Show indian matters I 1 the following interesting information in in r ck antion to indian battem appears in the mon hanft march ath from mr richards Eich ards bettor better known a rc eo chaw who is conversant with their language and has just returned from fort smith wo we havo have ascertained tho the following facts in regard to their strength and intentions fort For smith on tho the big horn river is garrisoned by about two mo hundred men commanded by captain kinney about thirty civo miles from tho the fort aro are eighteen hundred lodges of sioux averaging three warr warriors iori to tho the lodge aud and under tho the command of red cloud ta the famous war chief of tho the recent massacre subordinate to him are the chiefs whito white young bull and iron plate these 0 owing I 1 ag to tho the severe covert v weather cather and deep snow enow have not committed any depredations but aro are prepared to move as soon as the weather will permit around tho the forta fort a number of crows aro are camped who have so far been friendly it is well known that a bitterly hostile leeling feeling has bus existed between tho the sioux and some of the other tribes in anticipation of this summers work the sioux sent to the blood Pea Pe aguina guins and gros N 11 tres tho the peace pipe 1 which they have accepted nna and joined the league against the whites they are arc camped on the left bank ol of tho the like eight hundred lodges strong A 1 dehui deputation aaion of them to tile the oil sioux a ux camp state that their tribes will soon cross tho the missouri river and camp near mus cle cl oshell shell flom whence they will wage aawar n war of extermination against the whites and will never mako make peace until they conquer they say Y tho be whites havo have now occupied their only bull hunting bilig gr grounds death is inesita inevitable ble and they prefer it in battle rather than by starvation the principal chiel chief says lie he has lived in the mining camps for years that thai ho he bas baa killed numbers of whites that they are arc old and will nill not fight ra the h talk for pence peace 11 whom many of the will remember as talking english and spanish very well has returned irom from the direction of laramie La ramio where the troops fired on him and his band and still manifests friendship lono lone horn hom who with hundred sioux m warriors arrion made peace at Fort Sully list last summer is in trouble it is believed they have not warred against the whites but have held aloof from the league lone horn said to the whites recently when we made peace last summer the great father said we should be brothers and my people have not broken their pledge when wo we meet tho the red men they hate us because we do not fight and when tho the whites see my people they lito on them and kill them this is not light the great father said whoever should fire file first should die if ho be does docs not h keep cep the treaty wo will have to go etith ith the other tribes and fight the whites in the fight at phil kearny twenty seven hundred indians were verc engaged niba mac hundred did the fighting whilo while eighteen hund hundred r ed w beio eio lying concen concealed near tho the abit doity to capture it if arl been sent to fetterman the sioux lost in killed hilled lono lone bear beal and m d iron eyo eye and six warriors the cheyenne c had I 1 killed little wolf aud and three warriors about one hundred and fifty were wounded lying concealed on either side of a ravine when they raised up and fired the troops had d advanced d so far into tho the acute a angle of tho the ambuscade that they fired past them nud and many of tho the indians w were ere shot with an anois aws from tho the opposite side of tho the ra inc ono one soldier boy about sev seventeen entee n years of ago age was as captured and when tho the brother of lono lone bear heard ho he was killed ho he claimed the privilege lego and killed the captive the commandant of fort smith does not expect to bo be able to hold his position and it is thou thought glit if reinforcements do not soon arrive tho the coin command mana will come to darks clarks fork or th tho a yellowstone Yellow atone when the troops destined for the route bouto arrive posts will be established nl at nil all these po points ilits |