Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-03

iah'ry, CaPtaln Steele and Lieut. Robinson, OF
the second dragons, and Capt. Heth, tenth
fourth artillery, participated largely in the
earlier part of the engagement, but for rea-
sons stated In his commanding officers report,
he took no active part in the pursuit Brevet
Major Woods, Captain Wharton, and Lieut.
Patterson, of the sixth infantry, with their
companies, rendered effective service as re.
serves and supports, taking an active share in
the combat when circumstances would permit
Colonel Cooke notices the conduct of Iieuts
Buford and Wright. regimental quarterm as ter
and adJutant of the second Dragons in at
tering manner. Lieuts. Drum, Hudson, and
Mendenhall, fourth artillery, Lieuts. Hight
and Livingston, second dragons, and Lieut..
Dudly, tenth infantry gave efficient aid to
their company commanders.
should do injustice to Mr.. Joseph lesson,
one of my guides, were to omit mention Of
his eminently valuable services in conducting
the column OF cavalry to its position in the
rear OF the Indian villages. To his skill as Q
guide and his knowledge of the character and
habits of the enemy, 1 ascribe much of the
successes gained in the engagement. Mr..
Carey also, chief of the guides, rendered good
| service in transmitting my orders
The members of my personal staff rendered
me most efficient service in the field. Major O.
/. Winship, Assistant Adjutant General and
chief of the staff, aud Lieut.. Polk, Second In
fantry, my aide-de camp, in conveying my
orders to different portions Of the command,
discharged their duties with GOODNESS, zeal
| and energy; Assistant Surgeon Ridgeley, of
the Medical staff, was indefatigable in his at
tentiOn to the suffering wounded, both of our
own troops and OF the enemy. Lieut.. Warren,
Typographical Engineers, was most actively
engaged previous to, and during tho combat,
reconnoltrlng the country and the enemy !;
and has subsequently made a sketch of the
former, which L enclose herewith.
Capt Van Welt, Assistant Quartermaster,
was charged with the protection Of the train,
service for which his experience on the plains
rendered him eminently qualified. Lieut.
Balch, of the Ordnance, was also left in
charge of the stores of his department.
enclose herewith several papers found in
the baggage Of the Indians, some of which are
euriosltles, and others may serve to show their
disposition towards the whites. They were
mostly taken as their dates and marks will
indicate, on the occasion of the massacre and
Plunder of the mail party in November last
Inere are also, IN the possession of officers and
others, IN camp, the scalps of two white fs-
males, and remnants of the clothing, &C., car
ried Gil by the Indians in the Grattan massa-
ere; all of which in my Judgment, sufficiently
characterize the people I have had to deal
with.
l. am, Colonel, very respectfully, your obe-
dlent servant, VIM. S. HARVEY,
Breyet Brig. General, &C.
Lieut.. Col. l.. THOMAS, Assist Adj't General,
headquarters of the Army, New York.
Some of the trophies referred to in the con
GLIDING portion of the report are now at the
War Department., and bear, from the Indian
marks and hieroglyphics upon them, conclu-
sive evidence Of the justice of Gen. Harvey s
evident opinion that the enemy were about the
most desperate and dangerous band of sayages
on the frontier, the perpetrators Of many of
the murders which of late have rendered the
frontier so unsafe for emigrants and other
whites passing over it. Those who understand
the pressing necessity for rscls inning from the
domain of the Sioux the overland route to CAL
ifornia, New Mexico, Utah, and Oregon and
Washington Territories, will, at a glance, per-
ceive that Gen. Harvey and his brave COM
panions in arms did their duty in a mastery
manner-in the only manner in which it is
possible to teach such an enemy as he was
dealing with, that they cannot with impunity
plumber and L-urder emigrants and others
crossing the great plains.
At Bay.-Ever since the battle Of San ia
cintO, Sam Houston has, about once in two
years, been set upon by his personal enemies
in Texas, concerning his conduct in that en-
gagement. We lived many years in Texas,
before its annexation to the United States, and
are familiar with the individuals who thus as
sail the old man-their purposes and their
sappointments-and unhesitatingly coincide
N the justice Of the action Of the people
of the State in new er failing to reject them,
one and all, when up for Office; as they
invariably do. There is much in the fact
that whenever one Of them attempts to
spread his wings, the popular voice imme-
diately brings him to the ground. 1t means
that they are wholly without the conf
dence of the puSAs where they are known.
Houston is yet, as he always has been, the most
popular man in Texas, though by long odds
the best abused man in the State. This fact.
in turn, demonstrates that the charges against
him in connection with the battle of San ia
cinto find no credenco whatever where all the
facts and all the actors in them are as well
known to the community, as the way from the
Presidents House to the Capitol by our fell
low citizens of Washington. 1t is therefore,
high time that the bootless efforts to detract
from the merit of his services to Texas, on the
tented field, should cease. We, however, find
them still at the old work. for the Galveston
Ctrtffan, Of the 18th ult., contains q letter
from tho old man in answer to very recent
jeremiades, about the battle of San Jacinto
from the pens of David G. Burnett-Lynch's
veritable Davy-Mirabeau Bonaparte La.
mar, and Sidney Sherman, each of whom have
attacked him similarly twenty times, only to
be woefully discounted.
Sam Houston has lately displayed far less
sagacity in politics than we gave him credit
for. That is, in hitching his fortunes to the
weak and falling cause of Know Nothingism.
His letter On the subject has given US more
in d