TKKIMTOIMKS <>F TI1K I'NITF.I* STATES. 



783 



march and headlong charge down the 



.ml aiming trees 



:i places " \\liit-h it 



seem impos.iiMo to pa>s even on foot," 



.11 completely routing the 



. taking nine prisoners, and 



nig a large quantity of Indian stores. 



Is tin- chief atteniion, but the 



!,:is vast agricultural ->. A 



from Lieutenant Du Bois, at 



..veil, to the Commissioner of Agri- 



'1'liis post, established in 1865, 



the Kio Verde or San Francisco Kiver, 



etion with the; Salinas River. The 



:ion, comprising twonty- 



les, lies on both sides of the 



a farm was started this spring, an 



: IIP!.-; in length, being constructed 



tion." v>rn and sorghum had been 



!, and, at the date of the letter, were ready 



rvest; the corn-stalks averaging fifteen 



D height, and the sorghum yielding its 



third e planting. Vegetables of all 



tions tlourish, and cotton and wheat 



xtensively cultivated by the Indians. 

 The general election was held on Septcm- 



h. Coles Bashford, Charles D. Pos- 

 ton, ami Sai nicl Adams, all professing Union 



.nt?, wore candidates for delegate to 



Congress. The issue appears to have been 



rritorial administration. Bashford, 



i supporter of Governor McCortnick, was 



! hy a majority of several hundred. 



< drawn in but one county 



(Yarapai), whore the Democratic ticket was 



-ful by a small majority. Members of 

 both branches of the Legislature were elected 

 throughout the Territory. The total vote was 



- hford over Poston 491, over all 3-23. 

 The Legislature consists of a Council of nine 

 members, and a House' of eighteen. The ap- 

 portionment is made on the basis of 614 persons 

 to one member of the Council, and 307 for one 

 member of tin- House. The Surveyor-General 

 has been instructed to establish and survey the 



lian, and other lines embracing set- 

 tits. 



DAKOTA. In Dakota the standard parallels, 

 'lips, and subdivisions have been extended 

 within the Sioux Indian reservation, west of 

 Big Stone Lak.\ and so as to enclose a small 

 northern bend of that reservation falling within 

 the Minnesota line, the aggregate of the sir 



being equal to tour hundred and twenty 

 inile^ embracing fourteen townships, contain- 

 total of one hundred and fifteen thousand 

 one hundred and eight acres of the Sioux or 

 ta Indian lands. It is stated that immi- 

 grants are rapidly setting into the Territory, 

 he, Kastern, Middle, and Western States, 

 and from foreign countries. This Territory, 



possesses finer attractions, in th< 



of rich mineral deposits and fertile lands, than 



many other localities, while the hostility of the 



Indians has proved a serious obstacle to its 



.icut. Treaties made with these roving 



Indians are soon broken, and they attack the 

 unsuspecting HI. a the mil- 



itary posts maintained in the Territory are not 

 exempt from assault. On December 21st there 

 was a massacre of United States troops, near 

 Fort Philip Kearney. Three officers and ninety 

 men were killed, not one of the company es- 

 caping; all were killed and scalped, their bodies 

 stripped, and cut with knives and tomahawks, 

 and pierced with arrows. The troops were 

 gradually allured to a point four miles from 

 the fort, when they were surrounded and 

 slaughtered. 



This new post, in the centre of the mountain 

 district, I)epartment of the Platte, and also in 

 the heart of the chief hunting-ground of the 

 hostile Sioux and Cheyennes, and being the 

 first substantial occupation of the new short 

 route to Montana, deserves notice. The ex- 

 pedition sent to establish it left Fort Philip 

 Kearney May 19th, nnder command of Colonel 

 II. B. Carrington, Eighteenth United States In- 

 fantry. Fort Philip Kearney is in the forks of 

 the Piney Creeks, on a natural plateau 800 by 

 600 feet, with a natural slope or glacis on all 

 sides. 



The stockade is of pine, hewn to a touching 

 surface, pointed, loop-holed, and after the gen- 

 eral plan of Mahan. At two corners are block- 

 houses of eighteen-inch pine logs. The parade- 

 ground is 400 feet square, and was surveyed 

 and laid out before the turf was cut by any 

 wagon-track. Walks 12 feet wide cross the 

 parade, bending around a circle of 15 feet 

 radius, where a flag-staff of 100 feet displays 

 the national colors. A graded street of 20 feet 

 borders the parade. The additional 200 by 600 

 feet is a quartermaster's yard, with warehouses 

 and shops. 



East of the fort, and taking in Little Piney, 

 is a corral for stock, hay, wood, etc., with pal- 

 isade 10 feet high, and quarters for teamsters, 

 citizen employes, etc. 



This massacre has aroused the attention of 

 the Government, which has been actively pre- 

 paring to commence a vigorous and decisive 

 campaign against the hostile Indians in Dakota, 

 Kansas, and Nebraska, in the spring of 1867. 

 At the last election, the total vote was 847. 

 \V. A. Burleigh was chosen delegate to Con- 

 gress, by a majority of 839. The Legislature is 

 divided as follows : 



Council. Ilonsc. 



Republicans, >' 



Conservatives, 13 18 



There are seven counties in the Territory. 



IKAHO. This Territory has for some time 

 been the favorite resort of miners, on account 

 of the surpassing richness of its mineral depos- 

 In addition to an almost exhaust less 

 supply of gold and silver, nearly all the metals 

 useful to mankind, and employed in the arts, 

 are found in great abundance, and will require 

 the industry of centuries to develop and utilize 

 them. The annual product of the mines cannot 

 be ascertained, as the greater part of the cnid? 



