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lect OF T 1 ey BeECE the reported LKAy force will b sent o compe thers "‘dgé'mu ‘order of the Matan ofice. T w0 S ay of Febrzury Uie Secretasy of the of fusther notiied the Seeretury of War: {9;{;‘,‘,;,,‘“ en him_ Bully 10 Wi 10 o an erency having Cxpired, and advices 91 tise Indian ofico buit 15 (ho offeet that g‘n‘;{fg’hn 'l refnser £o camply with the direor Sieat e Comwissioners, 1 aid Indians ure % turned over to the War Department for thiction on the part of the army as you may Ecm yper under the cizcamatances. " During all the staged of thi correspondenco the ammeral of the Army end hissubordinate camusand- 4 were duly notified, ayd were makwg prepara- Wt WE riking & blow at these hostile syv- —an euiezprie of un aluiost unsurizountable r in 3 country where, inthewinter, the B 10 often falle to 40 dégrecs qelow Sorg, e here it 1 impussiblo 10 pracure food for < B arhast. Auespedition wanGtted ont underthe e oual comtuand of 11rig. -Gen. George Crook, an ot sreat merit unl cxpericnce, which In -p Jast marched from Forts Fetterman and Lar- Yartha o Tow and YeNowstone Val- leye, etruck and destroved the Village of Crazy K ouc of thie Lostile bands referred to by b v nepector Watkins, bt the weatherwas found yobiter cold and other difficultios sq great: arase wat Gen. Crook returned 1o Fort Luramic in a Hsare unsuccessful, £o far ae the matn purpos s concerned. 3 These Indiaue oceupy parts of the department of Platte comumanded by Brig. -Gen. Verry znd Crook respecti 0 I immedi- Sty commanded by Licut.-Gen. Sheridan, who 335 given the matter bid special attention, ANOTUER LXPEDITION, = Preparations were then wmade on alarger scale, apd columne were put in motion as exrly in May ay eule from Furt Abe Lincoln, on the fiscouri Iver, under Gen. Terry; fom Fort Ellie, in Montana, under Gen. Gibbun, aud from Fort Fettermun, yuder These columns were us stropg as oo G maintained fh that inhosyitable region; of us conll be spared from othier pressing necessitiea, ‘thesc operations uro mot yet concluded, nor i3 o ica report doemed necessary o bxplain the subject-matter of thiy inquiry, The present military operutions are not agdinst the Sioux Nation gt all, but wpuingt cortain Yostile parts of it, which defy the Government and bl e e gt the epecial requert of th Bu- of the Government charged with their supervision #zd wholl to make the civillzation of the remuin- der possible. No partof these operations are on ‘ot near the Sionx Kesurvattion. THE BLACK HILLS. The sccidental discovery of gold on the western porderof the Sfoux Keservation and intrusion of our people thercon liave nat caused this war, aud have ooly complicated it by the uncertainty of the numbers to be encountered. The young warriorelovo war, and frequently escape’ from their agents ta go on the hunt or war-pulh) their Sy ides of the object of Jife, The obfoct of these Silllery expeditions was in the intorest of pence. The pesceful part of the Sioux nution ie supposed toembruce st least nine-tenths of the whole, and potone of theae peaceful treaty Indians bas been ‘molested by the military authorities. The rocent reports touching the disaster which befel 8 purt of the Seventh regular cavalry, led by Gen. Custer in person, are BELIEVED TO BE TRUE. For some reason us yet unexplaiued Gon, Custer, who commanced the Seventls cavalry, and had been detsched by his commnunder, Gen.” Terry, at the anouth of the Rosebud to make o wide detour up the Koscbud tributary to the Yellowstone, zeroes to the Little Horn and down it to th mouth of the Dig lorn, the place agreed on for meeting, sttacked ¢n ronte u large Indinn village with anly partaf bis force, having hinsulf detached the rest with a view Lo intercepi the ex- pected rewreat of the savages, und _cxpericnced gn utter annihilstion of his innnediate cowmand. The forces of Gen. Terry and Gibbon reychied the field of Lattle the day and rescued fifty-two wonnded men, buried 261 dead men, including Lieut. Col. Geormge A. Custer, Capts. Custer, Jeogh, Yutes, Lieuts, Cook, Smith, Mclntosh, Callioun, Hodgson, Reiily, Porter, Sturgis, all of the Seventh cavalry, and Lient. Crittencen of the Swentieth infantry, Licut. Uarrinston, Aast. -Sur- geon Lord, and Acting Asst.-Surgeon DeWolf, are Inissing. The wounded were earrivd back to the ‘mouth of the Big iforn, in Yellowstone, which is npvigable, and where there were two steambouts, one of which was sent down the river to ¥ort Abe Licoly with the wounded, and to communicate the £ fucts, Gen, Terry is, therefore, at tho mouth of the Big Mom refitting, und will prommuly receive Teinforcements and supplier, and wid resuwe his operations immediately. CROOK'S BATTLE. In the meantime, Gen. Crook has also advanced from Fort Fetterafan, and, on the 7th of June, oight duys Ucfare Geu. Cueter's attack, had en- countered this same force of warriors on the head of the Ioscbud, with whom he fought -severul bours, driving the Indians from ' the field, losing 9men killed. 1 oflicer and 20 men wognded. Crook repurts his cw as on Tongue Kiver, Wyouing. Reinforcements and supplics cre aiso en'foute 1o him, dnd every possibie means bave been sdopted to accomplish concert of aution “treen those two Tored, which are necessyrily separated, and are oniy able to communicate by $mcnse distances around by their rear. The task committed w tho wilitary agtl OXNE OF UNUSUAL DIFFICULTY, hasbeen anticipated. for years, and just be met and accomplished. It can no longer be defayed,and everything will be done by the Dopartinent 1o insare the Muccess Witich s, BECESSATY 1 give evon dveur- ance of comparative safety 1o the important but scattered interests which huve grown nff in remote aud almost inaccessible portions of vur national -2in earnestly recommended that the ap- propriation asked for repeatedly by Gen. Sheridun of $200, 000 be niade. 10 build 1wo posts onthe Yel- lowstone st or near the mouth of the Big Horn and Pongue Rivers. Inciosed herewiti please flnd copies of Qeq. Terry’s report, just received by telegraph since the preparation of ihis letter. ot beationt servant, (Sigued) J. D. Caveroy, Secretary of War, —— IN CONGRESS. TIE CASE IN & NUTSHELL. * Special Diswalch to The Tribune. ‘WasBmNgToN, D. C., July 8—The House to- day unexpectedly entered upop a debate on tae Indian war. The question incidentally arose upon a bill relative to the occupation of thie country-north of the Platte River and oast of the Big Horn Mountains. The bill went over undisposed of, but nished an opportunity of definitely fixing the causes of the present Sioux outbreak, This was made ¢lear in the speech of Gen. Hurl- but, who denounced the peace policy in o speech of great carmestness and force. Tt appears that Sitting Bull, the leader of the hostilo Sioux, has, since 1856, been in canstant aggressive bostility to all the United States, Ho has never signed asy of the treaties which some of his own band Lave recognized, and in every case has resoluiely stood out against any measure tending to recognize the power of the United States Government, and to respect those agendes which are striving to civilize and feed the Indizns. Sitting Bull was THE LRADER OF THE MINNESOTA MASEACRE, has been the author of the wurder of countless fronticrsmen, and mow is the head of 2 large band of Liostile Sioux who are determined that they will not stay upon their rescrvation, or recopnize the power of the United States. A £ood many of the peacemen hiavebeen denounc- ing Custerand the Wur Departmenton account of this attack upon the €ioux. It appears, how- ever, that their eriticiems are without knowl- edge “The Commissioner of Indian Affairs und the Secretary of the Iuterior, after haviny Dansted o1l means to couciliate Sitting after having SPENT NEARLY A MILLION OF DOLLARS in behalf of his band, and after dune notice to Sitting Bull and his band that they mustremain upon their reservation, formally Tequested the War Department. in Agril Jast to force Sitting Bull 10 ubey the mandates of the Indian Bus veau. The army, therefore, at present is simply icting as an armed police fur the Indian Burean the oxercise of the peace policy. There is no nbumanity or anti-pegee policy about it. It is fmply 8 regular, lawful effort of the army; at de fostanice of .the civil authoritivs, to frive the thicvery, murdering, snd re- farkably intelligent and able vaga- ond Sitting Bull to the reservation 'fSlRfleflmhim. That is ‘the cntire_question. ex- ull, he Black Hills question, as_regards Sitting ull and his land. doce not at all enter into this var, because Sitting Bull was not_at all a part, » the Sherman-Auger treaty of 1865, in whic dic treaty Sioux claimed title to the Black dilla. On the contrary, Sitting Bull absolutely jefused o sign that treaty, abandoned the con- Icrem-r3 put himself beyond the pale of the treaty Sioux, has since been living as A PREDATORY, MURDERING VAGABOND. He appears, moreover, to bave lheen joined by 200 of the well-fed Arrapahoe and Sjoux from hm Red Cloud Agenc, o “The debate in the ]{ouse to-day has clegred the subject of many diflienities, and has certain- Ir shown that tho War Department is by no means an unlawful apgressor. Mr. rence, of Ohip, sought to play the evaneelist by criticising” the war {or un{ust ;Violation of -the treaty, but his criticisms, like ‘those of most, of the speakers who defended 8hio Indiaus, originated in ignorance of the sit- Joation. Sammy Cox, top, put on the mantle of’ ‘Empheg', and claimed that he represented a iChristign community, Tammauy Hall and Bots Kelly. 'McGinnis, of Montana, who spoke with full knowledge and great feeling, showed the- orance of Cox, and fastened upop the “latter g politicgl _epithet likely to take the place of shoo-ly. McGinnis, in his peathing denunciation of Cox’s igngrance, char~ ctorized him as THE FROTAY PROPHET OF TAMMANY WALL. Prof. Seelye, the t prominent representa- ve of the peace policy, reclly secmed tu think $hat Sitting Bull had started upon this raid Le- muse of scanty rations, and | | -This js not a fuct. The treaty of 186 it fur- 0 becpuse he hag | 'THE. CHICAGO Jearped of th roposed tr; s anafer of the Ing B War Department, Cari)‘:‘xlfl fn had the same’ views upon the 2 au qaestion. He reminded the House that iy Sflfllx!‘m;‘;m lad :\uhli ed groat reputation 15 10 nathe Cxt - Slave wnd ltetree. T p 71 of i Uu{: h\:guu Hurrison, azd he declared thut the y '.\ll‘l-b:\rbfiuus cu'w:]_'l;gt exist Lalf-sfave and b Dasbarous, awd 31 s ouly eruie Indun f4 TIE WHONG BOLJ, " Tl'{,: Dece men confound the Sitting Bull of *i’l.Lt k orth, the leader of the wild ribe, withi the F ng Bu!l of. the Ogallalag whowasliere in tha ounil lm.sumugur, uid whom the President Dresented with a rifle on”_account of his great iscrvlce to'the whites, The latter Sitting Bull s the oue who arose in the Councll at the Red loud Agency at the time when the lives of the Congressional Commissioucrs seemed in danger, and, drawing the rifie which the Presi- dent guve hiy, said, ¥ There must be uo trouble Liere. ‘These white men must not be hurt, The firet. Tnudian that draws on 2 white man 1 shall KL myself.” This had the efidct to quiet, the Bugry quvages. But the Sitting Bull of the North, sguiust whom the present mili operations are direeted, lmsp I!u\'ég %‘elm participant jy any treaty, and has pever mani- Tosted wnything but the most tersible ferocity tugnrfl éllm whites. en. Sherman oxpressed the hope to-night that the Sioux wil{1 now_scatter, ug?l that the military operations will not be as giflj- cult “as have Dbeen antieipated. The -peace policy men take & eat paint that the Gavernmeut has violated its treaty ob- ligatiou in not su, }:lylug the Sioux, under the treaty of 1803, with more abundant provisions. rOVis that the Govermmeut should feed tlmscplfidm for four years from its date. The four years Hmit expired on the 3d of June, 1573, Since that date, as Delegate Steol showsd tg-day, the United States Government, without an! Tequire- ment of treaty stipulatious, Las given these ves Sioux for food over GBSEW, . Under thi much-quated treaty the Sioux have no claim, anq, for years have hiad no ¢lsim whatever upon the Government for one dollar for food. TUIB DEBAYE, To the Western Assoclated Press, ‘WasniNeTow, D. C: July 8.—The Honse this morning took up the bill reported by the Com- mittee on Tudion Affairs declaring the country north of the North Platte River and cast of the summnit of the Big Horn Mountain, in W oming Territory, open to exploration and sen]emum. wfi{‘r.‘ ‘f o?, ‘ifixqm;efd i ‘kl':;c h}f disl-ufluue hattle e Tudians b taken ice in the coun! affected by the bill, 13 e Mr. Steely, of \VyominF, stated it wasnota fact that military operations were carried on without referonce to the peace poliey. In 1888 tho United States made a treaty with' the Sjoux nation, which was 4 graye mistake, if it was uot. anational dishonor and disgrace. That treaty had been the foundation of all the dificultics in the Sioux country, and the vanso of the death of Custer and his men in that Big Horn country. In 188, Gen, Pope established posts at Fort. Phil. Kearney, Reno, and C. J, Swith, so as to open the roads to Mon- tuna, 4nd to protect the country of the friendly Crows from the hoetile Sioux. “In keepingthese pusts and opening that rond many men, citizons, and soldiers had teen killed. ably among the actions that had taken place was the mas- sucra of Fetterman and his commaund, at Fort, Puil Koaruey,~ninety-six men and officers; and yet, _aftér all theso men had sucrificed their lves, the Govern- ment went to work and made 8 treaty. by which i iguumhflnue?' abandoned that country to these eavages, dismantling its own posts, and leaviug there the hones of the men who bad Iaid down their lives fn the wilderness. Was ¢ to be wondered at, under these drcumstances, that Sitting Buil and his men believed thay were superior 1o the gonerul Governmeut. Anybody who knows anything abaut the Indian nature knows that the legitmate result of that cow- ardly Fom:y of ‘peace at any price was to de- fer only the evil day which has pow come upon us. Sinec that tine the 8lopx have been con’ stantly depredating on the froutiers of Nebraska, Wvoming, and Montans, and more men have fallen there in the peaceful avacatiops of civil life without 8 mur- tuur being heard than fell under the gallant Custer on the 35th of June. The friendly Crows Lave becn raided upan with every full nwoan, so with the Shoshiones, and at.Jast those outrages have become so great sud so long continued that cven the peaceable Indian Department could not stand them lopger, and called on the military arm of the Government to punish those men. It wps in carrying out this policy that Custer ayd hig soidiers have been sucrificed. T was up in that country lust at the time tlie Commissioners were there. attempting to megotiate with the Siour. At that time * Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses,? the hored- itary Chicftain of the Ogallala tribe, and the man who, by birth, is cntitled to reign oyer those people, told me that there was not in that northern country uundor Sittjng Bull and Crazy Iorse wmore than from 100 to 200 lodges, which would not give them over 800 fighting men all told. Yot the report which we now get is there were 1,8 o5, aggregating 8,500 or 4,000 flehting men in the cnmn_:})mcn or village attacked by Custer. Where did these men come from! They came {rom the agencics, where they had been fed and fattened by our Government, and where they had been better armed than the. spldiers are. They vame from those reservations to fight our troops, and, if the present peace policy is contin- ued, they will fio back there as soon gs the snow fulls to feadl themsclves and their ponics for. new operations next spring, Discussion followed, in which many members partivipated, and the bill went over. NOTES. IN MEMORLAY, ‘WasmeTow, D, C., July 8,—A meeting of comrades of the late Gen. Custer was held at the Ntional Hotel thig evening, Maj. H. H. Fin- ley, of the Fifth Michigan csvalry, presidfog, and Gen. E. W. Whitaker, Jate Chief of Custer's staff, Sccretary. A committes was appointed to draft resolutjons o be pregented to an ad~ journed mepting on Sunday. OOL. CODR'S “Lrhn.’x'rfllv #lanm. e Tribure. Movx:raf'x.nsqsr, onfi. July a,'—’-lf;ul. W. W. Cook, killed in the sanguinary conflict between Gen. Ouster und the Indinns, was born and educated in this place. He enlisted during the Amerjean War, anssml through the whole of that confliet, and so distinguished himself that at its close he was offered the position of Cyj tain in the regular army, and 50_op rose to the post of Colanel. His father, Dr. A. H. Copk, still resides here. ORDERED PORWARD. Derrory, July 8,—The Twenty-second Reg- iment United States Infantry, stationed gt Fort Wayne, fn this city, has received orders to join Gen. Terry at Fort Abraham Lincoln. A spécial train is in waizlngrm transport them. Special Dispaich {0 The Tribune. > LEAVENWORTH, Kan., July s.—’nm Fifth In fantry, Gen. N. A Mifes commanding, leaves Fort Leavenworth for the’ Black Hills country Monday. The excitement over the Custer massacre in this city is yet intense. Several old army officors have telegraphed their willing- ness Lo raise volunteer companics to extermin. ecial Dispi ste the Sioux. 3 LITTLE FIGHT. A Cneyexye, July S.~Five men, while out hunting stolen ’st.ock in t]:el"vidni yquf Big Luramie canon, ran into s party of twelve Indisns. The men were not all armed, but fought the Indians spme time, when they were compelled to retreat. One man and one Indian ‘pony, with ite rider, were wounded. e THE SIOUX, QUTLINKS OF THEIR LISTORY, To the Edltar of The Tribune. Cmcago, July -As early as 1658, when the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies had penetrat- ed bardly 100 miles into the interlor, the French who settled on the 8t. Lawrence, in Canada, had pushed their explarations to the western ex- tremity of Lake Superjor. Here they wintered among the Sioux, who then inhabjted the present State of Minnesota snd the present Territory of Dakota. At that tjme they were said to number 40,000, and’ were the terror of surrounding tribes. Their system of morals ‘was of the iron-clad type, the amputation of thy noge heing the penalty for such offenses among their women s our present stpte of civilization gometimes forgives, and does not punish with 2 more severo penalty than social ostracism in persistent cases, Such were THE SIOUX IN THE NEY-DAY QF TAER GLORY,— their virtues and their feracity cropping cut in tangent eccentricities erugde and earnest, ] Father Marquette apd_otliers proached the Gospel to ihem at the Mission of St, Esprit (ucar the present site of La Pointe) as early ua 1665, and consoled himselt for the slender product of his teaclings that lie had instilled info their minds, g Yiteld Christianity.!? Hennepfn was a cap- tive among them in 1630, but when Dujuth visited them the next year he was released, and both returned to Canado together in a-canos which the Sioux presepted them. They never made war_ipen the French, but reeeived them ~with hospitality, and even with kindness, during the 100 years' intercourse With them which terminated’ by the regult of the Frech and Tudian War, when Cangda and flle_\.l'lmh: West as ylelded'up to the English iu 1760. During these years of French rale, ~ mn‘fimqumn, m‘: gxxtsux;n?x‘gak ik ‘wha inhabited it prosent State ol New 3 fl\'l.lg 3!1, t‘!‘lui‘n friendship to the Enplish, and in- " ulsa over those alon, “to vome’ in contact with the -terlor, Lewisand Clarg went: .fl:&urimu traders hod alveady visited 'TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 9, 1876-SIXTEEN PAGES gnse in their hostility to the French, heir conquests uvurul.huo g;.\m}zgiuu ’t.r?fignglel:l‘ a he Obio Rive pe Lalkes; all thesé beliig the allies ulb rtl“x’n;dl?}c?l‘::lt\l: Bub whon they struck the war-pash of tho géu(g;i they recoiled upder the diszumfiture of After the Englich 1ad obtahied forma sesslon of the country, it WAS umu;l_-\f:ulgpfif; fore their sertlements were. suflicicutly extended e lords oththc in- ( anong il 3806, and found their Jodiges seatterodalarthn banks of the” Upper Mississippi, Missourd, St. Peter, und Cheyenne Hivers, ' English and em, and EVER BEEN TREATED WITH CIVILITY. In 1808 the Sioux Nation granted to the United States 9 miles sguare ot the mouth of the Bt. Croix River, and doubl the area at the Falls'of Bt. Anthony, with permission to erect forts tchen:uu, for which $3,000 was paid them by ‘apt. Pike. This was done to give the United Btates an assurance of safety wlien they sent” traders among them for the Jaudable purpose of ‘\:‘?&hw{lfilflllll‘l‘g sommercisl and friendly relations Fort Snelling was erccted just below - thony’s Falls in.1820, whkhj was fvm‘; i‘i %}‘n‘c strongest forts ever built in the Indion country, It was a secure. retreat in case of gu outbreuk, and soon became a nucleus for the settlement of 8t. Paul and 3finneapols. During these latter years the Sucs and Foxes, 1tlinois, Chip- I}e\vl\.&, Towas, and other tribes, had often fult ho wolght of thelr vengeance in times of war; and in flmea of poace ‘deputics from them had made frequoent visits to the various countries bordering on the lalkes for the burpose of .trag- ing, and it was on one of these ocoasions that became acquainted, Witk and mssisd cquainted with and married a comel, girl of that tribe. This tatented lady of Nuturg soon mastered the Frenh Janguage, and made creditable progress iy the pursuit of boolk- learning, incomiuch that she taught school amnong the sprightly halt-breeds of that day in Detroit and Chicago, the latter bying then a trunsient stopping place for ¥rench traders. It is probable that this La Framboise was the {father of the one for whom the Reservation of that name was'made on the Desplaines River, 10 tudles from Chicago. If so, the'blood of these brave lords of Nutare is uow descandauts of this marriage. In 185, e0 great had become their supremacy among the ujtions sdjacent to them, let the Unitod States decmed it _cxpediont Yo confor with them, in the form of o treaty, for the es- special purpose of establishing limits to their hunting-grouuds, : LEWIS AND CLARK acting” in behall of the United States. The samo year a formal treaty of peace was made with them ut Council Biuifs, Ninfan Edwards m::‘lt::hus acting ou the purt of the Unitod Bince this period thelr relations with us have been djose apd constant. The cruses of agores- sion on both sides have multiplid, and” Luve been marked with vengeance on their part. The nawme Sioux has been sugeostive of the flash of the sunlgup%-_knllu, and_yet wu have beld con- stant and intimate relations with them by means of Agents, traders, and missionarics, with whotn whey have genorally been frisndly. A ricultural {;lr:u)luéxxlscms, \'IL:A:K uttle,dand nnuux'.iusmlmvu eiL ensed to them, and various expedients tried to bivilizo theuns but oo P TILE IRRESISTIBLE QHARM OF BAVAGE LIPB, togrether with the vices of whisky-traders, have counterbalanced these efforts, The treaty by which they were removed to thelr-present aboda was made soon after their depredutions ut New Ulin, Minu., in 1807, 1t is duted Fel, 24, 1567, and, after defining the limits of their territory, Ew\?{lu:l '.a:c 10 hl;mm?l’ exoeph L{x:fie authorized y stipulgtiony in said treaty shall evor be al- 1owed to anter their rusnrvatf’s; i The frresistible force of cvents, over which neither tho Juws of God or man appear to hold contral at present, have mude the fulfillment of this condition fmpossible. The result has been an infringement on their treaty rights, énd the slaughter which bas followed. "We mourn THE UNTIMELY DBATY OF GEN. GUSTHR and bis two brothers and of his brave command. A single flap of the American eagle's wings will avenge, hut not restore them to their relatiyes and their social spheres. The field on which they fell mnay be ranked as the third In the maguitude of its disustroua results wnong pur Indian battles. Braddock’s defeat near Fort Dugquesne, in ‘1753, biia‘f the first, and 8t. Cluir’s defent on the headwaters of the Wabash, in 1791, being the sevond. The unequal fight oceurred Junc 25, in the canon of the Big Little Horn River, 200 miles east of Fort Ellis, 225 milea noth of Port Fetterman, and 800 miles dis- tant from Fort Stecl, the uearest station ou the Unjon Paciic Railroad. ~ It may be of interest to stgte that the fight took plase on the Crow resér- vatlon, the abode of o frigndly tribe. RupUs BLANCHATID. PUBLIC OPINION, “L0, THE POOR INDIAN.” To the Editor of The Tribune. Cmjoago, July 8.~Some manths ngo I took aceasion, through your widely-airculated jour~ nal, to gay a few words in regard tq the Govera~ mental folly (our Indian policy)[solong indulged in by those in and out of power. The recent horrid butchery of one of the bravest American soldiers, together with almost his entire com- mand of 500 men, i3 no new feature in the his- tory of our Indian affalrs. It is only the lpgical vesult of the long ecason of in- justice which the Government has allowed to ex{st within its awn boundaries. We are tald that nations, as well as jndividuals, bave what is known as periodical spells of insanity. Upon this theory, and this ounly, can we cxplaln the acts of a Government which, for more thana half-century has. not ouly tolerated the indis- criminate butchery of men, women, and chil- dren, but has furnished the fmplements with which these horrid crimes were committed. Thousands sud tens of thousands of opr fellow- citizens have fallen g prey to the tomghawk and scalping-knife, go long wiclded by ibe red brutes of the forest known a3 the North American_Indian. e popylar inquiry is, How long shall this condition of things con- tinue? How long will our Goyernment suffer the best blood of our nation to be shed by L\)n;n useless brutes of the forest] Iow long will it continpe to fence up two hundred and forty thousaud square miles: of territory within its own boundarics on which the Government ofil- cigls are probibited from placing » foot! where no nfironds can be built; where no science or learning can penetrate; no clyilization ‘can exist; where no guarters are shown to the noble explorer in his perilous jonrney to the unpenctrated wilds of our distaut Teryitoricst How long will the Gov- ernment of the United State tinue to offer as & reward to those most uscful members of society, the bardy pioncers, ahnast certoin death at the hands of these sevuge cut-throats, fed and fattened at_the expenseof our National Treasury] How long shull it be before the citi- zens of the Unjon shall be pratected in_their right to travel within our own borders withoyt being in danger of meeting a horrid death gt the hands of the savage wards of the nation who are amply pravided with all the bus appliances of war with which to butcher those who venture to raise two blades of grass where before but one had grown? How long shull snch encrgy and Industry be a erime deserving death? How long shall ghie horrid murders, ag which humy: ity Ehudders, the stontest heart trembies, 8o the holdeet hold thejr breath, be paid for in au-. pual apnuitics from he friends and relatives of those they have butchered? How long Defore the time wil] come when a eitizen shill Teel that 1 ho may go his_citizenship shall, like Romun, be his passpart, at in thc jand T e owes allegiancel For my: pave st n‘;nliuy \“,:"lfld" 1 think will be approved by all thie civilized nations of the earth. Itis short and simple. The Indians nust be made to un- derstand that they, like other men, musggbe_v the law, Ample meaus should he iurm;?xcd: them to acquire a_knowledge of the law by which we all must be_governed. They must be told now that an ahsolute suprender td the Gav- ernment is the only copsideration Vgl:m which thoir wortliless lives will be spared; that all laws regurding exemption of their territory from beingyisited by our aitizens must be rupea]cglland that they must from this time forward be held mntnable to the laws of the country in which they Jive. Let an army be immediately sent to enforce this new regulition, and for a time let al] the Indian terpitaries be subjecs ta :'uxd gov- erned by martial law. Inevery wase where an fnoffensive citizen is slain, let 100 of these red brutes feel the power of @ rope properly 2d- justed under their ching, Securplly attachad o thelimb of a sturdy and weli-formed tree, whose duty it shell be to hold them sus- caded fn the air, at least 10 feop from the ground, for a peripd not I¢ss t!yz]n {hree “monthb. This - rule, strictly followed, will.not puly reform the ones to which it is ny- plied, but alen do wuch tawaids proper] festralning {hose which Lecome fally imbue: with the ‘thought that any violation of the law will insure to thiem the sane civillzing pracoss. Let, the good and philguthropic Quakers retire from the fickd where their experimients have proven. futile In attempting to govern the enemics of lization, apd, wlien they so re- tire, let them fully understand the fact that, however sucstssful they have been jn the tamer pursuits of cultivating broom- corn and garden seeds, the govey: brutes is” an cmP\ovmeut_ for which, for the Denefit of humanity, they are not adapted. Ta maks tha shave mare simole, let Gen. Sheridan g among us in the | ng of Indian l 0 at once to - the nest of thess assassins, with i power to act. When this powar ghall be delegated, the end of the long-yexed Indian Qquestion will soon be settled upon a permanent basis of perpetual peace, A fF Eppy. KOTHER LETTER FROM “JusTiCE." To the Editor'of The Tribune. Omioago, July 8.—From the conflicting ac- counts in THE TRIBUNE, it sccms impossible to ascertain to o certainty who tho Indians are tha are under Sitting Bull. In Friday's Tris- UNE e find the statement that the present war Las nothing to do with the Black Hjllsdificulty, aud that 8, B. is an old engmy with whom the Gavernment has never had treaty relations; that his usual following Has heretofore heen limited to two or three hindred, but that in the present instance he has probably made nse of the Black Hills trouble-to gain a few recruits. From the Indian Agants' came reports (in the same paper) that few or none of the treaty In- dians gre known to have left their reservations. Ferthermore, your correspondent “G. .7 in- forms us that ‘*there never wasa “treaty made with the main body of the Indians Custer met.” Qn the otier haud, we have the fact Sitting Bull’s forces have been reinforced from some source to a numbcek estimated from 2,000 to 2,000. A citizen of Yankton, in a speech reported in to-day’s TRIBUNE, says that, having lately pass- ed down the Missour from Bismerck, h¢ satis- fied himself thot the able-bodied Indians had left all the Agencics to join in the war. In Tue TRIBUNE it was yesterday editorially stated that the Governmint is-feeding thy Wworacn and children of the Indians, whilst the young men aré ou the war-path. & Now, if the Indians with Bitting Bull arc ont- Inw depredators - with whom the United Stazcs husn evermade treaty, andhusconstantly been ag way, they are not Indians who lave léft their ‘women und children to be fed by Gevernment whilst they fight hor troops. Perhaps we winy soon bo in_passession of in- formatson which will set thesé random and cen- trydictory statements at rest; till then the evi- dynce seoms- to fayar the sugpunmm\ that the “maly body of the Indians Custer met " was composed of men who were induced to leave their reservations by tho want of fafth of the United Stutqs Goveriument. - T hope it may prove that the forees under Sit- ting Bull ure merely the outlaw band thay has been ropreaented, with whom no one can have any sympathy, but Tmuch fear it will prove that, the Dluck Ifills policy is fesponsible for the *#Guster inasaacre.”’ 2 _I will not trespags furtber an your space than simply Lo express the hope that, when the first burst of gricf and anger has passed away, the people of this country will be dispostd to look cuhulfl and Junly on the events of the past few months and fix"the responsibility for this sad event wherever it justly belor FOREIGN. HAYTI T AN INBULT TO THE AMBRICAN FLAG. New Youx, July 8.—The purser of thesteam- ship Tybee, from 8an Domingo, has forwarded to the Secretary of State, from the American Consulato at that port, the details of an insult to the Ameriean flag. Tt seems that the Tybee, when on the wpy from this port to 8an Dnming&, took on board, as a passenger at Cape Haytien, Geu. Pablo Vil- lanueys, the ex-Minister of War and Marine un- der President Gonzales, of Sgn Domingo. Ar- riving ut 8an Domiugo, Villanueva sent to the authorities, asking perinjpsion to land, but was refu and warned has i he did land he might cxpéet to be arrest- «d, Tmmediawely afterward Capt. EKuhl, of the Tybe was ordered to put the General un shore, the Government averring that he had been endeavoring, on the Haytich frontier, to foment 3 revolution ngainst tht ex- isting Ropublic. The Captain refused, and sub- witted the case to Paul Jones, the erien Congul, who decided that as the General was ap ordinary paying passenger, und had not been ~ an shore, he was entitled to remain on board, and was under the pro- tection of the Amerjean flag. On the 25th of June, as the Tybee was ready to sail, an order was received from the Minisier of the Tuterior commanding hor to remain. The *American JUBTICE. Consul made the reply that he had on board 8 Special bearer of dispatches to his Government; thet the ship perly cleared, and that she would sail unless etained by force. This message was unheeded, and, seeing that an attempt was to be made to take his passenger, Capt. Kuhl tied American flags to the ' stanchions on both sides of the gangways, ond all intruders were wamed away. In s little time a field- icee was broyght upon the wharf, and fifty sol- Yiers, armed with rifles, tore eway the flags, went on board, and despite the cm%h\mc pro~ test of the American Consul, Gen. lanueva, lame apd disabled, was taken from his state- room and carried on shore, and then $he vessel was permitted to sail. gy THE EAST. REFORTED ENCOUNTERS. ‘BERLIY, Jyly 8.—The Serviang are suffering from g searcity of funds, and have issued a forced paper currency. Zach's divisioy of Servians has been severely defeated near Novi Bascar, and suffered a loss of 1,500 killed snd wounded. BrLGRADE, July B.—The Servian army on the Drina hasbeen completely beaten by 12,000 Turks at Belgina. Banco, the Servian command- er, was intrenched. The Turks captured two intrenchments and six guns, Tho Servian loss was 700 men. On the 4th, the sz‘vilv_msfl cr;:ils)uinun?T léimr Dring, &nd wure attacked in flank by the 3 who g"grc rc&vulsgd with a loss of &!5) lled _d 240 wounde DELGRADE DESERTED. el e is almost deserted, and there’ is nobody at the cafes except the old and decrepit. The authorities eontidently assert that Gen. 'sl'_clxema_ycfl Tholds the rond between Nisch gnd aphia. o PO ormar PERSONAGES 1y OOUNCIL. LoxDoN, July 8.—The Emperor of Austria and Count_Andyassy met thg Czor and Gorts- chakof? at Bodenbach to-day, and proceeded to Ltips, Bobemia. RAISING FUXD3. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 8.—Subscriptions arc being raised among the ussulnaps for the roseeation of the war. Fifteen hundred Softas Enve boen enrolled for service. RUSSIA’S POLIGY. RoME, July 8—It is stated that Russia has addressed n circular note to her representatives abroad announcing thyt she will not support Servia, but will remain a simple spectator of the strugg‘lc. B GREAT BRITAIN. TUE LABOR QUESTION. Laxpoy, July §.—The North and Northeast hire Cotton-Spinners’ and Alanufacturers’. tion has resolved to reduce wages 10 per cent. The local associations will meet on ‘Wednesdey next. The reduction affects from 50,000 to 60,000 operatives. Lockouts are threatened. The miners in the Wigan and Tyldesley districts have stryck ag\rfinst a reduction of 15 per cent in their wages, and the miners of the Brunswick and Oldbury disricts have resolyed fo resist to the utmost the ipcrease of working hours. ENGLAND’S FOREIGN POLICY, The coming debate in the léonse of Commons on the foreigh policy of the Goyernment will be the 1n0st stil ‘iufi episode of the session. Glad- ptone is expected to make a great speach. THE WEATHER. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8—1a.m.—For the lake region very warm and clear or fair weather duripg the day, with sputheast to southwest winds, and slowly falling barometer, followed in thie' Upper Lake region during the night by cooler weather, and possibly rains. NEW Yonk, July 8.—Tq-day was.intensely hot—99 in the shade. The thermometer in Camp Beddle, New Jorsey, marked 110 in the shade. During the duy 170 soldigrs were prostrated, and many are in & dangerous copdition. At dress- parade thirty morefell in_the ranks, and the arade was dismissed. 8ix of the seven sur- eons in camp are prostrated, and all the available physiciays in Trepton have been prdered up. Qor. Beale, whose son was among the prostrated, has abandoned the camp. OHSERVATIONS. HOCHL ORSERTATI iicaco, July 8. Im., Wenther 9:00p. 0. 10:18p. 1. 129.90! 841 75! Maxtmun mer’mo‘mmr.n M'm-h_{!r%'i";m 8. 3 onsE NS, L g eaGo. July B-Midalghe. Bar.) Thr.| Wind, _|Rain: Weather. EUROPEAN GOSSIP. How Whitsuntide Is Celebrated in England, The Msumer in Which the Turks Bury Their Snlans, Nobody’s €hilds--George Sand---Kaiser William as a Lover. WHITSUNTIDE IN ENGLAND. A Loudou, June 10, letter to the Boston Post says: The Whitsuntide “outing” of Parlia- ment, society, and cockneydom in general is over, and the London world Dbas buckled on its armor aguin, refreshed by last week's recrea- tion. England has many holiday' festivals; though thers i3 not one that can Do called “National” in the sensc that the Fourth of July is National with us; and of themall ‘Whitsuntide is the pleasantest and cheerdest. It may be that June weather here, as on your side af ghe water, is steadiest and most grateful at. this season; it may be that it is o time peculiar Iy fitting for" exeursions and out-of-door exercise; it may be in the espectally social tinge which tradition has imparted to this festi- val; whatever the reason, Whitsuntide is the time when the British spirit of merry-making reathes its most hilarious point. Guy Fawkes® Day, Lord Mayor’s Day and All .Hullow E'en come at a period when London, and for that matter all England, is too likely to be bleak and cheerless, or wet and muddy, or murky and foggy; Christmas is the festival of familieg and not of the multitude; Easter comes just a little too carly for certain weather and picnicking in careless comfort, So man and boy, woman and gir], look forward to Whitsuntide as ta no other- season. Parllumeny rises 50 as to enable noble lords and honorable geutlemen to get away for & week futo rural luxury and indolence,—an op- portunity which is fully appreciated and gener- ally geized by the august legislators of the realm. On Whitsun week I doubt if you would find uhundred denizens of St. Stephen’s iu town. They arc scattéred all alang in line old houses onthe Thames banks away in the midland shires; luxuriating in Devon cream, and Cheshira cheese, sud Southdown mutton, and lazily dis- cussing the past and future of the session. The back of the session is supposed 10 be broken by Whitsuntide; that is, no new measure Of the first impartance will be introduced after thut break, the budget is dlready in and disposed of, the Alinis- terial bills are far on their passage or on their way to being quictly-smothered, aad it only re- mains to wind off and finish up what has been beguy. So the Paclimmentary politician looks forward to the coming of Whitsuutide not Iess cagerly, perbaps, than does the bank clerk of TLeadenhall streat, or the counter-jumper of St. Paul’s Churchyprd. Society refruing from giv- ing parties in town at this especial season, and “fetes champetres’ in the near and remote suburbs have ‘their brief but brilliant period of glory. But Whitsuntide is, above all, the festi- val of the million. Eveo the hurdest-fisted of city merchants do not begrudge, or 2t Ieast do nat refuse, a lang holiday to their derks and porters, Happily thereis notbing cheaper or Jjollier than the Whitsuntide excursions. Just thiuk of the noble places which the Em)rest may freoly enjoy at thistime, The knotty- handed laborer, who works patiently for 15 or 20 shillings the long year round, has not in vain saved a modest pound or twoto give wife and bairns a feast of sight and dinner on Whit- Monday. Ife may roam frecly through the stateliest palaces which the centuries have rearcd nsthe abodes of British rovalty. He wnay gaze qn the works of the_greatdst masters of painting aond sculpture. e may saunter through parks grand in their age, adornments, and rure verdure. He may sit by fountaing where Kings have coquetted and great nobles and dames were wont to gather in dazzling groups. He may pass alongmiles of flawer- Deds, and enjoy as much 28 the highest in the Iand these beautiful gifts of the humid atmos- phere of this sea-girtisle. But the pet resorts of the Whitsuntide merrymakers of “the middie and humble classes are those of the scasides and of all the segside resorts, Brighton, that * Lon- don-by-the-se,” s the most popular. Excur- sion trains are perpetuglly passing to and from the pleasant, sunny town, where George IV. erected_his famous Oriental * Pavilion,” and the moderate sum of half « crown for the jour- ney thither and back makes it within the reach of all but the absolutely poverty-stricken, The jaunt is made, too, with amazing speed, the whole 50 miles beipg done in a round hour. The way to Brighton is through bowery Kent and the garden shirc of Sussex, full of lovely glimpses of the best features of English Iand- scape, past picturesque villages, by fair meads, n\n’P over fast-flowing, clear-watered streams. Brighton itsélf is almost too town to be comfartable on a downright warm day. But it§ reach of beach is magnifi- cent; it has an almost Gallic air of life and guyety; the broezes from the floundering Chan- nv.-{almnsg never lull themselves; and the pro- ‘visions for smusemeng are so many that every variety of tastes may be gratified. The inus of Brighton arc famous for their zood cheer, and the ety eating-houses of London dar not provide more succulent rump steaksor smoother Southdown chops. While some carry substan- inl luncheons with them, many rely upon the ing for 5 heavy noonday feast; and it i a jolly sight_ to see how sturdily the Briton enjoys him- self when he gets his legs under the hospitabls mahogany of Brighton, Then there Is the Aqua- rium, & standing wonder to the cockney, and truly a magnificent sight even to the more prac- ticed eye. Here, too, arcinusicand ample refresh- ment. Equally lively are the scenes at Rams- gate und. glugnt at Torquay snd Hastings, in these cheerful Whitsuntide days. Greenwich, with its matchless whitebait dinners, und Rich- mond, with its restored * 8tar and Garter,? its beautiful river l3ndseape, and its fine park and kew, are the resorts of the more well-fo-do, who can afford 2 guinea or so for a_dinner, and another guinea or 80 for a barouche, and not feel it. London is suddenly dull, to be as sud- denly waked into_full life n 28 soon as Whitsuntide is lt:.ix-l?v over. No one who has been here d\xri? this festive season will after- wards call the English a melancholy race. On the cantrary, you would conclude that they thorqughly uuderstand the art of the “dissipero in loco,” and are not a whit behind the French in the not very easy science of _recreation, and this is ong reason why the English race is, on the average, so strong and full of energy. —— TOW SULTANS ARE BURIED. A correspondent at Constantinople reports a conversation with one who has long been resi- dent theye, snd who has an intimate scquaint- ance with Turkish Jif and manners. He says “And how are the Sultans huried?” I asked. « will tell you," was the rcply, “what was told me by a Turk among Turks—ong who knew, and would tell the truth. The dead Sultans have always been buried like dogs. The great thivg is to get rid altogether of the idea of s dead Sultan; for never was there @ people among whom is so literally carried out the idea that ‘Ze Roi ne meyrt pas’ When it is quitc certain that a Bultan is about to die, those round him hardly wait for the breath to leave the body. Most of them run away to be ready to do homage to the new occupant of the throne. Then follows an odd arrangement: All homage is due to the living soyercign; nothing must interfere with that, not even the corpse of the late sovercign. 80 one or two of his old servants only remain wWith the body, and when it is_quite dead they roll it up in straw matting and prop it up be- hing the door of his room to be s much out of pight as possible, and when night falls it is car- ried out of tho palace and ‘buried very quletly. Na train of mourning cogches here, “you see; but, then, they never are used in Turkey ; no elaborate preparation for the last resting-place of one all-powerful a few hours before. #With us_in fact 2 dead Sultan.is nobpdy —his sacredness has descended to bis §uccessor. To him we turn our thoughts. We Osmanlis sunn; could not do as you Franks do—have a grand Iying in state. “We should bewnil at the sighs, nn(‘l‘%hnt would be wwngmous with the rejoic- ing demanded of us on the accession of our new sovereign, and would pe di?lmmg ta him, Therefore the custam of burying the Sultans in this manner bes neyer been interfered with; and it i_i\llwlt §0." ’I‘ “But l}‘d‘l' l‘l"t; T "ndees :))\‘.med rkey?” I continucd. 171 was the re- kl‘y, ST, _n);ysell saw the funcrgls of Ali Pashi, g’und Pasha, and Djemil Pasha, so1 can make you understand what the ordinary ceremony is at the buria) of 8 person of rank. Neither Turk- isli ladies nar Turks ever wear monrning. That they dispense with. - Let me tell you abont the late Fuad Pasha's funeral, Minister for Foreign Affairs. . Well, be, you know, died in Ttaly, aondhis body was brought back to Stamboul for burial. They dug thret different graves for him,because in preparing the first they came Wpon some ani- mzs {a scorpion, I believe ’rfild it was thought that Turkish ground (sacred in the eyes’ of Turks) would not receive the tody of him who had died among unbclicvers. The second graye Wwas not ccmg:zled when they found water, aud | This continued to be sgain it was believed the earth in this way re- ———————— lacc) was- opencd for service in_ 1693 n 1720 the present structure af Nassaun and Liberty ‘streets was built, and was known'asthe Old Middle Church, For_this chureh te ald beil was cast in Tolland in'173T, and was t[:cé.l;tsut Col. Abraham De Peyster, who died in 1723 before its completion, He di- fused to let the bod¥ lic there. But the third time no such {mpediments appeared, and the 5r.“u was dugoua hill withiu Stamboul ina lesolate pluve on a site on 2 Spot Once oLLLPIl by houses and belusiging to a mosque; but this place bad beca dovastated by one of the great lires so common in Coustaatinople, and there were the ruins standing out like pillars on the burned up ground.”? < But about the cortege 1o the burial-plage? esked I “Well, this is the maurer of it. First of ull the llm\; 15 taken toawmosque. Over the simple coffin of cypross- wood which tontzins the hody, waguilicent shawls are thrown, many sent by the friends of the dead Pasha, some provided by his own :fuv:h)fiwflc Chut;ah. ¢ citizens of Amsterdam, w! was made, mixed guantitles of s!h‘fs l;.re\ \?{etg the bell metal. The following iz the inscription on: the bell: “Me focerunt De Gravac ot N, Muller, Amsterdam, Anno 178t Abraham De household. These shawls are very costly. Sev- | Poyster w S eral Paghus help to carry the body .to the grave, J}fc;?flgff" f]ee!;, éb_.‘\):.lr]ujf: ?;\Jfils 1,’5"‘ Lo and 85 the procession goes on every one tashes [ aan de N srduytsche Kerke Nioaw anl‘an forward to help fo bear the coffin for & moment, as this is thought to be kely work. gA legacy to the Low Datch Church as New Imaums, weariug blue, green, or violet tur- York.] 'This bell continued with the ch Nassan strect until it was closed inc 1‘&?{3:- bans, accordiug to the schicol to which they be- Tj e Unif long, walk beforo and aftor the body. At Fuad | Gemioig e and loas el to tae, Unte o tates Pashiw’s funeral they marched four abreast, in [ was then removed to! the ‘church s green turbans, to escort the body o the mosque, chanting verses from the Koran. The dead sre always taken to a mosque before burial, and there, after prayers retited by the Imaume, the Pushns present spolic of the Virtuea of the de- ceased over his bicr, as is the custom, and then the funeral party started for the grave. The route to it Iny through the beautiful new stroot of Constautinople called the Yeni Sokak, There were lines of carriages filled with Turkish la dies in bright-colored feridiees, these ladies having waited there since 9 o’clock that morning to aee the sight, Among that multitude I mine gled, dressed as a Turk, and, as I understood the Turkish lanemage, I overhéard nuch of the conversation and remarks of the crowd. A wooden railing only was placed at first round the grave. You sce that a Pasha has the re- spect paid bim of a ceremonious burial; bat ag for the Sultans, vou may depend on me when I assureyou that a dead Sultan is got out of sight 28 specdily ana quietly us possible.” —_ NOBODY’S CHILD. Zg Gawlois, of o recent date, gives an odd story of a young woman who insisted on hay- ug no father, o, as the writer phrazes it, * be- ing so fortunate as to possess one, and so to be be able to acquire an hionorable place in soclety, stilt invokes the law to declare her s bastard.” Oue Mme. Gredin s the sbnormal woman in question. A well-to-dobachelor notary, named Pillott, lived at Vy-les-Rupt in 1852, having as his housckeeper a relative, Euphrasie Disset, who, however, received no wages. In 1853 this wonran went to her sister, who hed married a endarme of Blois nawed Bourney, and at ber ouse was delivered of a female child that was named Marie Zelia Noomie, belng registered us the offsprivg of Euplyasie Disset and an un- Lnown father. In 1354 Pillot made his will, leaving Lis fortune to the child, but without Nzing it s his, the income of half of it going to the motber during her life-time. He hud seen the baby several tiniesat its aunt's, where it remained, and had carcssed it with marked affection and emotion. Shortly after making the wlll he dicd. In 1863 Euphrasie Dissct recognized her daughter by notarial set. In 1868 &he met and married onc Joseph Mon- not, of Valleroy-les-Bols, the marriage being preceded by furmal recognition by bu&n parties of tie girh, who was thus legitimated by sub- sequent marriage. Nocijc “Was not present, being still with her uncle, now stationed at Colwar, and when next year her paronts (for so in law they werc) desired her to ruturn to them, their wishes werc opposed, both by the girl and her relatives, with vigor, thou%h tinally she Ninth street, near Broadway, where it remain uutil 1855. It wus then rumgved tothe uhnreh:g Lafuyette place, and finally placad, in 167, in it present place in the Datch Chutch, corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-vighth street, where I8 will doubtless rematu. * The late Johu Oothout, of this dt{ stated av intoresting fact in relatioq to this bell. He remarked in a letter to Freds eric De Peyster that, early in the Revolutionary War, when the British converted the Middle Church into a riding selioul for their dragoor by removing the %ltlgit, gnlicry, pews, an flooring, his father obtained from the Commane der-in-Chief, Lord Howe, permission to take down the bell. He stored it n & secure and sov creifik_wu,whum it vemuined for some years aftey the British army had evacuated the city. Whax the church was repaired and reopened he brought forth the old bell from its hidings Rlace, aud restored 1t to its vightful position. ———— . CASUALTIES. FLOOD DAMAGE. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribuna. Dzs Mowxes, Lo., July §—By the hercaless effort of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacifiy Railroad Company, Howe's circus-train was res lieved from the water embarzo on Indianoly Branch last night, and arrived here this morne ing ut 4 o'dock, and Towa City at 1 o'clock. When 6 miles from Indianala, five cars containing horses, elk, camel, and five clephants, tumbled over. The animals wera taken ont und brought here overland, arriving before the train_without Injury. The track ia all x;i’%ht now to Indianalo, ;l‘mlm will not run to Winterset before T\mdaz, a5 3 miles of the rond-bed was washed inte the adjoining fields. The damage by Tucsday’s storm in Tows i3 over $1,( ; in Warren County over - 000. Grain on seventy-two secmns{q destroy FQOLHARDINESS. Rpecial Dispatch to The Triduna. Mrs¥eAroLn, Minn., July $.—Banjo Ben, a intemperate and half-crazy negro of this city, to-day attempted to walk a small half-inch working cable used in the econstruction of the new suspengion bridge. He contemplated walk- ing across the river from tower to tower. When 15feet ant, acd within 20 feet of the edge of tho river, he fell a distance of 125 feot, striking the rocky ground and was killed fnstastly. i) played the banjo about snloons and had & mania fur climbing and running glong the edge of plelded and wedt to_ live ‘with ler mather, high roofs. 04 01D married a youn; armer, Of Viy-log Rupt nemed. Gredin. *Before the mar- | TIE ROCKDALE DISASTEE. Special Dispates to The Tridune. ringe Monnot, aud her wother submitted their accounts as trustces, but as soom as the young woman had attained her mafority she attacked the accounts as fraudulent and de- mapded the annulling of the st which made her legitimate. The Lourt at Gray gave jndg- ment I her favor and against her mother and legal father, who tLereupon appealed to the tribunal at husmcou, where Mme. Gredin was again victorious. Tiie decision of the higher court reflected with much severity on the con- duct of Joscph Monuot. *“ We find,* 'said the judges, “that Joseph Monnot and Euphrasic isset first saw cach other in 1566, prior to which time Monnot had not becn knownin that neigh- borhood. Every circumstance is against the supposition thit he was the father’s Noenrie, a8 the acte de legitimation nlleged; for 13 years e never thought of her, guve himself no pains about her edueation or maintenance, and he took no interest whatever in her till he was made aware of the existence of a will in her favor. As in 1867 Monnot, a sorvant wholly without means or position, married Euphrasis Disset, 2 woman much older than himsclf, and the marriage and sdoption of the child, then nearly 14 years old, touk place in a remote vil- lage, neither the child nor any of her mother’s relatives being present, there are reasonable grounds for helievinz the act to be fraudulent, ;mg the lower Court wps justified in gunulling L. ANECDOTE OF GEORGE SAND, The Paris Figaro tells the following: In the modest dwelling at Nobant where she drew her Tast breath, Gearge Sand’s hospitality was not more delicate than simple, and it not unfre- quently happeued that u guest arrived and made himself at home without having any claim upon he author of “Mauprat™ stronger than the riendly commendation of an acquaintance. One day such a visitor arrived, call him Buckhor or Bakor, (query—Sir Samuel Baker?) and from tue moment he crossed the threshold comported himself with altogether Egyptian vase. Ile was passionately addicted to—cabbage, and in- structed the cook to prepare for dinner on the day of his arrival an fmmensc dish of that vege- table, which he conscientiously devoured. DuBUQUE, 3., July 8.—Threc more bodies of the Rockdale victims have been recovered to- day,~Peter Beeker, Richard Burke, and Lens Glassen,—leaving but two missing. They were found just below the bridge, about half 'a mile below Rockdale. W s el kit i ssession_stolen property take! from Es'ome of l:ge Rockdale an&;fi,’n’nfl '.hz Constables are after two mare. THE DEADLY XEROSENE, Newsurg, N. Y., July §.—Eliza Armonr, 2ged 49 years, last night, to cure rhemmatism, wrapped herself in garments saturated with kerosene, which took fire, and she burned to death. A daugater of Mrs. Armour, in tryig to save her mother’s life, was fatally fmmmi THE BUZZ~SAW. Special Dispatch 1o The Tridung. East SAGINAW, Mich.,, July 8.—A German named John Loppel had his right arm ampu~ tated by a smgll buzz-saw this afternopn. e —— MARINE NEWS, PORT HURON. Bpecial Dispatch to The Tridune. Port Hurow, Mich., July 8—10 p. m.—Dowx —Props China, Garden City, City of Fremont, Alpena gud barges, Sanilac apd consort; schrs 8. H. Kimball, Alexander. Ur—Props Oswepatchie, Nashua, Colorado, Fletcher and consort, Barnum and consort, Snook and consort; schrs J. 8. Austin, Lonise Morgan. The schr Ann Maria got ashore.at the head of Stag Island, and was pulled off by the tug Good- now. The Oswegatche was rejeased by the prop Noshau. ' The Canisteo was still aground at the Iatest ices, with the prop Staruces working to release her. The Cormorgat s atill sshore in ’éhc river. Two large tugs are pulling at her. MARQUETTE. Spectal Diapaich fo The Tribune. Next' day there was cabbage n - the soups, and cabbage in the stews, and | _ STABQUETIE, Mich., July8.—Azrrvep—fhr B e i iy the” whole” cuie | Danlel G. Foot, Bobeinia. Oreanep—Schr Sweetheart, Emma C. Hatch- inson, John O’Neil. Passep Up—~Stmr Annis L. Craig, DownN—S8tmrs Soyereign, St. Paul. Schr Bohemia's main-mast was broken fn a gale between here and the Sault. o;VgAumx—Fine. The thermometer indicates nary department was conducted on the basis of cabbage. The mistress of the household, nat a Iittle fiu?flsed, ‘preseed inquiries and discovered that M. Bakor was responsible for the revolu- tion. Aftera week’s stay, the guest announced his intention of departing, and just before start- iIng waited npon his hostess to pay his respects. He fouud her.in tho garden—tlie kitchen-gar- dep. ‘‘Madame,” he said, “may not I lm.pc ——— that after having been the gruest of so distin- FIRES. guished an entertainer, T shall not be suffered v to dcgnr\} without a souvenir of the visit?” Mme. S8and looked at him with surprise; then, AT PITISBURG. inspired with a wicked idea, calied the gardener, “?a}zflslc!" The gardener hastened to her. “ With pleasure,” she said to M. Bakor; then added to the gardener: # Bnptiste‘ one o} your finest cabbages for the gentleman.” —_— KAJSER WILLIAM AS A LOVER. ‘When Prince Williom of Prussia cntered France with the allicd invaders of 1315, a youth of 19, he lodged inthe lhouse of a well-té-do citizen at Dizier who had averypretty daughter. With this damsel, Angelique Barnier, the youth- ful Prussian Prince struck up a tremendous flirtation, and when he marched away to Peris left written on a pane of her window as well as 4 the red tablets of Ler heart ' these words in German, “I loye thee; Willlam.” More than PITTSBURG, July 8.—The firc at the American Oll Works is still burning, and will likely cop- tinne toburn until to-morrow, glthough it is thought now the Columbia conduit tanks are safe. The property destroyed thus far fs valued at $40,000. It Is partially covered by fn- sarunce. Unless some unexpected disaster h:xpgens, which would ipvolve the destruction of the conduit tanks, the fire will be confined ta the premises where it originated.” There is be- tween 20,000 and 30,000 barrels of crude ofl stored in the Columbis conduit tanks, ———— BESIEGED. That's What's the Matter with s Colored 2Wilitla Company in South Carolina. half a century volled away; and when in | AUGUSTA, Ga., July 8.—Robeyt Butler, aud ag- %)Birzl}fl thjngw;:ssm% Guards mzdct into | othercitizen of Edgefield County, complained r ue ternier, 2 stout ma- | that they were interrupted by g colored militia tron "mow, reccived certain of their company, who blocked up fhe pyblia . officers into her house—and showed them the grepious squvenir still glittering where the ringe’s diauond ting had scrawled it. * Tho story was too good to keep, and it traveled from Tip to Jip il it reached the royal headquarters, King William went_étraight to the house end presented himsclf before his old sweetheart. % Angellque,” he *exclaimed, “who could have dreamed you would kissand teli”” The matron, in cunfusion, began to excuse herself, and the prallant old King canght both her hands, kissed them,—not, perhaps, quite so tenderly sa of pld,—gnd said, laughing, Al 11, my sal- Qlicts know that buys will be boys: and, An- bighway. Prince Rivers, a colored Trial Justice, summoned witnesses, and Doc Adams, Captain of a company, became so [nsolent that Rivers arrested him for contempt. This afterncon, when the trial was resumed, the company res- cued Adams. Rivers, who In addition to being a litia, ordered the company to disarm, on thelr refasing, called apan the. terne T #id, when the militla éompany took passession of 8 brick buud!niognd sefused to sarrender. Fire was opened by both sides for several honrs, and one white mian, Mackey Merriwether, was gelique! I have never forgotten yuu'."' ————c— killed, and another whife' man wounded. QBITUARY. One ' of tho oes i3 reported Cews killed and nine tal Niw Yors, July 8—News has been recelved | 2'oily 00 DRe - taken o prisoners. in this city of the death, jn Naples, Italy, of | gusts to Hamburg, butafter fitin; 2 & fow younds Antonjo Barili, well known in this city and country and Mexico as a maestro and teacher of singing. LouisvILLE, July 8.—The Hon. Edward Young Parsons, Member of Congress from the Louis- yille District, ho died in Washington to-day, was a prominent and promising lawyer of this city. father was the Rev. C. 1. Parsons, 115.. L.L.D., a well-known Methodist divine, and for years considered ome of the grentesff American tragedians. Mr. Parson’s death causcs a painful surprise to bis fumily and friends in Lonisville. ——r———— A Revolutlonary Relic. Neww York Times. The Consistory of the Collegiate Reformed Datch Chburch of this city have directed that theold bell in the Fifth Avenue Church be rong at midnight on Juiy 310 usbher ju the morning of the nation’s centennial, “The histo- 1y of the old bell is interwoven with the history af ‘the Revolution. The Colleziate Reformed Dautch Church was the first Evanselical vharch founded in North America, and dates from the first settiement on Manhattan Islaud. Domi- nic Bogardus, who came over from Holland 1633, was the first minister. The chu established -in_the old fort on the 'y the housc of worship till the church in Garden strest (now Rxchange ficld are ajded by the citizens of Aueusta, and whlch the negra militia are intrenched. TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. Ricmvoxn, July 8.—~Don Carlos and party Ieave this afternoon for Washington. The par- ty consists of Don Carlos, Qount Ponce da Leon, Gen. Martinez Velasco, and Viscount gg\gennl, & D}m mCqus’ (;121(!, and Sgnbgu'l ervani . Riva, an - uin 3 1sh merchants, reside:x'ts of Mex%a_q Sl oee CLEVELAND, O., July 8.—Leonard Case, ax old resident end wealthy citizen of this place, transferred yesterday the valuable property known as Caze Black to the Cleveland L g Assodation for the nominal sum of $5. * From the new City Directory, the population of Cleveland is estimated at over 164,000, an in+ cerease of 4,600 from last snmimer’s estimate. — — OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, waYoxfi,Jluya.—Amvcd4zumMdeen m};n Bxemc‘l;.] . i ALIPAX, July 8.—. ibgr~ i frém"i}v?i’ ool ved=dtenmship Ry 3TON, ~—Arri 5] tlag, o I-iv‘:-:n:u{ ived—Steamship A Trial ~ Justice, commandg the State mi- . the ammunition gave out. The citizens of Edge- reguluy siege has been lald to the buildlog in i H i

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