New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-02
of the powerful and friendly chief Piu'PiuMo1'
Mar. under these circumstances

Max. under these circumstances
C Az soon a. Major CHM was reinforced, and with
,;.nt Col Kelly In command, the volunteers moved
- 20 yyale. Walla but found Indians there.
T%oncA thev moved up the Touche River where they
met P,u-Pi1 MoxMox AID three Others, nth tokEe
fac. lie said be was for pea re-, aud ne would not
6gbt and IL bis young men had done wrong be
orensred % make restitution He AIKEN prisoner
Nv Lieut. Col Kelly, and sent to the volunteer camp
when skirmsh took place with the Walla Walas
During The engagement this proud and naughty chief
with his companions, WaS killed. The diminishing was
kept up for several days with great loss either
sde and until the Indians crossed Snake River taking
with them their women and children.
"The only result, think Of this expedition will be,
10 unite all tie tribes IN nat region against MS except
the Nezprces, who still remain friendly and probably
vii continue The expedition has been organized
and stted out at an enormous expense ana mtH sere
apprehension Of my danger from mat d'rec-
ton so far as Oregon eGs interested. Tie Cascade
Mountains covered with several feet Of snow could
not be crossed during the Winter. There was way
Of reaching the Oregon settlements, except by way
OF the Dales, where have sufficient force to repel
any number Of Indians that might in that direc-
ton. Ii is reported that Gov. Curry purchaser
thousand boses, varying from $50 to 500 each that
lie ordered 10 be purchased $50 900 bushels of oats at
81 per bushel: the transportation to the Dales would
be another dollar per busbel. Everything purchased,
l an informed, is in the same ratio, and as tue
themselves say there Is no system IN furnish
ing ratiOns and every man helps himself.
"On fitting out the last reinforcement from the Dal
ies, Bomford and BROOKS sold them certain number
of cattle for which scrip given. Not having all
they required, they called OH Brooks and B0mfurd for
about the number which they had previously
eeived. They refused TO furnish them. The vOun-
teers paid no attention TO their remonstrances and
took the cattle; this is but of many like
which have been reported
The chief MOx-Mox, who had been persistently
slandered all the Autumn, with fixed resolve to
drive him into hostilities, but who obstnately per-
sisted in remaining friendly, and was at last cap
iured under white 1sg was chopped to pieces by
the volunteer miscreants with an intensity Of bar
barism of which savage would sbudder
Jan. 10, Gen. Wool reports that he ha returned
10 San Francisco, finding Military operations
snowy Winter at once impracticable and needless
Tie says that Capt. Judah reports from Rogue
River thai the recent murders of women and chill
drsn there BY Indians were retalistory of and i'm
mediately succeeded the massacre of eighteen IN
dian women and children out of twenty five by Maj.
LuptOn's volunteer force, and adds:
"ln my communication of the 25th December to the
headquarters Of the Army, mentioned that Governor
Curry called out but regiment Of volunteers
and purchased or hired one thousand horses. have
learned since that he called for tho regimeats-one
for Washington Territory and the other for Southern
Oregos-boh mounted and uhtch required about toO
thousand horses. The horses Of Colonel Nesmith's
regiment, il is reported by the volunteers, are no
longer fit for service, and the Governor intends $50 it
is repQrtedl to furnish them with a freM relay-the
expense Of all which, together with the prices
paid for everything the volunteers have received, will
amount to more than tUo millions, some say three
millions, aud General Adair, Collector Of Customs at
Astoria, says it will amount TO four millions.
" In Oregon, well in tho Northern part Of Cali
ornia many whites for exterminatng the Indians.
This feeling is engendered by two newspapers that 90
for determination and is more less possessed by the
volunteers rs well others not enrolled under the
banners of Governor Curry. AS long individual
war ia permitted and paid for by the United States,
and which is expected by all the citizens of Oregon,
we shall have peace, and the war may be prolonged
especially is generally asserted that
the present war is godsend to the people"
Such, az portrayed by United States military
officers and Indian Agents, are the causes, pur-
poses and character of the present Indian war on
the Pacific, for which the American People will be
called to pay Three -Four, or more Millions of
Dollars. For this payment, 1 suppose there is
now no help; make as wry faces as we will, the
dose must 90 down. All the comment choose to
make Of present is, that if Oregon were independ-
pnt of the Atlantic States, her Indians would not
be 80 shamslessy butchered, nor the Federal Treas
ury so atrOciously plundered H. e.