Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-23
THE PLAINS.
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.

gr Ioufs. Jan. 16.-An Omaha despatch
states that it is reported that number OF
Indians, recently engaged in the war on the
Colorado, Kansas have reached the Powder
river country, where council was held BY
large number of chiefs. The object OF
the council is unknown.
The Indians are quiet at Fort Fetterman,
and also along the Upper Missouri river.
A Denver despatch says that the party
has returned from the pursuit of the Indians
in Cache, La Pou6re Valley, having sue
ceeded in recapturing one hundred horses
and killing one Indian.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-General Sherman
telegraphs from st. Louis to Assistant Ad-
iutant General Townsend the following de.
spatch from General Sheridan:
BY special messenger to Lawrence, Kansas,
Jan. Is, 1860.
In TIE FIELD, Fort Cobb,
Indian Territory, Jan. /, 1869.
To Brevst Major General W. a. Nichols, a
A.G.
GENERAL: I have the honor to forward
the following for the information of the
Lieutenant General:
The destruction of the Camanche'village
by Colonel Evans command on Christmas
Day gave the final blow to the backbone oI
the Indian rebellion. AT midnight on Dec
81, 1858, a delegation of the chief fighting
men of the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes
twenty-one in number, arrived here on foot
their animals not being able to carry them
on. They said they ruled the village, and
begged for peace and for permission fol
their people to come in, and asked no terms
but only for paper to protect them from
the operations of our troops while en- route
They report the tribes in mourning fol
their losses. Their people are starving
having eaten up all their dogs, and finding
no buffalo. We had forced them into the
canons on the eastern edge of the staked
plains, where there was no small game oil
| buffalo They are in bad fix, and desire
| to surrender Internationally.
l acceded to their terms, and will punisl
them Justly, and l can scarcely make at
l'error 10 any punishment awarded, for they
all have blood upon their hands. Yester
day we received few papers, the first fol
a month and sec it alleged by Indar
agents that Black Kettles band were or
their reservation at the time they were at
| tackled This is falsehood. The reservation
extends but thirty miles up the Washita
from Fort Cobb.
The battle took place one hundred and
twenty miles up the road from Fort Cobb
| 1t is also alleged that the band was friendly
No one would make such an assertion VIII;
had any regard for the truth. The young
men of this band commenced the war. | car
give their names. Some of Black Kettles
young men were out depredating at Fort
Dodge when the village was wiped out
Mules taken from trains, matter carried by
our murdered couriers, photographs stoler
from the scene Of outrages on the Solomon
and Saline rivers, were found in the captured
camp. In addition have their own illus
trated history, found in their captured camps
showing the different fights or murders in
which this tribe was engaged 1t is. at the
service of any one desiring information on
the subjcct. 1t should be known also that
! I wanted Black Kettle and his family to
come in, through the Arraphoe chief, Little
Raven, in my interview with that chief a,
Fort Dodge, in September last, but they
did not come in. Yours respectfully,
p. H. SHERIDAN, Major General.