The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-11-02
From the 7rll Cavalry.
JULEsBuG, Col. TER,
Oct. 10th, "a.

the exact location of this important point
upon the map, | will try to locate it for
him, and then if he fails "to see it," let
him call upon Billy" who, am quite Ger.
tain, will not. Julesburg is situated upon
the south bank Of the South Platte, at the
junction OF the Denver and TT. Laramie
roads, in eastern Colorado, distant 200
miles from TT. kearney, and at present con-
ta'ns stage station, telegraph office, the
roof Of blacksmith shop, the logs having
been taken for wood, tEo buildings belong
ing to the stage company, and some halca.
dozen "doby's" built by, aud at present
occupied by the members of Co. +, besides
at the distance Of mile either way, there
is rancho" and It is little singular that
a place Of the size and importance of this
could be overlooked. Look again, Col.
Since our arrival here we have been on
the war path the greater part of the time
for Indians, who still persist in their hered.
tary habit of stealing stock from unso-
phistocated 'pilgrims," burning deserttd
ranches, &c, &C., and if the timd "pil-
GRIM or more. obstreperous ranchman,
demonstrated with Mr.. Indian upon the
improperly of such proceedings, they are
nothing 10th to elevate their "har;" and
from the view | have of it, it seems to me
that majority Of the massacres that have
been committed in this Valley could have
been prevented, had the military men that
run the machine out here, event for' the
red devils, instead Of circulating exaggerated
reports as to their strength, &c, and when
they net them, instead OF accepting the
dirty paw that would be thrust into their
face, and How, How, Colo! we good
SIOUX as guarantee for their good be
havlGT in future, but given them powder
and ball in large doses, l think it would
have had the desired effect. There is aot
a band of them that can muster to exceed
500 warriors, and more of them number
from 100 to 800, all of them being indiffer-
emily armed, few having rifles and revol.
vers; the majority, however, have only the
bow and arrow. The campaign is ended
for the season, and what has been accomp
lished is very easily told-Nothing. No
Indians have been seen by the great expe-
| diticn" under Curtis and Mitchell upon the
Republican, simply because while they
were upon the Republican, the Indians, in
ri h,i I.l ;.,I
deeds upon the Platte. After reaching the
Republican, the command separated, Curtis
returning to Kansas, and Mitchell to Omaha,
ola Ash Hollow, striking the Platte near
Cottonwood, following it up to the old
| California crossing, thence across to Ash
Hollow, and down the north side, and in
this roundabout way saw only one village
of Indians, at the crossing, and instead Of
going for EN-" or permitting the 100
Pawnee allies he had with him to do so, he
made treaty with the chief, winch was
violated within 40 hours 10y the band. 1t
may seem little singular to you that a
| body Of men, whose sole object was to hunt
| Indians, could travel for two or three weeks
in a country infested with hostile tribes,
without SO much as seeing "any one" but
it is not the least surprising to US, even #
we are recruits" for this fact has been
demonstrated beyond doubt, that to hunt
Indians successfully in this country, large
wagon trains must be dispensed with, and
mounted men march more than % miles
per day, when in their immediate vicinity
Co. joined Gen. Mitchelrs command at
the crossing, 25 miles below this point,
marched with it to Ash Hollow, and then
returned here, and it was very fortunate for
Mr.. 1.-TWO Face" that the Gen. was at the
crossing when Co. arrived there, for had
he no. been, Capt. Nick" could not have
told whether they were or
and then we wanted to try the range of our
Howitzer with canister 50 bad, that think
it very doubtful about Mr.. 1.-TWO Face"
having any desire whatever to make q
treaty, unless with the Great Spirit. l do
not wish to be understoo as using "disre-
spectful language" &c, but do believ e
that if either Capt. Murphy, Of Co. A, or
Capt. O'Brien, of Go. F, could have had a
suitable command, or even their respective
companies, and permission to Ego for" the
Indians Of this valley promiscuously, six
weeks ago, that the dead bodies of these
"noble red men" would average more to the
mile, than the defunct bnvines along the
road, the average of the latter being at least
four to the mile. The Ash Hollow tragedy
needs to be re-enacted, but we have no Gen.
Harvey here to manage affairs and arrange
the programme.
A few days since we had the pleasure OF
meeting Capt Fales, Chas. Lacy and one
or two other McGregorites looking hale and
hearty, on their way home from Idaho
where they have been more successful thar
some III their search for the filthy lucre,
and. sight at the ''dust" diSpelled th'
doubts which had arisen in my mind, as t
whether there was such thing in existence
as specie" for was quite certain that il
my youthful days had seen something
called specie, and that it passed current
but thought might have been deceived il
regard to the matter now having once
more seen the "dust," am confident tina
had not been imposed upon. They re
turn in the spring, with quartz mill, pro
e vided they dc not lose the covering of thei
craniums on the way home, which | thinl
there is but little danger Of, as the train the.