From Col. LEAVENWORTH I obtain the following particulars of the great Council just held between Major WYNCOOP, on the part of the Government, and the Southern bands of Cheyenne, Arrappohoe and Apache Indians. The treaty consummated over a year ago with these tribes, at the mouth of the Little Arkansas, was amended by the Senate so as to secure all the lands north of the Arkansas River to the United States by complete title from the Indians. This amendment was consented to at the Council, it being a condition that the Indians be permitted to follow the range of the buffalo north, upon having written permission to do so from their agents. During the session of this Council a Cheyenne Indian came a distance of eighty miles with the sole purpose, as he avowed, of slaughtering a white man. In front of Col. LEAVENWORTH's tent he sat a full hour upon his horse endeavoring to determine who the victim should be. But, wavering, he entered one of the Cheyenne lodges to procure whisky to nerve him up to the desperate determination. He finally entered about midnight the quarters of Col. BENT with the determination to carry out his fiendish purposes: but the sight of a pair of revolvers conjoined with the bland appearance of the Colonel, deterred him from making his selection of a victim here. The next morning Col. BENT's mules were sent out to graze, under charge of a Mexican herdsman, who, unfortunately, was without arms. The Indian followed him and commenced firing upon him. The report brought Col. BENT to the door of his quarters just in time to see the poor Mexican fall. The military authorities demanded of the Cheyennes the delivery to the United States of this offending savage. This demand the Indians would comply with only upon the condition that the two Cheyenne children captured at the Sand Creek massacre, and now in the States, should be returned. I obtained also the following interesting particulars of the capture and escape of a white woman named SARAH JANE LUSTER. At the time of her capture she was residing in Texas with a family by the name of BABB. During the absence of Mr. BABB some months since, a band of No con-ah Comanches came to the house. They were invited in by the children of Mrs. BABB, but refused until they were satisfied there were no men about; then they entered, and savage-like attempted to carry off one of the children. The tender heart of the mother, inspired with love for her little one, made bold to resist this fiendish cruelty, and she clung to her child with desperation. This maddened them. One seized her by the hair, drew her back and cut her throat. The bloody deed was enacted under the eye of Miss LUSTER, who had taken refuge in the upper part of the cabin. Overcome by the horrid scene she unconsciously gave a groan, which led to the discovery of her presence. She was unceremoniously captured, and together with two children, was taken to the Indian camp; the third child, an infant, was left in the cabin. Miss LUSTER, preferring death to captivity, heroically planned means for escape, She discovered a horse of great speed, kept for racing purposes by the Indians, and conceived a plan to mount it and leave in a direction from which the Indians had brought green corn, after a six days' absence, thus showing a settlement within three days' ride. Her first attempt at escape was frustrated by the barking of the dogs, which compelled her to retire to her lodge. A dark and stormy night, when both dogs and savages were within doors, favored her second effort. The accommodations not being sufficient for both of the children, she took the eldest, a boy, mounted the horse and left. The first day and night exhausted the strength of the boy, and he was left to perish by the roadside or to find his way back. After three days and nights of continuous riding, having become completely prostrated with anxiety and fatigue, she tied the horse by a lariat to her body and laid down for rest; but the awakening from a troubled sleep was only to remind her that she was once more a captive. This time the Kiowas proved to be the captors; but she was taken to their camp only to reorganize her projects for escape. Watching her opportunity, once more her chosen steed bore her from scenes of captivity, and after days of weary travel and nights of sleepless anxiety she reached the Santa F� road, sixty miles east of Cow Creek, Col. LEAVENWORTH's headquarters. The Kiowas immediately reported her escape to Col. LEAVENWORTH, while a white man who had seen her at the ranche confirmed the report. An escort was detailed by the Colonel, with orders for bringing her to Council Grove. Miss LUSTER, together with another liberated captive named JOHN CHARLES FREMONT HOUSTON, are at Council Grove now. The latter was captured by a small band of Yan-a-Gway Comanches, or live eaters, and was rescued from them by YAB-A-NAMA-CA, head chief of one of the Yam-per-ne-ker, or root eaters, and delivered by him to Col. LEAVENWORTH, from whom I learned that both of these escaped captives are en route to this city.        FRONTIER.

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Frontier, "Kansas. Council With the Cheyennes--Adventures Among the Indians," New York Times, Thursday, 13 December 1866, p. 8.