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

ME _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, wil,e
were surrounded by the warriors of Little Raven!
band, by whom they and their
were killed,
bodies horribly mutilated. Mrs. Blinn and ber
child were found in a camp six miles &let!
the river—the former had been shot throor
the head, and the latter swung round and its
brains dashed out against a tree. The Indian-
were encamped at a point three miles below the
battle ground, extending a distance of about
miles, but they aban lone I their camps and tlelll
the greatest consternation on learning the Proll-
- of Sheridan's troopers, leaving everything he,-
hind ; as much of which was destroyed, as dole, a
lowed. The trail was then followed for sixten
miles towards Fort Cobb, where the cimp of tie
Kiowas was struck. Late in the evening the 111.'I
dians became aware of Sheri lan's proximity, an
hastened to Fort Cobb. Sheridan hesitated to att3e
them as they presented a letter from General tlazeo
declaring them friendly, but he ordered them to Prnr
ceed at once to Fort Cobb. Here they tried one of °exit
artful dodges, but they had too old a soldier to de
with in Sheridan. The warriors joined and aeecirlie3y
hied the column intending thus to deceive, while tilva
rapidly hurried their families towards the Wa'3";
mountains. \\Then they thought that they had
fair start one by one they began slipping ni;7,T:l
but the General arrested the chiefs Lone 1"
and Satanta. On arriving at Fort Cobb tint 3
Kiowa had conic in, when Lone Wolf and Satanw4,ci
were coolly informed, and in that calm determine,'
way which their instinct told them meant the flit
import of the words, that they would be hung rielat
morning if their families were not brought in th-tia
day. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes, one ban
of Comanches, and fifty lodges of the
are at the Western base of the Washita !Out,
tains. The Kiowas, to save Lone Wolf and Satanbie
began to come in just after Sheridan had e]osedi
ek
despatch, and he had determined to send 13`30
Kettle's sister to see the Cheyennes and Arapaho
in the morning. Her brother was one of the en'
voys they sent in to ask for peace. Sheridan elearly
intimated that peace would be conceded only after if
severe punishment, to be meted also to the Kiciwe's're
they came in, and if not Lone Wolf and Satanta/1-0
to be hanged. They had been working togetnerea
this war on the settlers and trading in eaPturo
stock, and they had been brow-beating Gen. gaire
the Indian agent; but, says Sheridan, I will to b
some of the starch out of them before I get tbr°tlhgas
with them. The Indian loss in Custar's fight ,40
been underrated, as it exceeded 140 killed. 'b
Comnanches, the General says, are under his thiltne's
the Kiowas soon will be, and he hopes the CheYelanl3o,
and Arapahoes may shortly be in the same posit,i;ep
The ground in his trip over the table-land was 'ln.
with snow, and the cold in crossing the rivers
ex,
tense. The surface was in the highest degree trout
cherous with canyons, hummocks, and scooped a
basins. Still there was scarcely any sickness ss'
few horses were lost, but in the beautiful grated
valley in which he was then encamped he exPeeia,
to have the command soon in good trim. The,r is
dians have learned for the first time that win tee
not necessarily on the part of the United
troops a time of truce.

In Uruguay there is said to be a kitchen Olerit,
ing a half acre. They make "extract of meat,
disposingca
of 80 head ofcattle per hour, and 400 head 11°- r

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when trade is brisk.
New York ladies copy with far 'greater "toll
and with far greater servility the fashions of Paris
sad
sed
do the ladies of London. They out-Herod Ileroussapt
make themselves conspicuous even on the Boulevardsii their
the Tuileries, while on the Broadway they have it 6 tiele
own way. The Round Table thus commences and on
on the Grecian Beud : "We have come to the C°°°looo
that the women of New York are the most beautiful 0 .0,
in the world, for there is no civilized place within our
ledge where the women go to so much trouble and esPe • '
to make themselves hideous, and with so little succesS; dies
We walk down Broadway, and there we see the 's it
assuming a form uhicli they seek to refine by 0,111
bend," and it conveys the idea of ugliness, def°lci:stf,
depravity of art, and recklessness of character for ITI° f the
good sense, and purity. We turn into the studio °l,reo
sculptor, we wands in spirit through the art trei_ne:sti,
which for centuries have stool pre-eminent in P.....0165'
and there we see the same form—the genuine bend,orn die
tratiug and typifying the highest virtues which nu ti,is.
sex. Wherefore then, the difference ? °uVipuntj
the one figure the Broadway pedestrian orio9r ,
herself in padding and gewgaws and gay
and the other figure—the Athenian reodel'sage'
How violent the antithesis ; Immodestly ad;
Ar
and modesty naked. Immodest because a° enr
modest because thus naked. There is, then, but °"cier tie
elusion : that the Grecian Bend, to be acceptable utiditiosl
ethics of true art, must be accompanied with the c°ll ..kl3"
under which it was originally made familiar to tisi'b it tie
ladies who persist in adopting it mast either esbaloationA6
natural contour of their persons, or be the exemPli'bie bad
of questionable morality and very unquestiopi'
taste." In the face of this very severe and perh9l3:o
liable criticism, we desire to remark that althoughtotai
tat ion is grotesque it is an imitation of modesty an' irbell,,
and as such, having at least that redeeming merit.
e, 4001',
the men and women of a dissolute French Court 011.1 009
regime took to personating shepherds and shePl3ety, °cr.
they got up a grotesque imitation of rural sitte'';o god
desty, and virtue ; yet it showed a dissatisfactiono'ilig for
minds with their artificial mode of life, and S. Year
something more natural.
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Births.
_street'
KENLIS —On the 22d inst., at 34, Grosvenor fSI Alice Kenlis, of a daughter.
OrcEovErt -On the 23d inst., at 9 Chester
t,
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of
fair, the Hon. Mrs. Okeover, of a daughter' OE, Wife
SHEPPARD —0 n the 17th inst., at Southsel4
Capt. H. Sheppard, 67th Regt., of a son.
ber.
Marriages. go 4,13
alb at“' e`
BLA ISE —MOGER -On the 20th inst.,oy Dan
Blane, Esq., of Kilburn, London, t° v,
Frat.ces, only daughter of George Moge"
''of4"'
Bd. Areas ? 0
MAXWELL—HAY On the 19th inst., atj,„yaislbnn, 13e 100'
Maxwell, Esq., of Gribton, to Adelaide ojt„. , et
ter of the late Rear-Admiral James
East Lothian. oiv°la
Deaths. Joh°
FLETCHER—On the 18th inst., at Ventne 101311
Fletcher, Esq.Lee•d ,
LuNn- On the 19th inst., at Manor Park' e-
Lund, Esq., of 41, Cornhill, aged 62.
-terracla
NEWTON - On the 22d inst., at 6, Cambridge_ninter
park, Sir William J. Newton, tuiniature em
ijroor
nary to her Majesty, aged 84. road,
SEWELL -On the 20th inst., at 25, 0115012-
ton, W. B. Sewell, Esq., aged 75. sq 9
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