Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-01-16
INDIAN ATROCITIES IN OREGON.

Tie oIeyon,Papcrs received by thesgss
y g6a eart. nderiAg .aecSaals ofstAe
Indian atrocities committed in that territory.
\ letter from Capt Hewet, published in
the Pioneer and Democrat, gives the follow.
ing account of a massacre by Indians on
White River:
After two days hard work, reached the
house of Mr. Cox, which wo found robbed
confirming our suspicious that greater mis-
chief had been done 10 the settlement further
up the river. we then proceeded to Mr.
Jones place, where we found our worst
fears more than realized. Tho house was
burned 10 ashes, and Mr.. Jones (who was at
the time sick) was burned in it. Mrs. Jones
was found lying about thirty yards from the
house, shot through the lower part Of the
lungs, face and jaws, horrible broken and
muliIated, apparently with the head OF an
axe. The bones OF Mr.. Jones we found, the
roasted flesh having been eaten of by the
| hogs. We found Mr. Cooper (who was liv.
ing with Mr. Jones at the time) about one
hundred and fifty yards from the house, shot
through the lungs, the ball entering the left
breast. We buried the bodies and proceeded
to the house of w. H. Brown, mile distant,
Mrs. Brown AMI child we found in the well
her head downwards; the mother was stab
! bed to the heart, the knife entering the left
breast, and also in The back and back part oil
! the head.
! She had apparently started to run with her
| child Ian infant about ten months old) in her
arms was overtaken and pitched into the
; well. The child was below her and had no
marks of violence on it. 1t was not dressed,
showing that the mother had taken it from,
the bed and attempted to flee. Mr.. Brown
was found in the house, cut to pieces. The
! left hand had two cuts, as though he had
graspcd knife, and had it pulled out, cut
! ting the hand to the bone. There were
also two stabs in tue pain, Of the same hand
us though he had attempted to ward off the
fatal weapon. His arms and legs were bad
ly cut, and should think there were as
! many AS ten or fifteen stabs in his back
mostly little below the left shoulder. Eve,
rything seemed to show that he had foug hi
desperately, and think he must have killed
some of the devils, from the fact that the
fence where they went out from the house
had the appearance of having had something
dragged over it; and the rails below al
smeared with blood.
After burying them as well as circumstances
would permit, we proceeded to the house o1
/ MIR. King, or rather where his house was
which we found burned to ashes, and where
the most horrible spectacle Of all awaited US
! MIR. King and the two little children were
burnt in the house, and the body Of MIR
King, after being roasted, was eaten almost
entirely up by the hogs Mrs King was
lying about thirty yards from the ruins, al
most in state Of nudity: She was sho
apparently through the heart--the ball enter
ing the left side; the left breast was entirely
cut off-she was cut open from the pit Of the
stomach to about the centre Of the abdomen
and the intestines pulled ont on either side
We performed the last sad rites and proceed
ed back to our encampment, and the mex
morning started for Seattle.
NEGRO AMBASSADOR AT LoNDoN-One O
the latest curiosities come to London is the
apparition of the sable envoy and plenipoten
tiary of his sooty Majesty of all the Haytis
| Baron Pompey. He has been officially re-