TIE INDIAN FIGHT.
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The skinnish which we spoke of last week as having taken place between a portion of Pawnee Mahas, and q party of Greeks, turns out to have been between the Osages and Greeks. The Osage dress resembles the Pawnee in almost every particular, and the Greeks themselves supposed their assailants to have been Pawnee Mahas. The excite ment is very great in the Creek nation, and various rumors are aaoat in regard to the ai- fair Capt. Boone, as soon as information of tile skrmsh reached Fort Gibson, was or dered to the place of action with his company of DragoOns, and has sent in to Fort Gibson for endorsements from which place two companies of Infantry nave proceeded to join him but tiff he should have need of therser- vices. and has to await their ta1dy approach, the Indians can commit any depredations the may wish, and be of unmolested. The idea of placing Infantry soldiers upon a from tier like this, when disturbances are so fre- quent, to us, seems ridiculous. The Indians are generally mounted when on predatory excursions. and are too willy to await the ap- proach of Uncle Sam7s infantry to punish them for their misdeeds. At Fort Gibson, at tliC till!C Oi tiiCiG M tt9 CC COl' pany of Dragons, Capt. Boone's which was immediately sent out by the Commanding officer; but from appearances, were not able to quell the disturbances, and had to send for the reinforcement mentioned.

 We do not wish to have 1t understood that the present difficulties are any way calculated to alarm the whites on this frontier; but all who know any thing of the Indian character, will at once see that if the different tribes are allowed, unchecked, to war against each other, thattheir sanguinary propensities might prompt them to commit depredations upon even the white settlements. We hope that some of our citizens who are now in Wash ington City. will represent the situation of affairs upon this frontier, and we have not the least doubt but that troops of the right kind, and in sufficient numbers, will be sentt oman our garrisons.-Fdn Buren haeHigencer.