrived here the
dian who had killed the COW accordingly sent for the
chiefs to go with the lieutenant and make the arrest They
accompanied him. but the Indian willing to give
himself up SAYING be would die first
While the Bear Chief of the Wazazies standing with
three other chetthe Little Thunder and the Big Parti
SAN and the Man who is afraid of Horscsamong the sol
dies the lieutenant ordered his fire They did So
and wounded the Bear Chief and his brother But one
round was fired, when the Indians in charged and
succeeded in routing the soldiers and killing them with
the exception OF one private VINO IS not expected to
/ cover
standing by their cannon the lieutenant receiving twenty
four arrows one of which passed through his head As
the soldiers their commander fall they took
fight but al killed within half mile of this place
4 The 0galailah camp was about mile distant, and a
white man, named Seyroy Jot,, staying there the
time Being Sioux interpreter the chiefs requested him
TO stay between the camps to prevent the young from
charging the soldiers but he could not succeed, and
! barely escaped with his life.
AT my house we were placed IN bad situation. There
with me Mr. Antoine Reynal and Mr.. Samuel Smith
with FIVE others and all could do in the
house and Try to keep the Indians ont. As MI r. was
standing in the doorway of the house Indian rushed
upon him. and tried kill him when another Indian
Quick Bear-trea e sill the hrst Indian for rushing upon
whits man bat some caught Quick Bears gun, and
its coltens went into the wall of the house.
BY this time party had collected outside of the house
who tried to oscg their way in but of my friends
1.-THE Quick Bear and others stopped them After the bat
lie the chiefs into house and said that as the young
had killed all the soldiers that had come to fight them
they would and slaughter the rest of the soldiers
the fort burn all the houses and kill all the whites the
river but told the chiefs to stop them from doing
assuring them that since the soldiers commenced the
/ quarrel il would be overlooked by government
But they the. rushed into the house, and demanded
me 70 give them everything that they wanted To save
our lives, gave them everything that had in my
4 to the amount Of $4,000.
The next day they went to the American Fun
Company, took all the goods that sent to them by
government ana piaged the store The situation Of The
traders and of Fort Laramie is perous in the extreme
requested by the commander of the fort bury the
dead soldiers since he had not enough deach q
I party for that service and succeeded in doing
4 As far as know anything about the Indians think
that government ought to send FIVE hundred
men, troops keep the Indians in subsection and
company of infantry to guard the fort The Indians
in the recent battle after killing all the soldiers broke their
pieces and carried off their muske;s and animals
As for placing the infantry prairie to fight the In
dians il is just the putting them up targets to
be shot There about thousand Indians IN the
4 battle.
FROM lHMooWe take the following synopsis from the
New Orleans Delta of the 18th inst
The papers various accounts of victories gained
small parties OF Insurgents in the States of Guerrero
Chiapas Michoaean and Tamaulpas but these victories
all 10 be something the order OF ha, gained
Governor Cora Vetorn and few such achieve
ments, we think, would ruin any country The official
account Of i fight agrees IN every particular with the
I sion given by the Brownsville American Flag.
We find nothing in the papers regarding the fate ofthe
venturous Count Raousse dc Boulbon but decree
issued by his Serene Hghness pavioning all the private
soldiers taken prisoners in the fight at Guaymas but pro-
noupcng Of death against the Count and his Off
their identity with the rebellion shall have
been satisfactorily established Who would be officer
The yellow fever has entirely disappeared from Vera
Cruz and that city healthy that the inhabitants
\ are beginning TO complain.
The Indians still continue their depredations upon the
people of the frontier States On the 18th &c August
ranches belonging the Hacienda ei ojo entirely
DESTROYED the male Inhabitants slain the women carried
into ptiv nd tho nyni.