Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-01-26

of our friends are in danger indians ere r's,i'4
: white men are fleeing, women nre butcherei
cold blool-mauy OF them worse than hi'ieu
Haste, or your parents and your Margaret Ut
lost?
With sudden start from the chair sh
sprang upon the knees Of her parent ana eA
claimed a.,
" Father, have had fearful vision. W.
must not dely moment, but take the hrst Uait
by the most expeditions route for the iar "es''-
Let US leave this morning." =,
sat in wonder aud astonishment MY
thoughts flew with lightning-ike rapidiiy Du'
my philosophy all disappeared and faded away
before the wonderful developments which hau
witnessed l could only take the hand OF my
new friend, wish him pleasant morning, and
promise TO meet him ut the depot hall nm hour
hence, ready for the first train West
| was expected TO visit some dear friends IN
Cleveland, Ohio, and my travelling arrangements
had been made accordingly but ] had new be-
come interested in solving the faystery connected
with the strange visions Of this beautiful glrb
and l at once resolved to f1regp ali pleasure
visits, and take the most expeditions route Tor
the great West.
accordingly met my young German irlend
and his daughter halt an hour afterward in the
depot, and procured tickets for the party, vta
U tca, Rochester, Niagara Falls aud Detroit, over
the Great Western road, and thence by the Mi
chigau Central to Chicago; where by the cars Of
tine great Northwestern we were hnrtiedly con-
vered to In Crosse, Wisconsin. We here took
passage on the steamer Mcclellan, Capt Martin,
and in seventeen hours were safely Landed in St.
Paul
During this pleasant but rapid journey my
interest in the welfare and happiness of my new
made friends had ripeued from an easy indifler-
ence friendship, and bad promised TO accom-
pany them far into the interior of Minnesota and
thoroughly test the truthfulness of the little girls
visions OF friends bloodshed and Indian deprc-
atoms in New Ulm. But alas though the sp r
81 - .uoDg, the ish was weak, The labor
aud mental excitement consequent upon constant
travel night and day compelled me, on reaching
ST. Paul, TO place myself in the hands Of Il ply
scian, who positively forbid my leaving the city
under two or three weeks. The next morning
l was attacked with a fever and confined TO my
room. -
Little Maria wished ut once to become my
nurse but earnestly insisted that her father
should proceed without delay to the up country.
The nOble-heared man however claimed that he
was at least indirectly the cause of my illness
and exhausted condition AMI generously refused
to leave my bedside until the physician had
stated al the expiration of the fifth day that the
fever had abated aud that was in IL fair way
for q speedy recovery Then, with tears in his
eyes, he Warmly grasped my hands, wished me a
quick return to health, and took hasty depar-
ture for the interior leaving his lovely daughter
in charge of Mrs Spencer, the worthy landlady
of the American, where was stopping.
lie had been absent but "a few hours, when the
little angel came into my room, and With tears
in her mellow, heat searching voice, exclaimed:
''0h how l wish that on the day Ui our ar
rival in 81. Paul father had left at once for New
Ulm, as l requested him to Tne murder and
carnage which appeared in the vision a, our first
meeting in Albany has commenced Grand
father has been cut all 10 pieces Grandmother
was so severely wounded with hatchets and
sealping knives that she bled to death after nine
hours of untold agony. Fathers only sister,
Mary, has been taken prisoner by the Sioux
Chief, Little Crow, and having ceased 10 hope for
escape, she is now praying ior death as the
only relief from her constant torture. Her little
brother, Rolph, In company with AaTgdrst-
fathers early afianced-escaped TO the woods
and the two are now steulthily creeping through
u dense hazle-nut thieket. God have mercy gu
them and help them to escape
Reclining on my couch as | was, received
these statements with emotions entirely indiscri-
bable | did not, could not believe them and
yet they left an impression on my mind which
no power on earth could dsspate.
have neither the time nor disposition to
moralize, philosophical, or give my present i'm
pressions of Spirtualism. The reader must
draw his own deductions.
proceed with my story:
Two days FROM this tune word was brought to
ST. Paul by express riders, and published ia the
daily papers, that the Sioux Indians, led by the
ferocious and bloodthirsty chieftaiu, Little Crow
had arisen in u body, were committing murder,
robbery, and indiscribablc atrocities on the
white people in all the border settlements and
where few days before were large and capaci-
Gus barns, neat and comfortable cabins, aud ex-
tensvc and ripened fields of grain, nothing now
met the eve but the charred remains of burnt
property and the unbured bodies of murdered
whites. That the beautiful and enterpisng
town OF New Ulm was almost entirely destI Dyed
That Esquire Vandevere, one OF the weal ltbiest
and most influentiel citizens Of the place, having
tried to protect his wife from the brutal, un-
bridlea passions Of the fendish savages, Ind
bcyu cm iaio hundreds Of pieces; and that his
Accomplished wife had been so severely d.
cd that she died in two hours after being found
BY the express riders.
The above news tell upon the citizens of St
Paul like a thunderbolt. Knots Of people were
seen Mt every street corner, giving or receiving
additional Indian news, which now came in by
express riders every few hours.
/ 4 few, u very few, were frightened on hear
ing o. the indian massacre, and left the city iu
great haste for the lower country, but the great
mass responded TO the Intelligence as bravery,
patriotism and humanity could only dictate. A
company of brave men were quickly mounted on
the best horses to be found in the city, and start
lug at once for the up country, increas-
ed their number every day with iresh recruits
/ The history Of that war has been written by
abler pens than my own. l shall therefore con-
\ fnc myself exclusively to the story in hand.
/ Although greatly reduced on reaching St.
Paul from the peculiar mental excitement and
over. exertion OF an already exhausted physical
system, soon began to realize (aiter the fever
: was broken) the wonderfully Strengthening
power of the pure, bracng air in that section.
I At the expiration of three weeks found that
the fresh and invigorating air was doing even
| more for my impaired constitution than my Boston
physicians had given me cause TO hope for ln
fact, felt IN elasticity of limb, strength of
lung, and a buoyancy of spirits to which, for
more than ten years, | had been an entire
stranger.
now resolved TO procure conveyance of some
kind and TO start with VanderVeres little girl for
tine Interior and obtain, if possible, some intor-
nation of the whereabouts Of her father; for,
since her vision of the massacre OF her grand
parents, she had been in such constant state Of
exc tement that she appeared to have entirety
lost her Leculiar power Of mental signt-seeiu6
On applying at the livery stables, FOUND thst
horses could not be obtained on any 'erhs iot 81
reckless and dangerous trip anu therelOre
concluded to take Conveyance ny buthuahs
stages eigbt miles up the Mississippi TO ST..
Cloud, and there if possiolG, OBTAIN 'ea'h 10 ~
across the country to New Jim.
nbt.ininp nthrough seat on the box Of the
STAGE for the little girl and myself, by the polite
nnss of J. c. Burbank, soon engaged the
bsnest-hearted locquacious driver in vivid ac
counts Of the heartless and barbarous atrocities
the nfuriated Indians on the white settlers VI
country. lie was very communicative, aud evl-
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