The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-09
TIKI INUIIE WAR

The III the West With the Indians continues
to grow Ill interest and magnitude. The inhabi-
tants of the country infested are promiseuously
murdered, and the citizen troops put to a vast
deal of trouble, ior which they get nothing i'll re
turn Fort kear1Iy, Denver, and other places i'll
the Kansas and Nebraska department, arc points of
rendezvous for Federal citizen forces, while all be-
tween them the sagages riot. An agent OF the
Indian Bureau writes to the Yankee doyeInment
as follows:
Those with whom / Travelled stopped
about half mile below Pawnee ranch. con-
cluded to go back to house the to get din
ner, and not apprehendng danger, left my revoS
Yer and bowic-knife behind At u point half way
between the wagons and the falieh, three armed In-
dams, mounted fleet horses, dashed down from
the bluffs at full speed into the road and shot man
through the head and scalped him instantly. He
just little way behind me, driving two
horse team. shall ever feel indebted to my legs
for my life AMI scalp. fol may believe they con-
veyed me with the speed Of quarter horse to Met
calf ranch. The ranchlneQ mounted their horses
pursued, and tired ut, the Indians they rctrcated
oveT the bluffs.
''The overland road passes along the
Little Blue for perhaps fifty miles, and all along
that distance, at intervals, nen and women
lying in the road and 10y the wayside dead stripped
shot full of holes and seaped. The Ewbank family,
except the old lady, who away from home, all
lie within few yards OF each Other-a grayheaded
man, two grown daughters, three grown SONS, and
boy fifteen or sixteen years OF age. One Of the
daughters had seven arrows sticking in her body.
They were all stripped and scapeI except the cid
man and boy.
"We were eight men and four ladies, anJ being
not too well armed, We did not stop to bury the
dead as We saw number OF parties on the opposite
side OF the river and some OF our men declared that
they saw fifty Indians looked with both my eyes,
which think, just at time, were unusually dllated
and 1 did not see Indian We Travelled through
there at such speed that the topmost boueLs of
tiie ui iStdlt trees Appeared to be moving
4" A fey miles below were womurderej ani scalp
ed men i'll house, the doors OF which closed
We afterwards overlook the family fleeing to the
settlements, and learned that thirty-ave Indians
attacked the;p the previous evening, and killed the
two men Ill the house and badly wounded three
others. Two unhurt boys succeeded III bracing the
doors, got upon the loft cut holes i'll the ROOT, and
drove of the sayages by shooting at them with
yolvers and one Henry's rifle.
"This house set on fire soon after We passed.
as We learned by of the boys who had returned
to it, hoping to bring away seven thousand five hun
drcd pounds ct flour that WAS i'll the house by some
returning empty train OF wagons. The Indians dis
covered him, chased him into the house, where he
returned to the hole III the root and. shot four IN
dians, before they made rush upon the house and
set fire to it, intending to burn the boy alive but
he shot down the back way and escaped through the
brush
Sat the next ranch were two men dead, shot full
OF arrows, and sealped Others were killed little
way from the house but the Inhabitants were SO
filled with CONSERVATION that they did not venture
~ piiiis tAehi 4sCtuAg WHo "ciC
were fleeing to Marysyille and other parts OF Kansas
more densely populated
The overland mail to the Pacific Las been stopped
by the Indian hostities Contractors on that route
report that the road is materially injured, and that
five thousand Indians the path. They
urge that a suitable number Of the army be sent
into that region, under the command Of Gcneral
fIamoy. From all accounts, the Indians on the
Plains giving the Yankees very effective tire
in the rear" and melting out 10 them taste Of the
outrages which they have 50 long practised upon
defenceless people III the South There Is something
like retfibution in all this