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MF'The New York Sun says : “It
is possible that the City of Boston has
been run down by some British mail
steamer, as was the Oneida, whose
Captain forgot to mention it on his
arrival in port. It might be well to
a»k some of the British Captains if
they did not feel a slight jar at any
time during their passage."
•UrThe President has signed the
bill giving bona fide settlers on the
Sioux Indian reservation in Minesota
the privilege of acquiring a legal title
to the lands. |
The ‘Thgan Massacre."
As the story of Col. Baker’s recent,
attack upon the encampment of the
1 lugun Indians in Montana was first
told, it bore the appearance of having
been a most inhuman atrocity. Ac
coiding to the published report, there
were 183 Indians surprised and mas
sacred in cold blood by Colonel Bak
er’s troops, of whom only fifteen
wore fighting men, the balance being
women and children, and the aired
fathers of the tribe. If Much W ere
the faots, nothing could extenuate
the utterly infamous barbarity of
the c.t'air, and no condemnation
cpuld be too severe, either for the ofli
cer who performed the cowardly,
cruel exploit, or for those in superior
command tfho should sustain him.—
But reports of this nature ate always
open to Huspiclon, and particularly
so at a time when the actually worst
enemies of the Indians, the traders
and speculators of what is known as
the “Indian Ring," are interested in
prejudicing public feeling against the
military, on account of the pending
proposition to transfer Indian affairs
from the Department of the Interior
to the War Department Candid
journals have, therefore, been dispos
ed to reserve their comments upon
the “Piegan massacre,” until authen
ticated accounts of it had been re
ceived, and the partisan press which
is politically hostile to General Sheri
dan, the responsible commander in
the West, have had the subject pret
ty much to themselves, it is need
less to say that they have made the
most of their opportunity, and
hatred laid up against Phil. 