Indian Battle.
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We find Tn late number of the Cincin- natl Commercial, the following account of atrocities committed by the merciIess sava. ges on our Indian frontier, left almost de- ienceless, since the commencement of hos tlities with Mexico. It behooves the Gov ernmenl to take steps to arrest the progress ef the barbarous tribes in our vicinity, or there may be dreadful account to settle with them before long.

 Interesting from Aie Frontier- Threaten cd fndian Vars Terrible and Corardiy .Hassacrc. 4 letter from a gentleman al Council Bluf, dated on the l7th of Decem- Der, 10 his correspondent in St. Louis, states, lhat on the previous day, band of the omahas were met by band of the Sioux, n the neighborhood of the Bluffs. that a battle ensued between them. and that the Sioux killed sixty of the Omahas before the conflict terminated.

 The following particulars we find in let ter to the St. Louis Republicaa:

 II was cold-blooded bntchery of women and children, In the absence of all the war Iiors Of the village On the nights of the i2'h and l3sh, the letter states, war party oi fancion Sioux indians defeated and des- royed fourteen tribes of the Omaha tribe of Indians, located a, the time at Woods Bluffs, situated about sixty miles from this place oeitatiew. The men and warriors of the omahas had left the camp on hunt and 'ae ae Sioux, soon after they reached the camp, discovered that they only had women and children to contend with. The slaughter was serrlbie--seventy-,hree were killed, and nineteen morally wounded. Two men made their escape-one of them, name Jos. iaheche, trader in the employ of Mr Peter A, oarpy, and al the time in charge of stock of goods.

 lie ran from the scene of blood hare-footed aud arrived at Belleview with both feet fozen. Mir. Sharpy and Maj. Miller, the resent agent, despatched a party to ascer-

 Aia the facts, and they confirmed, on their 's'orn, the report of LaAeche. They also ,epor.ed that five of the Sioux Indians had Oeen killed, no doubt stabbed by the Omaha siaaws. Going twenty miles further than Ie ground of the massacre, they found the p'aee where the goods of the trader had 0sen divided among the robbers.

 seems. adds the letter, that fate is agains hs Omaha Indians Four or five days be. '0'e uils even. took place, one lodge, camp