Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-06-19

IL PAR Dla1ketS, 4 UAuO anu "hiaO,
% yards of blue square cloth, 81 1-2
yards square calico, 20 pounds tobacco,
l sack of shot, II shirts, several rolls of
ribbon, so pounds of powder, sack of
corn, 1 sack of -four, ? pieces of pork,
some coffee and sugar.
The two extra horses, the blankets and
other goods were to be used in the pur-
chase of the women from the Indians /;
the provisions we're for the sustenance
of the party on the trip. Mr.. Flandrau
charged The Indians positively to let no
obstacle discourage them, or no difficulty
turn them back to exercise their best
judgment in negotiating for the release
Of the prisoners but to give everything
they had rather than to fail. They
would have to travel 125 miles to reach
the place where Mrs. Marble was found.
They are expected to have to follow the
trail of the hostile Indians beyond that
for several days, as the guilty band had
constantly changed their position. len
days or two weeks will probably be en-
ployed in accomplishing the journey and
back.
The government has ordered six COM
paniesof the 10th Infantry, now stationed
at Fot Smelling, to 60 out into the Sioux
country, against the lower band of Da-
cotal Sioux, at Spirit Lake and Des
Mohes also among the Jaques River
Indians. The theory of the government
is, tat the professedly friendly Indians
are silent party to the .outrages COM
mited in March, and they will in future
be leld responsible for the conduct of
Their renegades.
Col. W. H. Mobiles Pacific wagon road
pary-a splendid company of about
eighty men, we'll oficered-are about to
star from St. Paul, where they have
beer waiting for several weeks, at an ex-
! peBe of three hundred dollars per day,
for The War Department to forward their
arns-will, go through the country in
habted by the outlaw Sioux, and if they
met them, will surely bring in their
scabs.
A letter from st. Paul dated 29th ult.
says the two surviving captives, Mrs
Nobe and Miss Gardner, have been ran
somed by friendly Indians, and will soor
o return in safety to their friends.
From an account in the st. Pau
Igmss we make the following extract
= Although they had abundance o
. horses at the first, the white women were
= Obliged to carry large loads from the be
: ginning. Mrs. NJ, during all her cap
= tivity with Red Ends people, which wa
nearly two months, had to carry bur
den of more than one hundred pound
weight. In this burdened manner, the,
! had to make their way through deep snow
and to wade streams often waist deep
breaking and pushing the ice before them
. When they slipped and fell down, the.
were helped up by a loaded gun pointe
- at them. When the party halted afte
the days march, our captives' bushes
- was to clear away the snow, cut ten
y poles, set up the lodge, get the frewoot
III ETC.. in word. to do the drudgery {
the camp.
:. While there was plenty of food whic
they had taken from the white peopl,
90 their poor captives had a share, but th
- did not continue long. The ducks cam
. not back. The grass grew not. I'll
90 American horses, which they had take
l. to the number of forty or more, could NJ
!. eat snow, and consequently died or wei
:, killed, and so made food for the compan,
But even dead horsefesh came to a
end, and althoug h now they could sho,
!, some ducks, they we're afraid to go off
: hunt, and food became so scarce that OIL
American women we're glad to get bon
~ and even feathers to roast, and theret
: somewhat satisfy the cravings of hunge
- When the ground had thawed they dr
and ate artichokes. Mrs. Marble thinl
g she Jared better in regard to food ths
!: the other women, for the man who ke
.r her did sometimes give her little, b
- she adds 4 would not be willing to te
~ any one what l had to eat The lor
h. spring tous was an age to them. TIL,
- expected to see troops coming to the
- rescue, but they came not, and hope
ferred made the heart sick"
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