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on ti uugv -Utica.appeal will beFrom t\ie (jlobc, August 24.Wc learn from tlie Mississippi? that on the 31st of July, two or three hours before clay, a party of trorn 8U to 100 Sacs and Fox Indians, surprised a Menominee camp, 3 or 4 hundred yards above old Fort Crawford, on the east side of the Mississippi, and killed twenty-live of the latter, and wounded many, who may probably recover. There were about 30 or 40 Menominccs, men, women and children, in the camp, most of whom were drunk, and the women had con-ccalcd their guns and knives to prevent their hurting each other. 1 he Sacs and Foxes, though greatly superior in numbers, and attacking *_ surprise a drunken and unarmed encampment, lost several men, whowere seen to fall in the onset, and retreated in Jess than ten minutes with only a few scalps, pursued by 4 or 5 Menominccs, who tired upon them until they were half a mile below the village.The party killed, consisted ol one war chief, three head men, four warriors, six women and eleven children.The massacre of the Menominccs is a most audacious aggression, not only against the unfortunate suiier-ers, but against the authority of the U. States. The Menominccs were on a visit to our post at Prune du-Ciucn—were sleeping under the flag of the U. States, and almost under the guns of the fort. The assailing party crossed from the west bank of the Mississippi, and made their attack in defiance of the power which has hitherto, in a great degree, been enabled to hold in check the tierce tribes, even when at a distance from the military posts.The violence recently committed within the precincts of the national authority, will require the interposition of the arm of the government, that an example may be made by bringing the murderers to justice.vigikui(fight: the w:main I:have rbe resif Disl They ester tide.“Pcvcr vvi here, ample his so can no I be relShday c o’clocIra Jtotherof thgroccslice: take threv and s at tipcne his hreco-er thed at hi m. besit on h at hi foil 11 caps comFron7thatchilisornestof Iwas
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Huron Reflector
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 12, 1831
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