Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1873, Page 2

2 e sttese————————————ee———— A B WESTERN EXPEDITIONS Detailed Account of the Pro. gress of the Stanley Expedition. How It Is Composed, and ‘What It Will Cost. Two Small Fights with Indians--- A Battle Between Rees and Sioux: Terrific Sterm on the Plains--Suffer- ings of Col. Townsend apd His Command, Another Expedition, from Wyoming Territory. Its Object--The Route--Fremont's Peck --Exploits of Red John--The Great Interior Basin, Ingah-tso-moe-=-Gen, Ashley-==Enrly: Ex« plorers---Delightful Wenthor and Sublime Scenery. THE STANLEY EXPEDITION, From Our Oiwen Correspondent, Ostaua, July 14,1873, | I hinve received quite voluminous informalion from Gon. Stanley's expodition, and hasten to . Iy it boforo your renders, Oncof tho most in- tolligent young ofiicors in tho army, Liout. Roagan, now with Gon. Stanloy, writes in fall up to Jano 20 ; and another letter of later date statos that 4 ALL WERE WELL * on tho 25th of June, and that the objeots of thae ospedition woro succooding admirably. . By pormission, I make tho following: intorost-. ing oxtracts from Licut. Rongan's lottors : “¢As you know, tho battalions of tho Eighth ond Ninth Infantry, to which I am attached,. wore ordered to concentrato at Omaha Barracks by April 25, 1873, but the movement of the troops was dolayed, first, for fifteon days, and subeequently for ton days moro, so that wo did not finally got togethar uutil May 20. On that dry, howover, the four companies of the Ninth Infantry, from Forts Banders and- Russoll, camo down to Omahia, pushed on to Yaulton, and waited thora for the companies of the Eighth Regimont. On tho 23% of May, the companies of tho Eighth came up from Omnha Barraoks, formed & junce tion with the Nintli and our part of the expedi-. tion gol a good sot-off, ] < Tho troops were ombarked at midnight, in a heavy rain, on tho stonmer Western, Capt, Clark, and by day-light we weroe steaming up tho mud- dy Missouri, Duriug the 24th, wo passed TIHE PONCA AGENCY, v whoro wo gaw & great many Iudians. On tho 26th, we nrrived at Fort Randall, situated ou the right Lank of tho river, and bullt for garrison of six compnuics, I should thiuk it o pleasant post, au it hins comfortablo houses and good 'rail communications. At Raudnll, Capt. Poolo and Liout. Campbell, Twenty-sccond Infantry, camo on board our steamer, with fivo men, ou routo for Yort Rice. On tho 28th, wo prseod the BRULE AGENCY, and saw many Sioux Indians of that tribe, A large number of squaws and soveral young bucks woro at work in s plowed fiold, planting corn. At this Agency, Cuptain Bush, First Lieut. Fishor oud Second Liout. Davis aro stationod witha company of the Twonty-sccond Infantry. The ofticers complain of being vory lonesome, and I should thing the station monotonous and by no menns to be desired, Tho service at this agency i by dotail ouco a year, and tho presont ofticors must wait paticntly until their term of duty ox- pires, when no doubt they will be given a moro plensant post. “ On th¥®next day, o great excitemont provail- ¢d on board,—oue of the colorad porters of the vouwel, who had heou mixing freely with us, bo- ing roported down with ) SAMALI-YOX, Tho man had been ailing for sovoral days, but no ono kuow tho nature of his discase. Ilo wus placod on tho opposite bank of tho river from tho Brule Agency,—a tont and rations being givon him, and o man loft to take care of him, Although wo had considerable apprehension that tho digoaso would sproad, day aftor day passed without its broakivg out, and now all dangor of iL ies passed, Wao passed THE CROW INDIAX AGENCY, and saw Dr. Liviogston, the Agont. The Indiana at this Agency are tho Yanktounais, s branch of the Sioux. Wo saw no soldiers among thom, nor did I Lear of any troops being stationed at this poiut. “On Wednosday, the 28th, about 8p.m,, o Tienvy storm et in, and continned until morning, No serious aceidents happened during tho night, Lut considorablo alarm was ¢nueed by tho ks FALLING OF A YAWL-IOAT. “Tho epar supporting tho bont gave way, and passed with o crash through a state-room. Tauckily for us, wa wero on the outsido at the timo of the accident, or somo of us would un- doubtedly hiave been killed, or loft minug o limb.” “Thursday, the 20th, wo passed around tho Big Bond of the Missouri, whicl-is said to bo 45 miles round by wator and only 12 miles across, At 3 o'clock In the morming, the startlingery was hewrd, 3 {MAN OVERBOARD, uud great excitemont cusucd, Lvery offort was made to gave tho drowning man, but in vain,— tho rain falling henvily ut the time, and tho darke ness being so intenge tuat he could not be seen. ‘The companies were mustered, and it was ascer- tainod thet ono may, Private Hoff, Compnny E, Kiuth Infantry, wes missing. It was ho who Lnd fullen overboard, ‘The ncci- dent was caused by the steamor's having no guards. This is no unecommon thing, end tho only wondor is that’ more mon do not wallc'overbourd. Boveral soldiers havo lost thoir livos in this way within tho lust fow years. Tho Grovornment oflicers in command should nttond to this matter, aud not allow Quartermastors to lire veesels for tho transportation of troops un- loss they are provided with guards, Tivery nteamer should have ruilings, or at lenst ropos, avound tho expored edgos, Another urunl foult is tho crowding of men togother ou one boat. Our boat carried 400 soldiors, whon really not more than 800 or 250 could be proporly_accommodated on #o small & vorsel, &uu oo I avail mysolf promptly of so oxcellent an opportuuity to'have n growl at tho staff, “ At 1 o'clock p. m. on the 29thi-we arrived at Tort Bully, whoro GEN, STANLEY . camo on board with hig staff to pay his respocts to our commanding officer, Gon, 1. . Bradloey. Gen. Stauley fan flnu-ndnmnrlng man, of about 46 soars of ago, pouscused of sound comMOn-EoNyo, und, thoy kuy, bas great oxoentivo ability, Every one beliovos ho iy the right man in tho right pluce, and will load the oxpedition sntisfactorily and puccessfully through tho wild region over which it is Lo march. ; *'Wo Lad considoerable froight to'dischargo at Bully, aud it was put off in a drenching rain,— tho “officors who wore to recolvo it taking a wat- 1ing, a0 as not to delay onr bont. At Sully, I eaw CAPT. INVINE, ! who wae shot in tho Lioad o short timoe ago| F & troacherous Bioux, 'I'ic Captain wan out r’d g ashart distauco from tho post, whon an Indian stole upon him from behiud and shot him in the head, The bullet glanced up aud came out at tho crown, instend of ponetrating tho skull, a tho red nonpsuin hoped and oxpootod it would do. Lo Coptain wes kuocked nlnost sonseless. but soon ratlled, and boldly wont in* pnrantt o hig nssnilant, bub without muccoss, 1ho Oap- tain's wound I8 now healed, and ho oxpiossos himaglf ne *walting for something now and start- llng to turn uq.' A *“Juno 1 and 3, wo praood BEVERAL INDIAN ENCAMPMENTS on tho bank of tho river, nomno of thom quite |nr§q + aud Ianw one Lhat must hinve contnined fully ' 600 rodskins, of ‘both soxes,’and nll siz08 andagos, Wo nlao took on bonrd Clomont, a noted scout, who s to act_as guido for tho ox- Fudiuon. Wo woro dolayed fivo or six hours in’ rr','lng to Eut ovor Swan Lako. Thia part of tho Missouri takes ita namo from n little Inke on tho loft bank. - Lately it hag washod awny tho Mis- sourl shiores, making tho river quito wide, and is difticult to oross, on' necount of the shallow- noss of thoe wator. ¢ GTIAND RIVER AGENCY . waa reached at miduight, aud is 103 milea from! Fort Mandall, We smv sovoral of the oflicora atationed ot this point, but, owing to tho dark- ness, could not mako out tho gencral appear- anco of thoe placo. Mr, IIammond, on ox-army- ofticor, carries on an oxtousivo fur-trade at tho Agonoy, and is snid to be growing very rich. thh This day wo passed the spot whoro Beldon, o 5 ¥ 5 OELENRATED WHITE OHIEF, wa killod. Ho waa shot through-tho head by an Indlan who had ambushod liflmuuu‘ by tho sido of a little lako, whore ho know Boldon would stop to drink and water his pony. ¢ “Wo aaw thio Boventh Cavalry on tho loft bankof tha rivor, just broakiug eamp to march to Rico, whoro it is to report.to Gen. Btanloy, and form a part of tho oxpedition, Tho steamor | Minorva was followiug up the shore, loaded with the baggage and supplies of tho cavalry, In tho evoning, wo ANRIVED AT FORT RICE, and, disombarking, wont into camp about n mile-nud-a-half from tho post. Wo wero not al- lowed to go about, but placed in quarantino for ton'deys, on account of the caso of emall-pox wo had had on board dnrinq our pagsege up. ¥ ¥ Lvorything about Itlce presentod o most ani- ‘mated nwurnncn,—tonta and camps atrotohin, out on all sldes, snd making o very warlike an e spectaclo, Long lines of wni:onn passed and ropassed, filing in and ont, filling up tho ompty apaces, and scoking thoir londs for tho long journoy bofore them. ~ [ . ‘“THE BEVENTH CAVALRY camo in, and was roviewed by Geun, Torry. I mado a fino appoarance, with Custor ot its hend. Tha column, in marching, passed sround by platoons, aud thoy did very well, oxcopt somo lost distanca and one gained too much, **Tho oxpedition, whon comglntulf gathored on tho bank of tho Missouri, at Fort Rico, was COMPOSED AS FOLLOWH': ‘¢ First—Two batialions of the Soventh Cay- alry (ton companios), Licut.-Col. George A. Custor commanding. - ¢ Second—Four companios of tho Eighth In- fantry and six companios of tho Ninth Infantry, Liout.-Ool. L. P, Bradloy commanding. ¢t Third—Five companios of tho Twonty-socond Iilnfnniry, Senior Capt. O. A. Dickoy eommand- ng. ; _ ** Fourth—Throa companios of tho Boventeonth Infantry and one company of tho Bixth Infant-. x5, Mnd: Crofton cnmmnuum% ' Fifth—Fivoe scouts from Fort Totton and five from ¥ort Wadsworth; two Rodwan guns, and cuough infantry to man thom,—Lieut. Bush, Seventeonth Infantry, commanding. ‘¢ Sizth—Sovonty-five Ree Indian scouts. #Tho mon to mun tho artillory woro solocted from tho Sovoutcenth and Twonty-second In- fantry Regiments, and placed under command of Liout. Dongliorty, Twonty-second Infautry, who is nsfmud by Liout. Webstor, of the samo rogi- ment. “Aaojor Henry Lazelle, Eighth Infantry, an officer of flue sclontific nttalumonts, was placod in charge of THE SCIENTIFIO PADTY to nccompany tho expodition. Tho eciontists are Mr. Allon, Zoologiet, Mineralogist, and Pale- ontolopist; Mr, Pywell, Pholographer; Mr. Kompifzsli, Artist ;" Dr. Nittor, Goologist; and Mr. Bennott, Gonoral Aesistant. Thoy are all provided with tho necossary instrumionts aud equipnge, nud oxpect to malke somo important digeoverios. “The oxp ition is furnished with 3 BIXTY DAYS' subsistonce, and forago for auimnla, After theso supplies are oxhaustod, others will bo furnisliod from & depot to bo estublished on the Yollow- stone River, which Gen, Forsyth has Jooked up. It s the iutontion of Gen. Stanley, I am told, to push on to tho dopot on the Yellowstone, where he will dotach o strong forco, build stockades, and erect barricados, ‘Thia will bo necessary, from present indications, in ordor to socurely protect the stores, and fur- nish a stronghold for the troops in case of great dangor, Tho Indiaus aro numerous, and, if op- portunity offers, no doubt they will give us soma BtifYf fighting, and make every offort to drivo off our auimals, of which wo have great numbors, # A UERD OF CATTLE 008 with us, nnd the troops will be furnished resh beol, »laughtamd a8 thoy need it, at tho rato of fivo daye’ frosh moat to two days' bacon, The .forage-ration is fixod at five pounds of grain (oats) por dy to each animal, ‘" OR TiE TRANSPONTATION of our immensa amount of forago nnd rations, wo havo 160 six-mule wagons and 50 four-muld wagons, Tho tenms are thum\uxghly equipped, and the avimals noarly all in good condition. ¢ THERE WAS CONSIDERABLE DELAY . before starting from ltico, owing to the non- arrivel of tho wagons sud forage, bub thoy finally got In. Thon wo wero kept back sevoral duyn to proporiy shoo tho cavalry-horses aud mulog; but this'was at Inst comploted, sud we got off. : - **Tho orders goverining tho expodition are vory rigid, and tho marching allowances of ofticers and men aro'reducod to tho LOWEST TOSSIDLE AMOUNT. ¢ One overcoat, ouc blankot, two shirts, two pairs of drawers, fivo pairs of socks, two pairs of shoces, aro allowed to each man, but must bo carried on tho body and in the knapsacks, In addition, one Enlr of shoes for cach man will bo carried in bulk in tho wagons, *Thoe allowance of ammunition per man is 200 rounds, 40 of which aro earried in tho cartridge- boxen, the balauce iu bulk in wagons. Tho Quartermastor's Dopartment hasfurnished six portable forgoes, shoving tools, aud conl ; 8.500 shoes for horses, and as many more for mules ; two wheelrights and tools, and an ample uunm{y of spare parts of wagons for repairs. #'he allowances for officors aro a8 follows : One “ A’} tout for each ficld-officer or Captain, and one for every two subaltorns ; one field- dosk for each battaliou-commandor ; one or- dinary mess-chest and necessary cooking uton- sils for uvor{)!om- officora, * Five ambulances are allowed for the sick of tho command. Sovon guides accompany tho expodition, ‘The troops woro to take the flold by tho 15th of Juno, and aro not to remain out lator than the 12th day of November. +\Ye are now fairly off, and.havo had TWO BMALL FIGUTS, of which the tclograph has already informed you in_briof, and of which (and of subsoquent events) I will filvo amore particular account in my noxt lettor, v Arer—Lettors have just come to hand from the expodition up to July 8, All well, Aangn Anovr, From Our Own Correspondent, OAuA, Inly 16, 1873, Licut. Rogan, writing from Stanley’s expadi- tion, gives news up to July 8, 1673, o says: UFTTING A GOOD READY, 3 “As you already know, this expedition was organized under Specin! Orders No. 73, Ilead- qunrtors Dopartment of Dakotn, dated April, 1878, and dirccting that troops be sont for the protection of engincors in surveying a route for tho Northorn Paciflo Railroad, betwcon tho Mis- sourl Rivor aud the Rocky Mountains.” 'Ihe oxpodition was ordered to assomblo at Fort Rico, D, I, by tho 16th of June, but was not fully organized until the 19th, whon the following eir- culur deolaroed it in roadinoss to march : OUDER FROM STANLEY, . *¢ Font Iiok, Juno 19, 1870, 4 ¢ The oxpeditionsvill mova f0-morrow, tho S0t luat,, L6 ofelock a,m,,—Ms), R, B, Orofton, Boventventii United Btatos Infuntry, in advanco. ¢ By order of Col, D, B, Branrey, O, I, Keromust, First Lioutehuntund Adjutat, Actiug Asnlatant Adjutant-General,! . JUST BEFORE, ‘¥ Bofora starting, Gen. Stanloy had sent out in advance o battalion-of the Righth Infantry, apd somo Indian scouts of the Reo tribe, They woro to march from Tort Rice via Fort Lincolu, and protect the railroad-ongineors., The Indian soonts had proceedsd but sliort distanco from Ttice whon thoy woro attacked by a body of Bionx warriors, and a fight onsued. The troops marched to (ho roliof of the Roo scouts, whon the Bioux drow off, Jeaving fowr scalps in tho hands of the Reos. Anolhier amall skirmlsh was roported; but I bavo uot the facts aud I do nob thinj it amounted to much, TIE A0-OFF, ' ‘' On tho morning of the'20ih of Juno *re- voillo” was sounded at 8 o'clock a, m., and tho ¢ gonoral' ut 8:30. We struck tonts and march- od to the viciuity of tho Fort (Rico), where we waitod ovor ono hour for tho trafus to pull out -and got on tho ronds. Tho baitalionsof the Boventéonth and Twonty-socond Infautry Regl- monta (consolldatod) hnd thio advahco, The In- dinn scouts_woro in advance of all, doployed, and with flankors out for two or threo miles on cithor sldo of tho column. It yas an interosting sight ns tho dusky warrlors galloped over tho plain, now. appesring Auddenly on tho tops of tho conicnl Lilln, and then diving into the val-+ loy, only to apponr again at some other point, Tho great, heavy column wonud slowly nlong liko an immenso black sorpont, whilo theso activo and silont watoliora acoured tho surround- ing country for hiddon foos, TIE BEVENTH OAVALRY. i “Tho Soventh Cavalry, divided into two battnlions, acted ns flankers to the train, which ot tlmes was drawn out moro than two milos inlongth, Tho troopers marchied sbout hislf-a-milo from the column, tho rear be- ing protootod by battalions of tho Eighth and Niuth Infantry. The marching in roar was ox- cocdingly todlous, owing to thoe froquent delays of tho train, broaking of harness, and bad cross- ings, Tho wagons wore honvily londed, some of them onrrying as much as 4,000 pounds, Owing to tho enorgoetio working of tho ploncer-party, under Liout. Dougherty, and our oficiont Quar~ tormaator, Capt. Baker, tho wagous gotalong vory well, ovan tho firat day out, which may safoly bo sot down as quito romarkablo,—for who-~ ovor beforo hoard of & Govornment oxpedition progresaiug at flvat’ start? Many of our mules woro now aud unbrokon, to hurness, and the wagons st aud hard to pull. ¥ ALONG.THE ROUTE. “*Tho sconory along our routo prosonted n.vory plonsing nspoct, the country bolng rolling, Prairio-tlowers sbundant, tho ‘grasses luxuriant and of wany differont variotien. Tho wsoil wna composed of black loam, apparently very richi and strong, and, I haye no doubt, would produce excollont corenls and vegetablos, I UEEul’vud that tho grassos wore talicr than those that grow farthor south, aud ecemcd Lo rool, in deop suil. IN oAmE, ‘* In tho evoning, wo camped nt an oxtremely ' beautiful spot, and the scono of our oncampment, just before: the sun wont down, was ono of tho most delightful I hinve ovor witnossod, Tmaginoe o vast, green, ‘inclined plone, stndded with whito tonta an coverad wagons at ‘tho ‘base, while ll along its sidos hundrods of animals in pairs_sre quietly szmg. To tho right is the eavalry; on tho oft, tho lufnntrly; bobwoen thom, tho wagons ; and, boyond both, a band discouring pweet mu-~ sio.” This band bolongy to the Sovonth Cavalry, and whoover bad.it nent nlong deserves tho tuanks of {ho whole command. It is utillzing o band to lave it in the field for once, and m;thhagfl is moro grateful or roviving than a little music after a hard day's march. 1t Boothes tha weary,. brosks tho monotony of camp-lifo, drivos away malancholy, and chicons tho soldier for anothor dny. GEN. CUBIER. i 3 “Ag_COon. Custor is in. command of tho Sovonth Cavalry, I presume it is to him wo ara indobted for ilie prosence of tho band of that regimont. What an admirable éavilry-soldior Custer is! Not only his dush aud bravery, whicli aro world-wide, but his. good souso, makes "him just what o snccessful lendor of cavalry should “bo, 'Ihin aud wiry, ovory dey ho may bo socu at the head of his regiment, mounted on & fino horse, with 'his® rillo iu hand, his hounds at his buck, and_rendy for n chnso nftor the fleet antolope, or o dash ut, the troachorous Sioux. ' ' OIIASING ANTELOTE. % ““ Wao havo great sport chasing the antelopo. Sovoral of the officers of the Twonty-second Iu- fautry” have fine hounds, and Gon. Custor hus” one of the finest packs I havoe evor secon. Tho othor day, thoy woro all lob_go nftor o fine - mal, aud it was lauglablo to sce tho dogs scramble for a place in the rnco, For o timo thoy man ull in o jumble, bus, after tho first milo, bogan to strotch out, and finally only two dogs.woré running neck aund neck. Thoy seemed very ovemly matched in spead and endurance, but Custer's hound, “Qibbon,’ prosently shot ahend, nud, Ly n few splendid leaps, caught the antalope by tho ham, sud dragged him to tho earth, just ns Lo was turning to double on his course. "I'his race lasted oyer threo nnles, and wns indeed & fino sight. * Gibbon," over sinco his splendid race, hasboon tho pot of the eamp, and will nover waut for ro- tions as long as tho soldicrs bave any to divido with him. The monotony of our marches is Telioved by these clinses,—tho dogs somotimes running tho antolope almost into tlio column, TALL BUTTES, - Tho sconory is vory much the same, excopt that now and thon a tell butte shoots up to show 18 whoro wo liave come from, or where wo will bo five days honce. ‘Theso buties nre very po- culinr, and can bo scon for a distanco of 80 iloe,—tho principal oncs ou our routo being ooth and Hourt Buttos, + DAY DY DAY, *¢The column only marches from 7 to 10 miles per dny,—the weatlier being vory hot and thun- der-storms froquont. Our officers and men hava sufferod terribly from tho heat, quite a number of tho Intter beiug sunstruck, 1 saw ouo poot fol- low, on the secoud day out, resl sand fall to tha carth ay if ho woro shot, and soon after- wards he was taken with a spasm, but 8 now ro- covering. Bevoral othors were compelled to leavo tho ranks, and many were mado sick, 0ld officers say thoy nover.ény moro fatlguing or Bovorer marching wonther than our first three or four duys out, nud cortainly I nover expericnced anything Jike it. Our maiches aro judiciously condueted, and reats during tho hoat of the . day aro frequent, Homotimes, I think tho rosts. sro o little too long, for long rests aro liablo to stiffen instoad of restare men, i roRWARD, BARcn? » ¢*The acono in onr camp, of & morning,is quite animated; and would farnish an admirablo pic- ture for the pencil of nn artist. *Head of col- umn | * ¢‘Forward, march,’ and awnay we go. What an outfit! ‘Uhe advance strotches out; the long lines of cavalry wind over thohills on cithor sido; the wagons slowly unfold from thoir corral into column ; and bohind follow the Rodman guns, supported by a column of infantry. It is indo o strango sight to #oo the hundreds of gront army-wagons lumbering along, laden with every concelvablo imploment of war and ol kinds of food, picks, ehovels, Liocs, shells, thousands of cartridges, tons of bard broad, bacon, coffee, Bugar, rico, flour, graiu, and au_ondless number of ropos, chains, spare wagon-tonguos, wheels, and tonts, The mulos tug and pull, and the monster machiues roll slowly on tothe westward, Tn tho rear tradgo patiently Inrgo liords of cattlo, numbering over 600 head ; and Inst of all comen o compact body of infantry, which is thoe renr- coard, | with ecouts “far out on its auks to provent a surprircc from the wily foo. Viowod from a hill as the sun comes glancing over tho plaus, reflecting o thousand rays from the bright bayonets, the spectaclo is grand and magnificent beyond description, THE PIONEERS. “Tho pioncors aro up and off every morning before the neop of day, and we seo little of them until night. How thoy keop out of our way, is 0 wondor to all. Here, & bridge has heen built; thore, & side-hill cnt down; boyond, a gully filled; but tho pioneers hayve boen thero and zong, and, wlthough wo soo their work evory .bour, wo soo mnothing of the busy men who ' did 1t, Now, ot Inst, wo are fairly upon thom; they havo met with a bad crossing, and the browned toilors have bsen unublo to complote the fllling bafore we como up. Tho Lroops choor, mul reliove them nt the spades, whilo thoy push off to find another bad )»lnca farthor in advance, Our pioncer-compan: s composod of tho best mon in the comman and they ate undor tho direction of Liout. Will M. Dougherly, n most enorgotio und ofticiont youug ofilcor. Their dutios keop thom out of comy for hours aftor thoir comrades aro ab rest ; but none complain or grumble, and all seom to feol the impoilauce of tho duty sssigued thom, and cheerfully perform hieir Lurd task ot opening the ‘way for civilization Woutwnrd, EVENING AND NIGNT. : “Itia oveningin camp! Our day's march is over, the tontsura pitchied, the wagous corruled, and “tho stoek turnod ont to graze. Tiros aro kiudled and tho supper commenced, while sonp, towely, and basius appear, and iho stalus o dust of travel are romoved. Mirth and laughter rosound on all sides, and thoe band plays some fina airs, putting overy ono in n good humor. "Who butchers hava killod somo beovas, and the smell of tho cuoking frosh ment iy Pl.—.n!nnb to the tired aud hungry men. DPresontly suppor Iy rendy, and o uit down to nmenl of frosh - beof, eoffeo, lot biscult, and cenned fruits, After suppor comes tha inevitable pipe, and the officers aud mon gather in groups to tulk ovor tho events of tho day, tell yarns, and speoulnto on the morrow, Itis uow 9 o'clock, onr geanty beds aroinnde down, ‘tattoo’ sounds, tho rolla avo called, * tups ' blow, the lights ure put out, and the gront camp sinks to rest, TUE BILENT WATCHEUS, “Qut yondor on tho hill-topy ara shadowy forms flitling ahout in tho gray starlight, and oyed. koonly alert to dauger, Thoy are tho sontinols watohing over thelr slumber- ing conwades, and carofully ;:mmllnf: tho stoclk from prowling Indians, who, slthough they may bo tao cowardly to fight In daylight, are’ ulways rondy to dash in by night sud runoff a herd, ‘Thiy is & fuithful pioture of our lifo in camp, and wo will be up bofore the sun intho morniuwg, ‘is, ulaal domolis only to ropent to-morrow,and the noxt day whit has oceurrod yoaterday and tho dny boforo. A TERNIFIC BTORM, ‘*Wo havo had one of tho mout torrifiic storma ovor oxporioncod on tho Plaing, and. ovon the oldost soldlor does not.romombor of having soen, anything. like it It ‘did not strilo, our ortion of the oxpedition with such terrible orco, but Col. Townhohd'a command of fonr, compauiea of the Lighth Infantry was intha midat of it.. It is deseribed by thoro who ware in it an fonrful in the oxiromo, utterly domolish~ ing uvurythlnfi in its way. 1Inil foll to tho dapth of froni 8to b inchos on tholovel, 0 inches in drifts, and some of tho stones wero aimost as 1nr‘;q na o Lion's ogg. : *"'Tho animals bocomo unmanagenble, stam- poded, upsot the wagons, oud spilled out tho atores mid instrumonts with which they woro loadod. Many of the wagons wero broken 0 as to bg hoyond all repaira, and tho survoyors lost #omo of tholr most valuable instrumonts. *Early in tho storm, Col. Townsond's horso bo- camo frightoned, ran away with bim, and car- riod” him into tho hills. ~Ho mnnusged to oling to tho maddoned benst for o long distanco, but was at length darbed to the ground, and tho horso aped offinto the sand-bluffs, i.lpun ats tompting to riso from tho und, the Colonol was struck In the face by a Iargo hail-stone and knockod enm;illutnly down. Tio i quito sevoroly Druised from his fall, about tho hands and knoos, but ablo.to_ride the wild horse, who should Lo christenod Mazoppn, as he, on ono oceasion at lenst, oxhibited & spirit equal to Byron's famous flory and untamod atood. Tho Colonel's favorito ounco-hat, of which ho was 8o proud, i.\ed, and now guiltloss of a orown. * The wagon of Capt. Lazoll's company, now under commnnd of Lisut Earnst, was brokon in iocos, aud tho stores badly damaged. Two of hn ‘men wera sovorely injured, but are recovor~ g . . “You may form some idoa of the torrific char: actor of tho storm when I toll you that, aftor it was over, autolopes were found dead on tho plain, and, on oxamining those animals, it wns ascortained that they had boon bonton to doath Dy tho Liail-stonos | ¥ DAD WEATHER. . “ Binco wo havoe boon out from Rieo (twolve dnys), wo have had ton rainy sand stormy days, and onr nx);nrluncb ‘has beon anything but ploas- ent most of tho time. In the Iate storm, sll of our command. did .not suffer so soveraly ae Col. Townsond’s battalion, but it was bod enough overywhoro, doar knows, and wo all wishod our- solves safo undor substantial roofs. FINANGIAL. “This expodition swiil cost Uncle Snmucl a IJrsuy ponny, and X bave jottod* down tho fol- owing figurcs ns part of tho oxponne ; Fov bringlng four companis of tho Ninih In- fantry from Forl D, A, Russoll to Omaha,...$ 6,000 Tor transporiing four companies of tho Eigliily Infantry and six companles of tha Niuth Iu- fantry from Omaha 10 8ioux Cty, ... 4,500 Forroturnig tlio namo Lo Omaba, Bext il 47500 For iaking four companics of the Light Infane try nnd six companios of .the Ninth Infant from Sfoux City to Fort Rico, For transporling the Soventh C: ing etation from tho South to Dakotal, For train of 200 wagons, delivarod at 1ds Eor 1200 mulug ot 160 encl.... o e 1 For 400 scta of doublo-harpess, at 350 por set.. For hiroof nteamboats.:.... For frolght and stores, For pay sud subsistonco of 600 citizens ome ‘Dloyes, : 2 STRENGTI OF THE COMMAND, ‘¢ Tho strongthof- the: command, exclusiva of. clitizens and onginoors, is about ay follows: - Twonty-second Tufontry, 16 officers and 250 wen, , total, + . 205 2 officors and 50 men, tolal . Sovonth Cavalry, 30 officers and 780 fen, total BUVEEONH. 1o ovsaosoboassossarsases i Seouts, 1 officor and 38 men, fatal T couiasisessinns . & In addition to these, liave 1,0 08, 2,500 mulos, 500 citizen eoraployes, two English noblemen, and two uorxus{mndnnls." Thase lottora ombraco all news from Stanloy’s* commaud up toJuly 8, 1878, AAnoN Aour. * Liout, R, forgeta tho threo compantos of tho Sevon- teenth Infantry with Stanloy, and which Lo reports in Ls firat lotier, aa coming~—two companies from Fort Rice, and ond company from Fort Lincolu, Thero wora orlginally four companios of this rglment or- dored on'tho oxpodition, bt ono company was relioved by Capt. Powali's company of tho Sixth Tnfautry, AAnox Azour, ‘THE WYOMING EXPEDITION. From Our Own Correspondent, 5 Prosise Guror, Wyo, Ter,, July 11, 1873, Within tho last fow days, the mountain-rogion in this dircction has resounded with the clangor of. armed mon and scientists, who aro sealing tho heights toses what ean bo found, An expe- dition hns boon fitted out to discovoer, if possible, A’ PIACTICATLE WAGON-ROAD from tho Shoshonea Indian Reservation, on Wind River, across .tho. monntalns to Yellowstono Loko, and thonce onward to Fort Ellis. One great thing will then bo accomplished, by which tlio wondorful curiosities in that rogion will bo rendored more sccessible, and peoplo can visit the Nationnl Park without having to go to Corinne, thonce to Holens, and thon down to the Yollowstonoj or to take the still more cir- cutious and longthy route by way of the Missouri River. Bhould this road bo made, the whole trado of Montana will bo carried on from some point on the Union Pacific Railrend, up through Wyoming Toritory to Montana, passing by some of Lho grandest sconery the world containg, Tho engineors will meot with many obstacles in the Wind River Mountains, which aro both high and rugged, one chain’'of which, an old guide says, & crow eannot fly over on account of its magnitude. But thoso engineers are de- tormiued to sce what can bo dono, snd to make A THOROUOH EXPLORATION, A which may result in & gront donl of benofit to tho people. Tho usual numbor of sclontifie gon- tlomon aro going along, to examine into the geology, flora, and fauna of this magnificont ro- gion, Qontlemen of undoubted capacity have chargo of the differont dopartmonts, and all are actuated by o desiro to do overything in their power for tho succass of tho oxpedition. A company of cavalry acts as escort, and thora are soveral oxperienced guides, mountaineors, and hunters, who aro only really at homo amid tho sublime sconory of tho Rooky Mountains, After loaviug Wind River, tho provisions, blna- kots, forngo, aud so forth, will bo earried on prok-mules, as thoro haa never hoon'n wagou up iuto tho mountaln-rogion, and 1t is not known as yot whoilior o wagoun-rond can possibly bo mado. FOR A BUMMER-TRIT, this will bo pleasant onough, and all connected with the oxpedition will como back toward the oud of sumiucr, weil tauned and woither-beaten, though hearty a8 a lot of bucks, and capablo of enduring alinost suy amount of fatigue, I visited their camp on the Littlo Beavor Crook, and there, strotched under sholter-tonts and comnon tonts, was the personnol of the expodi~ tion, eujoying their lelsure, and,preparing for an onward movoment. Paleontalogists, or ** hono- huntova ;" entomologists, ‘or “bug-sharps ;" goologista, or * rock-broakers,"—as thoy are call- cd by the mountain-men,—were thore in full glory, and soomod to make tho most they could out of theoccasion, Ou the march up from Fort Bridgor, thoy had A PATIGUING TIME on necount of the nuusnally high stago of wa- tov, mont of the stronms beving overflowed their bauky, Tho crossings wore quite daugorous, aud govoral animals wore drowned at the Dig Bandy Oroelr, Home survoying was done on - the onstern sido of the Wind River Range, near |the baso of Fromont’s Ponl, which i aid to be one of tho loftiest mountains in North America. Union Peak, in the sumo range, much farther wost, towers far abovo it, however, aud will, T think, be found to be tho highest summit of thom all. The WIND RIVER RANGE is n magnificont chain of mountaing, and all of tho principal strenms of Western America have tholr sourcos thercin. This rango is looked upon with groat awo by frontiorsmen and Indiang, and thero iy no end to the number of storles they toll about it. It nbounds in the largor varletios of gane, and, nK & consoquonco, is \l’iowud 88 o Lind of Paradiso by tho huators. When tha first oxploring expadition vidited this rogion, tho membors therou! woro only ablo to mako o fow gonoral obsorvatious in rogard to it, and sovoral orrora woro made by them, which mwa not sinee Leon correctod, pnrllnuhu'ly &8 L0 o HEIGHT OF MOUNTATNS, Bovernl mountuincors with whom I haye con- vorsed linve informed mo that thoy have beou ou olovations {n tho raugo soveral huudred feot highor than Fromont's Peak; and, in fact, somo mon who were out with Framout laughed at tho | sl T P e FE S S | ridionlbua- story which hiaa . boon published ro- ‘Fnflu"fi tho”discovery and nscont of this moiin- nin. Dul it is & splondid mountain-penl, never- thaless, though others are known in the rango which towors.grandly above.it in all their benuty oud sublimity, GANGH OF ELK ara froquently seon in and near the fallen tim- bor whicli ouvelops the brise of the rango, anld skilled huntera spond happy dnys looking for thom. Thesa cll grow very large, and the moat i8 n8 good na boof,—somo thinle bettor. It hos' always appoared strango to mo why olle-huntors; should bo such tall mon. I know sovernl of: thom, and they aro- “‘atrung out™ to n most alarming lougth,—ono boing 6 foot’4, and -’ othor 6 fool ’l%unimu tall. When l.lm( %ut sight! of ou oll; ho may as_woll hand in hia checks at, onco, far thoy follow him with deadly cortainty,! ond 'his hido oud horns are sure to graco tha' procluots of their cabin, *‘ nEp gomw," ] 88 tho Indians are called l;y the frontler mon, Linis baon’ prowling about of late, and trylng to, commlt soveral daprodations peculinr to himsolf.! A party stolo some hordes belonging to the oiti- zons, and subsequently fired upon s porty of tonmsters who wero orossng a atroam with their ox-wagons. 'Tho teamsters pulled out thojr rifles aud roturned tho firo, and, as noar as Ican loarn, ona Indinn wae hit by them; atsll ovonts, ouo fine-looking bull-whackor told me he ! drow & boad” on an Indian, and fired throo "times at him, with foll intout of sending im to bear com- Yl“ lonship with othors who have gone to ' ‘Tho appy Hunting Grounda of tho Iorcafter,” A party of soldiors followod up the trail, and the red-skins woro 8o closoly prossed that thug throw away soveral articlos, and, among tho rest, g A ‘“ gour-srIOK,” 5 with-which tho savages have a playful wn{ of prodding any man, woman, of ehild” they intoud o kill. ~ This_*¢ coup-stick,” duly ornamonted with a wir-engle's phunoe, was brought in by the oflicor in chargo of tho party, who would havo beon bettor satisfied if u‘im boen & gealp. Itis oll yery well for sontimontalists to toll about tho wickodnoss of scalp-taking, but frontior men linve ovorcome n groat deal of false delicnoy, and talk about *“ raising the hide” of au Indlan~us thoy call acnlf)in r—with foolings of mingled forocity and delight, It would do some of our eainta good to live for a few yoatson tho extrome trontor, . : : Tiso groat interior mountain-region AFPEATS TO DE RETROGRADING p 60 far ns tho numbor of inkabilants is concern- ed; thero sre noyso many peoplo hereabout as thore wero six yonrs ago. 1t is ronlly diflcult to sny what is to keop up -tho Territories and pro- vont their dwindling into decay, There is little or no farming land; It requiros immeneo atrotch~ es of conntry to support tho cattle; snd tho mines have not much vigor at prosent. Two hundred miles wost of tho Missouri Rivor tho dosert conntry is reachiad, and thenco to the Sac- ramonto Valloy thero is no good farming lund at Truo, there iw'quite a Bottlement in tho Saly Laito Valfoy ; ut tho' growth thioreof is lto- ‘gothor avtifi ||1i ond, should tho supply of wator | 2ail o that Irsigation could not. bo ensriod on, tho valloy .would bo_depopulated within two “'he Americau Doseit Hes ¢ . 18 A DESERT, v sure enough, and bund.sngxn railrond across it docs not altor the fact in tho loast, Thore are somo littlo towna along its course, but, away from it a fow miles, overything is s barren waste of rooks and gravel, with hero and thoro a treo. ‘Choso truths are ‘)y no meaus pleasant, nor do .| thoy flatter our nafional vanity; but the trauth ‘must bo told oceaelonally, aud the truth is our #otllers havo already ronched the wostorn verge’ of the good agricultural country belonging to tho nution,—suid country boing about midyny nstn‘ma Nebrasks, which s dostined to bo o fing ato. TIE YELLOWSTONE XXFORING EXPEDITION I8 in chargo of Capt. William A, Jones, of tho Corp of Eugincezs, and ho Las with him soveral eclontific gontlemen who are well known, among | vhom“may ‘bo montioned Dr. 0. C. Parry, bot- anist and minoralogist, and Prof. L. B. Com~ stogk, of New Yorl, geologist. 'Thiore aro sov- oral other gontlomén out with tho oxpedition, who aro_making thelr first trip, and onjoy tlic out-door life with oxceoding zoat. Capt, Jones hins mado sovoral oxplorations in Wryoning ‘Ierritory, and, if ho succeeds in find- ing o road through from thoe raitrond to Yellow- stono Lnke, will cortainly achiove great honor, ns the thing hins boen pronounced itmpracticablo by mora than one oxplorer through this country. The Coptain is o young man, ou industrious worlker, and 8coms ‘to be thoroughly in earncst in_the work which he hns in hand.” Tho samo may bo sald of Lient. Blunt, the nstranomor of the expedition, T'he cucort is composed of Jom- Emy , Bocond Cavalry, Capt. Noyes, with ieats. Hall and Kingsbury; Liont. Young, an oxperionced mountnin-man, has charge of the Quortormnstor's Dopartmont, nud Ansistaut- Surgeon Charles L. Heizmann, United Statos Arny, is the medical oflicor. The party is start- ing out under favorable auspices, and their ro- turn will be hiailed with plensure, If thoy are suc- cevnful, the oxpedition will provo one of tho mout beneticial of auy ever sont out by the Gov- erument. i On Strawberry Gulch, the minors appear to avo J Yo, STRUCK A 000D TIING, and quite s number_of them have gono over there and commenced working. Somo cnbing Lave beon erected, and all the uppurtensuces of amining-camp moved over. An old miuer in- formed mo that, several years ago, o party of inunigrants strayed off in this direction from abovoe the Swootwater, ond one of them found n {)ionu of gold woighing over two ounces. Attho imo thoy had no provisions, and on that necount were obligod to abandon the country. The In- dians, too, wero very troublosome ; and many o wenry day afterward_thoy reached the mines in California, An old chiof's daughtor gwided thom throngh the rocky defllen of the mountains, end, asartewnrd, thoy gave lor a fino pony. Bhe was o Shoshonee named y INGANI-TEO-NOE, or Red Beads, and helped many s travelor on the road to the land of gold. TFor years sha ‘livod neer tho South Pasy, and died onfy n short time sinco, respocted Ly white and red menm.- | ho minor told me that overy effort had been medo to discover tho place whence the gold was |- talcon, but thus far witliont success. Ho did not despalr, however, and seomed doterminod to orsovero until a favorable result should ocown his offorts, ITe is cortain the ground is not far distant from the place whoro he is now workiug, Evory momhuilt is cool onough horo to necd a dittlo"fire, and T counot help sympathizing with you who are in a tomperature Gomewhere above 0. Tho nir is cool aud bracing, and somotimes the wind hlows with great fury. As soon ns tho water subsides in the ctronms, thore will bo GOOD TROUT-FISUING, and overy one is prepaving to tako part in this sport. The trout in the Rocky Mountain streams aro protty much alike, and may bo ranked among tho fiueat fish thnt swim. In fact, brook trout ere onerally considered the best fish that are found Fn any country, It ig singular that the Indisva care but littlo about them, sud will voarcely take the troublo to fish for them. Indiuns care for meat— FIRST, LAST, AND ALL THE TTME. Deer and etk meat are their favorito food. SBomo of tho vegetublo roots that grow in tho moun- {aing are outen by thow, and if cultivated and cured for for A few yenrs, might be mado useful to mankind, . Vegotables taken from this moun- taln region to a stnmer clime would undergo a groat change, aud might produce somothing val- unble. DBut, ns bofore romarked, tho grent hold of the ehorigenes is good, hoalthy meut, aud they dovour largo quantitios of it. Buffalo meat is prepared for wintor use’ by tho tribes living i eud near the buffalo country, and stacked awny in tho lodgoes to bo used as oceasion may require, It in dried without belng salted, and is tasteless aud innutritious. TIE ROAD BELOW i 18 oxceodingly intoresting, particularly throngh the Nted Canon ; and all who visit it are pleused with the Vl\lflf‘ of tho Littloe Wind River. Ior anyone who has o leon appreciation of the Doautles of Naturo, trip hore is something to romembor through life. 'Fhoro ara somo hot sprlugs in tho valloy, worth & long ride to lock m,—lmmlngl lightful, “‘Lho Indinng sy tho route on the wost sido of Wind River is practicablo; that the stronm can bo followed to itn sourcos, and thenco over the dividing ridgo to the Yollowstone, T'hey furthor gay tho t1ip can bo mado in four days, though th0 mombers of the oxpedition expnat 1o Lo gono four or six woeks, then roturn, and mako nu exploration of Lho Big Horn River, It 15 my advico to anyone who may visit this coun- try toBpond o wock nt loast on the WATERS OF THE WIND RIVEN, . ns thoro aro many intorosting places nlong ita courso, This, too, is the fuvorite home' of the Bnako Tndiuuy, and horo they niay bo soun In nll thoir glory, and living as thoy please. Alto- gother, thia is tho moyt pleasant portion of Wy- oming Territory, a8 groon folinge mny be scon noar thoe water-courees, and somothing can ho dono fu tho woy of raluing vogelablos, Rocks pro piled up funtastically in difforont placos ; but, whoro thero aro so many rocks, thoy soon lose thoir interost and novelty, and ono longs for green flolds and ploasant shudos. Ous of tho onrlicat explorers through this ro- gion of country was % GEN, WILTIAM IT, ABHLEY, of Missouri, 1fe was born in Powhntan County, Va,, aud at_tho ngo of 80 romoved Lo Missourl, thon Upper Louisiana, and sottled near the lead- mines, In 1823 he projected tho * Mountain- Expodition,” uniting” tho Indian trade in the thoroin boing iuvigorating nnd do- |, |'Rogky Mountains with kuntinkinnd trapping, and.onlisted ovor 800 mon’ fu the' undortn! (Ing.- Aftor novoral losrou by Indinn robbory and river- disnstors, ho and his associates nooumulated .handsoma_ fortunes. Ashley was Lioutonant- Govornor of Missourl, and afterwards o mombor | of Congrass, from 1831 to 1837, 1llo was n man of gront detorminatior and bravery, and highly -rospooted for hlu-lulogruy talouts, and .entor-. privo, 1o commanded n irading-party of 007 mon which was attacked by Arickaree Indinua, on the Upper Missoutl River, on the 2d of June, 1640, In tho samo yonr ho commanded 80 volun-{ teers in a fight which Ool. Leavonworth Jadj with tho Indiuns,on the walors of tho sahte: rivor. Our mon attrcked tho villages of the' Arickarees, which coniniued botweon %00 and 700, warriors. Lenyonwortl's forco conniatod of 220 ;non u‘rr lllm '.leth R:]glmlonz lolIIn!nnlry,h Ashe; loy'a Voluntoors, and, singularly onou; 600} frlendly Bloux, ’J.'lm‘ Afiuklgrunu ’ i b ! . »-. .. WERE DADLY PUNISUED, |, ' 4 loning ovor 50 Lilled. Tho fighting tok placs on tho Oth, 10th, and 11th of August.: Gon. Ashloy, . continued in the mountain-trade n long time At~ torward, and died at Boonville, Mo, on the 26th of April, 1838 Ilo obinined lis titlo by bolng n Drigadior-Genoral of Missourl Militin.., Ilis wil- ow married the Hon. John J. Crittendon; of, Kontucky, . P wee 5 From what I 'have boon ablo to.leamn, Gon. Ashloy and his mon dld moro towards .tho ox- ploration of this region than any, othor:men who ovor visited it. Mo mado many of ‘tho ronda whicli havo sinco boon traveled by so- callod oxplorors, and had his hunters- and trap- ors out hore nearly fifty yoars ago. Io-camo by way of Taos, in Now Moxico, struck wont to tho Colorado, nnd then followed 'up. the strenmd which go toward making up that river, until lo found-their sources in_tho mountain chain of the Rocky Mountnins,” X do not mean tosny that ho did all- this porsonally ; but it was all done by his men, and undor his man- sgomont, and ho is, thoreforo, - r * ENTITLED TO THE OREDIT OF IT{' This was an individual onterprise, and not backed ug by the money of tho Govornment. ‘Tho timo had” not yet como for us to wish to gealo tho mountain-barriors, or push, our.infant sottlomonts ovor towards tho ‘shores of thie blie Pncifie, But that time came in 1844, 5,6, '7; '8, and '9, whon our Orogon immigrants starte acrosg, aud tho groat oxodus to the gold-flelds of Californin sot men erazy with & new. form of oxcitoment. Then Ashloy's roads were used to Eomo purposo, nad weary travelers know very littlo what 'obligntions they wors under 'to tho first rond-malkers across-tho monntaing, © -, 7 Inthiugeason, ' . ¢ . i : THE WEATHER 18 SUPERD, " k Thore -Jg & Lallowed: bonuty ebous . evorything, that rondors it moro plensinfi thon. over. The sunlight is porfoct ; and the play of-the shadows on tho dark mountnin-sides.forms a ,plcturo of surpageing lovelinoss, which .is the . rosson why +tho mountain-barriora posseds such & fascination for bold ‘and froe ‘apirits. Wild scenery, wild 1ifo; and wild days fall naturally togother; and from them is evolved a fabrio rare ju its finish, and glowing with all tho glittoring. jowols of ony chantmont. ° Ono can almost fancy the days of tho lotos-enters]™ The dark glons are tho iomoea of Indiane, who wieh no bottor life, and cannot undorstand whiy civilized men desire to live in fixod nbodes, - Olvilization, t00, longs Bometimes to throw off its oxpensive surroundings, and rango freo a8 tho breezes round the bases of fimm‘ old mountaing, which gazed upun iho nwn of creation, with *“Arcturus,” Orion, snd T v .4ho vicinity of Womplotown the loy hemiapharen “apared tho crops of nono, and the loss inflicted in that poction will doubtloss excecd 25,000, Many of tho farmors loso everyihing in the _shapo of growing corn and emall graina, Ono of d.mm romarked to a roporler yosterday : My corn flelda looked as thoy would in tho spring after tho atock lad boon ' wintored iu them. -Nothing but tho baro stalks aro left,” Another ono.who had sown Lis farm to wheat, yestorday | _ro-plowod, tho ground to put in Hungarinn rass soed. Among the mon whoso flolds have oou ,zavaged by the slorm, and whosoe losscs will nyorage from §3,600 to $3,000 encl, may ba montlonod Mossrs, Dickenson, Homonwny, Milng, * Bonnett, Felch and Murphy brothers, Mr, Dickonton is.the man who I8 ro-plowing ‘hin whent flolds, g Mr, Wilcox and Mr, Bluoflold'1dst heavily, bus 8 porton of Weir orop ' safo, or ably partiaily nged, .t A . Eyo-wlitnesscs stdto'that the hail-stones were nlm!rly cnormous in sizo;.; They were something in tho shape of glass-bitde’ oyos, and ono of them woighod 14 ounces; Thoy camo,_ through windows, " smashing the glass and sesh-with oqual oado, aud, whoro the houses waro nnpro- vidod with blinds, tho windows had to be cov- orod with boards. At the Burritt sehool-house 2 lnd was ront out by the teachor to: shut tho blinds, Whil eloslng ono of thom a hail-stone struck him on tho lof; hun(:]l knooking the skin off and almost breakin, e foro-finger. The now has o carry Lis hand in o sling. 5 3 lightning waa simply tarriflo, and many troos wora torn down, but wo bave heard of na housos being struck. ; As faras wo onn loarn, the storm was fully as Aovero all along tha contral lino of its track. ' Tta oqual has never been soen in Northorn Tlliriols, and we hopé that such a deatruction ‘may not again’ Inywaate th - & nnly.ly . o grain-flolds of Winnobago SPARTA, WIS, Its Advantagos ns n Summer-fResort ==Th¢ Medicinal Wators, * < ¢ Branm 3 » To the Eittor of The Chicago Tribwene wu., e Bin: Sparta, snuggly nostled in tho benutiful LaGrondo Valley, 250 milos from Ohieago, offors to plongure-nockors; tourists, or inyalids, tn- sivalod ‘atirdotions. Sparta, lthough s young -oity,-boasts.of Motropolitan'fashions and all the modorn improvements, twonty miles of sido- walks, and-well-rogulsted shade-trecs. For tho past fow years, tho city has beon n favorite ro- -sort for fishing and hunting parties, who availed thomiolves' of ; tho sbundance of. gamo and speokled tront in tho noighborhood. . The scenory in the LaCrosse, Valloy is unsurpassed in tho Great Northwost, and nowhore can bo found a ‘moro ‘ohinfming vatiety than in' thé" victity of ' Bparte. From Castlo iloek, tho stoamboats on $ho Missesippi Rivor oan) ba scon 28 thoy travel on!‘"l‘:m and upward, o 0 roputation- that this place onjoys aa a honlthy location is boyond dispute, 'jmfimn'ua digonsos aro ubknown,’ oxcopt ‘those brought to tho clty for. trontmont. Four yonrs ‘ago, the colebrated, arterian magnotio waters were dis- covered, which contain ‘more medicinal qualitios than any yet' found. ‘Last season, 11,000 pors sons visited Bparta for the purpose of’ drinking of tho celobrated water, Bo great waa tho rus Pleindes, and the chawmbors of the South.” 'Tho summer-weathor is perfection itself, and no onp | neod look for econery moro bold and magnificont thou thid, Way up horo, on the back-bono of this Continent, one gazes out upon scenos of awful sublimity and matohloss grandour, . 7 Avoennd, . —_— ; ENIGMAS: OF ‘DEATH. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bm: I read with interest the lotter of your correspondont, Lorenzo Rank,on the above snb- ject; nud T wish'to call attontion to a-fact which Ithink cacapes observation to o surprising de- gree, whichis, that the taking of lifo for the mero sako of taking it, or for so-called sport, does tend to brutalizo those who indulgo in it. Thera is & deep truth in the old saying, * Love me, lovo my dog.” Careful obscrvation has en- abled mo .to say, from porsonal experionce, that the mon who would ill-treat or sbuse one of God's croaturos, howovor Liumblo, willful- 1y snd maliciously, would troat his brother-man #0, nleo, if ho dared, or had the opportunity; or was temptod to doso. I know & man, now horo 1n this city, who had & dog lent him to guard his placo of business. He took the poor brute there and tied him up; and ofton not at all ; and would leaye him there all night, shivering in the cold ; ho cared not how Lo suffered. ‘Chat samo man noglectod Lis littlo child tho semo way. He'and his wifo would leavo tha child slone, proppod i its little chair, with nothing to amuso it, nothing to ent, from morn tilieve ; if the went out, no ono ‘went to rekindle it, but the little one sat in.the cold, and moaned itself to sleop or moped ; be- caugo, forsooth, “tho man's business required the attondanceof himself and wito constantly " Now, to Fub at the principle of this : He who has love in his heart cannot bring himself to treat a dumb avimal ill, or to negleot it,much less to wantonly dostroy it. The maun who loves his fellow-mon must of nocessity love all God's creation, bo- cause it 49 God's, and becauso Ho made it, and vice versn, tho man who hates or is indifforent to auimals will lLate or be indifforent to his | brother,—nay, his Maker, a Heuce wo uoo that a man who will Idll animals_ for sport doos not love them in tho first placo, and the shedding of their blood will tend to bru- tnlizo Lim more aund more, till ho he would nob {hink it o vory great sin toshed his brothor's blood also ; and, in & momont of passion or de- bauch, or what not, the Devil says Kill, and ho kills_unhesitatingly, Ibeliovo wo shinll yot soo tho day whon such things, for instance, as pig- con-matohen, ot hoo gonus omme, will bo dis- countonancod by all zespectablo mon ; aud then we shnll have made o great stride towards ro-- garding lifo, human. o brute, a8 too sacrod a thing to be wantonly destroyed.’ Respoctfully,. Ciroaao, July 14, 1873, ‘E. W. LATTEY, LAWS WITHOUT MANNERS. To the Iiditor af The Chicago Tribune: [ Bm: InTue TRIBUNE of this morning is the Cincinnati Commeroial's compilation.of tho cas- unlties of the Dangerous Fourth,” based upon tho number reported in the City of Now Yorl, This gives 4,000 viotims for tho United Statos,— g larger numbor tban the wounded on tho Amerieun side in any battlo of the Revolution.” Burko eaid,. * Manuers aro more important thon laws. In o great monsure, the laws depond on thom.” Our Mayor issued his proclamation in due time to warn all nq;dusb tho violation of tho laws prohibiting the burning of gunpow- dor in all ity varvious forms; but yot thoman- ners of tho peoplo sot all” laws at dofiance, Tho reckloss uso of fire-arms and’ powder in Lhig country hag become 80 alavming that stringent lnwy havo Intoly beon” made’ Lo rostrict’it. But yot tho evil continues, * Wuilo tho law touches us but horoand Lhere, and- now and,thon, man- nors aro what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, - oxslt or debase, barbirize or rofing, by s con- stant, steady, uniform, insensiblo operation, like -thut of the air wo breatho, They give their whole color to our lives.” Horo, thon, 18 & work tobo dono in overy fami- 1Iy. DParonts must lay at home, in the family, tho f,ro\md-work of good broeding, in-the infaucy of hele children, And teachers inust make it a vi- tal part of all tholr instruction to imbus tho windg of their pupila with tho eivilitios and ocourtosios of evory-day life. It is only by the uso of such meana that wo can socure dhediance’ tolaw and governmont, and the safely oflifo" and proporty. A SousonipeR. Onioado, July 1, 1873, 2 BATHING-HOUSES. Tn the Editor of The Chicagjo Tribune: Brz: In your your igsuo of to-day I obsorved an erticlo headed * Freo Bathing-1louses,” atat- “Inig that thore was but ono * bathing-house ” on tho Bouth Bido, that being on the Lako Shore, botweon I'wonty-second and Twenty-third atroots, sud was built by Mr, Bhaw, If lym\ will bo kind ouough to find that “bathing-houso,” yon will do moro than any othor resldeut in the city can do, Mr. Bhaw was to build one, but, to my cor- tam knowlodgo, ie built none on tho grounds you mentioned, -Rgaben, Onicauo, July 16, Storm in Winnchngo County, K. From the Rockford (1) Guzelle, July 17, | As Information Frudunfly comos in concernliy tho great storm of Luceday, it is more apparon that tho damngo done in other parts of the county wes groaf, and in many inatances jrrep- arablo, 1t wseems that Rookford had the good fortuno to be */ counted out,” cucaping tho ‘tor- rible shower of mammoth hail-stones that do- vastated the flolds of many farmors and destroy- ed the rapidly-riponing fruits of o scnson's hard and \mrammlufi labor, Tollowing o track some two miles In width, and extonding in & southoeast .dlrcotion, the storm »Wfl)t down through Burrité towards Twolve-bilo Grove, blagting overy- thing in its courso, What the wind loft tho ~ lail domolished, sud the lightning flufshed the work of tho two, Iu fod him very ineufficiently, | to tho city that Capt., J, D. Condit built an addi- tou-to his alrondy beautifal Lotol, and now pridos himself upon Liaving ono of the fincst-hotels in thuvflmtn,fllvlng ampla accommodetions for 200 guosts, All the rooms on.the ground floor nra on suite,—a convenjence not ofton ' found, The popular propriotor loaves nothing undono to so- curo tho comfart of his.guests. He gives very Elounnt soirces and ovening dances, which ara ighly onjoyablo . theko caol bu plonsant ovon- .ings.” In'conpection wilh the springs aro two wator-curo_cstablishments, which are offecting some romirkablo cures. - Tho offloncious prop- ortics of tho wators, combined .with the uso of -the Turkish eloctro-thormal buths, rstoro nine~ toon out of twenty of the most chronio cases.: Among_the most prominent arrivals at the ‘arner Houso, 8parta, aro the following :+ -+ r, and Mrs, O. F, Garrison and _scrvant, diss Ed- r, George K. Budd, tho Missea Budd, pt. R, B, Wado, U, B. A., wife ond child, D. T; Wright ud lady, V. P, Taylor, wife and family, Ms, R. O, Archer, an A Hiuman and wife, . L Garr, 'wito Bt Touts, Cusleft, W. T, Haslett, Pittsburgh, - ' + filiams and wifo, Miss Lutio Williams, Janee- R Brotoalf syt dwaguton Hea: 7. T. Gilber rs. Motealf anid dsuglter, Mrs, J. T, G 8am 3, Gilbert, Milwankee, ’ - T Ity J. ¥, Tox, Chicago, . : 0. A, Hunt and wife, J, M, Sabln, Washington, 1f plossurc-seokers, tourists, or invalids are in'quost of o delightful and healthy placo to h];:md tho eummor, thoy sbould go to Sparts, which holds aut more than- usual inducements, for it would be difficult to find a placo moro poculiarly adapted to- tho consummation of their hopos and wishes. ‘The peopla of tha city aro intollipont to & romarkable dogreo, and tho city is of tho Lighest ordor, combining the high- st moral and rofined characterigtica, The resi- donts of Sparte vio with each othor to rondor the sojourn of visitors pleasant ;and happy, and it is no wonder that modern Sparts is becoming a8 ronowned as its ancient namesako, g ' COBMOPOLITAN, e Bad Outlook for Xown Kailronds, "From the Dubuque ed, It is evident that some of the railroads in the Btate of Towa are not tho'monopolies which they aro genorally tormed, or olse monopolies may ba of & vory unprofitable kind, A short tuno since wa had an account of tho sale of the Dos Moinos ‘Valloy Railrond, becauso of the failure of tho com- pany to poy intorcst on its bonds. The capital stock of tho road has: lm"f beon valueless, and all thecompanycould possibly do was to pay the run- nivg exponsos. It was undoubtedly doing what avor busiuess is performed for. tlio public at logd thau cost, becnuse, whilo it Lias dono noth- ing toward liquidating tho intorost account up- on its bonds, and ha given its stockholders not tho value of & cont, it has slso been allowing its rond-bed to dotoriorato sadly. Tho settle- ' mont of the country may bring it fo & paying -condition somo time in tho future, but up to thiy timo, and for fioum to come, uo one will ba likely to clugs tho Des Moines Valloy Company o8 being "among thoso monsters of monopolies, getting rick off tho spoils of the people, The Central Railroad of Towa scoms to bo fast roaching tho condition of the Dos Moinas Valloy. Its Dircctoré Lavo just issudd o circular to; the bondholders, declaring that tho earnings of the road for the past year wore loss than tho cost of oporating, #nd that thorefore, -nithough they woro compellod {o pasatlio A ril payment of in- terost upon the -sccond-mortgnge bonds, | thoy Aronow ngfixln compelled to pass tho July. fnter- o8t upon the first mortgago. - Tho floating debt is also moro-than $950,000, of which moro than onc-half, or $624,000, {s for money advanced to ny. previous intercst. Thoy aleo doclare thak l:ho rond cannot be properly workoed without a 0 increaso of equipment ; and thirty-threo miles of it is practically usoloss without the con- struction of thirty-one miles of now line, and means to provide this must be provided. ‘I'he Dubuque Southweatorn Itailrond is onl bonded for about §10,000 per mile, aud although it has boen thus far enabled to payinterost upon itn bonds, it Lns not_for yeurs, it -ovor, paid & .cont in tho .way of dividond upon its' capital stock,. A surplug which it hadon hand last enr onablod it to pay tho last Mefallment of interost dio on ita bouds, but it is cxceedingly doubtful if it will bo enablod to'meet the next “coupona du, and thus far, this yoar, it has been uneblo to pay its taxes in some of t{m countios. According to tho best imnformation wo can get, the 0., 0. & D. and the C., D, & D1, present no roater indications ot rofit. The rivor compe- Itlon koops their schedules down to low ‘ratos, ond thelr receipts, in comparison with their onrnings, give no evidenco of o balanco on the vight side. If thoy corn’suficlont to pay rane ning oxpensocs, and intercst upon their Londs, for o few yoars to como, wo n&:puhund that the Dircotory will bo well natisfled. - eer Tven tho Illinols Cantral roported tho expense of its Iowa Division 840,000 moro last year than ita recgipts, and tho grosa earnings of its West- orn Divislon are glvon at oul{lsl.&‘]’l.lfl por wilo, —hardly onongh to pay running oxpensos, to say nothing of rental aud repairs, Tho i)nvonpon & 8t. Paul Railroad reporta grous carnings of only 953771, por mile, und, with its incroased Jongth, 'will not for some time onrn enough to pay ita taxes and the coupons on ita bonds, Hven tho Bioux Clty & Paciflo, with its Gov- ernmont snbsidy in bonds and lands, ba not, wo undoratand, paid adollar of dividend to ity stockholderss. Tho Burlington & Southwostern, the Ohicaga & Bouthwestern, the Iowa Midland, the Sabuls, Ackley & Dakota, and the Sloux City & 8t. Paul, are nl{ in o condition othor thau profitable to tholr etockholdors. Not one of them baa paid a cont of dividoud-upon their atook. ————— Fifty Childron, By A father of fifty children is vouched for by one .of the most trusfworthy and rospoctod eltizons of Wago, dex., in & lotter to tho Advance of that placo, which saya that by his first “wifo ha hiad thirtoon childron, by his sccond elsgx(uun. by his third ton, by fis fourth six, sud 7, i £1th and surviviog wifo hroo, ,and that thirtys fivo of hia I“xmnn]:ua‘ o] ;my n;olatll! -uvo‘l olght having been loat jn the rebel army an uo%ou hnvubd.led a natural death,