The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-27
Phe Indians-Their Movements ON tho
Warpnth-More Failures Of tho Pam.
pcring Policy.


from Washington that in Oregon troubles are
anticipated with the Nez Perces powerful
tribe of three thousand warriors, and that
three families from the Dalles of the Column
bia river in flying from their homes report
that their Indian neighbors had become so in
solent and surly that it was not thought safe
to remain near them any longer. The In
dams of Nevada, it next appears, are well
posted on the Modoc war, and strong suspi-
cions prevail that they are inclined to mischief
General jeff G. Davis, however, who is en-
route from San Francisco to the lava beds,
we think may be relied upon as a peace
maker who will waste no time in ridiculous
negotiations with the willy savases; though
now. that they are roaming at large he may
find it difficult to catch them But what is the
meaning OF this information from Washington,
that ''there is no dissatisfaction there with the
conduct of this Indian war, and no intima-
lions, direct or indirect from army head
quarters, that now or in the future, any
change is to be made?" Surely there is
necessity for general overhauling and recth-
cation of the management of all our Indian
tribes west of the Mississippi, if the reports
concerning them and their warlike movements
are true.
Our latest advices from the Modocs go far to
justify the conclusion that Captain jack if no
longer the lord Of the lava beds, is STILL from
the terror Of his name master of the stua-
ton for hundreds of miles around them. On
Sunday last the cavalry sent out by General
Gillem returned, with the report that they
had failed to discover any signs of an Indian
trail. DR.. Cabaneso had returned from the
lava beds with the report that two squaws had
been captured and Colonel Perry, who had
travelled eighty miles in making circuit Of
those volcanic upheavals, reported that he
saw no Indians. Modocs were SEEM however,
the same day from the signal station, and Dr.
Ticknor who had started with the express for
Linkville, saw a party Of Indians and deemed
it wise to turn back. Now it is given out
that the treacherous Jack and forty of his
braves have been tracked to their lair, and
that General Gillem will surely bag them
These various reports are perplexing. All
that we can make of them is, that the
Modocs have baffled and continue to battle
their pursuers. 1t is feared that Captain Jack
may cross over the intervening country to
Goose Lake, and there be joined by the
Snakes and Piutes, who are said to be vicious
customers. In short, it appears by no means
improbable that the score or two Of poor half
naked and half-starved savages from the lava
beds will give employment to thousand
United States troops all Summer. So much
for those peace conferences with the Modocs
for period of two months after that battle of
January, when from that point an uncondi-
tional surrender should have been the ulti-
matum Of the government.
The peace pampering policy-the policy of
coquetting with the tiger-had been tried for
year or two by General Howard and his
humanitarian colleagues in Arizona with the
| fierce Apaches, and the results should have
been sufficient to convince the government of
the folly Of the same childs play with the
treacherous Modocs. Under General Towards
Indian pampering policy the Apaches, fed and
housed on their reservations during the
Winter and tolerated in an occasional raid
on a tempting emigrant train, were in good
an active campaign, according to the time
honored custom Of that warlike tribe. SO
with the return Of their war season they aban-
doned their reservations by hundreds, and
had q savage carnival of blood in the
slaughter of emigrants and detached white
settlers. There was, then, no other resource
for the tanning of these outlaws but General
Crook and his mounted carbneers; and after
hunting them into their Businesses among the
mountain canyons, and slaughtering them by
hundreds, the remnants of the tribe remain
| ing on this side of the Mexican boundary have
made peace by voluntary and unconditional
submission with their women and children.
They have had enough of fighting, and may
now be tanned upon their reservations as the
tiger is tanned by caging him and cutting his
claws. A considerable number of Apache
warriors it appears, however, have meantime
been campaigning after their accustomed
fashion over in Sonora; but there the Mexi-
General Crooks peace policy, are vigorously
pursuing the redskins, and expect materially
to diminish the average number of their an
nual depredations. 1t is probable, therefore,
that when Brigham Young with his Mormon
colony, moves down into Arizona, he will
find himself relieved of the difficult task Of
pacifcating the Apaches. But the famous
Apache chief, Cochise, still roaming about at
his own free will, is reported as indulging
occasionally in the luxury Of roasting white
man in his reconnaissance in New Mexico.
Passing round by way of our Mexican From
! tier we come next to the hostile Kiowas and
other tribes and parts of tribes that, for many
months past, have given reign of terror to
the exposed frontier settlements of Texas.