226 HISTORY OP CALIFORNIA. 



murdered, was taken, the villages found to be deserted, 

 and the white settlement abandoned. 



" On the 20th, the Indians, two or three hundred 

 strong, were discovered within two miles of Bear 

 River, upon an elevated conical hill. An engagement 

 took place, in which eleven Indians were killed and a 

 number wounded. About fifty of the state volunteers 

 were engaged. None were killed, but Captain Hoyt, 

 Lieutenant Lewis, and Mr. Russell were wounded. 

 Major Frederick Emory (brother of Major Emory, 

 United States Topographical Engineers of the bound- 

 ary Commission,) was accidentally shot through the 

 thigh with a rifle ball. He was aid-de-camp to General 

 T. J. Green. 



" On the 25th, the Indian Chiefs "VVeimer, Buckler, 

 and Pooliel, came in, by permission, and entered into 

 a treaty of peace between the three tribes, severally 

 represented, and the State of California and Govern- 

 ment of the United States. The treaty is sensible 

 and comprehensive." 



In the following, among other interesting intelli- 

 gence, will be found an account of that which was 

 expected long before it occurred — the resistance of 

 some of the numerous body of foreign gold-seekers 

 to the tax imposed upon them. The license tax is 

 certainly a just one; but the foreigners presumed 

 upon their number and strength, that they had power 

 sufficient to resist its imposition. The easy exci- 

 tability of the Americans, upon any subject connected 

 with their own soil is well known ; and it is exceeding- 

 ly strange that a serious collision did not take place. 

 We extract from the Alta Californian, of June 1st, 

 1850. 



The Alta Californian has letters from Stockton to 



