The Sun. — 1869-06-21 (London, England)

EVENING, JUNE 21,' LE 9.  THE RED INDIANS.  ---ojp (From. the Anglo-American Imes.) We learn by cable that.the Washington Government have determined on vigorous war against the Indians, and General SIIERIDAN has gone West to  take the command. Additional troops are to protect  the Pacific Railway, and General SCHOFIELD is to raise volunteers for the defence of Kansas. This cannot be called a new war, considering that it has been in active progress for two years, and in apassive state since the opening of the Smoky Hill route. Last summer the Indians committed great atrocities in the valleys of the Solomon and the  Republican Rivers;and no sooner has the season opened which enables their cattle to find food on the plains and thus to move freely, than these massacres have been repeated. The system the Indians  pursue is to divide into small parties, to appear suddenly at an outlying . settlement, when the lonely family or small group of families are confronted, unprepared, with these savages. They  demand what the house has to supply in food, treat the inmates rudely, eventually pick a quarrel, and  proceed to perpetrate atrocious barbarities on the persons of their unwilling hosts. By this system they enter the stronghold, they disarm their victims, they enjoy the agony of their'suspense as a  cat does the terror iu the mouse with which it  plays, while the satisfaction remains that a delight ful massacre is in store. Those who meet their  foes as open enemies with barricaded doors and  rifle in hand generally escape, for the wary In dian has no nnion of fairly pitting bis life against that of the settler, and unless the opportunity is tempting the threatening bands disappear. I'he Sioux and Cheyennes, probably the lodges to whom CUSTAR made the winter so unpleasant, have in vaded the settlements in which during last summer  they left so disastrous a trace. On the 26th May a Scandinavian colony, sauth-west of Lake Sibley, Kansas, was attacked, and at least five persons were killed. The operations of the savages ex.  • tended from the Solomon and Republican Rivers to the end of the Kansas Pacific Railroad ; and 20 more settlers were murdered, while several women and children were carried off. At Topeka Saline County fourteen men, women, and children were massacred, and the inhabitants fled in a ranic to more settled Eastern districts. Nor is it surpris ing when this is the way the poor people were  treated :  ------" The tongues and hearts were cut out of their dead bodies; the calves of their legs were slit down and tied under their shoes; pieces of flesh were cut from their back; pieces of telegraph wire were stuck into the bodies ; the ears cut off and heads scalped. The Indians boiled the hearts of their victims for medicine. The Swedish settlers who were attacked all lived in one house. Only those were killed who left the house and attempted to teach a place of greater security. Those who remained in the house were not molested. 'lbis occurred in two instances. The calamity is mainly attributable to the lack of arms. Whenever a gun was fired the savages made no fight." -  At Fossil Creek Station, on the Paeitic Railroad, the Indians tied a sleeper on the track with the telegraph wire. which threw a loco votive and two cars from the rails, and furnished the opportunity of killing two men and wounding four. Several of the railway stations have been attacked, and where the savages succeed in disposing of the guard they tear up the track. In consequence of these atrocities the movement of the troops under General SCHOFIELD is active all along the country in the neighbourhood of these outlying settlements. Scouting parties traverse the land in whatever directions their limited number will allow. General CUSTAR has started from Fort Hayes, Colonel HAMILTON from Fort Riley, Colonel AtEuatt.t. from Fort Harker;- Colonel WEIR, with a troop of cavalry, is passing up the Saline River ; and Governor HARNEY has organized two companies of scouts, who have been arine 1 by General SctioFIELD. The Governor has telegraphed to the PRESIDENT to request that orders may be sent for the despatch of troops to the Southern part of Kansas, as he anticipates an insurrection of the settlers upon the Cherokee neutral land, but this is an iffair among the whites, arising from  a dispute about laud. The intelligence is clear that strenuous measures will be taken by the Gov;_lrn'pent to punish the Cheyennes and the Sioux. Sen-ttor Ross had an interview on the stihject with