The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-06 00:00:00

MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—We regret to say that
the manufacturing business continues in a stag-
nant state; the principal dye-houses also participate
in the present dulness. In the face of all this, the
brokers report large deliveries of silk for the last
month. It is suspected that they include in the deli-
veries the silk that is purchased for export; the
amount of which, we understand, is considerable.
The cotton reports of Liverpool and Manchester offer
a suitable model for those of the London silk brokers.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Every article at all
adapted for the season, met with immediate sale
early in the morning; and the general complaint is of
the scarcity of goods. The stocks were, perhaps,
never known to be lower in middle class and superior
cloths. The foreign houses are busily engaged, and
many orders remain to be completed.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There has been little change in
the woollen trade since last week. The manufac-
turers are still making to order, and whilst there is
little doing at the cloth hall& a brisk business is doing
on the whole.

INDIAN MASSACRE IN CALI-

FORNIA.

Columma Mills,California, April 22, 1849.
Since I last wrote there has been a tragedy enacted
here which has made my blood run cold. I men-
tioned, I believe, in my last that a war party of Oregon
men had been formed to hunt the Indians. They mus-
tered about 30, armed with rifles, pistols, and knives.
The party left here on the 16th, and on the 18th re-
turned with 37 male prisoners and three squaws.
After searching the country for some time, they
discovered the track which led them to the Rancheria
of the tribe which was known to have committed the
murders of the five Oregon men, over in the Roi-
dalle Fork. Soon as they found the Rancheria they
made an attack, and were met with a volley of arms
from the Indians, but most of them being good
marksmen their shots took effect, and the Indians
soon fled, leaving 2/ dead and 40 prisoners. One
of the war party as he rode by me called my atten-
tion to the false hair hanging down each side of his
horse's head which was too readily mistaken by
its black, straight, and shining appearance, to be the
scalps of the Indians. Another drew his knife, and
exhibiting the blade covered with the blood, said that
this had done its work ; I shall lay it by. The
wretched prisoners were marched from one end of the
village to the other, and made to sit or squat down in
rows under the trees where they were questioned,
through an interpreter ; two of them were found
guilty. Suspicions were entertained against five
others, who, with the two already doomed, were
retained, and the others set free. _

A meeting was called, and a messenger sent for
Captain Sutter to come up and try them ; hut he
having been threatened with death from the whites,
as well as the Indians, gave that as his reason for not
coming. When the messenger returned, the council,
consisting principally of the war party, met and con-
cluded to try them that afternoon, and at six o'clock
one of them that could converse with the Indians, told
them they were to be marched out to take
their seats upon a log and have their trial. He also
stated that there had been enough evidence given to
convict two of them, and that the others would pro•
bably be cleared. The poor wretches then followed
the chiefs out to a triangular space, bounded on one
side by the hills, on another by the village, and on
the other by the rapid current of the swollen river.
When within five paces of the pine tree, which that
night had been laid low by one of thel peaceful
and industrious inhabitants to build him a shelter
for the coming winter--they brcke, they ran,
some towards the hills, and others towards the river;
the word was given to fire, and two immediately
fell—one upon the log on which he was to have been
tried, the other six or seven paces beyond; and the
others who had fled to the hills were overtaken and
stabbed with bowie•knives. Of the two who plunged
into the almost freezing water of the American Fork,
one was shot, but still swam till half way across the
river, when scine white men were seen running
down to the opposite bank to head him off. He im-
mediately turned and swam back to the shore from
which he had first plunged, and when he reached the
brush which grew along the bank, one of the Oregon
men drew one of Colt's revolvers, and put a ball
through his brain ; he never moved afterwards, and
when I passed again a few minutes after he was still
entangled in the bushes, but nothing but the back
of his head could be seen. The other swam to
the opposite shore, but was prevented from landing
by two mounted men, who threw stones at him, until
one of the numerous stones from this side struck his
head, and he sunk to rise no more. When the chase
was over, and the party returned to where the first
shots were fired, the two Indians were still alive ;
one was lying on his face, with his bed blanket
spread over him. One of the captors perceiving
that he still breathed, drew a knife and plunged
it into his side, while another beat his brains
out with a large stone. The other miserable
victim, who fell over the log, and whom I saw
making an effort to rise as I passed immediately after
he was shot, at this time was laid parallel with the
trunk of the tree; another ball had extinguished the
little life that the first fire had left, and his only gar-
ment, a spotted calico shirt, was burning, having
been set on fire by the fire from the pistol, so near
was the muzzle when he was shot. Further to the
left, on the side of the hill, I saw another of the party
bending over his victim, busily engaged in removing
the scalp.

Captain Greenwcod proposed burying the Indians
near where they fell. "No, no," was the cry, "they
burned the bodies of our men, and we will burn
them ;" but Greenwood's influence prevailed, and the
bodies were covered with earth. All that I have related
as having taken place here I saw. Having heard that
the trial was to take place, I went over to the room
where the primers were confined to see them.