The daily Chattanooga rebel. [volume] (Griffin, Ga.) 1864-1865, 1864-09-08
Tho Indlan tysfin the Northwest.

dispatch from Denver Gig gives a terrible pic
ture Of the atrocities committed by tho Indians /
they are nearly as bea a. the sanksss' though not !
quite.
Al present alt ihe srains end mail coaches sFs
stopped.
Friendly Indians lsport that extensive combina-
tons exist among thacheyenpes, the Auapahoes,
the Klowas, the SiOu1, tbs Chamanches, the UtsI
and the Snakes, and they intend 10 wage war Of
determination against the 1dites.
Martial law is heaAg enforced here, and all plac
osof business have 9,ta closed until further or
ders
Provisions of all khdsa are very high and rapid
ly advancing. -
Unless communicable with the States is speedily
resumed there win be much snifering If not actual
starvation.
The Indians murdered several families and burn
ed a numbered houses on Cherry creek, tsenty-fve
miles FROM here last usht.
Settlers are fleeing rom here for their protec-
ton.
The commander ofths district to-day issued
special order for the enyimeni Of all able-bodied
males over sixteen wears of'age
Drafting 10 Oh inc inc huudred days regiments
win commence immed atelY.
LING gf block hoeqa tIe being erected around
the city
The hct Ties th1 lei.trsph wires are unmolested
leads q Ise beiigse n ahito men are engaged
/ with tie Indians 10 tbsr york Ofdestruotion
* dispatch fromst lsouisl of the 10th, August
4 says
] information from Fart Riley, Gen. Bunfs head.
/ quarters says that tnlre farlehes near the Little
/ Blue river have bean Burned by the Indians the
stock run on, and W. iphabitsnts killed,
nh. Indians left bellind them nothing but the
bones Of their murdereA victims and the ashes Of
! the buildings destroyed BY them.
The citizens Of Washington, Republic and Clay
counties have been erail by General Blunt.
Four hunters were Killed by the Indians at Sail
ma, fifty miles west Of FArt riley
Between sixty and seieni bodies Of white men
were seen between Mih.mrg and the Little Blue.
No ranch g are leIt fapaug between the Big
Sandy and the Little blle -
The Inhabitants Of heplaoes between Fort
Kearny and Denver hav III hed.
-Four trains were captifedhy the Indians on the
Little Blue, and oil Me stock consisting Of 400
head Of cattle and hita number Of mules, were
driven off HM
The Indians afe wei m1unted, audmost ofthem
are armed with long range guns.
Capt Thompson, vita 5 men, of the 10th Kan
sas cavalry and one hoFi7er, IS moving in pursuit
Of the Indians who comnated the outrages on the
Little Blue.
Dispatches from him, dsted the 4tb instant, say
that the Indians moved t4gards Republican river,
With one thousand oxen odd large herds of horses
aud mules.
General Sherry, Of - Kansas militia, has also
Joined in pursuit OF the IpdiaDs He is moving
north of lhompson's COMMAND.
Eight days have elapsed since communication
has been had with points further west than four
teen miles. from The Little Blue.
Within that distance, sixteen men, women and
children have been mastered by the Indians, aud
every dwelling burned
The families OF numbot Of settlers have been
sentoff to places Of safety while the male heads
Of them have turned out 10 hnd the Indian trail.
General Blunt has sent orders to Forts Larned,
Zerah, Ellsworth aud Saliha, for the commanders
of these posts to send cut scouts in the direction
taken by the Indians, and to keep their forces
ready to Join in the general pursuit when the trail
of the indians is discovertda
GeGeral Blunt NJ doing everything possible with
the small force al his command.