burden of the article; its application is to the present condition of the White River band of Utes in Colorado. Quotations are given from the testimony gathered, and the report made thereon by a committee of Congress charged with a so-called investiga tion of the Sand Creek aflair. That investigation was nade for a certain selfish purpose. It was to break down and ruin certain men. Evidence was taken upon one side only. It was largely false, and infamously partial. There was no answer for the de- fence

The Cheyenne and Arapalioe Indians assembled at Sand Creek were not under the protection of a United States fort. A few of hem had been encamped about Fort Lyon and drawing supplies therefrom, but they had gradually disappeared and joined the main camp on Dry Sandy, forty miles from the fort, separated from it by a waterless desert, and entirely beyond the limit of its control or olservation. While some of the accupants were still no doubt, occasional visitors at the fort, and applicants for sup- plies and ammunition, most of the warriors were engaged in raid ing the great Platte River Road, seventy-five miles farther north, robbing and burning trains, stealing cattle and horses, roblbing and destroying the United States mails, aud killing white people. During the summer and fall they bad murdered over fifty of the citizens of Colorado. They had stolen and destroyed provisions and merchandise, and driven away stock worth bnndreds of tho1- sands of dollars. They had interrupted the mails, and for thir ty-two conseeutive days none were allowed to pass their lines. When satiate with murder and arson, and loaded with plunder, they would retire to their sacred refuge on Sand Creek to rest and refresh themselves, recruit their wasted supplies of ammnni tion from Fort Lyon-begged under the garb of gentle, peaceful savages-and then return to the road to relieve tlheir tired com rades, and riot again in carnage and robbery. These are facts; and when therobbers' roost" was cleaned out, on that sad but glorious 27th day of November, 1864, they were sufficiently proven graphs stolen from the mails; bills of lading and invoices of goods; bales and bolts of the goods themselves, addressed to merchants in Denyer; half-worn clothing of white women and children, and many other articles of like character, were fouud in that poetical Indian camp, and recovered by the Colorado sol- diers. They were brought to Denver, and those were the scalps exhibiled in the theatre of that city. There was also an Indian of white men not yet dried; letters and ph o-