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his services from GEN. MILES. It has been accomplished, moreover, directly in the face of enormous obstacles which BUFFALO BILL found in his path; and the skill and success with which he surmounted them are proportionately great. First he took some of his performing braces to Washington to show the refining and ennobling influences which European travel had been upon them. Then, when the Sioux troubles broke out, and threatened to wreck his plans, especially as it was charged that the complaints of some of his troupe had aggravated the tribal discontent, he found in that very disaster his opportunity, and hastening to the scene, he took care that none of his recent performers should be conspicuously hostile to the Government. His next step was to procure recommendations from army officers, showing SECRETARY NOBLE the military wisdom of allowing some of the young, restless Sioux braces to be taken away from the reservation, under his charge. The issue was then between BUFFALO BILL and the COMMISSIONER, and the former won.

To the crowned heads of Europe and other eminent patrons of the Wild West Show this great victory will be very welcome. And now, the best thing for COMMISSIONER MORGAN and the REV, CR. DORCHESTER to do is to accept the first chance to see the show. They will probably enjoy the spectacle, and be proud of the professional progress of their wards.

CHICAGO, DEC. 13.--R.P. Haslam, better known on the frontier as "Pony Bob," being one of the hard riders who carried the overland mail before a railway was pushed through to the Pacific coast, is in the city. He accompanied COLONEL CODY on his recent trip from Standing Rock agency for the capture of Sitting Bull. Bob is in receipt of a letter from COLONEL CODY expressing astonishment at the story that in his chase after Sitting Bill he wore a dress suit. Lieutenant G.W. Chadwick, who has been quoted as making such statements has also telegraphed a denial, stating that the other interviews with himself were garbled and miconstrued. He says in his telegram that Colonel Cody did his duty conscientiously, bravely, and well according to the accounts which he has recieved of the trip. He says he was not detailed to accompany Colonel Cody, as stated in the interview, and that he never saw him till several days after CODY'S return from the trip--Chicago Herald.

AS "BUFFALO BILL" SEES IT.-- HE THINKS IT LOOKS LIKE PEACE IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY.

"Buffalo Bill" telegraphs to the "New York Herald" from Pine Ridge Agency:

"IN THE FIELD, Via Courier to Telegraph, PINE RIDGE AGENCY, DAKOTA.

"NEW YORK HERALD:

"Your request for my opinion of the Indian situation is by reason of the complications and the changeable nature of the red man's mind and action a puzzler. Every hhour brings out a new opinion. Indian history furnishes no similar situation.

"You must imagine about 5,000 Indians, and unusual proportion warriors, better armed than ever known before, hemmed in a cordon about sixteen miles in diameter, composed of over 3,000 troops, acting like a slowly closing drag net. This mass of Indians is now influenced by a percentage as despairingly desperate and fanatical as the late Big Foot party, under Short Bull and Kicking Bear. It contains also restrained neutrals, frightened and disaffected Ogallallas, hampered by the powerful Brules, backed by renegades and desperadoes from all other agencies. There are about twenty-five hundred acting and beliebed to be friendly Indians in and around the Agency.

"Such is the situation General Miles and the military confront. Any one of this undisciplined mass is able to precipitate a terrible conflict from the most unexpected quarter. Each of the component quantities is to be watched, to be measure, to be just to. In fact, it is a war with a most wily and savage people, yet the whites are restrained by a humane and peaceful desire to prevent bloodshed, and save a people from themselves. It is like cooling and calming a volcano. Ordinary warfare shows no parallel. General Miles seems to hold a firm grip on the situation. The Indians know him, express confidence in his honor, truth, and justice to them, and they fear his power and valor as well.

"As the matter now stands, he and they should be allowed, untrammeled even by a suggestion, to settle the affair, as no one not on the spot can appreciate the fearfully delicate position. The chaff must be sifted from the wheat, and in this instance the chaff must be threshed.

"At the moment, so far as words go, I would say it will be peace, but the smoldering spark is visible that may precipitate a terrible conflict any time in the next few days. However it ends,

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his services from GEN. MILES. It has been accomplished, moreover, directly in the face of enormous obstacles which BUFFALO BILL found in his path; and the skill and success with which he surmounted them are proportionately great. First he took some of his performing braces to Washington to show the refining and ennobling influences which European travel had been upon them. Then, when the Sioux troubles broke out, and threatened to wreck his plans, especially as it was charged that the complaints of some of his troupe had aggravated the tribal discontent, he found in that very disaster his opportunity, and hastening to the scene, he took care that none of his recent performers should be conspicuously hostile to the Government. His next step was to procure recommendations from army officers, showing SECRETARY NOBLE the military wisdom of allowing some of the young, restless Sioux braces to be taken away from the reservation, under his charge. The issue was then between BUFFALO BILL and the COMMISSIONER, and the former won.

To the crowned heads of Europe and other eminent patrons of the Wild West Show this great victory will be very welcome. And now, the best thing for COMMISSIONER MORGAN and the REV, CR. DORCHESTER to do is to accept the first chance to see the show. They will probably enjoy the spectacle, and be proud of the professional progress of their wards.

CHICAGO, DEC. 13.--R.P. Haslam, better known on the frontier as "Pony Bob," being one of the hard riders who carried the overland mail before a railway was pushed through to the Pacific coast, is in the city. He accompanied COLONEL CODY on his recent trip from Standing Rock agency for the capture of Sitting Bull. Bob is in receipt of a letter from COLONEL CODY expressing astonishment at the story that in his chase after Sitting Bill he wore a dress suit. Lieutenant G.W. Chadwick, who has been quoted as making such statements has also telegraphed a denial, stating that the other interviews with himself were garbled and miconstrued. He says in his telegram that Colonel Cody did his duty conscientiously, bravely, and well according to the accounts which he has recieved of the trip. He says he was not detailed to accompany Colonel Cody, as stated in the interview, and that he never saw him till several days after CODY'S return from the trip--Chicago Herald.

AS "BUFFALO BILL" SEES IT.-- HE THINKS IT LOOKS LIKE PEACE IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY.

"Buffalo Bill" telegraphs to the "New York Herald" from Pine Ridge Agency:

"IN THE FIELD, Via Courier to Telegraph, PINE RIDGE AGENCY, DAKOTA.

"NEW YORK HERALD:

"Your request for my opinion of the Indian situation is by reason of the complications and the changeable nature of the red man's mind and action a puzzler. Every hhour brings out a new opinion. Indian history furnishes no similar situation.

"You must imagine about 5,000 Indians, and unusual proportion warriors, better armed than ever known before, hemmed in a cordon about sixteen miles in diameter, composed of over 3,000 troops, acting like a slowly closing drag net. This mass of Indians is now influenced by a percentage as despairingly desperate and fanatical as the late Big Foot party, under Short Bull and Kicking Bear. It contains also restrained neutrals, frightened and disaffected Ogallallas, hampered by the powerful Brules, backed by renegades and desperadoes from all other agencies. There are about twenty-five hundred acting and beliebed to be friendly Indians in and around the Agency.

"Such is the situation General Miles and the military confront. Any one of this undisciplined mass is able to precipitate a terrible conflict from the most unexpected quarter. Each of the component quantities is to be watched, to be measure, to be just to. In fact, it is a war with a most wily and savage people, yet the whites are restrained by a humane and peaceful desire to prevent bloodshed, and save a people from themselves. It is like cooling and calming a volcano. Ordinary warfare shows no parallel. General Miles seems to hold a firm grip on the situation. The Indians know him, express confidence in his honor, truth, and justice to them, and they fear his power and valor as well.

"As the matter now stands, he and they should be allowed, untrammeled even by a suggestion, to settle the affair, as no one not on the spot can appreciate the fearfully delicate position. The chaff must be sifted from the wheat, and in this instance the chaff must be threshed.

"At the moment, so far as words go, I would say it will be peace, but the smoldering spark is visible that may precipitate a terrible conflict any time in the next few days. However it ends,