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The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Battle with Indians. (search)
Battle with Indians. --A letter to the St. Louis Republican states that Col. Crittenden, son of the distinguished United States Senator, on the 27th of December marched from Fort Union at the head of eighty-eight men and officers of the mounted rifles, in pursuit of a large war party of Comanche and Kiowas, who were reported to be depredating on the Cimmeroncita. After following their trail rapidly, sometimes by night, he found and surprised them on the morning of the 2d of January, in ccamp, (one of them containing exclusively ammunition,) all of which were destroyed. Ten warriors were left dead; number of wounded unknown. Corporal Bourke, of the rifles, and three privates were wounded, none mortally. The officers with Colonel Crittenden, were Captain Lindsay and Lieutenants McRae, W. H. Jackson, and Claflin. The Indian force was probably several hundred. Only sixty rifles were actually engaged, and the whole affair is regarded as one of the most daring, brilliant, and su
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
way to the presidential mansion are arrant nonsense. -- Douglas always declared that his speeches in the Senatorial campaign were written for him. Suspect this is the fact. The man is excessively weak in intellect. But those who know the tell me he has great moral firmness. Can Seward on whose assertions Virginians have placed so much reliance, and with whom Virginians are going to form a Union party--can seaward control this obstinate, weak-headed creature. Guthrie's variation on Crittenden's amendment has been definitely selected as the tune to which the Border States are expected to It will be opposed in the Peace Congress by Southern-Rights men. It contains no guarantees of power. It secures peace only so long as we have a majority in Congress.--But we have no such majority, and never can have I doubt whether it will pass either House. It will do for the Virginia Convention to wrangle over until Lincoln gets into power That's its only value. Lincoln and Hamlin were