Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-03-05
From the San francisco Bulletin, Feb c.
INDIAN HUNTING IN CALIFORNIA.


indian hunting is no doubt rare sport Il REQUIRES
so much bodness to pick off 'badlooking buck" un-
armed though he be except with his wicked looks; il il
epcb manly entertainment 10 shoot down squaws and
pcaninnies they fly winged with terror or hndde and
crouch with fear in corner OF a wgwsm that really il
seems auton TO put any bndrance in the way Of the va.
liant Ranyers who enjoy that sort of thing Indanhuut-
inc makes brave men, men OF exquisite taste and
yeouslr uuickens the inventive faculty in those Who
n-nct;ce il These points fancy no difficult matter
10 Drove from the documentary evidence on the Iudan
wars lately transmitted by Gov Downey to the Assembly
lsr II makes brave men According to the report of
Lieut. piloa Thos Henley went Eel river, ore
bright day last March with some OF his employees and
finding there some Aus sent in an Indian to order the
s,,I Inhabitants to come out with the promise that
tbev sbould NOT he harmed -Four bucks came out but
one of Them urofs,el 20 be lame and unable 10 walk
whereupon Mr. Heney either shot him or had him shot
MIR Henley does not charge these Indians with having
stolen anything from him. ogt says they were too nea
him and he is afraid they will steal In all the events
OF the Pcoponesian war is there braver record than
this of Mr. Henley:
Again: According TO Major Johnsons report, Col 7
j. Henley late Superintendent OF Indian Aitdrs turned
out with some of the Round Valley settlers one day last
August and killed eleven lndans--sex not namcd-uo
because they had stolen anything but because Indims
generally will steal and why should not these. These
brave comrades of Henley suffer immense los in having
neither poet nor historian in attendance when they 60
uasluW COmUtlN ui NliN tl titul lutO tl' ltstitt
of short dozen of shW,rng, starving, naked Diggcrs
when ther uucrfing rl lay the "burks" over at pop
and the scared souaws aud frightened children lie still
be braned without protesting grGln. History and p0-
etry lose the thrilling details Of such spirit stirring charges
for this neglect Of Henley 10 take poet practiced
writer along
Brave Jarboc too, mp to August l2ih, had killed 30
InIaus-iucudng in one camp, according to Lieutenant
Johuson (our children. four women and six men; but
whether the latter were all ame or seriously sick, does
not appear Brave Jarboe.
ID Indian hunting culuyates the taste Henley shot
the lame Indian in Eden Valley, because "he looked like
a bad Indian and he did not want any such disagreed
bic looking specimens around LIT bad looking Indians
take heed. None but yOdr Apoilos Belydere will be
permitted about Eden Valley.
3D. Indian hunting stimulates ihe inventive faculty.
When the gallant attack has been made and the victims
of Chrstian vengeance srew the ground it is exceeding
ly desirable TO have good TO make to the world
who guOranty may not share the sentiments OF the val
iant volunteers who have turned so many women and
children into food for worms. Col Henley and his
worthy sons after the at Eel river produced
horses and two tongues found in the rauchera. The
quckened invention OF the Colonel construed these into
evidences enough that his victims had been horsestae,
in their DAYS
But on the other hand il cannot be denied that this
manly game Of lndian-huntug Is somewhat costly. Il
seems that the United States troops find most Of their
employment in defending the inofensye Indians from
being lasslcrcd II hcy hear Of any worthless whites
stealing horse they must hasten into the neghbOThOOd
where the theft committed or by that token hunt
will be raised kill a two Of Dggers. If they
hear of any violence committed on the person Of some
pretty Indian maid, the infantry wust get in motion
saighway, the perpetrator OF the Infamous outrage
gets up hunting party deyises some siOckstealng stO
rv aud haseus 70 shoe, down all to whom the pretty
maid might tell her wrongs.
True nobody had osta horse. nobody had complained
that his horses tongue had been pucked out but where
did the ear and tongues come from lad not been
Ien2 twas by the same reasoning that, shrewd phys
can charged his patient with having eaten oysters when
he found the shells under the bed and bis brilliant stu
dent dcogclcd lb-t another patient hai been eating
horse because he found saddle under his cot Al any
rate il was emnenty sharp in the CooIe and worthy
professional Indian hunter to discover excellent an
apology for his moruincs work Eel river, for if the
fatal ear aud Dugugs had not turned in time, the ten
dcrheared world might have deemed his entertainment
massacre, ard him, a Wholesale murderer.
Lieut. Dillon SAYS as the river gets low enough
he shall go down into Eden Valley and try TO get the
Indians into the camp "or they will all be killed Ma
or Johnson was the date Of his report endeavoring
TO get them into the Reservation feeling assured that il
he did not they would be mercilessy eIterminated-
The miserable wrechcs in their mountain astnesscs
puched with perpetual hunger we're starving and dying
AZ the rate Of eight day but If they come down
within rih shot they are shot Gen Clarke is satisfied
that the whites need no protection and the heavy work
of the army Is to protect the Indians from slaughter.
As We said at the beginning, lndi'n hunting is no
doubt SPORT but the vholo story OF these cam
pagns were told suspect that Henley and JarbOe, in
The judgment of people who not fond Of sports that
make humanity blush and decency shrink back in dis
gust from the hGuns of civilized men, would be deemed
muderer. For such multiplied outrages, 10 hang them
would be to proane the gaogs which is retained for
crimes that Swarm not in such gangs.