Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-09-27
Spirit Of tbe Ags, 8aIsigb, Nartk Carolina.

The fellow FEVER during the week
ofinterments IN New Or1 -of which 2S2
ending the IOth inst., was
were from yellow fever. . deaths from
In Charleston there we
yellow fever on Friday. X IN Savannah.
The pastilence is still at rsday, of which
There were 81 deaths on | ayannan Hepub-
20 were from yellow fever. VI. Stephen N.
lie can announces the death ounty, UtorgIa,
+. Harris, a native Of Liberty ractce IN SaVan-
who had been in successful ad lnat be had
nah for several years. 1t IS e epiaemc, but
a presentiment of dying by t ltinued the most
undaunted by the idea, he co tents until it for
unFemitted attention to his pa MS last prescrip-
ced him to his bed ofdeath. FER to be regret
) ton was for the gallant and 9
ted WiIdman. agraghs from the
We copy the following par
! Republican: us that he has
The acting Mayor inform lsta, and Char
sent orders to Macon, Aug cad of which It
: lesion for daily supplies of b aOafiust now.
is almost impossible to obtai1 Pd sickness of
in consequence of the death Pupelled to eat
Bakers. We have been cd tour DAYS.
crackers ourselves, for the pas Of State.
The Governor has prOHered EhlWayor will
for the relief of our city. whe q necessary,
avail himself of should it be lin from ali
the liberal contributors com ksentexipency.
. sources being enough for the p ban killed HIM
We regret 10 state. tnas z Proat during the
self Yesterday, by cutting his II IS death in cases
aelirium which usually precedd
= of yellow fever. an has the fol-
g The Columbia South Carroll lie condition Of
x lowing depIerable picture Of
affairs in Savannah: yesterday from a
A despatch received heN States that the
relfble gentleman at Macon day were fifty
m deaths at Savannah on Thur kE-ive. As the
S. one, and on Wednesday THU q be reduced to
r. white population is now SAID otality is at the
as about two thousand, the m Der diem. We
as alarming rate of one in fifty Eeen sent from Sa-
g. also learn that orders have b Inns and five hun
ne vannah to Macon for forty Cd 70 give some idea
es bred pounds of bread daily. pestilence at Sa-
of of the frightful ravages ofth ffie same per cen
st vannah, we would state that brk would carry off
oh tage Of mortality in New VI
Id ten thousand persons daily IL increase in Gal
of The yellow fever is on til sof the 9th inst,
n weston, Texas. The TimeS
as says: 10 state, is incIeas-
IS, "The~e epidemic, We regre and the fatality
lie ing both in uumber Of caseA early date in the
in attending them. At this Is an epidemic, the
prevalence of the fever ada day have reached
er- number of interments for highest number in
as within two or three OF theHng the summer of
lr- tered any one day dara
no 1862
1as EERRIBLE MASSACRE
cd Particulars OF THE lie ST. Louis papers
in NEAR FORT LARAMIE.-Thf the terrible massa-
,at contain the particulars Old twenty U. S. sol
ere Of Lieut.. Grattan anAar Fort Laramie
diers, by the Indians, nbRmon emigrant had
As already stated, a Meaning, the officer in
complained to Lieut.. Fxata Sioux Indian had
command of the fort, thy Lieut.. F. at once
or, killed one of his cowsN the Sioux-Matte-i-
OK sent for the head chief III demanded that the
OF owan, 1.-THE Bear)-anAh up. Matte-i-owan
T. Indian should be give would send a file of
eks informed him that if hkEor to have the Indian
md soldiers hewould endadFleming then ordered
I'M surrendered. Lieut.. With twenty-five men,
lay out Lieut.. Grattan Jster, Auguste Lucian,
inc and the u. S. interpr(x GHETTO the Mineeon-
ted to accompany the Sio%as situated some nine
the gou village, which WI The chiefs, however,
tbs miles below the fort him saying they would
for refused to surrender n Lieut.. Grattan i'm
not rather be killed, viii pieces of artillery and
'ses mediately ranged hidOn the village. The St.
on commenced firing upl.
IN Louis Democrat say bets were also fired at
ION Three or four mu he only result was to
Gus the same time, bu ne of the lodges, and to
knock the top off O h and his brother, who
wound Matte-i-ow ront-the former with
t a were standing in r with one. So soon as
c.. three balls, the latt Indians returned ii, and
the the troops fred, the shower of arrows. The
!, a poured upon them a Lieut.. Grattan, who
first discharge killedbide of the cannon. As
and was standing by the 4ommand at once lost
un- soon as he fell, his to fy-leaving their
,un- heart, and attemptedeverything else. The
his cannon, arms, and Upon the flying soldiers
orr Sioux then charged ukked every man o fthem
nan and shot and tomahaMhis escape by taking
ion. save one, who made ps getting out Of sight.
down a ravine, and thA was with the party
,r;s The interpreter who bad married a Sioux
Augaste Eucien, who lis horse and attemp
; ~ squaw, jumped upon hie. He succeeded in
;o11 ted to make his escappiate pursuers and ii
P getting rid OF his imme&he camp, but instead
n@0 making acircle around Il, he very foolishl7
800 of striking for the prairi4 the Brulie camp
attempted to run througtween him and tn,
:. which was directly beRady alarmed by thu
IN d Fort, and which was alrH that an Indian raI
lcts firing. The result was with his rife, ant
that out and shot his horse &h his tomahawk.-
an then came upon him witnot to kill him, a
ene Lue1er cried out to him fage, but the onl,
men he was a Sioux by marrks to bury his hatch
4 his reply the Indian made wakldier who escape,
nav ct in his head. The SOD by a Sioux name
neI- down the ravine was foun]his life to his as
lture 6 Black heart and owed Elk to the Fort dur
pur- ~sistance in getting him bad
ing the night. the afternoon G
sssE. The tragedy occurred ongas not until tn
pear the 18th of august, and it IF it reached th
ealth next morning that news qfword to the Con
> reg fort. The Sioux then sendtmore of his me
inst, mandant to send out some kould serve ther
to bury his dead, and they yhlso went to til
$ last in the same way. They company, whic
one depot of the American Fur here the annuit
e are was near their camp, and VIZ in store, ar
ii are goods, $4,000 worth, werkn in, and divide
latter turned them upon the plat upon consult
rot to them out. Lieut., Fleming, he traders dow
The ton, sent some five orsix of TN the dead, bV
were to see the Sioux and to buryJicitly that Il
they told the traders very exkthey were co
D quarrel was not one in which, keep out of
Dy cerned, and they had better Ehe fort. IT
$50 and then drove them back -tnShe messeng,
ISM consequence was that when "a still expose
: I"e left, the dead bodies were Tvs 6f Lucien, al
a"ss on the plains, only two, thu two returni1
Il con- another having been buriHl execute I'll
oPen, Californians, who ~ventured az
ehho hazardous task for $25 d piece ard from t
nIury' Nothing further has been hA would see
: : U uoln Fort at the present time, and lad surround
la'liLg that the report that the Sioux ha the last
sSreaIi Laramie, is not confirmed. rs shot in thr
q unHl counts Matte-io-wan, who wAfrom the s
n M Mm places, at the first discharge kth. He is
Inc diers, was at the point of dead othe whit,
anK OF brave warrior, and a great frierkys that Lief
g. ana The St. Louis Republican s body, one
were G. received "a arrows in HID. Two of
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