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Show The Indians. Cheyenne, 1. The following, from a reliable party at Red Cloud, dated the 31at, gives the status of afiairs at that agency: The Sioux and Arra-pahoes Arra-pahoes scouts, who took part in the Mackenzie fight, were mustured out yesterday and paid efl and are immensely im-mensely pleased with their treatment and conviuced that the peace policy pursued bero Biuco last October has been a success. The change that has taken place in the attitude or the Indians a'mce the disarmament is wonderful. One can scarcely believe that tho Indians he now sess here, submissively obeying the slightest behest of the agent, can be the same as those who lust May showed such supreme contempt for government and its desires. There is no news as yet from the party which went out some time ago to communicate with the hostiles. The Chcyenues sueceeded in stealing eleven ponies from the party after its departure from thlB point. LaBt Sunday a trapper, named Kuapt, while following his vocation on Cottonwood croek, forty miles northwest of Fort Laramie, was sur- i prised aud killed by Cheyennes. His brother, witli him at tho lime, es- , caped. I |