Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-03-20

OuE prlbonerb Will feaon sixteen hundred,
They are usually dull and haltintelligent fol.
iows, who do merely az they are told By their
leaders. They are being sent forward rapidly
to springheld. IIf''s.
ATROCITIES OF THE INDIANS
Tho three thousand Cherokee, Choctaw,
Creek and Seminole Indians under Col. Albert
fike, renegade son of Connecticut, committed
the greatest atrocities in the field, not only
piunoering and manning the dead, but actually
numbering and s'aping tho wounded as they
iay helpless and suffering on the ground. More
than one hundred and twenty of our bravo men
were thus barbsrously treated by the savage
Toe. VINO had been wrought to pitch of frenzy
oy the rebels, through passionate appeals apd
declarations that the Var KEGS designed to en-
slave them, and force them, with chains and
whips, to do the vilest drudgery In their aristo.
cratic homes In the North.
Not only did the enemy thus poison their
minds, but every day before the savages went
Into action, tney received large potations OF
whisky, mixed With gunpowder, which rendered
the naturally berce sons of the forest perfect
demons. Under this extraordinary stimuIus
they forgot their usual caution, and exposing
themselves after the American fashion, we're
Killed IN great numbers. StiIl, they were very
formidable, and tften atteclEed the Federaiists
Ia the rear, and, as they we're passing some
bend in the road, or piece Of wooded land, did
much execution. They yelled and danced, and
brandlshed their knives, and acted like crews Of
madmen; but when they became partially 60.
Der, became more prudent, and fought after
their time-honored fashion, from behiud trees
and fallen timber.
When our troops discovered, on the second
day, that the IcdAns were using the soalping
knife, their rage knew no bounds, and they
made cad havoc in the ranks of the red devils.
nS,rsSor " .h., onuId a.es wneHIYe. ane
four of its members scalped. obtained the range
of body of four OF Ave hundred of the savas.
es, and ffed several charges Of caupIster and
shell upon them 10 rapId suoeesaion. al a dis.
tance of not more than three quarters of a
mile. :
The effeot upon the natives Was terrible.
They were cut down like grass. aud the dusky
demons who were unhurt ian bovline from M
field, and could not be rallied again on that
day (Ffiday). thouph Col. AIbeSs Pike sbot
seyersl wItS bis owS hand and hswiad a, ,Ssm
un,il he raa hoarsa Some ton or ,waiva oI ,he
chjsfs vsra tiIlad whosa ~ mo. 80 n.
oo TseminoIei Man.to.Tea TC.s.LI R.o.a.
haeh.a Issmino,el Tsr.a nj, int fCh.rokse,
Nn.ir- wamn.um fChoctawN Xuh.ta.min.0a
1Choo,o ~ Mo- -,nos- ~. TE,astI Ir,.o ,inR
sinLsI 1Cbs,cSaal Ro.ra.onSoshs N pssm;,oi
and E,S.i.msn. .tn.,os Scrssf, N's'
ps1ra,o,-o iss -. ~ of .ho r,oo, ,oDo.rod
| NJ war,iors and .bonah ovor Sttv ,so,s ~ zoe
~ss stbls,;c and Ssrins 70 an sr;r:ord,nsrv % Ss'
Urss and f,msd IL his trhs oiiks for III coun.
scls l And bis nrovass Ne had fouoSt - T,,h % tbs
celsbrstsd Rad Js"Lat IN Fio,;Ss dnr;ng tLs
San,;soIs W. "a Sc az. - n'I~ a Ss ,"ss sSs
II Z ,vsntv wornS, mi ''' "P'" A'' pS''OA ~ 'S''
| 80
TIE REBELs SLAUGHTERED sY THEIR SAVAGE AL
| -rlf1 LIES
Il "a said the Indians in the engagement o.
Friday became 80 excited by the alcohol the,
had drank aud the scenes that thew had witness
ed. that thew turned their vespons anon tbei
Own allies. and butchered and scaIned the rsb
els and FedefalIsts with the most chartnine IN
difference. An instance Of this "a oivan b,
one Of the prisoners, a member of one OF n,
COR, csn;ss ,bst snffsrsd frnn, ~bs. ths So,,h