The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-08-01

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out his finger and toe nails one by one, scalp
ed him from ear to ear, cut his hands off at
the wrist, and then staked him to the ground
with picket-pins driven through his breast.
The dispatch adds: "The situation is desper-
ate in the extreme, and everybody is praying
for the arrival of troops-the only hope5of
protection against the Indian butchersp ~
A dispatch from Syracuse, Kansas, Sth,l
says that the Indians were burning the bridg-
es on the Atchison, Topeka e Santa Fe Rail-
road. "A citizen named Albert Lesenger had
been killed. Emigration was almost entirely
suspended
In response to the application of Indian
Agent Miles, for troops to protect the settlers
from the Indians, the War Department has
directed General Pope, commanding the De-
partment of the Missouri, to use the 9th cav
afryin Kansas and the Indian Territory for
the purpose of breaking up the raid of these
indians and forcing them upon their reserya-
| tons.
A dispatch from Omaha, sth, says: Intel
Igence just received from Camp Brown,
Wyoming, states that on the I'd of July, Com
pany B, I'd Cavalry, commanded by Captain
Bates, twenty-five Indian scouts under Lieu
tenant Young, and 15O Shoshones under
Washakie, were, by command of Generals
Sheridan and Ord, who were at the post, sent
out IN pursuit of band of Sioux who had a
few days previous outraged and killed two
white women in the vicinity of Camp Brown,
and committed other outrages., On the morn
| ing of the 4th of July, about daybreak, the
Sioux were surprised in camp, and after a
lshort.but sanguinary fight, were completely
routed, with the loss of about fifty killed and
| wounded. Two hundred horses and a
large number of firearms were captured.
The troops lost two soldiers killed and
four wounded, including Lieutenant Young
| slightly.
Generals Sheridan and Ord returned to
Omaha from the West on the 9th. Tele-
graphic advices from Fort Laramie state that
reports received from Spotted Tails Agency
say that seventy five lodges Of ogallalas, un-
der Black Twin, are moving toward that
place; that the Incapapas and Manneconjous
] are moving across the Yellowstone River
The Arapahoes and Cheyennes are encamp-
zed ON the headwaters of the Big Horn River
near the Big Horn Mountains. The Wal
Department has received dispatches confirm
| ing the press accounts of the battle with the
Sioux about ninety miles from Camp Brown
il, which fifty Indians were killed and wound
ed. Lieutenant Young is reported danger
fously wounded.
Another death from hydrophobia occurred
in New York City on the 10th, being that Of |
young boy named VIM. McGinnis, who wa
bitten some weeks previously.
Ualy 5l,iI
fooling with his rifle, few days ago, shot ant
instantly killed his sister, a beautiful younl
lady, aged twenty-five. He is, naturally
nearly crazy with rernorse.
During o recent severe thunder shower
the house of Levi Harrison, in Trumbull
Conn.,, was struck by lightning, and Harri
son, his wife and daughter were all killed.
The Chicago Inter Ocean has letter fror
Cimarron, New Mexico, dated the Sth, whicl
gives the particulars the killing of nineteel
4persefis in that vicinity by the Indians. Th
: writer also expresses his belief that larg
. party of Indians were on the war-path an
that other exposed settlers had met the sam
), fate.
The Galveston Neacs has special advice
:. from Fort Sill, on the Sth, which state that o
the 4th, near Skeleton Creek, train of fort
wagons was attacked by Cheyenne and Kiow
Indians, and burnt, together with sewers
men belonging to the train. Also that eleve
of three hundred warriors, Cheyennes an
Comanches, who recently attacked the settl
ment of Adobe Walls, on the Canadian Rive
8 near Antelope Hills, were killed, and man
wounded, by about twenty-five settlers.
ssss azRKEsCELLANEOUS.
& s InYiew of the depredations committed b
! the grasshoppers in Northwestern Minnesot
: the Governor of that State has requested tf
Secretary of War to authorize the issue
rations to their suffering people, in lieu of tt
ssota of arms to which the State a.entitle
by law, amounting to some eight thousan
Il dollars Tits believed that there is no autho
s ity in the Department, however, to divert a
x appropriation in this manner.
The Secretary of War has replied to the r
% quest of the Governor of Minnesota for ali
% that he has no authority to grant his reque
. in the manner specified, and has no mono
% whatever with which to purchase supplies.
g a fatal case of genuine Asiatic chole
y was reported in Brooklyn, N. Y, on the lot
% San Francisco had 100000 fire {
= the 10th.
i A case of Asiatic cholera was reportt
1t at Louisville on the 10th, the victim being
1T man named Patrick Foley. 1t is stated tn
% he died in the same house in which the eI
s. demic of 1851 first appeared.
,r An oil fire on the docks at Weehawken,
lie j., on the 11th, destroyed nearly half mi
eff ion dollars worth of property.
BY the bursting of another mill reservoir
lnf Hampshire county, Mass, on the 18th, an e
q tire valley was Inundated, several mil
es houses and bridges carried.eff or destroye
ge and large amount Of crops ruined. Fort
Mt nate1y no lives were lost. The cause of {
ne disaster was the sudden breaking away of
r dam of asman reservoir, some fifty oy six