The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-07
WYOMING TERRITORY.
The Recent Indian Outrages-VIews OI
General sherman.

General sherman.
A correspondent, writing TO the Chicago Trj-
bUne from Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory on
fhave just returned from the mountains, and
from the plains beyond the West crossing OF
North Platte, on the Union Pacific Railroad
All along the line of the road the Indian ques.
ton is the main and almost the only theme of
conversation Indeed, it is easy enough to see
that perfect frenzy of excitement Is brewing,
and that but few more reports, such as have
been rife for few days, will be required to take
the whole populace "off their feet.n
Rumors fly thick and fast, many of them
founded upon facts which are ugly enough. AT
Benton, and thereabouts, one hears of thousands
of Indians on the war path IN Colorado, and OF
almost iDnumerable massacres. Here, have
just been told that near Medicine Bow, there
are four thousand Sioux warriors In hostile
array; while yesterday, at Medicine Bow, 1t was
stated that some one had seen party of red
skins in that vicinity numbering nearly four
hundred.
Yesterday morning, here, or within one and a
half miles of town, FIVE Indians shot and scalped
a stock herder, and ran of thirty horses. One
hundred miles westward, the story runs that
half a thousand red devils have swept through
Cheyenne, committing many murders and inde-
scribable outrages. One man, murdered last
Monday, near Pine Bluff, has been magniaed
into the slaughter of eight or ten and the few
breech cluuted scallawags who committed the
ouirages, as the report goes, amounted to quite
q respectable army.
and terrible as they are, have swollen, in many
Places to almost a general massacre of the set
tiers, and many one believes to-day that an
army of ten thousand Sioux warriors are riding
through Colorado, bent on murders, spoils, and
general devlltry. In truth, the public mind is
In good deal of u fever, and well 1t may be.
There is no doubt but that those pleasant red
brothers of ours have broken through the
meshes of that silken net which our more orna-
mental than useful Indian Commissioners de-
lusively imagined they had recently woven
around the willy aborgines, and that hostilities
have been renewed In earnest. Some dozen or
more murders have recently been committed,
other personal outrages have been perpetrated
and much property destroyed or stolen. But
whether there is q general outbreak or not Is
not yet definitely known.
1t may, after all, be only the private diversion
Of some prodigal braves who are untimely out
of ammunition and blankets, and intended
simply as gentle reminder to our Commissioners
that they should put in an appearance instanter.
They know, these red skins, that General Sher-
man has giuen 1t as his opinion that they are
nearly invncibe-that to exterminate them
except by the gentle process of kindness and
conciliatlon, would cost q million dollars per
head.
Nobody hereabouts has the least confidence
In our sCldlery, so far as hunting, capturing
or killing Indians is concerned, and may
remark that General w. T. Sherman is included
in this dstrust. The common belief is that the
time is at hand when the citizens, however
unwillipgy, will be obliged to organize and act
In defence of their lves their families, and
their property. Unless our Government soon
does something to allay distrust, afford protec-
tion and show its will to secure some practical
results, this last resort of neglected and out
ragged people is not far distant; and / tell you
plainly that if this ultimate does come, long
caravan of nomadc wretches, not in Indian file,
but in masses and my riads, will be safely quar-.
tered on an everlasting reservation" beyond
river not on the maps, and which does not flow
IN these parts.
General sherman's headquarters are now at
Fort Saunders, one and half miles this side of
Laramie Station on the railroad. 1t would
seem to an unmiltary judgment that during
this little unpleasantness with our aboriginal
brothers, Fort Russell would be the opportune
place for the overseeing eye. Medicine Bow and
Rock Creek West of here, are the most feasible
points of attack for the red skins. Como is
perhaps about the same.
From Rock Greek TO the neighborhood of
Pine Bluffs little apprehension Is felt. This then,
seems to be the central point where The eye of
the commander should be placed. l may re-
mark that last night, about one bundled miles
West from here, spent some hours in tele-
graph office, by reason of the bursting of an
engine, and that l know that messages were
constantly flying over the lines in reference to
the situation, and many of them ordering arms
and ammunition for unprotected places.