IMPORTANT FROM THE PLAINS.

OsAGE NAu,N, August II, lsl7.
Editors VI Ma Rerclr:
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Gcailc4ca cams into this country
last evening, after an absence Of ueary
three months. ind tha, all the Osages
have returned from their sumner ckcur.
sIon 10 the plains, wlrre they went TO meet
the Ciminchcs ani her tribes Of Wild
Indians also, ioI the purpose Ui laying IN
a supply Of Buffalo ma, ior the months oi
August and september, which Is usual
with them every season They bought or
traded lur about seven hundred mules
Inoy were win tho Csmlnche Indians
several days, trading and cOuncilIng. They
found lhe Camanrhrs cneamped on both
SIDES Of the Arkansas river, some four or
li.e m..es below lAo crossing Of the Santa
Fe road, IN a secluded place. There are
with tho CamAnche. pads Vi siI other ma.
tlJns-in all, about vue thousand lodges, OF
about lhrc thousand warriors. Whlo in
council with the Osages they told them
that tho Spaniaids had advanced them large
droyes ol mules and horses, besides consld
cradle money, 10 watch aad kill OF destroy
all Americans and property ol all kind,
that passed that road. Ihey are 10 bo well
pad lor every while mans scalp, and ev'
cry oi's tail. They will remain at lhal
place until this mpou is over; then lbey
arc lo travel west during the fall and win
ter. Early IN the spring, when the gras.
is three to four inches IN height, they are
again 10 lake their sand at their old place
on both sides Of ihe Arkansas river. Ia
lighting they press their prisoners in the
front rank, and, after lhr lirsi discharge o
American arms, they make Tho chatge.--
They have been seen by the Ossgos herd
ing large droves oil cattle, mules aud hors
es, which they have taken from the Amer
leans. They are herling lhsm near tbs
Arkansas river, some fifteen miles belov
the road.


They spoke Of having had a fight win
the Americans far south. The army bsi
Two large cannon, and destroyed great
many ol their people.


From what eau learn, tho Ossgcs haze
not had hand in robbIng and killing tie
whites.


| will give you more information in q
short tine. In haste, | remain


Yours &c. Rocky MOUNTAIN.


y ). Tho Csmanches have gresl
ygany prisoners, whom they use as slave,
They are principally whites. women and
and are striped and painted black,
aud generally on foot.