Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-05-21

Latest from the Mountalns-Arri-
val Of Tim. Goodell, the Noun
taineer, at Kansas City-Murder
by the Blackfeet Indians-A
Great Fight and Gre 1t Victory
by the Snakes-The Cheyennes
preparing for War with the Troops
Talk with Loug Chin-Feelings
of the Sioux.
IFrom the Kansas City Enterprise, Maya
Tim. GUode Il, the celebrated mountaineer
and guide, arrived in this city on Monday
last. He spent the winter on Green river
West of the Rocky Mountains. The win
ter was one of the most severe ever known.
| The Utah Indians on Bitter Creek lost al
most their entire stock of horses. From
Mr.. Goedell We learn the following partic-
ulars:
AT the crossing Of the North Platte he
met an Indian trader, named Saunders, who
had just returnek from an expedition IN
search of Crow village. His party con-
sisted, at setting out, of three white men
and four Crow InLians. They we're attacked
on Powder river by party o: thirty Black
feet, who killed one of the white men, named
Scott, Canadian trader. and two OF the
| Crows. Saunders was wounded in the shoul-
der.
| About three days after the above occur
renee, band of Snake Indians came across
a party of Blackfeet numbering twenty
eight warriors, near Fremont's Peak, and
after hard battle killed twenty-seven. leav.
ing but one to tell the story to his tribe
| This is the most successful battle ever
| fought in the mountains. The Snakes losl
not single brave. The widest reJoicing-
were going on iE the tribe-leasting, dane.
ing, and all descriptions of savage orgies
being carried on day and night. They were
so elated that they sent portion of theiI
scaps by French trader to the Sioux, hav.
ing, as they said, more than they wanted
Goodell met Long Chin. the Sioux chieI
who heaGed the murder Of the mail party
two years ago, and was prisoner for some
time at Fort Leavenworth. at the trading
house of Major Dripps at Ash Hollow, anc
had long talk. ......
Long Chm told him that the Cheyennes
had sent word to the Sioux that if they
would meet them at the Forks of the Platte
and take their old men, women, and chill
tIen to the lodges of the Sioux, north o.
the Platte, they would give them sixty OIL
seventy horses and mules, aud then the
men OF thei Sioux to join them in their ex.
cursions against the emigrant trains on the
plains.
But Long Chin said he had been down a
mong the whites, on their big boats, anl
had seen So many men; that he knew 1t wa.
NO use, to fight, and that the Sioux woul(
have nothing to do with the matter.
On his way in Mr.. Gocdeli saw few lod
ges OF Cheyennes. They told him tina
they had killed more whites than the white,
had killed OF them, and ii the government
but ii more fight was wanted they were rea
dy. He also learned that Ash Hollow
through Cheyenne squaw, The wifi,
OF white man named Sailor Jack
that she had just returned from visit to the
village e-that the CheyenEes were mostly
Co elected ON the Republican fork OF the Kan
sas, and that they wese expecting visi
from the United Stale troops the coming
summer. They did not expect Or intend t,
fight The troUps great deal, but were go
ing to put the women and children out o
the way, and then scatter IN small band
IN L.
say that they can, in that way, skill all they
want, and get plenty OF whine women 10
prisoners" This is their exact language