Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-04-12
Miscellaneous Items.

The FORT .kEARNEY MASSACRE
The Helena (Montana) Herald oil
March It'll, contains the following ac-
count of the Fort Phil kearney mas
sacre, as furnished to some white men
by Indians engaged themselves in the
massacre:
"They (the Sioux were about 1000
strong, all warriors, without their
families. Reaching a deep ravine
near the tort, the main body of Indi-
ans were stationed on opposite sides
of the defile, lying close to the ground
so as not to be seen, while they sent
a small number of their best riders
on dash up to near the post where
the government horses and mules
were loose, and stampeded them
The commander of the post sent out
about 80 men and officers to pursue
the Indians, and recover, if possible,
the lost stock. The retiring small
band of Indians went slow enough to
encourage their pursuers and led them
into the narrow defile where hordes
of demons waited to destroy them
The trap was successful in every par
ticular. After the little command of
troops had fairly entered the deep
canon, the Indians lining the sides of
the mountain on either side raised
and fired a volley of arrows and bull
lets, killing on the spot all but seven
teen, though number were wounded,
the Indians say, fought bravely and
and killed some fifteen or twenty of:
their number, among them the three
principal chiefs, before they were shot
down. But there was one of the brave
boys in blue whom neither their ar
rows nor bullets would fell, though he
had numberless wounds. He stood
up and fought hand to hand till over
whelmed by their closing upon him
and carrying him off a prisoner to
their camp, where he was finally tor
tured to death. The savages say that,
aside from the force lining the fatal
detlle, they stationed 800 of their |
picked young arrowers near the post,
so as to make sure of capture in case
the troops remaining within should |
be sent out to the relief of their com /
rades. But this was not done. al
though they could plainly hear the
firing from the post"
The rebel General Joseph E. Johns
ton says the victory of Bull Run was
regarded by the confederate troops as
having decided the question of South
ern independence, and ending the war,
and thousands Of them left the army
and went home. The Union army, he
says, was 'less disorganized by defeat
than the Confederate army by its tri-
umph."
1t lis stated by good authority that
as many as $4,000 negroes have left
the Carolinas and Georgia, going to
the father West. So great has been
felt to oe the loss of this productive
industry, that steps have been taken
IN some places to arrest the ride of
emigration westward.
The Morning Star, the organ of
the Free Will Baptist denomination.
which has been published at Dover.
n. H., for the past 80 years, is to be
removed to New York, to obviate the
necessity of the establishment in that
city and the West of similar papers.
The emigration from Europe to
this country during the present year
will be very large. All the foreign
papers speak of it.
The Liberal Christian SAYS that
General Banks is to accompany the
Brooklyn excursion party to the HOLY !
Land, this summer.
1t is estimated that there is 81. 500.
oOo OF counterfeit money in circula-
ton In this country. i
The receipts from licenses for sell.
ing liquor in the New York Metro.
politan district for the year ENDING
the 3Oth OF March is 81 ,2S3,S53-suf.
hclent to pay one half the CITY and
county tax levies for 1867.
CONNECTICUT ELECTIoN-FULL Re- !
TURNs,-Hartford, Conn, April 8
we have full returns from every town
IN the State. TIE vote is as follows
English 1871, Hawley 44,8Os.-
Engllshs majority 979. The Senate
stands II Republicans to 10 Demo.
Gratis, and the House 127 Republicans
TO III Democrats. Republican ma :
iority Is.
A former slave of jeff Davis has o
purchased his plantation and that of L
MS brother Joe for 100000. on a C
'redlt OF ten years, and will, it is S
said, make $4,000 the present year 1
TRAGEDIES AT ANDovER, Mass .
\ dreadful tragedy took place in An Z
lover on Wednesday afternoon. Ter. h
'ence Carroll, man over fifty wears :
u age, quarreled with his wife. who Of
lao demonstrated with him for strik- v.
ng grandchild, and seizing a hot e
lat-lron from the stove he smashed in ri
Ter skull. The murderer is supposed i'll
. oe partially insane. He was COM W
nitted for trial. to
!. a young woman of desperate and tt,
lsreputaole character shot herself. in en- en-
ne same town, on Monday. She lies &C
dangerously wounded at the moor s al