The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-05-04
TIE INDIANS.
CHICAGO, Mays.

CHICAGO, May D.
suRRESDER OF ONE HUNDRED LODGES OF INDIANS TO
GENERAL GRIERsoN-HIs TELEGRAM GENERAL
SHERIDAN.
The following military dispatch received at
Lieutenant General Sheridans headquarters to-day
General b. II. Grierson writing from Camp Wa
chts, Wach ita Mountains, April 10th, reports the
unconditional surrender at that place of hundred
lodges of Arapahoes and only part of the tribe
still out. 1t is under Feathered Bear or Spotted
Wolf" He proceeds to say:
March 31st reported the arrival of these Cheyen-
ON the 29th, and their statement that the whole
tribe was coming in-the leading band, under Little
Robe, expecting to arrive here in six eight days
from that time.
On the 18th instant Red Moon, one of the principal
men of Little Robes band arrived here with eighteen
other Cheyennes, stating that these men, who left
here the 3st had reached their band, and the lat
ter had moved this way and camped on Striking
Creek They remained over night and went out on
the Sth to request the chiefs and head m of the
band in to me. They came yesterday party of
twenty fve-Lttle Robe, Bald Eagle, Red Moon, Grey
Eyes and Dead White Log being the best known.
They expressed desire to all hostilites, and
go upon their reservation, and their willingness to
come in and join the Arapahoes, and, withther
sent, move with them to their reservation, and
main there quie until the terms of their surrender
shall be made known TO them by the Department
Comma nder. l granted them food and protection.
In the meanwhile this band numbers sixty-seveu
lodges, and their camp is at the head of the Cache
Creek. The goth inst is the time set for the Ara
pahoes to start for t.eir camp supplies. band of
Cheyennes, numbering about four hundred, will art
at the same time. Food is scarce with the Indians,
and these bands will have to be supplied temporarily
with subsistence"
Wr;tip md dot. If Navel t., S,,I-
y, General D. F. Stanley, after recounting the
der of soldier at Fort Randall, says ever ythng
that has been done to make peace with the Sioux as
a nation is entire failure. The Indians are just
as far from peace to-day they two years ago.
The Indians boosted while at this place of having
killed white men this winter on the Platte and
STEALING horses. / believe there parties out
to depredate the line of the Pacific Railroad.
Their hostility may in the way without
showing itself only by an occasional report, though
fear it may develop in a sworse form in the way of
heavy attacks on the frontier.
Unfortunately for the ideas Of peace advocates
these Indians say they do not want peace that the
whites afraid, (which is the send much
for them to eat that they will make leave this
country and will stop the boats the Missouri river.
The position of the Sioux that friendly two
years ago have continued so, and friendly to-day
that they have gained in numbers, and all
ports to the contrary that have been circulated
through the country and asserted at ashngton are
false.
General Terry has ordered Major VIM. A. Temning
Captain OF Corps of Engineers and Chief Engineer
OF the Department to proceed the
permits to Fort Tai on and from that post, start
ing point, to make reful and thorough reconnoi
sance of the country lying between Cheyenne river.
or South of 40 parallel, to North Red river on the
East.
Malakoff, the Paris correspondent of
the Times, speaks as follows of the est
nation in Which Mr.. Lincoln is held
abroad:
Ifyou have not yet awakened to the
fact in America, you will soon do so,
that Lincoln is hereafter to take stand
as one of the great landmarks in history.
If you do not yet comprehend the i'm
mensity Of the role he played in the po-
litical progress of mankind, these people
do. While you are still embarrassed
with certain crudities in his CHI aracter,
these people see nothing but his gran
deur, aud desire to see nothing more.
They have elevated for him in their
hearts and memories pedestal as high
as Washington's.
The few ambitious men who started
the slavery rebellion have had many hu
to swallow, but none will be
SO bitter as to be condemned to see
placed in the highest row Of inches in the
worlds pantheon the statue of the man
their limited intellects colld find no bet
ter name tor than baboun.