Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-10

The INDIANS OF WASHINGTON TERRIToRY.-
The Indian question, up north, is exciting
very considerable attention. The following
from letter TO the Portland Advertiser, da
ted at Port Townsend, W. T., is worth no
tice:
The Indians in this vicinity are very un-
easy on account of the neglect of the govern
ment to fulfil the treaty stipuations, and at
present by some slip shod management on the
part of the Indian authorities' there is no
agent to take charge of the Clalatn tribe re.
siding at Port Townsend Port Discovery and
Dunginess. Owing to the meagre appropria
tions for carrying out the treaties with the
various tribes west of the Cascades, the SUI
perintendent of Indian Affairs has been
obliged to divide the district formerly under
the sole charge Of NJ. T. Simmons, the agent
and allot one portion to Mr. w. b. Gosnell
the sub-agent, BY some informality in their
instructions neither of these gentlemen con-
slider that they have any charge of the Indi-
ans about here. Mr. Gosnel informs me that
his instructions order him to take charge of
those Callams only who reside on Hoods
Canal while Col. Simmons also informs me
that his instructions only designate the Mach.
abs at Cape Flattery and the Elwhas on the
Straits of Fuca below Dunginess and none OF
the Clalllms elsewhere consequently all the
Indians residing at the points above named
are without any one to counsel or advise
them, or to look after their interests They
| naturally feel indignant at this treatment
and express themselve es in no measured term
During the past summer and fall there
have been several attempts among these In-
| Gians to combine and attack the whites, hap
PLY, however, without success, owing to dis
sensi0ns among themselves
A poytion of the Clallam tribe live on Van.
couver's Island, opposite Dungness. at a
place called "Chervitsen. One Of the chief:
| there gave grand potlatch" last summer
when an attempt was made to combine with
the Machahs, but they could not agree. A
few weeks afterward another "potlatch," OF
"black tomanawis," was he'd at Seabech
then one at Lummi; aferward another at
Port Gamble, and the last one few weeks
since at the Sanish. AT all these variou;
meetings the subject of general rising was
freely discussed, and some of the bolder ones
even proposed setting fire to The various mills
If the Clallam tribe can agree upon one man
as their chief and leader we may look fol
trouble; but SO long as they are split up in
factions as at present but little is to be feared
pblll IL 10 Hut oHlJ bhO l"lb VI IollNyI buu VI
justice, that the government attend to these
indians at once, for in their drunken orgies
no one can tell what mischief they might do
Communication between these Indians and
those of the interior is kept up by means OF
the Snoqualamie and Klickatats several o
whom have been even here recently and have
given these Indians information relative tc
the Nez Perces and Walla Wallas, and THEN
action relative to the advent of the miner,
into the Nez Perez country, which they i'm
parted to me some weeks since, and the truth
of which is vouehed for by the recent aspect
of those Indians during the talk" with Indi.
| an Agent, A. j, Cain, at Walla Walla. There
is no fear of these Flat Heads combining witt
the tribes Of the interior; but il is evident tC
my mind that the same Influences are at work
as in 1854 and 1865, prior to the war; that
is, a constant communication Of Intelligence
between all the tribes in the Territory. Oul
previous experience in Indian matters should
teach as the necessity of being on our guarc
at all times and put down the least appear
| ance of disaifection