The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19
Our Chickens Returning to Roost.

Our Chickens Returning to Roost.
/ The massacre of scores of our countrymen
and friends by iexasperated Indians in West
ern Utah, has stirred the sympathies Of every
Californian and created deeper popular
excitement than the State ever knew before.
Neare therefore in proper condition to
appreciate the enormity of the outrages per-
petrated by our own race on the aborigines
everywhere, and especially in California;
In the midst of our excavations at thered
mans cruelty, we cannot avoid rem EN- brance
of that inhuman slaughter at Humboldt Bay.
when the Christian Sabbath was polluted
by the butchery of women and babes hud
died In unprotected groups. We must recol-
ieet the remorseless massacre committed by
Jarooe's band and the hundred similar deeds
that are less notorious. If the Indians of
Utah slay the innocent and dcfeneeless, they
are only initiating our example. If the rifle
and the scalping knife have been busy
among our noffensive kindred, it is only
our chickens coming home to roost, after
all.
But the Pah-Utes are not without some
justification in their warfare upon the whites
They have been dispossessed of their lands
without compensation, and even crowded
from the reservations set apart fer them by
government. There have not been wanting,
also, brutal whites to commit numerous acts
of private robbery and violence upon them,
such as driving off their horses and wantonly
killing some of their number Is it wonder
ful that their well known friendship, so for
bearing though so much imposed upon,
should change to hate, and that they should
at last turn and sting us with the indiscrim-
mate fury Of savages? 1t is right for US to
remember these things, to ask ourselves
thesequestions and to temper our rage with
justice. Our plain duty, of course, is to de-
fend our own race, but net to pursue our
wronged foes to the bitter end Force them
to sue for peace and then see that they have
their rights secured to them by our own ac-
tion if not by that of the general govern
ment.
Indian affairs on the western side Of The
continent have been miserably manaped.-
Had the reservations been protected against
the depredations Of unscrupulous whites,
who are more pestiferous than the Indian,
| and had stockade forts been established
along the line of settlements in Western
Utah, as well as at intervals on the great
emigrant route, hundreds of valuable lives
would have been saved and the present Sc
rions conflict prevented. The extreme me-
cessty of these measures has always been felt
on this coast and repeatedly urged upon the
authorities at Washington, who will now be
forced to do at enormous expense what
might have been sooner done cheaply. In
slant and vigorous steps must be taken for
the protection of the emigration now on its
way, and which will be liable to destruction
in detail should existing hostilities continue
and spread. If government does not move
in the matter, Californans must go to the
defence of their coming kindred.
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The TRUCKEE TURNPIKE-This important
enterprise, which is destined to make the
Henness Pass route the most popular high
way across the mountains, is being steadily
prosecuted, In spite of late storms and ru-
mors of war. Freeman has completed a
contract of $40 rods this side of Bopes ranch,
and Mr.. Wood has nearly completed his con-
tract for grading around Cold Spring HILL
By next Saturday, over FIVE miles of entirely
new grading will have been finished, besides
much efficient repairing and improvement
along the old grade. BY that time, also, the
turnpike will be in complete order to Forest
City. Thence the work will be extended by
the early part of June to Middle Waters, and
new road graded down the south side of
the ridge to the Middle Yuba at Milton. Mr..
A. Fraser will proceed to make survey of
the route from this point to Truckee Mea-
dows next week. By the first of June toll
gate will be established at Bope's Ranch,
and the receipts there will speedily amount.
1t Is estimated, to $500 or 1000 month.
which will be very handsome interest on
the capital stock of $4,000. The tolls will
be appropriated towards the construction of
the road until its completion, and will make
the assessments quite easy. Our cotempo-
raries will perceive that good wagon road
through the Henness Pass on direct line
from Marysville to Truckee Meadows, via
North San Juan and Forest City, is a sure
thing.
| OvERTAKEN.-We learn from Mr. G.. Schar-
din, who accompanied the San Juan COM
pany to Forest City and rode from thence
towards JacksonS ranch in hopes of over
taking Mr.. Miller, that he caught up with
the latter at Milton Mr.. Miller expected to
overtake the Nevada company on Thursday,
and would induce them to wait for the San
Juan bows and others from T a porta Mr