The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-08-07

upn the contracts mldc these unfortunate. in
a The hnger they kept from their homes the
longer thev a 20 BIO sol sustaining ADD tue longer they
have BE- fed tho puolc expense, rather of
Their anuaities Tho principal opponent oi General
Blunt In Kansas and at Washington rs the Governor OF
Kansas, Thomas Carney who ~ also IN. senior mem.
her 81 q carney Stevens, wholesale grOcers
aud mmlssnn merchants aud principal and chief con
tract for supplying these Indians. Leading Cherokees
make the charges relation 10 the character aud
nadcqnaey OF the supplies furnished by these CONTRACTORS
also as 70 tho completely IN the frauds Of their supcrn
tndent aud agents II oreny asserted at Fort Hunt
that the flour sent by Carney Co. has been bad To
compel Colonel Philips TO condemn and furnish the re
ieees out Of the commissary. II IL puhcly asserted
mat Tor ten mouths past the military agtho tiles have
inr large portion OF the time been
p 70 Iced the refugees AZ Neosho, Mo and AZ Fort
buh our % the stores sezed from the and this
o IN lace Of the fact ~ contracts existing between the
ihuiah ~ eau and Carney Co. II il asserted and
poesea pnth at Fort Blunt and elsewhere that nearly
all tho beef supplied 10 tho balance refugees
eanped Tor twelve months past at Leavy, Kansas has
hrst been driven from The Indian Territory being tho
cattle owned BY the ndnns but now running 10 80 on
the prares and then killed, the contractors getting
eirht cents pound from the Government therefor The
contractors known Thomas stevens a co, Mr.
Stevens being the junior partner the house II Carney
stevens II h ALSO openly asserted that IN the removal
OF the Indians now at Tan lah guah from Ncosho
Fort Gibson, distance Of hundred and twenty
miles, tho SUI crntcndcnt on southern Indians
made an estimate for transportation for over so go
II is further charged that tho entire transportation
MI he'd though the estimate allowed Was two va.
CONS and that of the refugees old s1unwH
and pappooses, were comrelled TO walk and those
who could not walk had 10 DO carried by
the elder members These charges are made with in
creasing frequency, The Indians believe them. Tho
facts are coming out, and when fully developed viii,
fear, show system q fraud and swndng by lar
than the notorious WiDnehago robbery
the DEFEAT % ooorER-ofFicIAL agroRr.
HEAporARsrts DISTRICT oy rn fnosIlFR,
FoRf orr, kASsAs July ~, 1858. ,
To Lieutenant Colonel &. w. MARSH Affstant Adutant
General 81. Louis, Mo.
General Blunt, with about thousand i've hundred
men-Ai his available force-after forty eight hours OF
extraordinary labor and fatigue crossing Arkan
sas and making night march fol upon Cocr At Honey
Springs twenty-five miles south OF tho Arkansas tho
morning OF the l7lh Instant completely routing him and
capturing gun stand OF coors many prisoners,
and considerable quantity Of supplies and oluipagc
Cooper had between lvc and six thousand and
pieces u artillery lie left sixty killed and thirty ak
wounded on the held most Of his wounded having
capped horses.
General Bunt's loss IL ten killed aud twenty four
wounded Among the latter Colonel !. NJ. Williams
First Kansas coored volunteers severely wounded face
and breast. Respectfully,
H. T. CURTIS, Assistant Ada,ant General.