The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-14 00:00:00

GRNERAL CUSTAR'S INDIAN RAID.

General Custar, with his command, reached Fort
Hays, Kansas, April 12. His expedition has been
attended with great hardihip ; the men living on
horses and mules, and the animals on the bark of
the cotton-wood trees. In this way he scoured the
Staked Plains, and the Red River, moving far into
Taxas. After ten days' continuous march he sur-
prised 290 Lodges, who, imagining Custar was in
a totally different direction, Lad dispatched their
scouts the wrong way. The Indians were struck
- lumb with amazement when they beheld the dense
troops of cavalry riding down on du ir camp, but they
proved themselves, in the trying position, cl ver
actors. Mounting in hot haste, they rode out to
welcome their white brethren, exhibiting the
greatest pleasure at the sight of their dear friendq,
to whom they tendered a warm invitation to camp
down beside them. General Custar, between the
Head Chief and the Medicine Man, became the
centre of a circle of chiefs, plying him with
the pipe of peace, and going through a long
ham angue, which assumed a sacred character;
and this was followed by a grand parade of mounte I
warriors, who, bedizened with painted trickery,
passed in single file, each blowing a flageolet. All
the while the squawa were packing up with the
utmost speed. The Indians, finding the General
impatient, then attempted to parley for their
captives, Mrs. Morgan and Miss White, of
Kansas. The former was taken by the Sioux in
the late raid on the Solomon River, her husband being
killed and she was sold to the Cheyennes, a party of
whom in the previous August had captured Miss
White on the Republican River after killing her
father. Gen. Custar seized three chiefs, and giv-
ing them till the next day to deliver these ladies he
let them understand that as sure as the sun shone
they would hang as it dipped below the Western ho-
rizon if the captives had not been brought in. The
ropes were ready, the trees selected, but the women
came in time to save the lives of the chiefs. The
ladies had been the slaves of the savages, their
hewers of wood and drawers of water, beaten with
sticks, an 3 living on dead dogs an 1 wolves. Once
they tried to escape, having one night walked twelve
miles, and their agony may be imagined when they
heard the rush of a drove of buffaloes coming
down on them in the dark. Next day they were
discovered by an Indian who fired a shot above
their heads to frighten them, the first notice they
had of his presence. After the battle of Washita
their treatment changed much for the better. For
the last winter the tribes have had a hard time of
it, being routed about from place to place by these
incessant cavalry raids, and they must have ardently
longed for summer. One of their greatest chiefs
complained that he had not time to make his seat
warm before he was driven away by the whites.

IMPERIAL 2ARLIA

HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his saat on the woolsack
et five o'clock.

The Civil Service Pensions Pills was read a third time,
and the Adjutants (Jury) Exemption Bill a second tirrm
On the motion for adjournment. Lord RUSSELL, in a
speech which was repeatedly cheered by the Opposition
tenches, asked what course the Government intended to
pursue in regard to the increase of crime and to the laws
relating to the tenure of land in Ireland.
Lord GRANVILLE replied that the Government were
enforcing earnestly all the powers they at present pos-
sessed, and that they were intending to introduce a mea-
sure for facilitating action by the Lord-. Lieutenant under
the Peace Preservation Act. On the question of the land,
he denied the obligation on a Government to produce a
catalogue and account of measures which they did not
intend to introduce. Ile repeated his statement that the
Government were not responsible for Mr. Baight's plan,
on the merits of which they declined to give any opinion,
but he again defended that scheme from the reproach of
being an attack on the rights cf property.
Lord DERBY thought the justification for having
brought this subject for the third or fourth time before the
House was that the House had never been yet able to
obtain an answer from the Government. He referred to
his own experience as an Irish landowner for five-and-
forty years. His tenants had hitherto paid their rent
contentedly; but a feeling had grown up in the district
that no more rent was to be paid after 1870.

After observations by Lords Cowper andrandon,
Their lordships adjourned at a quarter past 9 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING.

The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
METROPOLITAN STREET TRAMWAYS RILL.
On the consideration of the bill as amended.
Mr. PEASE moved the insertion of a clause allowing all
vehicles to -.-un on the tramways other than the company
promoting the bill. The amendment also empowered par-
ties running vehicles for hire also to use the rails, pro-
vided they had the lieonse horn the Board of Trale.
Captain GROSVENOR opposed the clause. He thought
the resolution cf the committee ought to be supported by
the house, the more especially as they had heard the whole
of the evidence that could be procured against the pro-
moters of the bill.
Mr. SOLATER-DOOTH, as chairman of the committee
to which the bill was referred, denied that there was any
monopoly of the road, but only a monopoly as fir as re-
garded the use of the rails. They had fully considered
the question of monopoly, and the resolutions the com-
mittee had come to' fully showed that. They had also
taken precaution against the rails becoming a nuisance,
because in such case provision was made for the removal
of the rails. It was desirable that an experiment should
be made to try the merits of a very important arrange-
ment. He thought the committee had taken every pre-
caution with respect to the public convenience; and there-
fore he hoped the hon. member would not divide the
house.

Mr. BRIG UT said the carrying of these clauses would
be tantamount to overthrowing the bill. He thought the
Chairman of the committee had quite settled tho matter
with respect to -the consideration of the interests cf the
omnibus proprietors.
Mr. PEASE could assure the house he had not the
slightest desire to push the omnibus interest forward ; all
he wished to do was to promote the public convenience as
far as was in his power. After the observations of the
right hon. gentleman, the President of the Board of Trade,
he would withdraw his amendments.
The bill was further considered and ordered to lie on
the table.