The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-15

LAVA BED CAMP, April IL, via Yreka, April
2.-Thursday afternoon FIVE Indians and four
'quaws came into our camp and were present.
ID with clothing and provisions by the peace
commissioners. A message was sent out by
,he commissioners asking for talk this morn
ne at point about a mile from cur picket
inc. Later in tho evening Bogus Charley came
n and told the picket that he could take his
gun; that he Charley did not intend to 20
back any more. The picket brought him in to
+he tent of General Candy, where Charley left
his gun and remained at the tent of Frank Rid
die during the night. This morning Boston
Charlie came in and told the commission that
meet the commission outside our lines. Boston
Charlie and Bogus Charlie then mounted
horse and started for the lava beds
Between ten and eleven o'clock this morning
the peace commission party, comprising Gep-
eral Candy, A. B. Meacham, DR.: Thomas, Mr..
Charley and Boston Charlie, went out to the
designated spot. There they met Capt Jack,
John Schonchin, Black Jim, Shack-Nast jim,
Ellen's man, and Hawker Jim. They had no
guns with them, but each carried a pistol at
his belt. This, however, was not much noticed.
with them. They sat down in a kind of brok-
en- circle, and General Candy, Mr. Meacham
and DIR. Thomas sat together, faced by Capt.
Jack rnd Schonchin. Mr.. Dyer stood by Jack,
holding his horse, with Hawker Jim and Shack
Nasty Jim to his left. The place was over
looked by the signal station, from which Lieu
tenant Adams closely watched the proceedings
About half an hour after the party arrived
cry from the signal station was heard, saying
that the indians had attacked the peace COM
mission, and that an engagement had COM
menced between the Indians and Col. Mason.
In xrarn 1ndQ mud
deployed as skirmishers under the command of
Colonel Green, and orders were given to go for
ward at double quick time Very shortly after
Mr.. Dyer returned and told us that the Indians
had attacked them, and that he thought he
was the only one who had escaped, but in few
moments after Riddle and his squaw were seen
within the picket line.
1t appears that at the fatal conference Mr.
Meacham made short speech to the Indians
and was followed by General Candy and Dr.
Thomas Then Capt. Jack made a speech ask
ing for Hot Creek and Cottonwood, now occu-
pied by Fairchild and Doris, for a reservation.
Meacham told lack that it was not possible to
give HIM what he asked. Schonchin told Mea-
cham to say no more; that he (Meacham) had
said enough on that subject. While Scohnchin
was speaking Capt. Jack stepped to the rear
and stood near where Meacham's horse was
hitohed. Presently Mr.. Dyer heard cap miss
fire and looking around saw Capt. Jack to his
left with his pistol pointed at Gen. Candy.
This was The signal for a general massacre,
ard dozen shots were fired inside OF half a
minute. Mr.. Dyer after hearing the cap miss
fire turned and fed, followed closely by Hawk
er Jim, who fired two shots after him. Dyer
finding Hawker Jim gaining on him, turned
and drew his Derringer, whereupon Hawker
Jim retreated, and Dyer made the best of his
way to the camp. Captain Jack fired again on
General Candy, who ran off to the left, but he
was speedily shot down and killed instantly.
Meacham was shot at by SchOnchn and
wounded in the head He tried to draw his
Derringer, when two Indians ran up and knock
instantly by two pistol shots in the head, fired
by Boston Charley and another Indian. Rid
dies suuaw was knocked off her horse by an
Indian, who took the animal, but was forced
to return it by Captain Jack. Riddle, 1t is said
was chased and shot at, but another account
says he was not fired upon.
The Attack ON Colonel Mason's Camp
and Advance of the Troops.
New YORK, April 13.-A special despatch to
the Herald says that as soon as the firing was
heard, the drums and bugles sounded the as
sembly and the skirmsh lines with Millers and
Throckmorton's batteries supported by Egan' s
and Wright's companies of the twelfth Infan-
try. The scene of the massacre was quickly
reached. As the advance came up, three of the
murderers were seen running around the edge
of the lake on their way back to their strong
hold. About a hundred yards to the west of
the place of meeting was found Mr.. Meacham,
badly wounded with pistol shot over the left
eye. He was Immediately attended to and car
ried back for medical treatment. Fifty yards
further on was the dead body of the Rev. DR..
Thomas, lying on his face and stripped to the
waist The body of General Candy was strip
ped of every vestige of clothing, and lay about
one hundred yards to the southwark with two
pistol-shot wounds in the head. Pausing only
a moment the troops dashed on and the two
leading batteries were within a mile of the
murderers when the bugle sounded a halt. 1t
was found that all the Indians had got back to
their stronghold and the troops We're ordered to
fall back. Active operations will commence
tomorrow or the day after. The attack ON COL
Mason's camp commenced by the Indians firing
on Leutenants Boyle and Sherwood, who had
wandered some five hundred yards outside of
their picket lines. Lieutenant Sherwood was
shot through the arm and leg, but Lieutenant
BOYLE escaped unhurt Both the officers got
safely back to camp.
In Justice to Riddle, the interpreter, and his
squaw. it should be stated that they both warn
ed the peace commissioners and Gen. Candy
not to trust implicitly in the Indians and adj
ded: ''If they will go, wash my hands of all
blame in the matter" The murder of General
Candy has thrown a gloom over this camp
and created feeling in the hearts of the men
that will exact a bitter reckoning from the
treacherouS savages
Mr. Meacham is still in q dangerous condi
ton, suffering from flesh wound in the right
forearm and pistol shot entering behind the
right ear and escaping three inches above. He
also has an incised wound on the head, where
the Indians tried to scalp him.
The Herald has special from the camp
near the lava beds, dated early Sunday morn
ing, up to which time there had been no fight.
The Effect of the News al Washington.
The murder of General Candy and the MEM
bers of the peace commission, has been the SUBJ
jeeto excited conversation everywhere through
out the day. 1t was a number of hours after
the appearance of the morning papers before
official information came. In the meantime
the officers of the War department and head
quarters of the army were in great suspense,
and finally began to hope that the report might
prove untrue; but before noon full dispatches
from General Schofeld and from the military
post in Oregon confirmed the worst. The inte-
rior department has had no advices. General
Sherman Immediately telegraphed an order
through General Schofield to attack the ModOcs
and to capture or exterminate them. An order
announcing the death of General Candy has
also been given to the press by General Sher-
man. The feeling in all official circles is in
tense and more so from the TACT that General
Candy was well known here, and aside from
the Difference awarded to his rank he was cor
daily esteemed and respected by all who knew
him.
At meeting held on Saturday evening
General Howard reviewed the Apache troub-
les and said that those now making trouble
were not of the bands he invited from the lat
ter tribes 10 visit the East. He was daily re-
ceiving letters telling him how much they low.
ed him. He thought the Pimos and Papagoes
tribes should be admitted to citizenship; and
that conversion and regeneration were the true
agencies to solve the Inaian problem. For
General Candy he had great respect, and no
one was more saddened by his death. He hop.
ed the act of treachery, which could not be too
severely denounced, would be properly punish
cd. Commissioner Smith said that notwith-
standing the great calamity there was no reason
why Christian policy should not prevail
He had no word in extenuation of the Modocs'
treachery, but still, if the government had kept
faith with them in regard to the reservation
and money which they were to receive annual
ly under the treaty, this trouble might have
been avoided. Frederick Douglass argued that
there was no hope for the Indian outside of the
pale of the government. In his opinion all
might be converted; and unless they were made
citizens, all would be exterminated To his
mind the great remedy for the existing Indian
troubles was to extend citizenship to Them.
TEMPERANCE RALLY AT BRUNSWICK A
circular is issued that the Brunswick Temper.
ance Reform Club will hold grand temper
anca roaotino ot Tamopt Hall Thursday after