Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-14
Dispatches from Gen. SchOfield
and Col. Gillem Active Oper-
atiOns Against the Fiends.
How Grant and Sherman were
Affected Official Announce
ment Of Gen. Canby's
Death.

noon: Between ten and eleven o'clocl
this morning the peace-commissioI
party, comprising General Candy, A. B
Meacham, DIR. Thomas, Mr.. Diar, Rid
dle, the interpreter, and his squaw, anC
Bogus Charley and Boston Charley
went out 10 a designated spot. There
they met with Captain Jack, JohT
Schonchin, Black Jim, Shack
Nasty Jim, Ellen's Man, and Hawk
er Jim. They had no guns witt
them, but each carried a pistol at hi:
belt. This, however, was not much no,
ticed, as in previous interviews they haC
had their guns with them. They sal
down in a kind of broken circle, and
General Candy, Meacham and DR.
! Thomas sat together faced by Captain
Jack and SchOnchin. Diar stood by him
holding his horse, with Hawker Jim and
Shack Nasty Jim to his left. Mea.
cham opened the talk, and gave 8
long history of what they wanted to dc
for them, after which General Candy
and DR.. Thomas both talked for some
4 time. Jack then talked in an apparent
ly good, serious strain, and when he fin
ished, stepped back to the rear, near
where Meacham's horse was hitched.
John Schonchin then began to talk, and
while he was speaking Diar heard cap
miss fire, and looking around, saw Cap
tain Jack to his left with his pistol
pointed at General Candy. This
was the signal for a general massacre,
and a dozen shots were fired inside OF
half a minute. Captain Jack fired
again on General Candy, and the noble
old gentleman ran off to the left but was
/ speedily shot down and killed. Mea-
cham was shot at by SchOnchin and
wounded in the head. He tried to draw
his deringer, when two Indians ran up
and knocked him down. DR.. Thomas
was killed almost instantly by two
pistol-shots in the head. Riddle
ran off, and it appears they did not
fire at him, but they knocked his
squaw down. Diar, Riddle and the
squaw returned safely TO the camp,
about one hundred yards to the west of
the place of meeting, where they found
A. B. Meacham badly wounded with
pistol-shOt over his left eye, and fifty
rods further on was the body of Rev. DR..
Thomas lying on his face, and stripped
to the waist. Life was extinct from
pistol-shOt wounds in the head and
body. General Candy was stripped Of
every vestige of clothing, and lay about
one hundred yards to the southwark,
with two pistol-shot wounds in the
head.
WAsHINGToY, April lS.-The newsof
the treacherous assassination Of Briga-
-dier- General Candy by the MOdoc CHIEF,
and the intelligence received at the same
time, of murders committed by the
Apaches, cause profound feeling of grief
and indignation, which finds expression
in all quarters, particularly in the army,
where General Candy was held in great
esteem and affection, with Itterances
and earnest desire for the determination
of these savages. This feeling of indig-
nation has taken place Of all ideas what
ever of peace, and the slightest consid-
Grafton cannot be given to any other
proposition than that to move at once 10
the severest punishment of the Modocs.
The following dispatch was received at
the office Of the acknowledgement of the
army:
HEADcU ARTEEs DIV. PACIFIC COAST, |
April Il, ls73. ! !
To General W. n. sherman;
The following report of horrible |
treaehery and murder has just been re- |
ceived. / have telegraphed Colonel |
GiHem TO let the punishment of the |
Modocs be as severe as their treachery |
has merited, and l hope to hear soon |
that he has made an end Of them.
Stoned, ]. NJ. SCHOFIELD,
Major-General Commanding.
A copv of the telegram TO the assis-
tant Acknowledgement Of the department /
of California, from the Modoc eXpsdlr
ton:
General Candy, with the peace COM
went 10 meet the Indians
half past eleven in the forenoon, and at
half past one o'clock the signal officer,
whom had in watching conference, re-
ported firing. Upon reaching the place
OF meeting found that General Candy
and Rev. DR.. Thomas had been killed,
ard Meacham wounded. The other
Diar, escaped unhurt. l
shall at once commence active opera
Z ionC aueinzf tla Indians
(Signedl ALVIN GILLEM,
Colonel seventh Cavalry, Commanding.
Dated Camp South Of Tule Lake, April ii.
Similar official reports were also read
by Assistant Adjutant-General W. D.
Whipple, at army headquarters, and
from Assistant Adjutant- General H.
Clay Wood, at Portland, Oregon, who
has been advised by Colonel Gillem of
the tragedy. The information was
to the President at late
hour last night by Adjutant-Generall
and General Sherman was
also apprised at late hour of the occur
renee. The feelings OF the President and
general at the sudden announcement
were of the most intense sorrow and in
and there was not an instant's
b esitancy in the declaration that the
Modocs shall be made to suffer to the
severest extent for their crime. 1t is
now evident that the act was long pre-
and this fact adds to the deep
sense OF wrath that the massacre has
aroused. The President has unreserved-
y expressed his sanction OF several
massacres now necessary to properly
punish the Modocs, and his views in
his respect have been freely stated to
he authorities acting under the war de-
lartment. General Sherman has also |
elegrapaed TO General SchOfield in
to move his entire force at
nee upon the Indians. General Sher-
nan has also prepared the following or.
Ter announcing the death OF General
Janby, which will be promulgated to-
morrow:
HEAD2U ARTERs ARGY,l
WAsHINGr TOY. April iss ls75.
ieneral Order No. 81 Il
II again becomes the sad duty of the I
General TO announce 20 the army the s
la.tl ..f ,,,s ~ nsrP most fllnafriotta and I