The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-07-12
INDIAN AFFAIRsl
Letter From Gov. Crawford.
Suggestions to Congress.
The osages on the War Path.
Outrages at plum Creek.


a letter from Gov Crawford to Senator
Ross. dated June 29th. Il was written
after the revocation of Gen. Sherman's
first order came, under which battalion
is now being raised. After detailing
numerous measures, and saying in the
past year tat FIVE hundred persons had
been killed, be says;
1t may be possible that during thu |
present week ne shall not suffer as we
have during the past three or four months, |
since the same tribes which have been
perpetraung these out RACES are required
10 meet Col. LeaVenWoTth, agent for the
Comanches and Kiowas, aud Major Wyn
koop, agent for the Apaches. Arspahoes
and Cheyennes, at or near Salt Plains, in
the southern part of this Stats, there TO
| receive 100000 pounds Of annuity goods
which were shipped from A;chison last
week, and will reach their destination and
be distributed to the murdere:s within the
next Ten days. AS soon as they receive
these supplies from the Government.
they will, without the least shadow of
doubt, return to their fields of operation,
which are already stained from one end
TO the other with the blood of our own
citizens, and which contain, in Kansas
alone, the fresh graves of more than FIVE
hundred men, wome0 and children, vic
+ TINS of these noble red men. If peace
commissioners are sent out they will
doubtless guarantee additional protection
to the Indians, assure them that their con-
duct has been entirely satisfactory to the
Government, and that their supply Of an
nuity goods shall be largely increased in
the future. judge OF the future by the
past. If peace commissioners are sent
out 1t Is equivalent to saying to the In
dams, go on with the war and we will
: pay you premium for all you do;' OF
IN other words, 1--WE will pay you pre-
MUM for the scalps you take
In the name of God and humanity, I do
earnestly protest against such a policy.
There is no such thing as peace except
by war, aud the sooner you convinc &c
4 Congress of this the better it will be for
g the country. 1t is to the pecuniary in
terests of Indian agents, traders and con
tractors, to prevent war as long as pos
IDLE, and in my opinion, some of them
representing wild tribes, rather than lose
2 their positions, would misrepresent the
q true state Of affairs at whatever cost or
sacrifice of life. Most of them, if not all,
represent their Indians as being at home
{ quiet aud peaceable, when, in fact, they
T. know that every Indian belonging to their
;, respective tribes { I mean those at war)
, now, and has been for months past, muir
dering and scalping citizens whenever and
wherever they could be found, either
: alone or in parties sufficiently small to be
r overpowered without the Indians incur
! ring TOO much danger to themselves.
Ii Congress fails to make provisions for
protecting our citizens, and those quietly
u travelling through the State, then there is
but one course for me to pursue. can
e not and will not allow a band ofirrepress-
/ ible, uncivilzsd, bloodthirsty fends to
! invade the State, murder our citizens,
stop the work on most important railroads
and completely blockade the routs of tray
ell to other States and Territories. This
: is asking little too much, even though
We have humauitarians in the country
who may think it better TO suffer hun
dred or more of our people to be murder
ed and scalped Ihau'to sacrifice the life of
single Indian. Ishave submitted until
forbearancs ceases 10 be virtue
(Slgned) So. Crawford.
The Ossges have left their reservation
in the southern part of the State IN regu
lar war style-their rear picketed and
allowing no whites to approach their
camp. Little Bear, chief of the Little
c Osages, says their agent, Snow, is never
with them, aud attributes the present
disafecIion IN the tribe to him. Little
Bear refused TO go 10 the plains with his
> band, and has no control over them;
they were going to hunt buffaloes, but
they stole eighty horses, and Brig. Gen.
J Kelly, of the militia. who reports the
! above, believes they are on the war path.
A letter resolved from Fort Kearuey re-
capitulates most of the Indian depreda-
tons which were committed lately 10 that
section of the country. The summing
up is that within the past three weeks
nine persons have been killed at various
places from the Little Blue to Plum Creek
One family Of four was killed at White
Rock, on the Republican river, thirty
miles east OF Kearuey one boy only left 10
tell the tale. One man was killed aud
another severely wounded 10 the attack
on French's train. Two telegraph re
pairers were killed near Plum creek, and
Oue man found killed five miles east Of
Kearney. About seventy head of horses,
mules and cattle have been run off.
The New York Sun publishes a sched-
ule Of prices 10 the retail market of that
city as compared with those of 1860, and
finds that what cost S73, "a seven years
ago now costs S137. 32. A list of com
parative wages Of labor is also given. from
which it appears that work Whieh in 1860
commanded S42,50 now commands
S78.25. These include the wages of the
several classes of mec hanics. Thus it is
shown that while the cost of provisions is
about SO per cent. greater than in 1860,
the receipts are 80 per cent. greater
showing a difference of six per cent.
against labor.
THE SEWING MACHINE RESULT.
Wheeler Wilson Cary the Day.
! Especial Dispatch to the Missouri Democrat
NV YoRK. July 3. ] s67 A dispatch
received from Paris this morning, gives
the award at The Exnosition for sa,,;,