The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-31

Tors, ana 10 all VINO AIDED, Allotted and en-
couraged them, it may be long before
another attempt at instruction is made
within the borders Of our republic.
The CosT OF AN INDIAN Hunt IN THE NORTH
wEsT-WAR ON THE UNITED STATES TREASURY
Among the claims that have been pressed upon
Congress for the last two or three years, and
that will be pressed at the next session, is one
for what is called the Oregon and Washington
war debt. Many Of our readers may not be
familiar with the mode of getting up these In
dian wars I; and yet it is regular system in
the distant Territories. Some act of theft or
murder, perpetrated by, or imputed to, an In
dian, is made the pretext for getting up an In
dian hunt. whenever the ordinary occupations
of the settlers fail them and they want either
excitement or haul ON the Treasury.
Volunteers are enrolled; they sally out in
pursuit of some unfortunate band of Indians,
probably have fight and then the hostilities
are exaggerated into war. When the regular
government troops get to the ground they
usually find that there is nothing to do, that 1t was
all cry and little WOOL and that for them Pu-ku-
mux-mux, or whatever other barbarous name
the head man Of the Indians bore, had made q
treaty of peace, smoked the calumet and
buried the Ratchet
But that is only one phase of the war. The
next phase it assumes is in the shape of tre-
mendous attack upon the treasury In other
words, the whole people of the United States
a lad IN fhn ~
Indian hunt enjoyed by only few. AS the
object is to get all that can be got from the
general government, every one is allowed to
put up his bill at the highest figure and con-
sequently the aggregate claim is rather start
ling.
Wesee, by recent report from the Third Au-
ditor of the Treasury, that the Oregon war hunt
of 1856 is set down as having cost something
like five millions of dollars, and the Washing
ton Territory branch of the same at between
two and three millions, although the highest
number of men enrolled at any one time in
the former Territory was but 2,l24. The reports
do not show how many men were in actual
service at any one time, for how long period
the service continued, or how many fell in the
war on either side.
It is clear, however, that the hunt was rather
an expensive one; that, as the French say, the
game was not worth the candle, and that it is
rather cool proceeding on the part of our
friends in the Northwestern Territories to ask
so many millions of dollars for killing a few
Indians The matter will have to be disposed
of by the next Congress, and we only wish that
the bill could be compromised at a million of
dollars, and that would probably be double as
much as the thing cost
THE DEMOCRATIC VIGILANT ASSOCIATION AND
THE JUDICIARY.-The Democratic Vigilant Asso-
citation is capable of doing an immense amount
of good, and we hope that it will use its power
to that end. There are any number of men in
nomination for judicial Offices in the various
courts of this county. Some of the nominations
are good, some bad, and the most Indifferent
AS there can be nothing of more vital impor-
lance to any community than to maintain the
purity and integrity Of the Bench, we call upon
the Vigilant Association to make selections
from among the nominees of the various parties,
and recommend the best of them for the
SURFACES of the people at the coming election.
The Wreck OF the New World.
LATER FROM THE sUNKKN sTEAMER-AKRIvAL OF
MORE FREIGHT.
by the steamer Columbia, which brough, down yostcr-
day load Of freight picked up Goacd from the
steamer at ebb tide, learn tha mater change had
Ghn had her hank