Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1857-07-15

STARTLING News FROM THE PLAIN.-The
reports Of massacres on the plain are confirm
ed by the following from the st. Joseph (Mo.)
Journal.
"Capt. Dixon came down on the United
States steamer Mink, yesterday morning, and
reported the loss of many of our soldiers, in
a conflict with very large body of the Che
yennes and Arrapahoes, two hundred miles
west of fort Kearney.
The messenger who brought the news
reached st. Marys on last Saturday. His
name is Vellaindeer, an old French trader,
whose statements are perfectly reliable. He
stated to Capt Dixon, Col. Carpy, and 9th
ers, that eleven days before, he had left Col.
Sumner, who told him that he had sent one
hundred soldiers and fifty teamsters little
in advance of his main body, when they were
attacked by large body of Cheyennees and
Arrapahoes, and all were slain; that he in
intended to proceed directly in pursuit of the
enemy, and would not pause until he had re-
venged the loss of his compatriots, and pun
ished the savages who had butchered them"
The Pacific City (Iowa) Enterprise, Of
July I'd, adds the following in confirmation :
GA trader has just arrived here from the
mountains bringing the startling and harrow
ing intelligence that an entire detachment Of
U. S. troops Cavalry, consisting of one hun
dred privates, two officers and thirty team
sters en- route for Salt lake, had been attack
ed by the Cheyenne Indians at Ash Hollow,
and every man of them slaughtered! He
gives no further particulars, nor is he able to
give us the names of the officers or men.
p. S. Since the above was written, a
train of emigrants from Salt lake has arrived.
They corroborate the distressing intelligence
brought by the trader above referred to- but
are unable to furnish us with any additional
particulars. We shall look with much anxi-
ETY. for the details of this horrible massacre"
Eg The Washington correspondent of
the New York Tribune, under date of July
9th, writes:
No intelligence at the War Department to
confirm the reported defeat of Col. Sumner
on the plains, but an uneasy feeling prevails.
w The Chicago Ledger announces a
change in the proprietorship of that paper,
and speaks of the enterprise in the following
language:
BY our dissolution of copartnership and
the retirement of our friends, Messrs. BARNES
d STUART, we are placed in new relations
not only to them, but TO our readers and COM
munity around us. This change is the result
of perfectly mutual feeling, brought about by
the conviction that the business interests of
our paper would be better served by great
or concentration of responsibility. In the re-
tirement from the firm, of our former part
ners, we do not lose the good wishes or the
aid of our brothers, both of whom continue
their activities in connection with the Ledger
"The establishing of a daily paper is at all
times attended with great trials, labor and
selfsacrifce; and we do but an act of simple
justice to Messrs. Stuart and Barnes when we
say that no men have labored more assidu-
ously than they for the accomplishment of
this much cherished enterprise.
SIN assuming the position of editor and
sole proprietor, we are more imam ever con-
WINGED of the deep responsibilities which are
laid upon us. The many vital interests of our
young and rapidly growing city and state,
which may be advanced, retarded or perma-
nently marred by the position which the
press may assume towards them, impresses
us with solemn sense of the responsibilities
we have assumed; and were it not for the
rational conviction that all human affairs are
under the immediate inspection and direction
of Omniscience, whose law we have written
upon our heart, and whose spirit is ever pres
ent to aid all who are in need, we should re-
tire from such responsibility as from burden
that would crush us beneath its ponderous
weight. But, relying upon that never failing
source of strength, we address ourself to the
work in cheerfulness, and in the hope of max
ing the Ledger more and more welcome
visitor to the business places and family
homes of our fellow-citizens of Chicago and
the state of Illinois,"
A company of five hundred and thirty
six Mormons arrived at Philadelphia, on Fri
day last, in the packet ship 7'uscarora.
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