, 1862-04-05
NO. 10.

appropratng $4,000 for the better protection of
the overland emigrationto California and Oregon
Last year $4,000 was appropriated for this pur-
pose, of which $4,000 was judiciously expended
under the order of the War Department, in help
ing along the emigration, protecting it from In
dian depredations, ETC. The balance of last years
appropriation, together with that now made,
leaves $4,000 at the disposal of the Secretary
of War, which will doubtless be made of great
service during next spring and summer, when it
is presumed the overland emigration will be very
heavy. Mr.. Sargent, of California, supported the
bill briefly, stating that the expenditure of the
$4,000 last year resulted in saving vast amount
of property, as well as many lives. The manner
in which the operation was conducted under the
bill Che said) was this Cattle and other supplies
taken along upon the overland emigrant route,
and as this vast emigration came along to the va
rous points they were assisted by this army Off
Ger and his company, their worn-out cattle ex-
changed for better ones and thus they were ena-
bled to 60 through without that immense suffer-
ing and loss which occurred to the emigration of
previous years. Another feature of it, and per-
haps the most important and valuable one, is that
at slight expense backwoodsmen and frontiers
men, men familiar with Indian warfare, were in
duced to place their rifles upon their shoulders
and go out with these overland emigrants to pro-
tect them against the incursions of the Indians,
which in previous years has marked the path OF
those overland emigrants with victims of barbar-
Gus massacre.
The measure is now a law and Hon. Medorum
Crawford, CT Oregon, has been appointed to take
charge of the escort.
ARMNG THE BLAcKs.-The Louisville Demo
crat "a strong Union paper) speaking of arming
the blacks, says
"We publish this morning the wickedest docu
ment that ever emanated from the pen of man
and to our shame, be it confessed, it is by one
holding high position in the National Govern
ment. II will be seen that Cameron. the Seore
tary of War has, contrary to our expectations.
advocated the arming of the blacks. We have
no language sufficiently strong to express our
horror and indignation at such scheme. and the
bold, shameless effrontery with which it is advo-
Gated. A scheme capable of being conceived
only by heart utterly depraved is maintained
by arguments worthy Of the mind that conceived
them. The right to arm slaves is more than
questionable; it is absolutely and entirely a
damnable crime. The proposition fills us with a
sickening horror and disgust Had great Brit
ain the right to employ Indians, and to offer so
much for scalps in the Revolutionary War? The
whole civilized world has denounced it. English
statesmen have branded it with the blackest terms
of opprobrium. Yet its whole black depravtv is
I.,,ra . L. L. Z Il
ostion of Cameron. 1t has not one redeeming
feature. 1t is totally, utterly wcked-carryine
with it the utter destruction of the country in
the midst of brutal horrors which makes even the
popular stories of st. Bartholomew appear re-
spectacle. If the policy is carried out then the
country is certainly cursed. There will be no
place where the American citizen can remain in
safety; but, in the ashes of ravaged fields. burn
ing cites and broken and violated households
he will curse the hour he was born The wicked.
false impression which the Secretary of War tries
to make, that this freeing and arming will be in
furious only TO the rebels, is too garingy absurd
for discussion. Arm the slaves Of the rebels, and
the act will do as much harm to the Unionst as
to the rebel. 1t changes, as we have before said d.
the whole contest from sacred cause of religion
and patriotism, to John Brown raid"
l A New PACK TRAIL TO THE DALLEs-Capt
A. P. Ankeny, one of our most enterprisng citi-
zens, has been engaged for the last few DAYS in
getting money subscribed among our business