The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-25 00:00:00

THE INDIAN WAR.

General Sheridan reach,d Fort Cobb on the
9th December with his column of about 1,500 men.
He moved in his late raid in a southerly direc-
tion, crossing the Canadian till he struck the
Washita, eight miles south of Custar's battle-field,
and 113 miles from Fort Cobb. A search was then
made for the bodies of Major Elliot and 16 soldiers
killed in pursuing too far the flying Indians, wll.°
were surrounded by the warriors of Little Raven's
band, by whom they were killed, and their
bodies horribly mutilated. Mrs. Blinn and hcr
child were found in a camp six miles down
the river—the former had been shot through
the head, and the latter swung round and its
brains dashed out against a tree. The Indians
were encamped at a point Minya milesbelovt the
battle ground, extending a distance of about sae
miles, but they abandoned their camps and fle 1 in
the greatest consternation on learning the proxi-
mity of Sheridan's troopers, le tying everything be-
hind ; as much of which was destroyed, as time al-
lowed. The trail was then followed for sixteen
miles towards Fort Cobb, where the camp of the
Kiowas was struck. Late in the evening the In-
dians became aware of Sheridan's proxiMity,
hastened to Fort Cobb. Sheridan hesitated to attack
them as they presented a letter from General Hazen
declaring them friendly, but he ordered them to pro-
ceed at once to Fort Cobb. Here they tried one of their
artful dolges, but they had too old a soldier to deal
with in Sheridan. The warriors joined and accompa-
nied the column intending thus to deceive, while they
rapidly hurried their families towards the Washita
mountains. When they thought that they had, a
fair start one by one they began slipping away,
but the General arrested the chiefs Lone Wolf
and Satanta. On arriving at Fort Cobb not, A
Kiowa had come in, when Lone Wolf and Satanta
were coolly informed, and in that calm determined
way which their instinct told them meant the full
import of the words, that they would be hung next
morning if their families were not brought in that
day. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes, one band
of Couaanches, and fifty lodges of the Kiowas
are at the Western base of the Washita moun-
tains. The Kiowas, to save Lone Wolf and Satanta
began to come in just after Sheridan had closed his
despatch, and he had determined to send Black
Kettle's sister to see the Cheyennes and Arapahoes
iu the morning. Her brother was one of the en-
voys they sent in to ask for peace. Sheridan clearly
intimated that peace would be conceded only after a
severe punishment, to be meted also to the Kiowas, if
they came in, and if not Lone Wolf and Satanta were
to be hanged.. They had been working
together in
this war on the settlers and trading in captured
stock, and they had been brow-beating Gen. Hazen,
the Indian agent; but, says Sheridan, I will take
,owe of the starch out of them before I get through
with them. The Indian loss iu Custar's fight has
been underrated, as it exceeded 140 killed. The
Comanches, the General says, are under his thumb,
the Kiowas soon will be, and he hopes the Cheyennes
and Arapahoes may shortly be in the same position.
The ground iu his trip over the table-land was deep
with snow, and the cold in crossing the rivers in-
tense. The surface was in the highest degree trea-
cherous with canyons, hummocks, and scooped out
basins. Still there was scarcely any sickness ; a
few horses were lost, but in the beautiful grassy
valley in which he was then encamped he expected
to have the command soon in good trim. The In-
dians have learned for the first time that winter Is
not necessarily on the part of the United States
troops a time of truce.

In Uruguay there is said to be a kitchen cover-
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when trade is brisk.

New York ladies copy with far greater rapidity
and with far greater servility the fashions of Paris than
do the ladies of London. They out-Herod Herod, and
make themselves conspicuous even on the Boulevards and at
the Tuileries, while on the Broadway they have it all their
own way. The Round Table thus commences an article
on the Grecian Bend : -" We have come to the conclusion
that the women of Now York are the most beautiful women
in the world, for there is no civilized place within our knout'
badge where the women go to so much trouble and expense
to make themselves hideous, and with so little success. • • •
We walk down Broadway, and there we see the ladies
assuming a form which they seek to refine by calling it a
"bend," and it conveys the idea of ugliness, deformitn
depravity of art, and recklessness of character for modesty,
goad sense, and purity. We turn into the studio of the
sculptor, we wander in spirit through the art treasures
which for centuries have stood pro-eminent in beauty,
and there we see the same form—the genuine bend—illus-
trating and typifying the highest virtues which adorn the
sex. Wherefore then, the difference? Only this:
the one figure the Broadway pedestrian flaunts
herself in padding and gewgaws and gay draperies,
and the other figure—the Athenian model-Lis nude.
How violent the antithesis ; Immodestly draped,
and modesty naked. Immodest because so draped ;
modest because thus naked. There is, then, but one con-
elusion : that the Grecian Bend, to be acceptable under the
ethics of true art, must be accompanied with the conditions
under which it was originally made familiar to us. And
ladies who persist in adopting it must either exhibit' the
natural contour of their persons, or be the exemplifications
of questionable morality and very unquestionable bad
taste." In the face of this very severe and perhaps justi-
fiable criticism, we desire to remark that although the imi-
tation is grotesque it is an imitation of modesty and beauty,
and as such, having at least that redeeming merit. When
the men and women of a dissolute French Court of the old
regime took to personating shepherds and shepherdesses
they got up a grotesque imitation of rural simplicity, mo-
desty, and virtue ; yet it showed a dissatisfaction in some
minds with their artificial mode of life, and a yearning for
something more natural-

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