, 1870-04-20
THE LATE MASSACRE BY IN
DIANS,
Letter from +. Clergy n1nn In Wyom-
Ing.

Letter from II Clergyman IN Wyom-
Ing.
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In my last mentioned the fact that citizen
Of .Atl.ntic City bad q son Of his murdered
almost 1t his own door, BY Indiana. on the Slst
IrdiAn sails, beginning about May !, md con-
tinuing all summer. Every month. at least
one raid takes plaee, aud all the stock
Is stolen. il not one or more men killed.
This year the bloody work has been
begun month earlier, with tho known
cold blood, and the not improbable fact
that more have been Killed, whose bodies have
not been found On Thursday morning last.
March 81. a son Of Dr.. Irwin, Of Atlantic. about
i Le,fG old e'asa on f"Gt tGa te s.h,ea IT.
mines known Is tho Snnors Delight, about
four miles distant. He hsd proceeded but .
abort distance from lis fathers house, and
was totally ul,suHricious Of danger, when he
encountered band OF about twouty lndians,
the friendly Indians. H. Was, aa he himself
stated, then knocked down with q
tia'' he 'shoaider, kicked, besten, .nd stripped
naked. Three arEows were thea shot into bus
naked BODY and he Was left for dead, the
0GQQa Of1QE plEfGuLEA 9lOQ4 S<11ILAt5 AA4A1 A4
operation whsch they lad begun. b hearing
sciouencss, he walked totally naked and bleed
Ing from his wounds to the outskirts Of town,
where hc was net bE eome men, who took Inn
into house. sent for the Eoung mans father,
who is one Of our best surgeons, and had the
bor cared for. On the evening Of April
the Young man died OF his wounds. Immedi-
atcly on the outrage being noised abroad
{ PARTY OF thirty well-Araed men, were
orEanized, not to follow and punish the In
| dams, for this our benetGent Governors at
Washington, and Mr.. Vincent Colyer, will not
permit, but to follow in their trail and ascer.
| tain how many had fallen victims 10 their fell
| spirit At Smiths gulcl1 they found two men
| Filled and scalped. At ST. MarE's. on the
| this place. they found three other men killed
and tcalped, aud what shows the depth Of
Indian malice, tho Ccalpb "czo thrown in the
| in the door-ya11l, no doubt with a Tiev to prr'
vent tho detection Of the party committing tht
| outrage This is no exaggerated statement
bat the simple facts,
| am asked to reAd our beautiful bnri1 service
md preach the funeral sermon over the bodies
OF TIC eix victims OF Indian pertidy. To1
AJAX, pe1hApe, why arc not the f1ends folo~et
and punished2 answer. Our people her
are not in possession Of arms and mnnltion is =
Of w.r to enable them to do 50, and i the
did do 20, no sooner would they touch 1n'lial
tcr1itorv, than they would be coufzontes
bv some Of Uncle Sans boys in blue, an
he orlered to return to the regions OF eivl
Ted Efe. We might raise ffty 500
mountain men, who "onn 70 Wiling i,
| oycr,uke them, would know how TO deal Wit
thcR-as Colonel Baker did-did We dare to d
it. But 10 do 80 would require that We 60 pre-
pared to hit head whenever VIC meet It, ~
the first heads We would meet would b. u
, | heads OF come persons who wore Cncle Sam
livery 1t might be that these hea.la Wosli
, would not contain much brains, yet the phiia.
th1opic gentlemen ut Washington. who preHid
: over the dcstinics Of our people, would max
a IN upea1thly howl il we tonch one Of the
, r1iniona in the attempt 70 rcach 1cd-ha q
/ | murderer, whose name il Io! the POOR 1ntla1
y Az evidence OF the truth Of whAt state,
sa fac, that the Indians who committed tt
: putrages and murders have mentioned, r
matnea in the vicinity Of Atlantic City for oy
m hour and hall, and were seen ~ the sc
j dic1s stationed At Miners Delight, but ha'
not set hesrd Of any. attempt by tho sol"s
ArHu. al have just returned from pe
forming tho funeral service over tho a1o
victims Of Indian pe1hdy at Atlantic "a
as 10 one dares go one hundred yards f1e
unless as,,, .s1sa Haorn to .ueR % e1si ss'
ment n the people are isboring under. On
roads 7ou viii meet everywhere squads OF p
H1Te1fiue between the towns, evcr5 one viii
y Ids OF 1nusket in h1s hind md = half-dozen
volvers buckled around his waist On my II
to Atlantic City ! ives accompanied By eis
had riae in his hands, losded and capped =
ready for use. The stage coach which WIS
ne from N.an On Saturday Atterne
= At 8 o'c,ock, failed TO ari!e
- time On Saturday At 9 O'Clock it 9
hAd not reached here, and the excitement y
fRA hNf
- are on the road between this place and BIZ
and telesraphic despatch tells ID that
coach due 1t RsyAn had arrived, and that
IN coach due here hid left the hallway stas
on Saturday morning At the usual hour
List il is determined to send out weu-aru
force 70 see Whist Is the matter wltn ths ST.
About twenty men on horseback 50
md about il o'clock return with informal
that the etage Is safe. I wish some Of )
Iudian eympath;zera could witness tic spe
,, Gle Witnessed 1t tho funeral, and sea
ruut;lated bodies Of the sictins- Il would
lieye them Of their philanthropy, It onee,
70 teach them that An Indian Is no better tna
wid beast, Who may, it Is tue, be trained,
only when be ID deprived OF the means OF
fo-dsy {Aptl y - finish this lesst
bAye tho names OF the murdered par
yer They arc Frank Irwin, son Of D. Irwin, q
lantsc, wounded near Atlantic ard aince d
OQf Ice 1uSEk437 1 4tS+&tet sAeA N.AS
Iogg, killed At St Nays. md Iames AT
md one Bennington. ki1led u Smiths CT
1he BODY Of Mcguire hAd seventeen n
In it. That OF A,thick Is now lying
DID, rcady to be buried tomorrow. He is sca!
!, twice. has nde bullet through hia head,
~ the pick with which he WAS working IN sI1
Guleh VILE driven through his stomach.
ether OF the men had his bowels ripped o
,no- All were hm1ibly mutilAted IN othGs v
dc Governor Campbell has teses11phed he1t
rai.e two companies IN these mining cs1
and put them 1t en- footing for y
Rht service. Another teleG11phic desq
tells Us that go Sioux Are on tha VIZ
,ca. / coming from the Cniou Pacific Railroad
i to vztd thi4 point l. third despatch from
her hi1ser tells ua that Major Gordon and
) it, aIrr force arc ordered here At once. Thu.
ont perceive We are likely to have w11m tnea
Ley while II you don't hear from me 300
SIX VIII be for tho Tpasou that the Sioux
;eI7 either taken md killed us Al, or y leas'
III on Ill Communication with the ralrpad-
s1u- that Vincent Colrcr were among rs 1t
had time.
aha When the pupils Of tbs Mind, Deat,
stsr Dumb Institutes were It Madison, Wiz
thst week. those Of the Elind Asylum gave N
and hihaaou III the evening, and the Captto
was Iichted to the very dome Ee1t morning
uhn deaf and dumb scholars weTe to perform
n Adfut1nt General Mcdonald called upol
to Goyerpor, sud aakcd his E1ce1eocy Hh
md be should oIo sAntof nni 90 YOU
he nrf1 MrThnnnH Is