Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — Overland California Mail. [ARTICLE]

Overland California Mail.

St. Louis, June 13. The Overland Mail of the 20th reached this place on Saturday night. The proprietors of the San Francisco Bulletin were fined SIOO each for publishing the confession of Mrs. Sickles. A party of Lieut. Beal s men were attacked at Pahatah Springs by the Majove Indians. The amount of gold dust shipped from Victoria for the month ending May 10th was $195,000. The United States sloop of war Decatur arrived at San Francisco on the 18th. The passengers report about 3,000 Texans encamped near Fort Belknap for the purpose of exterminating the Caddo Reserve Indians. The Governor of Texas called on the United States troops to quell the disturbance, and Maj. Van Doren had arrived in the vicinity with three companies of dragoons. On his way from Ft. Washita to Ft. Balknap Van Doren encountered a large body of Apache Indians, killed forty or fifty, and took twenty-eight prisoners. A special dispatch from Independence to the Republican says that a party of soldiers surprised about eighty lodges near Pawnee Rock, Kansas, and killed twenty-five men and twenty women.