"Since our entering Shakopee, we have visited among kind friends, until two weeks since, when we endeavored to set up house-keeping in this town of St. Anthony. Notwithstanding the kindness of friends and strangers, we, in common with others, find it difficult to do _something_ with _nothing_, especially as my father is with the expedition against the Indians. It cannot but be that we should look back lovingly to the homes we have left, which are all, even 'our holy and beautiful house,' wherein we have worshiped, destroyed by fire; but I trust that we all endeavor to 'take joyfully the spoiling of our goods.' 'We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.' Among our many causes for thankfulness, one is suggested by the verse 'Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.' Another cause is that there was so little loss of life among those connected with the mission. We mourn for our dear friend, Mr. Amos Huggins, son of a former missionary, and government teacher at Lac-qui-parle. His young wife and two small children were, at last accounts, in the hands of the Indians, as also Miss Julia La Framboise, an assistant teacher who resided in their family. Because of the influential relatives Miss La Framboise has among the Dakotas, we hope for her, while for Mrs. Huggins we can only _pray_. "It was not my intention, when I began this article, to enter at all into the causes of this outbreak; but what I have written will excite your indignation against all Dakotas, and I cannot bear that it should be so. It must be remembered that the _church members_, as a whole, have had _no hand in it_. One, John Otherday, guided a party of sixty-two across the prairies. Two others, Lorenzo Lawrence and Simon Anawangmane, have recently brought into Fort Ridgely three captive women and eleven children; and we doubt not that others will also 'let _their_ light shine'--_at the peril of their lives_, remember. "The Indians have not been without excuse for their evil deeds. Our own people have given them intoxicating drinks, taught them to swear, violated the rights of womanhood among them, robbed them of their dues, and then insulted them! What more would be necessary to cause one nation to rise against another? What _more_? I ask. And yet there are many who curse this people, and cry 'Exterminate the fiends.' _Dare_ we, as a nation, _thus_ bring a curse upon ourselves and on future generations? "MARTHA T. RIGGS." CHAPTER XIII.