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se THE SIOUX WAR. General Terry’s Official Report on Cus- ter’s Gallant March to Death. GIBBON’S RESCUE OF RENO. Danger Threatening from Defection of Friendly Indians. WHITE OUTLAWS LEAD THE REDS. General Sheridan Thinks the Army Strong Bnongh to Crush Sitting Bull’s Band. WAR DEBATE IN THE HOUSE, A History of the Dakota Indian Diffficulty from Secretary Cameron. GENERAL TERRY'S REPORT. Curcago, IL, July 8, 187 ‘The following is General Terry’s official report of Ouster’s engagement with the Indians, received at the headquarters of General Sheridan to-day:— HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF DAKOTA, Camp ON LitrLe Bic Horn River, June 27, 1876. M0 THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE MILITARY DIvI- SION OF THE MissoURKI, at Chicago, Ll.:— ‘ It is my painful duty to report that day before yesterday, the 25th inst.,a great disaster overtook General Custer and the troops under his command. At twelve o’clock on the 22d he started with his whole regiment and a strong detachment of scouts and guards from the mouth of the Rosebud. Pro- seeding up that river about twenty miles he struck B very heavy Indian trail which had previously been discovered, and pursuing it found that it led, as was supposed, to the Little Big Horn River. Here he found a village OF ALMOST UNEXAMPLED EXTENT, and at once attacked it with that portion of his force which was immediately at hand. Major Reno, with three companies, A,G and M of the regiment, ‘Was sent into the valley of the stream at the point where the trail struck it. General Custer, with five companies—C, E, F, land L—attempted to enter it about three miles lower-down. Reno forded the river, charged down its left bank and dismounted and fought on foot, until finally, COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED BY NUMBERS, he was compelled to mount, recross the river and seek a refuge on the high blufls which overlooked its Tight bank. Just as he recrossed Captain Benteen, who with three companies, D, H and K, was some two miles to the left of Reno when the action commenced, but who had been ordered by General Custer to return, came to the river, and rightly concluding that it would be useless for his force to attempt to Tenew the fight in the valley, he joined Reno on the biuts, Captain McDougall, with his company B, was at first at some distance in the rear with a train of pack mules. He also came to Reno soon. This united force was nearly surrounded by Indians, many of whom, armed with rifles, occupied positions which commanded the ground held by the cavalry, ground from which THERE WAS NO ESCAPE. Rifle pits were dug and the ight was maintained, though with heavy loss, from about half-past two o'clock of the 26th till six o’clock of the 26th, when the Indians withdrew from the valley, taking with them their village. CUSTER'S DEATH STRUGGLE. Of the movements of General Custer and the five companies ander his immediate command scarcely any tii is known from those who witnessed them, for no soldier or officer who accompanied him has yet been found alive, His trail from the point where Keno crossed the stream passes along and in the rear of the crest of the bluffs on the right bank for nearly or quite three miles ; then it comes down to | the bank of the river, but at once diverges from it, as if he had unsuccessfully attempted to cross ; then turns upon itself, almost completes a circle, and closes, It is marked by the remains of his officers and men, the bodies of his horses, some of them dropped slong the path, others heaped, where halts appear to have been made. There is abundant evi" dence that A GALLANT RESISTENCE WAS OFFERED by the troops, but they were beset on all sides by overpowering numbers. LIST OF THE KILLED. ‘The officers known to be killed are:— General Custer, Captain Keogh, Captain Yates, Captain Custer, Ideutenant Cooke, Lieutenant Smith, Lieutenant Mcintosh, Lieutenant Calboca, Lieutenant Porter, lieutenant Hodgson, Lientensnt Sturgis, Lieutenant Reilly, of the cavalry; Lientenant Crittenden, of the Twentieth infantry, and Acting Assistant Surgeon De Wolf, MISSING OFFICERS. Lieutenant Harrington, of the cavairy, and Assistant Surgeon Lord are missing. WOUNDED. Captain Bentcen and o Lieutenant Varnum, of the cavalry, are slightly wounded. GENERAL CUSTER’S FAMILY. Mr. Boston Custer, a brother, and Mr. Reed, a nephew of General Custer, were with and were killed. No other officers than those whom I have named among the killed, wounded and missing. ENLISTED MEN LOST. It is impossible yet to obtain a reliable list of the listed men who were kilied and wounded, but the ‘pamber of killed, including oficers, must reach 250. ‘The number of wounded is fifty-one, GENERAL TRRRY'S PLANS. At the mouth of the Rosebud I informed General Custer that I shoukt take the supply steamer Far West up the Yellowstone to ferry General Gibbon's column over the river; that I should personally ac- company that column, and that I would, tn all probability, reach the mouth of the Little Big Horn on the 26th inst. The steamer reached General Gibbon’s troops near the mouth of the Big Horn early on the morning of the 24th, and at four o'clock in the afternoon all his men and animals were across the Yellowstone. GIBBON’S MARCH TO SUPPORT CUSTER. At five o’cloek the column, consisting of five com- panies of the Seventh infantry, four companies of the Second cavalry and a battery of Gatling guns, marvhed out to and across Tullock’s Creek. Start- ing soon after five o'clock in the morning of the 25th, the infantry made a march of twenty-two miles over the most dificult country which I have ever seen, in order that scouts.might be sent into the valley of the Little BigHorn. The cavalry, with the bat- tery, was then pushed on thirteen or fourteen miles further, reaching camp at midnight. SCOUTING FOR si0vx. The scouts were sent out at half-past four on the morning of the 28th. The scouts discovered Indians, who were at first supposed to be Sioux, but when taken they proved to be Crows, who had been with General Custer. They brought the FIRST INTELLIGENCE OF THE BATTLE. Their story was not credited. It was supposed that some fighting, perhaps severe fighting, had taken place, but it was not believed that disaster could have overtaken so large @ force as twelve companies of cavalry. The infantry which had broken camp very early soon came up, and the whole column entered and moved up the valley of the Little Big Horn. During the afternoon efforts were made to send scouts through to what was supposed to be General Custer’s position, and to obtain information of the condition of affairs, but those who were sent out were driven back by parties of Indians who, in in- creasing numbers, were seen hovering in General Gibbon’s front. A HALT IN DARKNESS. At twenty minutes before nine o'clock in the even- ing the infantry had marched between twenty-nine and thirty miles. The men were very weary, and daylight was fading. The column was, therefore, halted for the night at a point about eleven miles in a straight line above the mouth of the stream, This morning the movement was resumed, and after a march of nine miles Major Reno’s entrenched posttion was reached. The withdrawal of the Ip- dians from around Reno’s command and from the the valley was undoubtedly caused by the appear- ance of General Gibbon’s troops. STRENGTH OF THE SAVAGES. Major Reno and Captain Benteen, both of whom are officers of great experience, accustomed to see large masses of mounted men, estimated the num- ber of Indians engaged at not less than 2,500, Other officers think that the number was greater than this. The village in the valley was about three miles in length and about a mile in width. Besides the lodges proper a great number of temporary brush wood sheiters were found in it, indicating that many men beside its proper inhabitants had gathered together there. Major Reno 1s very confl- dent that there were a number of WHITE MEN FIGHTING WITH THE INDIANS. It is believed that the loss of the’ Indians was large. I have yet received no official reports in regard to the battle, but what is here stated is gathered from the officers who were on the ground then, and from those who have been over it since. ALPRED H. TERRY, Brigadier General. THREATENED DEFECTION OF THE FRIENDLY INDIANS. Bismarck, Dakota, July 8, 1876, A gentleman who has just arrived here from Berthold Agency, where Arrickarees, Grosventres and Mandans are stationed, says that, though these Indians have always been friendly to the whites, and until last summer hostile to the Sioux, they have traded and talked much with Sitting Bull ot late, and the Mandans and Grosventres are inclined to abandon their agency and join him in his cam- paign against the whites. In April thirty lodges of Sitting Bull’sadherents encamped opposite Berthold Agency for several weeks, ostensibly to trade, but really TO FORM A TREATY with the Indians of the three tribes named above, and during that time they made the agency Indians many presents, It was about this time that the Berthold Indians refused to furnish scouts for Gen- eral Custer, though they afterward reconsidered ; their determination, and it 1s probable there ts ground for the statement made by the gentleman alluded to. ‘To the principal men on the frontier it seems cer- talythat the government must take immediate and effective measures to chastise the hostile Sioux, or there will be great and damaging defec‘ion from the agencies of Indians who have been heretofore friendly. Should this occer, the Sioux would be thereby greatly strengthened and encouraged. ABSENCE OP INDIANS FROM THE BLACK HILLS. A large train arrived here from the Black Hills this afternoon, bringing advices to the 29th alt. They report no Indian disturbances on or about the Hills for some weeks past, but those who had been prospecting to the westward of the Hills report that large and fresh trails had teen found leading north. WARRIORS ON THE HUNT. ‘Several large parties of Sioux have passed north from points In the Missouri agencies within the past three weeks, and at Cheyenne and Standing Rock agencies there remain only old men, women and children, the warriors being on the hunt; but all | the tracks from these agencies lead toward the loca- on of Sitting Bull. A GRAND RED CONFEDERACY. It has been a favorite idea of this chief to form a great Indian confederation, embracing all the lead- ing tribes, and he has made overtures to all the uribes with whom he could communicate. WHITE LEADERS AMONG THY SAVAGES. Among his followers are renegades and des- peradoes from every northern agency, and men who were in Reno’s battle informed the HkRALD correspondent that the Indians were led in their attacks by whites, Men also who have been en- gaged where attacks have been made on the Black Hills trains inform me that in every instance they heard English voices urging the Indians to the attack, The Indians are desperate and are goaded forward by desperate men, and the government must either surrender the frontier to these savages OR FIGHT IT OUT. ‘The Sioux warriors believe that they are more nu- merous, stronger and in every respect better than the whites, and if their old chiefs who have visited the East tell them of the power of the whites and try to give them an idea of their numbers, the wo- men insist that the white men have pat a veil over | whneh anfurtunately, cannot be furnished from my mi NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDax, suLY 9, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. SITTING BULL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Scene in the Life of the Sioux Chief, from a Picture- Language Book Drawn by Himself. While the fate of the gallant Custer and his men ex- cites the sympathy of the entire country, the action in which he has fallen has placed in extraordinary prom- imenco the name of the Sioux Chief, Sitting Bull, who was tho victor in the battle on the Little Big Horn,ot the 27th ult, In aportion of our issue of the 7th inst, there appeared a description of a very curious book, being an autobiography of Sitting Bull im rude pictures, Such records of what they consider the notable and praiseworthy deeds of their lives are frequently made by the Indians, generally upon skins or buffulo roves, but in this case upon sheets of paper—the backs of a number of muster-roll bianks belonging to the Thirty- first United States infantry. They are filty-five tn number, and give in picture language the story of Sitting Bull’s career up to six or seven years ago. Each picture is rudely outlined with ink, the men, horses and other objects being such as children would make, Many of them are partiy filled in with red and blue colors, as if Sitting Bull bad at some time got Possession of one ofthe red dnd Ddlue pencils so weil known in newspaper offices and with it elaborated his pictorial efforts. Blood or a wound is indicated by ared blotch with streamers fall.ng down from it. The blue is used generellyyin indicating the white man’s Pantaloons, Sitting Bull is not at all modest in com- mitting to posterity the story of his great doeds, Whether it be tho scalping of a soldier in battle, the killing of Crow squaw, counting “coup” upon an ad- versary, that is striking him, killg and scalping a white wooachopper, lancing a Crow Indian, or the sly theft of a mule, he brags equally ot his prowess in his curious autobiography. This literary work, which is now likely to be famous, fell into the hands of Assistant Surgeon James C. Kimball, of the army, in the month of August, 1870, while he was stationed at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory. He had the pictures translated and sent them, with tho translation and an index, to the Curator of the Army Medical Museum, Washington, Surgeon George A. Otis, United States Army, who has filed them, in vook shape, among the archives of the the eyes of the visiting chiefs which makes them see many where but few exist. SUPPLIES SENT FORWARD, Colonel Smith, Terry's aide-de-camp, is bere, urg- ing supplies forward as rapidly as possible, and the Durfee will leave here for the Yellowstone to-mor- Tow. NEW PLANS FOR THE CAMPAIGN. He also awaits approval or disapproval of General Terry's plan of the campaign, which involves the es- tablishment of a strong post for supplies on the Yel- low Stone, from which an aggressive campaign may be carried forward in winter, should a winter cam- paign become necessary. ‘The point can be reached by steamer during the greater portion of the summer; indeed, the Far West, commanded by Captain Grant Marsh, who first visited the waters of the Yellowstone with steamboats, pushed bis steamer, a 700 ton boat, up the Big Horn to within fourteen miles of Custer’s bat- uefleld, and returning from that point he reached Bismarck Wednesday night, having started Monday noon. The distance is about 900 miles, BURIED ON THE FIELD OF GLORY. ‘The remains of the officers who fell in Custer's ac- tion were buried on the fleld. It was unly with great dificulty that the wounded were brought away on mule litters, Much needed food was thrown away in order to supply the requisite animais for this purpose. ‘The graves of the heroic dead were all marked for fature identification. GENERAL SHERIDAN’S VIEWS. Wasuixctos, July 8, 1876 The following despatch was received hero this moza- ing:— Patapecrma, Pa., Jaly 7, 1876. To. General W. T. Suxxmax, Washington, D. C. :— Your despatch received. 1 think it premature to think of asking for volunteer cavairy, with the at- tendant expenses. If the six companies of the Twen- ty-secoud infantry are given to Terry he will bave about 2,000, Crook in afew days will have 1,600 men, and I send him Merritt's eight companies of the Fifth cavalry, 400 strong, which will make him over 2,000 strong. We are ail right Give us a littiotume, [ deeply deplore the loss of Custer and tis men. I fear at was an unnecessary sacrifice, duo to misapprehension ‘and a auperabundance of courage—the latter being ex- traordinarily developed in Custer. 1 will keep im constant communteation, and if L should sec the slightest necessity of additional mounted men, gre command, | will not hesitate to ask for them; and if Congress will give the $200,000 which I have asked for the past two years, for the establishing of posts at Tongue River and the mouth of the Big Horn, it will be in the interest of economy and will settio the Sioux question. It should be remembered that the loss of Cusier and the men with him must have been attended by at least « corresponding loas on the part of the Indians. P. li. SHERIDAN, Lieutenant Geveral ANOTHER TURN YOR SIFTING BULL Another despatch from General Sheridan to General Sherman staies that he has notitied @ereral Terry that sixecompanies of tho Fiith infantry, under General Miles, will :mmediately join him, and also that he has requested General Sherman to send irom the Lake stations six companies of the Twenty-second infantry to join him. General Sheridan further says:—‘‘I bave also notified General Crook of this fact, and that if be required any additional force than the five companies already sent him, | can order the eight companies of infantry andor General Merritt to join him, There is nothing to be regretted vat poor Custer’s death and the officers and mon with him. ‘Tne column was suf. ciently strong to have handled the lodians if Custer had waited jor the j@nction, There # no canse for uneasiness, and wo willsvon give the Indians another turn. 1 will bo in Chicago by the first train. Goneral Sherman does not think tne Indians can number more than 2,500 or 3,000 men and must be greatly emvar- ragsed by their wounded.” Guana, Neb., June 8, 15: Captain McKerson, aide-de-camp on General Crook's staff, who went out with the expedition, returned to Omaha yesterday Ho ieft General Crook on one of the email forks of the Tongue River, at the base ot the Big Horn Mountains, 186 mules from Fort Fetterman Museum. The introduction, written by Dr. Kimball, | goes on to say that the autobiography contains a de- scription of the principal adventures of the lifo of Sit- ting Bull, who is an Unk-pa-pa chief It was sketched by himself in the picture language in common use with the Indians. Since the establishment of Fort Buford, in 1866, Sitting Bull, at the head of from sixty to seventy warriors, has been the, terror of mail carriers, wood-choppers, and smell parties in the vicinity of the post, and from 100 to 200 miles from it either way up and down the Missouri River. During the time from 1866 to 1870, when the biography was written, this band had several times captured and destroyed the matl, and Lad stolen and run off over 200 head of cattle and killed noara score of white men in the immediate vicinity of the fort. ‘Tho Unk-pa-pas area tribe of the great Sioux nation living in the Yellowstone and Powder River countries, The book was bought of a Yankton Sioux for $1 50 worth of provisions, The cut above is Vo. ll of the series of Ofty-five, This sketch has been selected as it ia the most representative im the series and as best | illustrating the history which Sitting Bull narrates in his rade and primeval way. His autograph is shown in the right hand upper corner, being, as it appears, a sitting bull. Asa warrior, Sitting Bull takes the usual shape of the Indian, and is scen mounted on his charger, with, In the present case, his brother riding behind him while he attacks and kills a white soldier. In the original picture the soldier is indi- cated by blue pants, and the fact that he is a white man is further indicated by the stovepipe hat. The shicld of Sitting Buil is swinging on the side of his horse, and is embossed with an cagie, which he in- vokes as his ‘‘medicine,’”’ or patron, by way of good luck. Tt will be seon that the picture of the animal sitting bull is connected by a line with the mouth of the warrior Sitting Bull This indicates both that the warrior is the famous “Sitting Bull,’ and that at the | Moment of the attack upon his enemy he has shouted out his terrible name to intimidate his foc, and about 262 miles from the railroad, The command Was awaiting tho arrival of supplies and reintorce- ments. The latter, consisting of five companies, lett Fort Fetterman on July 4 and exp2cted to reach Gen- eral Crook about the 12th, He will also be joined about Monday by 150 Snake Indians. ‘These, with the troops, will increase the number of men in the expedition to about 1,400. Captain McKerson does not apprebend any danger to the expedition, neither does General Crook, Captain MeKerson does not look upon the attack of June 17 as a defeat, and is confident that General Crook can and will whip the Sioux as soon as his reinforcements ar- | rive. General Crook's location is not more than 150 mules trom the scene of the Custer massacre. THE FIFTH INFANTRY ORDERED TO THE FRONT. Leavenwortu, Kan., July 8, 1876, General Pope has issued orders directing General Miles, with six companies of the Fifth infantry, to ro- Port at once to the scene of the Sioux war, The com- | panies go ordered are stationed as follows:—Ope at Fort Gibson, one at Fort Hayes, one at Fort Riley and three companies at Fort Leavenworth. General Mil has tho reputation of peing one of the best Indi fighters of the army. DEBATE IN THE HOUSE ON WAR. Wasmaroy, July 8, 1876. Mr. Bansrsu, (dem.) of Ohio, asked leave to offer q resolution calling on the Secretary of War to roport the object of the military expedition under Generals Crook and Terry, now operating against the North THE western Indians, with all the correspondence bearing | on the origin of tne expedition and all military orders issued by the War Department. Mr. YouSa, (dem.) of Tenn., objected, as he desired to offer a resolution himself on the same sabject. Mr. Boonk, (dem.) of Ky., from the Committee on Indian Affairs, called up the bill for the appointment of commission to troat with the Sioux Indians for tho cession of the Black Hills. Mr. Coxaer, (rep.) of Mich., having raised the ques- tion of consideration, the House decided (by 63 to 85) not to consider it at this time. The House then took up the bill reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs, declaring the country north of the North Platte River and east of the summit of the Big Horn Mountain, im Wyoming Territory, opon to exploration and settlement, Mr. Foro, (rep.) of IIL, inquired if the late disastrous ‘Ddattle with the Indians bad taken place iu the country atected by the bill, Mr. Stewie, (dem.) of Wy. T., stated it was not a fact that the military operations wero carried on with- out reference to the peace policy. In 1868 the United States had made a treaty with the Sioux nation, which was agrave mistake, if 16 was not a national dishonor and disgrace. That treaty had been the foundation of all the difficulties in the Sioux country and the cause of the death of Custer and his men im the Big Horn country. In 1866 General Pope established posts at Fort Phil Kearney, Keno and C, F. Simith, 80 as to open the roads to Montana and to protect the country of the friendly Crows from the hostile Sioux. In keoping these posts and opening that road many men, ettizens aod soldiers, bad been killed Notable among the actions that had taken place there were the massacre of Fetterman and his command at Fort Puil Kearney— ninety-six men and officers—and yet after these men had sacrificed their lives the government went to work and made a treaty, by which they ignominious!y aban- doned that country to these savages, dismantling 1s own posts and leaving there the boues of the men who bad laid down their lives in the wilderness, Was it to be wondered Ander theso tircunstances, that Sit- ting Bali and is men velieved that they were superior to the generai government? Any- body who knows anything about the Indian's nature | knows tbat the legitimate resuit of that cowaraly policy of ‘peace at any price” was only to deier the evil day which has ow come upon us Since that time the Sioux have been constantly depredating on the frontiera of Nebraska, Wyowmg aud Montana, and more men have tuilen ‘there in tue peaceful avocations of civil Ife without a murmur being beard thay tell ler the gallunt Custer on the 25th of June, The nly Crows have been raided ry {all moon, so with the Stoshon last theso outrages have become so wre wo long continued that even ihe peaceable Indian De- partment could not stand them any jonger, and called on the military arm of tho government to punish those men. It was in carrying out this policy that Custer 1 was up in toate the time that the Commissioners were there negotiate with the Sioux At that M Airad of his Horses, ho hereditary chiefian of the Ogallaiia tribe, and the man who by birth is ontitied Lo rule over these people tuld me that thore was Hot in that northern eountry ander Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse more than from 100 to 2u0 Jodges, which would not give themn over 800 fighting men, all told; and yet the re) “ht og and his soldiers have been sucriticed. country we now get is that there were 1, lodges, aggregating 3,500 or «4,000 fighting ~— men 1 the = eRcatmpment or village attacked | refuse 80 to remove tl + as host by Custer. came from the agencies where they had been fed and fattened by our government and where they had deeu better armed than the soldiers are, They came irom those reservations to fight our troops, aud if the present peace is continued they will go back there as | soon as the snow ponies for new operations next spriny Mr. Sexnyn, (ind.) of Mass.—yhe bands ef Sioux, the original source of trouble in the Northwes!, have uever been on a reservation, 8 Ball has had no treary with the United States at any time, but in the control of a few hundred savages he has been marauding sod murdering both Indians and white people in that region tor a number of years, talis to teed themselves and their cause this maranding and murdering to cease, and the | government Was perfectly right in the exercise of ibs functions when last fall it) sent scouts. to Sitting Bull demandng that he should | appear ou the reservation ata given time or that he | should be forced to do so. I the military expedition under fitted out against him. This expedition was ssf, tor a reason which it is wot | necessary noW to go » It was repulsed | 5 with great loss " This very naturally en couraged Sitting Bull and iis few liundred Sioux to suppose that they were able United States government, The gentiewan from Wy- oming (Mr. Steele) says that he bas received roiniores ments irom the reservations, That is a literal truth; but for a very different reason than that which he has ‘The {act 1s that those Indians with whom assigned. » Lave made a solemn treaty to support them on thie ation we have vuly paruslly ted during the Last , by the failure of Congress to give proper appro- fons. The tes at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail obliged to cut down the subsi-tence to one quarter of the rations. Thus the Indians, instead ef having been on a reservation, have simply been starved, This is the first cause of their complaint. ‘This excited commotion among them. As we all know, the subsistence which had been carried on at dunt isned rate tailea entirely by April 1. That obliged Congress to make another appropriation in order to eke out the tis par. But that appropriation was $0 sinall that before July 1 came round the last pouna of T obliged Cougress to lonzer by a special y. The couse- quence of this was that those wild tribes, By their s eral Crook many of the young braves became rest- Jess, but the old chief, Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, i 1s asserted, have been successful in keepiby the main body of them forces in order, Added to Unis is the statement which has gone abroad avcong the Lo- dians that it 18 proposed to transicr them to the War Department, and that (us the Indians interpret 11) means that the government proposes to withdraw all protection trom the Inauns and to give them up to the extermination of military rule. [tts well ior Con- grees and the country to know the literal tact, That 13 the reason why the Indians have gove from the reser | vation to swell the forces of Sitting Bull, and that is the force of the massacre which has taken’ pl These Indians have undoubtedly. e: ated some of the difficulties to be experienced by them trom the pro- posed transter; but itis not strange they shouid ex- aggerate them, fact $s, however, that getting | word that they were to be transierred to the care of the Military Departinent, the Cheyennes aud Arrapaboes have become unsettied and have all gone from the res- ervation, and the result of all that was to reinforce Sitting Ball, who with big origibal few tundred men cvuld not have withstood, such a force as Custer brought sthim. 16 is well tor Congress anu the | country to understand these fucts, Mr. Pace, (rep.) of Cal., who had origially intro duced the bill, and had afterward reported it trom the Committee on Indian Affairs, remarked that the bill had no reterence to the late Indian war, and that ail discussion on that point was entirely out of place, | Mr. Kassoy, (rep.) of lowa, read from the treaty with the Sioux to show that the United States agreed, In the sixteenth article of the treaty, thut the very country which the bill proposed to throw open to cx- ploration and settloment was to be beld as unceded | indian territory; and that no white person should be | permitted to settie on it, or pass through it, without | the consent of the Indians. Mr. Pacx denied that that was the force or object of the bill. The bill, he said, only contemplate. throwing open to exploration that puri of the country reterred to | inarticle 11 of the treaty; it had never been contem- lated that all of the country north of the North Platte River and eust of the Big Horn Mountain, outside of the Indian reservation, should be forever excluded | from settlement. This bill simply provided that that part of the country outside of tho Indian reservation, and which was rich in mineral wealth, should be opened for settiement. Mr. Kassox—This bill opens it also to settlement, Mr. Pacur—Very well, why not? Has the gentleman any objections to its being thrown open to settiement ? Sir, Kassox—I havo in the face of the treaty made by the United States, which says thet no white person or persons shall Lo permitted to settle upon it, Mr, Paok—The gentleman will remember that the Dill provides that nothing tn it shall be construed to prevent the Ind rom hunting on that territory. Mr. Kassox—The bill expressly opens the territory toexploration and settlement, while the treaty ex- pressly says of the same country that no white person or persous sball be permitted to settle upon or occupy apy portion of it, : Mr. Pack—That refers to the 25,000,000 of acres em- | braced within the Sioux reservation, Mr. Kasson—I! that was so then the bill would be quite right, but article 16 of the treaty refers to exactly the same country as that bill refers to. Mr. Lawrescr, (rep.) of Ohio, submitted that the Dill shouia be rred to the Committee on Indian Affairs with instructioas to report the facts to the House, If he understood tho facta, they were these: — In 1888 a treaty was made by which it ‘agreed that white citizens should not settle in that country. In violation of that treaty citizens of tho United Staten had gone into that territory with a view to mining operations, and thearmy that had been sent in there to protect these citizens thus went in violation of the treaty. ‘This had led to uhis unfortunate war. Mr. Ranvatt, (dem.) of Pa.—Who sent the army there? Mr. Lawrene that— A Voice on the republican side—The Committee on Appropriations. (Laughter. ) Mr Lawnence—This, | say, has led to the unfortu- Nag War in which the lives of ¢o many valuable officers i men have been sacrificed. If this be a correct toment of the facts it is our cuty to call back the army and to give notice to the men that they are to vacate the country. Then we will be in a position in which we can treat with the Indians on the subject. if we aro the aggressors, 1f we have unnecessarily provoked this war, if we have permitted our citizens to invade a territory where they have right to go, and if we have seat our army to protect, them in unlawful trespass, then we are in fault and it isour duty to redrese our errer. The debate was continued by Messrs, Hal ‘aud Hurlbut, of Illinois, who. sent to the I suppose the gentleman understands of Main rks di It was necessary to | to control the | Where did these men come from? They } Hancock thought of an expedition to subdue bim | About tbat time this peace policy fever was raging, nad | on consultation with the other generals of the army | records of this department, and had read the following correspondence as to the | origin of the late military expedition :— Derantuust or tx Ixteion, Ww. \GTON, . 1, IN7G, Secretary or War: He, SOn' the dof Decemberlast T had the honor to ad- communication to you relative to the hostile Sioux ‘cun the Powder River country, under the leadership ronm of Sitting Bull, informing you that 1 iad directed couriers to be sent from each of the Sioux agencies, informing their Chior that he must come in with his followers to one of the Sioux agencit 1st ult., prepared to remain in peace hear be turned | over to the Wi army be directed to com with the order of xiven him in whieh to return ired, and the ty aavices received at the Indian Ontice be to the effect that. Sitting Bnil still refuses to comply with the directions of the Commissioner, the said Indians are bereby turned over {ithe War Department, for such action on the part o! the army ax you muy deem necessary under the circumstances. | I enclose a copy of comunnpicati a ner of Indian Affairs, dated the slat that bostil ‘be commenced, Very respectfully, your obedient servant, %. CHAND Ek, secretary. Derantuxxt oF THY INTrIIOR, Wasnixurox, D. C., Deo. 3. 1875, ¢ Tae Hovonaa.e tae Skcuxtany or Wa rom ult, Sin to my letter to you. dated the 20h ult. relative to the status of certain hostile soux Indians r Ing, outside of their reservations and remote from any faveney. requesting that steps be taken to compel them to Qe upod s teservacion and ceuse thelr depredations, I be fhe hooor to Inform you thas 1 have tl Commissioner of Indian Affairs to that — they mu te the Sixt day of be: ere Iudians, and that « military hem to obey the orders of & be notified of the compliance or nor ¢ Indians with this order. and if said Indi. Ans shall neglect of refuse to comply with said urder, have the honur to request that the proper tilitary officers be directed to compel thelr removal tv and residence within f their reservation. Very respectfully, your Sbedtont servants 2 OWANDLH, Secretary ‘These Northern Sioux derive their arms and ammu- nition partly from the British provinces, but largely from their friends anp connections around theso agen- cies. Mr. Hamnisos (dem.) of Ili, quoting the remark Lincoin that no goverument could exist free and half slave, asserted that no people could extst civilized and one half barbarous, They had great deal of Logan and the grand old heroes of the Indian aations, an admirer of the Indian hero, but it dead Indian hero, not the live one, The sta the gentieman from Muswachusetts (Mr. Seelye) that the Indians bad Leen injiormed that they were to be rred to tbe War Department was an admission the Peace Commissioners were acting the part of 8. iP Kassox, (rep.) of lowa, said tl the gentleman from Iilinois (Mr, enunciation of the doctrine of ‘The good old rule, the simple plan, that they should take who have the power, Aud they should keep who can, American legislation and progress did not not proceed on that principle alone, nor on that principle chiefly. It proceeded on the great principle of right and Knowledged conscience in public affairs tion of contracts. He proceeded to arg was in difect conflict with the sixteenth | treaty. The debate was further continued by Mr. Harrisox, of Lilimow; Mr, Kassox, of lowa; Cox, of new York, and Mr, Mactwxis, of Montana, who gave the following history of situng Bull: The first Ume that Sitting Ball became known to the People of this nation was during the great Minnesota massacre io 1962 In 1863 be fought Suily io the Black Hills. soon as comission Commissioners. ulory wartare, at Laram) away 1a 1867 he continued a career of pred. Tn 1868, when this treaty wis made he retaged to come in and be a party to it, in 1869 he attacked the settlement on the Mussel Shell, which was the first time he was ever defeated, notice of his coming an killed thirty-six ot h vecause the settlers had got had aw id warrio we Crows and General Hancock recomended that another effort should be made by the government to make a treaty with Sitting Bull. in the succeeding winter Congress appropriated $750,000 to buy peace from sitting Bull. That was the celebrated Teton-Sioux appropristion, 1m regard to the expenditure of which some criticism has been made. Anyhow they succeeded ia getting abont one-baif of his force into the agency af Fort Peck, but he himself retused to come ix. Im 1474’ bo still carried on war upon the settlemont of Montana and ravaged them constantly. He aiso carried on war upon the Crows, whom he drove trom their reservation, upon the Shoshoues and upon every ine dian trive friendly to the United States. In 1875 he attacked two government stages, ran off the stock of the stage company and again drove the Crows off their reservation inio Montana. By this time the Peuce Commissioners saw that be was intract- able and that he wust be disciplined. Messrs. fulmen of like charec- ter, petitioned the Indian Departinent to take steps to uyate Sitting Bull, The petition resalted in the letter which has been read here to-day, and in the War Department tlually taking hold of the matter, 1 ask whether the government has violated sts faith im taking War on the intractable Indian, who bas never recognized its Hag, who detox its authority, and boasts that, if he could get the Sioux nation to join him, be would drive the rumeut ivio the ocean? Mr. TowssEnp, (rep.) of N. Y.—Is this the same In- dian who organized the conspiracy to murder Sepator Allison and otber citizens last summer? Mr. Macinsis—He is the man who planned and or- ganized that conspiracy. The bill went over without action, and House then pr to the consideration of private bills, of which a large nymber wore passed. Mr. Kyourr, of Kentucky, rose to announce the 3ud- den and unexpected death of bis colleague, Mr. Par sons, and offered resolutions for the appointinent of a committee to superintend the funeral and to attend the remains to Louisville, Ky. The resoiutions were adopted, and Messrs. Black+ burn, of Kentucky; Hopkins, of Pennsylvania; Hart- sell. of Mlinois; Walker, of Virginia; Fort, of Hinois; Lawrence, of Ohio, aud Clark, of Kentucky, were ap- pointed such committee. The House then, at thirty-five minutes past three, adjourned, HISTORY OF Brunot and Stewart, au THE SIOUX DIFFI- CULTY. Wasmixatox, July 8, 1 The Seeretary of War to-day addressed tho following letter to the President: — War Deranrtweyt, 1 Wasuinoros, DP. C,, July 8, 1876. 5 To THe Presipgs’ To enable you to answer the inciosed resolution of the Senate of July 7 I have the honor to submit the following brief statement of facts us exhibited by the The Sioux or Dakota na- tion of Indians, embracing various tribes—Yanktous, Yanktonais, — Brules, Ogulallas, Minneconjous, Sous-Arcs, Two Kettles, &c.—have long been known as the most brave and warlike savages of this continent. They have for centuries been pushed west ward by the advancing tide of civilization, till in 1863 | an arrangement or treaty was made with them, by 4 special commission named by Congress, whereby, for certain payment or stipulations, they agreed to sur. render their claims to all that vast region which lays west of the Missouri Kiver and north of the Platte; 1 live at peace with their neighbors; to restrict them selves to a territory bounded east by the Missour River, south by Nebraska, west by the 104th meridian and north by the forty-sixth parellet of latitude— a territory as sarge as the State of Michigan ‘The terms of this treaty have been liberally performes on the part of the United States, and have also bees complied with by the great mass of the Sioux Indians. Some of these Indians, however, have never recognized the binding force of this treaty, but have always treated it with contempt, have continued to rove at pleasure, atttcking scuttered settlements in Nebrasku, Wyoming, Montana and Dakota, stealing horses and cattle and murdering peaceful inbabitants and travel. lers. On the 9th of November, 1875, United States Indian Inspector E. C. Watkins made an elaborate report to the Commissioner of indian Afuirs, in which he uses this language :— Thave the honor to address you in relation to the at- ttude and condition of certain wild and hostile bunds of Sioux Ipdiaus m Dakota and Montana that came under omy — observation during = my recent tour through ther connuy; and wha I think sbould be the policy ol the government towurd them, I refer to Sitting Buil’s band and otner bands of the Sioux mation under chiets or head men of less note, but no less uptamabie and hosule. These Indians occupy the contre, so to speak, and roam over Western Dakota and #astern Montaua, including tho e Blackiect, Piegans, friendly tribes on the circumterence. Irom their cen- rai poxition they strike to the east, north and west, steal horses aud plunder trom all'the surrounding tribes as well as froutier-settiers and luckless white hunters or emigrants who are not in sufficient force to resist them. Alter describing at great length their character and Supposed number, given at a few hundreds, ho says: © true policy, in my judgment, is to send troops inst them in winter, the sooner the better, and whip them into subjection. They richly merit punishment for their incessant faro and their numerous murders of white settlers and their faimilies, or white men whenever found unarmed, The torce estimated as necessary to whip them was 1,000 men. This communication submitted by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Hon, Edward P. Smith, to Hon, Secretary of the Interior B. Chandler, who in tarn submitted it to the Secretary of War, General Belknap, for bis consideration and action. In & subsequent communication of the Secretary of the Interior of December %, 1875, to the Secretary of War, occurs this language:-——~‘I have the bonor to ia. form you that Ihave this day directed the Commis sioner of Indian Affairs to notify said Indians, Sit- ting Bull avd otners, outside their Ser Vesti that they must remove to the reservation before the Sist day of January, 1876; that if they neglected oF refuse 80 to move that they will be reported to the War Department as hostile Indians, and that a military force will be sent to compel them to obey the order of the Indian officer."” On the Ist day of February the Secretary of the In- terior further notified the Secretary of W: The time given him Lede Bull) in which to return to an agency having expired, and advices received the Indian Oftice being to the effect that Sitting Bull still retuses to comply With the directions of the Com- missioner, the said Indians are hereby tarnod over to | the War Department tor such action on the part of the army as you may deem proper wader tue Btances, During all the stages of this correspondence the Gen- eral of the army and his subordinate commanders were duly notified and were making preparations tor striking a blow at these hostile savages, an enterprsie of almost ‘unsurmountable difficulty im a country where In winter the thermometer often fails to forty degrees below zero and where it is impossible to procure food for man of beast An expedition was fitted out under the personal command of Brigadier General George Crook, an officer of great merit and experience, which, in Mare last, marched from Forts Fetterman and Lar. amie to Powder River and Yellowstone valleys, ..4 struck and destroyed the village of Crazy Horse, one 0 hostile bands reterrea to by Indian Inspector Watkins; but the weather was found so bitter cold and circum. | other difficulties, #0 greas arose, that General Crook returned to Fort Laramie in # measare unsue cessful, so far as bis main purpose was concerned. THE DEAD HERALD CORRESPOND. ENT. Mark Kellogg, the special correspondent. of the Harap, who was found dead on Custer’s battic feild, served in the Army of the Potomac as a governinent telegraph operator, He was an expert electrician and ‘active inthe Geld. Alter the war he went West, and recently took up bis Gesidence im Bismarck, on the Missouri River, in Dakota, as it was @ good business point when the Northern Pacife Railroad reacbed tho Missouri He was considered ond of the best telegraph operators in the Northwest. General Custer was well acquainted wit bim, Just before ne joined the expedition he was en- gaged ina law office, but during bis spare hours he wrote for the St Paul papers and was local editor 0! the Bismarck Tribune. Last year when the Hexats ting the Indian frauds io that region Mr. Kellogg tarnished facts which bad come under his per sonal observation. He was an active corrrespondent, and his death on the field of battle testifies to his faith- fuiness, Ho was about thirty-six years old, but he did Bot appear more than twenty-tve, though his hair wag tinged with gray. He was a skilfal horseman and fe» miliar with all the peculiar hardships of the wild | frontier, POLICE COMMISSIONERS REBUKED, Mayor Siedler, of Jorsey City, has vetoed the resol@ tion of the Pohce Commissiogers authoriging paymeat for gold badges procured for the Commissioners with. oat any warrant in law. The Mayor reminds the Poltee Board that such an expenditure is “contrary ta tbat spirit of economy waich shoald er our public acta” and he calls epoa the ieee sider its action,