, 1856-03-07

inr hand. Nothing but the most ieterlnln-
ed action on the part of those in power, and
a ready cooperation from the people gener-
allv will save the country from general de
vastation and ruin. Many families have al
ready abandoned good farms, &C. and left
the country, yet the people have tie power,
if they will only use it, to conquer peace
The main body of our citizens arc not dis
couragcd, even though the prospect does
appear gloomy at present, and We believe
they will yet hold their settlements against
the sayages. Then let our executive, as
well as all others who arc devotng their
time and attention to bring about better
state of affairs, be met as they slould be,
and farmers may yet be able to ge! in their
crops and resume their usual ayocadons.
NIB. Since the above was in type, we
are informed that the body of Mr.. NORTH
CRAFT has been found. 1t was but short
distance from the road-entirely stripped,
with the exception Of his under-shirt. lie
had been shot, cut and mutilated in vari
GUS ways, as was, also, the body OF Mr..
WHITE, Still we ore told by Gen. WooL's
pensioned correspondents aud presses in
California, that our settlements have am
pie protecti0n;" that the idea of general
outbreak Of the Indians is all HumbGg."
And yet We should not complain so much
of Gen. Wool, who never visited the
scene of hostilities in our territory, and,
consequently "knoacs aOthing,") while men
are found in our very midst-well ac-
quain;ed with the facts-and press to
give publicity to the very same ideas
Who are they?
In addition to Pat Kanim's band, now
in the Geld, two other bands, from this vi,
cinity, have volunteered, and ore now in
the field. Capt. S. S. FoRD jr. aceompa-
MED by THos. FoRD, GREEN McAFEEKY
and Judge YANTIs, together with fourteen
Chehalis Indians took their departure from
this place on Tuesday last, aud Lieut.
GosNELL started to day, with fifteen Indi-
ans from the reservation below Olympia
to form junction with Capt. FoRD. They
will move against the Indians infesting the
Nisqually bottom-those who have com
mitted the dcpredations spoken of above
and it is to be hoped that success will at
tend them.
In addition to the above depredations we
learn that farmer near Steilacoom, while
in his field plowing, together with his wife
and two children was assaulted by party
of seven Indians, and they barely escaped
with their lives. Twelve shots were fred
by the Indians. No serious injury, howev-
er, was done. The child was wounded in
the leg and the man in the thumb, but not
seriously. They al arrived in safety at
Sielacoom.
We have but little Of interest from the
war east Of the mountains. The regulars
were soon to move from Vancouver for the
seat Of war. 1t is said that they are to
build two forts-one in the Yakima and
one in the Walla-walla country. The new
recruits for the volunteer force, were push
ipg on to the seat of war.
y SOUTHERN 0REGoN.-From the Times, we
learn that through the agency of DR.. Am
brose, (Indian agent, two Of Sans tribe
were sent to the meadows for the purpose
of ascertaining the probable fate Of the un-
fortunate women who were taken prisoners:
they have returned, and report that Mrs
Wagner was killed at her residence
The Indians carried away her child five
years old. Mrs Haines and child they
kept some two weeks, aud they died.
They seemed desirous Of keeping Mrs.
Wagonsr's child, but upon learning that
the soldiers had taken two squaws they
massacred the child, also half-breed Of
their own. Such is the certain fate Of
those mothers and children for whom SO
much anxiety has been entertained.
By Mr.. A. B. STUART, we are informed
that Col. WRIGHT, Indian agent at Port
Oxford Oregon, raised party of forty men
together with number of friendly Indians
for the purpose of attacking camp Of the
hostile Indians in that vicinity, but that
the first night out, all, including the agent
were killed, except two, by the Indians
accompanying the expedition. This is a
melancholy evidence of the nature of the
savage foe by which we are surrounded at
present. And while such scenes can be
enacted in the heart of an extensive min.
ing country, composed almost entirely of