Vermont Telegraph

From the St. Louis Republican of April 4.

Indian Disturbances.—By the steam boat Euphrasie we received, yesterday, two letters from Fort Leavenworth, describing fresh Indian difficulties on our North West border. We subjoin the following, which comes to us from an officer in the U. S. service. The other is also from an officer, and takes a wider view of the whole subject. We are unable this evening to get it into type, but shall give it a place on Monday.

The Indians, prompted by their starving and impoverished condition, and knowing the small number of efficient troops at Fort Leavenworth, may be induced to go to great lengths; and should other tribes combine with them, there is cause to apprehend the most fearful consequences to our frontier settlers. The substance of our informant's letter is as follows:

"Strong symptoms of open war have lately been manifested by the Indians south of the Missouri, bordering on Buchanan county, the north-west county of this State. The citizens of this county have addressed two letters on the subject to Col. Kearny, commanding at Fort Leavenworth. The first, dated 14th inst., states that many of the Otoes from the Platte have crossed into the State, in small parties of fifteen or twenty, and have impudently and forcibly levied contributions from all of the whites that they met with—killing their stock, and taking away whatever of grain and other things they might want."