Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-19
THE INDIANS.
News from Various Sources Confirm
the Reports OF Impending Trouble
with the Noble Keds-General
Howard Moving Forward
all Available Forces.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1S.-A Portland
| dispatch, received at military headquarters,
states that about five hundred hostile Indians
have started toward Camp Harvey, in this
State, and that they are receiving accessions
as they march. General Howard has given
now en- route to Camp Harvey, with all posi-.
BILE haste. Sarah Wlnnemucca, who recently
escaped from the hostiles at Stems noun
tain, reports that one of the Indian scouts
claims to have killed Buffalo Horn, a Ban
mock chief. Sarah says their leader was
killed in a skirmish with citizens in which
the scout was engaged.
A Silver City dispatch says that Chief Win
nemucca has return ed to Bernard and Whip
pies camp, on Owyhee river. He says the
hostiles are killing hundreds of cattle, and
leaving the carcasses to rot. The hostiles
have lett Stems mountain and are moving to-
ward Harvey valley, thence to Mathews S
agency and Snake river, and will probably
keep on till they effect a junction with the
Columbia river Indians, which addition to
their forces will, they calculate, enable them
to sweep the country. They are determined
to retain the PIutes as prisoners until they
can get sufficient number of arms from the
white men they may kill to arm them. Egan
is rebelious, and his horses and arms have
been taken from him and his Indians. Camp
Harvey will probably be taken tomorrow,
and, if so, there will be terrible slaughter of
the whites congregated there for protection.
Nothing has been heard from Howard since
yesterday. If he does not effect a junction
with Stewards forces, the party accompany.
ing him from Camp Lynn could easily be
captured by the savages. The situation is
quite critical, and the massacres that will be
perpetrated bid fair to exceed in numbers
those of the Nez Perces war.
An Austin, Nevada, dispatch says that the
ramon is current in town that the Shoshones
have left Smoky Valley IN body and gone
north, having headed for Beouawe, on the
Central Pacific railroad. 1t is supposed that
they are on their way to join the hostile Ban
nocks. These Indians have always been we'll
treated by the whites, and cannot have any
grievances against the white people. They
must on their way north cross the line of the
Central Pacific road somewhere between
Battle mountain and the Palisades. A large
number of Shoshones were here from Bel
mont, Eureka and adjacent valleys, osten-
slbly In attendance on a fandango. They
have endeaVored to purchase powder and
lead in large quantities, but were refusedI by
the storekeepers, who, in some instances,
were warned by officers against selling am
munitions to the Indians. These Indians
have now nearly all left, going in various
directions.
The Piutes are quiet, but very F,nquisitive
about the War, which they profess to deplore
A Boise City dispatch states that Captain
Bernard arrived at Owyhee crossing, three
miles above the mouth, yesterday, with his
company of cavalry. Captain Whipple, with
his two companies, joined here. General
Howard is supposed to be twenty miles in
advance.
Winnemucca, a Piute chief, came into
Captain Bernard's camp last night, tringing
with him small party of his men. He tells
as singular story regarding the designs of
the hostiles as his daughter Sarah.
A dispatch received here last night from
Baker City, Oregon. says that hostile Indi-
ans raided Burnt River yesterday and stole
twenty-five head of horses and probably did
other mischief. Captain Bandier's company
of cavalry left here early this morning for
Old Ferry, on Smoke river.
DEADwooD, June 18.-Five companies of
cavalry and four Of infantry, under command
of General L. X. Bradley, for the Black Hills
post, camped to-day near the Belfourche,
about thirty miles from here. The commands
progress northward has been much retarded
by frequent and heavy rains and bad roads.