Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-06-16
From the ST. Paal Times.
The Captive Rescued.

Flandrau, Indian Agent, on Saturday
evening last.
Mrs. Marble reiterates what has a.
ready been published relative to the mur-
der OF her husband, and the massacre al
SPIRIT Lake, and gives further particulars
OF her treatment while In the hands Of
the savages. On the 18th of March she
was taken prisoner. Arriving at the
camp of the Indians, she found Mrs.
Thatcher, Miss Gardiner, and Mrs. No
bic, also prisoners. The Indians then
proceeded to Heron Lake, where they
encamPed leaving their squaws. and went
IN search of more plunder. Al the ex-
praton Of ten days they returned, with
all kinds of goods such as powder. guns.
horses, &c. They then broke up their
camp and started westward, and were on
me route nearly one month, travelling.
hrS. Marble thinks, five hundred miles.
In order to avoid pursuit. They reacked
Skunk 5 Lake about the lst of Nav. where
they remained five days, and where Mrs.
Nj. was finally released, the particulars
OF which are as follows:
Two Lac-qui-parle Indians appeared
IN the camp Of the hostile Indians. and
were well received, the chief of the camp
-pa-du-tah, spreading before them a
feast. AT this feast the Indians boaSted
OF thelr. murders and their pluuder, the
goods they had stolen, &c, sc. In the
morning the Lac-qui- Indians had a
Parley with the chief concerning The car
i've women, when they proposed to pur-
chase Mrs. Marble for one gun, a lot of
blankets, keg OF powder, and Indian trink
cts. The proposition was accepted and
shortly after, the Indians with the unfor.
tunate women were on their wav 10 Lac
qu-parle, where they arrived on the 2Oth
OF May. The journey occupied ten days,
but Mrs. NJ. was kindly cared for, and
speaks IN the highest terms OF her de!Iv-
erers. AT Lac-qui-parle, our old friends
and correspondents, Afessrs Riggs 4
Williamson, missionaries, met Mrs M
and removed ner to the agency at yellow
Medicine, where she remained with The
families OF these worthy people untl she
started with Major tlandrau for ST. Paul.
Inc manner IN which Mrs Marble was
treated while on her way from Heron 10
Skunk Lake Is sufficient to call forth the
indignation Of the most StOical heart
she was compelled to carry on her back
heavy loaded packs containing shot, weigh
ing not less than 80 pounds. while or the
Top OF these sat young Indian a pa
poose) and then attached to her person
were articles OF furniture, making the TO-
tai weight she was obliged 10 bear while
travelling through the snow, poorly clad,
not less than one hundred pounds. Some
times, when sinking under their loads.
the brutal savages would arouse the un-
fortunate women 10 cOnclouSness by point
ing the muzzle Of their guns al them and
death. They were compelled
TO eat horse flesh and many times gnawed
the bones Of the dead animals after the
savages had left them.
Mrs. Thatcher, who was more delicate
than the rest, and could not bear the bur /
den imposed upon her, met an untimelv /
end Arriving at the Big Sioux, The In /
dams felied trees in order to cross thai !
stream. Mrs. T. in attempting to cross.
missed her footing and fell into the river. |
She succeeded in nearly reaching the op-
poslte shore by swimming, when one of I
the brutal wretches raised his gun and I
shot her through the head, and her life /
less body floated down the stream. Her
death was hailed with great 10Y by the I
Squaws, whose eXuItatIon broke forth in
loud shouts.
Mrs. Marble IS very pleasant looking
lady. bearing umistakable marks of her
hardshlPs. She Is about % years Of age. /
OF medium size, has been twice married (
and IS native of Ohio. At present she .
Is In a destitute condition. At the time
she was purchased she was dressed in !
regular Indian costume, with leggIns, moe +
casIns, blankets, sc.
The other women Mrs Mobiles and /
Miss Gardiner) are in the hands of the /
savages, but Major Flandrau has sent for /
ward party Of trusty Indians, with horses /
and wagons 10 secure their release; and I
when they are released, we hope a suffi- /
clent force OF soldiers viii be sent forth /
to avenge the death Of Mrs. Thatcher as
well as the wrongs heaped upon her as-
by a Iawless band of murderers. I
The hostile Indians were well armed, and /
the only way to rescue Mrs. MOBILES and I
Miss Gardiner is by purchase, and then /
let Death do his duty in annihiatiug every
vestlge Of the Red Devils who have been
the cause OF so much sorrow
We learn that a purse of 50 900 has
been made up for the rescued captive wo-
man, Mrs. Marble. Good
Rsg Governor Brag, of North Carolina
notifies all persons entitled to vote for