New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-08

On the o5ih the Indian chiefs Vienna, Buckler
and Pooel came in, by permission, and entered
into treaty OF peace between the three tribes,
severally represented, and the State OF California
and Government OF the United States. The treaty
10 sensible and comprehensive. We have not room
for the document in foil in our steamer edition.
Aha Calnor.N-
Butchery Of Indians ut Clear Lake.
A large body Of Indians at Clear Lake have
been slaughtered by g detachment Of troops from
the U. s. Garrisons at Sonoma and Benicia- We
take The following history Of the whole affair from
the Alta California:
Last Summer, however, a stubborn family Indian
offered an indgnity TO the wife OF one kelsey, who
had resided in the country some nine years, Tor
which be was taken before magistrate add SEN
fenced TO receive one hundred lsshes. After ths
punishment, on the same day, we are Informed,
Kelsey sought the wretched offender and laid him
dead at his feet, ihooting him In the presence OF
several gentleman, who demonstrated with him on
the barbarity Of the decd The man Kelsey was
afterward murdered, az was also brother-in-law,
by the Indians in the neighborbood. Since theo
repeated acts OF violence have been vi,ited upon
the natives, and our readers will remember the &C
counts which we published few months since, OF
outrages committed ia Sonoma and Nspa by
party Of desperate white men. The Indians were
driven 10 the mountains, and subsequently, made
depredatory incursons upon their old masters,
driving away cattle and INDUCING their natural
propensity to steal. Complaints were male
doubtless the accounts OF their conduct highly ool.
ored-to the garrisiOns at Benicia and Sonoma, and
Oh the LIST OF the month an expedition was fitted
out against them, composed OF detachment OF
Infantry and a company OF Dragons, under com
mand Of Lieut. Davidson, Us in all with orders
70 proceed against the Clear Lake Indians, and
ezterminate il possible the tribe.
The troops arrived In the vicinity Of the Lake
and came unexpectedly upon body OF Indians
numbering between two and three hundred. They
Immediately surrounded them, and as the Indians
raised shout of defiance and attempted TO escape,
poured in destructive fire Unfortunately upon
men, women and children. "They fell, says our
informant "as grass before the sweep Of the
scyibe." Little or no resistance was encountered
end the work of butchery was OF short duration
The shrieks of the slaughtered victims died away,
the roar of muskets ceased, and stretched Hieless
upon The sod of their native valley were the bleed
ing bodies OF these Indianz-nor sex, nor age was
spared il was the order Of determination fearuly
obeyed. The troops returned to the stations, and
quiet is for the present restored
The Indian Troubles on the Colorado.
We have heard n new version OF the story OF
massacre at the Colorado, which places the matter
in favorable light as regards the Indians 1t ap.
pears that GlaDton the leader of the American
party who with several of bis gang were murder
cd, were long before outlawed both In Texas and
Mexico for their crimes. AT the Colorado they
established q ferry, where the Indians had also
established one, and forbid their ferrying over any
person on pain OF death. The indians expostulat-
ed sganst this, but Glanton and his party insisted
and broke up the Indians boats. The savages
placed themselves several miles below the GantOn
party, and commenced swimming horses and mules
without the aid Of boats and to this operation
the abovenamed American and his party COM
menced an opposition
Finally, Glanton and bis men insisted that the
Indians should not SWIM the river, even with their
private packs upon their heads, bat shout cross
their ferry with them, and pay for such crossing.
The Indians very naturally and very properly be-
came exasperated with the Company, and uni cd
together TO murder them, in which we think they
were by every sense Of justice jastiiabe. But
while massacreing these frontier outlaws we learn
from good authority that they RETAINED from lniur.
ing any other party, either Mexican or American.
We are very well satisfied, from the private &C.
counts from the Colotado, Humboldt Harbor, Trni.
ty Bay and the Upper Sacramento mines, that the
whites are the principslcause OF the hostility Of the
Indians. They abuse and maltreat the aborigines
until they resent 1t by revenge. Alta California.
Indian Fights I'm the sacramento Country.
Extracts from letter to the Sacramento Trans.
Crypt dated
KENTUCKY BAR, Deer Greek, May H. 1850
The Indians have again been numbering our
white population. On Bear River, a man by the
name d Hoyt formerly belonging to Johnson's
ranch was murdered And only last Thursday
the mill in Grass Valley but four miles from u.s.
was attacked and a man OF the name Of Holt
murdered; his brother barely escaping with hfe
having sixteen or seventeen arrows .hot into his
body as be retreated, fighting them with rocks the
only weapons or defense be could obtain. The
same Gay man discovered an Indian who had
robbed him, ind chased him with a bowie knit,
INTO Store the rest OF the Indians begged To he
aLoWed 70 Punish him themselves; they then took
him, tied BIN up and logged him severely. Tnis
saushtd him, and nothing further was done by MIN
ssains1 me indian Next day party Of seventy.
hive whites went out 70 hunt up the Indiana VIA,
II YVES ascertained that the Iadiaps had retro.,sJ
toward the snow, having in their possession aoyts
negro and cattle. Toward evening thew cana M
with the redskins, when a fight took place which
resulted In the whites losing eleven killed Tbsv
then reteated with few prisoners
black man was shot the other day. wbis div
ns &pesm ana only yesterday another ATTEMPT
was made on teamster with a double. bsrrs1sd
shot gun, missing him bat woundipe his oxa.~
Capt Ford went out prospecting the other d.
ana was expected home Friday or Saturday ever
Eg; he nas not returned As Yet and !, 4, fssrsd |
be bss fallen into the hands Of the Indian. ~''1
=, r; 81 understand this evening. that M NJ.
Hne!, =, .oonson rarch. was chased by six In |
dlsns, and that be has shot one. Al fs-,ha. III ~
United States troops have taken the sld .; VIC
the red skins. Three chiefs have been iaS 1.-s'
bave learned the names Of, or at least The . wv
which the whites have given them-Luks .ss
Wsrlnke. Warluke was a chief who sI,- ana
planned the attacks, but rarely went out sssio.t
the whites. against
Humboldt Harbor and Trinity Disai,..
From letter by Dr.. Henry Nelson Lloyd 49,
HrssoLpr HARsoR, Msyl4. lsso
Last evening Camden and Tower returned d,
foo. from the mines, having dag successfully "a
viii start back again to the mines Ia fsx Ia.
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