The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-08-26
FROM CALIFORNIA.
The Privateer Shenandoah.
DEPREDATI0NS BY INDIANS
The Captain sf the Pirate sheuas-
iOak Declines Believing Rep0ris Of
she Collapse of the RebeIiion-BUrn-
ing Of Americas VesseIs-Fiskss
with Indians. .t..,

"lth lhNIau8s .
lBy Union Line. cor, Water and Monroe sts /
MEN York. Aug 25-The steamer
Ocean Queen brings San Francisco pa
pers of August Sd.
The steamer Brother Jonathan, from
San Francisco, July 25th, for Portland
Oregon. and Victoria, with between 20l
and 300 passengers, was totally lost near
Camp Lincoln, Oregon, July 30th Only
fourteen mon and one woman were saved
Among the passengers were Brig Gen
Wright and family, Lieut.. Waite, Sur
geon A. Ingraham, of the army. and Cap
tain Chaddock, of the revenue service. -
No particulars are received General
Wright was on route to take command OF
the Department of Columbia
The pirate Shenandoah had destroyed
the bark Susan Abigail, near the Gulf OF
Anader. 1t seems the Susan Abigail mad
San francisco papers of the 10th of July
containing accounts of the collapse ofthe
rebellion. but Waddell would not credit
them. as they came from Northern pa
pers. and announced his intention OF
burning every American vessel he could
find After destroying the Susan Abb
gail, the pirate went towards Behring 3
Straits and Arctic ocean, at St Lawrence
Island he burned the ship Gen. Williams,
of New London, aud the next morning
burned four more vessels
The bark Gen Pike had arrived at San
Francisco, with the crews of the seven
vessels, viz: brig Susan Abigail, ship Gen
Williams, bark w. C. Nye, of New Bed
ford, bark Gipsey, of New Bedford, harks
Catherine, NimrOd and Isabelle, all OF
New Bedford.
The parOled prisoners report that Capt
Nye, of the Abagail, must have gesucceeded
in notifying some vessels OF the proximi-
ty of the pirate as four were seen putting
back soon after, and with those notified
by the Gen. Pike, some II were turned
back. The Gen. Pike was bonded by the
pirate for S25 900, and 27l officers and
men of the destroyed whale ship put on
board for San Francisco 1t is believed
the pirate will certainly destroy 81 more
vessels, as they were all to the north
ward
In conversation with Capt Smith OF
the ship VIM Thompson, the pirate asked
the news Capt, Smith informed him that
Mr.. Lincoln had been assassinated. Il
am prepared to hear that said the pi-
rate exultingly.
A New Westminster dispatch OF the
Goth of July, announces the arrival OF
Col Charles S. Bulkley and party, who
would soon proceed up the coast.
The Pacific warehouse in San Francis
co was burned on the I'd. Loss quarter
of million.
A Salt Lake dispatch of July tOth says
the telegraph operator reports that the
Indians have carried off five miles of wire
west of Platte Bridge. On the Goth some
1000 Indians attacked the post at Platte
Bridge. There was heavy skirmishing
all afternoon, many Indians being killed
1t. Collins, of Company G, 18th Ohio. and
81 men, were killed. 1t. Collins was
killed while leadinga charge by 200 Kan
sas troops against some 600 Indians. The
Indians had gone South. A regiment of
cavalry was soon expected to pursue the
Indians The telegraph line will be re-
paired as soon as wire can be procured.
Gen. Rosecrans received most enthus-
iastic welcome in San Francisco