Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1876, Page 7

THE CHICAGO LRIBUNIS: MONDAY, SULY 17, 1876. THE INDIANS. pight Hundred Choyennes About to Join Sitting Bull's War Party. @on. Morritt and tho Fifth Cave alry Will Attompt to In- " fercopt Them. An Intellizgent and Compre- hensive Review of the Indian Question. Outhreaks that Have Oec- curred Since the Minne~ sota Massacre of 1862. ‘ The “Bad” Indians Encouraged by Repeated Military ) Failures, ~ Coupled wwith the DMischiovous Effccts of tho I’oaco Policy, THE WHST, IED-CLOUD AGENOY. Cnpyosns, Wy, July 10.—In concequence of a teport from Capt. Jordan, commanding Camp Robinson, that B0 Cheyonnes wore about To leavo Red-Cloud Agency for the North, Gen Morritt has dolayed the proposed movomont of the Fifth Cavalyy northward from Fort Laramid 1a Jotn Crook, and haa moved fttoa position whero ho oxpects to Intercept. those Indlans, nnd, If possible, give them o warn receptlon. The two courlers started on fhelr roturn trip from Foltorman far Crook's camp this cyening, aud will reach him {n threedays, RATOCK-STEALING. James Malonoy and two ofhers, with twenty hend of horses, on route for Lawrenco's ranche, from that of W, C. Trvino, 80 miles northwest of Ogollala, Nob, were attasked hy Bsevep Indlans, who nnrf(mmlu'd nudlnnnn:d )flmfl on N mounting hey relurned the fire, g'fl'x“nmfl-"énfi {‘udlfiv\, 'whyen the stock atnm: cded, the Indians flna]ly n;:;lmng popsession of t; and leaving for the blufls, 7 QPP YOR TUE WAR. Nzw Yonx, July 16.~~Threo companics of the Tuird Artlllery from forls In tho harbor will icava bero to-morrow for tho Indian country under command of Col. Wildrick. - OROOK, * M3 COMMAND SAFE. Spectal Diapaich to The Tribune. Onoox's ExmmniTion, Camp ox Goosp CRrEEK, July 12, vla Fort Fettorman, July 16— Rinco Crank'a Rosehud fight our command bps been waiting for supplics. They will arrive to- day, and an advance will bg magde probunbly to combine with Gan. Terry, now in camp at Fort Pease, on the Yallowstono. Today privaies Eyons, 8tewart, and Belly,, of (apt. Ciiffonl's company, Bovenih ., Infantry, camo in,. bringing dispatchios from Torry, which confirm the hor- rible. maasacre pf . Cyster's cpmmand. Gen. Torry hga proposed co-aperation, walving Lis rights ns scnlor oflicer, and it Is supposod that our line of march will he to old Fort C. ¥ Smith, or across tho headwators of tha Rose- bud, thenee ta tho Little Bk Horn, thus placing the tiro commmandsg f cusy co-operative dlstance. ‘The darlng feat performed by Bell, Erans, and Btewart, tras made after repeated trinls by citf- zens, hall-breeds, and Indlans, Washakie, with aver 200 Bhoaliones, jolned us yostorday, crossfng the Big Horn' Mouutains from Wind River Valloy, Dissatisfaction has been exprossod with Gen. Crook's retiring - from Rosobud sfter’ Uls fight, It must now be acknowledged that thio judgmont was carrect, He salil wo are strong enough to whip thess fol- lows, but not on thefr own tepins. Licut. 8- Jey, Mr. Finerty, of the Chicogo, Time, qud Frank Gruard, with- twenty men of the Becond cavalry, left last week on’ a scont to find the Indlan - villago They returned on Sunday afoot, atarvieg, and 1o of the party dolirfoys from privations, Tho Sloux dlscovered and van thom futo the mountalns.. Thoy oscaped by sbandoning thelr horses in the thnber for the Blonx to fire at, and slipped out, traveling 100 miles to Lhis camp, without food or rcst,” ovor tha rougheat voad to bo found. ANOTHER DE&IATCH. Croox's Canr, Croun Praxk, July 13.—The following I8 recelved via Fotferman, to-night: Three soldiers, courlors from Gen. Terry, at the mouth of thq Big Horn, bave just arrived. Gen, Toryy’s diapatel’ to Crook coufirme Custerls fute, and implics vory plninly that, had Custer waited ono- dny longer, {lbbon "would have olngd him, Tarry {s anxious for Crook to join lorees, make plans and excoutq them, regard- less of rank. “‘The Indiana are still hovering nbout tho Little Big Horn, one day’s hard march from-hero. They hava fired into camp ever: night of late, and tried to burn ua oyt by sei- NI Tt Hines, Sompany E, 8 n tho G, len oY, ompnn; % Bees onil Cavalryy Witk twonty-five. men: Frant Gruard, and Baptiste Powcrioy, 44 acouts, weut on areeonnolseance, were discovered, surround- cdy aud followed {nto the thmbor of ‘the Nig Lorn Mountains, Where, by hitehing the harscs to trees unid abandoniug them, the' mon’ wero cuabled ta_eseapo on foot by way of a ravino in the rear. They all got back'ulive, and probably this diversion saved the camp from a grand at- tempt at stampoda or cwture. N “fhe Suaks Indlang, 20 strang, joined ua heto yesterday, but unless the Utes also came soon, o offonsivo uuc{nfluul w1 Lo likely totake laco wutll the araival of the Ftkh Cavaley romn Choyenno erossing. 4 Tho waggu-tenitt wnd additiona} {plantry ave dug from Fettermin to-day. % The health of the commund s good. Gop. GIhbon's reserve Lorep werp gt by tha victori- ous Bloux, dregscd in Custer'smen's clothes,and monnted on their horaes. The Iuliau villege posacascd evidonce af Irrhu‘u nu:ln‘a preseiics, kogs af whisky, etey bo- Ing fopul. l;zm‘ul Jires, suppased to be In reference to the Incoming wagon-traly, sye visiblo to the iwfl- of Crook'g canuis on the cxtreine south waters of Tongue River, Sy THE WILD INDIANS, THEU HISTAUY FROM TILE MINNESOTA MASSACRY o UNTIL TUE PUBSENT TIME, Wipecial Qatrespondence of T Tribung. Bavr Lags, Uteh, July 18.—=Untit 1845 Min- nesaty wus tho home of the Chippewas and Bloux, In 1840 a popylation of 4,000 or 500q whitcs and half-breeds had grown up around Lho trading-posts and inissions, nund the Terrl- tory of Minncsota wns cstablished, In 1851 the Bluux cedud to ghe United Btates. the terrltory west of the Missisalppl to tha Blg 8loux River. In 1853 Minnosota was admitted futo tha Unjon 08 1 Btate, and in 1860 had a populatiop of 175, Q0. ‘I'wo yeara later tho Slouxs, under Littla Crow, suddenly roso In {nsurrection, attacked villages, brlengucred forty, aud epread murdoy and devastation through a great part of thy Btatc, Truops wore scnt to the scene of dis- turhance, ‘the citlzens organized hpge Uly In dofence of sher homos, 8,000 mounted voluntcera were ralsed, and tha Indiay bands werp poner ylly repulserland dyiven Westward, ‘ Overtakonat Wood Lake, Scpt. 23, they were dofeated n a sbiarp fight, Littic Crow osaphug with' Lis women and ehlidren fo the Yaukion Bloux {n Dakots. Roma P00 were capr ll:gm. 483 of whom werq tried by coyrt-martial, 800 SZRTENOED 70 DR HANGED, Presldent Lincoln pardonod al} thess. but §8, whio were hauged fn Docembor. N I this Indinn ralil 80 peraonavers butcherod, 5000 driven from thelr homes, aud §5,000,000 ;:lr’:h ‘:lil prolperty deatroyed. 80 reported o nittca ¢! b . mxlfi«w s of tha Leglslyture appainted to tn 3ts causep woro noyey ascortalngl. The Qove yymant was puylng large anpultics™to the Bloux, and the peoplo wore living 1 penco aud teecnrity. There was talk of Confedernto agonts from the Sonth and from Canada making nis- chiof amang themj of wrongo and awlndling on tho part of ngenta; of bad falth ou the part of the Government, Probiably it was due, on the whole, to the wild nasutre of tho savage, chaling under the speclacle of whito prospority and Indlan deeadence. Fortwo or thteo years tho Indiana returnod in small bands and KENBWYHD TUR{K DECRBDATIONS as opportunity oftered, They .alsa proyed on tho overland omigration to Montana by the Upper Mtssourl, wiileh began about that thine. In Junc of 1303, Gon. Sibley, With 2,000 to 3,000 men, set out for Dovil's Loko, via tho Minncsota River and Fort Alercromble, whorg tho Sfoux wero gathered to the number of 5,000, At the samo thme Bully was to start up the Mise sourt River with o conpldorabla force, to cut off thelr retreat and ultimately to unite with Sibley, Tho Bloux scattered from thalr rendesvous, and flod before 8iblay, hut he struck a body of them July 24, and, after a sharp actlon brought on by their : 3 MUNDUNING A AURGRON approaching them to moct o flag ob truce, routed and disperacd them, Tosing hlmsolf four killod and one wounded. B 1o had brushes with them agaln on the 20th and 28th, but they escaped across tha Missourl; Sully had not arriveil, aud, having Bat fftoen dnys' rations left, he returncd to 8t. Paul. Sutly, for somo unexplained reason, started his part of $ho expedition & mongh late. o en- countercd somo of the same Indians Sopt. 8, and a hard battle ensued, rosulting in the do- Jeat of thio savages, Sully’s loss belug 20 killed and 38 wounded, This onded tha compalgning for 1883, Meanwhilo gold hnd beep discovered in Idado and Montann, and the whites poured In thére from all dircctfons, In the Istter part of 1863, 18 men, 1 woman, and 3 childron, returning down the Mlssourl from Idalio, wera sob upen and all killed at the mouth of Heart River, Ton men rafting logs ou the Marlas, near l-‘qri-_‘ Lon- ton, were RILLED AND MUTILATED fn the hest Indian siyle. Eusturn omigrants went overland divectly west from Minnesotas nome from Omaka via the Missourl River; othera by ho Platte to the mountajus, continulng thenco onward by 8alt Luke or Fort Bridger, or branching off through the Powder River country. On the plaius generally thie Indious formerly ronmed at will, The discovery of gold in Call- fornia gave rise toa stream of overland cmigra- tlon which it was necessary to protect, Accord- 1ngly, In 1851, treaties were inade conflning tha Crowa and Sloux to the Powder River lanis, the Choyonnes and- Arapahios to the South Platte. They retafned the right of way for hunting ovor the belt thrown apeit to travel, and were to be paid 250,000 n year for fifteen yoars to allow and not to molest this overland f: Ten yeurs later gold waa discovered nt Plice's Peal,, ehg wh{tu ushed fn, and snother treaty wos made with tho Choyeniics and Arapahios (1861), coufining thein to the country on the tkavaas, and thrawing apen Colorado to set- tlement, ‘Fho Goveymuent agrecd to protect them there, to pay each tribe $30,000 a year for fifteen years, aud o furnish themn with slock and n.g';le\llmr.xl implementa, 'here was no troublu to spogk of with any of the Plains Indiang until after. TIE MINNESOTA MASSACRE OF 1862— until after the campaigna of Bibloy nnd Sully, following that gvont, had drivon tho Minnesota and Yankton 8loux” wull to the westwanl, where, mlngllné with the ather Sloux. tribcs, and with the Cheyenucs mind Avapajips, they filfed them with thoir own wild u;;pg‘qh!nnhmu and thirst for rovengo and slanghtcr. 2 Thero had been trouble, howevir, tn Utah, wlilch tlll‘n A all'l‘llwll' m:t.!:od l{u’ somo do- sultiol iting; some ruating, rayin bnpl(‘z%ng. guml Plecding, nl finally pbyflu%;‘ sbandonment to the Indlans of twp or throe caunties In which thers werp about thirty settiemonts, This placed mnttera on u peace Dasls In Southern Utali. {1" tho Rocky Moun- taiug, batwgon Denver and Balt Lake, aud to-. ward Naw Mexleo, were the muln Ute tribes, with who the V\‘lllwi of Colornslo managed for umt Ix:]\u’lt.fimn to remaiu on goud tepng, snd do to 13 o & To the »xmrul of Utah there wan no passing sofoly I any direction until after the battle. of Bear River, fought Jan. 40, 1803, by about 200 of the garrison of Camp Dmu;[ na " nuler Gen, Connor, in which, with o lous of twoenty killed and thifky wounded, 500 to 400 of the Bnako Utg, and Ba‘xmwk braves were made * goot Indfans"—killed. The tribes In that quarter havo wver since helavod themselyes. They wory 1ot styong enough to foul thelr wild ‘onts any wmore. n dune, 1864, Sully led another expedition up the Missaurt, Ikc catablished Fart Jlice, und, maving westward Into the desert some miles, oncountored tho Slous wear Meart River, July 48, Diginountivg, 1Y YOUOHT TUEM ALL DAY, dofeating and driving them at last, losing bim- golt two kllied, sevon wounded, and sixtuen horees. Ile waa stapped in pursuit by the Bad Launds, and foreed to raturn ta camp, Starting oyt flefllll towurd the northwest, b came np with them the second time, Aug, 8, und skir- mished withe thein two duys, umrmmg and scatiorlngethom, with lttle or na loss on Lis part, Hg then crossed over to the Yellowstone, andreturned by stemmner, one having coma up to support hilm. That was the fret navigation of that stream, It wes during tha spring of 1801 that the Iu- dlgns,—8loux, Choyennes, and Arupalos, -who {utermarry and have alwaya been almost 1s one {ribe,—{irét hegan o vaid the stago liup to Dey- veor, and to mrdor'oxposcd eettlars in Colormdo, burn their housea and run off thelr stock. After & thne Col, Olllvl;l‘gl;wn, it command at Denver, tuxmltwd 4 subordiuate’ atlicor -to destroy thu Clicyonno village at Cedars Bluily, killing 26 Indfans and wounding K. Mattars grew woras fustend of hetter after that. Tho Yiatte routo was swept elear of stations, vanchics, trains, and stages fram Kunsas o Colorade; the overland coachics were turned hack and taken off from August to October fuclusive; and Colurado got no moils except by way of the. Isthmus and, Callfornia. " s Voluntuers wore ralsed in Kaunsas and Colo- rado, truops were sent forward frum the posts on the frontier, hut all to no purposc, . Tbo Ine shians appesred here and thete, WHBRD MURDLL WAS TO IE BAFELY DONE, n sinall parties, 1kt -a flash of Jghtulng, did thule work, und wore gong as qulfid y leaving nauglod remalua of men, watnen, and ohildren, wud smoking rulns only to witnessagainat thom, Orton womdn were carried off to u fute worse than tho craclest death. 1t 15 told In a fuw warda, but words give uo idea of the horror aud terror of thut tlme to thosu upon whom the enlmnity fell and to the surviving friends of tho victhma, No_porson, whatever hls business, passed uw;i the Piains from Aufi: l‘ 184}, ta tha samo tmo twelyemonth, who didn't (ufm ten- fold thio slsk of au ordiuyey soldler in an aver- age battle, By 'Thus tho soason of 1864 drew toa close, aud the Indians, having cscapod nll puulshnent whatgver, began 1o ldicato s willingness to [rmt for peace, ag Ihu‘r tertaed ft—to cume fu to o posts and] bo fed duping the winter, and. UGSUPPLIBD WITIT ANISS AND AMMUNITION for u ow campalgn uexl sumimer, a3 thuseitlors nterproted it, 'lhu( word Lold by thelr nnngjpal agents, In same Instances, to pasembla ot Fort Lyon, glva Ep thelr arts, and” they would bo protected. ume of thein had perhaps taken no part in the peason's disturbanees, and roally dcn'ln:ll to_ha a: puml:c:;lr!a lm-mg B b 8, bclonglng toall the “different bands or rrlbt , had dotio 'l the devlltry thoy L?uuld; nl?d sought peaco now only ns n oaus of preparing {ur anothur scuson's war, It was o way thoy had for 3¢ine of the chiefs aud old nsn ot inost overy ¢lan to alwuys 3 i J":"“" QUIET AND le]"l‘nAcl," ¥ while thelr young mon were lng tho tol huwke and “scalplng-Knife, ..,Y {I\ 5 \‘leun' :5'."75 were ealled to account, the men ‘clalinlng ud- ?mmy mnongnnmm could all elalm to 'fnvo With the whites; “while een " good Indlens,Y and nobody could | ound wghvnr the responsibility of” the dmurlf nees. g x At nll eveuts, white Ma). Wynkoop and other gents wero telllng thom o gatlier at Fort yon it they didu't” want to bestruck by the {roops, now " just fairly ready in their furn to tnku thefiold, Col, CLif hu_ztmjglul his forcea in gt divection, and en Nav. 59, 1864, surprised t‘ho(r camp at 8and Creek, near Fort 0, amd H1lod bundreds of thony, with but Hittfo loas tp himsolf. Wiile most Westéra inen passton- ately justitted this m:liml of c!‘"""t!w“ 'y, there wur{ somo who did not. Theso managed to HAISY A TENUILLY OUTONY - walnst it among tho scntimuentallsts of the ast, whore it waa termed o Ymassacre," and, ter Qungressionnl investigation, It passed Into story as guch, no wveonnt being takon of the fact that fresh sgalps pu end of plunder wers found among thum (y Chivington’s men, proyiug that the marawl- ng Indiuns were of thoso gttgeked, amd that hey, at least, had been Justly punished. It lo” funocpny sulfored with the &;ullly §t way nore tho misforfunps of the JTudiang than the u?(li of l.‘.nu‘v,'l‘mcfi. 3 b i el e ractival effeet was bagly sud anly bad, For Ewml‘cl, I act the whole tdv of Bastern sontiment sgainst them, and from that date Ao avent aroso tho * Peace party,” ox it was valled, whicnh has since lmmp«n:d the Govern- ment In all Its deallngs with the Indlans, and inade Ita wara agalnst them futile. Tpa Inhana togurded It as the grosscst had falth, They at once renewed thelr aftaks al filv"v n:uln.bln polut; swept the Platte rouls ear of RVERYTING NUT BONES AND ASIIRS; Blockndeal Coforado far the winter, and forced tho rending of - the malls via the Tathmus and Galifornla,” Exposcd settlements fn Colarado ;\ymlll :s?lfir:n wore devastated with a fury perfect- al1. Chivington was reliered by Col, Moonlight, who put “Colorado under martial Inw and com- pelled tha peopla to ralse and equip 860 mount~ ed men to opon and gunrd th routs cast. hnr{; In 1805 Gen. Connor was ordored over from Utah and placed fn command of tho De- Imnmonl of the Platte, Ho sent Col. Moor ight to Laramie, whore 1,500 of the Indlans had coma In and glvon thamselves up. Connor or- dord them 1o be sent down to the line of the Unfon Pactfle road, whore he was guing to ¢ PUT TITEM TO WORK UNDER GUALD, On the way dawn they mutinfed, killed the ol vara in eharge of the uscort, nid aftor a hard tus- slc eseapesd neross the riverand fled north again. Maonlight was ordered vut after thom. He made 1o or throe marchos, and, turning out lis arses without a guard une night, the Indinns stampoder thom, aud ho was obliged tg return tu Laramle afuot, Gen. Connor now dotermined to relleve the Platta route and the Colorado settloments by making a campalgn Into the Powder River cotntryy similar to that undertnken this sum- por. Thers were tho villages contaning the familics of ' TIERS PLAINS MARAUDENS, antd Connor knew that to threaton them wonld eall them liome, Howns to go in from Laramic with 500 mon. Cole mnd “Walker were to go in from Omnha with 1,500, and Sully vin the Yellow- stouc with a competent force. After effecting a Junction on Rosebud, they were to mualte a sixt! sy’ eampaign with paclk animals, nud then, [t necessary, g winter campnign, Sully “was no sooner well Into the Indiun tounts’y than he was recalled without nrlkln;i n blow. “Connor lilinself was dolayed il late, by Wia supplies, under contracts loosely made Ly the War Department, gofng to Denver instead of Laramie, 1lc marched in, however, at Inst, cstablished Camp Connor on Powder River, now Fort Reao, and got {n slx tnonths’ suppli Mo wus then procemding northward to the ap- polnted yendezyvous on Roscbud, when hls scouts brought him wun} of an Arapaho vil- lage on Tongue River, tohisloft. He turned off, e a forced night march of 40 miles, ane entered a villaze. just at daybreak, fnd tho Indiaus strllclng unm‘). Thiey sluer{ thelr “familiea and traps up regm_toward the mountaing, the braves follow- iug and defonding as woll as they could. Con- nor attacked at onee, RILLED BIXTY-TIREE INDIANS, deatroyed what was left of the villnge, took a few prisonors and 600 ponies. 1fe pursued them rapldly for 10 milcs, aud, halting for breath, found that. only fifteen inon hiad “kopt up with biiny, the rest huvhng fullen belind hetauso their stock gavo out. Hé turned back, and so did the ndinns, who (nllnvflcd him to the site of -the ustroyed villnge, Inflicting moroe lozs on him In his rotreat than in his advance, Arrived there, ha let his {il‘lfibll!l‘!‘ 0, tellidye them to sny to the Arapaho chict that if ho would go in to Loramio and give lmself up ho would not be furthor moleated, ‘o pow ondeavored to open communieation with Colo and Walker, who, by tho \rn!i' had ancounterod Indlous on Powder River, and heen beaton hack, witl tho luss of most of their stock, up tho viver toward Camp Cannon. The In- ans, between the two forees, prevented Con- uor's scouts from getting through. Iie had de- tached o considernble part of his eniall command on this orrand,and to escordtho Niobrara wagen, rond expedition, attacked on Tongue River, At lust somo of his scouts found where Cole and Walker had sliot bundreds of their stock ut tho liuo to keop them from fulling into the Tiands of the Indlans, wud in fact overtook tho command within 25 mlles of Fort Connor, DI§MOUNTED AND BANEFOOTED, and living on inunle meat, slowly retiring sonth- ward up the river bofors tho Indfans. On ro- ecipt of-this news, there was nothing for Connor to do but return to Canp Connar himaclf, HIere ho found dispatehics which had long beon on his track, ordering hin to send his troops to Leavenyorth to bo d scharged, and himsclf to roburn to Salt Lake, 1t was naid that tho cnm‘mlgnu of 1805 cost 30,000,000 and gesulted fu little, if any, good. Thov relieved the Platte route and the Irontiers of Coloradn and Keusas, but thelr effcet, on the whole; was bad, Thoy wora well-planncd, and at least Connor’s part of them executed with spirit and judgment, hut the oflicers in the field were not unly not supported,—they wers re- enlled just as they were enterivg on the cam- puign; and it go happened as_ta leavo the jm- resafon stronz upon the Indlans that they had driven them out of the Pawder River reglon. by main force. Even after Coonor's seeming rotreat from tho Arapaho village, und . ufter Cole and Walker's luss of slack and re- treat up Powder Rivor, they would no doubt, after uniting, recnperatiug, and remounting, hive cleaned out that nest of rattlesuakes thor- ougrhly but for thelr positive recall, " They wers recalied because TILE CIVIL WAL ITAD CRASID, and tha troups on tho plains, ralsed tp fight ro- bollloua whites, and not Indians, thought they wero entitled ta thelr discharge. The Gover- nors of States to which they belongod gave the War Depactment no Jmm.'u until they wers ro- called n|% discharged. Besldes, the “Peace men'’ wer busy overywhere, counteracting as much as they could thic efforts of “the officers in o fleld, - . It Coly and Walkor had folned Connor on Roscbud, hie woukd not have received any dls- patchiea. from headquartors _until ho had Lrougm tho Sloux to terms. Ha would have dono then, with 2,000 men, what 5,000 cannot do How$ tha Indlans are so much betler armed and propared, and so much more secustomed to dle- tating than recolving terno. As 1L was, the mlumlim Tail a disastrons effoct—an elfcet just now belug felt ut its worat, It'was sald that not o hundrod Indians hod lieon klled during tho . a’eur, and that the at- tempt to obtain peaco by meana of war was wholly futile, = TIE "PEACR MEN'' €TEPI'ED IN and conclizded a trenty with the Bouthern Ohey- onnea’ qud Arapahos “fu October, 1805, at the mouth of the Littlo Arkansns, proceeding on tha theary that tho whites had been wrong and the Indians right, at least from the day of Band Creck. Thia sceured a respito of a yeur or 8o in l,nnt quarter, but It was worsn thad evor in the Tawder River country, Thao best, if not the on- 'y routa to Montana lay through there; a route wnw;\hl{v threaded by trafns from Depver fn lsm before the Minhcsota Bloux had put the devll Into tho tribbs of that acction, 8o storipy was tho lorfzon in the ‘)DL'\]llnlnE of 1846 nmf Gen. Popo lasued an order fn March, requiring afl the wazous for the monntains to- sendezvdus ot Fort, Abererombe, at Kearno; ¥, OF Riley, gecording o thelr destination, to he there organized in tralns of twenty-tvo wazons cach, end ercarted by thirty men, ander a Captain, In Jung, Gav. Edgerton, of Montana, had to call out 500 men fur sixty days to drive buck the Ju- dians from the scttiements, - During the smummer Gen. Popo established Forts leno, Ol Phil Kearney, and C, F, S8mlth, to gurd the ronte to Montavin, The Tidians on the plaing, slnce the cccupntion hy the whites of Colorado, hud_vever agreed o a troaty with fiouél grace, Thelr orgenization was a0 loosy hul NO BIGNATURM BOUND ANYBODY but the ons whoinado it, and there wero always somao bands who refused to be representod at atl at tho treaty-making conferences, ‘They resisted the opsning of o routo of travel through the li’mydur River eountry with more xigor and uplon than ep any lormer sim- flar occcasfon, saying that Wis thelr lust resort, and, "~ if they 1gL the whites In there at all, they would them- splves be erowded out. Tho warfarp of the year. culml_ngml in the affyir of Dee, 31, 1 in which, near Old IPhit Kearney, they ambusended il kfllwl toaman a L‘Om'nny of troops sud a wood party, abaut 100 in all, Eprly fn 1807 Haneock Jed anothor expedition against the Southern Indlons, destruyed an Arapalio vlllaze on Pawueo Fark, sent Custer on to the 8niol fi Hill route,where ho Rad o fight with Pawpes Killer, who attacked a traln, Juue 2§, Custer waa reculled without lcuampihh(ng unything of lmportance. TANGOUK §IBLD S0MB CONIERENCES with tfim Indinns, nnd returned to Leaveuworth in Au‘illll, having aucceeded ouly in further ex- usperating them,” Depredations an pvery hand were continucd without epsaation. 'T'ha cugineers of the Unfon ‘uclfic wore driven fn, stations wero burned, settlemonts destroyed, stagses were fired jnto, nndtminicnlxtum , but {€ scemed lmpossible tp overtako the marauders snywhers i force, In August they throw a frelght traln off the ‘ track near Plum’ Oreek, kulufi the mon, ond gutted and burned the trin, Gen. Augur seut troops out there ot ance, and they had o sharp flfil"' with some 600 Bloux who cul up this caper, dliing fifty ta sixty of then, Moat of Augyr's farce, to the numnber of 3,000, wero muklu;{ lic uspul frylticss cunpalgn in the Powder River reglon under Gen. Gibhgn. TUB, MOST INVOUTANT AVFALR opeurred nuiir 10 Phil Kearney ygain, A band of wood-cutteys, eacorted by forty soldiera, were set on by o largy hody of Tngians, and wopld all have heen kiiled but“that volief peached then ubter threo howps' thehtlng, “LThe é! 1X ot or 60 fu’flis engageuenl. ‘Fhere wero other . Terry, aud Angu ta | rkirmlalics, but nowhere could the Indlans be brought to o declslye battle, Milltary operations proved so Ineffectnal, on the ° whole, fn suppreseing hostilities, that Gen. 8hermon recommeonded negos tintlon n8 tho only teans of secr- ing peace. lle sald Aty Indlams could checkmate 3,000 soldicrs. Arcordingly, Con- reas created a Peace Comunlesion, eompoaed of &4 Tagtor, . 1. Hendersuy b, Banderson, el Tappan, and Ucos, nan, Huruey, ir. Tlicy organized In Augnst, and ners to call o great counell of the Northern tribos at Laramle’ in Beptember; of the South- ernat Larned in Octobier. They were ubliged 1o promise the Sloux arma and ammunition us a preliminary to any conference whatever, . TIB BOUTILIN INDIANY were more placable. The Cotnmisslon_entered Into o treaty with thom, Oct. 20, at Medicine Lodge. They then went to Laramfe, but Tted” Cloud’ —refused to confer with them at all unlesa they promised first to remove the posts from, anl abandon altogether, the Powder River route to Montana. The Comnmisslon couldn’t promlge that, hat, after cating a good deal of * crow,” Red Clond ngreed to grant thema trics L) the next spring. In March, 1808; GGen, Grant ordered the Pow- dler River forts to be removed o the line of the Unlon Pacific Rallrond, then hegitming Its raco agalnst timo ncroas tho Laramle Platus, and, In Mny, treatics were concluded abandoning ,all Northern Wyomlng to the Sfoux. After téache Ing tho savaies to deepise our armas by divers fmlzln.u campalgns ugalust them, we hought peace by 13 CONCEDING ALL THEY ABKED. lut we had no more peaca thun before. The Tudluns were stlll sullen and diseatisfled, in August and September hostilitles broke out hotter und more” wide-spread than cver. Out- rages in Colorado and Kansns were of almost daily vceurronce. Lien, Sherldan, with but 600 nvaflably troops, lad to widertake o new eain- pafgn, Then camu Col. Forsythe's affafr ot Arlekary Fork. Hundreds of savazes surround- ] hin, with his Httle troop, and threatencd his deetruction. Heaping up breastworks of rand, they defended themselves a week, and were }Imzuy relieyed, with the lass of half thelr num- her. A volunteer reglment was ralsed in Kansus. 8kirmishes took place hiers and there, but noth- ng declaive tll CUSTEIL ATRUCK AND DESTROVED on the$7th November, Black Kettlu's village on tha Washiita, and Cof, Bvans enethee on Chrlst- maa, This brought the few surviving chicfs in beuging for Y‘flm‘u In eagnest, the Mrst thuy since t m{ took the war-path i 1564, dinee that there has been no tronbla of con- gequence with the Southern Indluns, In the Intervening years il that part of the Plains las been throauded with rallronds, amd Tudinn hoe- tilltiea there aro probahly forever onded. But in the Novth we liave been on our knees, fl{;umtlvcly -l)ca\klng, to the Blons, ever sluce. Wa coull™not make n reconnolesance for the Northern Paclfic. Railrord without an arm us an escort. You will find fn Appleton's C{w- uiu:xlln thut wo had 8,000 tnen campalgning after Indlans on the Plains in 1805, AT A CO3T OF $80,000,0:0, and that with all this vast outlny we only sue- ceeded in ¢ plnnl.mf M fiftecn or twenty Indlnns, It was not greatly differont in 1504, 1806, 1867, and 1808. Durlug those years we ]vrulm(fl ex- pended £100,000,000 huntfog Indians, and ol iast retirod, confesslige oursclves whipped, Wo nd- vapieed our erodit to the Union Pacitle Railroad Company to very much Jese than half that amount, and itwas bullt and we have peace. The same result would follow the same polley In the North. Tt would, even now, pay the Gov- wrument to grant sutficlont oid to the Northern Pacifte Raflrond to insure Its bhelng huite, The complotion of the Unlon Paciflc gave JMontana an overland route from Utah north- ward, which, with the Mierourl River, lined with forts for 1,000 miles, answers Montaua's purposcs without the uscof the Powder River ronte. The building of the Northern Pacifle b the Missourd, snd tha thickening and cxtension of settlemont, lue freed Minnesuta and Easters Dakota from the prosenvs of the Indlans, They have been driven, asto u last strong- hold, With all their resentments, into the Pow- der River country, which in sbout to prove TIRIR LAST UUNTING-GLOUND, Ths Northeru Bioux, the Cheyennaes, and Arapa- hos would always fight, but” the terrible pur- pose_to which thiey have recently fought Crook and Custer shows that thoy bave fmproved the lute yeurs of comparative peace toarm and equip thauisulves bettor than ever hefore. While they are io this fix, sl numerous and well mountéd, it Is as imposaible for thum to remain at peaco aa it is for water to ritu up hill, They neyer have been at peace sinee 1802, The first. emigrants to Colorado erossed and re- crossed the Plulns fn perfect anfi:tf from 1850 to Inelugive. 'The fury with which, suddenly, In 184, they broke oul’fn war, sweeping the Platte route clear of runches, stations, stock, traing, conehes, und holdingit fearly n yeur, aud surrounding the settlements in Colorado und Kansas ag with a cordon of flre, Indicatos TILE POISON INSTILLED INTO THEM by the Minnegota Sloux who escaped: hanglng for the terriblp outbrenk of 160, That {swhere tha present war began, i Coprress and the country would know. ™ From that day to this it lina never ceased. The Sluux secured the aban- domment of thie Powder River road by the treat, of 1868, but they have never themselves paid any attention o [t whatever, Bee the recent fettor of tho Secrctary of War to the President, inroply to an inquiry of the House. Bitting Bull and other chicfs bave been on the war- path every year since. Of course, some of tho chiefa and some of their fullowers have tried to keep the treaty,— Itave heen deslrous to, at least. But they liave uo organlzution; no head nor tail. Nobody Inows wha {s chief, of what he {s chicf, how far his power extends or I8 acknowlodeed; how far eveil his will 1s good, Iu trath, the ro chiclly ontlaws of the most dungerous cliaracter, anid the most judicious Governmont fmngiuble could cxact 1o less than ours does under such clrcumstances, namely, thut they shoull report themsclver, to nnat, at the sgencies, and atay there \vllu!fy #i our expense, or 5 BB HELD A4 ENEMIES it they do not. Ever aincs tho Minnesota massacre the Goy- crmnont has steadily pursucd this policy, or sought to; it is only where public sentiment hus Interfered, and fnsfsted that it should cherish where it onght ta punfeh, thut it has fajled. And, too, beenuse it wis neeessarlly a lowg work and a diflienlt one. These Bloux should have been brought {nto subjection or oxterminuted tun years ogo. As it wos not done then, it must be dune now, or in the future. Asto the OCCULATION OF THE BLACK TILLS, it was Incvitable, svaner or later, aud it might as well be now s evor. It b our destiny to supersede the Imdians o3 much o8 it s throughout the realm of life for the higher to supersede the lower, Wo cannpt be ity and, i1 we hnve wronged the Indlan fn iling 1 have we not sufféred for it us w. wentalungd I {baot truo that we have o Tmrcd thls continent from Nuture, and acq u red tle to th soll by Qumng 1t to the use for i which it wus duesiigned? Aud equally true that we Iave wrested it inch by Inch from the In- dlun, glving Jfs for 1lfe, giving two lves for oue, uid suffering ten-fuld the wiong, THL THEACHERY, TUE OUTIAGR, and loss, qud torture, that we have Inftlcted ! Siuce the contest has becomo krossly unequal, do we not feed them (o the winter to light us fiy the supmer, and supply them with the best of wonpois and plenty of ammuulilon for the per- petuul duclt If the Indion would share the soll with us, and ogeupy it on the same terme, nothing would pleass us better. But they wili not. We must have peace, wind the only way we bave ever se- curfid itwilh the Indfan’ was by couquerlug It. t I A JIARD NECESSITY, hut it fra necessity, us ull experlence shows. And witle it bears as hard on s ns it does on thu Indlay, we may certuinly »lmru ourselyves uny qualms of consciencs shout it 1 all eyvents, wo have vcenpled the Black Hlts, anil there 18 ho power fu the world that can d'h(mawu us, The Government should se- cyro tho right, i need be, h‘y now treatles, It should then compel the Indfans to go upou and stay ypon thelr veservations, feeding and cloth. ing them thore, und cudeavoring to lead them towards u sctiled, self-sustalulng Nfe; or, fail- nyg fn that, it ‘should oxtermlnaty them nt Wwhat- ever cost, Dovarass, TIIE INDIAN QUESTION, SBIIQUA ABUSES TIAT BIOULD BECKIVE IMME- LIATH COWRECTION, 7o (he Edltor of The Tritune, Fowr Lanamis, Wy, Ter, July 10.—~My ob- Jeet tn prescuting this subject to the public through your wldely-creulated puper {8 to bring to thelr attontion, gud tho attentlon of thelr Reprosentatives in Congross, u fuw scrious ubuses that should recelve immediate correction, For conyenlenge, thercfore, thy abuscs in ques- tlou will bu considered undur the followlug lieads: 2, 5 1. TUW PRESENT SIOUX WAW, AND ITS OAUSES. Soon after tho terrible mussacro of Fort Phil Rearnoy, in which there wero brutally urdered 3 officops, 70 eulisted men, and 3 citlzens,~8l n oll,~the Govermnent thought proper to’ mako a treaty with the perpetraturs of this great oat- rage, brought uu{:; the fndlans themgelies by aun attack on g wood-trufiy Watant frow thy post. ‘Ihls treaty wus entered buzo (n 1803, and, by It the Indiang were treated vesy Jweraly, und, bestdes, wero ucver punised fur thy Phil " lad fafled to obtain the Hills, in Kearneg barbarlty. Iy the terms of this treaty, the Indiana, tor eertaln stipulations on the purt of the Government, agreed to keep within cer- tafn buundaries, known as thelr rescrvation and uncaded Indian territory,—all of whicl country fs north of the North Platte Hiver; and, In_eddition, were allowed the privilege to hunt buffalo in the Re- publlean country, which has sincs heen pur- chaged by the Government. In conslderation of hiess agreements on the part of the Indlans, the Government gave up ita valuable posts in what was knuwvn as the Powder-River cuuntry, ~pusts whozao canstruction, and the final aban. donment of property, coat milllons of money, Before the troops, on thelr departure, had lost sight of these posts, the Indians, naked and ox- ultant, rushied in, and soon the Imlldlrx;sa which hiad cust. the troops years of tofl an angur, were ablaze, aud Il a short time a biack mass of ruln,—a fitting momunent to folly. The nction of the Indlans demonstratcd very cleatly that thnr did not conslder thomseclves under any obligations to the Gov- crnnfent, but, on the eontrary, were posscsacd with the' holfof, and justly 1 think, that the trovps, owlig to_the Indian prowess in having killdd uver o hundredsoldiees at different times, were ignominfously forced out of the wnm?u 1t was the common belief then among the mili- tary that the Government had blundered fn giv- ing-up the posts; and (his belfel aince hng be pretty gencrally confirmend.” Beeldes the fore- going, other fuiportant and valuable privileges wereeoncedud to the Indinng,—of courae with the understanding that the Indlans, on thelr Purl. :lmnld Jmpllcitly curey out the terms of the reaty. both sides been tiue to the provislons re»l‘yl To this question 1 emphatically way No, The treaty, soon after its ratification, “and up to the influx of the whites into the Black ated 1i1lle, was i lnted by the Indlans, in the way of forays extending to Laramio Plaius, and sulong thegnuchos on the south side of the Nurth Platte, and heyond the boundaries of the treaty; during which mauy lives were taken, and large numbers of valuablo atock driven off, the perpetrators of which decds might, a few davs alter, B'Hmnr ut the Agencles with perfect [m{mnlly. iese violntlons continued until the k! of the Fourteenth [ng of Licut. Robinson, Infantry, and the kiling of aBub-Agent ot Hed- Cloud Agency. It was then thut thu Guvern- ment was compelied, through the urgent de- mands of the Interlor Depariment, to send troops to-the Agencles for the protection of Apents. Tho result of this demand was the permanent catablishment of Red-Claud and t[lullfll-Tfl" Agentics, still garrisoned by the TO0ps, T!Hz next serjous inroad upon the_trealy was the fnflux of citizens into the Black Tills, " This movement the Government made strenuous ef- forts to forestall and smmnl, as s evinced by the following epirited orders of the Division Commander: (rsesaL Oungns No, 2, 1875.—The Proaldent directs that the followIng be made publle: All oxpeditions into the portion of the Indlan territory’ kuotvn an the Black IHills conntey must Lo provented as loug as the prescot trealy exists. Efforts ure now being tn: arrapge for the ex- tingulshment of the Indian title, and all X-mlfr means will ho used to sccomplish that end, 1f, however, the steps which are 10 be taken towarde opening Iie eountry to_ settlament fall, thosa per~ sOns atpruum within that lerritory must be ex- od, wsuoum the companies now organizing at Slonx Clty and Yankton trcspass on tho #ionx Indlan Reeeevation, yon {Geus, Terry atd Ord) are hereby slirccied to use the furce ut your command to bumn tho wagon-traing, dustroy tie outfit, and arrest the leaders, cuniining thein at the ncarces milita: 0:t In the Indian country. Shauld they succeci n reaching the Interior, you aro dlrceted 1o rend such foree of cavalry In pursait as will accomplish tho preposes ahove-namod. Should Contreun ojen-up the cotntey for settlo- mont by oxtnzuing the. trenty-rights of the Indlops, the understgued (Gen. ‘Sheridan] will #ive a cordial support to the scttlement of the Black Hills, These arders soon became odlous to aur peo- e, sud consequently hiad to be tomporized with, and nm.ug; abandoned. But not wholly on account of the outery, but in part owlng to the Inadeguacy of our small urm; to the task. When the' Commission for the sale of the Blael Hills, referred to n the preceding order, a peaceabils manner, from the Iudians, it wag found to be ahsolutely neeessary tomake a Hiverslon agalnst tho wild and warlike Indlans of the North, n majority of whom emnhatieally pronounced wiraingt the treaty of 1868, und “who, without Just provocatig, attacked the Yellowstons ex- pedition of 1870, uuder Gen. Stanley, while cu- fu,-i»’m surveyhs the line of tho Northern Pacific talirvad, ut, without the causs of the ln- vasion of the Blwk Ills, the Government found that, for the full protection of the {rontier, it was uxl,mmnlf noceseary to bring these turbulent Indiuns of the North under sub- Jection, il put o stop furever 1o thelr peri- odical ralds on the peaple of the West. The forcgoing, from'a careful study of the subjuct, and loug experience in the “country, ?nd-, k{ helieve, the leading causes cf the preseit ndlan wi M ~TREATIES GENERALLY. This§san excellent time to terminate the great url;ilnul mistuke,~i. e.,, making treatlos With the ludians, As { hod occasion 0 reamurk befare, it would be a departure in the right di- rectlon {f the Government would say: * We have mude our last treaty, You are our sub- Jects, and, ns such, must ohoy the laws of the country. 'If you violate them by stealing and mugdering, you will ho punished to the full ex- tent of the law, It fs now full time that you should understind that the laws of the United Stutes pre supreme, und must be obeyed at any cost. Wo will dea] with yon kiudiy ko long us you behave yourselves, We will place yoi on Teservations, under an honest administration of o Meers, where you will be surrounded by all needful eomforts, until you learn bow to work aud provide for yourselves,? Treatles with thie ligllans expericnee has de- monstruted to be un”abeurdity, and to result Irequently fu tersfble eatastroplies with great loss of life, us was the case In the Phil Kearney mnssacre, widd the more reeent grand chargy of Gen, Custer und hig flve brave companies of the Scventh Cavulry, to whom the following lines of Tennyson are appropriste: Forward the Light Arlgades Was there a man dismay'd? Not though the soldlors knew Somo om had blundered; Thiclrs not to make reply, Tholrs not tu reyran why, "Thelrs but to do and div: Into the Velicy of Death Rode the eix [three) hundred, Toldly thoy rody, and well, Iuto the jows of hcnu},_ 1nto the woyth of Yol When can thoir glory fade? O the wild charge thoy nade! All tho world wondered, Tanor the charge thoy made; Ifonor the Light Brigudo, — Nobio six {three) hundrod. It muat be patent to all that the Indians are treated as o sevarato nation, They were treated as such_at the time of the Modoc War, because Capt. Jack atd his comradus who were hung were accused and convieted of yio- lathye the laws of war recoguized between clyv- fuaunnr, but not often, before this affafr, ¢en u wholly elyilized nation and a wholly byrlarous one, “Indeed, secording to the pres- ent status of our law, an, Tudian “cannot volun- tarily dissolva his relation with his tribe and be- comie a citizen of the United Btates. Defore this ean Lo done, the tribal relation must be dirsolved by the tribe, with the cousent of the General Government, Aportion of the public press—the mouthe pleco of the people—Nas tuken the Governmont to task for darng to onter the Indian vountry. What u farce! This was reecntly the cuse when the Government undertpok to exploro the Black Hilis—a rlght reserved to itself Ju the treaty, It the advice of somu of the papers hind been takien, the character of the mnu‘s 11118 conntry would not now be known to tho people. Whether or yot this knowledge 1s usetul, 15 not the question. 1t should be held, upon general prinelples, that the Government hus o parumount right to go there, or to any othor part of the public doutatu, 1lietory records that, during the perjod from 1819 to t! lose of tho Beminole War, #Say- age duplicity and fhiesss wers more than met by vivitized chicanery and falthlosaness, On botl sidus, treaties of “tho most soleran character, hearing the signatures of Chicfs of cach natlon, were scuudalously violuted, and huwman lte was sct at the same low price as that of bousts of the ficld, Monep was squandered as if {6 werc nothing worth, and milllons of hearts wors wrung fin angulsh ag thelr kindred blood wag poured out, o crucl sac- riflco ta tho Moleeh of wor und Luman lust and Aarlnle." And how muceh better olf uro we to- uyd Havo treatics nucuu:rllnhefl anythlug for clther.the white ar the red maui Consulf his- tory for ay gnewer, and pouder gerfously over tha inshaps to our brave little army, vamelys the muncrous inassucrea; the Grattun affar ot Fort! Luramle, the PLil’ Kearny, and the last grand uhnnio of the gallant Suvculh, which 13 as much entltled to Imortality as the charge of the Six Hundred al Balaklava, What Is the rmcm policy of the Government toward the Indianst ‘The vtticial quoru suy, Lo {nduce, and, when neceseary, compel, the roving tribes of Indians to mwin. teservations, so that they mag bo fuetyucted In wgricultural vod fo othier prrgnits uctdent to civilizgtion; wlso In {upelicctual, woral, wd rellglows vutute; ‘The trlbes refuslg to geecpt reservatlons, aud vio- Tating the Lia of " civlization, vro to be treatad with geverity, 4ud thits wade W appreciste thy uavautagoolds ullurs of the Uuverdmeut; aud the eame with the Indians leaving rescrvatfons affer acceptance, The exceution of thia policy Lias heen attearde with great difliculty. This policy s humane 2nd deverving of re- apest—thatis,when the application of the power to the end {3 properly applied and direeted. It Is evldent from past” experience that this poliey eannot properly be enforced by the Interior Department and fts Agents, Almpl?' hecaura their system fs defe and cannot be perfect- e without large and cxorhitant "T"m atfonss which would ot be the cuse If the Bureat o Indian Affalre was in the Department of War, to be adminfstered by the army, whose system expericnce hus proven to be correct. It-ds ab- surd to think that aur army-officers, most of wWhom are married, wonld bring on war, involy- ing perhaps their own and thelr famf{lics' de- struction, for the sake of a meaningless brevet. The eiyflfan nnd the soldiers wish the saine end, and differ but little in thelr ldeas of attalu- Ingit. The Indinns must bd made tofeel the power of the Government; but this eaonot be done through the present management. TUnder the present condition of affairs (naya Gen., Pape) thorn §a a divided jurisdiction, While the Tudlans are apparently at peace, according to treaties nogotinted with them by the civil oflicers of {he Indian Buresa, the military forces stationed in tho Indian country have no jurisdiction over them, and, of consequence, no certaln knowledgo of thelr fectings 98 purhseh, and o poser o lake any actlon, oithes of n precantionary or aggressive character, The fieat that Ia known of Indlan hins- tilities fa a sudden report that the Indiana have com- menced o war, and have devantated many miles of retticimonts, or massacred pacties of emigrants or travelers, Iy the time such Information reaches the wnilitary* comnander, tho worst has heen nc- comulished, and the Indisns have escapod from the acenc of outrage. Nothing fs left to tha military pxcept purenit, and generally unavaillug purenit, The Indlan Agents are carefil never to locate thelr Agencies at the milllary poste, for reasons rery well understood. 1t fs “not in hunian natare that wo sctaof officials, rexponnible to diffesent hioads, und not In accord clther In nlvlnlun or purpose, should act together hinrmoalously; and, Inetead of combined action, there i very certain to be cos flcting action. At war, the Indlans are undes t control of the military; at_peace, under the coi trol of the clyll officers. whut constitutes Indian hostilitics 18 not agreed on; and, hesldes this, as soon as the milltary forces, after a hard compaign, conducled _with great Hardalip and largo cxpense, have succeeded in forcing the In- dlaus fnto such s position that puniabment in _posmble, the Indlons, scclng the and’ the ' impossibility’ of avoiding It Immediately proclaiin their wish to make peace. The Indiaw Agent, anxions, for monifest reasons, to negutiate o treaty, at once Interferes ** 10 proe tect™ (av he cxpressus it) the Indlans from the troops, and arrests the further prosccution of the military exq«*dmnn Juet at the moment when re- sults are (a ba oltained by it, and thc whole labor and cost of the umml;fin make a treaty to avoid [mmediate dnnfi:sr h( the troops, withoat the slightest purposo of keeping it} and the Agent knows Yery well ihat tho Indians do not intend ta obaerve It It Is au apothicgm of the people of theZWest, or thusc famitiar with the Ind! mly)cclbuml the only way to mect thelr u[moamon and bring them 0 o sense of their duty, fe to first whip them thoroughly, and then treat with them, It will be perceived, therefore, from the: pres- ent adininistration of Indian affairs, that tlic Interlor Department supplies the Indians with rifles, lead, and powder to fight and slay the military branch of the Government, and o bru- tally murder the citizuns of the conutry, — This is golug on now before our cyes, tle the troops are marching, fOghting, bleeding, and mangled, long trains 0f hinmense wagons—each wagon contalning about 4 tons of stuff—aro al- most dally pusslug this post (Fort Luramic) for Red-Cloud and Spotted-Tall Agencles, to which hostile Indinns from the north ure coming dally, as officiall rc{wmd by the commanding officer of Camp Kobinson, auil demonstrated I the chase of the Fifth Covalry after Indiuns golug north frum the Agencies, and who, buing uln:fiy pressed, were forced 1o abandon thelr rationis and other supplics. Could thero e anythiug more absurd aud -outrageous, especl- ally when we consider the great slanghter of Custer’s command? 11, UNLAWKFUL TRAPPIC WITH TUE INDIAXS. It was ahout two weeks ago that Spotted Tall, Cllef of the Brule 8loux, and a squaw-man by the name of Botcliet, passed thrapgh thls past from Cllui‘cllm: to the Ageney. It was generally knows, while they were here, that they had scvera! thongand rounds of ammunit®u in thelr nosavasion. A few days after their departure for the Afiendcs, 4 man cuiie to the post (Fort Luramic) rom the vielnlty of Bouchiet's storg, on 8hadron Creek, between she two Agencles, and took athdavit thut he handled the minmani- tlon referred $o, aud saw it s0ld over Bouchet's counter to the Indiaus, and it, no doubt, was rapldiy carrled to the north to b ured ngaiust our troops, In Enzland, this man, who apnears white, would be hung. This subject of nnlawful trudtic with the budfans shoull he knowu to us all, but especially to the military; and we should use our utmosd cileavors to” prevent jts belng used nfinmx( our troops and people, For this reason, the fullowing opinion of Attorney- General Akerman on tue subject will be of - terest to us all, to-wits You request my u}llnlnn a8 to what disposition hould be mnde of the pereons aud property this tn[vlnmd. ‘The secomd dection of the act of June 30, 1F:14, rezulating tande _and interconree with the Indisn teiben (4tat, T2, pohibits t with any of the Indlans [ 10 ndian conntry withaut Heelses and the funeth section hatered e tagether with forfeltuse of guols, Inrlmdh‘lgl withont l. are lost. The Indians leense, ~ What “Is 4 fan countey is polnted ont by he flest sece tion of the act. llawever, by tho seventh section of the act of Feh, 27, 1l law then in force cancerning dlans were extended to New Mexl The t fourth section of the act of 1834 provides **that, when gaods and other property shall be kolzed for any violation af this act, {1 sbiall Lo luwful for the e7xou prosecuting on liehalf of the United States 0 procod lfinlml #uch ¢oods or ather property i the maanor dirceted to bo ol n tho case uf oudw, wares, or wmorchandlso brought futo tho nited States in violation of the Revenue lnws;™ while the twenty-seventh acction provides **that all penultien which shall accrae for and recoy- cred In an actiun of dobt, in. the uune of the 1 (0 Sgat., OH: w 8 & United Sintes, befors any Court having jurisdiction af the eame," efc, By the twentyethind section tho military forces of the United Statea wore suthorlzed to b employed in the npgn!hmlalnn af uny peron who may bo found in thie Indian country i violation of law, and olso in the operty from being introduced there contrary to P Iiis woction Tarthor provides that every per- ron I‘Epmhendwl b{ the military shall be ‘taken ** 1o the civil authorlty ‘of the Territory or Judielal District in which sald person shall be found, " and that Luth pereon and property sball be proceeded ogalnst according to law. liut, If pattics aro sprchonded by the military whllo” engapod in unlawfal trafic with hostlle In- id capecially of ammunition, and the In- dians thus supplled “with ammunition, ctc., were in open and notorious hostility to the Unitod Biates at tho time, and, therefore. would properly come within tho description of public enemics, the artics apprebended wonld seem to bo amenablo to rlal under the 46th Actlele of War, which applics ta persons who ate not, a4 well as o persons who ure, in the military sorvice, In making this sug. estion, T aasume that thero exiats such a wtate of ostility on tho part af tho Indisns ns atmnunts to wur, This stute, in our pecular rolntious with the Indinn tribes, ls perliaps not susoeptiblo of an exact definition. 3t Is not nvcesury to the existence of war that hostilitics should have been lurulnll( pra- clatinad. When any Indinn tribes aro careylng on W pyatem of atiacks upon tho prupnlt{ OF porsons, or both, of the scttlont of tha frontlers, or of the travelers acroes the Terrltorics, and the trpops _of the United States aro engaged In Iullnllluh such attacke, this Is war in such a sense a8 will justify the enforcement uf tho Arti- cles of War agalnst persons who are engaged in relieving thw enemy with ammunition, ete. ~ Yet, with regurd to the property which inay 'be found In their posacasion, and may be captured with them, ftwonld e advisuble to turn that ovor to the pn‘)}wr clell authorities, to by mtu&:dcd agninst undor tho statute regulating trade and Intercourse with the lndiaun. In brief, my views upon the genral sabject pra- acpted In your commanication may bo thus slated: 1, 'l‘lm}wuonl A'I‘Fruhcmlad by the mllitary for unlawful traMo with the Indlany, and also” thu Jronerty takin with thew, should be placed in ho custody of tho Marhal of tle Torrl- tory or Judicial Digtrict lu which thu capture occurred, whereupon it will be tho duly ol the Unted Slates Attorney to Institnte proceedings for the recovery of the ]bulmll‘. and for the forfeiture of the property, under the statutory provisions already cited. £, That, when (ke partios appro- hended bave not only been onguged 1n unlawful tratiic with the Indiaus, but fo violutiug the Arti- clonof War (e; g relleving the onciny with auna. nition, clc, ), they may be tried gnd ‘unhhud by Coyrt-Martial, or by turned over o the civil ai- l:nurl:liu. 10 be procceded sgulust as above men- oned, R prevontionof persuna nd ———— ~A BOLDIER'S VIEWS, UB THINES 16 NAS BEEN TILB HTATES YOR TR T TIMH. Soringfleld (L) Register, Tho followlug letter, writton by Mr, John, Lanahan, to hig brotbor Ed., will be read with futerest by his tmany fricuds fu this ¢ity. Joln 18 g member of the Bixth Iufautry: Mouty or Hio oy, July 3, 1870, —Dnotusn Eu. : Yours of May 23 camo all right and ploasod mewuch. 1am glad o bear that molher le gutting slong well. 1 have Juat came back from "'j Littls Lysu River, whoro Gon, Custer got killod, Thiv Js the fieat fight I was over fu, and we lost 271 men kitjed, torty-cight wounded, Bud fousteon oficors killed, including Qen,Custor. Thoy all belong 10 thg Suventh Cavalry. Qur roglmcut got there just in thnu to wave the rear of $ho cavairy from Loin masacred. Aftor tha gt wo hatl 1o rereut back 1o thlv pluce, whery our wounded aro now. W got orders to-day from Gen, Terey 10 sond o Fort Shaw fue theey niontha' clotiing, “We will be oub untll the middle of nexi winler, I'luvato serva thy four wonths that 1 was away, which i iy time out lu December. Piluge lovk very Lad, Fhure ute ten Tudlaay far ony of “uy, and thoy ora whipping us every thae thoy mectus, Plicre have beew ojer 470 noldlers 11fcd hiews this susaeier. Plere ia i use donvlig ig“ fact, L. but § 4ainis | have seen the S1a4e3 17 G ladt | (e, Be o VGORY Aro MO Laany getting killed are fenving tho acencicr In large 10 Joln thone on the war-path, Thete neo at lenst &, 040 Jndians, well armed, within ¢ milen of us, siul our whble command Gbes not amvast to 350 men, Yon will sce an account of Gen. Cnster's death {n the pspera before yon get thin, Wall, "d e Judge From that Tiow we ato aituated. hore. 1 oy one of tho party who burled Cnater and the twejve * other ofiicers. "Tho saldiors were ail buried on hill. Al the wonnded ate hero, ‘Lfl expoct every. minute to got orders to start ont it ao fn- ' i‘,:,':';‘("mp' 1f we do, half of us,will never coma ; evory ' day, ang )o.-'xualm' bandy ILLINOIS STATE FAIR, ; We liave recelved from 8. 1. Fisher, Socretary of the Btate Board of Agricultare, acopy of the Premium-List of the Twenty-fourth Annuaf - Tllinois Btate Fair; and from the pamphlct wa extract the following: The Falr of 1870 will bs held, Ottaws, 'n flonrishing city in Lasa the norihen contre of the Blate. afoly upon the Hlinola Ttivor, st th Chicagh, Tock T8ATA & Pacins nnd Groviiag of the Line of the Chicazo. Barlington & Qaln In 1875, at mads, whose lines fard ~ convenient connes- Hons with all parts of this and adjoining Etates, and wlill e equal, we aro assured, e 0 tho demands of cxhitliars And” wielioms. - The city, posscesing ono of tho moat uoted mineral #pringa fn tho Weat, will nfford (during the bagr which visitors do not desirs to spend on the Fair- (irounde) a pleasnre-resort sccand to no park {n the Misslasippl Valley, To thees wa moy add an nnlalllnzlnquy of walor {fom artesixn wells and the Iilnoia Hiver, which Jaxt forma the south lins of tho Falr-Grounds for nearly half a E::: hare combined the clements essential to e The grounds are Jargs, and the sccommodation for exibilors and visiars will be any 1o, and both '« of acharactar, it {a belicved, that il be satlafao. tory toall who may attend the Far, Hotelr and boarding houres will charge onl, nlar rates. Pereons preferring the r;-\lel home will find & Committee to dfrect them Lo vate familles, prepared to entertafn thom. Ta such s desire (0 atlend the Falr and camp out duting tho same, spitable pinces will bo aeslgned, Intendent of groands. ot pri- Rall- mile, and wa , fco of coat, by applying o tho Saper- Steam rallway commnnication between the Falr * grounda and the cit "The premium-Tie fiss heen carefall revised, © both for tho Falr, aud wintar-mecting, 1877, The attentlon of Agrienltural Boards and Tlorilciittaral Ansoclutions s perticalarly Invited to the Ilberal emiums vffered for dlaplays st the wiater-meot- ndg. ‘The regnlar blennial election for members of tha State Board will bo hsh‘l on Wednosdsy, Sapt. 0, on the Fair-Grounds, In entitlod (o thrve votes, to b cant by delegatce to be chosen Ly the County, Unlom, or District Agrienltural Doard, where one exists, otherwire by the Board of Supervisors or Couuty Boord, as hg case may Be, Edltora and reporters will report to the Superin. tendent of the Press Dopartment, who wiil estood the usual courtesles, and asaist ‘them in gaining such information as will be of intercat to the pablic, A cordial invitution fo attend thia fatr {s ex- tended to rf‘prmnmlru- of kindred State oe‘nnl‘ 4ntione, and _they are requested to_roport thems Atthis cloction each county sclven to the Rocéption Comiulites, that they may recelve sultable attention, A packago of this premium-Uat will be sent to ench Agricnttural Board and Society in the Siata, In the connties having no agricultural organization they will be sent to the County Clorks, Coples of thollst may be had npon sllr.allnn 1o nns reesing the nndersigned, at Springfiefd. 8. 1. Fisnzn, Becretary State Board of Agrichltara, e —e OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Fantnan Poynt, July 10,—Arrived, tho steams ship Peruviun from Liverpool. e New Yok, July 10.—Arrived, the steamers City of Richmond fromn Liverpool; Kenllworth froin Antwerp, and Cannda from London, rsonal ap- membor of tho Hondd, or by ad- * Bartistone, July 18.—Arrived, the stcamshlp - Lelpzlyg from Bremien, ', Piutaprrruis, fuly'16.—~Arrlved, the steam- er Illinols from Liverpool, QuuENsTOwN, July lT.—ArrirLt:d, the steam- ship Pennsylvanio, from New Yor] ANMUSETENTS. HOOLEY'S "MIEATRE, To-night and during this wook only will be pro- scnited the Inltial performancos of an entirely rig. 1al play, by,she famous poctical humorist, Brel Harte, Eaq., entitled, TWO HEN OF SANDY BAR, . heing the only preliminary performances of the new play In thd Unlted States previous to ita pro. ductlon nest month_ foran indefinite term at the Park Theatre, New York, The play s marked with al] that rich bumor, touching pathos, and wonderful orlginality of thought which Lss cisrcterized the popular works of Mr, Iarte. TUE SCENERY Hasbeun (n couree of proaration for weeka pay and will be worthy of {he wnportance of this greal dramatic event, “I'no public will obscrve the cur- taln will rino praniptly ol 8 otclock, and the early - action of the play shonfd be witneased. CRYSTAL GARDEN, CRESWOLD’S Promenade Concerts. Grand Opening To-Day. MATINEE AT 2:30. Admieslon, 10 cents, Evening performance at 8 Admleslon, 25 cenls, J : Exposition Building.. Boating capaclty for &, 000 porsons, COL, W00D’S MUSEUM. In Grand Ollo Entertainment, and Miss MOLLIK ¥ LIAMS I the 1o Couniy, n , 1t dlea lmfl!&fll‘: ¥ MONDAY EVENING, JULY 17—12 Now ante. is FRENCEI SP¥. AATINEF EVERY DAY, LAKE EXCURSIONS, Thio Aleamer GEORGE DUNTIAR can b chartersd for Exclinlunhon yery rownablo e cinterpdto at Mad!; o 271 M Markel, ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE.—The General Transatantic Company's Mafl Steamices betwren Now York and 1 calling At Plymauth (G. 1) for ti Inading of ers. 1o splondi vessols ot thte fa vorite routn for tho Conttnent (¢ablns provided with elostrlc belis) whit satl from Vior No. 4, Sorth 1 o follgws: AMENIQUE, Poizolz, Satirday. Jily =3 TE, ENT, L: lt‘;m‘. , Baturday, || . 668, m.§ FRANCE, Frudelle, Buiurdsy, duly 29, Prica’ of Pasmage n gold (ncludy by u&ln. sty lo&l m’nr\ T 20, acearling 1o scconmodationt secand, $7J; third cabln, $40. Teturn tokels at ro- duced Fafes. Bteeragce, f”‘ Wilh Ruperior Racoima. datione, inciudiug wine, hedding, snd uteutlla, without extra chiarge, Bicamers marked thus * do ho carr) sicerage wgorss LOULS DenliilAN, Agont, N FU. P WHITE, No. 67 Clarkcat., oipti,” Aueut for Cliicago. B ANCHOR LINE;U. 5, MAIL STEAMERS, Xew York sn aw: ALSATIA, July 2, 8 . tns | GACIFORNIA, Au. 8, 0 ANCHOIA, July 30, 8. . 2 ETUOPIA, Aug.12,108.m UTOTIA. duly 2503 0 | AUSTIALIA, Auz.t,0 am Now York “’.,“ré‘“"d":. duurpool.Almdr'm’. ¢ Lonn LTy Cabins, l!"fl W ?fl). lcconllnk'l’!’n’nccammodhflnn& .xcurafon tickets at reduccd rates. Dracts et Tor g S o5 vueehs faies. UKNDENSON BROTHERS, W Wasnlugion-st. STAR BALL LINE, Iflq’l’fll’! ATATI'S & NRAZIL MALIL RTEAMSIIPS. Ealling monthly {rpin Watson's Whatt, Brookiyn, N, V. ¥or Fara, Pernatiburo, Hahla, and 1io Jaueirv, calilng £ 81, Jobin's, Porto liica, % MARTIN, Trondway, corner I L i Wednonday, July 14 JOHN BRAMALL, — Aug, = P oy o g . 8. TUCKEL & CO. I S BTUOKEN & Ol Jmonte National Line of Steamships. anind O HIVERPOOL AXD QUEENSTOW nly I8, 10:30 8.1n | EAY PT, o, 11 B AR AR HOAROS A i Yo 1R, o LONDOX BIRECY, EIN, July 13, a ) CANADA, July 33 ‘Cubih prasa 4, aud 40 curreucy. Tutura Hekota ’l reducold rates. Bicerage Helnu,‘ 828, gure xency Lraftdtor £1 aad upward ony luyfiag“muin, 4 Bolith Clark-at, North German Lloyd, m| will sall sver) upe o Tutnteab Thotmkon it Now York L0 eithwmpio e, ont cubid, ¥itor sico Tarreucy, | Kok fru T 30 i @ o 2 owilik Gress, Now 4o Great Western stemnbmp Line, mmfinfi-‘m l\c‘v'y York to Birtato) (Euglaud) direct.. P T, CELOrG o, o 4} ARG Ty et Wohesg ASE R P U g B g A R Lt ko Ay Wi WY o Gl il ceutral Hailroad, % n 5 s DISSOLUTION NOTIOES, . - DISSOLUTION. The partnership heretofore umuni between the ug. deralgued. under the arin unwg of Ederer & Petors, fa tiia day disicived by muidal conaonts - aui the' sal Aeiera ls bureby authiopized Lo collcae RI1 tha by #3id ik 3 EDWAU E] Cuteano, July 1y, W70 D ¥ MATUHIAS T‘BTI-'Y fofore carried o by Bderee. & The huad) Teters, 3 shingtoa st viz® o nu;u“:. tureul corga iley, Qig., W ntinogd it 1l S T TR