The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
MATTERS UP NORTH.
RAVAGES OF THE INDIANS.
SETTLEMENTS DESOLATED.

SETTLEMENTS DEsOLATED.
We COPY thc following from the st.
Cloud Democrat, received Saturday evening
the 9Th:
INDIAN WAR.
Our volunteer troops of horsemen, sent
to the frontier on Monday and Tuesday of
last week, have all returned, after having
secured the entire country, back to Norway
Lake, without seeing an Indian. They re.
port twenty seven killed and buried. The
Meeker County Guards had been one day
before them and buried all but one, John
Evertscn, who was killed in a meadow, and
whom our men found still unburied. They
think that many of the missing inhabitants
are concealed 10 the brush, as they find
traces of the dead having been visited by
friends after they were shot. Some were
found with pillows under their heads, and
covered with blankets. When any party
buried corpse or visited house, they left
a note for the information of those who
might come after. The Indians have swept
over the entire frontier, but they have not
destroyed nearly so much grain as was
feared. When they attacked house in
daylight, they burned it; at night they did
not, probably from fear of attracting atten-
ton. Hundreds of cattle are roaming about
without owners, and broad fields of grain
are dropping into the ground. Not house
with an inhabitant was found beyond Fair
Haven, Richmond and st. 10.
The Indians robbed the houses, opening
feather beds, pillows, &C., throwing out the
feathers and carrying off the ticks. Our
men speak of the country out around
Paynesville and Green Lake, of the entire
region west of US, as fertile and beautiful
beyond all powers of description, dotted
with sparkling lakes and groves of timber,
with gently rolling knobs and low meadow
lands and level prairies, all covered with
deep, black fertile soil. Homesteads on the
slopiDg banks of lakes, under the shadow of
tall oaks and in tbs midst of shaven lawns
such home sites as an eastern potentate
might covet, with their comfortable log
houses deserted. Will not our State Gov
ernment take measures to make the propri.
etors feel secure to return to them?
Arguments and entreaties weigh little
against the fearful logic of Indians bullets,
irebrands and scalping knives, which has
been so freely used to drive them out.
Today TUESDAY the 2d) til A. NJ, Rev.
Sterritt of Clear Water arrived with news
that on last night the Forest City Guards
twelve in number, were out twelve miles
west of tha: place and came upon a party
of forty Sioux making feast roasting hog,
&c. The Guards fired upon them killing
three and wounding several, when the In
dians hastily returned the fire and fed.
This shows that we were mistaken in
supposing the Sioux had fled to Dacota.
INDIANS ON MAINE PRAIRIE.
AS we go to press this note is handed US.
1t is from we'll known citizen of Maine
Prairie to his wife, in st. Cloud.
THURSDAY MORNING.
DEAR AUGUSTA I'VE were cutting nv
wheat yesterday, when man came run.
ming, saying that they had started back to
Cold Springs with three men, women and
children, in an OK team. They had got
mile beyond John Whites, when eight In.
dians arose; one fred at cne man not more
than twenty feet off, but missed him. Both
men fred, and one Indian dropped as though
killed they then turned the team around
and ran the oxen back to the Cutter house,
the Indians trying to head them of, but
they did not succeed. Two men stayed and
one came through and told me. We took
wagon, and went over and got the family
out to safe place, and then went up to
lind the dead Indian. We found two blan.
kets, shawl, a bed cord and a gun cover,
and some blood but no Indian. We had
an alarm this morning about four o'clock,
l have not time to give particulars.
E.H. ATWOOD.
F0RTIFICATIoNs.
The Main Prairie people have finished
and provisioned their fort, and profess them.
selves able to stand two months siege of
500 Indians.
At st. 10 they have three Forts of solid
green timber l foot thick sides and of so
feet sides. They are at different points and
command the town.
There is small, but substantial fort in
Upper st. Cloud and Brokers Block, is
surrounded by breastwork.
MILE LAC INDIANS.
A band Of one hundred Chippewa war.
riors came and camped on the other side of
the river, in East st. Cloud, Monday, and
claimed the protection of the whites, and
leave to 60 with them against the Sioux.
They claim to be the Mile Lac band whom
Messrs. johnson and Gordon say refused in
council to join the league against the whites.
They say they dare not go back to their
tribe, but as the leading characteristic of
savage nature is treachery, our people have
not permitted them to come into town.
LATEsT.-The Mile Lac Indians have gone