New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-12
TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY l2, 1856.
NUMBER ! | !, B ] 25s.


agricultural interests Of the State Until the past
week. farmers i many portions 81 the country have
Great preparations are being made for sowing tie
ensuing season. 3, An unusual amount Of wheat will
be soWny and, with fair crop, we shall raise more
than our own supply for the next year.
Frorn Oregon.
Dates from Portland are 70 the 18th Of January.
In the oregonan Of December % We find the follow
ing:
The steamer Belle has just arrived with news from
the battlefield in the Walla Walla country to Decem-
ber Is, p. NJ, being seven days later news. The brief
import Of the news is that the Indians commenced
another attack on the Oregon Mounted Volunteers on
the morning of the 9th. We copy from letter of
our correspondent, who s in command Of a company.
Particulars OF the fight up to the night of December
Sth, was published last week. "A -ls5
December 9th-The battle again commenced on |
the same ground of the day previous which was a |
hot contest until dark. Our loss was in wounded
Ira Allen, Go. +, and John Smith, Co. T. On the /
10th the fight commenced still more desperately On
the part Of the enemy, and If possible with more
determination on the part Of our troops to drive the
enemy entirely from the field Before dark they had
fallen back to the ground occupied by them the night
OF the first days fight, evidently badly whipped Our
loss was in wounded only one, Lieut.. Sheppard, Co
Fl In the evening Capt. Cornelius, with Co. b and /
part OF Yamhl company, arrived. On the morning I
of the the hills and plain, instead of being COW
barenot an Indian in sight. All the ispoaable force
went in pursuit, but returned on the evening Of the
third day, without being able to overtake the flying
enemy. 34#*$Dsa u s&3l GE E5&F 4 M |
will not anticipate the official report by parteu-
larzng the stations and deeds of Talor of The different
companies of individuals but must say that have
three tunes before stood on the battlefield where CON
tendlng thousands were engaged, and j never saw
prayer Or more determined men engaged in deadly |
STRIFE There were not less than 800 warriors against
US, occupying ground Of their own choice part of
them among the trees and dense underground along
the river and the others extending their line across
the plain in the sage and small sand hiocks and
the remainder in the raVines and on the rolling hills
to the northward. I57FF9
Jesse Flemming Of Co. A., died Of his wound on
the evening of the I3th making our total Of EilIed
one Captain, one Lieutenant and four priyates-
Wounded-three Captains, one Lieutenant and thir-
teen priyates Total killed and wounded twenty
three 4l 9sisss7 E
The loss of the enemy is very great, according to
their own admission, think from seventy to eighty
Killed and as many more wounded not less than one
hundred and fifty in all. Pee-peu-mox mox is dead
STOCK htey shot in the neck and through the hips
and many OF their most influential and bravest Warr
ors killed believe they have received blow from
which they can never recover.
The Oregonian Of the 18th says:
Governor Stevens, Of Washington Territory, had
| arrived at the camp Of the Oregon Mounted Volun-
teers had made speech to the regiment and ayowed
his determination to urge continuance of the war
until every hostile Indian is subdued and a lasting
peace is acquired SO that treaty stpulations would in
| all time be observed. 7:
In an article in the Oregonian Of the 5th, we find
/ the following:
Hoo Goes the IYar2-We answer that the q. s.
troops, who are paid for fighting and who have been
sent here at the expense Of the General Government
to protect the people, are all housed in good warm
4 winter quarters, eating drinking and making mer-
ry-Whe few bare.footed, hafatarved volunteers,
who came here at their own expense are in the field
fighting the battles Of their country In every fight
north they come ont first, too. = -5
Burning Of The Capitol-The Capitol at Salem has
been entirely destroyed supposed to be the work Of
an ncendiary
The Territorial library was entirely consumed
value probably about $4,000 or $4,000. The total
loss OF building and library, will not fall much short
OF $4,000 The papers and journals of the present
session were destroyed, principally, and VIII occasion
great inconvenience to the Assembly in its further
I. duties 4 $55 5s#5 81 5F u s-7
i The Puget Sound Courier, Of December2 q, says:
r We are informed that the Indians have commences
the work of destruction in this vicinity by burnin
: the house and smthshop of German situated o
+ what is known as Puyallup plains. This house wa
n situated about six miles from this place, and nc
|, more than mile from other houses occupied b
other families This is doubtless but the beginning
$ their work, which will no doubt be followed up o
e every opportunity The heavy timber which skirt
the prairie to the eastward is peculiarly favorable
e predatory lncursons by these miscreants, and W
shall not be surprised to hear of the burning of al
i the houses in this portion Of the prairie.
: From Crescent City we learn that party of 15
soldiers and few volunteers went in pursuit Of
band of Indians who had murdered several persons il
the vicinity of Appegate Creek. They came sud
denly upon the Indians, who retreated into several
: log cabins which had formerly been occupied BY
MIXERS. They here fired upon the troops with sucl
effect that at the distance of 800 yards they KILLED
one man and wounded several Others The cabin
we're surrendered, however, and howitzer brought
to bear on them. The first shot struck one of the
buildings and killed three Indians. Night came or
before anything further was done and the indians
managed to escape The Crescent City Herald closes
the account Of this affair with the following para
graph:
The disappointment Of the public in hearing O
the nglorlons issue Of this movement, is the NOR
acutely felt as from the previous success on Butt
creek it was confidently expected that the troops
length had made up their minds to go at it with
, will The escape of the Indians remains to many in
! expcable. Five weeks earlier from to 500 troon
Withdrew from before $50 Indians at the ssBig Mes
doWs," now thirty three Indians eluded the vgilanc
of eight times their number of whites. We are to
remote from the scene OF action to judge correctly
the merits of the case, but this much we might nfe
! ! from the past, that it takes long time to whi
i 200 hostile Indians. ; tT
r From China and Japan.
d By an arrival at San Francisco, dates have bee
u received from Hong-Kong to the 9th of October:
Several vessels had arrived in Hong-Kong from Ja
~ pan since the last dates. 1t is reported that til
French ship SyeH and the English ship of war Pigut
+ had taken possession of Of the Kurile ISLANDS
~ The Russian settlements there were destroyed an
the French and English flags planted. The island
g about 60 miles long. e -m2
Is We take the following from the friend of China
I'VE learn by the Tartar that the day after the ia
l. panese convention was ratified at Nagazaki Admir-,
d Sterling asked by the Commissioner to give hi
advice the best course to be pursued towards tn
g Americans, who it was said, with nine vessels a
Simoda, were breaking the peace in the most outra
o geous The Admiral is reported to have re
commended concession to the American demands
IL provided they were in any way reasonable An Amel
\ n lean gentleman writes on this subject
understand that feet of twelve sail of America
u whalers visited Simoda in anticipation of recevin
supplies agreeable to the late treaty Report is the
e were treated very unkndly, and determination wa
d made by the Japanese, from some cause not to flu
e nish them with any supplies.
''The Americans were not to be trfed with the
4 took what they wanted and paid in dollars at the
II fair weight the one-third the value as fixed on
the treaty, theye would have no knowledge of. 1t
said that guns had been fred, and Japanese killed.
Our local provincial reporter tells us that the tur
II lent spirits of Suntukh Poonye and Heang shan ha,
C. determined Oh taking possession OF the Island
sc Lntn, and there keeping the standard of rebelie
flying until they have succeeded in the subjugatic
of Canton. 1t appears that large numbers Of susI