Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-08-16 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FRIGHTFUL MASSACRE OF INDIANS BY FEDERAL TROOPS.  A committee of the House of Representatives, appointed to report "on the conduct of the war," has been making an investigation into the circumstances of an attack by the Third Regiment of Colorado Volunteers upon a party of the Cheyenne tribe of Indians. The official statement of this committee discloses an extraordinary series of outrages. In the course of last summer a message was received from the Indians by Major Nynkoop, then commanding the post of Fort Lyon, making known their wish to deliver over a or tuber of white captives whom they had purchased of other Indians. The captives were received, but the Cheyennes, who had always been a friendly tribe, were taken prisoners by the United States' forces. After a while they were sent to a place on Sand Creek, and told to remain there until they received instructions from Major Anthony, who had succeed Major Nynkoop. They thought they were to be treated as friends, and the Commissioners state that "everything seemed to have been done to remove from the mind of these Indians any fear of approaching danger." A few nights afterwards Colovel Chivington and Major Anthony marched out with upwards of 800 men, and surrounded the Indian camp, which consisted of about 600 persons, of whom more than half were women and children. The head chief ran forward with a small white flag, but a general massacre was immediately commenced. 'The Commissioners say :--" Men, women, and children were indiscriminately slaughtered. From the sucking babe to the old warrior, all who were overtaken were deliberately murdered. Not content with killing women and children, who were incapable of o&ring any resistance, the soldiers indulged in acts of barbarity of the most revolting character, such, it is to be hoped, as never before disgraced the acts of men claimitig to be civilized. No attempt was made by the officers to restrain the savage cruelty of the men under their command, but they stood by and witnessed these acts without one word of reproof, if they did not excite their commission. For more than two hours the work of murder and barbarity was continued, until more than one hundred dead bodies, three-fourths of them oh women and children, lay on the plain as t evidencesen who of the fiendishhad sedulouslym alig malignity and cruelty of he officers carefully plotted the massacre, and of the soldiers who had so faithfully acted out the spirit of their officers." This extraordinary act seems to be absolutely without palliation. The Indians had not only been friendly themselves, but-had done all that lay in their power to restrain the lawlessness and violence of other tribes. The language of the Commissioners towards Colonel Chivington is most severe. They accuse him of having "deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre, which would have disgraced the veriest  savage among those who were victims of his cruelty." They recommend the immediate removal of all the officers who took a part in the butchery, and who "disgraced the Government by whom they are employed." The rapid disappearance of the Indian from this continent would be a heavy reproach to the nation if it could be traced to such a policy as that which Colonel Chivington and Major Anthony thought proper to pursue.—Times' Correspondent.