The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

INHUMAN BUTCILERY OF TWO
HUNDRED INDIANS.

A most cowardly and bra al butchery was enacted
on the islands in Humboldt Bay, in the rancherias
along 14e1 river, and on the shore to the south and
west of Eureka, in this State, on Sunday morning,
Feb. 25.
The victims were Indians, including men, women,
and children, and the perpetrators a body of white
men, who inhabit the surrounding country. It
seems that the farmers and stock-owners, having
failed to obtain the sanction of Governor Downey
to war against the miserable savages, who have
been for a long time in a starving condition in con-
sequence of having been driven from their hunting
grounds into the mountains by the white settlers,
organised secretly a vigilance committee, and
divided their forces into several gangs, who, at a
given hour, wore to attack the various Indian vil-
lages, and spare neither age, sex, or condition. The
design was carried out in a fearful manner, as the
following particulars disclose :
At Indian Island, opposite the town of Eureka,
and distant but a few hundred yards, more than 40
Indians were killed, three-fourths of the number
being women and children. On the beach, mouth of
the entrance to the bay, 40 or 50 Indians wore also
killed. Repo it says all that were there—every oh°
—were killed. It is also reported, and it is no doubt
true, that a simultaneous attack was made upon
the villages on Eel River. From what was know°
in Eure!za, not less than 200 Indians—men, women,
and children—werekilledon this Sabbath morning.
Mr. Van Noss, the sheriff of Humboldt county,
who came passenger on the Columbia, confirms the
above, and adds the subjoined still more horrid de'
tails. He says that the butchery on Humboldt BO
was committed by some 40 men who had come from
Eel River on horseback. They hitched their animals
at the south end of the bay, and seized a boat be-
longing to Capt. Buhne, the pilot, with which they
crossed to the opposite shore, and entered upon their
hell-work. Before daylight they had slaughtered
every man, woman, and child they could find. They
then proceeded to Indian Island, up the bay, and
re-enacted the bloody tragedy which they had per'
formed on the mainland, and returned to where they
had hitched their horses, and rode off. The sheriff
estimates the number of Indians slaughtered along
the bay at 80, including women and children. It is
probable that the butcheries committed in these
places constitute but a portion of the horrid slaughter
of that morning. These 40 men were evidently de-
tailed for bay duty, whilst other divisions of the gang
prosecuted their fiendish part of the work in the in-
terior. Ti'e heart sickens at such badness. The mas-
sacre of Glencoe was excused by the Master of
Stair, with some show of plausibility, as a State
necessity; but here the only excuse—and the pall/
pusillanimity of it rather adds to the degree of the
crime than takes off in justification of it—was that
a few starving Indians, battling to sustain the live/
of themselves and wives and children through the.
rigorous severity of the long winter months, killed
a few head of cattle.—Californian Paper.

COUNTRY MARKBTS.

COLCIIESTER-APRIL 7.

A tolerable supply of wheat, and for the best sample
barely last week's prices were obtained. Feeding barleYl
scarce, and is dearer. Beans and peas unaltered.
Beans, Mazagan 32s to 363
Middle & small 36s to 426
White peas 36s to 39,2
Grey.. 32s to 00•3

Wheat, white 46s to 52s
red 40s to 48s
Barley 36s to 50s
Oats 2os to 28s

,ll—AraiL 5.

F wheat ; generally the trade
week's prices. Spring cal

Ins Is up.
Peas, Partridge 39s to 404
White 39s to 416
Boiling 39s to 421
Dun 34s to 374
Beans, Tick 39a to 410
Harrow Ticks 420 to 466
Mazagan 37s to 30

LDY—ArnIL 7.
had small supplies of wheat arid
Is of barley. Sales brisk, at abon"