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Show INDIAN JR0U3LES. Thorn are a'.i tho usu il evidences of Iivl'an troubles in various p 'rU of the country, and the i-igns are indicative "f a prospective bit; w.ir with tlei savaged. sav-aged. It i;; not likely to come thi-i xea.-on. though tlicru ij y,-t time to get u,) quite an intensive and npectaMe oized campaign: bat there are strong grounds fir be iev'ui that when grass grows another year, un!a-; a vry fi.-ui, wise anJ ju'li':i-as policy i.s adopted, a (vast extent of ten i;ory will be tile field of warlike op-'M lions by and against the tauge.-.. Noivs eoiiics from tha Indian territory, terri-tory, from Kansas, from Arizona, froiu Wyoming, from Dakota and other pait.s, that lare bauds of Indians are on the war path. A few days ago they were reported to have run off tome hoists and killej a man in the neigh- boihood of Karelins, Wyoming; a report re-port also reached us that outrages had been commuted by them not far from Kit Carson, Colorado, on the line of the Kansas I'aeiiie railroad; since then it i.s repoited that two hu dred rode in hostility through South Pjss ciiy, Vv'yoming, running oil' a large number of horses in open day. From many other points come rumors of laids and outrages. Some of these are doubtless exaggerated, but much is beyond question ques-tion too true. Ail of it goes to prove that the Indians are hostile The opening up by railroads of the country . over which they have so long roamed at will, without any proper uud rstand-ing rstand-ing with them, is ceitain to make this liosiiiity stronger. The Big Horn - expedition and other mining expeditions expedi-tions moving with determination to thoroughly prospect the country they will view with bitter ' feelings. Iled Cloud, Spotted Tail and other chiefs havo returned unsatisfied from Washington. Wash-ington. They have been often cheated and abused, while their ears have been .filled with tales of the '"Great Father's" kindness; and they went to Washington Washing-ton imagining that the "Great Father" would grant what seemed to them so simple imd necessary an net of justice as leaving the country they had been accu-tonied to roam over to themselves. But t' is desire could not be granted. The country must be opentd up and developed. That necessary work is being done rapidly, and many engaged in it have uo more regard for an ludiiu than a wolf, that they would kill at g ght. The country, instead of being closed to white men, will be more open to them than ever; and the epuit of exterminating the abongnes wi.l work every opportunity. I he immediate result is easily fore-Been. fore-Been. The lnd ans will fail befoie the influx of tho whites; but their fall will be marked wi h many terrible sceiieo of blood and cruelty, in which innocent whites wi.l often be tho victims. The prospect is not a cheering one, either tor tho savages or the houest white pioneer; but such it i and a wise, policy will have to be ud pted aud better men employed to cany it nto effect than have been g-noral y cho en to dual directly with the Indians, if a wide-spread, bloody aud expensive war is to be av uh d |