Show akson VALLEY dec 4 1858 this locality is 13 daily increasing in in importance the humboldt valley telegraph fa fis completed to this point and we are now in constant communication with Pla Ilace cerilli mlle sacramento and san francisco I 1 J A press has arrived and we hope to have a newspaper in full mast blast next nest week I 1 was ahrag at hag town a few days agnand i abile there the belvi news came in that abig a 0 big talk was about to take place on 11 carson lake 10 some twenty five miles distant from 11 rag town by major r dodge the indian agent to some of ins his piute diute wards immediately myself and two others saddled up and rode over to the council where vve w were ere kindly received by the agent who mo me with the names of the principal chiefs viz 0 derk e o tall man pe tod se ka aca white spot and to sarle grey head these chiefs sat bat in in the centre of a halt circle which was formed by the bucks on the right and the squaw s and children an the lefta left all setting close together side hy by we side facing 1 the ageia through the courtesy of whom was p permitted permitted ermit ted to count them and found 1 rid there ther was 1628 three head chiefs 48 men women and children major P F dodge addressed them thi through ough his interpreter interpret ert for two hours in in a most able manner I 1 find lie he is one of our practical alf denver denier kind of men I 1 lie ile explained to the indians the true nature of his hia mission that the presents was sent to them by their great father at washington and of whom by the bye they had never heard of before lie he told the chiefs he should hold them responsible cespon sible tor for the good conduct of their different bands and a nd that if any dif faculties occurred between them and the whites they must apply to him for redress and rot take the law in their own hands byl by killing and stealing if they committed any 0 of f these crimes their great father would send out his war captain with a host 0 braves and sweep the last one of them froal trou i the face of their hunting grounds lie he also explained to them the fatal results of whisky drinking and against bartering the virtue of their companions lie ire told them there were many mean white men ben in their country cou itry ready to take the last buckskin and give them poison I 1 on I 1 in n return called whisky hisky his hia whole discourse was good kind moral advice directed against crime an and the whisky trafficker icer and encouraging to the poor down doh n trodden outcast red red man I 1 could plainly see the major caused new rays of hope to penetrate genetra te their benighted souls arid and god grant the government may I 1 permit him to carry them into effect the agent then distributed the presents to the lu anual enedy needy A t to at th a arid and to some a pair of pants frying pas pars butcher knives tobacco ac the the s squads squaws lua s received five yards blue arili drilling or calico I 1 thread need needles lesy ac J the agent now dismissed this portion of his us charge amidst unanimous exclamations of 1 good american capitan cap i tan and oell of whom am they may be well proud for in in major dodge the indians have a kind and devoted protector and the government an efficient and faithful public servant I 1 ile he informed me that he be had finished his trip on the carson river for this season having traveled from its source soune to its sink and is now preparing tor for a similar one to the truckee river and pyramid lake |