, 1862-09-01

bIany Of these goods Ishopld Judge were for
Mr.. Stone, post sutler, by articles found on
the prairies; and bad but short time be-
fore ordered bill from St Cloud, which I
was expecting by every stage.
The mall which came down from Rsd river
last Friday ". We se vezs tISasge; Two large hags
and scattered over Tie prairie. Several drafts
have been found, / am told.
Where the Indians are now Is not known,
though some we're seen BY the guard last
night We are ready for Them, coms wheu
they please. We can protect ourselves. We
have but one company, and can give no pro-
tectIon to onteiders, unless they come to US.
We must have more soldiers here, or the peo-
pie and travel cannot be protected, aud it is a
Shame that the authorities have left the in
habitants Of this whole upper country to be
Protected by one company: Think Of ito.
day not single man, woman or child living
in the town Of Breckiuridge. What has been
the fate Of other towns below ne have not
heard.
We feel perfectly safe in the fort. The SOL
diers from Georgetown came in tonight, and
We have got some seventy citizens carrying
aims.
THE ORIGIN AND EXTENT OF OUR INDIAN
DIFFICULTIES.
The important and interesting narrative of
Other. Day, throws great light on the origin
and extent OF the Indian; outbreak, very
much abrcvfates the. proportions of the af-
fair.
The prevailing idea that this outbreak was
an organized aud preconcerted raid of all the
Dakota bands, involving Wide combinations
With other tribes, seems to be entirely dissi-
pated by this simple and straight forward
story. There might have been q concealed
organization with view to an onslaught on
the whites, among some OF the M'de Wskan-
ton Indians at the Lower Agency; but it is
7tys1 %E,n$t
8 conspiracy existed, several Of the most nu-
mercus bands and Influential chiafs we're not
in it or in any msnner accessory to it. Wa
bsshaw, who arrived Just before the outbreak
was totally Ignorant Of it.
It is also evident that none Of the Upper
Sioux, the Wahpeols and Sissitons, Or Yanh-
tons, knew anything Of such a COZ 2piracy !;
and they came into the raid after the rising
at the Lower Agency, only because, with true
Indian logic, They regarded themselves as
hopelessl5 involved in the punishment which
they foreesw would be visited on their friends,
the former-the Wakpetons-sgiNing in their
adhesion with great reluctance, aud protesting
Throughout against the murder Of the whites
It was evident that it Was by the connivance
Of the Wakpetors, that Other-Dly was ,ena-
bled to effect the rescue Of the whites at the
Upper Agency without opposition. It is al51
gratifying to know that the farmer Indians o1
Iue Haz' wood Republic ure not only not par.
| ties to the raid, but even n1cditated an armed
| opposition to it.
| According to Other-Day, one Of the Indians
| at Lacqui Parle, and beyond, were implicated
| in it, or knew ANYTHING about it. 4 grea.
many ofthe plain Indians had gone westward
70 lunt buffalo. Except few s.raggliag
4a1ktcns, there we're no Missouri Indiana
1 engaged in the affair, and none within reach
Who could since have been assembled It i:
evident there was no preconcert OF Org lniza-
ton among the Sioux bands. 1t is as once q
further evidence Of this, and proof thai
| there was no combination with the Chippe
was-a thing Of itself i'm probaole-that VA
party Of one hundred Sioux had, few day:
before, started out from The country aboTt
Yellow Medicine, against the Chippewas al
Red Lake.
From these facts it is obvious that it i:
only the Sioux on or near the Reservation
who are implicated in these murders, or vii
Ing parties to it. Supposing the whole o
these far and near, who we're accessible at tht
TIME, 70 have BEEN slAce dTaTn into it, thei
whole force cannot number more than 500
FMS seems to us, and we are somewhat ac
| luainted with the numbers and localities O
the various bands, a high estimate Of th,
numbers engaged, and we do lot think
probable that there are now more than 600 il
the affair.
The first accounts received, by confusion
OF dates, indicated an apparent simultaneous
| ness in tie massacres ct different points which
naturally led TO the belief Of IN. organizes
and general uprising. But we now know tina
these events followed upon one another, tn
successive effects of q blind and sanguinar,
coutag!on, without design or premeditation
Tie first blow was struck On Sunday, at Ac
ton, Meeker county, by four miscraants q
Little six's band. They ned to Redwood
where, covered with the blood OF their victim
and # sarfnl Of Being delivered up to the al
1hori1ies, they took advantage of 1hc prevail
ing disatieciion to incite an inBurrection, an
escape punishment themselves by inValvin
inc whole tribe IN the same crime Win
followed are the natural results of the India
character. Let Col. Sibley then abandon thes
paLic-bred chlmeras Of vast armies Of indiana
and 1s:oyc forward at once to mete out to tt
lascals thy just punishment Of thtir crimes.