Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-11-27

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Why. fhis q IN unsxpecfed visit;
bat Be seated. Ton are welcome.
What II II IN 10 do for yous some
thing about General Harvey. ehs Oh.
yes: saw that telegram ID the Alta
this morning. about the Genernl's mar
rage with : Mrs. st. Cyr, his house
keeper, and he 81 Did you ever rec
the old woman No. you are too
young. and he hasn't been On the
coast since be ieff the smmand Of
the Department OF the Columbia IN
1850. He II . splendid model Of
physical man--six feet four In his
stockings, "a inches around the
waist. and magnifcently formed from
great toe TO poll; straight % . hIcko-
~, and man OF war and gentleman
OF elegant social accomplishments, al
though with BIZ Of burr 10 his ma
ture. hrusque toward men generally.
most gallant toward the fair sex He
had distinguished himself In the In
dian wars and In the war with Mexi-
co, and President Pierce promoted
him to brigadier general; Scott was
then lieutenant-general. and Wool 2
maior.geperal. IL was during the ad-
ministrati0n OF President Pierce. who
had himself served In the Mexican
war as brigAdier.general. that the In.
dian war broke out In Oregon and
Washington Territories. then en-
bracing the country now composing
Idaho and Montana. General New
ton Clarke had been In command.
and Colonel George Wright latter
wards Generah. who was lost on the
Brother Jonathan, was the active
commander In the field. Genera
Clarke had his headquarters ct For
Vancouver. on the Washington Ter
ritory side Of the Columbia, and Col
onel Wright was In command at For
Dalles, more than one hundred miles
above.
THE WAR REGION
Extended from Just above the Dalles
/ to the WalIa Walla country, 20(
miles distant, In the Yakima. the De-
Chutes, Umatilla, and into the coun
TRY OF the Nez Perces, the C9uI
|d'Alenes and the Pen d'Oreilles
Among the officers who distinguished
themselves in this war were Colone
Steptoe, Major Garnetf, Captain Tay
lor twho was killed., Lieutenant Geo
P. Ihrie and John Owens. Captain
Rufus Ingalls, was Quartermaster a
Fort Vancouver, Major Wyse at ths
Cascades. and Captain Thomas A
| Jordan at Fort Dalles; and with Col
| onel Wright. Major Pinkney Lugen
best was also one of the gallant mer
OF the force In the field. Genera
Clarke died and General Harvey wa
appointed by President Pierce to thu
command OF the Department. Thu
Sunday after he arrived at Fort Van
couver, a party of us old Californi
ans then visiting Portland Captain
Chadwick, Captain Tom Lyle, Dicl
Jessup, Billy Garrison, Captain Bar
clay and myself-went over tofFor
Vancouver TO pay our respects to th'
sturdy old warrior. Colonel Thomp
son Morris of the old Fourth Infan
try was Post Commander, and / re
member Major Keyes. Major Alvord
Major Wyse. Captain Wallace, Cap
tain Bonnycastle, Captain Rufus In
gals, and Lieutenants McFeeley
Dandy and Lawrence Kip wer'
among the officers. DIR. ]. X. Barne
was Post Surgeon. He had brough
me a letter from my old friend
GENERAL HENRY NJ. NAGLEY,
And we became intimate friends
General Harvey gave US heart,
greeting. He had known Captain
Chadwick and Captain Tom Lyle il
his trips up aud down the Mississippi
to and from St. Louis, and he wa
glad to welcome them. His reputa
ton as q great Indian fighter. as ,
warrior In every respect had suggest
ed him for the appointment. ant
President Pierce had known him il
the campaign in Mexico and admiree
him. His name was O terror to al
Indian tribes. but he had brought
with him from st. Louis. the most ia
nous man of peace known by. re
vered, loved anc confided in by all
Indian tribes west of the Missouri
river TO the Pacific ocean--the great
Father De Smet, the Jesuit mission
airy, the heroic Black Gown"-as he
was called by the Sioux. the Pawnees,
the tribes of the upper Mississippi,
the Missouri and the Yellowstone, the
Crows. the Blackfeet, the Flatheads,
and the tribes OF Oregon. Harvey
himself was a Catholic, and had mar.
ried into the distinguished Mulluphy
family OF st. Louis, which stood with
that of the Choteans, the first in
wealth and In social rank. Another
of the sisters was the wife of Colonel
Graham, and still another the wife, /
think of Commodore Biddle, who was
killed by his brother officer, Barron,
in a duel. One of these, a widow.
when courted afterwards by gentle
man of large wealth and much dis
tiuction, pressed to final decisive an
swer, said to him that she preferred 10
live as the widow of a brave man,
not TO become the wife of one who
was not They were proud people,
those old Mullaphys, and their blood
as their life in devotion so the vir-
tues which make the man and consti-
tute the woman. But | am moraliz-
ing. This won't do. What you want
is incident. Well, General Harvey
succeeded in quieting the Indians ia
q short time. Colonel Wright had
already terribly chasiised them. He
had
HANGED eURI AND QUALcHrES,
Their bravesi aud greatest chiefs ex-
eept the mighty kamiakin, whom
young Winthrop. unhappily killed
early in the civil war, so grandly
apolheosized; and he had all but
old Snowhnllow, the dreames, prophet
aud mischlef-brewer Of the tribes,
under close guard. with his life the
hostage of bis peaceful conduct. lie
had also captured aud destroyed all
their provisions. shot eight hundred
Of their horses, aud announced to
them that so long as an Indian con.