New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-07-27
News from the Plains.

Murder of Captain Marcy and his entire
3 command By the Camanches.
The Fort Smith (Arkansas) Herald, Of the
j 18th instant, contains the following melancholy
Il intelligence: A
Two expresses arrived in this city to Colonel
+ Wilson, Commander of the Fort, one from Fort
Y Arbuckle, the other Fort Ouachita, on Wednes-
& day evening last, bringing the melancholy and
distressing intelligence Of the destruction Of the
y expedition to the head-waters Of Red River, and
murder Of Capt. Marcy and the whole of his
command, about so men. ~ r
1t appears that Waco cIief came into Fort
Arbuckle q few days ago, and stated, that when
out on the plains with his band of Indians, about
? twenty days travel from Arbuckle, a company
of Camanches and Kioways came into his camp
some Of them dressed in soldiers clothes, and
others with bayonets fastened to sticks, and
other articles he knew belonged to troops, and
that they stated to him that Us the Camanohes
were on their way to attack the post on the
Brazos, they came across Capt Marcy's expedi-
ton, and when they discovered him, they went
into his camp, and he gave them presents, and
then left.
At night, the Indians succeeded in getting up
stampede among the horses and mules and run
them of, after which, about 6 o'clock, or about
daylight, they attacked the command, there be-
ing about 1000 Indians, and fought all that day,
and the next day they succeeded in killing off
the whole company 1t is also reported by the
same chief that the Camanches intend attacking
Fort Arbuokle and the posts on the Brazos. He
says that he escaped by giving up all the pei
tries, ETC., that he had, and was glad to get off
by that means. The Wacos live in the neigh
borhood of Fort Arbuckle, and the officers ut
that post place full confidence in the report.
The expresses sent in from Arbuckle and
Ouachita show plainly that an attack is appre-
hended Indeed, reports of the gathering Of
the Camanches in a body, and their determine
ton to attack the whites, has been frequent in
this place for the last four or five months, and
it accords with the statement made by Colonel
HUMPHREYS, of Fort Ouachita, who went out
some time ago to trade with them, and was rob-
bed by them, his companions murdered, and he
barely made his escape; an account OF which
was published in the Herald two weeks ago.
IF this report proves to be true, and there ap-
pears to be not much room to doubt it, an
Indian war is inevitable There must be u
combination of all the wild tribes that roam
over the prairies and through the mountains Of
New Mexico The real strength Of these Indians
is not known, and when combined will present q
formidable force that the United States will find
very hard to subdue. The prairies west will
afford the Indians means of avoiding troops as
intricate as the hammocks of Florida They
extend for hundreds Of miles, and in many
? places are nothing but sandy plain, upon
which man nor beast can find subsistence, being
generally destitute Of water. The Indians are
acquainted with the prairies, and know every
( hiding place and places for retreat, most Of
!, them being inaccessible to the whites. 4, y /.
There is but one regiment of troops on the
Brazos, and that regiment having only half its