Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-04-09


werea. cause of the present war.
Aseariy as July Last, the United States milf I
tary officers in Oregon reported to their SUPERB I
or, Gen. Wool, that the whites were behaving [
badly. Here lisa specimen, from Gen. tNools /
official reports:
sUpwartl ola hundred Indians, chiefly women
and children, have collected for protection on
the military reserve at Fort Jones' CaptainJ u-
dab informs mo that there are constant threats
ola night attack upon his post for the purpose
of killing the inofensiye people, but that he has
made known that he shall irepel force by foree.-f
1t is found necessary to issue flour and beef to
the Indians thus collected on-the reserve, the |
Superintendent of Indian Affairs declining to
Subsist them.
ttAta council held by the Oregon Superinten-
dent, thirty miles from Fort Oxford, an Indian
shot a white man. As usual, the Indian was de- I
manded, that he might be hung. He was pro- I
tectet blythe detachment of troops from Fort /
Oxford; and, willie being conducted to be given
over to the civil authority, in charge of consta-
bic, and guarded by corporate guard, the boat
in which he was was pursued by party of /
whites, who firedin the boat, killing the Pris
oner and the Indian who was polling the canoe.
The corporal warned the party, before they
fired, to keep off and returned their fire, killing
three of them; the rest gave up the pursuit
On the 11th of October Gov. Curry issued his
Proclamation, calling out eight companies of
mounted volunteers On the 10th he proclaim
cd again, calling for nine companies more. On
the goth his Adiutant- General issued "Gcncral
Orders which threw considerable light on the
origin. authorship and dItiYqs of this war. He
states that a force has been called out adequate
to the requirements of the service, and preludcsI
thus: S
tIuformation having been received that armed
parties have taken the field in southern Oregon,
Nth theGrowed pttrPose CT tnaging a todr Of or
termindtton dgaia5ts tho IILltGGs in that section
| IT. ,.I.y ~ bn,Ef
respect to Gg6, or ser, d6GHI otTrieRdIy Indians
on their resertati0h, in despite of the authority
of the Indian agent and the commanding officer
of:the United States troops stationed there, and
contrary TO the peace ofthe Territory, 1t is there
fore ordered that the commanding officers of the
battaIions authorized by the proclamation of the
Governor Of the 10th day Of October instant, will
enforce the dsbanding of all armed parties not
duly enrolled into the service of the Territory
| by virtue Of said proclamation"
Gen. Wool hereupon repaired in person to
Oregon, November 17,) and writes thence to-
the Department December 49, an account of
military movements, which have already been
made public.
November 81, Joel Palmer, Superintendent of
Indian Affairs in Oregon. addresses Gen. Wool
in a letter protesting against the cxasperating
falsehoods which certain whites are constantly
spreading with a view to involve the friendly In
dians in the hostilifeS into which some tribes.
have been goaded. Here is a specimen of his
1 letter:
az am satisfied that the Cayuses, as tribe,
are DESTROYS of maintaining peace, and that there
must be on the part Of the whites departure
from the principles of justice, and violation of
rights secured to this tribe by the treaty, before
they will become hostile party in this war;
Sucha step will be, in their apprehension, a dcs
pcrate last resort for preservation.
''This is also true of tho Nczpcrccs. Their
uniform, good conduct and friendship for our
lcitizens render all intention on their part to
make war on us quite improbable.
'The reported combination of all those tribes
with intent to wagea war of determination against
the whites is, apprehcnd, but phantom con-
/ jured up in the brains Of alarmiSt, unsupported
by one substantial reason; and the plot, said to
| have been nearly conSummated, of cutting off
those engaged in the negotiations last june, re-
gard as Of the same character, originating in the
same source,
He calls for an escort to protect these poor,
defensclesS creatures from wanton laughter, and
proceeds to speak in the following plain English:
believing, as I do, that the cause Of the pres
ent difficulty in Southern Oregon Is -lnh0lLy.t0
be attributed to the Gcts of our o1on people, lean
not but feel that it is our duty to adopt such
measures as will tend to secure the lives of those
| Indians and maintain guarantees secured to
them by treaty stipulatiOns. The future will
prove that this aoar has been forcct upon those
Indians against their triH, and that too, by asset
of reckless Yagabonds, for pecuniary and Poit-
ical objects, and sanctioned by numerous pop
ulation lpo regard the treasury Of the U. States
a le1jtimdte object of z{uRler. The Indians in
that district hnye,beea driven to desperation by
acts of cruelty against their people: treGticshHEe
been rioldtea, and acts Of barbarity committed
by those claiming to be citizens, that would di-
grace the most barbarous nations of the earth;
and if none but those who perpctratcd such acts
were to be affected by this war, We might look
hat abop Ahis
not the case
Jan. 10 Gen. Wool reports that he had return
ed to San Francisco, finding military operations
among the mountains Of Oregon i'll the dead OF
snowy winter at once impracticable aud needless.
lie says that Capt. Judah reports from Rouge
River that the recent murders of women and
children there by Indians were retaliatory and
Immediately succeeded the massacre ofeighteen
women and children out of twenty-five by Maj.
Lupton's volunteer forbc, and adds:
ttTn my communication of the 25th December
to the headquarters of the Army, l mentioned
that Governor Curry called out butOne regiment
of volunteers, aud purchased or hired one thou
sand horses Ihavc learned since that he called
far too .TSginlentS-onc for Washington Terri
tory aud the other for Southern 0rcgon-b0th
aIounted and 1Chic7t required about too thonsGHd
h0FseS The horses Of Colonel Nesmith' 3 regi-
mcnt, it is reported BY the volunteers, are no
lonaeri Ill for Seruice, and the Governor intends
ESQ it is reported) to furnish them witra fresh
reIaV-the expense of Gll which, together with
the enormous prices paid for everything the vol
untcers have received, will amount to more than
two millions, somcsay three millions, and Gen.
Adair, Collector of Customs at Astoria, says it
will amount to four millions.
California, many whites arc for eXterminating|
the Indians. This feeling is engendered by two
newspapers that go for determination, and are
more or less possessed by the volunteers as well