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J. M. Walker, Esq., writes to us from DeMoine as follows:
There is great excitement here in relation to the reported Indian hostilities at Ft. Dodge, and the upper country generally. Some three companies have been raised here today to go to the seat of the war.
"Numerous families have left their homes near Ft. Dodge, and came to this place, for fear of being murdered. Judge McFarland at the head of sixty men marched from Boonsboro for Ft. Dodge on Saturday, and it is said that the whole upper country is up in arms."
A number of ladies have adopted the fashion of having their hair cut short like the men.
The postmaster general has introduced the English method of perforating the line between the postage stamps, so they may be torn apart without scissors. They have a further advantage in the circumstance that the rough edge thus produced makes them adhere much more readily to the back of a letter.
STARTLING RUMOR.--It was reported here yesterday that about forty white settlers were killed by the Indians in the northwestern part of this state, fifty miles above Ft. Dodge. The cause was said to be the refusal of the settlers to furnish the Indians with victuals.
On the 26th day of March, 1857, by E. F. Grafe, Esq., Leendert Van der Sluis and Miss Neeltje Versteeg.
On the 28th of April, by the same, Gerrit Van Horsen and Miss Adriana Maria Hasselman.
On the 30th day of April, 1857, by the same, N. B. Hendricks and Miss Sarah E. Riley.
Married by Henry P. Scholte, on the 24th of March, 1857, Mr. Cornelius van Rheenen and Miss Maria Buitendijk, both of Pella.
On the 1st of April by Ernest F. Grafe, Gerrit Kraay and Teuntje Schippers.
On the 2d of April, by the same, Dirk van Os and Cornelia Versteeg.
On the 3d of April by Henry P. Scholte, at Pella, Mr. Cornelius Den Boer and Miss Aaltje den Boest. Both of Pella.
Our townsman, Mr. Boterman, late from Keokuk, is putting up a capital two-story brick house on the corner of Franklin street and Experience avenue, in which he proposes to commence a brewery. Many of our citizens wish success to the enterprise, in the prospect of soon being enabled to obtain good beer at a moderate price.
Almost a Fire.--The college building came very near burning down on Friday last. The fire from a stove communicated itself to the shavings in the workroom. There was a considerable quantity of shavings in the room, and in an instant the whole mass was in a blaze, rendering the danger, for a moment, very imminent. The men who were at work in the building, timely discovered the fire and succeeded in putting it out before any considerable damage had been done. The destruction by fire of this building, which is now nearly completed, would have been a serious loss to this town.