MISSIONS, FOREIGN AND AMERICAN. 



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been not less than one hundred and twenty 

 killed and a considerable number wounded. 

 The loss of the white troops had been seven 

 killed, only four of them, however in battle, 



d three wounded. The distance marched 



as 585 miles from St. Paul. 



From some unexplained cause Gen. Sully did 

 not reach the Upper Missouri till a month later. 

 On the 3d of September he encountered a con- 

 siderable force of Indians at White Stone Hill, 

 about 130 miles above the Little Cheyenne 

 river, and 30 or 40 below the point where they 

 crossed in July. A part of those encountered 

 had been engaged in the battles with Sibley. 

 A sanguinary battle ensued, resulting in the 

 complete defeat of the savages, who lost a large 

 number in killed and wounded, and 156 prison- 

 ers. Sully's loss was 20 killed and 38 wounded. 

 Measures have since been taken for removing 

 the Indian tribes now holding reservations in 



Minnesota, westward to reservations around 

 the head waters of the Missouri. The "Winne- 

 bagoes have already been removed, and the 

 Chippewas and Sioux are to follow. This ac- 

 complished and Minnesota will soon take the 

 position which belongs to it among the States 

 of the Northwest. 



MISSIONS, FOREIGN AND AMERICAN. The 

 missions of both the Protestant and the Roman 

 Catholic Churches have made, since the be- 

 ginning of the present century, considerable 

 progress, and are steadily advancing in almost 

 every pagan country of the world. The results 

 of these missions, whether viewed from a re- 

 ligious, or a political and social point of view, 

 are becoming from year to year of more import- 

 ance. The operations of the various missionary 

 societies of the Protestant world are shown by 

 the following list, which has been mostly com- 

 piled from the reports of the societies for 1859 : 



* The figures enclosed by parenthesei indicate the year of the foundation of a Societj. 



