AND EAST CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND NEWS. NO. 440 - Ninth Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission ABroad. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1874. PRICE 1D. _____________________________________________ The Hamburgh American steamer Thuringia, from New York, arrived at Plymouth, with New York papers containing accounts of a general rising of Sioux Indians. A telegram from Wyoming states that near Fort Laramie, two officers were murdered. Their bodies, when found, were scalped, riddled with bullets, and stuck with arrows. COLONEL BULLOCK reports that he saw a large party of Indians on the Upper Crossing of the Horse-shoe Creek, singing and dancing a scalp dance. The Sioux are reported as raiding in almost every direction, burning ranches, murdering ranchmen, and stealing stock. A company of cavalry left for Potter Station on the Union Pacific Railroad where the Indians have been driving in the section men and stealing stock from the Red Cloud Agency. News was brought that FRANK APPLETON, acting Indian agent, had been murdered by the Sioux, and the same night fourteen mules were stolen from the Government freighter within three miles of the agency. At the White Clay Agency the Indians have driven off the herdsmen. Troops have been telegraphed for, and the greatest excitement prevails. A large fire was seen in the direction of the Red Cloud Agency. The rising appears to be general. SERGEANT HOWARD, from the Spotted Tail Agency, writes that several large war parties from both agencies have left, and he fears that all the Indians will commence hostilities. COLONEL SMITH also reports that the flour issued to the Indians they throw away, and that their year's supply of beef has been so wasted that it will be exhausted next month. Troops are scouring the country in all directions. Calls for mass meetings have been issued in the papers, to express indignation at the Indian policy pursued by the Government. _________________________________________________