Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-07-11
INDIAN WAR TROUBLES.

future. More than sixty Thousand
red warriors are represented as Oh
the war path, breathing destruction
to the pale faces. The incarnats
fiends are we'll equipped with thu
best of arms and accoutrements
which are sold to them by white
spectators acting as Indian agents
and commissioners. Many of the
Indians, like the Cheyennes, Sioux
and others, protesting friendliness
for the whites, obtain arms, ammuni
ton, horses, &C., under the pretext
that these articles are to be used in
buffalo hunting, but the imposters
usually turn up afterwards in their
genuine character of deadly enmity
to the whites and sally forth in their
mad career of bloodshed, scalping
and other savage enormities, in all
Of which, according to reliable ac-
counts, they are succeeding but too
well.
The United States Government
has vainly undertaken thus far to
check the savage foes in their play
with fire and death, and Gen. Sher-
man, as tSte de p0ymee.in the Indian
region, has given no evidence of
that strategic skill and military
success which characterized his ia
nous exploits during previous cam
paigns in more southerly ATTITUDES
His forces, wherever distributed,
seem to be getting the worst of it,
and at formidable expenditure of
treasure and blood. Meanwhile, the
cormorants Of speculation are also on
the war path, but for quite a differ
ent object. War to them is "a bless
ing in disguise" for by it they are
enabled to add thousand fold to
their ill-gotten stores. This stock
jobbing process Of conducting war
is likely to contribute to a continual
ton of the present Indian conflicts
to an extent of time as interminable
as that which characterized the wars
against the Creeks and Seminoles.
The National Intelligencer recently
remarked, that "the great Indian
war, which has at length been pro.
voked, and which will cost hundreds
of millions of dollars, is emphatically,
and, no doubt, truly pronounced by
General Buford, to be nothing but
raid upon the Treasury" This
emphatic bit of truth, so compactly
put together in a nutshell, explains
the mystery. Speculation and pecu-
lation are at the bottom of this as
they have VIGOROUSLY been of SINH
lar outbreaks. In view of this fact,
it would seem that the first step
toward putting stop to all such
hostile demonstrations, should be to
catch and hang or shoot the nefari
BUS instigators and abettors of them.
A gentleman Of this city has read
to US a letter recently received by
him from reliable source in Denver,
(Colorado). In this letter, the
writer AYERS that the Indians known
IS "friendlies," continue to receive
as they have for a long time past,
from the Indian agents, commissions
srs, &C., all the warlike supplies
hey need ''to hunt the buffalo,,
This artful dodge is Of course as we'll
understood by the traders themselves
as by the "friendlies," between whom
here is an "entente cord1aze' which
lenders their completely of easy
practice and mutually profitable.
How such things, which must be
patent to the most ordinary observer,
are permitted to transpire under the
very eyes of the commanding Cen
,ral, his subordinates and other Uni
ed States officials in that quarter,
8 past the comprehension Of all who
ire so unsophisticated as to suppose