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Show Til K It 1,1. ki:iv Forfj Reported to be Killed j iu the jLtaie surprise AiLucIa. I San Francisco, 2d. A Silver city dispatch sys: Tne assault made upon itbeludiana al Curry creek turns out ! to be a success. It was a eurpriee to the Sfivage, about forty of whom were i killed. Toe soldiers were very cool ; in the charge. The Indian force 1 present wjs estimated al 700, but was probuhly doI so large. The Indians retreated to their stronghold in the S.e;n mountains. Howard, with lbs forces at his present commaud, is i making forty five miles a dny, -nd will efiect - junction with Beri.ard i to night. It is estimated that the ; whole forcn of the savage warriors number 2,100 The Indians will U pursued, aud there is every prospect i of a protracted campaign in th- Sif m monutains. Ibe country is well adapted for defensive operations. A Portland dispatch says: Tue lateBi news from Ghief Moses is to tbe efiect that he has 1,500 warriors, web armed and desperate. A large parto) bis band is composed of renegades from tbe otber tribes. Tbe luJiana ou the resjrvaiion sympathize with Moses with tew exceptions, and in the case of an outbreak Moses wouiu ; be reinforced by 4,000 or 5,000 reservation reser-vation Iudniitt It this should be tb case it would nke 20,000 troitpe is capture hiin loes Bays he d;?i tut want to tiat, but if the whitoo wautlo fight be Is rt-ady, aud il he is lakr-n to the reservation, be- will be t. keu there de.-d. I It 1) r Ot l.JO, HnnH.u the Indians m . '.c th ir fitol demon-str:t.tious demon-str:t.tious of hostility of tbe season in this secii.in, by firing upon two citizens of bead wo wuo were on ft huutioj tiip ur t-ie Rt-dwarei, thirty miie- Irni here. Tne men baa ku.ed an Miilelupe and were fastening it oo iw.i pjmes wueu two pii l were fired it and Btruck iu close proximity lo them. They quickly dropped the antelope and madelheir escape fol owed by several more shois Irom tbe hostiles, five ol whom were in view. Yesterday three men made tueir appearance in Galena city, from Bear Buiiu, ucd reported that a baud of about fifteen Indians bad run tbem in. General Bradley and com ma no are in tbe vicinity ot Kedwater aud i wiil doubtless Eonn come in contaci with some of these roaming bands of I boetiles. |