Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-11-20
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Another Successful Fight with the
Cheycnnes-Two white Girls Hes.
eued. --..er
HEAD OF NORTH Fork OF MCCLEL-
BAN's CREEK, Texas, November 9th;
via Fort Dodge, Kansas, November
10th. To-day, near this spot, Lieut..
Frank ID. Baldwin, of the u. =. In
fantry, commanding detachment
composed of Lieutenant $. Overton,
Company ID, Sixth Cavalry, and Lieu
tenant III. X. Bailey, Company ID,
Fifth Infantry, while on n scout, had
brilliant engagement with about
200 of the Cheyennes, who were before
handsomely whipped 10y Captain H.
Farnsworth, Sixth L. 5. Cavalry, on
the 9th instant. To-day, from $3.50 A.
NJ. to 1870 =. NJ, ninety-eight men and
n howitzer fought stubbOrnly and
bravely against more than. 200 In
dians, and after charging their camps
under a CALLING fire, they captured the
whole outfit, driving the Indians eight
miles from the last position of those
successfully taken by them. Lieut..
Baldwin recaptured two little half
starved white girls, aged five and
seven, named Germon, whose father,
mother, elder sister and brother were
recently massacred in Kansas while
going to Colorado to settle, and whose
two remaining sisters, aged thirteen
and fifteen years, are yet held by the
Indians. Two desperate charges were
made by the Indians to regain them,
but they were repulsed and hand
somely charged by Lieutenant Over
toms company. The troops got close
enough to use pistols advantageOusly.
The horses were so much used up after
this that the men had to fight on foot.
About so or 100 trophies were captured
and much property destroyed. The
camp numbered from 400 to 500, count
ing women aid children. The pursuit
lasted for twenty miles and was not
abandoned until p. NJ, when it be-
came useless and impossible for it to
be continued longer. The horses were
worn out, having had no forage for
four days. No losses were sustained
by our troops. -Four Indians are
known to have been killed. How
many more is not known, but 90 must
have been slain. The bloody state of
the field shows that the Indians had
dragged off rapidly u number of their
wounded comrades. Captain G. ID.
Neill, of the Tenth United States
Cavalry, with 100 picked men from
Davidsons command, took up the
trail and pursued the savages, who
have gone to the Staked Plains.
Grant Sends for Washburne.
NEW YORK, November 18th. = A
Washington dispatch says there is Il
well-grounded rumor that the Presi-
dent, on Thursday last, sent q cable
dispatch to Minister Washburne, re-
questing his presence in Washington
at the earliest possible moment.
Position of General Banks.
New YORK, November 1Sth.-In
the present crisis of politics, General
Banks is made to say positively that
he will not be candidate for the
Speakership of the House. He feels
that he has already won all the fame
he can for himself and the State in
that position, and that the new party
of the future needs his cool, judicious,
impartial counsel on the floor of the
House of Representatives; that this
at this time is his place, and he is the
man for the position.
Does Not Want to DO senator.
CHICAGO, November 1Sth.--A Port
iaIIu, Maine, dispatch says that
speaker Dlalllc, III Il leCIef 10 tne
Portland Press, in response to para
graph on him as probable candidate
for Senator, states decidedly that he
would under no circumstances accept
the Senatorship. He says: 'I am en-
gagged by and have accepted the can
didacy and election to serve the people
of Kennebec District as their Repre-
sentative in the Forty-Second Con-
gress, and from that duty could not
be turned even were the SenatOrship
Offered-and of that / have seen no
Indication