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Beware Of them. my friends, they bite like 9
serpent and sting ike an adder.
Taking into consideration our superior talent,
and love for the spOils Of Office, we do consider
Il gross violation Of both the Civil and Nora
code OF laws. For this gross violation Of Law
we petition our Legislative body To remove al
Know NOthings, or any person that favors the
anti-Slayery cause, aud again restore the Old
bunker pro-Slavery cause 10 its original sta.
ton; and let our motto hereafter be, 'Hetory
or DEATH
Sentinel please copy and obligs your friends
A Member Of the Hunker Parties.
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THIs SPRISG AS COMPARED WITH rHE LAST
A writer in the National Intelligencer makel
a comparison Of this spring with that Of the las
year, which applies with much exactness TO BIZ,
region, and is interesting as indicating q more
favorable, although more backward, season.
The eScrlY par! Of March, of last year, was very
moderate, anI1 for a week prior to the 18th the
weather was very warm. AT this time in the
region Of Washington crOeusss were mostly out
VI bloom, the hyacinthS In full bloom also mar,
sissus and jonquils. ROse-busheB had made
shoots one, two, and three inches long; aprIc0:s
in full bloom. Late peaches (which are the
FIRST to blOom) were in full leaf, and all forward
trees and vegetation active. Early garden
stuff was pushing vigorously. So far 80 good
On the 18th Of March a severe and cold
NORTHWESTERN set In, and the following morn.
ming at sunrise the Thermometer was "a o
Fahrenheit. From the 18th to the 29th the
northwest wind continued to blow hard, cold
and dry. night and dayi During this time ice
made every night, and on four Of the nights
the thermometer fell to 24e On the night Of
the 28th il was intensely cold and windy, and
before sunrise on the 29th the thermometer fell
to 10 0 , only two degrees above the greatest
cold experienced during the whole previous
winter. On the morning of the S0Lh it COM
menced showing and continued all day, From
the lst to the 18th Of April the weather was
moderate. On the 9th il commenced 10 snow,
and at night on the 18th the snow was six in
ches deep. 1t continued TO snow all the day
following, the thermometer varying from 81 Q
to 40e. The weather was after that time
moderate and warm up to the eth. Il was
indeed desolate spring, distressing and disAs-
trOus except to the grass and grain growers
Although so forward in the beginning, it prov
ed to be very late spring in some respects
The weeping willows lost their entire foliage,
and did not put forth again until the 9th Of
May. The forest trees did not put forth till the
9th and 9Th Of May. Thus far this present
spring is nearly month behind last spring.
but the prospect is far better. The fruit is safe
except where trees have been winter killed
The winter has damaged nearly all succulent
growths, and the injury is extensive among
rose bushes and shrubbery.
II The weather should gradually moderate,
and he ordinarily moist, we may expect fruit
full season in nearly all important products ex~
cept grass, much Of which was killed By the
drouth of last summer and autumn.
INDIAN REDATIoNs--PRosPECTIv INDIAN
Waffle st Louis Intelligencer has news
from the Plains from residents of Santa Fe, who
have Just arrived in that city. The train num-
bered sixty persons, and reached the frontier
on the 27th ult., and st. Louis on the Sd inst,
it SAYS
The news brought by Mr.. Hatcher, one Of
the party, relating to Indian tribes is unfavor-
able. The Utahs and Apaches after contin-
ued depredations on the whites. had at last ur
nited for more extensive offensive operations.
The Apaches had nearly all left the south and
gone north to the Utahs. Five eomDanisss G.
volunteers and . .%c 81 u regulars, had been pre-.
pairing to 90 in pursuit of the two tribes. They
hearing of this had sent word to the troops t
come on, and the troops we're TO have left or
26th of February--ths day succeeding the de
parturs of Mr.. Hatcher's train. The troops
were under the command of Col. Fontelroy.--
The indians, al the last accounts we're awaiting
the troops at point called Balos Salona (Salt
Valley) on the head waters of the Arkansas
They numbered. Mr.. Hatcher thinks, from 6OC
to 800 warriors. On their journey, Hateher'e
hunter, when at distance of two or three
miles from the train was pursued by party oi
lApaches; but he being on mule and they on
foot, he escapad without difficulty and reached
the train.
AT Bent's Fort the train saw numbers of the
Cheyennes, Arrapahoes, Apaches Kiowas and
other tribes. All Of the Indians have suffered
terribly during the past winter. There is nc
buffalo anywhere in the vicinity of their lands
and they have not only killed their own STOCK
but have also stolen one hundred and sixty
head of cattle belonging at Bents Fort, and
from forty to sixty head also, belonging at the
mouth ofthe Orphan tributary OF the Ar
kansas The train saw party af Camanchel
at Canadian Fork. They stated that they had
not seen a buffalo during the season, and
} though the Camanches we're the richest tribe
, in the amount of their stock, yet nearly al
their stock had been killed to give them sub
sstence. Mr.. Hatcher was infomed BY the In
dians at Bent's Fort that the Camanches hat
already declared war against the whites. Thi
} statement however, Mr.. H. did not credit. All
: Of the Indians seen are restless and dissatisfied
with their condition. They make no conceal
ment of the fact if Government does not eithe
send them ammunition, or permit them to pro
t cure It Of the traders, they intend to commenc
Q an offensive war, and to plumber every train
1 They state that they are now waiting and wi
wait for time to see what action Governmen
takes upon the matter of permitting them
0 get ammunition from the traders. If they d
Il not get an answer within reasonable tint
4 they will then open hostilities.
At the time OF Mr.. Hatcher's departure an