The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-10-29
The Indian Ma>Sacrcs-IIorrib Details
Just Retribution.

\ gentleman Of high rcspcctability and
unimpcacha6lc vcracity, direct frpm 81.
Paul aud above, this morning gave us some
narrowing details Of tlG indian atroc'iic
in Upper Minnesota. fltt instances mcn.
toned he saSS are not ihCrc rumors or cx.
aggcratiChS, hut can hc altinlantly vouchcd
for Whole families have been butChcrcd
in the most revolving iianucr, and the mau
glcd remains hcapct together in the houses.
The women have been treated with the
grosscSt indigmtics and then harbarously
murdered No age or sex was spared hy
the ruthless iicnds. but the most revolving
and atrOc.ous crucltics were perpctratcd
by these mobile savagcs" ON helpless
SGhcs and dctcnsclcss women.
The details of the atrocities commit
On the women cannot be mentioned. aud are
worse than the imagination can conceive.
\ husband and wife were captured, stripped
of every vcstigc Of clothing, and the wo.
man outraged before her husbands eyes.
lie was then given blanket and orderc to
leave, on pain of death Ivy torture. That
man - now ON the track at the sNvagcs rs
an uncomprOmlsng avengcr. woman
near her confinement was cut open, and the
most revolving indcccnCics committed on
her corpse. Another had her face gashcd
with knives in imitation of the devices on
the faces Of her captors, and was then
turned loose. 4 young woman from Xancs-
Vile, in this State, who had gone up as a
schooltcachcr, had her hands tied hch md
her back, and was hrutally outraged by
eighteen Indians. 4 mother and her little
daughter were captured. The mother WAS
bound fast, whilst her child was outraged
before her eyes until it died. The mother
IL, IL
escape, aud succeeded in making hcl way
on foot. upward of sixty miles. t. -. Paul
where she arrived barefoot. furnishing and
bleeding, to tell her tale of horrors. We
could go on detailing incidents more horri-
Tile still, which are proven TO be true.
Col. Sihlcys force succeeded IN surround
ing these numbering s,vages, when they.
finding no hope of escape, socretcd their
arms and sent in messenger to Col. Sjblcy
protesting their entire innocence of tie out
RACES. They claimed to he band of
friendly Indians who had captured the
white prisoners from the had Indians" "
and were anxious to give them up. Col.
Sihlcy agreed to treat with them and thus
got them ALL Indians and captive whites,
into his power. He then told the Indians
that he hoped that their story was true
bnt he should have Ia give them all a trial,
so that he might punish all the bad Indians
among them, The Indians, about six hug
dred III number, were then surrounded, and
a court martial organized at once, the res,
cucd white captives hc;ng used as wit
ncsscs. The trial is holding at Big Lake,
! above st. Peters. Fourteen Indians have
already been tried, and thirteen convicted.
The fourteenth, Chief named Ned Eye,
was not convicted, the captive women tes-
tifying that he was opposed to tire atrocities
perpetrated on the captives.
Eight of the convicted indians have been
hung, and Colonel S,bley seems determined
to give stern justice to the murdercrs. The
people of Upper Minnesota are greatly eX-
| cited, and swear that if the Government
does not exact II terrible vengeance for the
atrocities practiccd they will themselves
wage Il war of determination agaIns, the
entire Indian race.