New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-02
NUMBER 145
FROM OREGON.
RETRIBuTros FOR THE poRr Rorsr w.as.,

~ VIII be remembered that cornnanv
emgrants were murdered last year under ef
g ,anses OF horrible barbarity BY Indian
:, nsar for' bolse' Oregon, the men being che
: ana the women and children put to death h
torture. Major Hallar was few months after
r wards sent out with troops to punish these on
RACES The oregonian publishes a letter fren
one of the expeditionists dated Camp Ribisy
cammas Prairie, July %, 1855, from which "
+ make the following extracts:
we had no incidents Of any consequence afte
leaving the Dailes, until we arrived a. For
Boise, where the major held ,sa ,eo with Al,
Banniek tribe of Snake Indians WhiIs hold
ing the confab, four of the Winuass bant
winch Is the tribe by whom the massacre wa
committed) had the ternerity to come into th,
| council they were known to the interpreter
mno slgnfnea to the aJor that they were il
camp as spies. The major did not intimate Il
any person his knowledge of their being there
unth tle eod toa was over, when he had then
arrested They were tried next day bv a milf.
tafy commission consisting of three officers nd
the hrst one on being tried confessed All. Ioth
| tne share he himself had in the massacre. and
also that OF his fellow prisoners, and even went
SO lar as to promise to take the troops TO where
fthere were more of the murcIerers. a 1romiee
which he evidently did not intend to fuIfl 30
| circumstances which transpired Afterwards
| proved, for while the sentry over him was beinp
renewed, he made q spring from the tent the
COURT was holding Its session in, threw off his
! buffalo robe, and bounded with the, speed and.
agility Of q deer for the river, which he would
pave reached in very few springs, and if he
aau, ms escape was certain. for they are the
pest s9immers 1. ever saw. The whole camp.
was now In an uproar, officers and men running
Tor their guns and revolvers, and haIlooino to
shoot HIM Sergeant Kellehard was sergeant of
the guard and. was relieving the sentry over
the prisoner at the time he jumped from the
tent; he drew up his musket and fred, and for
tunatel5. tor consider it only chance shot
for him, although only few steps Off hit him
IN the PACK he made one spring in the air and
teli on his face, and in three or four minutes al
was over with him. The whole affair. from tirst
70 last DID not occupy more than two minutes
before everything wss again quiet The court
proceeded with the trial of The others; they
were iound guilty of participating in the mur-
oers, ana were sentenced to be hung over the
graves OF the murdered emigrants, a sentence
winch eorresponded with the feelings of ALI
present Accordingly, next day. {July Is,
we teoK up cur line of march for the massacre
ground, which is about twenty-five miles from
ort Boise, on the river of the same name, where
we arrived about noon, and immediately setl
ABOUT constructing gallows, in order to carry
he sentence into effect is-'
Lieut.. Hodges was detailed with a party to
bury the bones of the murdered emigrants. the
wolves having dug up the bodies after thew
were buried last fall The gallows was erected |
over the mound the bones were
Placea under, and on the spot the immigrants
were shot Everything being now in readiness, 1
the citizens and soldiers attached TO the expedi.
tion were paraded at sundown, the prisoners
placed IN wagon and. taken to the gallows,
and their sentences having been read and inter-
preted 70 them, the ropes were placed around
.nelr pecks, and at the signal, the wagon drove
from r. under them, and they swung into eternity
They were told by the interpreter what they
were to be hung for They said it was right |
aha just tnat they should die on behalf of their
TRIBE, to satisfy the Sockellyt tyee and the Bos-
tons Tor the murders committed by their tribe. 1
80 that the whites should not molest any more
81 their tribe, but let them alone In this opin-
ION they were little mistaken for if any |
more OF their tribe are caught, = they will be |
'erVea IN the same manner. The bodies were
cit hanging until sunrise next morning, when |
'ney Weretaken down and buried at the foot of
ne galloWs, which was contrary, | believe, to
Major Rains instructions to Hallar, which said
I any were taken, they should be left hanging,
Is warning to the other Indians; but the Off
,ers would not stand it, it being unchristian.
Ike and barbarous, and I believe they were
aght; for think with them, that instead of
'elng terror to the Indians, it would have
'een an incentive to them to commit worse acts
! barbarity. The gallows was left standing,
which is warning sufficient. &,
The citizens held u meeting and passed reso
utions to expel from that part Of the country |
II male persons from Mexico and South Amer |
ca who could not give good account of them. |
elyes.
A man named VIM. s. Keene, from Washing
'on county, Texas, had been killed near the
teJon Indian Reservation by grizzly bear
Ihe excitement in regard to the Indian mur-
lers in Northern California was about over.
dany Indians had been killed, and five who II
we're supposed to have been concerned in the
aurders were under arrest on the reservation
n Oregon, awaiting requisition from the Gov
rnor of California. The following is the
ccount given by the Herald of the origin of the
rouble. Among civilized people it would be
egarded as very tolerable cdsus belli:
A white man bargained with an Indian to
i've the latter horse for squaw The In
ian not being able to suit him from the stock
squaWs under his control, went over and /
ole a squaw from the Applegate tribe. Big /
om' the white man, was SO well pleased with
le stolen squaw, he would not give her up to |
or people when required, notwithstanding he i,
as urged thereto by his partner and the other :
hItes The consequence was the massacre Of !
Il the whites by the Indians, and to mark their !
articular animosity against Big Tom, they cut :,
i'm up into thousand pieces, refrainine at the !
sme time from rutilating the others.
THE FEVER IN MISsIssTppJ --rrba U;.i,,hu. (