--The Interior Department has official information that white men have stolen about seven hundred horses from the Indians at the Red Cloud Agency, and run them across the Nebraska line, during the past few weeks. The State authorities are doing nothing to prevent similar raids upon the property of the Indians, and the military authorities, on account of the _posse comitatus_ law of last year, stand by without intercepting or pursuing the marauders, although the stolen horses are driven right past Camp Sheridan and Camp Robinson, on the way to market, or to the horse thieves’ corrals. The Indian Agent, having no armed force at his command, is powerless to stop the depredations. The Indians, notwithstanding their keen sense of injury, manifest no symptoms of insubordination, but remain entirely peaceable, and are beginning to devote themselves to farming. The Spotted Tail Indians, within the past two years, have lost several thousand horses in the same way. These facts reinforce our plea for extending the jurisdiction of the United States courts over the reservations. But, as it is, the Department must be impotent indeed to rest supinely without bringing this matter before the Cabinet, and ascertaining whether there be not power somewhere in this Government to secure justice to peaceable Indians when robbed and plundered.--_Advance._ --A report from Fort Ellis says that there are 400 Indians there starving, and their number is being daily added to. A band of 300 are reported within a few days’ march of Port Ellis, unable to proceed farther on account of weakness. * * * * * THE FREEDMEN. REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA. * * * * * WINNING BY PASSIVE VIRTUE. Virtue, etymologically, has a masculine element, that of bravery, energy. Those qualities had a grand exhibition on both sides of our late civil contest. In the process of moral construction now following there is occasion for the exercise of the passive virtue of patient endurance. In the long run this courageous standing by moral convictions will come to a victory more resplendent than that of physical valor. He that ruleth his spirit is stronger than he that taketh a city. Our missionary teachers and preachers have gone down South from year to year armed not with carnal weapons, but with spiritual--not under the impulse of martial prowess, but of high moral courage. This one thing they do: they give themselves exclusively to their work of lifting up the lowly and despised by the influences of education and of the Gospel. They do not go to engage in the political conflicts of that part of our country, thinking that a training in the higher elements of character and of citizenship will be the most effectual way of doing good to the body politic.