The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-18 00:00:00

THE RED INDIANS OF THE PLAINS.

The author of " Greater Britain," from which we
we purpose hereafter to extract and discuss many
ideas, says that the first thing which struck him about
the Red Indians was that they were not red. The
Commissioner of Indian Affairs put their total num-
ber within the United States, exclusive of Alaska,
at about 300,000, of whom fully one-half are hos-
tile. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes have clearly
violated their treaty promises, made scarcely a year
ago to the commissioners sent to treat with them,
which he accounts for by their innate love of plunder
and revenge, under a feeling of dissatisfaction,
caused, it is presumed, by the non-delivery of guns
and ammunition promised them by the commis-
sioners, but withheld because the Cheyennes bad
not kept peace. General Sherman's army does not
exceed 10,000 men, and the field force under Sheri-
dan was•estimated at 3,ooo—some 1,500 regulars,
with 1,500 volunteers. After providing for garri-
soning the forts and the protection of the outlying
Kansas districts, his strength must be under 3,000,
while that he ispreparing to attack wasover7,ooowar-
riors, well armed and mounted; indeed, one of the
Governors telegraphing to Sherman declared the
Indians to be better equipped than his men. Letters
from Fort Hays, Kansas, give an interesting ac-
counts of these forces moving against the hostile
Indians, who have fallen back south of the Ar-
kansas river in order to build lodges for their winter
quarters. The principal tribes at war in the district
mentioned are the Araphoes, Apaches, Kiowas, and
Comanches. There is also a band composed of out-
laws, both white and copper-coloured, called Dog
Soldiers. These " Dogs" are reported to be scat-
tered about among the head waters of the streams
north of the Smoky-hill river, along the valley of
which the Kansas Pacific Railroad runs. The ex-
pedition against the Indians is moving towards Saud
Plains, south of the Arkansas river, and will probably
make that point the base of supplies. Sherman's
plan is to attack the Indians in winter quarters,
and after inflicting punishment to compel the sur-
vivors to live on the reservations in the Indian terri-
tories. It is feared, however, that the Indians
may break into small parties, and, returning
north, attack the Pacific Railroad, and settlements.
As the race now excites interest we extract the
account given of them in " Greater Britain"
" Low in stature, yellow-skinned, small-eyed, and
Tartar-faced, the Indians of the plains are a dis-
tinct people from the tall, hook-nosed warriors of
the Eastern States. It is impossible to set eyes on
their women without being reminded of the dwarf
skeletons found in the mounds of Missouri and
lowa ; but, men or women, the Utes bear no resem-
blance to the bright-eyed, graceful people with
whom Penn traded and Standish fought. They
are not less inferior in mind than in body. It was
no Shoshone, no Ute, no Cheyenne who called the
rainbow the " heaven of flowers," the moon the
night Queen," or the stars " God's eyes." The
plain tribes are as deficient, too, in heroes as in
poetry ; they have never even produced a general'
and White Antelope is their nearest approach to a
Tecumseh. . . . Indian civilization, through
the means of agriculture, is all but a total failure'
The Shawnees are thriving near Kansas city, the
Pottawatomies living at, St. Mary's Mission ,the Del*"
wares existing at Leavenworth; but in all these case°
there is a large infusion of white blood. Thee anadi3ll
Hurons are completely civilized; but then they are
completely French. If you succeed with an Indian'
to all appearance, he will suddenly return to his tin;
tamed state. An Indian girl, one of the one
orderly of the pupils at a ladies' school, has bees
known, on feeling herself aggrieved, to withdraw td
her room, let down her back hair, paint her face, an
howl. The same tendency showed itself in the case
of the Delaware chief who built himself a
man's house, and lived in it thirty years, but the;
suddenly set up his old wigwam in the dining-roo
in disgust. Another bad case is that of the Pas',
nee who visited Buchanan, and behaved so
that when a young Englishman, who came out 50°'
after, told the President that he was going West be
give him a letter to the chief, then with his tribe 10
Northern Kansas. The Pawnee read the note,
offered a pipe, gravely protested eternal friend'
ship, slept upon it, and next morning scalped
his visitor with his own hand. Hitherto
the whites have pushed back the Indians Nve6t:
ward ; if they would rescue the remnants ft°
starvation they must bring them east ; away frnl
Western men and Western hunting grounds, and
let them intermingle with the whites, living, far-
ing along with them, intermarrying, if Possible;
The hunting Indian is too costly a being for on.
I'4
age, but we are bound to remember that ours
the blame of having failed to teach him to be some'
thing better. After all, if the Indian is mentally'
morally, and physically inferior to the white Inapt
it is in every way for the advantage of the ne
generation that inhabits Colorado that the people
should consist of'whites instead of reds. That tbig
result should not be brought about by crueltYul
fraud upon the now existing Indians is all that w
need require. The gradual extinction of the it',..fe,
rior race is not only a law of nature, but a bless"
to mankind."—Anglo-American Times.

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MOSES— On the 16th inst., at 38, Cleveland-sclup'-'
wifo of Assur H. Moses, Esq., of a daughter.
PELLEW —On the 15th inst., the wifo of Henry B.
Esq., of a daughter.
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Hon. Mrs. Arthur Upton, of a son, stilborn.
Marriages. 3010
APLAREN—s CHWABE —On the 14th inst at Glasgolif,' areol
IMl.l.‘Laren, Esq., advocate, eldest son of,Duncan
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Esq., M.P., Edinburgh, to (Mille Auguste, the
daughter of 11. L. SchwaLe, Esq. Cbtir
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Lancaster-gate, John Thomson, Esq.. to 1f1.70'1
second daughter of the late Archibald lierr,
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