New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-13
A TRUTHFUL ACCOUNT OF THE INDIAN
DIFFICULTIES
Of The s., Psul Tine.

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FRiISn NEwsOS: | write 20 tel YOU somethin,
If The Sioux who have committed the recent murder.
on the white settlers Spirit Lake. The leader
If the party is called lnk-ps-du;a Red End. The
whole humber of men and boys able TO carry a
Gun belonging TO his party il seventeen, which i
the number reported 10 have been engaged in
The first murders. Sioux now IN the neighbor.
hood of the agency, called Smoky Day and two bro.
thers. Jcseph and Louis CouIsoiI, hslfbreeds,
who saw and eonversed with them IN the
neirhborbood where they killed two brothers
named Wood, who trading not far
from the head Of the Des Moines river, say
about Is years from which seems probable that four
or five OF the original party had left. not liking the bu-
-ipe-- In which they were engaged. Ink-pa-duta aud
his people are Wah-peh-kuas aud spoken of by the
leading men near Pa5uts-zee and the Sioux Agency
a. gades who IN consequence of murders commit
ted on their people many years ago, had 10 flee
from Cannon River to the Missouri. Whether thew
were present at the treaty at Mendoza in 1851 have
not learned; but they suppose, not without reason,
their claims 10 the lands ceded in that treaty as good
As that Of any Of those who sigBedit.
part if not all of them were present at the time
Of the payment last Summer or Fall, and it is said ex.
messed much dissatisfaction because they not al
lowed 10 share in the anDuities The agent refused 10
Give them share because they had not planted on
The Reserve They have told some of those who ave
conyersed with them that a. they passing q
house not far from the Little Sioux river, in Iowa,
a dog came out and bit one OF them, who then
shot the dog Soon after this company of white
men came upon them, and took from them all their
guns and then bea; them with sticks or whip, and
drove them of Having no means OF obtaining
a subsistence without guns after suffering som
time. they determined tie supply themselves by
taking guns wherever they could find them.
After they had obtained a partial supply, man
from whose house they had taken gun came GU
and shot al them without however, hurting them.
They then shot him down, and from that time pro-
ceeded to murder such families they met with
The report among the Dakotas at Pajutazee, more
than a week ago, was that they had killed between
thirty and forty white persons and had among them
four female prisoners-three women and girl
Some of the military men who have been IN the
regions where the murders were committed, and re-
turned TO Fort Rdgely say that foTy-sr dcdf bod'es
kdrs been found, ana that rs many a. Jfy may mare
J,cn billed.
Soon after the Of the first murders reached Pa
iutazee an intelligent gentleman OF that neighborhood
with whom was cOnyersing, told me that Ink pa-duta
and his party having supplied themselves with horses
ammunition &c would go up the Big Sioux River, 10
near the he ad of it, and then up the james or jacques
River TO join themselves to the northern Shank
wan and this is highly probable, as when last heard
from about the 18th inst they were not lar from the
Red Pipestone quarry. II il not probable that they
will again approach the white settlements for some
months plumber seems to have been principal
object in what they have done, and they are said to
lie abundantly supplied.
The Sioux who receive annuities are more :, posed
to take pant with the whites than with thee egades
Of their people; and say they would ne feel At all
III
and his whole party Those of Ms who have our fam
lies among the Indians DO not apprehend danger from
them unless some of them are wantonly murdered Dy
some of our countryen. or this there was and still
j. danger in the excited state Of feeling the frontier
Some of them have been chased and badly used, and
if they had not been more prudent and forbearng
than civilized men usually are, much blood wOnid
have been she'd Major FlGndrsu has been exerting
himself TO prevent anything of the kind and we hope
he will succeed in preventing further efusion OF
blood.
Some will suppose that soldiers ought to go immed-
s.cv in pursuit of the murderers. Ii is but fair to
.uppose that the officers of the army understand their
own business much better than civilians do. Those
of M whose families most exposed will feel much
safer if this business is conducted by the Officers OF
the regular army than if militia are employed. From
the unusual coldness of this Spring we cannot expect
sufficient gass the prarles to subsst team and Ora
COON horses much before the first Of June I'LL this IL
The case il is not probable that any soldiers sent in pur
suit of Ink .pa-duta will oyertake him.
II is very desirable that immediate measures be
taken to recover the prisoners. The mosthkey means
of accomplishing this would be to send party oil
friendly Sioux to get them, as Is not mprobabeth
would be murdered if their captors should see an army
cf white men approaching. / have been told that
7 title row has expressed Willingness to lead party
10 bring them in If he should undertake to do 1t, he
would most certainly succeed But It Is unreasonable
to expect him TO go unless hoeraiy furnished with
n cans to purchase tho capives If they can be pur-
chased and TO hire sufficient number OF warriors to
90 with him take them by force II their captors re-
fuse TO eel them To do this must involve an expense
of several thousand dollars, but what Is S2OOOO or
$50 COO in such case VIII not our Governor au-
'No''-0 -" THOs. S. WILLIAMSON.
p. ST arrived in this neghborhood on yesterday
from Pautazee where left my family, and have
written the within in haste wishing to return to my
family The information contained within Is the result
of many inquiries among Indians and whites, ana
though there may be inaccuracies, may be rehed on
as substantially correct. r'S'"'