Show ITEMS BY THE oal CAL MAIL mall wh the THI sioux PEACE pr acle ACIE ehst T st lonis louis democrat publishes the fol foi 11 iwin lwin 9 exir ct front fri a private letter dated from the th ati all oie ope art frt pierre noy nor 1855 fal A few days daye ago 30 or 40 sioux n aban dian ca came me to fort pierre to pay a visit harney lie ile held a council and bell the interpreter interpret pr to tell them that thit Vw antel antei ten of the principal men of each bani band elfr I 1 I 1 I 1 e sioux to come and see him within days day and should they listen to his words worda and abd d di 1 I as he wants them to it would be f or 7 he would make peace with them tw 81 but cut if ir any of the bands should no tet comra I 1 t the above time jie lie would know thalley that thal hey wish to fight ile he told them that it was wa ii mma erial aerial to hiim miltn how they acted as he lie would justas soon flaat as hive peace that he was sent rent edotj dp by their great father to fidi fial fight it them but L liu itt ee R he had killed the baules ahad he had pity on them all the indians that have come to see sec him sav say sat they dont donl want to right fight they want to livi he told them that he could not fight men that i want to fight dec 8 1855 18 55 late dispatches received from aiom washington and oregon territories report a tresine ds state of affairs as regards our indian relations rel rei atins in those distant regions A disastrous and bloody indian war is anticipated by the government many mu murders iders including our indian agent have been committed and hostilities of a most serious nature now exit with a view to protect the inhabitants of the thesa territories and punish those warlike tribes who are bpi spi spreading bading death among the people the government has determined to send a regiment of infantry forthwith to the scene ne of disturbances the new regiment now at fort munroe old P point 0 nt comfort Com firt has been selee selected ted for the duty this regiment it will be recollected has been beer drilled in II ardle ardie s I shanghai tactics ladies the men are armed with the minie rifles carrying a ball with accurse accuracy y one thousand yards 3 ards and are trained to travel all day at the pace of five units niji s per hour ex the following order has been issued issue if 1 the ath ot of infantry will proceed via panama to sali sall franci francl francisco oco wco california and if not otherwise directed at it that place by ordera orders from headquarters or fhe the department of the tile pacific will repair thence without delay to fort furl Vinca vancouver iver washington territory 2 transportation will be furm furnished shed from new york tobe lobe at fort monroe va by the lith or leth and the regiment will embark on or before the he dinst 3 officers on regimental recruiting service regimental recruiting parties or rec recruit will be called in and officers ot of the regi m nt on oil leave of absence will rejoin it without delay by command of brevet drevet li ent gen scott irvin mcdove ell eil ass amsl t A adjutant Gt general INDIAN figu FIGH tiso TINo considerable indian glit gilt fighting g ing a andeara 9 ar s to be aill alli going on in oregon orgon and the nor noonern aern part of california the jacksonville Sentinel sentinels Sent inelO 0 T of dec says here nere at he tile south the campaign goes effectively on when it became a apparent thal that tw dw force of indians tt rt the idea meadows d aws could n ot ix reached the deep snows major brues battalio bat bal lalion i was disposed with a view of covering the exposed localities and operating if possible impossible against 1 some inferior bod cs es of he enemy As soon as the different companies reached their positions scouts were ere tent into the mountains in every direction and the 9 situation of 0 several bands ascertained and the immediate result has been the discovery of three camps two of which have hava been de destroyed troyed by the troops and the other is being watched vat ched until a reinforce erien Prien tein be obtained when it will pro probably batly bavly sham shar of the others information having been received of a I 1 amp of indians on the north side of rogue me eivir r jost just elow below plow the iron III lii cf the dig big butte and four miles from tile the river a detachment of thirty fona men from nirom capt it ces cea ces company madea movement upon cherni att attacking ticking them ulem it at diy ay break irpak when tt fr their guird and after about s x honri fighting gich figh tinor tiner killed eight eighteen ten and ed avro others took look almost twenty mid d several beveral children prisoners burnt ct thele their the ur rati ranche dge die rie rne rie and obtained one horge horse one warrior warnor esef escaped tried mahart Ti urr urt tho tha indians Indi ins tra ira iad had horses not far from the ilia camp lint but circum stances would no not noi ad adut nit of search for them R and ind ltd they were leat left no injury was nl el by j the whites except that some hands and leht leeh arre fre cre frozen john S miller and john tenon were so frozen as to ve IMS led cd to late leave the field fur for a little time eown rica on dag 00 IS Conc concluded ludd fron franki first ab pae poe ae the camp was well uell slip flip plied piled with ith provisions principally plu piu plunder heer neer no call for quarter was heard h eard froin the file indians indiana during the fight when they found their retreat was cut ole off the only I 1 to be to fight to the last lost not was injured except one klio nho received egli esli aby on an indian and not a male too small 10 lo bearl arms coif on the steamer columbia nr ar anred at san francisco from oregon jan there ia not much news of interest concerning tho indian war except the recovery of a large 4 number of cattle from the walla walla indians T the state slate house was burned on the file of december together with tile tiie library and pipers of the territory valued at the tile oregon papers are gin fin finding dinty fault with nith the regular troops and say they are housed up vp in in good warm wi winter P ter quarters eating drinking and malting g amerry merry while the volunteers bare an footed arid and half starved are in the field fighting ifor their thein homes and famili families cs los angeles S t a r MAJOR WOOL this sol dier returned from oregon on the columbia V in fine he health alth aith ile he says lat lat the oregon papers iove lave ave love exia exaggerated the tiie accounts from the th e war and an d thinks the excitement in in a I 1 T measure was got up by persons interested in g getting ett ing up a pin panic ic government has in the orrl orri tory all the force the exigency of the case requires I 1 the rogue river indians are committing eng ing occasional depredations los angeles star tar sioux gen ilar flar operations against the indians had been suspended for the winter gvinter the sioux took look four of the murderers of the rn mall mail parly party to fort kearney karney and offer offered tid iid to deliver them up but col Hof ninan dinan refused to receive then unless all were giver up and the proff proffers mars lars of friendship were rejected ST FT lo 10 louis douis u I 1 s D dec ec 6 1851 i tue TUB belligerent BELLI GIERENT FORCES IN the thic FIELD the tile latest accounts from kansas represented that sot goo men armed with Sha sharps tills rifles were ivere assembled at lawrence they declared that thit th it they were willing the sheriff should peaceably search the escaped prisoners and that they would not cot commence hostilities but would act on tile llie defensive to the last pomeroy who escaped from liis his captors ia now at Law lawrence sencie sentie it is said the party have 30 men in franklin and in ton lon and douglas if resistance i is offered to the execution of 0 the writa writs the Slie sheriff ritt rifT declares his intention to await the thu further orders ordera of the governor it is thought a fauhl fight ensue before the matter is settled washington WASHING torr dec 7 1875 P lyrical irr iCAL mr weller dem of california gave notice of his intention to introduce a bill authorizing and facilitating the construction of a redIx railroad oad ond and magnetic telegraph to the paci fig fie after a brief executive session bession the senate adjourned dec 8 on motion ol 01 mr hir pratt prall whig of maryland W hickey was wa appointed chief clerk and anda J 11 II nicholson Ki cholon reading cleric clerk the national know nothings prefer orr cobb 0 or richard richarc rc son ton to a massachusetts man it is said that mr wheelers elers elera recognition of the new nicaraguan government has his been dis c approved of by the iha administration thirty third ballot Richards richardson nn 73 banks fuller 39 3 pennington 2 scattering 14 on the announcement of or the thirty third vole vote tha the house adjourned tiie the excitement in kansas still exists between lane and shannon accounts have llave been exaggerated tho the steamers george gomer collier and may flower wem were both burned a Al memphis emphis dec 10 there was nothing of importance done in the senate to lay ky in the house seven ballots were ind for jor for speaker but without buce esi the following is the result of the last ballot ballots banks richardson 76 fuller 28 dec it 11 nothing of ir importance done in in the senate six ballots were had in the home for speaker with the same result as yesterday there seema eema no prospect as an yet of an organization hon ron james jamea Mc Althon was reelected re elected to the tile U S senate for six years year from rhom gro fro n march 4 1637 1657 by lle ito iilo legislature of virrinia virginia NEW tho corner stone of an immense granite monument cm commemorative of the landing of tile the Pil pilgrims grimit is to be laid kid at plymouth on the first of august next thirteen years is the tho maximum of tirrie allowed for its construction and it is expected to bo be one odthe of the most magnificent monumental structures in the world si sar SA f total a it fount outstanding 2 19 inter interest ti 0 be raised annually 84 S inking sinking fund fand to be raised annually GG oge t amount of sinking fund 00 oo the debt os san 7 franeisco francisco aar isco if is really larger large r tian viall that of the stalo stale cx ex IVA gumer ort orr the washington nein the corner tone of which was waa laid vi on the fourth arth ol 01 july 18 lashas been raised ralpd to the height of feet fret at an expense of 00 the origin original rl estimate efti estI mate niale 0 of f tile the cost coat of tit the tile whole work was nta uta ETA 7 A dispatch dip dit froin groin washington to the tile nw N w york times dated dec alst 21 st says sayrs there is ro prospect of an sn organization of or the file house of representatives 3 et the day has been consumed in a running debate deba 1 te at the last accounts banks of massachusetts was ahead t 15 7 three steam steamers rs were mere burnad at the levee at st louis on friday Novem november bei 7 loss estimated at from trie western PLAINS PLATO by the politeness of an officer of hie the united slates stales anav who hai has lust iet let itt returned from fort laramie La raime the editors of the st louls louis democrat have been hern placed paced in possession of information from that quarter several weeks later umit than any before rece received ived ired the news is is thus hafed in the Deml democrat erat ernt gen marcev Har nar nev who wiio a our mir readers renders have been a ready already advised dv ie is i now at fort laramie made a dema demind rid lid upon the S of the platte for the murderers of the mail patty pay he ile stated that he had bad a already breid v visited I 1 et punishment ent n unon upon pon t tarra h rm for I 1 fhe the h e murder of grattan and his hii command but that as lons ions of peace he must have delivered to bif bit him 7 those indians who had com corn mittel mitt pi 1 inird er above alluded to as also the file murderers murderer q 0 of bihson after ris rik depa hrom irom from fort laramie laralle the indians consisting consi stin chiv chir of sioux came into the neighborhood of the fort and anti asked leave eave care to encamp there this was granted them and thereupon three of the he murderers of the mail party came to the fort dressed in full fill war costume painted for their death sons and rave gave themselves up tip or to use their own espre throw their ilves lives anav for the good of the tribe I 1 they were redleaf red leae leaf and lonz lonschein Lon sChin chin the two brothers of nie hie bear bean 1 or Matte iowan lowan who was killil hild kill il in the he affair with leut leuf gratan grattan and fsr ost tail at the same ulye hire alo al aio adored o red plume plump and the spotted elk came in and voluntarily offered themselves tiem selves as hostages bost host azes for the file peace peace of rf the taiba tribe they were all ali accompanied by their squaws squads and were at once placed linger tinder guard afterwards they tiie ille were al broucht brou wilt glit lown lown town to fort leav lea V under the charce charge of brevet major maion I 1 hn son of the ath infantry nry and ami an escort of twenty men accompanying these were W D smith and leuf leut gordon the he latter of whom only came as far as 2 fort rile the kwe ree beneral disposition di position of the sioux of the south platte seems to p incline to peace and their action in this tills behalf c certainly ceita celta ei evinces such a feel inz they tiley would have sent in all five of the niini murderer darers hut but one of them is too ill to he be moved whilst tile the other haq has flad the he villace village in regard to the person who killed kill kiil d bihson they have already sent gut put atit runners to hinz h binz hinc inc inz hi him m in its and he may be expected to be delivered up tip the S sioux odix of the north missouri are however ho wever more troublesome and it is expected that the war with them wil will i have to be renewed in file the spring the troops in that quarter have for the present gone zone into winter quarters th the e men ore are re doing well weil but I 1 lie the horses are suffering a great deal deai d eai pai e 11 and dains very fast flying rumors of difficulties with willi the crow anti and cheyenne indians were afloat but as they came procip principally 1 ly from traders who were interested in the matter but little credit was attached to them |