Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-22
The eI.Si.a RebellIsn.

There is every probability that we are
on the eve Of an Indian war on an exten-
sive scale, on the western plains. Inc
Indians have assumed the offensive, and
have already exhibited a determination
and persistency, which indicate something
more serious than the merely abrupt at
tack of wandering band OF marauders'
or the sudden onslaught Of tribe, to re-
venge an imaginary or actual wrong.
General Evans states that he believes that
nearly all the Indian tribes Of the plains
are combined in warning against the
whites, and he sees in vision the greatest
Indian war of the country, one which Will
extend from Texas to the British Possess
sions. II is reported that rebel commls-
sioners have been exciting them to TINS
course by the distribution of gold and the
promise of protection, and it is also stated
that rebel guerrillas are their leaders
This is allowing the rebels more influence
with these savages than we have any
reason to believe they really possess; but
if it should prove true, it may prove as
true that they have started q conhagra.
ton they can neither stay nor direct, ana
which will consume friend and foe alKe'
All these reports are doubtless exag-
gerated, as is always the case in the first
moments of alarm. But whatever be the
extent of the rising, it has thus far been
very destructive and very threatening.
We have the following on the subject,
from Omaha, by telegraph, under date OF
August 10th:
The Indians are hourly committing new
depredations, stealing stock, killing inois-
criminately, and burning trains. They were
within hundred yards Of the pickets' posts
at Fort Kearney last night, and fired an ar
row at one Of the pickets. Tine coach which
arrived from Kearney this morning reports
passing several trains burned, and seeing
| eleven dead bodies by the load side. A party
| Of six whites were killed at Thirty-two Mile
Creek last night. The Indians stole some
stock at Cottonwood. ninety miles west OF
Kearney, this morning. A party Of soldiers
have gone in pursuit. 1t is well known that
renegade whites, supposed to be from the
guerrilla Quantrils old party, are associated
with the Indians in these depredations.
Fears OF an attack on Laramie are enter
tanned.
In addition to this, we are informed that
a dispatch came over the wires to the
effect that about five or six hundred miles
west of St. Joseph, eleven stations of the
Overland Mail route have been destroyed,
and thirty-tive station keepers murdered.
The route of the telegraph having been
changed, it escaped destruction.
But the Overland mail has been sus-
pended for the present, and our only
communication with the east will be by
the California steamers. Of course this
state of things can not be allowed to con-
tinue. The Government must grid itself
for the work before it. How well it is
prepared for a war of this kind, on large
scale, is a matter of some doubt. 1t is a
peculiar warfare, to be conducted against
peculiar people. The veterans OF Grant
might prove as inefficient as the British
regulars have recently shown themselves,
before the Maori pas. We have troops
skilled in this species Of fighting, but pro-
bably not enough for a campaign Of the
threatened magnitude. The glory OF our
arms at home can gain no additional lus-
tire by conflict with these savage warriors.
but they must be subdued ut any cost,
and we hope it may be done swiftly and
decisively, and with severity, moreover,
that shall paralyze the barbarous foe.
Since writing the above, dispatch has
been received from Mr.. Rumfeld to tick
at no passengers further east than Denver
City, on account of Indian depredations.
This settles the question Of the seriousness
of the trouble.-Reese RereiHe, 1871.