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Show THE TTF, IXDIAXS TIIE EAST EXTREMITY EX-TREMITY OF DESPAIR. We have the information from Salt Lake oily that two thousand Utes (Utah Indians), who promised to retire to their reservations, have halted forty miles from Nepbi (a Mormon settlement settle-ment some ninety miles south of Salt Lake city), and refuse to move auother step, say iDg that they can die now as well as any time. The Indian agent at that quarter, Mr. Dodge, has apprised the government that his power over them is exhausted, aud has asked that the affair be turned over to general Morrow, Mor-row, commander of the department, whose headquarters are camp Douglas, Salt Lake city. A sharp cod test is expected, ex-pected, and general Morrow mean- j time awaits orders, understanding that with these refractory Indians tho sabre now becomes necessary. We dare say, however, that general Morrow will find it an eapy task to pacify pa-cify these WTetched Utes without the use of the sabre. Brigham Young for twenty-five years past has managed to maintain between them and his people the most friendly relations simply by dealiog justly with those unfortunate savages, and by supplying their urgent wants in food and clothiog from timo to time when neglected by the government, govern-ment, but always omitting the whiskey. These poor, ignorant Indians do not understand un-derstand the meaning of these reservations reserva-tions to which they had been assigned. They can only see that the white men have settled all around them, have driven off or exterminated their game, and have occupied the pasture lands upon which they hava heretofore depended for the winter's subsistence of their ponies, and that iu being cooped up in these reservations they must eventually eventu-ally be starved to death; lor what do they know about farming, especially in a country where not aa ear of corn can bo raised without artificial irrigation ? Heretofore these Indians havo had a wide range over the plains and mountains, moun-tains, and from the wild game captured by them, and from their stealings of horses and cattle, they have got along very comfortably. They, like all the rest of our wild Indians, are nomads, and they have no higher idea of liberty than the liberty of wandering about at their pleasure. A reservation means to them imprisonment, slavery and starvation, and to reconstruct them to the habits of civilized life, after the manner of the Cherokees and Chicka-saws, Chicka-saws, and to the drudgery of systematic labor, will require time and patience. Id this resolution to go no farther, and in this declaration that they might as well die now as at any time, we see that these poor Utes are driven to the last extremity of despair. But while they are great eaters they are poor fighters. Lot general Morrow be authorized to feed them and give them each a good blanket, &o., and hold a friendly powwow with them, and make them rairly and fully understand the necessities of their poaitioo, and that in their reservation they will be fed and clothed by the government until taught by honest men how to support themselves, and we dare say these despairing de-spairing Utes will accept the situation. Id cases of wilful disobedience and bad faith, resulting in murderous raids for scalps and plunder, general Sheridan's remedy of a good thrashing may be wisely applied; but the course we have suggested in reference to these poor Utes (they belong to the miserable Digger Indians of Fremont), will settle them, and this is the course which will, doubtless, be adopted by the government. govern-ment. The policy which has succeeded with the warlike Red Cloud and Spotted Spot-ted Tail will not fail in its application to these comparatively harmless Utes of Utah. "New York Herald." |