The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-12-08
AVALANCHE OFFICE.

Silver City, l. T., Oct. %, 1866.
/ JAMES O'MEARA, EsQ-Editor IDAHO WORLD
You will much obge me by not copying the art
| Gle IN Saturdays Avalanche entitled "McCarroll
Very truly yours, john WATSON.
Now, we had not received even the usual cour.
tesy practised among newspaper men from the
writer Of the letter, and we did not deem there
was any courtesy due from us to him. Moreover,
we bad received letter from very substantial
and prominent citizen of Owyhee, which came
the day before Wasson's letter reached US, who
assured us that the attack on McCarroll was en-
tirely false and our correspondent believed that it
was made for black mail purposes. He asked that
communication which he sent be published in
the WORLD, in vindicatOn of McCarron We had
suspected foul play on first reading Wasson's at
tack on Mr.. McCarroll, but this suspicion was
converted into belief, on the receipt of his letter,
which, as readers will see, bears evidence upon
its face that there was something wrong in the
paragraph-else, why did he desire us to refrain
from copying the aEtieleT OF take such uI1common
means to cause US to abstain from any notice of
it? But we thought justice to Mr.. McCarroI de-
manded the publication of tho yindication for
warded to us, and we accordingly gave it place
in our columns. The Avalanche man has not
aie1 10 show bis teeth and snarl at US ever since
we did this
Another cause of his spite towards us is Shst we
will not stoop to join him in his malignant, con~
tinual, and unreasonable attacks upon Maj. Mar
shall, the commander at Fort Boise Personally, /
we do not know Major Marshall we have never
met him, or had any communication with him, but
we have thought it right and proper to vindcate his
ofScial conduct from the often absurd and more
frequently malicious assaults of the Avalanche,
and the Boise Statesman as we'll. We have taken
some pains to ascertain the real facts in the case
md from these have arrived at the conclusion
hat Major Marshall has performed all tllas could
nave been done with the force under his command,
% drive the Indians from this region, and much
more than many others, placed as he has been,
would have accomplished. He has not been able
o kill off or subdue or drive away all the Indians
ut whenever and Whsresover has this extraordi- !
lary feat been performed by any military force, in
he history of our country? On the compare a
lively populous frontiers of the older Western a
states, within telegraphic reach of Washington
nd the great military depots, near to where are c
tationed thousands Of troops Indian depredations
nd massacres are not infrequenty committed,
nd to this day, after half century Of fighting,
nd treaty making, and so-caIled subjugating, u
he hostile Indians on that side of the continent
re nearly as dangerous to the settlers as ever
Ally as much SO as are the Indians with US in this
erritory.
But we need say no more here of our Avalanche = :
laligner. He is in the black mailing and abusive d
lsiness generally. 1t is perhaps his proper Il
ohere. We care not how far he prosecutes it, so s.
II as we are personally involved; shall neither y
ay him nor prevail upon him to cease his sple, a
etc or innocuous discharges. a 500 OF
4Stole an hour last Thursday NOV. 29tl1 To look ii