Show T indian eastward East vard thie the interruption of tho eastern malls mails is a source of great inconvenience to everybody west of the point where the break commences tho the people of denver and all along the line ja UA stward of that place to atchison seem to be panic sHick cn we ve ire are strongly inclined ed 16 y vie opinion that the breaking break ilig up of the stage linens due to one of those tr tremendous emend ous scars scares which sonic some times afflict whole communities rather than to actual danger with the body of 1 I troops scattered along the line or rath rather er ion congregated gre gated at certain the interruption be of copi long if they are eberg 1 arld and prop properly ail y handled il in all the reports of depredations depredation 8 cast of denver va we have looked in vain for any authentic statement of fact which would justify the be that hat of indians has been icen sean at any ally one point alno no case cadde can we find th I 1 one hundred hostile savages have been seen at any one time notwithstanding stories afloat we have seen or ve heard 11 fd not nothing hinr 0 to render reader it improbable that all the depredations have thus far been committed by two or three small bands of sa savages varres the fal u li dation for this great scare seems to rest mostly entirely on the fact that ahn t tri friendly endly 1 I 1 tl f 11 i rf I 1 t i indian indians s trappers and traders have for some I 1 time time predicted a general indian war ivar along the il lf I 1 late and that some seven or eight tribes had efah banded together to exterminate we the whites As we I 1 have said in no instance has any large body of savages t been s seen een or heard of together no largo large or well equipped train has been nn Riol molested ested small trains of emigrants 2 11 1 1 1 ii aveleen n ambushed stragglers cut off and i L M f slam slain and abandoned stage stations attacked fin on our return from bridger brider the other d day ay the pleasure of traveling 0 with mr james stewart assistant general superintendent bent of the eastern line lie ile had bad just passed allaro tb hostile district and coti concurs curs in in expressing doubt as to a general w war r he represents the panic among along the whites as being intense in ht the the extreme b ut baingan being an deml eminently ineptly practical man gives little credence to the thousand and one tales which daine damo rumor has hag at in the infected district As an evi k nce of the faith that is in hiell lim aft after te r the stock had bad all been withdrawn from deyto ey to lesburg Ju Z he be tooka coach alid six hiew arwe at bic former place with one wan man as art vr passed over the road load to cottonwood a dista distance Crice of one hundred miles there obtained a change of team and passed on another hundred miles to julesburg julesberg he and liis his solitary autet aU atte altet alt tet alternately driving i taw irav i clies line had all been deserted the alen abandoned and the stock drawn off all that dtta diance nee the very worst af 0 the he be saw not a single hostile red sin eldrid and tery few friendly savages it ife w wasa as a i hazardous trip and one 0 ne which a man of ordinary boldness would hardly have taken but ald seem to indicate that the indians are 1 lk neither eker so numerous nor so dan dangerous gerens as the panic anac would lead one to believe at fort kearney there were two companies of soldiers ind at C 0 tt onwood about one hundred mr S stewart W art before leaving dx expressed pressed his opinion with even these droops properly dis united at the right time the line could have li nept ee fejt open older Oller heads possibly wiser it W denb i t it thought otherwise and as aie the i stock lenders could I 1 not be induced to re main at tile the stations without protection of course nothing wu was to bi be done except to draw MT eft the stock asa As a specimen of the way ru enors originate we give the fhe following 11 ower true tale 11 at one of the ranches ran clies not far from cottonwood some of the boys deter re CA 4 i birned to have spring chickens for breakfast forthwith ith they started after tile the feathered dillea delicacies cies chasing them hither and thither and kicking up a tremendous dust A dozen chicks 1 wre were duly slain but the report spread W fair r 1 and that the indians had attacked the X ir ra ranches nobes and ad when mr S reached denver it ia wag W curre currently atly reported and genc generally Tally under ii tood that at the ranche mentioned twelve idies lives had been lost lamast horrid massacre litif decidedly decide dl I 1 y i a calic chicken kea b barted q nd proceeded proceed edia lD ie we learn i that major r i al burtu is at X kebbey ney to io mume ati dI reeSon ienn of MA 1 ad but believe will in V A uch U d ell ill e t aduris as aa will obdue ri subdue the panic pani c the most ink part buthe oft A the work aa and then anniti r V ta the wai age 0 vre d skins skills A who 0 have spread terror throughout so large a region of country |