Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
Washington, Wednesday, July 16.
Another Attack on the Pawnee Indians
Agent GILLIS, of the Pawnee tribe of Indians, who lately reported the attack upon that tribe by the Cheyennes, Sioux and other bands, as noticed in the TIMES, again reports, under date of July 5, that the Pawnees started on their Summer hunt on June 2[???], crossing the Platte River at Eagle Pass, and leaving behind their sick and cripples, consisting of six men, six squaws, and about the same number of children. On the morning of July 5, the same war party, which had made the previous attack, again returned, caught and scalped one squaw and burned twenty of the principal lodges, and destroyed their growing corn and vegetables. The war party remained three hours roaming about the place, and then left, passing up the Loup fork of the Platte. Agent GILLIS has concealed these helpless Indians in two underground caves near his residence, where he says he will feed and protect them as far as he can, trusting that the War Department will soon afford them the protection guaranteed them by treaty. The Indian Office has already called the attention of the War Department to these depredations, and asked the military intervention of the President, as authorized by the nineteenth section of the intercourse act of 1834.
Agent GILLIS, of the Pawnee tribe of Indians, who lately reported the attack upon that tribe by the Cheyennes, Sioux and other bands, as noticed in the TIMES, again reports, under date of July 5, that the Pawnees started on their Summer hunt on June 2[???], crossing the Platte River at Eagle Pass, and leaving behind their sick and cripples, consisting of six men, six squaws, and about the same number of children. On the morning of July 5, the same war party, which had made the previous attack, again returned, caught and scalped one squaw and burned twenty of the principal lodges, and destroyed their growing corn and vegetables. The war party remained three hours roaming about the place, and then left, passing up the Loup fork of the Platte. Agent GILLIS has concealed these helpless Indians in two underground caves near his residence, where he says he will feed and protect them as far as he can, trusting that the War Department will soon afford them the protection guaranteed them by treaty. The Indian Office has already called the attention of the War Department to these depredations, and asked the military intervention of the President, as authorized by the nineteenth section of the intercourse act of 1834.