Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1876, Page 1

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Discoverv of the Trail of a Large Body of Hostiles Going North. They Are Supposed to Be on Their Way to the Black Hills. . Crook Decides to ¥ollow Them Up and Interfere with Thoir Little Plan. * SAD BLUNDERING. WIQ 18 RESPONSIILE FOR TIIE FAILURE OF THE CAMPAIGNT From Our Own Correspondent, BisMARCK, D, T, Sept. 4—On the 80th of August the stcamer Benton, on her way up the Yellowstono with Government supplics, burst her larboard cylinder, asud hadto tleupatn polut between Coulson Raplds and Glendive Creek. To repalr the broken machinery, Capt. McGarry sent his Clerk, Mr. John Barr, and a crow of eight men, in the metalllc Nle-boat, to Biswarek, which gaveme the long-looked-for opportunity of escaping from the dull life of the army sent out 1o make war upon Sitting Buil. Mr. Barr ran the yawl day sud night, and hefa entitled to great pratse, for very few stenmboatinen would undertake to navigate efther river down stream of a night. On the night of the 25th, Gen. ‘Lerry rocelved a dispateh from Gen, Sheridan, which at once ALTEKED ALL 18 PLANS for continuing the campalgn. The dispatch or- dered o cantommnent of the Fifth and Twenty- second Infautry and Fifth Cavalry to be bemade at the junction of the Tongue with the Yellow- stone Rver, to send thy first battallan of the Becond Cavulry and the 8cventl Infantry; under Gen, Gibbon, to Forts Ellis and Baker, in Mon- tans, and to cease all offensive operations on or before Oct. 15. To mwko the cantonment, it wus absolutely necessary that Gen. Terry should at once forward up the Yellowstone the fmmengo supplies which wonld be re- quired to subsist the three regiments uill navigation was resumed In the spring. The steamers Fur Weat, Josephine, Carroll, Silver Lake, Benton, Durfee, and J. II. Chambers wero at once put into comunssion to transport the supplica; and, as there was no telling when a strong baud of hostile Sioux would put in an uppearanes on the Yellowstoue, cach boat hnd to be provided with a heavy guard, Between Glendive and Tongue River there wero also two or thres portages to be made, requiring addi- tlonal heavy guurds. 8o tho execution of Gen. Sheridan's order would leave Gen. Terry WITHOUT A CORFORAL'S GUARD for offensive operations, Gen. Crook, having accomplished his strategic movement, of marching-up the hill, then down ugain, on the Blst started back for Nebraska, via the Littlo Missouri route, It is, perhaps, too carly, and mot even the duty of this correspondent, to swimmarize the results of the late camnpaign agalnst the In- diaud, It will-undoubtedly be made the sub. fect of & Milltary Commission appolnted by Gen. Sherman, or of oue of the Congréssloual Military Comnmittees. That there has beou 84D BLUNDERING SOMEWIIERE, is now generally conceded by intelligent officers at tho front, Bome of theso have gono so far a8 to sny that, should the higher uuthorities fuil to investigate the conduct of the war, they themselves would demand a Court of Inquiry. ' 1 will, however, venture thia assertion: Thut Gen. Terry never know where Sitting Bull was alter the 20th of June; and this other assertion: thut Gew. Crovk did know where Sitting Bull wns us Iate o8 Aug. 5§, when Le broke camp on Gooss Creok, From a carefnl study of the Indian sftuation, Gen. Crook kuew that where the furt‘y—founh parallel crossed the 107th Jongitudingl fine, and ‘thereabouts, was vast scopus of country which for twenty yeurs bins been NEUTHAL GROUND POIl PLAINS INDIANS, o district 75 miles broad and 200 loog, abound- fug fu gume, wnply supplied with groas and water, aud sbeltercd from storms, It has been neutral eround for Cheyennes and Arapahioes, on thy south; Bannocks aud Shoshones, on the west; Crows, Asiniboiues, and Blackfeet on the north; Ogallulaa and other Bloux, on the east, 1t has been neutral ground to this exteut: that no simall bunting party of efther tribe hus dured to occupy it for auy length of time, Gun. Crook knew (ur eleo a goud muny of his officera Hed to your correspondent) that 8it- ting Bull' and his allics - fell back aftér the Custer fight, and occupicd that district, It is shown on-the maps as the head- waters of the Blg Horn River and its tributaries, Inthis sccluded rewion, with game in abun- dunce, and grass for lls Linniense herd of ponfes, with cvery stream full of trout and other flsh, aud with a climate as mild aud equa- Dleas the Valley of the Sacrapento, BITTING BULL HAS BEEN QUIETLY OCCUPYING HISISELY In recovering his warriors trom tho wounda in- cldent to his two great battles, aud fu planoing for fresh victories. But, it 8ltting Bull was there when Crook left, on Aug, 5, aud has néver moved from there, say you, how do you explain tho leavy trall which Crook followed from the Big Horu Mountains down the Rosebud, and which Terry and he followed across the Tongue and Powder River regioust This is the explanation: When Gen, Tegry tirst moved up the Yellowstone, ho 1mado a & X?ly-de t st tho mouth of the Puwder Riyer, ter the reverss of Juuo 25, he ouly fell back to the Roscbud, leaving 800,000 ounds of oats and 000 pounds of corn at Powder River, Wao wlll fiiva Bitting Bull credit for ordinary sazacity, and assert that he never lost slght of Terry’s army; snd that, when Terry B purmanent cainp at ths Rossbud, Bitting Bull knbw that this grain was left un- protected at Powder River. “In faet, it was left unprotected fram_June 10 until Aug. 7. Tha trafl Crook nnd Terry followed was the teafl made by-the 2K 8toux warriors we found July 29 at the rachy st Fowder River. For three wecks that banl of warriors had been TRANBPURTING THB CURN TO SITTING BULL'S | ARMY in the Big Mord refilon, emptying out the oats, and taking the yncks for squaw-cloth. This woa demonstrated by finding the corn nearly gl gone., The tral macde by 200 warriors, witii the necessary packponles, wounld (a8 I wrota In o former letier) casily he mistaken for one made by thotzands of ponfes. This trall, to quote a0 old duggerel— Tewlsted innnd twisted ont, Leaving Teeey atiil tn doulit . Whether the Injun who tnade the tracl ‘Waa going north or coming back, In conclusion, 1 will defer to Gen. Terrly'u judgment, and say that the very worst thing: the Governmedt can do now In to contlnue carrying out thearder for the arrest of every hostile Bloux #3 soon a8 he couies into an Agency, Terryls! plan was to walt until cold weather and fikiger. drove them all in, which wuuld not he bdore January, and then MAKA OXE JOI OP IT. As Col. Carlin,/at 8tanding Rock, and other oflicers, are now dolng, they are only catching » few squaw-warriors, frightening ~ away filn braver sud mord daring and despernte charace- ters, - ) Prociox. A DELAYED LETTER. TIE JUNCTION OF TERNY AND CROOR. {The followiiy letter, having miscarcied, is printed at this lite date ou account of its his- toric data:} b Trnnr's Anxy,"JrNcTion or Muzran Cnees AND Pownxn Riven, Ang. 1d, l’ On the 10th, Terry met Crook at the bass of Wolf Mountaing, of which event I briefly ad- vised you by telegraph via messenger fo ten days to Bozemag, us also by courder via Fort Bu- fonl and Bismaride. On Tucaday, the 6th, Gen. Terry's column tut Jooss from ita bass of sup- plies ou the YeDowstone and started up the Roscbud, ds perlettor of that date. Guldes and other officiois persons had represented that route s being very fair fur a wagon-road; con- sequently Cupt! Nolan, Chlef Quartermaster, londed a train of 203 six-mule wagons with 25 daye' ratlonsand foruge In quantity, The road proved exetrably bud; and heavy fatigue aud pioneer parties, by building bridges and cutting down bapkts, could only get the train along at the ratg of nine wmiles o duy, The 8th und Oth were very hot days, and, to add to the discomfort of the troops, the Rosebud contained no water,—only now aud then an alkali-pool, which Increased rather than satisficd the thirst. On the 9ith the thermomoter stood 116 deg., but on the 10th it fell to 56 deg. Gen. Verry, being desirous of conununieating with Gen. Crook, scnt o party of fivo Crow Indfans witha message to the latter on [the night of the8tl. It is doubtful If they went outof sight of Terry's column, for two of them returned next day about 8 o'clock, and REPORTAD BIOUX TN FRONT, At B o'clock the others returned, much exclted, and reported “heap Sioux,” ull in front. This report 8oon épread’ through the column, and at once Gen, Terry made o war-canp, in anticipa- tion of attack. On the morning of the 10th, the column wus put In motlon ns usual, the only notieeabls feature belng the appesrance of Gen, “Terry with his % war-hat,"—g battered and un- shapely, though hu, y-coloreil plaiger’s Tate Vb day Spenta cold aa disosrcahie hut the men and” anionds traveled better, atthoush overcoats were broucht iuto use. About o'clock tho column passed through an old Bloux camp, _which, as usuul, was Iringed with thober. In ons of the trecs the Crows found o “ad pappoose, hanging n a funeral-basket. ., Botore . any oflicer 4 soldier could inte’wore, they had dragired the little wicker bosket down, turown the puppoose au the ground, v TRAMECED UPON IT, and scattered the votive offeringsallaround. As I rode up und suw *he cvldences of this bratal, cowardly, and reiwbgeful descerstion of the dead Indlan cbild, my gorge rose. Ina former Jetter I fi.'uvu the Crows high praiso for thelr bonerable dealings with the white man; but now L saw that all their contact with the white man bad failed to teach them the simplest element of courage. On the eveniug before, Gen. Terry had offered auy prico If thirty Crows would go t0 Gen. Crook, but he could not get one to go; und here all thieir bravery secmed” to return und prompt them to fall upon a dead chikl of thelr ancient enemy and master,—a dead child that even the carnivord of the aje bind thus far respected, The mother who, with her own hands, worked the willow coflin for her child, was only a savage, tho squuaw of o mur- derous Sloux; yet her falrer Caucaslan sister could leurn of ‘her how to sorrow and mourn. All the clothes of the child, its blankets, robes, oven the littlo tin‘eup and platcd spoon, bad been Jafd away with it In {ts Jast rest nx.nplnuu; and off & short distance, firmly fastened ton craggy peuk, wab a bright scarlet cloth—the mother's votive afering to the sun. Leaving the bottom where the old camp was, the column moved-up on a high platean or benelt. All at onee, off 9 the rizht and south, a depse column of dust rose fn the alr. Infront loomed up the oulylug spurs of Woll Moun- talns, and the dust sccined to_come from one of the passes Letween them, Fleld-glasses were Inveled: but tho distance was over seven miles, and nothing could ba mnade out. Suddenly, from the timber on the right, and two miles uway, Halt-Yellow-Face and two Crow scouts came out on the plain and under full run toward the blue guidon which desiguntes headquarters in tho field, “Bloux " “sfoux|” “1Teup Sioux!" they eried, und cavorting in a cirele on thelr nimbie-legyed ponles, wheejed fn by the side of Gen, ’l‘cn?'. An interpreter soon gathered thelr story: They hnd acen beavy col- umus of dust and TWO INDIANA. Novertheless, the dust continued rolling np in coluinne and whirling down the pass of tho mountains out on tha plains, and Gen, Terry ut ones put his command in tighting array, The Rosebud lay upon bis right, o high ridge on the left, aud o level plain of a miluin front. The Seventh Cavalry wus thrown forward as o skinnish-line, coveriug the eutlro plaing the Second Cavalry deployed in reserve, and the battery waos put in the rear on a commanding knoll,” Gon. Glbbon began to close up the wagon traly, flanking it with Miles’ und Moorc's battulions, Qen, Terry then gave the conunand, “Forward,” and steadlly the comblned fo) bewan to move. A quarter of a mile had been passed, when suddenly, emerging from the timber which fringed the Rosebud, a solltary horseman might have been seen, All eyes un lusses wers oveled ut him (for I wos inuwn that no ope of Teery's com- mand was In front); but before ho had ridden f towurd the columm, hiis long linir und Aticndm hurseninship made him known to mord thau one oflieer, sud thoery went up: - “ puPPALO BILLIY At a steady gallup l:mP' came townrd the skinnish-line, snd, when fully {dentified, Maj, Benteen rord in bls stire ups, waved his hat, and gave thoe ratber unusual military command, * Three cheers for Buflalo BILP "The skirmishe line gave them with a wili. It was Crook's col- umn thut wade the dust, and that night the two columns encauped shio by elde. *There was no questlon In Crook's command but what they Lud followed the Indlans from near Gouse Creek, on the ith, to thut date; and that the trafl of S{ttlug Bull und his bostiles led east from the Roscbud to the Tonguo yver, -As Crook waa travelivz without “wagons, and “auripped to the Lufl,™ it was decined the cor- reet thing that Terry's command should do the sanc; s0 all night of the 10th was teken up {n rndding offivers and _ soldlers of thelr surplus. Tents, cump-ketties, clotbing, extra commdssaries,—ln fact, everything but blankets, hurd bresd, bacon, aud collep,—wers reloaded o wagons and sent back to the Yele lowstone, Au 11 a, m, on the 1ith, Crook’s command leading, tho Indian trafl wos taken which led uver to the Tonzue, The improvised pack-traln of wagou-imules played sad havoe with the hni- ited stores, as the llue of march for milus was strewn with broken packs and jnverted mules, ‘Fhat day we crossed the outlying spurs of Wolf Mountalns, ten miles, and ruached Tonguo Rlver Valley ot 8:15 p, Qver to the cast, heavy” signal-fires were lighted by the enemy, but otherwise no evidences of the Indians were scen. After crosslog the river we mar down, following the trall, four mlles, and camnped for the night, A lanu Indiau camnp was possed, and unuilstakablo sizns that TWO SOLDIEUS LAD LEEN DUUNKD AT THE . STAKE. On the 12th tha murch down the Tongue was coutlnued; but & very geuersl expreasion of opinlon was rlven that thc trai) we were follow- ing was an old one,—too old to have been made by the Indians whom Crook reported as having been on his flanks up to Aug. 1. The trail was a large one; but 8a to whether it was three days or three wecka old, the experts and Indisns all differed. The extent of the camp, also, wos s subject of conjecture, as, I{ o small varty camped two or threo days and moved only for grase, the canp would n‘menr as though thou- sunds of men bad been there one day. THurspAY, Aug. 17.~From day 10 day, untl the 17th, we hod the same uncertainty to meets whether we were following the Indians, or whether o portion of the army, 8t least, had Ieft Goose Creck to go on & wild-goose chase, Plvxullg, on the 17th, the trall turned off east toward the lower agencles. As the cavalry- Torscs were run down sud the infantry footsore, Gen, Terry deeined it best to continug his march to the Yeflowstone, Where, by steamer, he could communleate with his suy{»ly-d:pm. Bince Teaving the Yellowatone wo have imarched as’ follows: On thesth, @ milea; on the Gih, 113 on the 10th, 155 on the 11th, 135¢; on the 12th, 135 on the 18th, 243 un the 14th, 153{; un the 15th, 2ig; on tho 1Gth, 10X} on the 17th, Wi—ttal 164 mlles e measured by an odometer. The march was from tho Ycllowstone up the Roscbud, across to the Tongue, down the Tonjrue, ncross to the Pow- der, unil down the Powder to ita conflu- coce with the Yellowstone. To-duy we have lesa pogitive Information ns to the whereabouts of the hostilo Indiaua than we had ten doys ago, When we left the Yellowstone; and cer- taluly Crook knows less. Gen. Crook's com- mand consista of 1,5 cavalry, 403 Infantry, 500 Indlans, 40 Montana volunteers, and 75 camp- followers (including reporters), all armed, or & total of 2,523 repeating guns, and ammunition without stint. 1t {s a conundrum, which Crook will havo to solve before some * Cotnmittee on the Conduct of the War," HOW ME LET THE INDIANS OET AWAY EROM HIM. As for Terry's disposition of his troops, I have nlrcnd&wrlmn that it could not have heen bet- ter, ter the defeat on the Little Horn,—n defeat that fell upon Tcrr( 80 uncxpectedly, aud to the surprise aud mort{tication of the nu- tlon,~Terry could do nothing less than to fall bock for relnforcements, The untertainty of coinmunication ond the time consumed were Terry's misfortunes, certainly, but not his fuults. He put. his command in shape and moved two du{l sooner than his Quarter- master thought It possible. Every circum- stance and every information were thiat the In- dlans fell back from the Little Horn tothe south and west.' Crook also fell back before them, and, as stated above, his scouts seemedd never to heve lost sight of them. The cxpedition of Licut, 8ibley and John Finerty proved that the entire hostile force was in Crook's vicinity. With this fuct {n vlew, Terry cut loose from lils base of supplles and took the. fleld. He and cvery one with him wlmdcngy expected to strike the Indians jointly with Crook, and upon Crook's territory. ~You can lmagine, then, iow surprised we were when Crouk came In upon our front within thirty miles of the Yellow- stone; but you can hardly imagine how, disgust- ed the troops composing the Department of Dakota are ot this miscrable termination of what promised to be an uctive and o glorious camualgn, A hundred timea a day the question is asked: WIIAT BECAME OF CROOK'S INDIANS] and some are sarcastic cnough to reply that they don’t belleve Crook hus had any Indiaus near him since his defeat on the Rosebud, on the 17th of June. If he had, and it was thelr tenfl he followed from Goose Creek to_the northern llnlm of Wolf Mountains, on the Roscbud, and which the combined army followed 150 iniles farther, then the Indians ran that trofl fnto o fl»lc in the ground, and pulled the hole in after em. A good deal las been printed fn the States about Terry waiviug rank In favor of Crook. He hos done nothing ot the kind. Ile met Crook cordfally, and has deferred not alittle to his experfence a8 an Indlun-fighter, and to his sug- kestionss but tnalntalns” bis rank of senfority. Personally, Gen. Crook appears to be every inch the man he Lias been represented to bej and, it he has made this terrible blunder, now more than suspected, of letting the hostile Indiaas slip:awuy from under his very nose, he should be charltably criticised. As Tor Tery, ho I3 above and beyond erfticlsm. He PLELY THIS FAUX-I'AS TERRIBLY, ° thie mory 5o that the scason when thy Indans can be found and whipped fn tho field is rapidly’ drawing to o close, Fripay, Aug. 18.—Lacking even weckly mail facilltice, and trylng to avold expressingz any very posltive opinfons, the truth of history de- muirda that I shiould send a somewhat exténded account of Gen. Terry's mnovetnents, What s written §s, of course, au jmperfect chironiclo of data plcked up here and there, and a good deal of it from_gossip at camp-fires. Every officer, from Sub-Lieutensut to Colonc), has a plan of hils own for tinding Sitting Bull and w! MpPlng his army; and I am ouly sorry that Murat 1ial- stead couldn’t send {n bis “plan for conducting the war.” Gen. Terry, casy and good-natured, listens- to the many” supgestions of his asso- clates with quiet respect, though ft is doubtful if he bos done mors than to listen. But thy campafgn has had one bad aceessory, and that i8 in the multiplicity of scouts, white and red. Terry's Crows ‘have proven themeclves utterly unrelfabie, and Crook’s Shosliones are rom thelr hunting-grounds to be of Amang the white men eoployed 88 seouts, there has been more or less jealousy and rivalry. ‘They hardly agree upon the most trivial matter. Gen. ‘The bruve marincer on the trackless ocean with- out compass {8 ne more at the merey of wind and wave than Terry's sriny, out upon'this vast, trackless waste, is AT THE MEIRCY OF TS GUIDES AND 8COUTS, ‘The sun riees in the east, shines all day upon a vast expanso of sage-brush and grass, aud, as it scts n the west, custs {ts dull rays into » thou- sand rayjes that nelther man nor beast can cross, The magnet always points north; but whether one cango clther north or south can only he declded by personat cffort. An insig- nfficant turn to the wrong sfie of a llttle knoll or buffalo-wallow ofttimes fmpereeptibly leads the voyagrer into ravine aftor raving, over biufl after Liulf, until at lust he stands on the edgo of ayawulng canon hundreds of feet in dopth und with perpendicular walls. Nothiog ls feft for him to do but to retraco his steps and fnd an accessible route. Crook brought with him “Buftalo BN and Frank Grouard, o haif- Dreed, who lias lived with the Sloux many years, but who was Dorn (n the Sandwich Islands. Terry has Fred Girard, Interpreter at Fort Line coln, und a former job-printer in the St. Louls Lrepublican _ofllee; George Herndon, of Mone tann; and Mupgine Tuylor, of Sait Lake. Individually, I hove no doubt, these are eevers ally good wmen and experts; but, collectively, they Qon't amount to o cuss., Tho fufantry which Gen. Crook brought with him (under command of Col. Chambers, of the Fourth In- fantry), laving been on the Plalus ull suniner, were” Dardencd, and marcehied lke u detachient of Bhiormau's hummers, keeplng upon the hieels of thu cavairy all duy; but erry's infuns e T try, lutely brought {rom gorrison-duty, suflered extrems Jordalips. Men fell out of tho ranka every hour, and had to bs plcked-up and Lrought-ln by the cavalry, To add to thelr dls- comfort, the Tougue and Powder Rivers had to be forded every tive or ten miles, generally two fect in depth, causiug the men to strip. The last three duys’ marching wus also severe upon the cavalry-horses, many having to be abau- doned. CAMPAIGNING ON TIIH PLAINS, the army fiuds, 18 vastly different from what it experfenced during the Civil War, An utter wuste, o vast solitiude; frequently-recurring ut- nmospherle disturbances, bringing tecrifle faslics of lizhtuing, heaven's reverberating artillery, and oods of water; the sad uncertainty of il nioveents heretofore sud to come; uid one uiunml. say that bis Jot has been cast in pleasant aces. B To-day, In a vain effort to overhaul some stragpling band of hostile Indians, I am with Col, Miles, of the Fifth lurnuv.la' pnl.mllnf the Yeollowstone, between Powder fver_and (ilen- dive, on the steamer Far West, Gen. Terry secms to have heeded the suggestion 1 made i o former letter, thut the best way to hunt In- dians was on a steru-whecl boat, “Grant Marsh, Lkoown to every Upper-Missowd-River mau, s in* commund of tie Far West, and wiut he dou't know about hostlle Indinns fsn't worth know-, fug, Inhis 20 yeare' expurience among then he has Lad muu{ narrow escapes from capture. Of course, ho has a plau,—two of them, in fact. In the first place, Marsh would corrul all the Indlans, then trade themn off to Callfornin snd Oregon for Chinamen, and shoot the China- men; or, he would erect Dakota uto a State, and send_8itting Bull and Cruzy Horse to Con- gress, and let them fight out thelr grievances in ihat besr-garaen. SNIUE-BUOOTING, Among the twenty-tive or thirty reporters with Crook's comtnand, {s a bald-headed, mut- ton-chop-whiskered fellow, who has learnt tho boys o now wriukle. All tho reporters ore ariued, aud, of course, each blows o good deal flu.‘lilnlflb d}nnknn-nsh’igh '1;!;: m.ln:lrl dnyhtm‘: updreary gota y to go snipe-shout og. Kirst ape od a8, n}m abother; Terry 18 at thelr mercy. [ _vis tha Yollowstoue s, and will cont @ribnne, but no snipe were damaged. Finally, 1. D. sneaked up within twenty foct of asnipe and turned his old carbine loose. There was a show- er of feathers, but the snips skippéd oft on his knitting-needlo Togs, andlid i cottanwood thicket. * I hit him, boys,” sald Dundreary} whereupon lis was crowicd victor, Tho party then adjourned on board the steamboat, an drank llhcrallz from Dundreary's junk-bottle. The New York Torld man (cafled "+ Calamity Jim ) brought in a handful of the feathers, and, on closcr {uapection, they were found to be oore-feathers! ‘Then the thambermald sald Lord Dundreary had {((Vcn her a half-dollar to steal them out of a pllow and that she saw him ram them down the gun before he went out! In s former letter 1 made mention of CAPT. D HALL, of tho Becond Cavalry. On better scquaintance 1 find him to be '“one of nature’s noblemen.' He has been thirty years in the army, serving through the Mexican War o8 o private, and with distinction in the line during the Civil War. He raoks fifth in the eavalry” corps, and will soon gain his Majority, It Is no disparage- ment to other officers to repeat Gen, Terry's words: ‘¢ Capt. Ball Is one of the ugblest men in the army.” I add this compliment, desérved 84 it {s, beeause o uasty ring of Indian roblers In Montana nrc just now em:#cd In tradncing Capt, Ball's chapacter becaufe he refused to countenance a robbery of the Crows. JONN" FINERTT, whilom of TnE TRIBUNE, {sone of the char- acters of the expedition. By modest attention to husiness and unparallcled. exbibitions of courage, John hias won the hearts of * the dash- ing cavalry corps,” And yet, {f_he should aud- denly make his appearance on Clark street, In Chicago, lonking 8a e doca to-lag, his best friend would give him the “shake.” Ie s “hearded Jike o pard,” ragged as Billy Barlow, and branzed deeper than Daniels' Injun tobaceo image. Yesterday his uose began to ppel for the fifth time, and the new ependemis, contrast~ ing with the old, gave his faco the sppearance of a lump of smoked topaz act in moss-agate, CAPT, DENTEEN, of the Beventh Cavalry, haa also been Incldent- aily mentiuned before. * Benteen s arciarkable man, and it is one of the devillsh mean regula~ tions of the army that such a man as Dentecn {8 left fn the lurch, Although well-up in years, yet a careful, honest, abstemnlous fife leagca him With the features of o boy. In resources he lsa Napoleon, In_courage o Caur-de-Lion} yet the great, mflcrly, patriotlc Government he serves can do nothing better for bim (as a reward for saving tho fluwer of Terry's army from annihila- tion) than an assigminent to recrulting service, He foca to St. Louls by first boat; but, If I were hie, T would go to the Sandsich Istands, to Bel- gradle, even to Stanley in Afriea, but what X would get somewhere 'to a people who apprecks ated and honored a soldier. 1 give a little paragraph about another re- orter, Davenport, wlhio represents the New Fork Jierald with Crook's columm. I huve been a reporter uver a quarter of mcentury; but it waa left for Davenport to leorn ine how to GET NEWB THROUGIL ON BIGNT. When Crouk had his fight with Sitting Bull, June 16, Davenport was very suxfous to get his news throuch first. 8o he told Crouk’s tourier that, It he (the conrier) would hold back Crook's dispatelies twelve bours, he (Davenport) would give him (the courler) $1 ‘The courler—a stupld, bouest fellow—declined the offer, and even told Crook what propoeition bad been made him. But the gazelle comes in at this point; Davenport didn’t have any hundrea dollars, and the nan he drew on at” Fort Ellls wouldn't hanor his draft. Davenport is u Little, weazened-face fellow, ullni‘{). quick-witted, any fullofresources; butso far he hasn’t **scooped ¥ anybody with Crook. News fsnews; and the general impression among military men s, that, the less the New York JHerald prints, the more the public will know as to the actual situation of alluirs on the Yellowstone. In wny Iater letters I have been somewhat severe upon GEN. CROOK. Personally, he is cvery {nch the soldler, e is a plaln, unsssuming "Western man fu appear- ance; dresscs less showily than ary Licutenant; wears o full beard, tyingz up the flow with a string; carries o repeating rifle niways, and lives on the Government ration. He has only two ofticers upon his staff,—Lieuts. Bourke and Schuyler,—and often requires of them the du- tics ‘of an orderly when on the marcl. He is n mun of few words, understanda every detail necessary for the rapll mobilization ot troops, and ought to suceeed f any max can. AND OF UEN., TERRY I have written Ireely, Iie {8 & man in many re- speets diffcrent from Crook. Terry 1s, Pemlp" no better soldier than Crook} and’the fuct that he is open and uureserved fl:cruwa to his preju- dico. “Terry s a patrisrchal rather than a hereditary General,—loving, caring for, and understanding the men placed under him, - He will hear gnd beed tho mg‘.u-uuon or prayer of any oue, if the sugeestion®or prayer bo just, e has, however, entirely too much stafl. Werg hea Major-General commanding a dozen brig- adces, ho eould not find use for os mauy men as he hos now, Thero are Bmith, Adjutant-Gen- eral; Nolan, Quarterinaster; ‘Thompson, Com- missary; Maguire, Engincer; McCalis, Ordi- nance Ofticer; Hughes and Glbbs, personal Aids; and Burgeon Willlams. And yet I have known Gen. Terry to do the work of most o these officers himaelf. Ife works Lard day and night, hins his soul in the service, and carefully weighs cvery matter touching the gencral re- sult, Puocion. THE YELLOWSTONE. AN OPEN LETTER TO RIVER-MEN, Tar YELLOWSTONE Riveg, Mouru or Pow- DER, Aug. 20.—The fortuncs of war have thrown an old river-man away up here as special corre- epondent for Tue Cuicaco Trinuse; and, an- ticdpating an early day when the Yellowstono River will become an additional inland thor- oughfare, he forwards the followlng memor- anda for the benetit of steamboatmen with ven- tursomne natures,—steamboatmen who are fond of hunting and fishing, and who are not afrald of losing their scalps: This river is,in every particular, the MOST REMARKALLE BTREAM on the American Contiuent, I speak whereot I know from mauny years' experfence oun the Ohlo and Mississipp! and their tributaries, and from actual obscrvations on this strenm, Except when swollen by summer rains, It {s as clear ss the Cumberland; it has as rapld a current a8 the Upper Missourl; it has the clearly-defined banks, gravel-beds, and bars of the Tennesses; the steady, unchanging chan- ncl of the Red; and 18 a3 haudsome a streamn os ever flowed. Reclving fts aupply from the winter's snow-fall in the Bl Horn, Wolf, Pow- dery and smaller ranges of wountaius, it sttalns ita muxhinum depth Tn Juno at u time When oth- or Western navigable streams are generally at thelr lowest stages; and the regularity ‘and slowness with which the snow dissvives scrveto keep a steady flow untll August. The June freshet usually brings a ood deal of sand, de- composed veretable-matter, and alkali-dust from the ravines and bad lnnds, which siightly till-up tho chauncls; but, as the river recedes and false channcls closo up, the rapidity of the current soou cuts away all obstructions, sud tho chaunel hecomes clearly defiued. Conse- quently, the depth of water In the maln chan- nel {s often AB OMEAT IN AUGUST AS IN JUNE— heing so this yeur, when three and four feet are tnarked on tho raplds. The currents run regularly from foot of bend to point-shudow,— that s, the crossings are natural, and all a dot has to do {s to locats middie bars, false polnts, and rocks, ‘There are no suags in the Yellow- stone, and the only hazardous obstroctions are reels of rucks which sometimes a fand-slide has thrown out into a bend. Middle bars sud fstands oceur at lrcn}ucm. intervals; but a good pilot can always tell where the draught of water l-. Of course thero are no wood-yards on the river, but woodiug-places are never out of reach, The points sud fslands are gonerall skirted with tine thnber, drift, deadoned, ang standlii, A crew will wood up in forty min- utes out of twelve hours, which' is about us well as somo wood-yards on the Cumberland or ‘Tennessoo cun oiler, From Buford to Enstern Montans, the route fnue to be, THE BIOUTEST AND MNUBT ACCESSIDLE ONE. Thy “Far West" has demonstrated this peason thut the Yellowstouo is nuvigable later thau the Upper Missourk From Pryor's Creek to the mouth, there cannot bo Jess than twen- ty-fourduches, and the shoal places aro ouly two or three Wlatance of 461 miles, There wro u dozen different raplds on the Yolfowstone; but ar-cut channel of fifty feet wide and four d tive fect deep Is always found., To Fort Ellls, Bozenun, sud the fur ad ure producing v tana, the Yellowstune {s the besi iy thu Far West, Carroll, . Durfee have beeh running o} and, although each boai has carried yull toshage s'k‘,u thu dog-days of August), 1 have yet hear of elther boat wettlog & spar, “In fact, with ordinary care and dlacretion, & boat need Rever geb aground Josephing, an ot the Yellawst T Jthe Biack Hilis dircct, to lay waste' the mining 2D go favaqry 19t gy ¥32u3y, o4 ICE FIVE CENTS, from the opening to the closs_of mvlg‘.llan' Cnv.. Gnntfiunfilm Tun the Far West night and day on the Upper Yellowstone, and he, and Camplell, and Thompson, pilots, say it {8 the easlcat and_heat stream to navigate “they ever were on, Foulke and Vardy, the englucers, say it Is Letter water for making steamn than tha Missouri or Lower Misslasippf,—don't scale up 8o 1nuch, nor scour out packing. To-day the Careoll, Capt. Burlelgh; Josephine, Capt. Mar- tin Coulean, ‘and the Yellowstane, Capt-John Massle, are at the landing, giving the river quits a business-like appearance. Puocion.: CROOK’S COMMAND,. FOLLOWING THE THAIL. Bpecial Dispatch to The Tribuns, Croon’s Exrepition, Camr Near Hmap oF Heant Riven, D, T, Sept. 4, via BisMARcr, D. T, Bept. B.—After parting with Terry's column, near the mauth of Powder River, Aug. 24, this command ascended the stream named some 20 milesto Terry's trall of last spring. ‘There news was brought of demonstrations on the part of the Bloux agalnst a small force of fn= i fantry stationed opposits the mouth of the Ulendive, A confereacs between -Crook and Terry resulted in the former following the main trall castward, and the latter pushing down the Yellowstone. The maln trall of the savages was kept between the two columus o this manner until on the mornfug of Bept. 1, when Crook’s force reached a polnt near the 2ith por- allel, on Beaver Creck. Thera the scunts reported finding a large trafl of Indians A few miles further down, coming from the west ant deacending the valley. Recent rafna had murked the trall to such an extent that its nge conld only be approximated, seven to ten days at least having elapsed since {t was made. Over it, however, a party of ABOUT A DOZEN HOSTILES bad traveled only the day before, and flve or six abandoncd ponies found by the way fudicated that the savages were getting out of the country by forced wmarchies. On the 2d fost. the recently- absndoned camp of o thousand or mora warrlors was found, and morc 'tralls ap< proached within s few miles, sll turnlng off abruptly to the cust. The same night » sentry fired into a small party of spying hos- tiles, the latter coming from and flecing in the directiog of the Little Missourf River. Gt rook Ial expected to draw supplics from Gen, Terry at the mouth of the Glendive, the latter having agreed to communieate from there, but five days had clapsed since the dato Terry had arranged to be at the appofoted rene dezvous, and yet no tidiogs from bim. Crook, belleving a chance yet remained of striking the Indlans on the Little Missourl, and fearing dlsap- polutment If he depended on drawing ratlons on the Yellowstone, determined to STRIKE OUT AFTER TIIE SAVAGES, and take thio chance of getting through to Fort Lincoln or some other post. With the scven days® supply yet remaining, st dawn on the 3d the column took the trail lead- ing castward, encountering further sigus, and finding the entire reglon covered with scattering - pony and tepee tralls. In the evening half o dozen of Licut. Stanton’s scouts, reconnoltering some 20 mniles ahead of the column, met an equal number of Sfoux, EXCHANGED A VEW SIOTS, and killed a horse ridden by one of the war riors. In the day's march of 20 mfles, however, nothing further was developed, A march of 20 miles yesterday brought the come mand to the Little Missourl tralls, They wero still more divided and scattering, and all turn- fug oft southward, The signs were nlso much {resher, and all betokening hasty flight. It {8 now feared that tho hostlles aro going to 1 'scttlements, even though they moy contemplats™ golng fnto the southern Agencies soon. Gen. Crook now finds himself with but four days' ratlons, and is distant 120 mfles from Fort. Lincoln, or 150 from the necarest mining-camp in tne Black Hills. To march to tho former point aud return would wear out both horses and men, with nothing but a few days’ ratlons left and hia limited transportation, to make tho final march to his post at the soutt. He now determines to PUSI THNOUGH TO THE BLACK INILLE in the wake of the encmy. The command gene erally bears him out in this decisfon, in splte of the Incvitable resort to balf rations, and per- haps mulc meat, Bupplies in sufficlent quantity can be obtained at the mining-camp to feed tho troops temporarily. Meantime dispatches ure belng sent via Lincolu to Fort Laramis, order- ing tendays' supplics out =afar as possiblo northward, and to the wagon-train at Old Fort Reno to push forward {u the same dlrection, A courler will also bo scnt In to Deadwood to have bectf and other supplies sent out. HEALTH OF THE TROOPS. Only 50 men out of 1,800 are now on the sick- list. Meavy ralns snd bad food, however, havo to & great extent exhnusted and debilitated tho troops, who are entircly without shelter, Tha harecs, ulso, are rapldly wearinyz out. ny's arch of £5 miles was attended by an cxcfu ng udventure. Licut. Stanton and Ma). Andrall, st the head of about adozen scotits, ovurtook 15 lodges of Indians, the latter numbering 80 warriors, with some aquaws aud chilldren, d. One w:r:'ll:)zrsxw::afialcd and the ro- . fx?u!i‘ll:lcr lu:u to the Bad Lands. The skirmish occurred 15 miles on our left, and the Indiang wera going southward, ‘The fact is more than ever apparent that Gen. Crook is forelng the savuges steadily toward thelr Agencles, and is also now in o falravay of renderin: iuvalusble ald to the Black Hills min- crs, a8 well aa more northern frouticrs. BLACK IILLS. A_Piour. Cnerexsg, Wy, Scot. 8.—Mr. Ingram, who came into Rawhide Springs, tho present ter- wminus of the Black Hills telegraph line, re- ports that on Sunday laat 15 Indians attucked his party on Indlan Creek, and two men, named Gapnon and Stearns, of .Golden City, Col., wero killed. A defensive position was malntaiued by tho whitesuntil 10 Indianswere killed or wound- ed, when the rest abaudoned the field, Mason's outfit comlng up, then assisted In tho bural of the dead. fi’?xm | parties of Indiana have been scen in the vicinity of the telegraphic camp for several days past, cll ‘l’uut;‘vlng southward, 0, body of Heary Slunon, & teamster, wha k;l;hgefl&){ 'iuu., ln:{ May for Custer, and'sinca missing, was found ‘)"enenlsy hidden In a staclg of hay near the Sliney crossing of the Platte River, BLOODY WORK, A PORTION OF SITTING BULL'S COMMAND 1N THY LLACE HILLS—XLBVEN MEN KILLDD AND ONN WOUNDMD — TWO MUNDRED AND TOIRTE TIORYRS STOLEN. The Council Blufts Nonparell of the 84 fust, publishes the following account of an Innfan attack upon a Black Hills party: . W. H. Rnbinson, of this city, who left far th PBlack ilills a month or two ago, arrived home from that locallty on Friday night, He left Dead- wood A 1, and mude the trip safely to Fort Plerre, on the Missourl River, In company with Volln's traln of $3 men and 32 wagons, arciving at tho latter place on the 20th ulf, Thore ho em~ Larked on the atesmer Western for Yanktoo, which clty lie reached on tho S1at, when the remainder of \he journey wnuccumk lhied by rell In the way shove stated, By far the most exciting and futer- esting news b"’“s‘“ by Mg, Robiuson ts an uc- count of recent Indian outrages in the Ii({s. whick boda future trouble to the lners. Of theas Wo bave a detatlodaccount in the Yaokton Press, furs nishod by othier members of the asma party, and fully corruborated by Mr. Koblmeon. From It and him wa Jearn that the first ludlan reports re- celved In tho Iiilla were to tha effect that 800 In- dlsns had arnved from Sittiog Bull's command, and, a3 thls account colncided with & warning roviously sent by Gen. Crook, it wad gouerally tu“eved. Tha firet work of the Indiaos was on Friday morning, the 18th of August, Charles, z )lullwrfier tho mail-carrier from Plerro to Crook, " * was killed withlu 8 wiles of Crouk City, on the rod, from iy Gy, Silberger T beter kaowu e ** Indiuna.™ On the new road from Deadwood to Centennial, o Hundsy worniug, the 20th of August a slugle huslur, wliose BaiLls ot ROvh, Yah ters veerch of game. - o shesa : Wards san'an Lndtas, + iaviog & cbarge (o tas otber