Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-04
Daily Natlmal lrmOtrat.
lance Nitghtingin and winnemucka.

Lance Nightingale headed a company re-
,outly on a prospecting tour to Black Rock.
On the way thither, one of the party, Nc
nowel. was killed. 1t was supposed that
hs had been killed by the Pah Utes 1t
..sms however, it was by the Pitt River In
aiors There has been some little trouble
with the Pah-Utes, which is thus spoken of
,r Flank Soule in a letter to the Alta, from
virginia City;
Tho trouble with the Pah-Utes is this :
1.st fall an arrangement was made by stock
won with Winnemucka and the Pah- Utes,
b., which the cattle of the former were to
Giotrr at Pyramid Lake. The stock men
.m.hed in so many cattle, that they have fed
Avn the feed close to the ground, from the
lin tons to the lake. The Indians, driven to
s,oryation-their horses and stock ditto-it
i said killed few head of the whites cattle
aeer having warned their owners to remove
,bem The latter then attempted to drive of
their stock without paying the stipulated
,r;ca for their wintering, and even taking
soma of the stock of the Pah-Utes. The lat
a., eurr,unded them and forced them to pay
The stock-men threatened to come here, raise
f,reo return. and "clean out" the Indians
:. pvramid Lake. The latter Immediately
sont ont scouts, and placed sentries over the
h;s and prepared for attack. Nightingale
On his return, paciied Winnemucka, by AS
snr;ng him that no such force could be raised
bora I,uon the repeesentati' ms of the stock
mon Int cautioned him not to let the Pint
river or other vicious Indians commit out
.o.,es rs,,, unon the whites, as such would be at
tri1,,tad 10 the Pah-Utes and trouble would
rnsu,t Thus the matter rests "A war Will
tb;s nowerful tribe would prove great mis-
fortune. since they are numerous, Wei armed
and could cut off prospecting parties, and
greatly retard the development oi ms terri
tory 5 mineral resources. Thus has IL evel
been. few impolitic, or unprincpled men
commit outrages without cause, upon the In
dians. and the many innocent suffer the evils
which result"
Persons who know Winnemucka tell ur
that he is, in heart and soul, one of natures
nobemen. He is honest, upright and straight
forward in all his DEALINGS disposed to be
friendly with the whites, and is much aston
ished sometimes at the unfairness of conduct
towards himself, or his tribe, manifested by
parties of white men who travel through his
country. As an instance of Winnemucka's
disposition to be honorable friend informs
us that the old chief has on several occasions.
where horses have been stolen from the
whites by the more reckless portion of his
tribe made search for the animals. and, when
he could not find them, either delivered
horses of his own in their stead, or caused
his tribe to make up the number by a sort of
general contribution lie positively forbids
any such thing as stealing from the whites
Not long ago, some white men stole horses
from Winnemucka, and he was much sur
Prised, when, upon applying to the white
settlers for restoreton of the animals or their
equivalent he was informed that the Ameri-
cans in general were not responsible for the
deeds of Americans as individuals. Winnie
mucka said, he always made good to the
whites their losses by the Indians. and they
ought to do the like by him Unsophisticat-
ed Winnemuekal