New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-02
and have sent word to all traders to remainn theft

and have sent word to all traders to remainin theis
forts threatening any white with death they may
find on tie praine. This state of excitement Is
fast extending to other tribes higher up on the
Missouri who have heretofore been peacefully dis.
pofed and have kept their treaty stpulations; and
unless efectual means are employed the present
season to subdue them the whole country mur
necessarily be abandoned to them. Even the from
tier settlements must suffer severely from their
depredations The Indians must be made to feel
tie power Of the Government which they now
despise and have since Col. LeavenwOrths feeble
attack On the Arickaras many years ago aud the
murder Of the soldiers the Platte last Fall only
tended to strengthen this feeling. The smallpox
has broken out among the Yanctonies who inhabit
that portion OF Minnesota bordering on the Missouri
and have their village about three hundred miles
above Fort Pierce. 1t was brought among them
from St Peters, and already hundred or more
have died. Ii can hardly fail to extend to the
other bands.
The Winter has been unusually mild, especially
about Fort Pierce. Not over twelve inches OF
snow have fallen in ALL and the temperature of the
atmosphere has not been lower than 10 below
zero. But very little rain has fallen. Hmeasured
with q rain gauge it would not amount to more
than one inch within the past six months. The
Missouri and its tributaries are extremely low.
Tie Missouri at the present time cannot be navi-
gated even with Mackinaws. For this reason
tie Fur Companies cannot send their robes
to 81. Louis until the June rise. There
has been very little snow in the mountains
and very little can be expected from that this
Spring The ice broke up at Fort Pierce on the 9th
OF March. 1t then froze over a second time and
broke up on the 22d. At Fort Union the ice be-
gan to break on the Sd Of April and by the 10th the
riverwas clear. There has been an unusualamount
OF windy weather this Spring. This is usually the
case in this country in dry season. The whole
air is filled with dust so that one cannot see a
hundred yards, and the fine dust penetrates every
cIevice Of the hOuses, much TO our discomfort.
The morning is usually very fine and calm, not
cloud to be seen about neon the wind comes sweep
ing down the river bringing with il cloud Of dust,
ard continues until sunset, when all is calm aud
pleasant before. Spring has fully come The grass
is shooting up, giving to the praires fresh, green
appearance, and many varieties of flowers are In
bloom. The cherry, plum, bilberry, and wild cur
rant bushes are now in full bloom, and many of
the trees and shrubs have put forth their leaves.
The usual Spring birds have already visited us,
filling the little ringes Of timber with their songs
Game is very scarce. No buffalo within many
days travel of Fort Pierce, though the bodies Of
many foated down the river past the fort with the
ice supposed to have been drowned below Fort
Clark. Immense numbers were piled up on
the sandbars between Fort Union and Fort Pierce,
and most of The Indians gathered to the Missouri
to procure provisions for the Summer Many
thousands are destroyed annually on the breaking
up of the ice The trade in robes this year will
fall much short of that of last year In fact, it is
rapidly decreasing annually, and it is impossible
now to carry on successful trade without heavy
capital and much expense. The buffalo are re-
treating TO the mountains aud the valley of the
Yellow Stone, and soon this noble animal must be-
come extinct. Beaver are multiplying very rapidly.
The Missouri and its tributaries swarm with them
in many places particularly in the Black Hills and
the valley Of Yellow Stone, but the low price of
their skins does not render them an important OBJ
iect Of pursuit TO the trapper.