No intelligible details of the Red Indian rising have yet
arrived, but the Government of Washington has evidently no doubt that a formidable movement is at hand, and is rapidly forwarding all disposable cavalry and much artillery to the threatened districts. The central point of the movement will be a district in South Dacota, about a hundred and ten miles by fifty, known as Badlands, a wild region traversed by precipitous ravines. Much life will be lost here, but any policy of concentration is fatal to the Indians. The new " Messiah " is said to be an Indian, probably bred in Utah, who professes to be Christ returned, and bears the stigmata. He preaches, according to one of his disciples, nothing but unity, peace, and a good life; but as the seventeen tribes who have visited him have all returned to prepare for war, that story does not seem accurate. The Indians of Utah are all joining in the movement, and there is a suspicion in America that there is something Mormon about the whole business, secret relations between the Mormons and Indians having long existed. One does not see, however, how an Indian rising could benefit the Mormons.
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