The Semi-weekly Shreveport news. [volume] (Shreveport [La.]) 1862-1864, 1862-09-19
Se111i-weekly News

whom complaints have been made BY
the Chippewas. is reported to have
committed suicide in q fit of insanity.
The Chippewa difficulty. following 50
close upon the Sioux raid, causes
great alarm. The northern part OF
the State is making earnest appeals
for military aid.
Dispatches from Col. Sibley, of the
25th. says he arrived at St. Peter on
the 22d, and has been actively enga-
ged affording all aid possible to the
beleagured villages. Maj. Fowler,
with fifty mounted men, made a re-
connoissance to the Fort Ridgeley
route tho previous morning. and re-
turned to St. Peters at 3 o'clock on
the morning Of the Goth, bringing the
bodies of some women. killed within
20 miles of St. Peters. He reports
the destruction of property beyond
calculation. The Indians attacked
New Ulm, Saturday. The fight con-
tinued till late in the evening. No
thing has been heard from there since.
Gov. Sibley asks for full regi-
ment to be at once sent up, armed
and equipped, and thinks they and
still more viii be needed before the
Indians are subdued. He thinks
they will have 1000 or 5000 warri-
ors to meet sooner or later
l.. G. Evans, Mayor of St. Cloud.
writes to the Governor that commit
tee of reliable citizens had been ap-
pointed to visit the scene Of the re-
cent reported murders, and had Just
returned. They went as far AS
Panesviile, and found some two hun
bred persons in the vicinity of that
place and Norway Lake murdered.
Paynesville petitions the Governor to
send company to protect their lives
and property. In Stearns. Meeker
and Mononsahela counties many per-
sons We're driven from their homes,
leaving their crops but partially har-
vested. Arrivals at this city from
Now uln report the usual shocking
scenes as too horrible to recount
Late Arkansas lntelligence.-Late
arrivals from Hele..a report but little
going on in that place. but pickets
stationed back in the country. are
troubled by Struggling par
ties Of guerrillas. On Thursday the
steamboat White Cloud went down
the river for cotton. and returned with
thirty bales. When three miles be-
low the city, she was fired upon by
guerrillas, but suffered no injury, nor
were any of her peopI. wounded.
A portion of the feet had been
down to Eunice. Arkansas. and
brought up the wharf boat from that
place: it is one Of the largest and
finest on the whole river. The wharf
boat from Napoleon had also been
sent for to Helena, A prisoner. ia
ken at Eunice, said he was in Little
Rock few days before, and that a
large number of Texas troops, fully
armed aud equipped. had ar lived at
that place. There is probably but
little reliance to be placed in the
l, is stated in Helena that Rosen-
cranz had, with great confidence in
successful achievement, made an at
tack on the Confederate troops lying
at Tupelo, Mississippi, but had been
de- isively repulsed.
When the steamboat Planet, up
from below. was at Commerce., She |
was informed that the people in that
eighborhood had come to the reso-
luton that if any parties OF guerril-
las came to the shore in their neigh
borhood for the purpose of firing at
passing boats, they would shoot them
and drive them of, or extecminate
them. The population there are not
willing that their plantations should |
be destroyed and their dwellings |
burned for species of warfare that
does no rood.