New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-05
Col. Lanaer,s Expedition.

Dispatches have been received via California;
at the Interior Department from Superintendent
F. w. Lander, of the Central Overland wagon road
in Western Utah. He had organized and equipped;
his expedition and taken the field in five days after
arrival in California. From the panic existing,
owing to the Indian war, he was enabled to pur-
chase his mules at one hundred and ten dollars
each, lower rates than the same class of stock
could have been purchased for in Missouri. On
arriving at Honey Lake the valley was found
nearly depopulated: The hostile Indians driven
from Pyramid Lake by the five hundred men under
COL Jack Hays had concentrated at a point on the
emigrant road known Wall Springs.
Holding this strong position and resting on .
canon country extending west, they sent ont
marauding bands to harrass the Honey Lake settle
ments. Houses were burnt, stock driven of, and
several white settlers killed. Hon. Isaac RooP,
Provisional Governor of Nevada territory, aa-
dressed Lander letter, implorng him 10 aid in
protecting the valley and subdning the sayasess.
offering to raise two companies OF volunteers to-
Join his command The latter replied thas ne
could not turn his, civil, into a military eSpeai-
ton but would cooperate with the settlers in an
attempt to drive the Indians from the line of the
emigrant road. -r=tz
A party of sixty-twe men, under Lander, took
the field, and campaign Of fourteen days fol-
lowed. The first effort made was to obtain an IN
terview with Winnemucka, the war chief Of the
hosties. This failed, the Indians firing on the
whites, killing one man as they approached. Even
after the death of this Individual Coi Lander rode
unarmed into the lines Of the Indians, with nag
but was received with volley. battle then
| ensued, The Indians were beaten at all points,
| and driven three days march to the north Many
| of them were killed and wounded One OF the
bodies recovered recognized as I" Indian
jim y noted warrior, and the murderer OF rich
ranch man named Adams. Twenty ofCoi. Lan-
| der's party were old Rocky Mountain men, who
had accompanied him in his past explorations.
| They approached the Indians along rocky mll-
| side, and in one instance ten OF them dislodged
forty warriors. The remainder of the party we're
| armed with Sharp's rifles and reyoivers. The.
| md m hp Yrh
On the result of this engagement the settlers had
many of them returned to their homes business
relations were resumed, and two large but nnpfo-
| tected emigrant trains had reached the EASTERN
slope of the Neyadas unframed. The wagon road
party sn returning resumed work on the road, and
| had already completed over one-haif of it. Small
exploring parties had taken the field and the war
in that portion of the Territory might virtually be
regarded as over.
Col. Lander goes on to state that. from thss
Secretaryis knowledge of his train having been
| attacked the previous season, his taking several
| Indians prisoners, holding them as hostages ana
| releasing them unharmed he trusts that the late
demonstration will not be regarded out of place..
| No steps were taken which would cause the In
dams to entertain more vindietiye feelings against
the whites, and the bodies of the slain were buried
unmutilated The expenses Of the campaign were
very light, the men fed on dried beef and travelling
| with single blanket. No item of the government
| outfit was lost, but horses and other property
| taken from the hosties.
The work would be completed and the exPedl
ton probably reach California by the lsf OetoDef-
Superintendent Lander finishes his report by alllfI
| ing that the war can be closed and the Pan Utes
rendered friendly by paying them for their lands
now occupied by white settlers.
LETTER FROM THE AReHDUKE MAxIAILIAs, OF
AusTR1A.-It has already been stated in the papers
that the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand MaXmilian
contemp!ates visit to this country. Commander
Maury has Just received letter from his Imperial
Highness, of which the following is copy
TRIESTE, June l1.-DeaT Sir: read with the
greatest pleasure your treatise the winds at sea,
and now return my grateful thanks for this inter
| sailing directions of which you very kindly made
me and the Austrian navy present.
avail myself Of this opportunity for sending yoEk
the meteorological! diary keptw the last month
during my trip to South America on board his Inn
perial Maiestys steamer Elizabeth. Be pleased 70
accept il as a small contribution to the obserya-
tions you suggested, and in which all seafaring
nations are now sedulously engaged. May it serYR
you as a proof that our small navy, appreeiatSDg
also the full weight and extent of your eminent
suits strives to add something to work which AT
enlightened seamen praise as the highest improve
ment in the nautical science, deeply regret moi
having been able to pay visit to the northern parl
OF the transatlantic continent, for thus lost ths
opportunity Of making your personal aequaIntanee
and OF expressing to you IN words my hlghesi
/ esteem AS | soon intend to undertake poyasf
to the United States trust shall then have tn
pleasure of seeing you.
FERDIN AND MAMMALIAN.
AEeiduis OF haSIssl
Tocap8in " Marry Superintendent ii The tnise, aas
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