The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-12
GREAT SUFFERING ON THE PLAINS-TER-
RTRTE STORMS

RlBLE STORMS.
An arrival at Nebraska City from Fort Kearney
brings doleful accounts of sufferings from snow
storm. The Journal saws:
lie states that one of the most severe snow storms
ever experienced in that vicinity had recently
ialen. The snow on average was three feet
GseP paP lhere was great suffering among the Pixies
/ FeaE and other emigrants who had been caught
out In the storm, and they could neither help them.
selves nor make any PROGRESS
A al TN the ort corn was selling at the unreasonable
anu extraordinary price of four dollars per bushel
or twenty dollars per barrel
We had expected to hear of praat Ct, ,ffarino, or1
PrlvatlonS on the Plains among the emiUranta
but did not expect to have to record so terrible y
snow-storm, so near by, when the mercurv in the
thermometer was almost to the boiling noint "a Il
was yesterday. " -
Major Vaughan, Indian Agent among the Black
feet tribe, reached st. Louis on Saturday morning
on his way to Washington, from his agency, hay,
ing as represented by the Republican, suffered ter
rlby IN his travels, losing his guide and interpre
ter in the snow.
On the llth of February an express arrived at
Fort Benton, notifying Major Vaughan that the
Blackteet Indians were coming to receive their an
nultles. The express found him at the farm which
he was opening for the Indians, under treaty
stipulation, about forty five miles from Fort Ben
ton, in the Sun River Valley. He at once resolved
to go out and meet them. Starting the next morn
inE' (the lZth,) with well known guide and in
terpreter, by the name of Perot, he pursued his
journey until one or two p. NJ, the snow having
commenced with their journey. At that hour the
WIND changed to the north, and it became intensely
coid' me wind blew a perfect hurricane across
the prairie, and so dense was the snow that an OBJ
lect could not be dscerned at ten feet distance
They got lost, and at night Perot separated from
MAJOR Vaughan, and was not heard of afterward.-
For three days and two nights the Major kept
travelling. His horse, with wonderful instinct dis
covered the trail of another animal belonging to D.
NJ Frost Co., followed it, and broughtup finally at
sun River Valley, from whic the Major had taken
n 1a t1Ra ht,,, ,1lA 1,
to eat, and when he reached camp it was found that
his cheeks nose, fingers and toes were frost-bitten
and it required great effort to relieve him from the
pain thus produced. As soon as possible thereaf-
tefs Two Indians and three whites dispatched
to find Mr.. Perot but it was only to discover his
dead body, greatly dsfgured by the attacks of the
wolves, &c.
Major Vaughan reports that there is universal
peace prevailing among the tribes. There had
been more than the usual number of Buffalo in the
Blackieet country, and the trading houses of p
Chouteau, Jr., u Co., and d. NJ. Frost d Co., had
done an excellent business. They will be able to
seha forward very large number of robes-twen-
ty-tWo to twenty-three thousand. The Sioux In
dIans had Jared much worse than the other
tribes, and many of them had been in starving
condition. They were compelled to kill their hor-
ses and dogs to avoid absolute starvation
The winter was not so severe as had been exne-
rienced in that climate in previous seasons but an
unparalleled amount Of snow had fallen; nothing of
the Kind had been known for years. In the month
oi April there were only three days during which
1t did not snow, and most of the time with great
violence
Mr.. VIM. Butter, agent of the Santa Fe and Cal
itornia Mail Company, while building a station
house FOR the mail at Pawnee Fork, in Kansas,
few weeks ago, visited by large BODY of Kiowa
indians, who commanded him to cease from the un-
dertakng, telling him that the mail might pass un-
molested through the hunting grounds, but that no
house should be built on them. At first the agent
with his assistants, eight in number, disregarded
the threats but the savages surrounded the station
house and were about to burn it down when Mr.
Butter desisted. He returned to the frontier few
days ago, to secure the assistance of the United
States troops.