The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-07
THE NAVAJO WAR


Mr. S NJ. fost writing to the Santa Fe Gazette
Dec. Z, 1888, says: The first hostile engagement
was at Bear Spring on the 10Th of August and the
! been seven or eight skirmishes At least 200 In
dians have been killed. This number is admitted
! by the Indians themselves. In one engagement.
that of Major Brooks, with Capt. Elliotts company
mounted Rifles and ''K'' and &c" companies In
fantry under lst Lieut. Willard and I'd Lieut. Wal
! ker-near "Ojo del Gallo,' where only eight were
| reported killed-the Indians admit fifty were killed
and five wounded. This statement is reasonable,
for when fired upon by the three companies, there
were 300 Indians close together. The Indians also
admit to the taking of 0000 sheep and 500 horses
! They have lost an immense quantity of and
wheat, their villages homes destroyed, and the
whole nation-l2,000 in number-dispersed and
scattered to the four winds. This has been accom-
plished with small column of 300 men under Colonel
| Miles
The whole country traversed by Col. Miles col
umn is now being accurately and beautifully map
ped by Lieut.. w. ID. Whipple, Sd Infantry, and
that passed over by Maj. Bacchus by Lieut.. Lazee
of the 9Th Infantry.
In letter of December 2lst he saws:
The Indians will agree to anything, however on
erous, to have peace. If private speculation and
fraudulent accounts of losses by citizens to be
recognized by the officials it will require the wealth
of the Navajo nation to satisfy them, and then not
more than half the claims will be met These In
dians have committed no depredations for the last
six months. SandovaPs band and countless Mexi-
cans have been stealing constantly in the Rio Abao,
and all charged to these Indians. These are stub
born facts, and shall be brought before the public
to the exposure and condemnation of those who,
upon unounded suspicious, attempt to rob these In
dians here of the wealth they have accumulated by
industry and labor.
The loss of these Indians has been during the war
over 100000, besides lives and huts-the latter
reaching at least 900
The snow is very deep throughout the country.
In some places is between four and six feet deep.
The horses and sheep of the Indians perishing
by the hundred, and their sufferings intense.
The @ war has prevented them preparing for the win
walton and exposure.
MORE TELEGRAPH MISREPRESENTATION
1t has been stated in the newspapers, that Mr. F.
U. j. Smith has cOnsummated arrangements Cor the
sale of all his Telegraph interests to the American
and the Magnetic Telegraph Companies for the
sum OF about three hundred thousand dollars in
cludng his two third ownership of the New York
and Boston Union Line; the Boston and Portland
Line, and various claims against the Western and
Southern Telegraph Companies, alleged to be
worth one or two hundred thousand dollars 1t
was also stated stated current rumor, that the
gotlatlons between the American and Magnetic
Telegraph Companies, looking to a speedy consol-
idation of interests between Nova Scotia and New
Orleans have been brought to a mutual satisacto-
ry termination
In reference to these statements, Mr. Smith
says:
1t illustrates how big and widely falsehood may
be propagated by one editing the Telegraph news
department of nearly every paper in the Union, in
telling partial truth
The conditions upon which rest the proposed sale
of my telegraph interests are wholly omitted
above One of these conditions is that the Magnetic
Telegraph Company, extending from New York to
New Orleans, shall become party to the purchase,
and without that ! am bound by every obligation
not to sell. Another condition is that the Magnet
ic Company, the House Printing Telegraph Compa-
ry, and the American Telegraph Company, shall
stipuate and bind themselves to the full and com
plete performance, in good faith, of all and several
the contracts and stipuatiOns of said New York
and New England Union Companies, heretofore en-
tered into with other parties and companies for pro-
curing and maintaining business connection between
said Union Company and other contracting par
ties. This condition embraces explicitly the
tract of the Union Company with the Cape Ann
and Yarmouth Cable Company's promoters and
the Nova Scotia Company, which contract the
committee of Merchants of the city of Boston, in
their very able report, declared to be liberal and
satisfactory.
This Contract, be it known, was made with spe-
cial reference to the purpose of breaking up the
present iniquitous Associated Press arrangement
for foreign news, and, through an emancipation Of
the public from that arrangement, the foreign news
will no longer be held up, after its receipt under
the judgment and direction of one man, until his
own, or confederates' uses of it have been accom-
plished
The contracting parties in the proposed sale bind
themselves to the arrangement contemplated by the
Boston Committee of Merchants and the Cape Ann
Gable Company, in designedly abolishing the pres
For every other sale of my Telegraph interests,
have uniformly rejected every offer, and ! will do
long there is hope of successful result to
the labors of the Boston Committee. Not back
ward step has 5een-not one shall be-taken, by
me, from this important movement of the Boston
Merchants.
The Magnetic Company nothing else,
do believe now that Peter Cooper, Esq, his
sociates, of the American and House Telegraph
Company, have any hope, if they have heretofore
had any desire, of doing otherwise than cOopera-
ting with the policy of the Boston merchants, to
make the foreign news for publication alike early
that eWhV ented ft a lines of +" deasp 1he s
can accomplish this most devouty wished-for
summation. FRANCIS o. }. SMITH.
From the Chicago Journal
FRAUD on THE STATE.-Our correspondent from
Sringfield, to day, disclose a startling fraud of
number of years standing, by which the State has
been gouged out of a considerable sum of money;
| amounting to about Sl05, 900. The fraud was ac-
complished by means of forged Canal Fund checks
issued ten years ago. The whole amount of genu-
inc checks. with the exception of some $500, had
been funded by the State when now up turn checks
to an additional amount of S105 900. Whether
these last checks, which have been funded are the
forged ones, or whether some of those that had
been previously funded the bogus ones, re-
mains to be ascertained by the committee of inves-
tgation to whom the matter has been REFEREED
The discovery is certainly astounding and to late
1t may be, to detect and punish the forger recov
er the amount out of which the State has been de-
frauded. The value of the bills of the State Bank
of Illinois at Shawnetown, whose circulation is
partly based on these Canal bonds will not be at
fected by this disclosure.
The New York Legislature has refused to appeal
the law which allows parties in lawsuits to tes-
tfy.
CoTToN IN CUBA.-A correspondent of the Journ-
al Of Commerce sends to that paper a copy of the
prospectus of the proposed "Cotton Association of
Havana" Capital S400, ,000
The Company will acquire the lands most suita-
BILE for the planting and growing of cotton, either
by purchase or by lease, and will make advances
to cotton growers. 1t will provide the machines
apparatus and tools, necessary for the planting,
production and planting of cotton till baed for
shipping. 1t will also purchase cotton and store it
for sale, in Havana or elsewhere.
The correspondent says:
The Spanish and English officials upon the Island
making strenuous efforts to interest persons in
cotton growing, and various inducements are held
out to those willing to embark in it. saw sam
Piles of cotton said to have been grown the Is
land 1t coarse in texture, and short staple
The ParkersJurg (Va.) Ne,os announces the dis
covery of another vein of Camel Coal on Cow Creek
in Pleasantscounty, about two miles from the Ohio
river, and sixteen miles by land thirty by water,
from Parkersburg.