Gen. Sherman On Indian Affairs

Gen. Sherman was again beforo tho House Military Committee on Saturday last, and spoko of the army in oonnection with Indian affairs. He pointed on the map a región of country in Texas 200 miles long by 100 broad, comprising half organized countics, which, when he passed througli two years ago, was entirely dopopulated, tho inhabitants having had to abandon their homes on account of constant incursions by lndians. He said ho had been led to believe that the lndians were Uomanches, but it was prety well understood now that thoy were Kiowas, Cheyennes and Arrapahoes, who raided from Fort Sill reservation, 800 miles off, penetrating through military posts, and helping themselves themselves to horses and stock of their Texan friends which they preforred doing rather than be at the trouble of raising Jhem themselves. He gave a graphic account of his interview with Satanta at Port Bill, when he had Satanta, Santauk and Big Tree arrosted, double-bound and sent back to Texas to be tried tor an attaok upon an Oregon train, and the muider of fifteen out of the seventeen teamsters, ono o whom was bound to a wagon-wheel and burned. Santauk was killed in an attempt to escapo, but the other two were tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged, but the inliuence of tho humanitarians, who regardpd naurder on the part of the Indians as a mere cxhibition of moral insanity, had induced Gov. Davis, of Texas, who ought to havo known botter, to commute tho sentence of Santanta and Big Tree, and tho same influence at Washington had finally restored them to freedom, and they wore now 011 tho reservation ready to start out on more murderous raids. If they should scalp Gov. Davis next time, Gen. Sherman intimated, he would not shed many tears. He reviewed the Modoc difficulties, and gave it as his opinión that Gen. Canby had been the viotim ot the teniponzmg Quaker poücy applied to tho Indians. He favored the transfer of the Indiana frorn the control of the Interior Department to that of tho War Department, and expressed his conviction that the iimy was inore kindly disposed to the Indians than citizens generally were, and that if the country demanded extremely charitable treatment of the Indiana it could be accomplished by and through tho agency of the arruy better than by and through the agency of those porsous who professod more charity than tho soldiors, but who did not practico it so niuch.