New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-12
NEWS FROM ROGUE RIvER-'NDIAN FIGHr
AT COW CANON.
EIGHTEEN WHITE MN KILLED AND TWENTY FIVE
WOINDF ai--FoUR HUNDRED SOLDIERS AMI,
rorrSTrFYs COMPELLED To RrrRr.rr

VOLUNTEERS COMPELLED TO RETREAT
F,--- The Yrek,s gnion Er,,s S,.s
Cant Pierce communicated the start ing u.r,lrsno.
this u ogpine OF pitched es,:le having bsen f,ushS
81 Cow Creek Canon, Rogue River Valley, on
Wednesday last, between about three huodeed In
clans sn6 four tur6red regu'ss and vocn'eers Der
Cap. smith l. S. A., Of Fort Lsne. Ths akht co.'s
mspced att O'Clock p ~, AID continued all io--ths
Iuoisps ietIes,irg s the while, aud irsg Geek upon
the whites At length IL was eeemed Necessary thas
steps be 'akeu TO provide for the woncdsd ana bait
wss ordered when the INDIANS sliaH snd co nuienosd
firing upoa the nep &c whom prudence dic's.ed tho
coufse CT re.irug to open spsce where more @
fectGs stand could Re made, which they Accordingly
did. Il was then asceriainsd that eighteen OF the
Captains men had been killed ard twenty-five
weuI dsd-ssme MORALLY others dangerously, and q
few sEs hhy. sage vas then dispatched 10 Capt.
Geo &c, at Ahhouse, who started immediately vita
eighty v luntte, recruits. He would join Capt Smith
on Thursday, IT az early tour, when ii g expected
that r. newsl u the encounter will tase p,eos.
On Thursday last scouting carSy OF sfr rst lrned
vi intelligence that about a5o indians we're in the
vicinity Of the heads Of Antelope aud Butte Greeks.
Capt. Tbos Su ith, with secst 100 men, i'm ne iatsy
stsrted out, and i, is feared that serious encounter
would take place The attack il wss expected, would
be nsde On Saturdsy OF Sunday last. New OF the
FIGHT WITH IyprANS I SHASTA vALLTr-Two
MN MURDERED M THE MOUNTAINS WEST or
YRETA-On thursday lasts party OF sixteen men,
URGE, Mr. Upper OF Shssa Vslsy feh 10 with eisrge
boiy of nGisrs in the moua'aios ogidiig the ~.ers
Of the Klamath and SAssts vers After brief Gu
sstmeDt a. d losipg one man, ne whites wsre COM
relied 20 retreat.
On Friday, q body of dams were seen crossing
shasta Valley from the neebb hOod where TIE yhe
occuuec suc shaping their for Scott River, by
tie mouptsin trail from Scott to Shssts Valay.
1t ia Tuu Ored that ts0metl. Mr Soov Of the KAN
ath Rivsr Ferry oppo-is' Beaver Geek aud a msn
by the pane Of Scot have beer killed on he trad
eaong from the Moartstn Hcuse o. Do'y Doyle to
the Klamath River A party OF % OF 20 stMtsd from
DeadvoOd yesterday & look into the matter. These
two men tf the Mountain House on Tuesday evening
last for the Ferry. On Saturday Dir. Doyle went 10
search Of ost al imsls and fourd papers aud . ma
cbiere, belonging TO Mr.. Stow cut ond torn up. and
other marks of violence. These circumstances gave
rise 70 Il suspicion that both had bee, killed.
1t would sppea tina, there Is 20 beno end to the as
sassiuators by Ipdsrs, unless Trey are removed or
exer mins'ed There never before known to exist
such universal spirit of hatred aud hostility toward
the whites the part of the Indians IN Northern Cal
iforpis snG Oregon The facts seson clearly proved
by the dire intelligence daily received from all quar-
ters hat there is scarcely n6isn 10 be found be-
tween Scott Mountain and Puget Sound who Is not iu
tent upon outrage D.uroer whenever an opporta-
nity occuts.