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From tbe N. lO. Piravuno. Aug. 23.
r'!:ST. L }?? /. \Ni- Ilid FOLLOWERS I
; .c <>;' tn*t evening .publishes the Julv
,vi iotler troin Adjutant Stanford, which '
explains partially the manner in which our un- 1
fortunate countrymen.met their untimely fate: i
. Havana, August 10, 1S51.
?)bak Hultng: We arrived on the Island
of .Cuba after the most horrible passage you
can conceive of, cooped on board with 400 or
500 men. * 1
AVe arrived on Sunday last, I believe?dates I
* * A nnvf mAPlitnrr (
I -Tl.'lVe nilliuht lurguiwn, j uc iitiw iiiuuuiig,
Lopez, with Clen. Paraguay, and ai! the com- 1
inntiding officers, loft us--(I mean Ciittenden 1
and his battalion.) We heard nothing more
of him for two days, when Crittenden despatch- '
ed a note. fie then requested we shouli join '
him at a little town 'some six or eight miles j
off, leaving us in the meantime to take care of 1
all the baggage, Arc. I
We started for him on Wednesday morning s
at 2 o'clock, a. m., and had proceeded only
three miles when we were attacked by 500
Spanish soldiers. In the. first charge I receiv- <'
ed a very severe wound in the knee. We re- '
poised them, however. They made another '
^ charge and completely routed us. We spent '
two days and nights, the most miserable you 1
can imagine, in the chaparal, without anything 1
to.eat or drink. 1
We made the be?t of our way to the sea j
shore, and found some boats with which we
put to sea. Spent a night upon the ocean, and ^
next day, aboni 12 o'clock, were taken prison- ^
ers by the Habanero, were brought to Havana
last niirht, and condemned to die this morning.
We shall all be shot in an hour.
Good-by, and God bless you. I send the '
Masonic medal enclosed in this, belonging to 1
my father. Convey it to my sister, Mrs. P?n, (
and tell her of my fate. Once more, God bless
' you. STANFORD. '
From this and front a comparison with off* J
cial reports of the Spanish officers, we are enabled
to construct a more connected and probable
narrative of the events which led to the i
unhappy catastrophe than has yet been given.
Gen. Lopez, on landing near Baliia Honda, ^
with the main bodv of his forces, consisting of
about 300 men, advanced towards Las Pozas, J
a small town a few miles in the interior, leaving
Col. Crittenden and his command, 114 f
strong, in charge of the baggage. That night
or the next day, the steamer Pizarro landed
700 Spanish troops at Labia Honda, and these
advancing towards the place of Lopez's landing
cut off Crittenden's men from their companions, j.
On the second night afterwards this party de- j
tennined to attempt to form a junction with Lo- },
pez, but on the road were attacked by an overwhelming
body of troops, and after a short t
struggle were on the second charge routed g
and dispersed. After wandering about in the v
thickets, fifty of them got together and made g
their way to the. sea shore, where they seized g
, four small boats and endeavored to make their g
escape, when they were captured as has been 0
related in the official report of Admiral Bustil- j
los. There are still sixty-four of this command ?
to be accounted for. Of these, forty were sur- n
prised and shot at a small farm bouse. r]
A Spanish lieutenant reports that on the 14th t
he came upon twenty "pirates" guarding an j,
equal number of wounded comrades, all of j
whom were immediately put to death. The i
remaining twenty-four, or such of them as had , e
not been killed in battle, probably continued to ! (
wander in the vicinity until wo are iorceu iu u
believe, they also were taken and slaughtered. (
The othar party, under Lopez, it seems; re- ^
ceiving the attack of the Spaniards in a farm s
house at Las Pozas, and beat them off with se- s
vcre loss, at least so it is to bo supposed, since |,
the Spanish official reports state tiiat they do- c
Bisted from the assault in order to receive reinforcements.
Whether any subsequent fighting
took place at this point we do not know ; at t
all eveuts Lopez held his own for t\\ o days? t
till on the lotli, he left (or the interior, and was | d
not molested on his march by Gen. Entia; all c
of which we learn from the Spanish official ac- j v
counts. This was the state of affairs on the I li
15th, the date of our last advices from the j ^
scene of action, through Gen. Enna's despatch, | .J
dated at 3:30 on that day. If Gen. Lopez v
reached the mountains in safety, he will discov- 11
er soon whether he has relied with too much ?
confidence on the assistance of the native in- c
habitants.
The True Delta publishes the following let- ^
ter from one of the victims:
Havana, on board a man-of war, ? ^
8 o'clock, a. m., August 1G, 1851. V
Stanton & Go.?My dear friends: About
fifty of U3, Col. Crittenden's command, were j
taken prisoners yesterday, have not received
our sentence yet, but no doubt we will all be j;
hot before sunset. Lopez, the scoundrel, has 4
Hpccived us: there is no doubt hut all those re- v
ports about the Cubans rising were all trumped "
up in New Orleans. Lopez took nearly his
command and deserted us?we were attacked
by some 500 or 700 of the Queen's troops the 0
2d day after we landed. Our own gallant Col.
Crittenden done all that any man could do?
but we saw we had been deceived and retreat- 1
ed*!o the sea shore with the intention of get- f
ting off to our country if possible?got three v
boats and got off with the intention of coasting *
W until we fell-in with an American vessel, and 1
were taken prisoners by the steamboat Ilava- |
nero. ,
iCj Explain to my family that I have done nothing
but what was instigated by the highest mo s
f tives, that I die with a clear conscience and "
like a man with a stout heart. I send my *
watch to you, it is for little Benny, my nephew. s.
Goodbye, God bless you all. Truly yours, ,
G1LMAN A. COOK. ,h
l<
m ~ *** s
The Letter*.? Letters written by the vie- 0
' ?? iino tliajp frionds in this city have ?
tin>8W t<a>a<ia ?? .?v..
been received, in many instances, and some of ]\
them have been shown us. The folio A'ing, ad- j,
dressed bv CapL Vicror Kerr, to his brother v
Hubert Kerr, of thw city, has been handed to n
u* for publication, with the request ol Mr. Robert
Kerr to contradict tho report (hut any letter
had been received by their mother from hie ?
brother Victor: b
By De.ar Brother Robert /?Adieu ! I am to c
be shot in an hottl*; there is no remedy for it 0
Fhis will be handed to you by my friend Mr.
'o-l;. who has been kind enough to take charge
I it. Adieu! Hubert. I die as a man, and as
in Ameiicaii should die. Kiss your dear wife, _
my good mother, sisters, and brothers, and believe
me ever your brother. _
(Signed) Victor Kerr. ?
August 1G, 1851 ?G 1-4 o'clock. fl*
Two other letters have been shown us, but
without the liberty to publish in lull. Both
complain of having* been deceived in the expectation
of Creole assistance on landing and
sne speaks of being deserted by Gen. Lopez, i
uid speaks with harshness of his abandonment ica
rf them. j c"
Oar own inference from the statements, and m
such other circumstances as we can connect ! 'a'
with them, leads us to the impression that this th
party got separated Ironi the main body of the j ot
troops, retreated to the seaside and attempted ; Co
:o escape in boats, when they were captured ; I jpj
rnd that they had resentments against Gen. : ^
Lopez for this "abandonment." j
One letter expresses the opinion that all the j.
.recounts of risings in (tuba originated or j
'were trumped up in the United states." This
e ....tiir.*. f.i.i cwnoiiinrr .1 rr^ncrnlization. from I
.3 iouivi I'"" " -j g, -- p - ,
:\vo or three days' experience at Bahia Honda, |
emote from the places at which these risings j'
were reported; and we happen to know that j
whatever their character may turn out to be, tri
he reports did come from Cuba. But this tes- 00
imony, under such circumstances, only in- to
: reuses the anxiety to know what has been, in ; ha
act the reception of these men in Cuba, on ca
.vhich so much uncertainty hangs.? Picayune. t.?
th
A Noble Sentiment.?Speaking of the cool- as
less and bravery ol the unfortunate victims of j?
he Havana mas-acre, the New Orleans Cres- wj
:entsays: ^
"When the moment of execution came,
nany, Col. Ciittenden, and Capt. Victor Kerr
*mrtnir rliom rofuspii fn knpf-1 with their backs ni
o the executioner. 'No, said the chivalrous c0
Crittenden, "An American knees only to God, c'!
tnd always faces his enemy.' They stood up, th
aced their executioners, were shot down, and an
heir brains then knocked out by clubbed mus- no
tets. The blood runs cold before the terrible
jarrative of their barbarous fate, and we seem
athcr to record the inhuman vengeance of
lavages than the stern justice of civilized (j1(
na"" w Dc
The. Captive Cubans. ? The Americans taken u '
it sea and executed at Havana, were murdered, U.
iccording to the received doctrine of public ali
aw. They were captured bet/and Spanish pa
uris.Iicliun. It is not denied that if appro- Un
ended on Spanish territory, they were liable
o the penalties of Spanish law, but not unless
hey were caught with arms in their hands on
Spanish territory. The Spanish Government
rill have an account to settle with the United
States for this treatment of that portion of the
fty men executed who were citizens ol these
States. This is irrespective of tlie character ' V
f the enterprise in which they were engaged, mi
f Spain claims the benefit of public law, she ; jM?
uust -abide by all i's requirements. If she de- i ,
Hands the fulfilment of treaty stipulations, she tll(
uust conform to the rule or principle, in its let- '
*- i'ii 1 I i
er and spun, which, ueyujm mui utiuuij .?
nrisdistion, is operative. The benefit of any
iart of the inlerualionai code which could have <yj(
icon pleaded in their favour, they were clearly
nlilled to. Hut if the Spanish authorities in ne
.'uba are resolved on setting aside civilized a"
isages, in compliance with popular vengeance, en
hey deprive themselves of the right to com- C(J
ilain when retaliation, guided by a similar i
pirit, as in New-Orleans, falls upon Spanish !
ubjects in the United States, however much i 011
lumanily and equity may condemn such pro- j Ui
vdings.? Charleston Errning News. an
Filibusters.?The terms Filibusters, I'ilibus- r"
eros, and Filibnstiers, which have been applied u<
o the individuals engaged in the Lopez Expc fri
lition, were familiarly used in the French and In
itlier languages, as descriptive of a class of ad- a|J
enturers of all nations, who during the last
mlf of the seventeenth century, infested the
'Vest India Islands and the coast of Central
Lmerica, for the purpose of piracy, and who vil
vcre in English more commonly called Bueca- tin
liers, is Filibuster derived, we believe, from the
Spanish name of a light Imat, a vessel then in
ommoti use in the West Indies.
Fucitivk Slavk Cask.?The first South- tjj|
Carolina case that has arisen under the Fugi- | ,
ive Slave Act occurred in the State of New- L
fork on Monday last. The New-York Herald 'JU
if Tuesday gives the following particulars: pr
"Benjamin II. Tallmatlge, Esq. First Assisn,.-t
United Slates Marshal of this district, aid
d bv the elficient deputies, Do Angelis and Haielwiez,
proceeded yesterday to Boughkepsie, v
rith a process issued hy the V. States Com- 1111
lissioner, authorizing the arrest of a mulatto po
nan, named John Holding, a fugitive slave,
rom Columbia, South Carolina, the property
if Barnet & Anderson, of that State.
"On the arrival of the .Marshals at Bough- Su
;epsie, thev soon discovered tf?e fugitive's loca- ro:
ion. He was doing business as a tailor, occu- tin
lying a shop next to the Eastern .Hotel, ile
vas forthwith arrested and placed in close cus- ^
ody, but no sooner had the arrest taken place,
ban the news was communicated through the re
own, among the black population, that Brother lai
lolding had been taken prisoner by New- | ne
fork officers, and was on his return hack to ^
luvery. However, before any considerable
mustering could bo collected by the friends of ca
he slave, the Marshals managed their business ',c
o adroitly, that, on the instant of the arrival of of
he train of cars, they run him on board, closed pU
im in a private apartment, the engineer of the _j,
jcoinotive Mowed his whistle, and off they b
tarted for New-York, leaving the sympathizers r"'
f the fugitive far distant behind. On arriving tor
t the city, last evening, about six o'clock, the j us
larshnls conveyed their prisoner for safe keeplg
to the Tombs, in order to await a hearing,
. . O' trn
t'hich is set down to come off before the Coin- b
jissioner, this day, at ten o'clock." co
An Irishman writing from California, says in<
It's an iligant country. The bed bugs are as n0
ig as dinner pot?, while the ilees are used for
rossing creeks with ?one hop and jthey are
ver jrjth two on their backs."
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: CAMDEN,
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 2, 1851.
THO. J. WARREN, Editor.
^"Mr. Z. J. DeHay, will act as my Agent fro
is dale. TIIO. J. WARREN.
August 26, 1851.
The Mails.
On Saturday last, the Courier and Standai
mo duly to hand, but the Mercury for the s
ndlime during the last month was amongst tl
issing, having taken some other than the regi
r route which detained it until Sunday evenini
at the bag containing it left Charleston with tl
hers, we have no doubt, but where they parte
mpany we cannot imagine. We hope M
ilinore will soon return to Washington, for h
isence leaves the "Empire out of joint." Tl
esent is emphatically a travelling Administr
in. * * *
"ITlflJUIltV auu MUiiWAAVJi
We have been much amused to gee with wh
n<r /raid the Standard, of the 30th ult., undi
e above caption proceeds to enumerate the Di
cts of South Carolina, in which (as it says) tl
-opcratioii'sts have the majority With regai
Greentille. ami some, of the other Districts, w
ivc nothing to say, but for Kershaw and Lai
strr, and particular the former, we beg leave
iter our protest against such an assumption c
e part of the Standard. We da not pretend 1
sert that the Secessionists are in the majorii
either, for in thatcase, we would be"reckonin
i'hout our host" as the Standard has done.hen
Kershaw has defined her position, then
ill be time enough to decide which are in tl
ajority. If the enthusiastic portion of tl
-operation party has any confidence in th
issification, let it restrain its impatience, unl
p elections for the Southern Congress are ove
d then there will be time onough for exultatio
>t before. * * *
Death of a Governor.
The Richmond papers announce the death, o
e 24th ult., at his residence, of Governor Mi
well, one ofVirginia's most distinguished son
10 had been for several years a member of tl;
S. House of Representatives, distinguishe
ke for his commanding eloquence, his lofl
triotisni and varied accomplishments, lie die
livtrsally regretted by all parties.
Fur the CamrJen Journal.
The Plank Road?Facts.
(Continued.)
A gentleman in Montgomery, of the highei
Hiding, rem.h!; i i i ! -tt**: to a gentleman <
linden: ".?!. ?. s. viiimer and Winter, pr<
sed to write out for your nee some practici
orniatiot) . o.icerniiig i'latik Roads. One (
;se gentlemen is President of the Souther
unk Road, and both have been engaged e;
isively fur some twelve months past in Plan
>ads. One of these Roads extends froi
ontgoinery to Outiter's landing on the Tei
ssee River,'' (it is about 100 miles,) "and
under contract." This road occupies, gei
illy, the route and region of country, traven
by the Solma and Hunter's Landing R. Roat
uiing directly in competition, therefore, wit
e of the most favorably located R. Roads in th
lion. The character of Winter, for sagacit
cl prudence and excellent judgement, is notf
ins in all this region ; he is a man of gre:
alth, acquired within the last 20 or 30 year
>m nothing, and under many disadvantage
such a matter as Plank Roads, his opinio
d example are conclusive.
We have also been favored with the perus;
a letter from Win. Gregg, Fsq., of GrauiU
lo, than whom there is no more reliable at
ority in the Southern country, touching sue
alters as that wo are now commenting upoi
r. Gregg, it seems, with .Mr. Royce, stun
udy to back the'r opinion with a large expei
ture of money?not as in the case of Can
n, to save existing interests from (lcstructioi
t as an investment of capital with a view I
ofit.
Mr. Gregg says,' Mr. Roycoand others ha
view the building of a PI .ink Road to Abb*
le, 150 miles, iScc., hut for the present tl;
ivernent is suspended, in consequence of tli
litical condition of the .State."
"I have," he says, "lull confidence in Plan
lads, and 1 believe Mr. Royce is quite assai
:ine as myself as to the prospect of protitnhl
suits. Iam not acquainted with the countr
rough which you propose to build a Plan
iad, but any oountry that is suthciently sel
id to maintain good common roads, ought t
nder Plank Roads profitable. It is a singi
r fact and one worth notice, that, there ht
ver oeen a Plank Road built in the Unite
ates that has not paid a good interest on tli
pital invested, and wherever the work ha
en commenced, in any country, the profi;
the capital invested have so far exceede
blic expectation, that an impulse has bee
en to their extension that can scarcely I
ilized by those who have not kept up an ir
course with the people who arc building an
ing them."
"The people of Georgia and Alabama nr
ing ahead with them, and 6ixty miles Dein
mplcted in the vicinity of Montgomery, thos
gaged in that enterprise give the most fiatei
' accounts of complete success, and did
t know tiie parties to ho practical men,
uid scarcely realise the truth of what I lear
m thein.
"It we in Charleston think of bnilding a
_ Plank Road nearly in the immediate vicinity of
a Railroad for sixty miles of its lower end, and
- the balance of 150 between two Railroads, de_
pending entirely for support on the country
,n which these two roads were built to drain, what
ought you Camden people to do who have no
such competition ? A Plank Road leading
from Camden to Charlotte, cannot do otherwise
than make your place, and satisfy you that it
was a fortunate circumstance to your town that
u, the Charlotte road did not pass through it. The
only unfavorable feature to my mind, is the inr;
jury which will inevitably be done to the Char
? ? J ? r?i__u r?r_ I??
je iotte itanroaa, ny a nana ituau irvui vomuc..
;<i to Charlotte, which will take the trade and
r- make your place a rail ro.iU terminus.
IS "I intend making application to our Legisla10
ture for a Charter in November, and if a suitaa"
hie one be granted, I have a lingering hope
that fifty or sixty miles of our contemplated
route will be commenced. I have procured
al the right of way that far and made some other
Br preliminary preparations."
^ Messrs. Boyccnnd Gregg contemplate ccm^
mencing a Plank Road next winter from Cliar^
| leston to Vance's Ferry.
! In nnnilmf InMpr tn rim rrpntlemrui above re
II- ? o
t0 ferred to, wliich has been shown, and from an
m experienced road-builder, and one who is ready
to to tako the contract to build the whole of our
ty contemplated road to the North Carolina line,
'? we find this remark: " A Plank Road from
? Camden to the North Carolina line can be
lC built at a figure so loin as to astonish the friends
16 of the enterprise."
I These extracts ought to convince the most skep
ijl tical. Camden is iu a strait; the means of der,
liverance is before her people, but many who
n, are willing, are too poor to do much ; her di s
tiny is in the hands of the wealthy planters in
j and about her : a -work of beneficence?the siilvation
of our ancient and respectable town, is
^ in their hands. We say this in all candour.?
There are men and families in and near her,
,e' whose public spirit and liberality can redeem
!(] her from her present jeopardy. Let them meet
:y the moral responsibility resting upon them and
>il Camden and her children will rise up and call
them blessed.
THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE
LAWS.
Two successive Whig Presidents have made
st blustering pretentions and proclamations ajf
gain6t all mannerof fillibasters,?lovers of Cuba
3 more than lovers of law. The world has been
J told th it the laws of the United States would
be inexorably enforced against all who shared
>f | in these attacks upon the peace of a friendly
u J country, and that the President would employ
| the laud and naval forcps to suppress and frusk
! trate such attempts. In the face of these ofiicial
mouthings, what a spectacle does the coun11
try present! In three of the great cities of the
i- Union, almost at the same moment, public
is meetings of the most violent character are
( held, virtually to demand that the Government
of the United States shall assume the protecs"
tion of those whom it denounced beforehand
as pirates. In one of these cities the former
h Whig .Mayor presided. In another the Spunie
isli Consul was publicly insulted. In the third
that functionary was assailed and driven out
* of his Consulate, and the officer of a Spanish
newspaper lawlessly invaded and despoiled,
't In this same city a powerful expedition had bes,
fore been fitted out, with scarcely a pretence of
s disguise, and set sail in open day amid the
cheers of a great crowd.
We shall not pro ounce whether the administration
was right or wrong in making its
d pledges,?nor whether the fillibusters were right
or wrong, in treating it with contempt;?but
j tho administration having made these pledges,
and with endless iteration renewed them, what
are we to think of its course, its faith, its states"
manship, in allowing such acts to be perpetrad
ted, without even an attempt to control them!
j. Whero was the army,?the sphere of whose
i duties Mr. Millard Fillmore is so intent on en1
largiug! Ah, thereby hangs a tale. All the
disposable forces of the Government are needo
ed in Charleston harbor, and therefore there
were none to interfere with Gen. Lopez, or to
j protect the Spanish Consul from outrage?an
outrage as disgraceful, we must say, as ever
'* was perpetrated in Boston or Philadelphia.
10 One tiling is certain,?the administration is
ie . not executing what it claims to be the laws of
I the United States in the case of Cuba, nor
k | has it made even a decent attempt to perform
what it has assumed to be its duty iu the premil"
ses. We have a right to conclude that this it
e has by design. It is a favorite policy with all
y weak and mean-spirited statesmen, to get rid
k of domestic difliculties by breeding foreign
j. broils. The recent conduct of the Administration
will make it extremely difficult to avoid a
0 foreign war. The American Consul at Havat*
na can hardly fail to be paid with the same
is compliments as tho Spaniard at New Orleans,
j Then we shall hear hursts of patriotism "to
make all split." Has not the Administration
been preparing for this? Nowhere has it made
3 any effective preparation to "execute the laws
ts of the United States," except in South Carolid
na, and that avowedly against the supremo
tl authority of the State.?Mercury.
10 From the Columbus Ga. Sentinel.
i- THE CO-OPERATION PARTY OF
d SOUTH CAROLINA.
It appears to us that those who propose to
,e wait for co-operaticn are pursuing a strangely
fatal and suicidal policy if they are sincere in
? their professions of a desire to act at all. "Put
e i your own shoulders to the wheel, and then call
:* | on Hercules," is an old adage, and one full of
1 meaning and sense. They profess a desiro for
j! a Southern Confederacy, but they wish to wait
j until other States are ready to form it with
11 them. Suppose no other State will move?
will she continue to submit? We hope not.
" , i - ?i,
the buiy way in which there can be co-op1 4
eration is for somebody to begin We reeeiv- |
ed in our revoiutiobary straggle no aid front
France until we had put our shoulders to thd *4
wheel. Suppose Massachusetts had postponed
her resistance until she could have got the oth- I
er colonies to declare their independence.?
We should have been dependencies of "die "British
Government perhaps ta this day. Tjfbeit
Lopez, some months since, attempted to revolutionize
Cuba, every body said it was a great
pieco of folly. "Let the people of Cuba," said
they "begin themselves, and they 'will have
, plenty of help." So say wf now of South Carolina
; let her begin, and she wift soon have
plenty of help. If the North should have the
I wisdom to let her alone, quietly to manage her
own affaire, why the South would go with her,
| as a matter of course, and so will the West?But,
if in their arrogance and folly, they should
attempt to make war upon her, the whole South
will rise up in her defence.
The great evil that will result from the coi
operationists of South Carolina, is that they
render their frionds in other States powerless?
they destroy the chance of co operation. As
| States, Georgia, Alabama,and Mississippi, can'
i not co operate without a majority to gwe them
the control of the Government. Henee, although
the Southern Rights party io Georgia j
may be in tho minority by only dire hundred,
thev can do nothing to bring about eo-o'pera
tion whiiH soutn Carolina waits lor 1C JL?et
South Carolina move, and she will not only
have the Southern Rights party orGedrgia, A
Alabama and Mississippi, to co-operate with
her, but she \Vili soon have the whole of all the
States. There is not a candidate for office iir
Georgia now who dares to say that he woold
be in favor of using force against South Caroi
lina. If the North were to attempt it there
! would be but few who would riotbdin favor of
using force in her defence. There is not a
Union press, or a Union candidate in Georgia,
so far as we know, who dares even to discuss
fairly the right of secession. Even those who
were wont to talk so much about treason and J
traitors and this glorious Union, no longer dare
deny the right of secession." It is true that
while they admit the right, they endeavor to
mystify it by talking about revolution but
there is not a man of thein who dare advpcitte |
the right of the General Government to use
force; and if they dared plaiuly rfnd openly to \
deny the right of secession, there could not be a
Union man elected iu Georgia, riot; even
Toombs and Stephen*. #J
! Then if South Carolina wants co-operation, r
let her act If she were out of the Union to- I
day, we have no doubt that the Southern Rights
party would carry the elections in Odfofier by
an overwhelming majority. .
0^7"The cholera and small-pox have committed
fearful ravages among the Missoari Si|
oux Indians. The St Louis News Letter has
i the following article on the subject, condensed
from a statement made by Major H. Picot, to
the Republican:
Tn 1850, near Fort Pierre, cholera first ap'
peared on the 4th of July. 'JTie disease did a
not subside until nearly four hundred of the
! Sioux Indians had perished. Some' disease
i which Major Picot thinks to have been cholera,
also attacked the cattle, and was very fatal. In
1 the utmost raging of the disease, the Sioux held
I a council, at which it was decided to strike '
camp and separate. Part iledio the mountains,
and part took refuge from tfieir inconquerable
enemy in the North. Cholera followed to the
; North, committing frightful ravages?and to
add tothe fearsof the |>eople, small-pox,scarce- ?:
ly less fatal, sprung out iu their midst. The
I traders were most happily provided with vac
citic matter,and Major Picot estimates the namber
of Indians who received it from them, at no
less than 15,000 to 20,000 men, women and
j children. The panic had spread amongst them,
that no feeling of blood, or tie of sympathy,
could keep them together. In this state they
were, the cholera and small-pox remaining
with them, from July, 1850, to July* 1851.?
Of the Indians who tied to the North, the majority
were not vaccinated, by which it is-lear
ed, that on their return, while appropiradng the
j blankets and clothing left on the prairies, the
I disease will break out again amongst them.
' Major Picot gives a fearlul incident not
i known, that a party of Sioux, numbering some
thousand families, in travelling to the North,
j (this year,) fell in with a smart war party of
i Blackfeet in pursuit of^he Crow Indians, attackj
ed them, and murdered ettry soul.
On the first appearance of the small-pox, the m
j Sioux who had goue to the North, were averse
| to communication with strangers. Guards
i were placed round their encampment, with or:
ders to shoot down any who should persist it)
crossing their lines. Many were, in conse!
(juence, killed by disregarding this precaution.
I arv measure.
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itr Physicians presrriba Dr. Rogers'* Liverwort and
I Tar in the la>t stages and most hopeless case* of cdmumpi
linn, after ull other medicines have failed, as it has proved
j itself to be the most extraordinary medical aid in curing ,
, that disease. Now this medicine is as valuable in the icecipient
stages, such a* Cough, Colds, <Jr., <tc., when ths
Lungs are not too fur gone he tore ulceration takes place.
It is seldom or ever known to fail in breaking up the "meet
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are strictly followed. The genuine Dr. Roger*' Liverwort
and Tar, which makes so many wondernil curee,
, can be obtained at [Thomas J. Workman's Drug Storm,
j See advertisement in another column.
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Ever since the settlement of America, Wild Cherry has
been known to posses* very important medicinal virtues.
Every body knew this fact but no Itody knew how to extract
its essential properties. Every mother gives Wild
Cherry tea to her children for worms, for oolda, and for
most every disease; and adults throughout our country are
iri the habit of making a compound of Syrup of Wild cherry
bark and other ingredients, to he used in spring as an antidote
to complaint*incident to that changeful season, it
is found by experiment that the wild cherry posaeMet even *
j far more important qualities than we ascribed to ?C Fhr
I fhn first aiiiirM of < 'onxtimmion. Asthma, ?o matter how
longstanding. Coughs, Liver complaint, etc., it is proved
to bo the best medicine known to man. Dr. Wister** Balsam
of Wild Cherry is a chemical extract, combined witlt
a similar extract from Tar, which enhances its value. Its
ssu ccess in curing pulmonary diseases, in almost every
tage, after oar best physicians could do no more, has astonished
the faculty, and led thera to confess that Wistar's
. Balsam of Wild Cherry possesses a principles heretofore
unknown among medical men.
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generally throughout the State.
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