, 1866-09-21
wallula Correspondence.
WALLuLA. Sentemhe,

hALLuLA, September H. &c.
30. STATESMAN For forty days we have not
nAd blow that we could dignity with the name
OF "oresEe." That is the matter Day in, and
Gay out one continual calm, hot smoky, Sun-
sh,uing lay. We have had longer continued
eAlm, aud more smoky weather during the last
moh'h lpast than ever before known at this
point. Since the LIST of September, our the.
m0meter has averaged $50 in the shade vet il
has appeared comparatively cool to what wealth
er We bad during the month-6f August.
We still "sport" = daily steamer from this
place, add last Sunday the steamer went TO
White Bluff. friend Informed me (he took a
pleasure trip up Sunday that the steamer was
requested to go up once more, that the propre-
tor Of the Bluff might be enabled to take up
large capstan to "plant" on top of the Bluff, by
which be Eopes to be able to haul up to the ton
OF the hill, three wagons, that are now "con-
hned' iu The cannon ofthe Blufll WesaWR can,
stan 60 on board but what use it was to be puf to-
we did not know until the return of the steamer
next morning. We wish the poor teamsters sue
cen. Most Of the inhabtants of the Bluff closed
their business and came down on the steamer,
iSteudiug to winter sofaewhere below, and take
An early start in the spring tor Montana.
WARS, aud rumOrs of wars, seem to be the
order of the day. We hear of house, located
on the Blue Mountains, about 90 miles from
Umatlls, having been attacked BY Indians did
not learn how many persons were scared, killed,
or hu:t also hear of some packers having q
brush With the Occur d'Alene Indians near the
Mission packers lost some horses and some
goods several shots were fred damages un-
known. An Indian attacked our old friend Bob
Stuart, late Clerk for the o. S. n. Co. st Wal
lula, a few miles north of Suake River, on the
Texas Ferry road damages slight. bob" got
hit but escaped further punishment.
Si-l-waSh-es seems TO be on the rampage !
wonder il we couldn't'get Maj. Gen. Halleck to
abandon the Negro Bureau in the South and
send the machinery and engineers thereof to the
West and set them to lighting and feeding
our Indians All our Indians WANTS "muck.
muck and "pacisse." They feel slighted, and
we dnt blame them. They, the original owns
ers of the soil all uative Americans, and have
been ruled out of all political privileges, to
make way for the Negro and Chinaman2 They
"wak, cumtdx, Boston lyee.'
Six If our civil Rights" brethren, of the Ce-
ialpersuasiOn, having wended their way in a
n "camne," far up the Columbia, in search of
rich diggns, 1.-TWO cent one pan, cOrse gold, '
finally found n spot near Rock Island, about one
hundred aud seventy-fve miles above Wallull.
Here they ''ketchum gold" during the Summer.
As the fall of the year was coming on. they con.
cluded to change their base, and get little
nearer the settlements, so they bundled their
traps into their canine" preparatory to "clat-
ts-wa, was held, a. to the best, cheapest, and
most secure manner of getting their gold dust
down sOne Eve or six hundred dollars. II was
finally decided that the said dust should be
packed in two equal packages, and that two Of
their-number shOuld have the same securely fhs-
tened upon their persons. This was DONE and
as the party had had hard work getting up the
river, they considered it quite an easy thing to
go down. They all got in and started, and for
a while, gIded gently down the swift rolling
Oregon, Rock Island shute lay before them !;
not n perfectly safe place at any time but in
they went, and now | will give the story in the
survivors anguage ave thinke make um quick;
make um quick bim- by we ketche big stone
big stone make hoat lole over, spilum all, China
men make um big talk, all talk fast bin by some
Cinnamon ketchum stone, he makum four China
men all right; two Cinnamon, hy-u gold, go
down, no come back
SO they saved four of their number, but lost
aIf their mining outfit and two of their number
with all their gold dust They stopped at White
Bluff to report, but found no one at home the
man that stays there had gone out to kill some
thing to eat.
The four survivors reached Wallula in safety,
mirus everything save the remnants of four pairs
Of pants, manufactured out of well branded -four
sacks. "5Obs., Family, Self-rising," appeared
on the front OF one pair, with "McMinville' beau
tifully cIrcling the seat. OuE citizens donated
literally, old hats, boots and shoes, and it is
supposed they "may be happy yet" CuNrUx