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Show Flagstaff. A T. June 27.-Re!tab!e in-tfllince in-tfllince has been received this eveniiijr; in the form of a courier w ho left the Mo qui reservation eanvF'riday, tnorning, in which he gives a very correct' statement ol tlie situation at Keein's caiiiioii. He states that th troops had just arrived, ar-rived, ami that . when he left the scene Colonel H C Corbin, assistant adjutant general i;f the militia department, with 1 tjinht troops ol the Tenth Utined States cavalry, under command ul' Major Mc-: Mc-: Ciellan, also ihe troojis Irom Foil U'iu-Kaie U'iu-Kaie w eie preparing to attack the Oraibe ! I.Jttiiicaiious. Theie is one Hotcbk ss Kun and four nure pieces of arulleiy. ' TO ARKEfT THB. RINfJLEAUERS. . i Colonel Corbin i ate'tTn' d i recily a'ii Je " , the instructions of General ft cCook.and 't is the purpoie of Colonel Coibin to en-. en-. deavor to ariest the medicine men and linleadeis of hostile band, and take them off tl.e reservation, nut it it, beiieved that such a;i action o 1 tlie part of the troops will e the signal for a him id.aud should inch take place, tiiere will, 111 .ill probability, be great loss of life, as tin's band ot Oiaibe Indians are well arpveji with Winchester repeating riiles.and are abundHiiilysupply with ammunition. I As the tune has come when action must necessarily betaken by the govern-m govern-m -nt, it is ir;e determination U the commanding com-manding officer to put an to end th.sdis-lurbiu; th.sdis-lurbiu; iribe once and lor all. THE r.tcjQ'u'i's FjRTIFICATION. There has been littlo or 110 tain in this vicinity since last March; and it is with great difficulty that the troops have succeeded suc-ceeded in leaching Keem's cannon, in the Mocjni leservation They have to go over the trail for fully thirty miles before they come t' the mesa on which hostilts are foitified. This mesa is an elevation of lock, in which all the crevices are tilled in and j paved over tl.e to.i, and upon this the ! Indians build iheu houses of suu:e and ar; secure from an entiny, Tlie walls are perpendicular and of solid rock, and Irom the top they have trap doors leading down imo cells, into w hicli thev decent! by means of a p.jle similar lo those used in tlie lire stations in cities. Kit un here thev have loop-holes and can fight an enemy to gieal advantage, j Descret Snes. |