The Ouachita Herald

Indian Whisky. - A citizen of St. Paul furnishes some pretty hard papers on his fellow sinners who trade with the northwestern Indians. He says a barrel of the "pure Cincinnati," even after it has run the gauntlet of railroad and Lake travel, is a sufficient basis upon which to manufacture one hundred barrels of "good Indian liquor." He says a small bucketful of the Cincinnati article is poured into a wash-tub almost full of rain water: a large quantity of "dog leg" tobacco, and red pepper is then thrown into the tub; a bitter species of root common in the land of the Dakotahs. is then cut up and added: burnt sugar or some such article is used to restore something like the original color of the whiskey. The compound has to be kept on hand a few days before it is fit for use. It is then administered to the aborigines ad libitum. He says all an Indian wants is something that will "bite!" and it matters not whether it is pepper, rum or tobacco; that he will give forty acres of land for one dose. He says some of the speculators, when they wish to "drive a bargain," have only to administer the innocent preparation to the Chippewas and Sioux simultaneously, and they will start at once for their war-clubs and tomahawks, and proceed to cleave each others brains out.