Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-15
Indian Difficulties.


The latest dispatch which We have so far
seen from the Washoe country, is the follow
ing:
CARsoN CRY. May llth
G. S. Person -
Johu Blackburn safe. Sixty killed. VIII
start my wife and family to Marysyille, to-
night o. II. T.
The sixty killed" are those. of the com
pany Of one hundred, who lett Virginia City
a few days ago. under the lead of Major
Urmshy, to fight the Pah- Utes and Shoshouie
Indians. and who fell into an amhuscade
at the Big Bend Of the Truekee River
ON the trail to Pyramid Lake, and were
slaughtered by the Iodinns The FIRST report
was that the Indians numbered two thous-
and The latest fixes the number at 500, a
statement which is far more probable That
the Indians were preparing for a systematic
attack upon the white settlers has been mah-
ifest fol some little time past They were
greatly dissatisfied with the ingress Of su
many whites into the Black Rock region, a
ground which they considered peculiarly
their own. They seem to have been deter
mined, from the beginning. that this region
should not tie occupied, and We're the NOR,
firmly liked in their notion that no whit,
man had n right to go there. 10y the circum-
stance that certain white men who wer,
| friendly with them urged them to offer tha
portion of land for sale to the u ). Govern
ment The Pah-Utes, who claim it, and tn,
| branch of the Shnshouics who are nov asso-
ciuted and identified with them, agreed tC
make the offer. hut no attention was paid {,
it by the Federal Government. The coming
in of whites. so thick and fast after this. in-
duced the Indians to believe that the country
was to be taken from them, notwithstanding
the recognition of their claim, without pay
ing Them any equivalent
The first serious prognostic of war was
Il news received on the Sth of May. at
Carson City, that the house Of a man named
Williams. At the sink of Carson River had
been burned by Indians and seven white
men murdered. The next news was that the
pah-Utes and Shoshones, 500 strong. were
crossing the Desert toward the white settle
rrents near Carson City, Women and chill
dren were Immediately removed from China
town and other places to Devils Gate, and
the latter locality fortified while company
of armed men. numhering-as was at first
reported-two or three hundred sailed forth
from Virginia City to give battle to the In
diuns. The number, i seems, was however
only hundred sixty Of whom were killed
MS above stated There must have been
some carelesshess and want of caution in this
ill-fated company, or they would not have
been massacred in the manner that they were,
at such place. At no point, near the Big
Bend of the Truckee River is there place
very much fitted for an amhuscade There
are low sage bushes only on the plain, in
which Indians could easily be discov cred
and the only hiding place at all would be in
the willows on the margin of the river
Here probably were the Indians concealed.
but little reconnosance. before venturing
10y them. would have revealed the fact that
they were there.
y little in advance Of this terrible slaugh-
ter, intelligence reached us thut five or six
hundred Pah-Ulahs had fnllen upon the set
Elements on Walkers River. and were massa-
cleing the inhabitants. The present is ii
fearful moment for the settles throughout
the Nevada Territory, aid will soon reach
them and the money be driven back into the
mountains and deserts
We have but little doubt thas the Nor
mons are in the secret Of this movement on
the part Of the Indians. Certain it is, that
they have been furnishing the Utah tribes,
for the past four or five years, with arms aud
1t has already been propsn, that
Mormons have led on parties of
Indians in massacres of emigrant trains on
their way to this country. A terrible ven
geance is III store for these Mormons, and it
will ere long, we are inclined to think, be
visited upon them.