, 1856-02-15

the TpDiC tue lu4""hlS eA''"N'o' ''''' u III
discr,miaately from the articles in those pa
pcrs lo,stcr.ng up Gen. Wool misrcpre-
scnlirg the civil and military authorjtcs of
Oregon, and tai,itgng almost everything
with the war. The following alc
the extracts:
"Gga. IJoo' s'lics fqt Tie facts connected 'ci. ne
haitian icar in OrEgDa hare been g'tdfg frGsgt 'Hci
by the Urccoa gtprrs md tiqt there is realty much
less daascr 70 be an cs.&"d tom The f'a7" ,'a" ;.
Indians for iosthtifS, and asserts H@ ne gorfT|ef
has in e ierifoyg an annie force 10 rrnder the in'dJ
tlats all the oFotscf on t''y 1tdu'rf
''Soy. Curry and hi- advisers have, by Their anxiety
10 reap all the benefits of big war, endangered the
prospect Of any payment beng MADE ny the hcitTaI
tiovernneat to the volunteers, many OF whom VIII be
great losers-havc been kept from their tarnS ahd
business to 90 on q ug march into neighH'rlng
territory, 10 Gt'atk IN ijcns rho he'd committed no
murders, &c.
Through the nGnJcr'ess ipiiscrcions Of TIE ,rhitrs
f lolrstl irbry IrCfe balded together against hea
in tfrt co,,ni,U and a sy.trm of predatory warfare
prevailed through all that region of country. The
General Immediately issued his orders Tor TIC a!stn'
bling and proper di.po-itnn of the entire available
force Of the tepal ment md rfHf himself ntG he tod
10 make The necessary arrangements for carrying on an
CDectirC clHpdier9 against the sdcages, Nc d"
'On the Sound there are still about two hundred
warriors, and on Rogue River about one hundred i'll
arms against the whites; but 10 control these, hcTe dIe
,iSht nine companies tf regular fFoopSnoie flln
eIc,gh to prescrre Gfc psace cf III" country &C.
For the sake of convenience, We have la
ken the liberty to itoiieise those portions in the
above extracts, as pointing out the particu-
lar language to which We consider it neccss-
ary to reply and in 50 doing, we will con-
fine ourself to Tic country, in this territory,
west Of the Cascade mountains.
OF the first extract, we would say, that it
is foreign to the subject whether the Oregon
papers have or have not exaggerated the
facts in connection with the war. But that
there realty is much danger to be apprchcnd.
ed from the Indians, every man woman and
chill-the entire country between the Co
lumbia,R;vcr and the head of the Sound, and
thence to Cape Flattcry afford ample evi'
lcnce. Week after week, have we made
mention of the fact, that the families Of al.
most our entire farming population have been
driven, for safety and protection, into forts
and hlork.bouscs Tho countrv .n6Srtbword
for one hundred miles along the Sound, ana
eastward back to the base of the mountains
n distance from tho Sonnd yorving from o.
to 75 miles is for the most port denscly
timhered-mattcd with almost fmpcnetrnLlc
updcrbrusb. and closely interhrdcd will
lakes rivers and morasses. The everglades
Of Florida cannot be much better adapted
for Indian ambuscadc and warfare. Oul
forces thus far, have been compelled to at
tack the enemy in his own rositiou--;n hi;
Businesses, in which one Indian, good author
itv has asserted, is quite equal to ten white
men, Hostile Indians are mosc quartcrea 1,
thc s,oamps--on The margins Of tie lakes ana
aLcng the streams Glladed TO, IN numbers, rari
ouslv estimated, of from tvo 10 seren hundred
fighting men /; some t,eclre hundred others
kent on reservations, partially subsisted by
the Indian department, under the eye of spc
cial agents and who are now at peace, ma,
at any moment for the most trivial cause
ioin the hostile bands, to say nothing of the
danger to be apprehended from the thousand,
of northern Brit.sh-Rnssia savages LitIh
danger, age r We believe it is an almost uni
versaliy admitted belief, that there is net q
toten, settlement or honse, his side Of The noun
tains that is saye-that is entirely Oa Of dan
ger from attacS, destruction aud The nldssar
Of our people! King country has been lit
orally blotted out, in detail ). up to the stock
adc around the county seat, as far as inhab
itants, improvements, stock, &C., in concern
ed, and all the inhabitants on the Puyalup
White and Green rivers have either been in
Discriminatory slaughtered, by families, of al
ages and both sexes, or driven into towns OF
| forts The San Francisco nrpss ns well n,