The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

THE JAPANESE AND THE LADIES.

The Japanese officials are seriously exercised in their
minds, and not a little frightened, at the strange scenes

and queer people about the capital. It is said also that
they begin to wish themselves well out of the country.
Various causes have been assigned by philosophers, who
have been doing an immense amount of Japanese cram-,
ming latterly. But, says the New York Herald,. they
are all wrong. The trouble is about the American
women. The Japanese have been overwhelmed in a sea
of crinoline. They have been encompa;Sed by hoops
of steel. They have been stared out of -counte-
nance by the bright eyes of Columbia's maids and
matrons in Congress assembled. Wherever they have
been, there has been the same impenetrable wall of
American female chattering, flirting, staring, giggling,
wondering, guessing, reckoning or calculating, accord-
ing to the line of country from whence she hails.' The
feminine rush after the Japanese has been something tre-
mendous ; and as the atmosphere of Washington 'is not
favourable to the growth of modesty, the Ambassadors
have been terribly shocked. In their country, when
strangers arrive in a city or village, the women all run
away and hide themselves. Isere, the women all run
after them, as if they desired to eat them up, and were
afraid there would not be a piece left if they (lid not
make haste.

BLOODY BATTLE & TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER
OF WHITE MEN BY INDIANS. ,
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 3.40 P.M.

The last pony express took the intelligence that several
Americans had been murdered by the Indians ' while
asleep at Miller's station on Carson river, some thirty
miles from the settlement of Carson Valley, and also that
various companies had organised at Virginia City, Cold
Hill, and other settlements in the Washoe mines, and
gone in support of the Indians supposed to have com-
mitted the murders. It subsequently appeared that these
volunteers united in one body, and under the command
of Major Ormsby they were mounted and numbered 105
men. This force, on the 12th instant, at four p.m., came
upon Indians at the bend of the Quichie river, about 65
miles northward towards Pyramid lake from Virginia City,
The Indians were in ambush at a narrow pass through
which Major Ormsby's party were proceeding, and num-
bered, it is supposed, not less than 500, all having fire-.
arms, plenty of ammunition, and 1,500 horses within a
convenient -distance. They opened a fire upon the
troops from their safe hiding place ; Major Ormsby
ordered a charge, but the Indians continued to skulk,
firing oocasionally from behind the rocks and sage
bushes, and doing damage, without suffering much in
return. This condition of things continued for some
two. hours, when the ammunition of Ormsby's party
gave out. The Indians, seeing this, closed upon our
men, pouring in volley after volley, killing many on the
spot, and the balance retreated, scattering in all direc-
tions over the hills and among the sage bushes. They
were pursued twenty-fire or thirty miles by the mounted
Indians, and many detached parties cut off.
The survivors came straggling into Virginia city
during the two subsequent days. The exact number of
killed is not yet ascertained, but it probably exceeds 50.
Total known to be killed, 21 ; wounded, 3 ; fate
unknown, 43; returned alive, 38.
Waggons have been sent out 'to pick up any wounded
that may be found, and also an armed force to protect
parties burying the dead, but no account is yet received
from the battle-ground.

THE DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1860.