New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-08-13
THE INDIAN TROUBLES IN OREGON

From The Baltimore Er:hdrse, Avg, V.
The following extract from private let's; rsce..,
received in this city from army officer nos s,xors
in Oregon, dated june 10, will afford sn iusshirs
the causes of our Indian troubles n tbs. reree, rv
of the Republic, beyond what is orduxly fIrrsis
by army dispatches or newspaper correspondsHG
Another Indian war has for some time ossa sr,.
enipg, and now seems inevitable. There % doubt
that the Morn ons were concerned in ths ssss scd
hsve for months past been endesvorng to eis,n.A
the Indians against US.
Many silly stories have been going me rn,da
the California papers, of the Indians having sl 1t
the Reservations and returned 10 their Old houM.
There is no truth in them whatever. Tney csisay,
are much dissatisfied in their presen. situs. ,n w
to those north of U.s. about 900 in number bat aw
Chief is prisoner at Benica, and consequently, they
are poweless. What effect the news OF tier ss:ces
in the moth may have upon them 70 dificc 70 say
! should there be stampede, we will have o1f hands
full in compelling them TO return.
From the manner in which they we've tes.ed ~ TIE
whittier, even by the agents of the Govs'nmstt
| not suprisiDg that they should resist 20 TO esxa
| At the Setts Agency, short distance Shove %
they are dying at a fearful rate, oring 10 sssss
amorg them, being brought about by 'ny
| food, and that Of bad quality. They sen, Ar'
tstion down here few days sgo, TO conpsseM
| Agent, and said that they did not wIsn eMno
longer where they were, and W una, taey $1,000
Territory the man who kills the most Iodsrs IA
best man, aud, accordingly, sent to toe LsgisS1s
They are more uncivillzed than the IG5'sp, SOD
equally degraded Not single difficulty les occurred
out here IN which the white man wss TO % blame,
with the exception of this last, which wss entirely %.
provoked. The most brutal acts are Committed, saa
he perpetrators go entirely unpunlhed. There
notorious character here named ri,en@,
formerly employed as q sub-Indisn Ggett He
went down to the Rogue River cJaat-y
week or two ago, TO induce the fss l,disE
remaining there to 60 up with BIN TO
the Reservation. Placing confidence in his pfomisee
of protection, they came in, about seventy ol-hay
or more women and children, the remainder ner he
started with them from c. city, and q. pent b.
low here, fearing, as he says, that they Intended 70
leave him and escspe in the thick brush, DO psoed
bis men in advance, with instructions to me apoQ
them o. soon as they came up. AT signal from hm
they commence their work, and, 81 he told uA ~
eIdsy, In five minutes they the msles) had az Ron
under, and not ore was LETT 10 tell the s,ory. In
males were all shot with the exception OF one who
escaped in cold blood, and the party proceeded %
their journey with the women and children, who .Ss
silent Witnesses of the butchey OF their ter'tea luz
bands.
He arrived here day before yesterday, where DE- W
remain few days before sending them TO tee hsss'
yation.
1t was pi,ful sight to see the poor cIea.ares sa
their hair cut short their style Of mourning ana w.
OF them, little boys about twelve years 90, es0y
wounded. Who can wonder at or blame the lhessns
TOT retalatDg, and resorting TO the ssue tfese.ay
las they magine) to exteTminate the wh'ss, VIZ,
such an example is set them by civilized people, ~
IN this case, by aman who was known smoLg thsn "
10 ure, acting for the Government