New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-01
From NEW NE MOO.
A FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
ICE Of the washinston Union.


SANTA FR, New Mexico, July y, 1857.
Since last wrote YOU we have received intelligence
of battle between Colonel Bonnevilles expedition
and the CCyo.cro Indians, Lear the Rio Gits, IN the
Gadsdtu purchase. The battle was fought on the
9th alt Forty. Indians were killed. foty'hve
taken pIisoLers enc Mexican prisoner recsptured.
tbiy ocd horses taken, aud several corn-iiesds de-
stroytd. The troops had nine wounded, ino&dipg
Iien,s siee n and Ewt AID one Pueblo Indian. IL 3
believed that Colonel ID. has most tffectaay accom-
pIshed bis mlsson ard administered such chaeise-
n,ept 10 the Indians will not coon be forgotten
His expedition has been ordered IN.
On tie 18th inst, q soldier named Sumner BON
massachusetts, where he has father, mother VIE
and child wss hung at Taos, in Judge Brocchgss Dis
trict for The murder e youth named stewart.
Sumner Was q young man ony - years o, age. no
,Nbib,d the most obdura,e indifference during the
whole y,ceress of tie trial and was only brought 20
show emotion when the solemn sentence Of death wss
beng prosouuced upon him by the learned and ac-
compilsbsd Judge. After that he maintained tho
same eallousiess that had marked his previous CON
duct lie said il was his wish, after he got to he'll,
whee he said LIE was suie togo 10 come BACK nto TOT.
ment several persons IN Taos; lie seemed ae.sn'eI
that the wife Of of the officers was going to send
him clean suit to be hung IN. lie wrote very
affecting letter TO his aged parents, in which he con-
&c. sed Bis guilt ard justified his punishment lie
begged them to keep kDowledge OF his triic late
from his wife A while before MS death hs made .
fu cor fet sion 10 the minister VINO attended him. and
on the scslold exhibited much coniiition and emotion.
Afew Gays ago we received indulgence OF tue oesec-
They suppltd themselves with II uies provisions sDd
aims before leaving. AT Fort Massachusetts, about
100 miles from the place of derertlon, where Cspt.
Boyubn's lilies are stationed, detachment, headed
nv the rpoial was sent after the desertes to arrest
them They resisted, and killed the corporal Ia tho
melee one Of the desereTs was shot 10 the leg aud
taken; Il other two escaped leaving behind their
provisions and a,ns. They cannot possibly subeist -
The desert country through which they are travelling
without poyisions and this, doubtless, the pursu-
ing lifes have captured them.
T.. ST. open my letter to Inform you that Mogouon
Inciars attacked Colonel John Walker, Indian sgent,
and o. cont on the Goth il slant, about sunset near
Fort IL ON. have Just received q letter from Col
Walker in which he states that In company with his
ing about fifty yards behind bis escort, which CON
sif;ed OF three solders aud sergeant when be heard
the crack Of rifle ard iet the heat Of ball near his
beed II nassinp through his hat simultaneously an
arrow iodoed in the hip Of biz horse. lie looked
around ard saw about sixty Indians in hot purrut,
when he knocked the ost OF his horse With has
umbrella ard PIT spurs TO him in good eafnest Tho
Indians got his pack ule aud All his baggage P"pps'
&c Coz w and company got into Foit Thorn with
out further damage He is sgent for the Iadisrs In
tie Mt,ila eouutry, ard is en- route for his fsd
OF duty. ,
The Indians then made their way toward Font Craig.
Wtb;n en- an or twenty miles of the fort they, killed
,wo Me,icsns stole four mules and seven thousand
sheen Mel Porter, commsndng at This toif, sent Out
a marty in pursuit. They succeeded IN feoaptrurg
The ,htep ard mules and als0 the mules tae Indians
originally bGd-three Ill number, Inc u0oi stono~ee
tb,m to The uountsns where they thought prudent
10 stop. Der Garland informed me to-day that No
irt.tded 10 81 nd command aftei them lie also ex-
pressed the opinion that there would be great danger
n mall marines travelling the outbern routs, since COL.
Boppeye committed such havoc in their Sanks