The Portland daily press., 1868-09-26
WASHINGTON.

"a COL. FoRsYTH's FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS.
WASHINGTON Sept. 25.-The following tele-
grams were received at the War Department
this morning from Lieut.. Gen. Sherman:
a9 81. Loais, Sept. 25.- To Adjotdnt General u s.
A: Gen. Sheridan reports this day in further
description of the fight between his Aid de
Camp, Col. Forsyth, and the Indians on the
Upper Republican, thai several other columns
are moving to the same point. / trust the In
dians will receive a just punishment.
Fort Hayes Sept. % Have just heard from
Forsyth The report sent here to-day is sub
stantially correct Lieut.. Bercher is dead, AID
Col. Forsyth is wounded as before described,
but the party is all right though surrounded by
Indians, and can hold out as they have plenty
of ammunition, and mule and horse flesh.
a They have given the Indians salty dose. Col
Forsyth has lost Lieut.. Bercher, DIR. Moore,
muttally wounded, two killed and eighteen
wounded. He reports thirty-fve Indians killed
and many wounded. Col. Forsyth says he can
whip the party and-come in if it was not for.
his wounded men and his horses all killed
(Signed) p. II. SHERIDAN. p
To VIM. 7. Sherman, Lieut.. General.
NAVAL. ,--
Chief Engineer VIM. B. Brooks has been
ordered to the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
THE DELEGATION FROM ALABAMA
The delegation from Alabama, headed by
Gov Smith, to request the President to send
troops to that State to preserve order, arrived
this evening. ~ arfE rafs~T
INTERNAL REVENUE AFFAIRS.
tits not true, as reported, that Col. Godlie
has been appointed Supervisor of the Internal
Revenue in Kentucky. Col. Moore is the only
Supervisor as yet appointed.
~. =" CABINET MEETING.
Among the questions considered at the Cab
met meeting to-day was that relating to In-
dian difficulties. aNi
lals THE CAMILLA RIOT. aso
NEW YORK, Sept E25 "A special dispatch
from Washington this afternoon gives the fol-
lowing synopsis of the report of Assistant
Commissioner Howard of the Freedmen's Bu
reau for Georgia, relative to the Camille riot:
Major Howard relates the circumstances of the
riot as already published, and says that on the
evening OF the 10Th inst he was waited upon
by large body of freedmen, who were much
excited, and who expressed desle to pro-
ceed at once on foot to Camilla to the res
cue of the Republicans there. Major Howard
advised them to remain quiet promising that
the affair at Camilla should be thoroughly in
vestigated aud If any great wrong had been
done proper legal remedy should be applied
and the freedmen departed, apparently salts
fed. AT a distance of ten miles from Camilla
the mob was still pursuing and shooting the |
rugitives. Major Howard says it is believed |
that the arms brought to Albany, Georgia, re-
Gently, and consigned to Rush, johnson & Co., |
were sent to Camilla. 1t is also said that j. |
) w. Armstrong, Jr, of the Young Mems DEM
ocratic Club, went to Camille for the purpose
of instigating the people there to prevent the
speaking. Major Howard forwards a partial
list of the killed and wounded, Numbering
thirty-four in all, of whom all were freedmen
except three. .,f .-.
A letter from John Murphy, one of the
whites, accompanies the report. He says as
they were entering Camilla, the party was
fired upon by mob and a number of persons
were wounded, but that Pierce the candidate
for Congress was not hurt. Putney, (white) |
hY,vr ft.nt, ,a1l
in the arm, and had several bullet holes
through his clothes He estimates that two or |
three hundred shots We're fired in ALL
A later report from the subAssistant Com |
missioner, dated Headquarters Freedmen's |
Bureau, Albany, Ga, 10Th, addressed to Col. |
G. r. Lewis, on the staff of General Sibley, |
says the affair at Camilla seems to have been a |
massacre. A freedmen who prisoner at |
Camilla, but who escaped curing the night, |
says that he helped to remove one dead and |
four wounded freedmen from the road within
hundred yards of the Court House. The white |
men, his captors, boasted to new corners of II
freedmen killed in one pond near DIR. Dashers, |
two miles from Camilla Another freedman
took refuge in swamp VIII ere he lay concealed |
all night with four others near him. During |
the night the white men secured the woods |
shouting, cursing and shooting the freedmen. |
The pnrsuers, he says, were accompanied by |
bloodhounds, and he heard the cries aud |
shrieks of the fugitives as they were caught |
by the dogs and shot. Two of the men near |
him became frightened, endeavored to escape |
and both were shot within his hearing. The |
same officer also writes:-It was reported as |
late as P. M. to-day, Sept. 10th. that up |
to O'Clock in the morning thev were still pur |
sting the freedmen with horses and dogs. |
There has been intense excitement in town all |
day. The town has been fl led with freedmen, |
and they have swarmed about my Office by |
hundreds. 1t has been difficult to restrain |
them from preceding ndsse to Camilla /
/ have addressed them, and counseled peace,
and telling them that offenders should be pun
ished, and their lives protected. But have |
no heart for my work. ] felt the assurance |
that my promises would never be fulfilled
The Major addressed them as did some citi- |
zens, but the freed people scoffed at them and |
would not listen to them, and had the whole |
burden to BEAR At this hour midnight, all is |
quiet. .. .4.ls-. ~
In conclusion, they will prepare affidavits of |
the wounded men and forward an official re- |
port. I -lah ss '4sar Is |
Major Howard teegraphed to Gen. Sib,ey |
on the 21st inst that unless protection is i'm |
mediately offorded tothe freedmen he should |
earnestly request to be relieved from further
duties in the bureau.