The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-14

lsss but the beginning Of their work, which viH no
doubt be followed on every opoortsnity The heavy
iary Adorable TO predatory incursons by thsse
cIeants and shs not prised to hear of ths
burning Of all The houses In this portion Of the prairie
meaps taken far Informed to bring pescs
and security to tbs country this side Of the Cascades
that there e nothing of note record in with
the operations of this troops The regulars mostly 1t
Fort steseoom: company D. W. T. ", at camp Bradley
company At Cham prairie The incleaa snt
Of the weather has dsubt prevented much s,ve
vice, though small parties continually the lookout
on the plains for the enemy where ru NOR says they
On the night Of the 2sh number Indians
about the fort and h them Is supposed TO have been
shot while in the act Of leverR mis- musxst at OF
sentres De Was immediately picked up and csrrtea oN
by the others an when at sae distance one OF them
but did not succeed occurring any Of the red skins
Blood said to have BEEN q short distance OIL
telling OF the effect OF the ball discharged from the sen
try's mutket.
We have heard from quarters, whether justly
founced or not talk that the lndsss IN this vtctaity
ready to make peace with the whites anu further
that there has been part o. some Of the officials
an effort to bring about . talk" wlrh them.
ed At j. b, Weber Co y wharf 1t asciasntsiiy dis
charged, severely wounding the man dublin who
am putafion OF the hlgsrs necessary burning hi
face quite severely that for the present he Is bind
and also burning his oot hes
FROM CRESCENT CITY-THREE WHITES KILLED-gs.
CAPE OF THE INDIANs-UNITED STATES TROOPS
By the Columbia have received the Crescent City
Herald OF the 10th January from which We make the fol
About New YEARS. day small party of whites DISCO
vered baad # ndi ms on Apologize creek, some twenty
five thirty mics fr m jacksonville. Pretending
miners pOspe citing tour they managed to remain
the creek unsuspecfed ny the Idans, until they
peared 10 belong to the oand thai comm ted deprs
daons the upper Klamath, as they pretended t.
terrain hostile ee q agains the whites In tn.t region
only, did fight the Bosons" about Jack
soLvalie
Az soon information Of their whereabouts was re-
ceived in the valley about $50 Of the troops ana many
citizen volun to the ioe of march for Appeg
on the I'd Of January carrying OF ths mountain now
tiers along When aoout two mile. from Jacksonville
Mr. Martin Angel and John Mclaughlin passed ahead of
troop Of thirty soldiers and within distance of only 400
horse took fright and White canteriog OF the trail thu In
osns succeeded with several shots kill .nd
rider and then stripping them taking Mr. Angels TIVE
Angels companion, Mclaughlin, succeeded in rejon-
ing The soldiers who immedil ely loaded Their guns ADD
then advanced toward the spot where Angel fell rhsy
enough to make the Indiana their ss-
cape and drop some Of he piander bat Angel already
that on the same morning Mr. Hull handng with
his son. when the latter killed the Indians It
thought this was Done by the same scout which killed
Angel,
On the Sd Of January pursuing their march towards
Appegate the soldiers had the misfortune 10 lose Of
their mules, loaded with ammunition for the howzer
and consequently hsd to send back for supply,
which only the 5th. Mean while portion Of tue
force OF the whites had got to the Indian camp which
consisted OF Jog cabins, formerly occupied by
miners but changed iuto FORTS with numerous sper
lures, through which they fired in such that
several whites were sounded At distance Of 500 yards
Their camp however, surrounded the Of
the whites defended upon their ability to keep the In
dams in position
Lse in the afternoon of the 5th the howizer was got
ready, fired and the shot fell directly upon Of the
caiDs, killing three Intans. Several shots were
fltd before night, but without effe ct
During The night the Indians Judging discretion to be
the better part of vaor broke through the guards OF the
whites and escaped We learn with great regret chat In
this untoward STAIR, friend Dr. ". Myers, of this
city. was killed, and several others wounded.
The dlsap poiD the pu bio in hearing Of the
glorious Issue of this movement is the a,utely
felt from the previous Butte creek, 1t
confidently expected that the troops at length had made
up heir 60 at it will. The % ,ape Of the
Indians remains to many inexphcabe Five weeks earlier
from 400 TO 500 roops sithdrew before 100 Indians
the Big Meadows" SO Indians euded the vigil
lance of eight times their number of whites We
remote from the OF action to judge correctly of the
merits Of the case, but this much might iofer from
the past-that il takes lng time to whip 200 hostile
Indians,