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London, England, 1868-09-12 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 12, 1868.

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ATTENDANCE DAJI.Y.

THE INDIAN WAR.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

A picture in a recent number of Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Paper represented a party of scouts
resting on their rifles, contemplating, as sportsmen
regard the game they have bagged, the bodies of
some seventy Indian men, women, and children
they had just slain. The news of this successful
raid had but then arrived iu New York, and formed
a mere paragraph for the papers. The intelligence
a few weeks later from Kansas, reverses the picture,
showing the Indians in all the frippery of war-paint
and feathers desolating the valley of the Solomon's
Fork, and committing atrocities which a General
famous for a march of unequalled desolation de-
clares to be too horrible to detail. That a general
Indian war is now raging is clear from the telegrams
which have reached this country. We have news of
a massacre in Colorado, of a fight in Kansas, and of
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_le capture an, ;rifollo )ra'act,g•goe
Indians with its sixteen guards, who were scalped
and their bodies burnt. From l)acotah, which
borders the British Provinces, through Nebraska,
Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico, which bor-
ders Old Mexico, the Indians appear to be in
motion. It is not easy to ascertain the imme-
diate, cause, although the general reason is suf-
ficiently evident. The finest buffalo ground is
through the country of the Cheyennes and Arapa-
hoes, and it is this territory which is threatened by
the Northern Branch, and, in truth, inva led by the
Eastern Division of the Union Pacific Railway. The
buffalo, so jealously guarded by the Indians, is an
animal easily scared, and disappears before advanc-
ing civilization like night before the rising sun.
The tribes, ever since the mails were carried along
the Smoky Hill route, have been in a state of great
uneasiness, and they have seen with dismay the
mail track give place to a railway before which the
pale faces have settled down on the country in swarms,
stealing mile by mile into the very heart of their
hunting grounds. There is little love lost between
the advancing settler and the invaded Indian.
They hate each other with that bitterness which
makes the achievement of slaying an enemy a life-
long source of congratulation. The quiescent
hostility prevailing, even in peace, may readily
be fanned into active war on the least provocation,
and any opportunity of striking a blow, if presented
to the Indians, could not be resisted, and, if to the
settlers, would not be resisted. As yet we have no
satisfactory reason for the fierce onslaught of the
Cheyennes and the Arapahoes on the Kansas
settlers. But one with an air of probability comes
from the proceedings of the Pawnees, Omahas,
Winnebagoes, and Ponchas, who united their tribes.
for a grand hunt, bringing into the field 1,500
warriors towards the end of July. They crossed the
Platte River near Fort Kearney, accompanied by
Major FRANK Norerir and half his command, then
stationed at Grand Island on the Platte, with six
or seven white men who were on a hunting trip.
The ground chosen was the Republican Fork, which
flows c!ose along the boundary line of Kansas, till it
leaves Nebraska and enters that State, running paral.
lel with Solomon River till they both empty into the
Kansas. The truth is, that these tribes were poaching
upon the preserves of the Sioux, the Cheyennes,
and the Arapahoes, who quickly came to the rescue
of the buffalo. During last month the hunting
party was attacked first by a small force of the
Sioux, who were compelled to retreat with loss.
Alter some time the Sioux returned to the charge,
reinforced by the Cheyenne and other tribes, who
managed to cut in between the scattered parties of
the invaders when hunting over the country in pur-
suit of buffalo. Against Major NORTH the attack
was mainly directed, and for a period he and his
command were in imminent danger, being compelled
to dismount to maintain the position they had
taken till relieved by the friendly Indians, during
which time he lost three killed and a large number
wounded out of his fifty men. This desultory en-
gagement lasted for eight hours before the Pawnees,
who had five killed besides many wounded, reunited
with their Allies, and presented a solid front for
action. Then the Sioux, Cheyennes, and Ara-
pahoes withdrew, desirous of saving the loss of a
pitched battle. Major NORTH and his command
returned towards the middle of last month to Grand
Island, and the hunting tribes gradually broke up
and retreated to their own country, not liking the
hornet's nest they had raised.
Now here was the opportunity of the Cheyennes
and the Araphoes—here was the chance for the
warriors who panted for the excitement and dis-
tinction of action. The tribes were assembled and
on the war-path, and their enemies had melted into
nothing before them. A more deadly foe still, lay
exposed in the valley of the neighbouring river,
engaged in a work far more destructive to the
hunting-ground than what in their opinion was
the more legitimate raid of the Pawnees. That
inroad of the Nebraska Indians had been headed by
a United States officer, and the Cheyenne and other
warriors bad fallen mainly beneath United States
bullets. What wonder if these tribes considered
this an act of war which justified them in immediate
and indiscriminate retaliation.' Perhaps the first
the settlers of Solomon River Valley knew of
the matter was when they found the full
weight of this Indian torrent rolling down. Even
the instinct of the celebrated scout, BILL COM-
STOCK, failed to save him when caught in this
deluge, and he was killed after a life of marvellous
adventure ; but his body was recovered, and his
companions rescued, though badly wounded. When
the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes began to feel the
influence of the indignation they had excited, all
Kansas being aroused, and United States troops
pushed rapidly up to the scene of action, they re-
treated towards the Arkansas—that is, they passed
through Solomon's Valley, which lies between the
Republican and the Arkansas Rivers. Being fol-
lowed vigorously they were compelled to abandon
children they were carrying into captivity, and it
appears that they were overtaken at Fort Dodge,
and defeated after an action in which four sol-
diers were killed and seventeen wounded. The news
of large bodiesbeing on the war-path sets other tribes
into motion, and the waggon train, we presume,
between Santa Fe :and Kansas, fell a victim, as
announced in the Cable telegram. The Valley of
Solomon's Fork lies about 40 miles west of Fort
Riley, and is picturesque and fertile in no ordinary
degree. In the Spring of 1867 it was said to con-
tain nearly a thousand settlers, and Solomon's city,
close to the point where the railroad crosses the
stream, is represented as a brisk, thriving, rather
pretty new town. The Selina, a smaller river, run-
ning parallel, which also flows into the Kansas, is
the site of a thriving settlement, the town contain-
ing even more than a year ago two thousand inha-
bitants. It is to this point that the teamsters from
Santa Fe now direct their course, which being the
line of retreat taken by the Indians, almost necessa-
rily led to the destruction of any waggon trains on
the road. General SIIERIDAN, who is acting under
SHERMAN'S orders, has directed the iminediate and
forcible removal of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes,
and is vigorously carrying out his own order. SHER-
MAN, after getting his troops into motion, hastened
to inform the PRESIDENT of his action, tele-
graphing to Waelliagtoia that he had ordered

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the forcible expulsion of the Indians from Kansas,
and acknowledging that his order amounts to war,
which he hoped would be only on a small scale.
" Notify me promptly," he added, " if the PRESI-
DENT disapproves my action, but I deem further
forbearance with the Indians impossible." His
despatch was communicated to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, who reported to the Secretary of the
Interior that he ha I received no odicial information
iu reference to the allege 1 massacre. lie thought the
innocent should not suffer with the guilty while not
denying the General's right thus to deal with those en-
gaged in the atrocities—indeed admitting the neces -
sity of punishing them. This was submitted to the
War Dvartineut, together with a despatch from
Superintendent Mmtrav to the Indian Bureau,
stating that information not official had reached
him of the massacre by these Indians of a Mrs
WHITE and several others. In view of all the facts
the PRESIDENT informed General SCHOFIELD that
he approved the rigid course pursued by General
SHERMAN, and thus has been inaugurated another
Indian war. Vast as is the territory, so few and weak
are the tribes, that it is said the whole number of Red
Indians does not now exceed 300,000. But as with
the English settlers in New Zealand, though that
land wholly differs, the difficulty is to get at the na-
tives. The territory for the most part is open roll-
ing prairie, and the Indians ride hardy horses and
work with an instinct which only such scouts as
BILL COMSTOCK can divine and excel. The
cumbrous machinery of regular armies is wholly
unfitted for the work, for, as we have often ex-
plained, the very essence of civilized warfoe con-
-sista in points of attack and basas..of oberation.
lc. hese-radian hostilities. will cost a prodigious sum
and produce little result, merely accelerating the
fate of the tribes and hastening the day when a Red
Indian will be a curiosity in America.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Sept. 11.

The revision of the lists of claimants under the
lodger qualification in the city of Dublin promises
to be a protracted and difficult operation. Not only
many knotty points raised that have a some-
what general application, and each of which, once
decided, will rule the decision in subsequent cases
on these poihts, but the citcumstances of the claim-
ants and the essentials of their claims vary so much
that the hearing, even of the most simple case, occu-
pies a considerable portion of time. The question
" What is a lodger ?" was solved yesterday, so far
as one of the principal points is concerned, by
the Court unanimously deciding that the term
does not apply to the occupier of a portion of a
house which is let in tenements, and in which the
landlord does not reside—in fact, in any case in
which the landlord would be a trespasser if he en-
tered the hall door without leave of the tenant.
When, however, the landlord kept a key and re-
served the right of entry the occupiers had a right to
be regarded as lodgers. This decision, it is said,
will materially injure the Liberal list, the larger
number of claimants of the class excluded having
belonged to the Liberal side. Another question
raised was whether the payment of 4s. a week was
to be regarded as in itself a proof that the apart-
ments occupied by a lodger were valued at £lO a
year. In one case an actor paid ss. a week for apart-
ments ; but it having been alleged as against his
claim that the apartments were not of the clear
value of £lO a year, he damaged his own case by
reminding the Court that a landlord would not let
his apartments at so low a rate to an actor who was
in the habit of coming in late at night as to an
ordinary lodger. It was also urged against the
claimant that rooms would bring more than their
" clear annual value" when let by the week. The
opinion of the Court was in favour of this view,
and of requiring, therefore, evidence in all cases of
the " clear annual value" irrespective of the amount
of rent paid. The Court also ruled that a shop is
a lodging, and that a man's apprentice, even when
in receipt of wages, is a member of his family,
and is therefore not a joint occupier. A clerk of
Grangegorman Prison, who claimed on account of
hia residence in the prison, was struck off the list,
although he stated that if he were alloWed to live
outside, as he would be if he were married, he
thought his salary would be larger.

A number of the freemen of Dublin who voted
for Mr. Pim at the last election have passed a reso-
lution binding themselves not to support him at the
coming election—first, on the ground that he voted
for the abolition of the freemen franchise ; and,
second, because of his declaration against the Irish
Church Establishment.
Two of the candidates for Belfast have issued
their addresses. Sir Charles Lanyon, one of the
present members, and Mr. Thomas M'Clure, a new
candidate of opposite (Liberal) views. Sir Charles
Lanyon, although expressing his belief that in ordi-
nary times his votes would be a sufficient index to
his political views, considers that " at a crisis like
the present, when revolutionary schemes for the
destruction of ottr Protestant institutions and those
religious endowments which are the homage of our
kingdom to truth are certain to be immediately
brought under the consideration of the next Parlia-
ment, some declaration of opinion on this essential
point is due to the electors." Ile will, he says, op-
pose all such schemes, but at the same time he will
"be pleased to see, with a view of promoting its
efficiency, the reform of all abuses or anomalies
which may exist in the Established Church, and to
resist the introduction of all spurious and illegiti-
mate rites and practices." Believing that the com-
mon law of the land is sufficient to maintain peace
and good order among the people, he is prepared to
support " any feasible proposition" that may be
brought forward for the repeal of the Party Proces-
sions Act. Mr. M'Clure declares himself in favour of
disestablishing and disendowing the Irish Church.
He would also give to tenants a legal claim to the
full value of their improvements. Both addresses
are silent on the question of education.
Mr. George Henry Moore, candidate for county
Mayo, addressed a meeting of electors at Castlebar
on Wednesday, in the yard of the parish chapel.
The town was inundated by about 1,000 of the
tenants of Mr. Moore and Mr. Blake, opposing
factions, " every man of them," says a correspon-
dent of the Daily Express, " being armed with
newly-cut shillelaghs." It is added that all passed
off quietly, there being only a few trifling skirmishes
as night set in. The meeting adopted a resolution
pledging them aelves to support Mr. Moore. Among
the speakers was the notorious " Father" Lavelle,
parish priest of Partry.

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ville, Long Island, says that forty years' experience in
setting fences with locust posts has convinced him that
no others are worth using when this timber can be ob-
tained. Split locust posts well seasoned, while he put in
40 years ago, are sound now, which round post set green
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