The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-04-14

nation, which finds expression In al
quarters, particularly in the army whert
Gen. Candy was held In great esteem ant
affection, with utteranCeS and earnest de
sire for exterminatien Of these saVages.
These feelings Of indignation has taker
place Of all ideas Of peace and the slight
est consideration cannot be given to any
other proposition than that to move al
once to the severest punishment Of the
ModoCs.
The following Is a dispatch received al
at the Office Of the Adjt. Gen. OF the
Army:
April 10, 1873. !
Gen. W. I. Sherman, Washington:
The following report Of the horrible
treachery and murder hRs just been re-
ceived. / have telegraphed Col. GElem
10 let the punishment Of the Modocs be as
severe as their treachery has merited, aud
hope to hear soon that he has made an
end Of them.
GSIgnedI J. n. sOnuFIEnD,
Major General Commanding.
Copy of a telegram to the Assistant Ad.
iutant General o. Department Of Calator.
mia from the Modoc expedition:
General Candy with the Peace Com
missioners went TO meet the Indians about
one mile In front OF camp at 1880 this
morning. The signal officer whom ! had
watching the conference reported firing.
Upon reaching the place Of meeting l
found that General Candy and Rev. DR..
Thomas had been killed and heacham
wounded. The other Commissioner, ,Diar,
escaped unhurt | shall at once COM
mence active operations against the In
dians.
Tsipnedl ALVIN GILLEM,
C5l SSuenh Cavalry, C0m'dg.
,semi-offcial reports were also recciy-
ed by Assistant Adjutant General W. D.
Whipple, at the army headquarters, from
Assistant Adjutant GeneTSl q. Clay
Wood, at Portland, Oregon, who has been
advised by Col, Gillem of the tragedy.
The information was communicated 10
the President at late hour last night by
Adjutant General Townsend, and Gen.
Sherman was also apprised at late hour
OF the occurrence. The feeling Ol the
Presiden. and General at the sudden an
nouncement were oil the most intense
sorrow and Imagination, and there was
not an instants hesitAnCy in the deClara-
ton that the Modocs shall be made 10
suffer TO the severcst extent for their
crime.
It IA now evident that the act was long
prc neditated, and this fact has added to
The deep sense Of wrath that the massa-
ere has aroused. The President has un-
reseryedly expressed his sanction OF the
most severe measures now necessary 10
nroperlv punish the Modocs, and his
views in this respect have been fully
stated to the authorities acting under the
War Department.
General Sherman has also telegraphed
General Schofeld instructions 10 move
the entire force at once upon the Indians.
General Sherman has also prepared the
following order, announcing the death OF
Gen. Candy, which will be promulgated
Tomorrow:
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
WASHINGTON, April 13, '73. !
General Order No. 0.
II again becomes the sad duty ol the
General TO announce TO the army the
death of one Of our most illustriouS and
most honored comrades. Brigadier Gen
eral Edward r. s. Candy, commanding
the Department OF Columbia, was, on Fri.
day last April 11th, shot dead by Chief
Jack, while he was endeavoring to medi'
tate for the removal OF the Modocs from
their present rocky lastness on the north
ern border Of California, to q reservation
where the tribe could be maintained and
protected by the civil agents OF the gov
ernment. That such life should have
been sacrificed, in such a cause, will
ever be source Of regret to his relations
and friends, Yet the General trusts that
ali good soldiers will be consoled, know
ipp that Gen. Candy lost his lie on duty
and in the execution Of his office. For
he had been especially chosen and ap-
pointed for this delicate and dangerous
trust, by reason oil his well known
patience and forbearance, his entire
self abnegatiOn and fidelity to the express
ed wishes of his Government, and his
large experience in dealing with savage
Indians Of America. He had already COM
Dleated the necessary military prepara-
lions to enforce obedience to the conclu-
sion Of the Peace Commissioners, after
which he seems to have accompanied
them to the last conference with the saw
acc chiefs in supposed friendly council,
and there met his death by trcachery
outside Of his military line, within view
of Signal Station, at the same time one Of
the Peace Commissioners was killed out
right and another mortally wounded and
the third escaped unhurt, thus perished
one Of the kindest and best gentlemen OF
this or any other country, whose social
euuslled his military virtues. To
sketch his army history would
pass the limits OF the general order
and 1t must here suffice to state that Cen
Candy began his military career as a ca
det at West Point in the Summero Of 1885,
graduating in 1889, since which ttme he
has continuously served thirty.eight years,
passing through all the grades TO u Major
General Of volunteers and Brigadtcr Gen
eral OF the regular army. He served bis
early life with marked distinction in the
Florida and Mexican wars, and the out
break Of the civil war found him on duty
in New Mexico, where after the detection
Of his senior no remained in command,
and defended the country successfully
against formidable inroad from the d.
rection OF Texas. Afterwards he was
transferred to the East to o more active
and important sphere. BE exercised va:
rious high commands, and at the close OF
tbe civil war was in chief command Of the
Military Division oftbe West Mississippi
in which he had received o painful
wound, but he had tho honor TO cap
ture Mobile and compel the surrender
Of the rebel forces Of the southwest,
Since the close Of the war he has repeat
edly been chosen for special committees
by reason OF his superior knowledge ol
| lSw md civil Government, his known