Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-13

IsTsREsTse FROM TIE PIAHs.-The follow
ing interesting items Of news from the Plains,
We take from the Kansas City Entsrpriss.:
Tim, Gooden, hecelebrated mountaiueer and
guide, arrived in the city on Monday last, He
spent the winter on Green river, west of the
Rocky Mountains. The winter was one of the
most severe ever known. The Utah Indians on
Bitter Greek lost almost their entire stock of
horses From Mr. Goodeil nc learn the follow
ing particulars
At tue crossing of the North Platte lie met
an Indian trader, named Saunders vs. no had Just
returned from an expedition in search Of Grow
village. Ills party consisted at setting ont, of
three white men and four Crow Indians, They.
were attacked on, Powder river, by a. party Of
thirty Blackfeet who killed one of the white men
named Scott, n CanadaY trader, and two of the
Grows. Saunders was wounded in the Shout
der.
| About three days after the above occurrence,
band of Snake Indians came across party. Of
! Blackfeet numbering twenty warriors, near
iEromouts Peak, and after hard battle killed
twenty.seven, leaving but to tell the story to
his tribe. This is the most successful battle
ever fought in the mountains. The Snakes lost
not a single brave The widest reioicings
were going on in tho tribe-feasting dancing,
and all descriptions of savage orgies being car.
ried on day and night They were so elated
that they sent portion of their scalps by u
French trader to the Sioux, having, as they
said, more than they wanted.
I Goodell met Long Chin, the Sioux chief who
headed tho murderers of the mail party years
I ago, and was prisoner for some time at Fort
! Leavenworti, at the trading house of Major
| Dripps at Ash Hollow, and had a long talk
! Long Chin told him that the Cheyennes had
sent word to the Sioux that if they would meet
them Mt the Forks of the Platte aud take their
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the Sioux, north of the Platte, they would give
them sixty OF seventy horses and mules, and
then the young men of the Sioux to join them
IN their excursions against the emigrant trains
on the plains.
But Long Chin said he had been down among
the whites, on their big boats, and seen so many
men, that he knew it was no use TO fight, aud
that the Sioux would have nothing to do with
the matter.
On his way in Mr. Godell saw few lodges Of
Cheyegnes- They told him that they had kill
led more whites than the whites had killed of
them, and if the government wanted to make
peace they were willing; but if more fight was
wanted they were ready He also learned at
Ash Hollow, through Cheyenne squaw, the
wife of white man called Sailor Jack, that she
had just returned from visit to the village
that the Cheyennes are mostly collected on the
Republican Fork of the Kansas, and that they
were expecting visit from the United States
pect or intend to fight the troops great deal,
but were going to put the women and children
out of the way, and then scatter in small bands
from the Platte to the Arkansas and they say
that they cAn, in TINT way, skill all they want,
and get plenty of white women for prisoners"
The account given to Mr.. Goodall by Sioux
Indian, of how lady came to her death is pro-
badly true. 1t seems she was taken captive by
a Sioux who was with the CheyenneS. He put
her behind him on horse, and took her to his
camp, intending to make her his wife. The
CheyennGs finding it out, demanded that she
should be given up to them. This was refused.
Finally, to prevent the Chcyenncs from taking
her, the Sioux Indian shot her with an arrow
through the heart, killing her instantly. This
lady was captured last summer with some re-
turning Calif0rnians.
The Cheyenncs arc preparing to gather to-
gether all their forces on the head waters of the
Republican Fork, and say they are determined
to make fight if the troops attempt to disturb
them.