The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-01-18
AdVices from the Indian
Territory.
A Dispatch from General
Sheridan.
News by Atlantic Cable.
ST. LOUIS.
Meeting or the WOman's Suffrage
Association.

ST LOUIS, Jan. 16-Gen. Sherman
received the following despatch: sss
In THE FIELD. FORT COBB, u.
INDIAN ~1ERRTF0RY. Jan. A, 1859. r..
GENERAL-The destruction of the
Comanche village by Colonel Evans
| command gave the final blow to the
backbone Of the Indian rebellion.
At IL o'clock on the night of the
3lst Of December, a delegation of the
chief men of the Cheyennes and
| Arrapahoes. twenty-one in num-
Der, arrived at this place on foot,
their animals not being able to
bring them in. They said they ruled
the villages, begged for peace and per
mission for their people to come in,
asking no terms but from a paper
to protect them from the operations
| Of our troops while en- route. They
report the tribes in mourning for their
losses, their people starving, their
ponies dying. their dogs all eaten up,
and had no buffalo. We had forced
them into the canOns on the eastern
edge of the staked plains, where there
was no small game or buffalo. They
are in a bad fix, and desire to surren-
der uncondltionally. l aceeeded to
their terms, and will punish them
1 Justly; and | can scarcely make an
error in any punishment awarded, for
they all have blood upon their hands.
| Yesterday we received few papers,
the first for a month, aud l see it
alleged by the Indian agents that the
Black Kettle band were on their
reservation at the time they were at
ltacked. This is a falsehood. The
Reservation extends but thirty miles
mp the Washita, from Fort Cobb.
The battle took place one hundred
and twenty miles up that stream, from
here. IG is also alleged that " the
band was friendly" No one could
make such an assertion who had any
regard for truth. The young men of
this band commenced the war.
can give the names Of some
of Black Kettles young men
who were out depredating at Fort
Dodge when the village was wiped
OUT Mules were taken from the
trains, mail matter carried off, and
couriers murdered. Photographs,
stolen from the scenes of the outrages
on the Solomon and Silver Rivers, In
Kansas, we're found in the captured
camp, and in addition / have their
own illustrated history, found in their
camp, showing the different fights or
murders this tribe were engaged in,
the trains attacked, the pay parties
attacked about Fort Wallace, and the
women, citizens and soldiers killed.
1t is at the service of any one desir-
ing information on the subject 1t
should be known, also, that | invited
Black Kettle and family to come in
with the Arrapohoe chief, Little Raw
en-, in my interview with that chief at
Fort Dodge, In September last, but
they did not come.
Yours, respectfully,
PHI. SHERIDAN,
Maj. Gen. Commanding. .
An Omaha dispatch says it is re-
} ported that number Of Indians re-
Gently engaged in war in Colorado
, and Kansas, have reached the Powder
River country. A council was being
J held by a large number Of chiefs. The
object of the council was unknown.
| The Indians are quiet along the Up
per Missouri. A party has returned
from the pursuit Of the Indians in the
/ Cache la Pandre, and succeeded in
capturing 100 horses and killing one
Indian.
: ST. LOUIS, January 16.--At meet
ing of the Woman's Suffrage Associa-
: ton this afternoon, a good deal OF
business was transacted, and an in-
: creased interest in the cause was mani
r tested. The attendance was quite
Y large. Mrs. John Phelps was added
8 to the delegation to attend the Wash
ington Convention. A large deIega,
0 ton Of ladies was appointed to visit
f Jefferson City to lay the subject oI
!. female suffrage before the Legislature
!, with the view of obtaining an amend
e ment to the Constitution striking ou
t the word male" They also amend
f ed their own Constitution By striking
out the word " female" and a mum
Der of gentlemen Joined the Associa
y tion. Letters were read from Hon
s. Q. Pomeroy, United States Senator
i from Kansas; Mrs. j. s. Griffin, Presi
i dent Of the Suffrage Association o
% the District of Columbia; Judg,
/ krum and Rev. j. i. Montieth, O
st. Louis, and others, all giving word
OF encouragement.
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