INDIAN MURDERS We are informed by a gentleman who arrived here on board the steam-boat Mexico, on the 8th inst., from Prairie du Chien, that, on the 22d March, about nine miles above Fort Crawford, Mr. MITOD, his wife and three children, were murdered by a party of Indians, supposed to be the Winebagoes. Not satisfied with the lives of the unfortunate victims, they burst the camp with a part of the dead, and committed on the body of the murdered female, who was in a state of pregnancy, deeds of savage barbarity, too shocking to be related. Mr. M., it is believed, made a manly defence, as two of the savages were buried the next morning after the occurrence, supposed to have died of their wounds.
The civil authorities, we hear, with much credit to themselves, and that promptitude, which the occurrence required, immediately apprehended twenty-four of the offenders, and, upon examination, discharged twelve and retained for further trial. So far, so good. But will justice be done? If convicted, will the murderers be executed? or, according to former precedent, will their Great Father, the President, pardon the horrid crime, and return them to the arms of their savage companions, at liberty to repeat the bloody deed. The civil authorities; the condemnation and pardon of a guilty savage, is, in our opinion, a most shameful mockery of justice, and evidently founded in a most mistaken notion of the Indian character: They ridicule and laugh at the formalities of a trial — and a pardon, triumphantly attribute to fear. — Missouri Adv.
MARRIED
On Sunday evening, by the Rev. F. H. CUMING, Mr. Charles G. CUMING, to Miss
Nancy NURSE.
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DEATHS
In this village on the 17th instant, Oliver GIBBS, aged 63 years. He was a respectable man and a good Citizen.
In Henrietta on the 16th inst., after a lingering illness Albert DUNHAM, aged 22.
In Greenwich, Washington County, on the 3d, inst, Thomas SILVEY, aged about
60 years, father-in-law to John GRISWOLD, of Brighton, Monroe County.
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A young man by the name of Tallman OLMSTED, by occupation a tanner and shoe
maker, left his parents about twenty-five years ago, and has not been heard
of for the last fifteen years. His aged mother, Mrs. Comfort OLMSTED, now residing
in the town of Durham, Green county, N. Y., requests information respecting
him, and that printers in the United States would please to notice this in their
respective papers. - Catskill Recorder.
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The duke of Montmorency, fell down dead while at church in Paris, on the
24th March. His funeral was celebrated with great pomp. The number of private
carriages in the train, exceeded 900.
MARRIED
On Monday last, at New-York, by the Rev. Mr. BERRIAN, Mr. Thomas T. HOGG,
to Miss Eliza HURRY.
There was a HOGG, chas'd by a dog,
Which put him in a flurry --
He sought relief, from care and grief,
And found it in a HURRY.
At Philadelphia, on Thursday evening, 11th inst, by the Rev. Dr. ELY, Mr.
Thomas RHOADS, to Miss Ann, daughter of Mr. M. J. LITTLEBOY, all of that city.
In various ways and modes --
But this wild freak of fortune has
Chang'd LITTLE BOYS to RHOADS.
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