“You think he may have sunk so low as to become a creature

the winter of 1855-'56, till late in March.

AN INDIAN CONFEDERATION--MASSACRE AT THE CASCADES OF THE COLUMBIA-

-PLAN TO RELIEVE THE BLOCKHOUSE--A HAZARDOUS FLANK MOVEMENT--A NEW

METHOD OF ESTABLISHING GUILT--EXECUTION OF THE INDIAN MURDERERS.

The failure of the Haller expedition from lack of a sufficient force,

and of the Rains expedition from the incompetency of its commander,

was a great mortification to the officers and men connected with

them, and, taken together, had a marked effect upon the Indian