Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1876, Page 1

e, AR e \ Mhe Presidential Campaign will b VOLUME XXX. CIICOAGO TRIBUNE. CAMPAIGN: (hicago Tribune HURRAH FOR HAYES AND WHEELER AND THE OLD UNION PARTY ! The Natlopal Republican party hiay placed its ‘Amerlcan people. dcliet and platform. beforo tha Americar pocrle, ¢ occurred In conteat will cguntry efor ¢ OTHE exciting and Important that has cve the Unftod States, The result of the dolermine the futuro good or ill of tho o fon to come. g l'}kr:l:;;:mocrnl:«c:\nredcmle nllfance In m'e same in ctinraetor and spirit ns wher the Om.!‘;'fiq; l'n.: rolved that the War for the Unlon wae & 1;‘ “?;.a cnd the other wing tried deperately to mn‘ o it fallure, They are now a hathor of refige lor e tloun] animositics and pro-slavery ur;l mm;l‘ : Bince coming into control of tha popular mulm of Congrons tliey havo oxhibitedl no statcamanship, no wisom or patrlotinm,—nothing but ohstructive policies and destructivo purpoacs, showing them- cives Incapablo of progress or even of cmxmrt‘:- bending the wanta of the country. Thoy n'n.y +tipeddle and muddie.” With anl their promises and pretensiona they have proven utter fatlures In dealing with quuu‘r‘m‘a of Taxatlon, Tarlll, Rove- Curecncy, of Reform. . e o Govornment agaln passes Into the hands of thie Democratio-Confederates, and they sccare pos- scrston of the purssand the aword, the Armyand the Navy, the Excentive outhority and the law-makiog powor, they will anbstitute reaction for progresa and re-catablish & relgn of terror and naystem of peonage in the South, and ballot-box stufling and corruption o the citles of the North, Prudence admonishea that **thio destinics of the country in peace should be confided to those who saved it in " w‘;‘l‘ the nggendency of the Republican party e to bo inaintained, no agency will bmore “acful and polential 1o that end than Tuk CitioAc TRIRUNE, which hos no suporlor in power and fnflusnce g Republican newspapers, u“x"’l“:mxrn Campalgn Club s nceded in every nelghbarhood in the West to supply the people with rellable facts and correct politieal Information. ‘Ttz THmUNE proposes o keep Lho enewny on the dotensive, and to maka it a ot campalgn for them antil a glorlous trlumph fs achieved noxt November, CAMPAIGN TERMS. 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LEGAL. 0K OF TN COXIMTROLLER OF CURNENDY, OrTIoR O vaton, D €.y May 24, 1074, ' hefel ’flvunwlll,lcrumlwiom.(hnn claiins akalnsi this **City National Haok of Clica: ., that the satio must bo presonted to Nathan i, words, liceolvcr, with the legal proot thereur, wiuh: kL il dlsale o eia b 'Jn"fixniflv KNOX, owed., (Signed) o OAMEAIGN BADGY NEXT PRESYIDEN PORTRAIT §1F HAYLEN AND W1 Exceuted in tha fucst mann ENT ED. ceutd for snplo and elfcular, Blzo 10524 aud Aduress STROBLTNGE & CO., Lithograpberty 140 [tace-st, Clucinuatl, 0. i, The Appalling Tale of Indi= an Butchery Officially Confirmed. A Feeling of the Llost Bite- ter Resentment Awak- ened in the Country. General Demand that the De- mons Be Pieganized into Harmlessness, Some Ilistory of tho Princi- pal Wikd Beast Called Sitting Bull. The Multiplicity of Instances in Which He Has Courted * Extermination. A Sketch of the Life and Military Career of the Gallant Custer, An Outline of Gen. Sheridan's Plans for the Campaign. OFFICIAL. THE HORRIOLE STORY CONFIRMED AT NEAD- QUARTES. The following dispatches sent by Gen. R. E. Drum, Acting Adjutant General, to Gen. P. IT, 8heridan, at Philndelphia, contain all the official information reecived hero yesterday s THE ADIJUTANT-GENERAL TO SHERIDAN. Citicago, Juty 6, 1870, —Gen. I'. M, Sheridan, U. 8. A.. Conlinental MHotel, Phlladelphia, Pa,: The following has just been recelved from Col. Ruggles OxAuA, July 8.—~Yonr dispatch recelved. Col. Smith, Gen, Terry's Ald, Is at Bismarck, and has telegraphed mue froin there to-day s foflowa: ***Gen. Terry denlres yon to telegraph Gens. Sturges and Crittenden of the death of thelr sons in the battle of June 25, Have you reccived a dis- pateh, via Fort Ellia, reporting the action? I am ot Bismarck (o correspond with Divislon Tead- quariers,* **Not tinving reccived the dispatch reporting the actlon, 1so telegraphed Col, Smith, and asked fer particntars. He roplicd an follows: **+On the 24th of June Custer, with his wholo regiment, attacked the Indian village on Littla Big Horn, and was ropulsed with n loes of fitteen oficers and over 300 men, Gen. Coster, Cals. Custer, Keogh, Yatos, and Cook, Lieuts. Smith, MclIntosh, Calhoun, lodgeon, Reilly, Porter, Sturges, and Crittenden were killed; Lioat, Har- rington and Asslstant Surgcon Lord are missing, All the ofher oflicers with the expedition are well. Two hundred and sixty-one dend huve been burled, and fifty-two wounded brought away. The come mand Is at the mouth of the Blg lHom, walting to refit,' " 1L E. Dnux, A. A, G. TRANSPORTATION, Cnicaao, July 6, 1870.—Gen, P, II. Sherldan, 1. 8. A, Continental Iatel, Philadelphia, Pa.: Col, 8mith, of Gen, Terry's stafl, telegraphs as follows from Bismarck: **Qen, Torry thinks that the oxponze of emplay- Ing stenmers to bring supplics to his command in tho field hins thus far been kept within the amount allotfed for that purpose. 1fe rnbmits for the con- slderation of the Licutenant-Genernl that the re- tentlon of onc of the steamers i the Yollowstons 1s cseential to any farther operations,” , 1. E, Dnux, A. A, G, RETROSPECTIVE. n A MISTORY OF THE TROUBLES, Bpecial Dirpatch ko The Tribune, Wasminaton; D. C., July 7.—The reported massacre of Gen. Custer and a large, portion of his command has caused a great denal of exclte- ment in Washington to-lay, and much anxiety on the part of those who had friends connected with the expedition. The news recelved st the ‘War Department, while contlrming the pressre- ports, adda nothing of importance to thelr de- tails,but arrangements have been made which, it 15 helleved, will cause thointerception of the ofll- clal roports of tho bLattle, which would ordinarily he forwarded by mafl, nand sccure the substance of them by telegraph within o day or two. In the meantime, uficlent Is known of the chiaracter of the coun- tryfthe temper of the Indiaus, and THY OMILCTS OF TIE EXTEDITION ngainst them from which to form some idea of the extent aud cause of the disnster. For many years a number of hostile Sloux have been roaming through the northern portlon of Da- kota under the lendership of 8itting Bull, Crazy orse, and a few other Chicfs, ‘I'wo years ago, thelr number was estimated at 7,000, but subsc. quently about 4,000 of these Indiana wont into tho Agencles at 8tanding Rock, Spotted Tall, and Cheyonne Ryver, reducing the number who might properly be called hostlle to about 3,000, ‘The War Department estimates Sitting Bull's band at about 8,500 Indians, The number of warrlors in theso bands could not originally have excceded between 400 and 500. All at- tempts to Induco these Imdfans to go upon reservations have thus far fulled, and st fall Gen. Crook visited Washington for the pitrpose of consulting the Administration in. regard to its future treatment of them. With the Sccre- tary of War and Gen. Cowen, Acting Becretary of thie Interlor, Gen. Crook visited the Iresi- .dent and proposed that an cxpedition bo sent against these Indiuns during the winter, when they would bo less propared than at any other time to reaist it. Tlls tecommendatton was favorably constdered, and A MUSSAGE WAS SENT 7O BITTING DULL and the Chlefs who wore aporating with him, ordering them to report at tho rescrvations be- fore thu st of January, 1876, the altcinative betng that If they did not tho United States would make war againat thown. This step was coneldered neecssary not only on account of the numerous murders of white people coni- mitted by these Indlans, but because they were making constant attacks on the Bannock and other friendly Indlans whosoreser- vatlons were In thelr vicinity, and were Inclting other Bloux to hostility, Tho uncasiness of tho Red Cloud and the Spotted Tail Indans on ac- count of the Invasion of the Black Lills, and the scarcity of supplles furnished them, also made 1t very dungerous to allow theso hostlle bands to remain any longer boyond the control of the United States authoritics. They might at any time be led to joln in a general war which it would require tho entire avalluble military powerof the United Btates to quell,and in which there might bo A GREAT BACHIFION OP LIVB AND PROPERTY, ‘The hostilo Bloux paid no attention whatever to tho orders directing thom to report at the reservation, and preparations were mado in the meantimo to scnd an expedition sgainst them. ‘Thoe first engagement occurred in January, but reaulted in no advautago to either side. A letter dated Fort Berthold, Dakota Territo- ry, Jun. 16, 1570, reports that ut that tine there were about 500 lodges of the hostile 8loux. On tho 23d of last mouth Gen. Bheridan forwarded to the War Departmont Gen. Crook’s tele- grophic scport of auother . engsgemcnt, \ the report belng dated June 19, The particulars of this fight have already been published, and ts result was to give great encouragement to the hostile Indlans aod to Incite them to greater desperation. Some doubt was at first expressed In regardto the truth of the report ahout (fen. Custer’s de- feat, ns it wns supposed to be impossible for 4,000 Indlans to huve heen at the polnt whore the battle fs sald to have taken place, unless they were REINFORCED BY LANGE BANDS from the Red Cloud and Spatted Tail Agencles. The latest report from these Azencies represent that the Indians there arc still friendly, and most positively deny that any number of them have recently left the reservation. Earlier in the spring a few of the niore discontented, whom Red Cloud and Spotted Tall were unable to con- trol, d1d foin Sltting Bull, and about 600 of the Northern Choyennes aro rald to have accom- panfed them. Gen. Van Dever, who hus been sent by the Commissioner of Indlan Affairs to Red Cloud and Spotted Tall to report on the condition of affairs there, writes on the 28th and 20th of June toat, although tho supplics were almost gone, THE INDIANS STILL REMAINED PRIENDLY, and that none of them have recently left thores: eryatfon. At a great sun-dance, which éceurred only a short time ago, nearly the whole of Red Cloud’s and 8potted Tail's bands were present, and a conference of the Chicfs was held to con- sider the relations of tho tribes with the United Btates. Gen. Van Dever says that the Indians recognized the fact that It would be necessary for them to concedo something if they expected to continue to receive supplics from the United States, and that a general ueslie was oxpressed that the President shoull send s Commissloner to treat with them In regard to relinquishing the Black 11ills. A telegram received from Gen. Van Dever to-day reports that NO CHIANGE TIAB TAKEN PLACE within the past few days, and urges very carnestly that a Commizslon be eent at once. A il authorizing the appointmont of such a Com- misslon wns pnssed by the Senate some thne ago, but the Iouse has taken no actlon upon it. Although the number of Indians engaged ‘in battle with Gen. Custer's troups is probably ex- sggerated, the reports, ns published this morn- ing, are generally necepted as trae in thelr most essentinl partieplars. Bevernl gentlemen ,in Washington who are personally acqualnted with ~ tho scont Taylor who brought the roport of the battle to. Bose mah, Mont., vouch for him as a cool-headed, trustworthy man, whose reports aro not likely to be oxsggerated. Boseman is the nearest polut o the sceno of the battle which hns telegraphie communleation with the rest of the country, and fa itself about 180 or 200 miles from the mouth of the Little Horn River. The country where Gen.Custer's disaster 18 reporied to have occurred is VERY PAVORADLE POR A SUCCESSPUL AMDUS- CADE. It consists of foot-hills, or, as they aro called " In the West, hog-acks. They are o formed DLy the upbeaval of tho strata of the rocks that the planc of their surfuce forms an angle of from 100 to 140 degrees with the natural surface of the earth, ‘These follow each other Jn parallel lines, rising from 75 t0 200 fect, and arc 80 to 100 yards apart. Tho ravines between them have of course very steep sldes, up which It 18 almost impossible to go with o horse, and a body of soldiers, or a wagon train that onco enters one of them has no way of eseape except by follow- ing it to the mountains or the plalus, or In turn- Ingg back and rotracing its steps. FORMEIL MASSACRES. On moro than one foriner ocension the In- dians have decelved troops into one of theso ravines, and surprised them by an ambuscade. In 1838 or 1800 Gen. Carrington, who was In command at old Fort Phil Kearney, ordered out hia troops in purauit of Incians, who were mak- fng & demonstration. The soldiers followed thent into a mvine, betwoen two hog backs, when thoy were attacked by other Indians concealed smong the rocks on the sides and top of the hill, and were all mussacred. Ureat surprise hus heen expressed In Washing- ton to-lay by those who kuew Gen. Custer at all, that he should have been caught in any In- dian trap, Hehas had great experienco as an Indiun fighter, and was well acquainted with all thelr tricks und modes of worfare. He was an officer of great bravery and daving. 11, then, he was caught fn an ambuscade, na the report seems to indlcate, it was becauso his enthusiasm got the better of his fudgnent. AN INTERVIEW, Delegate McGlnnls, of Montana, who,from his Jong residence In the viclaity of the great Sloux rescrvatfon, and his careful study of tho Indian question in that part of the West, probably understands the subject better than any other Member of Con- grees, and as well as any one in Washington, gove the followlng informetion In an futerview to-day: Correspondent—Is this news true about Cus- ter's disaster? McGinuis—I fear it Is. Muggins Taylor, tha scout who Is reported’ to have Lrought in the news, {8 generally considered to bo a very trust- worthy man, If{t{s true that he camo from Glbbon's command, [ have no doubt that dis- patches will soon be forwarded from Boseman or Blsmarck, the nearcst telegraphic polnta to the point of operations, Tho Little Hom River cmpties (uto the Big Horn a short dls- tanca above the point whery the lattor emptics {nto the Yellowstone,—the point where Uen. Sher{dgn has been desiring to eatablish a post. The seeno of the coutifet is on the Crow Reser- vatlon, which {s habitually invested by the hos- tile Bioux. The Crows aro the friends and al- Hes of the whites. ‘T'ho wouth of thoe Big Horn {8 tho point at which Gen. Sherldan bus been Alealoous of- establishing » garrison or dopod 4 l CHICAGO, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1876. T0O0 TRUE. |, D 5 : \‘?—',,w.’,""v Fyl > W SLE °\"‘\ ¥ os the proper base of operations against these Northern 8foux. 'There {8 not “the least doubt that such is the proper base of military operations. Converging columns, like those of Crook, Glbbon, and Terry, moving from such distant polnts and through such a difficult. country, cannot make prompt connections, nor even be properly advlsed of cach other's move- ments, So that the Ind , -roving stronger than was anticipated, on nccount of the rein- forcements of young warrlors from the Agencles, attack these several columns In actall. They recently erippled Crook, who was advancing from the south, and now have defeated Terry's cavalry hefore they could gain the co-operation and asslstance of Gihbon. Custer, it is supposey}, was ACOUTING FOR TERRY'S COLUMY, and which was moving up the Yellowstone to ioin Gibbon. Ile eame upon the encmy aud probably greatly under-rated their forces. We know his gallantry, and most Hkely he was smarting under recent eriticlsms, and more than ever determined to make a griorfous record, ‘What Ia the eause of this war! The eattze of this war, or rather of these expeditions, for this war with these Indians has been going on for fiftcen or more years, may he summed up in the words, ‘* 8itting Bull and the outlaw Sloux.! Wehave never had peace or even treaty rela- tiona with these bands. After the Spirit Lake snassacre in Iowa and the great Sloux massacre fs Minnesota, all the more turbulent spirits banded together. After Gen. Bibley's expo- dition in 1863, they crosscd the Missourd, and endeavored to voncentrate for another invalson of Minnesota, but the next year SULLY FOLLOWED TIEM ACROSS TTIF: MISSOURI, emtnfter several running Aghts they retrented across the Bad Lands {nto the Big Ilorn coun- try, and he followed to the Yellowstone and cs- tabllshed Fort Buford. Upon this post, and on the steamboats, und immigrants to Montann, they kept up unceasing war, often Keeping the garrison at Buford in a etate of stege for weeks at a time, and mundering every straggler who went outside the post. An attempt was made to treat with them in 1868, but, after accepting the presents and sceuring ammunition, Sitting 1 BNOKE UT THE COUNCIL, and the Commissioners escaped to the fort across the river. When Red Cloud and Spotted ‘Tadl tnade peace at Laramle, Sitting Bull stub- bornly refused to eome in. All that year he mude war on the steanbonts sud commerce of the Missourd, ¥ MASSACHEING FEVERAL 8MALL BOAT-LOADS OF NETUNNING MINERS, ond capturing large quantitics of gold dust, which he traded for arma to the Northern nlf- Lreeds, In 1867 he threatened the Gallatin Valley, tn Montana, when the Montana Volun- teers were ralsed to meet him. In 1808 he attwked the settloment of Muscle-Shell and suffered defent, losing thirty-six warriors, The settlers having notiee of Jus coming, ambuscad- cd him in a ravine outside the town. Although the attack was mado by tho Sloux on the village, this battlc was denounced a8 n massacre by o portion of the Eastern press. After this he lost preatige. Durlng 1503 and 1870 bedevoted hime self principally to the slaughtor of the Crows, tho Mandans, the Rees, the Shoshone, and all other tribes friendly to the whites, varying it by an occasional attack on the Missouri River forts, In 1870, Gen. Han- cock, then commanding that Department, thought of organizing an expedition to bring him to terms, but,us there was o prospect of the extenslon of the Northern Pacific Raflway, which would simplify operations, he recommond- ed another attempt to buy a peace with him un. til that road should be pushed into the Big lorn country. On this rccommendation, backed by the assnrances of the Peace Commissloners and the Intorior Departinent, Congross voted half o million dollars to make peaco and subsist him., This was THE PAMOUS TETON-BIO0UX APPROPRIATION, Sitting Bull himself clalming to bo a Teton, though his followers ara outlaws and hard cus. tomers from all the bands of the Sioux Natfon, Conslderable criticism has been mndeon the expenditure of this uppropriation. It rosulted- in bringing to the Fort P'eck Agency a part of his followers, hut he refused to treat himself Next year Gen. Custer went out with the Northern Puadifle surveying party, ond twico dufeated Sitting Bull, and at least repulsed his attacks, Ons of 'his bands invaded the QGallattn Valloy in 1872, and carried off 500 head of horses, after murdering anumber of farmers, In 1878 he made s night attack on Col. Baker, but was repulsed and pursucd. In1374 he drove the Crows from their reservation agency, and MADE WAR ON ALL PEACEADLE INDIANS, The Pence Commission, finding him futractadlo, now began to demand that the army should tako the offensive and subduo Jilm, and this- request has frequently beon repeated by tho Peace Comimission, and the Indian Department, until tho War Departiuent has actod on {6, Last year some of his followers went down to meet the Commission in Conferenco with the Red Cloud Sfoux, aud cams near precipltating o massacre of tho Corimission. Sitting Bull himself refused to go in, and spent the summer in attackson tho Crow Agency, and on tho frontler scttlers. Iu captured u Government wagon-traln on the Carroll Road, murdered a nwmnber of recsuits going to the Montany posts, and captured the stock of tho Carroll Btago Company, Buch bave been his exploits up to tho bloody history of the present year, Ilodefics the Gov- ernment and hopea that he can get the Sloux nation to joln hit. If they will only do this ke protaises to DRIVA TR WIITES BAOK INTO TIIB SHA, out of which they came, and utterly disbeluoves tho roports of Red Cloud and others who bave visited tho coust as to tho numbers of the whites thoy saw, Lo 6ays thelr eyes .wero daz | Tribune, SCamyp Sheridan Camp Hobloron, o 20! < G o - Zoy, t ? S0y River «GREATAILLY fl"’h,‘ il m :d PRICE FIVE CENI'S, SCENE OF THE SLAUGHTER OF CUSTER'S COMMAND, TrLEpom’ Camppett Y fis}}]d otth 0, ; 4 5 9 33 b 2 » NS0y CIT{ e zled by bad medicine, *magie! How many followers has he ordinarily? Not more than 200 or 800 lodges, but there s no doubt that his numbere arc now swelled by recrults from all the Agoncies. Tho northern Cheyennes are with him, and a large portlon of the Ogullallahs, and probably he has had 2,000 or more WELL-ARMED AND WELL-MOUKTED SYARRIONS In these late fights. There were timea last win- ter when he could not have gathered 800 men, but, the young bucks have alily slippedaway from the Agency, where they wintered, and where the oll people, and women, and children are heing fed by the Government, and they witl remain with him during the summer. This war, then, has no connection with the Black Ilflls troubles;enone whatever, It lias been waged defensively on our part for many yeare hefore the hills were entered by anyhody. The Black Hills troubles may be used for a pretext to Induce the treaty Sloux to joln bim. Of course, he is anxious to confederate all the Eioux tribes and bands IN A OCNERAL WAL Ho has been trying to do this for years, and hias made repeated advances to the Crows and Black Feet. Thislsonereasonwhy the Peace Com- missfoners urged that he must be subdued, lest he should demoralize all the treaty Indlans, and bring on a general war, Of course the Govern- ment has no alternative except to bring him to terms. Any othier courso would he a cowardly and wicked surrender of our fronticr. Settlers, and our fricndly Indian allies would be subject to a harbarous and determined enemy. SHERMAN AND SIIERIDAN. THEIR VIEWS, PriLApELPIIA, Pa., July G.—Regarding the reported killing of Gen. Custer and the mnssa- erc of his forces, nelther Gen. Sherman nor Gen Sheridan, both of whom are now {n the city, bas recclved any confirmatory informatlon. Gen. Sherman stmply says 1 don't belleve it, and I don’t want to belleve it, if T can help it.” Gen. Sheridan says that he would like very much to disbelieve it, tut hls fears that it is true are stronger than his hopes that it Is not. He sald that the Jast heard from the expedition was from Gen. Terry, about the 20th or 21st of June. Terry was then north of Rosebud, and wag'leading n eampnign agalnst the savages, fre- fquent efgns of whoso near prescuce were dis- covered, Tt was his Intentlon to have Custer lead nn expediifon of about 800 men up the strean, and effeet o Junetlon with Gibhon's commatid, on the south alde of the Yellowstone, at Its junction with the Blg Tlorn. This s in the sonthern part of Montana Tervitory. It was then Terry's purpose to be him- self ot this junction when Custer's and Gibbon's forees arrived. If Gibbon reached the junction of the Big Horn and Yellowstone first, lie was to march up the form- cr and mect Custer, who was directed to march down. Gen. Sherldan says: ¥ From what has been reported 1infer that Custer met the sav- ages on his way toward tha junction, and made a daring effort—Nhe waa always brave and daring —to cut bls way through the enemy who filled the streteh of country separating the two forces. I do not like to belleve that the news is aa ter- rible s it {8 reported, and yet there {s no reason why the dispatehes should not cowme direct from Elis, the nearest post to tho scene. The 1ines, I understand, were reccutly placed fu good working order.” 8T. LOUIS. A DLOODY REMINISCRNCE, Special Dispatch $o The Trivune, 8t L.avig, Mo, July 6,—The reported mas- sacre by Indiansnear the Little Bl Horn River of Gen. Custer with seventeen commise sloncd ofiteers and 815 men creates nn appalling scnsatfon. Sluee the massacre M 1860°'0f Lient.« Col. Fetterman and seventg-five soldiers under his command at Fort I'hil Kearney, there lus been no such disastrous defeat from the Sloux, Licut.-Col. Fetterman went out {n command of o war party, and, belng surprised by the savages, not a man was left to tell the talo, MAJ, ORINES, Tho report of the Custer massacre, which at first was recelved with somo degree of Ineredul- Ity, Is confinned by reports sinco recelved at Gen. Bhierldan's headquarters. Maj. Grimes, of tho Quartermaster's Department, also belleves in the truth of tho report. 1lo was acqualnted with Muggins Tuylor, who first came in with the news. Tuylor was a gambler, but a man of truth and veracity, Maj, Grimes Is well ac- qualnted with the country where the fizht took place. He was detatled by the Government, in 1508, to remove all the forts on the Powder River route, In accordance with the provisions of the Fort Laramle treaty of 1568, COL. 3, 8. TILPORD, the senlor Major of the Seventh United States Cavalry, Is now in this city on leave of absence, Muj. Tilford was in command ot Fort Rice, and Is famillar with tho situation.” Winter belore last the Indians ot Standing Rock, some 20 miles below, bud consumed thelr rations, and, after eating up all thelr poniesand dogs, they catne round tho Fort begulng for subsistence to savy themsclves from starving, It was mid- winter, they hud been robbed by the agents, and’ fromtheirdeplorablocondition could casily hayo been wiped vut. The very Indians who begged for supplics would atart out on their mlds, Io 1s of opinfon that the Indians who fought Cus~ ter aro Crazy 1lorse’s band and Bltting Bull's band, and that they are in command of all the malcontenta and young mon ambitlous to dis tluguleh themsolves on thu war-path. Tho Major speaks fu high terms of Custer, A S0N OF OEN. STURGES, of this city, was vuo of the {ll-fated band. WIHAT A FHACS COMMISSIONER 84S, In u lengthy futerview with ex-Gav, Fleteher, who was a ember of the Peuco Couynission of 1875, that geutleman states that tho present degpezute statn of affulrs has withaus the ahad. ow of a donbt, heen brought about by the prea- cnt peace policy of the Government. TIIE FEELING. AT BALT L. BaLt Laxe, U, T., July 0. excited over the Custer massacre. Several par- Lies have made offers to the Secretary of War to rafse n regiment of frontlersinen tn ten days for Indian service. AT SPRINGPIELD, TLL. Spectal Dispateh to The Iribune. 8raisaorienn, Nk, July 6. —The Sherman Guands, one of our hame milltia companies, and almost wholly cotnpozed of veterans of the lats War, to-day telegepbed to the War Depart- ment, at Washington, tendering thelr scrvives, if needed, agninet the Indfans, and announco thelr readiness to serve in an Indfan campaign, to avenze Custer, upon twenty-four hours’ no- tlce. AT VIRGINIA CITT. 8AN Fraxcisco, July 6.—A dispatch from Vire glnin City raports great excitement ‘at the news of Custer's death. A meeting was enlled to or- ganize o cotvany of volunteers. AT GUSTER'S 1OWE. ToLrpo, July 6.—A special to the Blade from Maonroe, Mich., the home of Gen. Custer, Aays: “Tho etartling news of the messacre of the General and Wis party by Indiana created the most intense feeling of sorrow among all clnsses. Gen. Custer passed several years of his youth at school in Monroe, and his parents have restded there many years. I1ts wife Is the daughter of the Hon. Danlel I.. Bacon, a prominent citizen of that place, and iy now at the post recently commanided by (ien, Custer, Fort Abrahum Lincoln. The town i3 draped fn mourning, and a meeting of the Com- man Council and eltizens was held this evening to take measures for an sppropriate tribute to the gallant dead. ASHINGTON, AT Wasnisarox, . C., July 6.—(en. Cnster's old comrades fn this eity will hold » meeting Saturday evening for fhe panuse of faking sote artion expreesive of the esteemn for him as u citizen and eoldier, and adopting suitable vesolutlons reganding bis death, THE CAMPAIGN. DETAILS OF OLN. SHERIDAN'S PLANS, ‘Tho present campalgn ngainst the Slonx waa Inangurated early inst spring, for the purpase of Tunting up, pusiehing, and drising back to thelr reservations Sitting Bull's and other hands of Stonx who had quitted the reservations moro than a year slnce, and were ranglng over the reglon between the headwaters of the Platte and tha Yellowstone Rivers. Pursuant to orders from Gen. Sherklan, early in April last Gen. Terry maved from Fort Abraham Lincaln, on the Missourt River, to t2e mouth of Powder River, where he was to cstzlish hisbase of sup- plies. Custer and hls wghment, the Boventh Cavalry, formed part of TERRY'S COMMAND, which all told numbered aliont 1,400 or 1,5 men. From thence Terry's march (a8 indfeated on Trie TRIDUNE'A map) was upthe valley of the Pawder River to the forks of the Little Powder; thence across country to the Tonguo River, and down the valley of that stream to the junctlon with the Yellowstone; thence to the Rosebud River, and througn its valley, and thence to the Littlo Horn, WIIRRE THE DISASTER OCCURNED in which Custer and five companies of his regl- ment were lost. The lne of march, ns will bo scen by referenco to our map, was projectel for the purpase of driving the Indlons ont of the valleys of tho tributaries of the Yellowstone, Gen, Bhicridan's orders being that they should be nttacked wherever found. Almost simultancously, GLN. CHOOK'S COMMAND, conelsting of fifteen companiesof the Seeond and ‘Third Reghments of cavalry, and nino companies of infantry, about 1,500 men In all, moved from Fort Fetterman to nenr Fort Kearnoy, on the head-waters of the Tongue River, where, when Iaat heard from, he was encampod. At the samoe timo GEN. GINDON, WITIL TIS COMMAKD, conaisting of four companles of the Sccond, and the Fifth Cavalry, begnu his march from Fort Ellfs, to move down the Yellowstono ta effect o Junction with Perry at the mouth of the Little Powder Rivor. (ibbon's column, advancing from the Weat, had arrived within a day's march of Custer at tho time of the fight on the Little Ilorn, und camo up the next day, and it was through a courfer dispatched by Qlbban to Heleun, Montana, that the first Iutellfzence of the battle, which oceurred on the 25th ult., roached us yesterday, Meanwhllo also GEN, MERRITT, with ecight companies of the Fifth Caralry, marched from Fort Laramle, northward, on the old Powder River trall, where, when last heard frum, ho was encamped on Buge Creek, belng as- signed that position to intercept and cut off retreating parties of the savages who might attempt to work thelr way back to the agencies on the Nlobrara River, ther.to be futtened and provided with armns and ammunition for other murderous cxcursfons, 1 ‘Thus It will bo scen that the troops were rap- aly concentrating upon’ the savages from all directions. Tho movement, 100, nathe sequel shiows, wos successful, yesulting in the hemming in of about 2,000 lodgzes, or from 8,000 to 8,000 \Ivlurlors, as s variously estjmated, ou the Littlo o, FROM KECEYT ADVICES, it wonld scem that the whercabouts bf this body of Todlans was unkown untll thoy were dlscov- ercd on tho 25th and attacked by Custer, It also appears from the followlng dispatch ro- celved from Gen. Torry on the 2ist’ ult., four days before the fight, that Custer spust bave been on a scouting cxpedition with five compa ules of his regiment when he came upon TUM INDIAN KNOAMPMENT | on the Little Morn: C. s Nourn Roaxaun, June 81 o 20 Ly W RINRT AR TR