Early times and events in Wisconsin

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If scalps are taken after the fall of the leaves from the trees, it is usual for the Indians to continue the scalp dance over them until the appearance of the leaves again, when the scalps are buried" with considerable ceremony; and if scalps are taken aft.er the put¬ ting o-ut of the leaves, they continue to dance until their fall in the autumn.
In the year 1828, General Joseph M. Street was apijpointed In¬ dian agent at Pjrairie du Chien, and arrived alone in the fall of that year to assume the duties of his office; and, in the winter, returned to Illinois and brought his family to P'rairie du Chien in the spring of the following year, being, the first family who settled in Prairie du Chien that made a profession of religion of the Pro¬ testant faith of any of the different sectS'.
In 1830, a man by the name of Ooe, who claimed tO' be a min¬ ister of the Presbyterian church, and missionary to the Indians, passed through the country, and remained over Sun.da,y at Prairie du Chien, and miade an attempt, at preaching; but he was a very illiterate man, and not over stocked with good sense. I must here relate an anecdote of this man. He made several trips to the upper Indian country, and on one occasion took pas¬ sage ooQi a keel boat, and arrived within about thirty miles of Fort Snelling on Saturday night; and as the boat would start early in the nuo'ming, and he would not travel on the S'abbath', he went on shore without provisions, and encamped over Sunday, and on Monday made his way to Fort Snelling, hungry and nearly ex¬ hausted. Somietime in the year 1832, a student of divinity, of the Cumberland Presbyterian sect, came here and taugjit school for about six months, and on, Sundays attempted to preach.
In some of the treaties with the Winnebagoes,* provision had
 At the treaty of Fort Armstrong, Rock Island, of which Gen. Scott and Gov. Reynolds were the commissioners, concluded Sept. 15, 1832, in part consideration for a claim of land, it was stipulated that the General GoYernment should, for a term of twenty-seven years, maintain a school at or near Prairie du Chien for the education and support of such Win¬ nebago children as should be voluntarily sent to it, to be conducted by two or more teachers, and at an annual cost not to exceed the sum of three thousand dollars. L. 0. D.