Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-17
CALIFORNIA AINDIANs-FREMoNTs EXPLORATION

PROM CALIFORNIA HERALD.
Superintendent Beae and his Digger Indians now no
longer rootdggers in the desert but farmers in the rich
valley.
The experience of every day but enforces the policy
which Superintendent Beae has adopted for the manage
men and support Of the Indian tribes of this State By
his rmness in repressing their evil propensites temper
ed by kindly consideration for their hereditary faults
he has managed to collect around him, upon the Teon
Reservation large number Of the savages and by their
labor build up comfortable seementfor their ha
bitaton and put in ample crop for their mainte-
The consequence has an entire cessation Of
those irritating depredatons to which the whites the
borders formerly exposed, and which, provoking
bloody retaliation proved the fruitful of Indian
wars and their attendant horrors We never hear now
Of thefs and murders being committed by any the In
dans under Beaes control On the other hand colli-
sions often terminating in cruel masacres
y taking place between the whites and savagss else.
where Scarcely mail reaches from the extreme
northern part of the State that do not receive &C.
of outrages committed by the Indians unpardon-
able atrocities just chassement inflicted by the whites
The Pitt and Cloud River Indians made oray not long
since into the mines, and carried off number animals
to the mountains For this they pursued and when
overtaken severely punished The miserable creatures
driven to this during the winter months by
starvation and not the dread of swift vengeance
restrain them. Now that the salmon and grasshop-
pers becoming PLENTIFUL and the forests and valleys
beginning yield their harvest of and clover
the papers in the vicinity express the belief that they
will refrain from their theving propensties and behave
themselves peaceaby Is not this melancholy picture
that the security of settlement and the existence Of the
savages themselves should be dependant upon the
supply of grasshoppers and clover? Never there
stronger for testing the efficiency Of the supern-
tendenfs policy than this.
FROM Los ANGELES.
Col Norris, engaged in the United States survey of the
lower part of the State reached Los Angeles early in
May the desert having completed his contract for
surveying. the Government lands. He brings highly
favorable report from the TETON The Star says: At
the Teon after month of very warm and dry weather.
rain, accompanied with thunder, lightning, hail. and
the mountains and severe cold, had put very
improving face upon all things. The crops look WELL
and promise great abundance. There some twelve
hundred Indians at the reservation The Colonel reports
thing well and prosperous and gives much praise
Lieut. Beale and his employees for their energy and
perseverance, in their labors."
THE DEMOCRAT OF JUNE 7.
FREMoNT's DELAwAREs.--We have seen many "whac
people, accounts of Col Fremonts last winter expedi
ton, but " Indian account IF il until now The Mis-
souri, Democrat contains their account and while all the
e accounts less dreadful the Indian account
makes it 'cery agreeable journey" with only
cePton, that of losing of their party in coming up
the Mississippi river Fremont brought them home with
him. and sent them up steamboat from New Orleans
Except that death all Every agreeable although they
scaled the Rocky Mountains at the winter solstce and
saved life by eating horses and mules for forty
FIVE days. and entered California, all foot with only
mule left Of the second set purchased and going
through the Sierra Necada at new pass This is the
part of the Indian report the geographical
scientific part is briefly sketched thus: No diculty
wagons 20 with case much snow as in Kansas"
Here follows Tie Indian account:
FRENoNT's yoYAGERs.--We had the pleasure of call
Yesterday from several of the Delaware Indians who ac
companied Fremont his recent winter exploration of
the central route. finer looking seteof voyageurs we
have never beheld and any who them easily
understand why Fremont relied implicitly upon their
courage and endurance in exploring the wilderness One
of them speak English very fuently ard to them
we are indebted for very graphic description OF the
route and many amusing details Of camp life. They
speak with gusto Of their feasts upon mule meat and
to relish their weary wandering along the
base of the Sierra Nevada before they found pass AS
far Parowan no serious obstacle to travel met
with, and after that only single mountain ridge
before reaching the foot of the Serre Nevada
and that had fine level pass twenty miles
south of the point at which they crossed it, They met
several parties of Utahs, who offered them no molesta
on and also two bands of Dggers after leaving
Parowan. They went into California, all on foot having
but mule left following down Kern's river and re-
port difficulty in the pass, wagon can travel 1T
with easc and the not deep as it often is at
Kansas. Unfortunately Of their number died COM
ing up the Mississippi but with this exception their jour
ney, though arduous one has been very agreeable
one.