Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-04-19
WASHINGTON NEWS and GOSSIP.

The State of the Frontier.-we took occs.
sion to say, not long since, that the chief of
the Indian bureau 10 now of opinion that the
Sioux and other upper Missouri tribes would
not make forsy on the settlements and emil
grafton this season, as was not long since ex.
pected. We have every confidence in the
Commissioners means Of forming a correct
rienced and trusty correspondence among TIT
various tribes suspected of hostile intentions
Nevertheless, there is every reason to believe,
that the preparation made to check and
punish them, in case they should undertake
hostilities. has alone warded off the attack
We understand that tho authorities here,
whose duty it is to protect or frontier fellow
ciusens in such an emergency, have been
almost overwhelmed with petitions for sucb
protection, based on the spprehensions Of
almost all who are within striking distance.
among ethers' We perceive that as late as the
9th ult., the Legislature Of Nebraska made to
the war department pressing representation
"a what they believed to be the imminent
canger of general Indian war
1t will be recollected that, In accordance
with call Of Congress, the Department sent
In at the last session detailed account of as
many of the recent murders, robberies, &e.,
perpetrated by the Indians in question, as the
Government had information of list so
formidable "a to create a general impression
that failure to give the frontier requisite pro-
lection had operated to make the hostile tribes,
States, the supreme power almost everywhere
between the extreme settlements in Missouri
and Iowa, and those of California, and Oregon
and Washington Territories. The result was
the authorization of the four new regiments,
to be employed in the re-establishment of the
Governments authority in that quarter, peace.
ably, il possible, but at any rate to re-estab-
lish it. Happily, the news that troops sufi
cieht promptly to punish any outrages will
soon be in the field, bids fair to prevent the
necessity for shedding Indian blood there
We are thus particular in stating all these
facts, because We perceive that those who
hate the President, finding that their story tina
he desires to make way on Spain will not 20
down with people of common sense, are getting
up cry that his purpose is to create an Indian
war. They find a willing and fitting mouth
piece, indeed, in Colonel Benton, who makes
it rule of his life to rlalgn and misrepressnt
any Executive who fails to lend himself to the
two great objects of his Che Colonel's,)
labors in connexion with public affairs of late
years-the first, blowing" him into undue
Importance, or in other words, ministering to
his personal vanity; the second, billeting the
CoiOnePs connexions on the Government, so as
they may realise vast sums of money through
opportunities so created for them
British Recruits In Yankeedom for Grim
Tartary for poor Sir Gaspard LIE
Marchand, II, B Ii. Lieutenant Governor of
Nova Scotia, and the would-be commander of
the American volunteer legion to take Sebas.
topol-" his cake is all dough" The Yankees
wont go to the Crimea. They prefer working
on the Nova Scotia railroad TO dying with
glory in the valley of Balaklava, or in the
slaughter pen before the Russian batteries at
Ssbastopol. Sensible Yankees these. His
Excellency's pathetic beseeching to the b'hoys
ought to be reported for tho edifcation of the
public We presume ere this the ambitious
Sir Gaspard has thought it possible that the
cunning and intriguing Howe has been play.
Ing upon his military vanity to make him ap-
pear ridiculous, and disgrace him in the esti-
nation of the Government and cause his recall.
The people Of England won't be made a
laughing stock to crafty tho military vanity
| of any of the old fossils of the wars Of by.gone
days, and the open and armed violation of tie
neutrality laws of the United States by the
Nova Scotia military patriots, Will, we are
saushsd, be rebukce. The following extract
/ from the Halifax Journal shows that even the
Dutch, Irish, and French recruits surrep.
titiously obtained in Philadelphia, New York
and Boston, object to being shot by the Rus.
slams for pay:
"SrILL THEY CoAE.-The second installment
for the Foreign Legion" so called, amount.
ing to some sixty people, arrived in the city
on Friday morning from Boston, via Windsor
IL appears that they were induced to come
here under promise Of employment on the
Railroad at the rate of So and So per week,
and were not told anything about joining a
foreign legion until their arrival at Windsor.
When they arrived in town, they refused to en-
list as recruits. On Saturday morning they
waited on his Excellency, who endsavorod to
induce them to enlist but they Indignantly re-
fused to consent to anything short of a fulfil
ment Of their engagement. We believe ar.
engagements have since been made to have
them employed on the Railroad -
The Uneducated. The following ia the mum.
Der of persons in the United States, over twen-
ty.one years of age, who cannot read or write,