The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-06-23

No Soldiers to Guard the Route.
Springfield, No., June l1.-Ths Over
I lard mail coach. With San Francisco advices
to May 2s,h. arrived here a, $50 this eve
ming. and furnishes tie following summary
OF news:
San Francisco, May Is, n.-The Peny
/ Express. with Sc. Louis dates to May 10Th, Is
dae at Carson VALLEY this morning. but on
account Of Indian hostili,ies on the route
for 200 miles beyond that point, is is feared
/ the Express has been cut of. The las: Ex-
press lefs here on Friday, the 18th. but We
are not ye: advised whether it passed the
dangerous portion Of the route on its way
eastward.
During nearly all of the past week it rained
necessarily, and SO little bushes was done
that it is difficult to ix quotations. No ar
tic!e has improved in value within ten days,
and it is generally believed business will open
this week with declining market. The
weather Is now pleasant, and no doubt the
dry season has commenced, as heavy rains
have already continued unprseeden,edly
late.
TIE LATEST WAR NEWS.
Accounts from Carson Valley. yesterday,
the 9th. represent that about Is, 900 indiana
remained in the vicinity Of Pyramid Lake,
and that 600 volunteers under Col. ]. G.
Hays, and 2u0 United States troops under
Stewart, had gone out to attack them in
front and rear. We are therefopoin hourly
expectations of another battle.
INDIAN pIFFIcULrIKs NORTH.
Yreka, May 25.-A letter received from
Little Shasta river May 18th, confirms the
rumor of Indian difficulties on Butte Greek,
and says that the Indians have commenced
hostiiitIes in good earnest. On the Odd inst.
they ran six men six miles to the camp, there
being eighty Indians in pursuit. A company
is being organized at Yreka for the purpose
of publishing them.
DANGERS TO THE PONY EXPRESS.
From the San Francisco Bulletin, May %.
W. W. Finney, the agent of the Pony Ex-
press, called upon US this morning and gave
some sad news respecting the perilous con
dition of that enterprise. He had just re-
ceved Geographic dispatches from Carson
City which state that the station at Simpson
Park was burned Monday lass-that it is sup
posed to have been the work of Indians, and
that the station keeper and all the animals
are yet missing, and that recently the Indians
fred or two men. named. Redman and Rob-
inson, who were conducting freight train,
severely wounding Robinson. Redman es.
capped on one of the mules, leaving the wag-
on in Simpsons Canon, and had arrived ut
Smiths Creek. The dispatch further in
forms Mr.. Finney that the man who came
with the last express from Reese River was !
forced, by fear of Indians, to lay by for sc
hours at Smith Creek Station, otherwise the
express would have gone through to Carson
in less than six days, and that though the !
express. leaving here on the 18th, had duly
doubt as to who would be the succeedidg
yesterday.
Upon the receipt of this news Mr.. Finney |
called upon Gen. Clark, to ascertain if the
Government would not afford some protec-
ton to the route. As the Pony Express is
but an individual enterprise, Mr.. Finney ex-
planned to Gen. Clark, that he hai no right to
look for protection of the Express by itself.
but the route was the same over Which pas
sed the United States mail, and for that
reason perhaps, the duty Of the Govern
ment was to keep it clear. Besides this,
there were on the road, journeying Califor-
nlaWard BY the route, at least six or seven
hundreI migrants with their wagons and
stock who would fall victims to the cruelty
and rapacIty of the savages, as fast as they
unsuspectingly journeyed into the hostile
territory ahead of them. For this purpose
Mr.. Flnney thought that with seventy. five
well armed and well mounted men, distrib-
uted between Sand Springs, sixty miles be-
yond Cars son, Cold Springs, th!rty-fve miles
further east, Smiths Greek, twenty five
miles further. Simpsons forty miles further,
and at Dry Creek, forty miles still further
the route might be kept safe. This would
give fifteen men to each station, and if these
were we'll mounted and armed with Minnie
rifles, it is thought they could secure the
station against any force Of Indians likely
to attack them.
Gen. Clarke's reply to MIR. Finney's ap-
phcation, expressed great regreat that he
could do nothing; that the limited number
of men under his command made it imposi-
sible for him to detail IS soldiers for the
proposed duty. He regarded it of great
Importance to protect the route and thought
it would be great misfortune to have the
Express interrupted, but, in the absence of
means, be could do nothing for the present.
Under these circumstances, Mr.. Finney is
fearful that the Express will have to be
stopped. He leaves fer the scene of dan
ger. and will attempt to carry it on.