St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-04-30
REMOVAL OF THE CONDEMNED INDI.
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From the St. Paul Press, april 24M. .g...gf
The city was greatly excited yesterday after
noon by the intelligence that the steamer Fa
vorite, from Mankato. which passed quietly
down the river without stopping at this point,
had on board the condemned Sioux who have
been imprisoned at Mankato since last fall.
This naked fact alone being known without
any explanation, baked curiosity revenged
itself in hundred rumors derogatory to the
perpetrators of that neat little practical joke,
| and a vast emount cf popular indignation was
expended on the theory that the Indians were
to be carried up the Missouri river and let
loose on the new Sioux reservation near Fort
Randall, to join Little Crow and renew their
old habits of massacre and pillage on our from
| tier. We are glad to be able to odissipate these
sombre anticipations. The facts in the case
are as follows:
Several weeks ago the Government deter
mined upon and ordered the removal Of the
condemned prisoners to Davenport, Iewa, as
the officials sey, though We are informed on
good authority that Rock Island, on the other
side of the river. is their actual destination,
there to be kept at hare l&b1r, probably for
life, under o military gdard.F The execution
Of the order for removal was entrusted to the
military authorities of this State. AS it was
known that the removal of the Indians with
out intlicting upon them the punishment which
deep feeling among the people, and as the de-
bers of citizens that the Indians should never
leave Mankato alive, it was necessary that the
utmost secrecy, caution and dispatch should
! be observed in the affair."
u THE steamer Favorite had been up to Red
Wood with army stores for the new post eslab-
lished there, and on her way down, Col. Mil
Ter, commandant at Mankato, informed Capt.
Hutchinson that he had use for his boat. His
preparations for the removal of the prisoners
to the boat were made quietly, and without at-
tracing the notice or exciting the suspicious
of the citizens. Everything being in readi-
ness, early on the morning of the 22d inst,
u company of infantry was deployed on eacl,
side of the prison to the river, forming wall
Of bayonets, concealing what was going on.
The door of the log Jail was thrown open and
the condemned Indians, 207 in number passed
through the guard-house to the lower deck Of
the steamer. Those acquitted by the Military
Commission, 48 in number, who have also
been kept in prison, were taken up on the boil
er deck to be left at Fort Smelling. Twenty
four Indian women, who had been carried up
from Fort Smelling to Mankato on the upward
trip Of the Favorite, so as to avoid detention
in coming down. were put on board to serve as
cooks for the condemned prisoners. The
! Colonel's arrangements were so complete and
/ the deportation was conducted so quietly,
that when the Fayorite moved off, but few per-
sons in Mankato knew that she had on board
1.-THE execrated savages on whom the popula-
tion of the frontier kad vowed to infiict the
punishment which the Government with.
held. BOO a1& iJ-E@l t8%- .t't@#.@f.
The Indians are guarded in their transit
down, by Company c, Of the 7th Regiment
q under command of Capt. Burt. Major J. R
Brown and Capt. Davis Redfeld accompany
them in the capacity Of Commissioners and
Superintendents. Dr.. H. Seigneurat attends
them as their Physician. .9-astsf gi4@t
The steamer goes direct to Davenport, 10 wa
and has orders not to stop at any point, except
l for wood and then, only at q distance from
towns and to return to st Paul as soon AZ
possible. .s#.w "e 90 'Hst
Appended to this article in the Press is
moro than column of nonsensical, highEa
lutin stuff about the 'fthrilling and sugges
tive sight" of prayer meeting held aboard
on The boat by these blood-stained devils
Very "suggestive," j" indeed and if "thci'
somber faces lit up with the red glare o.
the furnace fires" do not come any ncare,
|,eternal 6res than those of the steamer the,
will be fortunate Indians, and singing
psalms prove 70 be most effective means
Of saving guilty wretches from everlasting
punishment. Then, there is q high, dra.r
picture Of the, actions Of the horde o
pauper Sioux at Fort Smelling, when til.
boat touched for moment at the shore
\ The entire sketch is evidently writer
j BY some reporter connected with the es
tablishment, and most sssuredly not BY
Mr.. W hcelock I" ,fs>'a 5''@ ID s'@13340
y, .-"Going, going, going" cried out al
auctioneer." Where are you going ?" asked
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