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The Recent Indian Fight—Capt. Stewart, cf 15a!l iraore.Tim Bulliutine i’atiint says:—In n lute New Yolk paper, I In-in Uuii i'K-tract from the Council 151 utl%( lows) lu-i$le of ilie i'tli instant, giving an account somewhat inaccurate, nt'the capture *y tliu Indians, on the 2.rth ultimo, of the Mormon watjeii truin ofSocretuiy Bali-iiitt, uf Suit I,nke. of tlio murder of two tnen and u child belonging to tliu train, of tlio rucapturo of the wagons, money, and other valuables, which worn turned over to lint Colonel cornmandiiiR the United Stales troops sent mi tlm 28lh ultitnn in pursuit nf the Indiana, uuil which propeity was conveyed to Port Kearny.Tito oflicer refered to in that extract is tint n Colonel, hut our fellow townsman, Capt George II. Slouattof the First Cavalry regiment. In the month ul June last, when engaged in field duty in Kansas,.Jte whs sent hy Col. Sumner, with his small company of ahout thirty men, to relieve Fort Kearny, in Nebraska, on the Platte river, which at tlutt time was besieged by a band of Cheyt'nnu Indians.Capt. S. loll Leavenworth on tlio 221 of Juno und arrived nt Ki-urny on the 2d of July, where he found Capt. Wharton, of tiro Sixth Infantry, with his eom-miritd of the post; the Cheyennes gone, ns was supposed, to a considerahlu distance to hunt holl'iilo, and their camping ground around the post occupied hy the I’uwnees, a Iriho at war with the Cheyennes and liiemlty to ua. On the 2d of August, Lieut. Wheaton of the same regiment, (First Cavalry,) arrived with un escilrt of sixteen men nt Fort Kearny bringing with him the famous Sioux piisioti-rs ciiptureil last year hy Gen. Muiney, and mnv sent on their journey home, with orders to Capt. Siuuari to take charge of them and escort them lo Foi t Lurimie, nn the uoitli fork of the Platte, about §00 miles west nf Ki-nr-iiv. and on this side of the Rocky tnuuir lain*.The next day, SJtlt ul August, Capt. S. was prepining to march, when tlm mail cm tier ftmn Salt Luke, due that day, came in at the trip nf tlm .speed of his learn, announcing that he had been attacked anil pursued hy nbotil twenty-five Cheyennes, on the toad about eight miles from Kenirtyjlhat lu.-h ud been wounded, and was indebted f.u his mil -nculotis esenpo to the throwing out of hi* nmil wagon several hogs of corn,w liirh lightened the vehicle, mid thin,enabled him lo increase his speed.— Copt. S. was immediately despatched with his own company of twenty-five men and Lieut. Wheaton's detachment of sixteen moil, to find and chasti.su the Indians who committed the assault. They sunn I cached the pniiit(ciglit miles)I whom (ho corn was scattered in the mail ! but it was then loo dnik to discover u-l ny dad. anil the horses wore imnicdiote-| ly unsaddled, no liies made, and daylight waited for.At the dawn of day. on the 25th, the I pursuit was toiiewcil.(two of the Si mix I prisoners; Standing lilk and lied Lear, j acting ns guides.) and continued for ten I limns through the almost impassable i hanks and islands nf the Plutto river,, when nt half past 4 P. M. tlio enemy | was discovered (about 45 warriors.)| They worn immediately charged by | Captain Stounrt and his lieutenant Me-I Intyre, on the left, nud Lieutenant Wheaton on iht* right; and in a ahn.it time dispersed, ten killed, a large number wounded, and all the properly ul i the hand captured, including 24 horses, j Those who escaped wine pursued uri-| til night. This was rlnno withotrtu man ! killed nr wounded on the part nf t ho as-i a idants, who returned the next day In the post.| On the 27th, when Captain S.. was j about taking up the lino of march for , Laramie, two men who escaped the, massacre of Col. Babbitt's Miiirnou wagon train nu the night, of tlio 25th, at | Wired liver, about twenty-nine miles from Kniirny, came thert, trod, os soon I as arrangements could ho made for go-j ing ill pursuit of those maraude.rs, Cap-I tain Steuart took with him the same 1 force as on tliu first occasion, (iiliinit forty men.) and, proceeding rapidly In Wood river, round the dead bodies on | tliu road.(two rnoti ami one child (shockingly mangled. Having buried them, i the company continued its search for I the Cheyennes, hut wore unable to j make out the trail, though assisted hy tliu Sioux prisoners in a lung and painful search.They were so fortunate, howover, as to fall in with a patty of Otnahtis, und to recover from them the four wagons anil sumo of the effects of Col. Babbitt which had boon abandoned hy I ho Cheyennes. Willi this recaptured propeity the troops returned to Pott Kearny, where, on tin) 1st of September, it was not known whether Cti(it. H. would tit ortce proceed with the Sioux prisoners tn Kurt Laramie, or ho required to re-main at Port Kcarny(for protection nf that post null the mails to Oregon and I CnlihiHiia passing hy that post) until or-I dots ware tuceivml from Gen.,Smith, nt i Port Leavenworth.
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American Union
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Sat, Nov 08, 1856
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