The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-29
LATEST NEWS FROM RIDGLEY.
HENDERSON, Thurday, August 81.

LATEST NEWS FROM RIDGLEY.
HENDERSON, Thurday, August 81.
Hon. ALEXANDER RAMSEY:
1 send by bearer, David Carruthers, the
following facts
1 left Fort Ridgley to-day, at five o'clock
A. NJ, and when left there were 1000 In
dams around the Fort, and the wooden
buildings were burning.
All the men, women and children at
Yellow Medicine are killed. except Kennedy
and Garvie: To-day I found it impossible
to get within the Fort.
think the Indians are still collecting,
CutHeads, Yanctonnais, and all other
Sioux tribes. If they take the Fort, they
will, in my opinion, come to Henderson, st.
Peter, Traverse, &c.
Very respectfully,
A. PREMIER, Interpreter.
DISPATCHES FROM COL. SHELLEY TO GOV.
RAMSEY.
Col. Sibley, with three companies, arrived
at Belle Plaine, after many vexatious de-
lays, on Thursday evening. He was to
leave yesterday morning in teams for st.
Peter, as he had pressing call in conse-
quence of later hostile demonstrations. He
states that it is certain that no communica.
ton had been had with the Fort tor two
days, although efforts had been made to do
so. Capt. Grant, who was on his way to
Glencoe, had been ordered by a special
messenger to join Col. Sihley at ST.
Peter, that he might not run the risk
of being attacked by an overwhelming
force. When Col. SibIey arrived at
St. Peter, he would be governed by the
latest intelligence in his movements
Col. Sipley states that Judge FIandrau,
had written to him from New Ulm, request
ing that assistance might be sent to that
place. Much complaint is made OF the
Austrian rifles, as they are considered all
most worthless. Col. Sibey is convinced
that the Sioux bands are united in carrying
out concerted and desperate scheme, and
he says he will only be too happy to find
that the powerful! upper bands of Yanktons
and other Missouri Indians, are not united
with them in their hilarious enterprise.
In later dispatch, dated ten o'clock
Thursday night, be says, evidence accumu~
lates AMI is of nature which would seem
to be unquestionable as to its reliability,
that very large force is necessary to put
down the savages. He advises that con
siderable force, not less than 500 additional
men be sent up at once, differed by the
best men, and we'll armed, with good sup
ply of fixed ammunition therefor. II not
wanted, SO much the better, the effect will
be good, and reassuring to the people.
AFFAIRS IN GLENCOE.
A letter from Colonel John 81. Stevens,
dated Thursday, the 2lst instant, states that
the most intense excitement was prevailing
there. Every family in the town had left,
but there were 400 women and children
there from the surrounding settlements.
No Indians had been nearer Glencoe than
eight miles, and they did not seem to be
hostile. The Colonel says the injury done
by the stampede of the settlers has been i'm
mense. Houses are abandoned, fields of
grain destroyed, and another such scene
of woe can hardly be found in the South as
in Mcleod, Meeker, northern part OF Sib-
ley, and other counties west OF the woods,
The Colonel had called out a company of
Home Guards, under Captain Rouse, and
were determined to defend the place to the
last. In Hutchinson the people have bar
rlcaded house aud are safe. A slight
skirmish occurred, day before yesterday
Q9tb, near Cedar, between the Indians
and whites, and one man from Cedar was
slightly wounded.