The atrocities committed by the Indians in the West demand summary and severe chas tisement. The great overland route to Califor nia has become almost unsafe as the precincts of Richmond in a dark night. The aavage rivals in the suddenness of their onsets and the barbarity of their butcheries thegarroters and highwaymen who infest the dark alleys and retired streets of this metropolis, and who have never exhibited In their whole black ca reer of crime more than one single Distance of human forbearance. That instance occurred a