The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-24

unct craters, volcanic canyons ana assures,
and lava beds and scoria, and upheavals Of
all descriptions over all this vast and des-
olate region, from Oregon to Mexico, impress
the traveller with the reflection that no Is pass
ing through a section of the Continent that
has hardly yet cooled down from the vol
canic forces which lifted it out of the sea.
The lakes the plains, the mountains, the
hot springs and the lava beds, in the
midst of which this late battle was
fought present only in holder relief
than some other localities of our Pacific
slope the evidences of the force of the subter-
ranean fires which cast up these masses OF
rocks and which ripped these assures in the
earth, IN their strange and wild confusion, as
far as the eye can reach even in that clear at
mosphere of Midsummer. We have no doubt
that the fields of those lava beds Of Captain
Jack cover an area over which million Of
all the required strategical combinations and
movements of general engagement
Itappears, too, that with these strong natu-
raj Notifications in his front Captain Jack has
the Tule fresh-water Lake in his rear, which
supplies him with water, while its grassy
border supplies his beef His capitulation or
determination, however, is but question of a
few days or weeks, and we presume, from the
sagacity and skill he has displayed as SOL
der, that he comprehends the folly of fighting
to the last ditch, and, with the prestige of
his late victory, this advantages Of
treaty of peace. His people have evil
IDENTIFY suffered from depredations and
outrages from the neighboring white settlers,
including, no doubt, some would-be contractors
for army supplies on account of this Indian
war. To many Of our reckless Western ad
venturers an Indian war is a profitable specu-
lation, and even from well-concocted canard
of Indians on the warpath our desperate
white spectators in such things frequently
'turn an honest penny to the amount of
thousands of dollars for army supplies never
furnished or for losses wholly fictitious. How
many bills, for the next ten or fifteen years,
will be passed by Congress for relief to our
white settlers of Oregon and California for
services, supplies or losses on account of this
war of Captain Jack we cannot conjecture;
but we may safely soy that in the end the
aggregate cost of this little war will exceed
ten thousand dollars for every Indian con-
cerned in it,
We approve, nevertheless. General Sheri-
dams decisive policy of making peace with
our refractory and intractable red brethren.
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail have become good
Indians but to bring these high and mighty
chiefs of the buffalo country to reason the
wholesome lesson of terrible thrashing or
two was found necessary. So, too, General
Howard, with his Quaker policy among the
Apaches, was o melancholy failure until Cen
eral Crook was driven to the other alter
native of the sabre and the carbine
against those ferocious savages and now,
with their warriors reduced to mere
handful they may submit to be fed and
clothed by their good white brothers, Howard
and Collyer, and to make and abide by q
treaty with their Great Father to live upon his
bounty, and to say their prayers every morn
ing, and to stay on their reservation, and to
go on the warpath no more unless they hear
of passing emigrant train too convenient for
plumber and too tempting for scalps to be re-
sisted.