Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-30
THE INDIAN WAR IN COLORADO.

The dispatches this morning, speak of
an investigation to be had in the matter
Of reported massacre of Indians at Fort
Lyon, Colorado, by Col. Chivington.
By the Overland Mail we have the Colo
RADIO papers up to the 18th inst, from
which we make the following extracts:
\ messenger got in here at half past two
to-day from Lyon, with dispatches. He tells
US that Col. Chiyington, the old war horse"
will be here himself this evening, and that
the Third Regiment are on the march here,
10 be mustered out. Many Of their horses
gave out, so that the project OF following up
the Indians at the present was not deemed
advisable. The command pursued the red
skins for over hundred miles north OF Sand
Creek, By forced marches, and through hea-
w SHOWS. On the morning of the 9TH, they
learned that the camps OF Cheyennes and
ArapahoeS ahead had fed for the interior,
and the command turned back on account Of
the exhaustion Of many OF the horses and
because the period Of enlistment was nigh
up.-DeRuer -NetrS.
II is singular how, when hope gilds the
sky till il CLOVIS again, the atmosphere be-
comes 'urdened with pleasant rumors- For
dian campaign seemed to have been opened,
it didn't take the public. long to fx things so
that not a red-SSin between the Platte and
Arkansas could possibly escape. Chiyington
and Shoup were on the wing for the Sioux
villages containing 1000 warriors; Kit Car
son had arrived with regiment from Mex
leo that had hunted the thieving NayajoS to
their most secret lurking places and dragged
them out, closing war Of l70 years dura-
ton or Whereabouts; Blunt was coming up
the Smoky Hill from Fort Riley and Ford up
the Platte from Fort Leayenworth and the
Indians were to be exterminated. So ran
the story toward the latter part of last week.
But alas for all these high-colored visions,
the Indian campaign has been abandoned,
Col. Chiyington has returned to Denver and
the ID is probably there by this time TO be
mustered out. OF course a good excuse for
this will easily be found, nor are we going to
complain, now, but If necessity compels this
step, we may be permitted TO regret that ne
cessity. Ii may be, too, that the immortal
blow Of the 18th November will settle these
fellows" coffee for 4 while. That hope, is
the only consolation of which the case ad-
mits.-Biack Hack Journal.
The people of Colorado who have been
the victims of the Indian outrages which
have called forth the severe chastise-
ment, do not seem to think there has been
anything heinouS IN " the immortal blow
of the 29th." The Indian devils have for
months past, been Strengthening the in
habitants Of Colorado, and, as is well
known, entirely interrupted travel and
communications by the Overland route
for good portion Of the past summer.
If as charged, the volunteers killed wo-
men and children, they probably pro-
eeeded apon the theory attributed to Gen.
Jackson, "if you will crack the nits you
will have no lice If our Congressman
vino shudder at this "barbarity" had had q
few months experience of the humane
principles of Christian civilization" upon
which the noble red man conducts his
warfare upon the squaws and pappoOses
of the pale-faceS, they might, perhaps
forego their Committee of Investigation.
If, however, they want to put a stop to
the " barbarity" of such rangers as Chiv-
ington and his men, they have only to re-
commission Little Mac. and send him to
Colorado with a shovel-train. He'd
keep his own army "all quiet on Big
Creek"-bet yer life.