Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-04-23

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fore the adjournment of Congress, Lieut. Beale,
Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California,
sent in his yearly report to the Department oithe
Interior This document, presents, in the Ian
guage of the National Inteligeneer, ga sickening
picture of savage barbarities prepetrated by the
miners and other frontier inhabitants OF California
on the miserable Indian natives-men, women
and childrep-which would be utterly incredible,
if net established by evidence so multiplied and
! incontestible. The Government of the United
States if there be things in its earlier treat
! ment of the Indians indefensible and painful, can
! vet boast of much which Is eminently humane and
liberal; but this California story will be a darker
spot in the history of Indian wrongs than the dark
est that ever before found place in it."
We avail ourselves of a summary prepared for
the Boston Traveller;
Mr.. Beale went to California in September last to
exercise general SUPPLEMENTARY of Indian af-
fairs there. He remarks in the introduction to
his report that our laws and policy with respect
to the Indians, bad been grossly violated in Cali
fornia; thatthey had been driven from their lands
and hunting grounds by the whites, at discretion
and maltreated and even murdered whenever they
returned to procure means ofsubsistence; and that
thus retaliatory wars bad arisen; that in fact the
Indians are without the protection OF law or trea-
ties, exposed to massacre and starvation, and in
need of the immediate interposition of the Gov
eminent.
Mr.Beale proceeds to exhibit some of the cir
regularities, to use very mild expression which
have occurred in our official treatment of the In
OidtlSs Il IL hOIGuCIdils IL seems, was agent
for distributing among them supplies of food in
the form of beef-cattle. On being questioned,
this DIR. w. cody admitted that he appointed
sub-agents, who were traders to make the dis,
tribution but he had no proof other than the word
OF SAID traders, that the beef was delivered;
that he has given drafts the Government
for cattle which not yet delivered; that he or
dered 1900 head of cattle to be delivered in
a certain REGION only so miles from San Francis
co, which he had never visited and knew nothing
Of tho Onu1her nf Indians fhpra A.
the contracts for beefwere verbal and not written;
and that in some instances the contractors and
the traders who delivered the beef were the same
men.
All this DR.. Wozencroft admits, with degree
of sang froia which in less fastidious times would
| have been considered as amounting to impudence
! He even signs his name to Mr.. Beale,s state
ment as if it were ordinary official act. Evil
| dence is also adduced to show that Wozencro't
made srgain with trader for supplying the In
dians reserving to himself share in the profit of
| the transaction, which share would amount at
! least to S25,000 that in certain case, an agent
after receiving cattle for supplying Indians, con-
F., verified the greater part of them to his own use
that agents in the habit of taking of the In
dams receipts for double the number of cattle de-
| liyered, under promise of making second de-
| ivery-which promise was never fulfilled that
cattle intended for the Indians were frequently
sold to miners at large prices; that enormous pri-
eeS were PAID to contractors in consideration of a
certain share OF the profits going to the agents
that beet was often reported to the Commissioner
as having been delivered to Indians when in fact
none was delivered; and that frauds and specula-
tons OF other kinds were habitually practised nv
agents and sub agents in supplying Indians with
beet cattle, IN compliance with treaty obligations
The present condition of the Indians, Mr. BeaIe
represents as being truly deplorabie They are sub
Jected to slavery Of the and most barbarous
KIND. They are hunted and caught like cattle and
compelled TO work, aud turned slarve aud die
when the working is over MANY Indians
have been murdered in expeditions for catching and
ensaying them. Eighteen are said to have died of
starvation at one camp, after having been made to
work all the summer aud fall, and then turned off
and le TO SHIFT for themselves, as the winter set in
being broken down by hunger and labor and With.
out ioOd clothes. To show the good character of
these Indians, rs stated that although surrounded
by settlers, aud horses and cattle, aud temptations to
steal, while they were even starving, they were new
er known 10 commit a theft. Indian children, when
out gathering acOmS, captured ana sold and held
as slaves; aud generally thuse Indians who are en-.
shaved, are overworked and treated more like brules
than human beings. There are regularly organized
companies Tor kidnapping aud enslavng Indians,
composed, as we infer, of native Caliiornans The
laws oil the State do not to reach the
crimes committed in this way.
In the spring Of last year, the miners at Indian
rat, and Shasta, with other provocation than a
groundless fear that the Indians were about to re-
venge themselves for the murder Of one of thei
NUMBER went IN party and shot down in cold blUot
thirty TO forty Indians, including several women ant
children. In July last there was massacre of ;
similar character on Kings River, in which mum
Der oil Indians were murdered without cause Thu
''gentleman" who led the numbering party was 500,
afterwards elected a county judge, and the dstric
attorney ala not THINK 1t worth while TO prosecute
him
| The last mentioned massacre was cruelty aggra
waited by the TACT that it upon "A preservation
secured to The Indians by treaty; that it was plotted
for weeks and perpeirated in cold blood, withou
giving the Indians the slighes warning; that thu
victims were deenceless women and children; ant
that the head man was a Christian Indian and ;
good man, who was absent al the time and cam,
home and found his whole family DESTROYED. Thu
Governor OF California never SO much as answered
an official letter which Vas addressed to him in re
terence to this massacre; the U. S. District Attor
ney could ma no law to apply 10 the case; and thu
leader OF the gang Of murderers was subseuuent,
elected county judge! Mr. BeaIe states other case
oil similar massacreS, IN which 20, 80, and in on,
instance more than hundled indians were murder
ed The Furnishing accounts which we often fine
III Calilorna papers, OF victories gained Iudar
enemies, Mr. Beae says, are rarely anything bu
such unprovoked massacres-to great extent ,vn
men and children. lie states that not a week pass
es that IN which some Indians are not killed worked
or starved to death. The murders are generally re
presented in the newspapers as war exploits, anc
tire United States Government NAYS The exnensas n
the murderous expedilionsi
The total demand for Indian wars in California
oil which the above are examples of the results, il
near IA million dollars.
BRITAIN's HAPPY FAMILY.-Tbe Queen. Al
exandrna Victoria, was born May "a, 1919
Prince Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emanue
oil Sake Coburg and Goiha, was born Aug. 26, 1919
The twain were married at the age Of 81 on tn,
lOlh Of Feb, lS40. The issue has been:
1910. -'''' -
Albert Edward, born Nov. 8, 1871.
Alice Maud Mary, born April 25, IS43
Alfred Ernest Albert, born Aug. 6, 1874.
Helena Augusta Victoria, born Nav 25. 1916.
Louisa Caroline Alberta, born March IS. l84s.
arthur William Patrick ALBEIT, born May l, 1850
son not yet named, born Apnl7, 1853.
Eight chdren-4 sons and daug hers--in thir
teen years, and all alive and WE'LL
MURDER OF A TEACHER BY PuPGL.
We learn from the Muproe Deuocrat that n