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. . not. That is aitogetner » aveus ana party matter. But we do hope that the various campaigns in the South will be fought upon tho same high plane—that passion, hatred, sectionalism, war issues shall be elim- inated. Whenever we see any party, re- publican or democratic, showing this spirit we shall applaud it; and for this reason, therefore, we applaud the republicans in North Carolina and trust their example will be followed in every Southern State. What Shall We Do with the Battery? In the beginning of the summer we called attention to the advantages of New York as asummer city, and especially pointed out what might be done with the Battery. We showed that no city in the world—not Ham- burg or Venice or Stockholm or Madras— was as beautifully situated as New York in the way of water scenery. We pointed out that our fathers knew the value of the Battery, and that in our way- ward following after fashion we had aban- doned it. The burning of Castle Garden has revived this discussion, and our contempo- raries are now following the Hxratp's path and urging upon our authorities the wisdom vf devoting the Battery te its ancient pur- pose. A century ago and New York must have been a cool, pleasant summer city. Our good: people lived around Bowling Green and on Greenwich street and on the narrow winding streets like Pearl and Nassau and Maiden lane. British officers were wont to stroll downsGreenwich street to the Battery and make eyes at the Dutch maidens who were not insensible to manly charms, even whén covered by the King’s scarlet. Houses on Broadway had gardens that ran down to the Hudson River. On the roofs of these houses it was the custom then to erect observa- tories, where in the cool evenings the fam- flies would sit and watch the purple golden shadows fall ovor the hills of Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York was a frigndly, compact city then, and if any of our read- ers should now care to take a stroll through these streets around the Battery they can easily imagine what a city it must have been when Bowling Green was tha centre of a busy, domestic living people, and not, as now, an abandoned waste, surrounded by warehouses and hovels. Now the Battery has come back to us and the question is, What shall we do with it? Allow the emigrant runners and boarding house keepers and railway agents to possess it? Bynomeans. The Battery should be made a public park. The Elevated Railway should be made to go around and not through it, The lower part of the island is occupied by our poorest classes, and it is for their good that we favor the dedication of the Battery to public uses asa park. As the World well remarks, the turning of St. John’s Park into a freight depot was an out- rage, and much as we value the new Post Office we sometimes wish that the old bit of greenery wero still where it was a few years ago. No one can tell what use the Battery may serve. Let us, then, preserve it, and now that Castle Garden has been destroyed, let us send the Emigrant Com- missioners over to Staten Island or to Bay Ridge. There land is plenty and cheap, and they can find much better accommodations than the narrow sovabera hy on the Battery. Cuaxce.—What glorious speech Senator Conkling would have made if Jewell had been dismissed by Johnson! How eloquently our great Senator would have defended the dignity of the Senate! Let him speak now. Tar Newark Tracepy.—Homicidal in- stincts have become so curbed by civilization that it is rarely we hear of an occurrence, outside of warfare, in which seven lives are sacrificed in an afternoon through the opera- tion of the passion to kill. Three German brothers, who had won unenviable reputa- tions for themselves, succeeded in fright- ening ‘the foreman of a tannery into having warrants issued for their ar- test, they “having repeatedly threat- ened death to various parties. The two officers who went to arrest the brothers were killed by them, and the murderers then proceeded to the tannery and commenced shooting right and left, killing two more men and wounding others, The passion to kill passed by a sudden impulse to the comrades of the workmen thus canselessly slain and then commenced a battue with the three Ger- man murderers for the game, which ended in the latter jumping to death in the Passaic rather than meet it on land at the hands of the infuriated avengers. As a tragedy it was awful and complete. The death met by the three wretches was no worse than they de- served. Aisi A Prornecy.-—Unless the republicans put an end to this new episode of Cw#sarism, this business of degrading honorable men, to please Boss Shepherd and avenge Belknap, they may as well close their canvass. Hayes and Wheeler will be whipped as badly as Scott and Graham. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, De Haas, the artist, is at Newport. Pendicton's family is at Long Branch. Longfellow is seventy, and worth $250,000. Old Probabilities yesterday sang “Ninety and Nine.” Speaker Kerr is worse and has mn up all hope of returning to Washington. In California the thermometer bas for some time in- dicated 110 degrees in the shade. Mr. Lennox, of New York, is occupying the Newport Villa of Mr. Hatch, of Fisk & Hateb. Sir Sydney H. Wateriow, M. P., Centennial judge for the printing department, is at the Windsor Hotel. The Shah is about to revisit the lands of the West, and will travel incognito as the * Duke of Tatiz"” Mrs. Esdaile, daughter of tho poot Shelley by bis first wife Harriot Westbrook, has just died at Ciilton. George Eliot thinks that the world would be a very poor affair if it contained nothing but common sense. The Marquis de Rochambeau, of the French Centet- bial Commission, has arrived at the Fi/th Avenue Hotel. An attempt to manufacturo champagne from the vineyards at Cashmere is now being made by the Ma- barayab. M. de Lesseps is anxious to make the canal between the Atlantic and the Pacific, across America. Nicar- agua is tho favorite route, The Rev, J, 8. C. Abbott, of Fair Haven, Conn., the ‘well known writer, 18 lying in a very criffcal condition, with but Inttle hope of his recovery. Lord C, G. A. Hamilton, of the Eleventh Hussars, has become a Catholic priest. He served with Lord Napier ip Abyssinia, He now leads the choir of the Carmelite chapel at Kensington. Captain Matthew Webb has sunced that at the latier end of August next he will attempt to swim from the west of Scotiand to Ireland, under the samo conditions as whon he crossed the Channel THE ‘ERIE RAILWAY IN : NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1876.—WITH fd eel ; CABLE NEWS From All Parts of the Old World. THE WAR IN THE EAST. A Decisive Battle Said to Have Been Fought. INCESSANT SKIRMISHING Reported Tchernayeff's Depression in Servia— Whereabouts, RUSSIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR SERVIA. Austria Closes the Port of Klek to the Turks. THE EXTRADITION TREATY. MacMahon Pardoning Com- munist Prisoners. ENGLAND. —_.—--— Depression of Trade in England—Prob- able Strikes. THE WAR IN TURKEY. [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE. ] Lonpon, July 13, 1876. Great anxiety prevails in Belgrade regarding the whereabouts of General Tchernayeff, who has not been heard from for some days. He commands the best troops in the Servian army, and on the success or failure of his operations the fate of the campaign almost entirely depends. A DECISIVE BATTLE EXPECTED. General Lesjanin, who holds Saitchar and the line of the Timok, has received reinforcements which bring the strength of his army up to 30,000 men, and it is expected that a decisive battle will be fought in that neighborhood. UNIMPORTANT SKIRMISHING. The special correspondents of the London papers: furnish only accounts of unimportant skirmishes and no battle of any importance appears to have been fought. DEPRESSION IN SERVIA. The Standard’s Vienna correspondent says that great depression prevails in Servia on account of the want of success attending the operations of the army in the field, and Prince Milan has been asked to solicit an armistice through the mediation of Russia. RUSSIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR SERVIA. The HERALD correspondent in Vienna reports that ; SUFFERINGS OF 25,000 Russian volunteers are ready to march to the assistance of Servia, and have asked the Roumanian government for permission to pass through its ter- ma: BOUMANIAN EMBARRASSMENT. This application is a source of the greatest em- barrassment to the Roumanian government. SEVERE BATTLE WITH GREAT LOSS OF LIFE+- THB RESULT ‘‘UNKNOWN’—OSMAN PACHA ATTACKS THE SERVIAN POSITION, Bruerape, Joly 13, 1876 Official inte!ligence received here from the Timok army states that the Turkish General Osman Pacha attacked the Servian position yesterday. The fight lasted throughout the whole day, The loss ot hfe was very great. The result is unknown, CAPTURE OF CIRCASSIAN SETTLEMENTS BY THE SERVIANS. Colonel Ostoics, operating under the walls of Wid- din, bas captured a*number of Circassian settlements, @ quantity of provisions and many bead of cattle Fighting at all the other positions is confined to skir- mishes and outposts combats. SERVIAN REPORT OF A VICTORY OVER THE TURKS—AT THE GATES OF WIDDIN. Betorans, July 13—Eveping. General Leschjanin, who, according to the latest in- teiligonco, had penetrated some distanco into tho Pachalik of Widdin, yesterday attacked the Turkish positions and cuptured several strategical points The fighting lasted the whole day. The Servian loss was small. Tho Servians pursued the Turks to Widdin and captured a quantity of provisions. The gates of Widdin aro now closed. TURKISH ACCOUNT OF A SUCCESS IN THE FIELD—MONTENEGRINS FOILED IN AN AT- TEMPT TO SURROUND A TURKISH COLUMN. Mostar, July 13, 1876. The Porte has sent the following despatch to its rep- resentatives abroad:—‘‘The Turkish General Selim Pacha with two battalions while marching from Gatschko to Nevesinje encountered in the Zallan defile considerabio torces of Montenegrins which endeavored to surround him. After an obstinate conflict lasting twelve hoars Selim Pacha, on Wednesday, succeeded in disengaging himself and in taking successiully all the heights occupied by the enemy, who were com- pellod to retreat with considerable loss. The Zallan pass and the road to Gatschko are thus opened.” AUSTRIA CLOSES THE FORT OF KLEK. Loxpox, July 13, 1876. A despatch to the Reuter Telegram Company from Vienna says:—‘Austria notified ber local authoritfts yesterday that the port of Kiek and all the Jand and sea frontier surrounding the insurrectionary district will hereafter bo closed. The Turkish ambassador bad a lengthy interview with Count Andrassy on the sub- ject yesterday.” AUSTRIAN CONFIRMATION OF THE CLOSING OF ELEK. Viexsa, July 13, 1876. Tho Fremdenblatt reiterates the statoment that Aus- tria has closed the harbor of Kiek against the furks, ENGLISH. ACCOUNT OF PRINCE MILAN'S AM- BITIOUS PROJECTS—INDIRECT PROCLAMATION OF THE PRINCE AS KING OF SERVIA—THE WAR FOR COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE—-SERVIA A PREY TO PILLAGE AND DISORDER. Loxpos, July 13, 1876 Tht Pall Mall Gazette publishes a letter from its Bel- grade correspondent, dated July 7. Tho writer says: — “An order is published to-day directing that ali per: sons not soldiers attached to the army as transport commissaries, ambulance superintendents and sur- geons shall wear a medallion bearing words ‘Milan L, King of Servia.’ This is the first indication ot the true intention and ambition of Prince Milan. These words aro received here a8 having great political | meaning. We shall no longer hear of Prineo Milan's loyalty to the Porte, and there can be no doubt that the war is for complete separation, PILLAGE AND DISORDER RAMPANT, “Pillage and robbery nro flourishing in every portion of Servia. Arms, which have been promiscuously dis- twibuted, are in many cases employed by the maraud- ers against farmers and landed proprietors. &o many of the police are employed with the army that it is with great difficulty the people can resist the attacks Of the outlaws, Iam gladtosay that some of them have been captured and shot without trial.” FRENCH MINISTERIAL STATEMENT ON THE EBAST- BBN QUESTION—THE POSITION OF FBANCE A PURELY PACIFIC ONE. Versartixs, July 13, 1876 Tn the Chamber of Deputies to-day the Duc Decazes, Mimaster of Foreign Affairs, replying to M. Louis Blano in regard to Eastern affairs, said the government wished that France might not be involved in events abroad, {n such a manner as could possibly binder the restora- tion of internal peace. France must only intervene in a purely pacific sense, It is our part to associate ourselves with any efforts made to preserve an under- Standing between the Powers. This uuderstanding absolutely exists and is founded on a basis wo cannot but accept with satisfaction; namely: On non-interven- tion. This circumstance tends to circumscribe the conflict to the great advantage ot the whole world FRANCK MAS NO SPCIAL INTEREST, France has no special interests in the question, and therefore no reason to take an initiative. The honor and interests of France have never been for a moment compromised. ‘The Minister's statement was loudly applaaded, THE SERVIAN WOUNDED—THE TURKS BEFUSING QUARTER—WHERE THB “TUG OF WAR” WILL COME. Lospox, July 14, 1876, The Standard’s Belgrade special says:—I am as- sured that 7,000 Servians wounded are lying in the vil- Jages on the rivers Suve and Morava Bedding, band- ages and medical requisites are sadly deficient. There are no surgeons or trained nurses. THE TURKS GIVK NO QUARTER. Thear that the Turks take no prisoners and syste- matically refuse to give quarter. The Servians are reported more humane. THE IMPORTANT POINT. The line of the Timok and the position of Saitschar is still the !mportant point, and where the tug of war will take place, General Leschganin’s forces havo been raised to 30,000 men, THE THIRD SERVIAN RESERVES CALLED OUT. Loxpox, July 14, 1876. The Standard’s Vienna special says the third order on the Servian reserves bas beon issued. These aro mostly old men and they have refused to servo in sev- eral places. LONDON STANDARD ON EARL DERBY'S NOTE, Loxpor, July 14, 1876. The Standard this morning reviews Earl Derby’s note favorably to the British argument, and repudiates the suggestion that the English endeavored to enforco her construction of the treaty by menace. Tho Standard concludes :— We can see no serious obstacle except Mr. Fish’s ill-advised punctilio to the immediate negotiation of a new treaty. The common sense, intercst ana self- Tespect of both countries demand a speedy arrange- ment CONFIRMATION OF THE REPORT OF A SERVIAN VICTORY—FIVE TURKISH ATTACKS KRPULSED— AUSTRIAN CLOSING OF PORTS. Loynoy, July 14, 1876. The Times’ Semlin despateh gives the following ac- count of Wednesday’s fighting:— Osman Pacha in great force attacked the Servian army corps under General Leschjanin, near Saitschar. ‘The Turks five times attempted to storm the Servian Position and were repulsed. Meanwhile a Servien column under General Ostoics attacked Osman Pacha’s rear and captured several vil- lages. Tho Turkish gunboats on tho Danuve attacked General Ostcics, but without result, The Russian telegraphic agency confirms the report that the harbor of Kick, on the Adriatic, has been closed. It also announces that Cattaro has been closed to Sclav supplies. RFYECTS OF CLOSING THE PORT OF KLEK. The Times’ Berlin special says the closing of Klek will, it is believed, seriously damage tho turks, as thereafter it will be impossible to send roimforcements to Bosnia and Herzegovinia. except through the par- row strip of Bosnian territory between Montenegro and Servia, which at present is invaded by the Servian columns, THE EXTRADITION TREATY. THE FINAL CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND—EARL DEEBY ON THE PROPER CONSTRUCTION OF THE TREATY oF 1842——-THE RIGHT OF ASYLUM. Loxpos, July 13, 1876. The final correspondence between the United States and Great Britain on the extradition question, inctud- ing Earl Derby's note of June 30 to Secretary Fish, is published to-day. Earl Dorby, in his note, rays:— “Tho essential principles of extradition as practised by England are that a persou surrerdered on an extra- dition treaty can be tried on no offence except the one for which he 1s surrendered. This is the proper con- struction of the treaty of 1842. Her Sfajesty’s govern- mont thinks that the act of 1870 is important, but with- out it it would maintain the same position, THE RIGHT oF ASYLUM, “The government maintains the right of asylum until criminality according to the law of England is shown. This applies forcibly in the caso of political offences, The great object in requiring evidence not merely es- tablishing an offence called by the name of the offence specified in a treaty, bat establishing an offence of that ame according to the law of tho surrendering coun- try, is to prevent the surrender ofa person on a charge of crime of uncertain meaning and his subsequent trial on jacts considered here as establishing a politi- cal offence and not for the crime for which the sur- render was made, The surrendering country must have the facts to judge whether the offence is political. MR. FISH'S ASSURANCE NOT SUFFICIENT. Secretary Fish’s assurance that no administration dare violate the rights of political asylum by obtaining a prisoner on one charge and trying him for a political offence is not sufficient, as the Attorney General cannot interfere when an offence is committed against the law of any one State, The act of Congress of August 12, 1848, chapter 47, section 3, shows the construction put on the treaty by the United States. ’’ Lord Derby briefly reviews the negotiations in | 1871, 1872 and 1873, and says, ‘The violation in the case of Hotlbronn was not the act of Her Majosty’s government, but it regretted it.” The government believes that the United States is ac- tuated by a sincere desire to maintain the rights which in their judgmont aro demanded by the treaty of 1842, and they wish the same construction paton England's motives.” READY TO NRGOTIATE A NEW TREATY. The note deplores the m: derstanding between the two governments, and says ritish government is ready to join the United States in negotiating a new treaty. vic fo si DEPRESSION IN MANUFACTURING AND MINING DISTRICTS—PROSPECTS OF TRADE TROUBLES. Loxpox, July 13, 1876. Accounts from manufacturing and mining centres continuo to be burdened with complaints of tho busi- ness depression. The employors aro takiug measures everywhere to reduce wages or to extend the working hours. The workmen in some of the districts are pre- paring to resist and it 1s feared that groat strikes will be the result, UNIVERSITY OARSMEN TO START FOR AMERICA. Loxpox, July 13, 1876, A four-oar crew, composed of Messrs, Gulston, Hasti, Howell and Labal, of the London Rowing Club, will sail for the United States the end of this month, ‘The first Trinity College, Cambridge Untversity Boat Club four, with a boatinan and three boats, will embark on the steamer Britannia, at Quoenstown, to-day, for New York, to participate im the international regatta at Philadelphia. AN IMPORTANT LAWSUIT DECIDED—A VERDICT FOR TWYCROSS AGAINST ALBERT GRANT. Loxpor, July 13, 1876, Albert Grant et al was concluded. This case was | brought to recover money alleged to have been ob- tained by {rauduient representations regarding the Lisbon Steam Tramway Company. Thero are eighty-eight others, involving a large sui of money. The jury gave a verdict for Twycross for £700, being the amount claimed. Judgment wns stayed. Both parties will have leave to mov: Monday. "INCREASE OF BULLION IN THE BANK OF ENG- LAND. Lowpos, July 13, 1876, The bullion in the Bank of England bas increased £786,000 during the past week. The proportion ot the Bank of Engiaid reserve to hability, which, last week, was tifty-twoand one-eighth Per cent, is now fifty-four per cent The amount of bullion gone into the Bank of England ‘on balance to-day is £245,000. THE ERIE RAILWAY. | MR. JEWETT'S STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THR ROAD—HIS REPORT APPROVED BY THR LOND AND STOCK HOLDERS. Loxpox, July 13, 1876. At a meeting of the Erie Railway bond and stock hold at the Cannon Stroct Hotel, to-day, Mr. Jewett, Feceiver of the road, made @ statement of its condi tion. He said the plan of reorganization submitted by Sir Edward Watkin at the meeting of the stockholders on June 23 was approved; but he asked that one more coupon be funded, and a few other concessions. He Proposed to lay a third rail from New York to Buffalo, to gradually wear out the old equipment and to replace it with a narrow gauge equipment, He felt Sanguine of the prosperity of the road. Many speeches followed. Mr. Jewett’s statement was well received. Sir Kaward Watkin offered a resolution assuring Mr. Jewett support, and approving the scheme with the modification desired by the committee. SIR EDWARD WATKIN'’S PLAX. Sir Edward Watkin’s plan, above mentioned, ts as foliows :-- “That without reducing the rate of interest, begin- ning next September, they should fund for a period of four and a half years the alteruate coupons of the first bonds, paying alternate coupons in gold, and that they should fund of the second bonds nine half yearly cou- pons ina lump.” FRANCE, DECREASE OF SPECIE IN THE BANK OF FRANCE. " Panis, Jaly 13, 1876 The specie in the Bank of France has decreased 11,044,000 francs during tho past week. Exchange on London 25 francs 313 contimes for short sight. AN ULTRAMONTANE DEPUTY UNSEATED BY THE CHAMBER, Vensaiuzs, July 13, 1876, In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the election of M. Mung was invalidated by a vote of 308, against 181, because of undue clerical influence. THE NUMBEE OF COMMUNISTS PARDONED. Panis, July 13, 1876, An official statement just made public shows that 249 Communists bave been pardoned. Petitions in the cases of 208 were rejected, and 199 others await con- sideration. SPAIN. THE PRIVILEGES OF BISCAY NOT TO BE COM- PLETELY ABOLISHED. Maovrip, July 18, 1876, Congress has rejected, by a vote of 182 against 35, a motion for the immediate abolition of all privileges in Biscay. The Cortes will adjourn on Saturday until November. BRAZIL. WEEELY REPORT OF RIO JANEIRO MARKETS. Lonpox, July 13, 1876, The coffee market reports frum Rio Janeiro usually transmnittrd to tho United States are missing. The fol- lowing is the weekly report to the Hamburg Borsen- halle, dated Rio Janeiro July 5:—E%change on London, 254%. Coffee firm but quiet; good first, 6,100 reis, Total receipts of the week, 25,000 bags; sales, 15,000 bags; shipments to North America, 2,000 bags; to the Channel and North of Europe, 4,000 bags; to the Medi- terrancan, 4,000; stock, 45,000, &c. RACING IN ENGLAND. SECOND DAY OF THE LIVERPOOL JULY MEET- ING—CONTROVERSY THE WINNER OF THE LIVERPOOL CUP. Liverroor, July 13, 1876, The Liverpool July meeting commenced yosterday. The chief event run to-day was the Liverpool Cup, the winner turning up in Lord Rosebery’s bay horse Con- troversy. Mr. T. T. Drake’s brown colt Professor, carrying 5 Ibs. extra, finished second, and Mr. J. Os- borne’s bay filly Mintdrop third. Nine horses ran. THE BETTING. ‘The betting on the course just bofore the start ruled 3 to 1 against Controversy, 20 to 1 against Professor and 20 to 1 against Mintdrop. SUMMARY. Liverroot, July 13, 1876.—The Liverpool Cup of 500 sove, (in specie), added to a bandicap sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, half forfeit unless declared; the second to receivo 50 sovs. from the stakes and tho winner to pay 30 sovs, toward expecscs; winners after June 21, at noon, of a handicap vatuo 100 sovs., 4 lbs. ; of two such or one of 200 sovs.,9 Ibs, or of any ruce of the value of 400 sovs., 12 Ibs. extra, About a mile anda balf. Sixty-four subscribers, thirty-five of whom declared forfeit. ° The highest weight accepting veing 122 Iba. it was raised to'124 Ibs. and the others !n proportion. Lord Rosebery’s b. bh, Controversy, by Lambton, or The Miner, out of Lady Caroline, 5 years, 124 Mr. T. T. Drake's br. ¢. Professor, by Lecturer, out of Viola, 3 years, 85 Ibs., including 5 Ibs extra.. 2 Mr. J. Osborne’s b. g. Mintdrop, by Lozenge, out of Minaret, 4 years, 98 Ibs. MID\IGHT WEATHER REPORT. Wan Derartuest, Ovrice ov rae Curry SiGNAL Orricer, Wasmixgtos, July 1i—1 a. M. F iiaties. For New England and the Middle States, continued warm and partly clouay weather, with light southerly to westerly winds, followed during,the evening by local rains, slightly cooler weather and stationary or slowly rising barometer, For the South Atlantic, Gulf States and Tennessee, clear or fair weather, with light southerly to westerly winds, and no decided change in temperature or bar- ometer. For the Obio Valley, @ slight fall in temporature, and light easterly to southerly winds, with partly cloudy weather, and possibly light local rains. For the lower lake region, cooler, partly cloudy woathor with light rains near Lake Eris, variable winds, and slowly rising barometer. For the apper lake region, Upper Mississippi and Mis souri valleys, clear or fair weather and northeast to southeast winds, with slowly rising temperature and rising followed by falling barometer. The Missouri and Ohio rivers will fall slowly. Mississippi River will fall above Memphis, The THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. [ho following record will show tne changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com. parison bs the fest nhs date of last yoar, as in. dicated Hudnut’s pharmacy, Hreatp 1878, bay M.. Average temperature yesterday... Average temperature for corresponding dato A TRENTON BANKER KILLED BY THE HEAT. Trenton, N, J., July 13, 1876. Mr. D.S. Howard, a banker and broker here, was In the Court of Common Pleas, before Lord Chief | progtrated by the host while in Sew York on Friday, Justice Coleridge, to-day, the case of Twycross vs | irom the effects of which he died this forenoon, It was a test case. | week from next | | THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN. | ——__-+— | Despatehes from General Sheridan to the General of the Army. —_-+—__ NO FEARS CONCERNING CROOK. | No Foundation for the Reported Disaster. eS ee ALL QUIET AT THE AGENCIES, A True Statement of General Custer’s Brave Charge. THE FATAL MISTAKE EXPLAINED. Wasmxoroy, July 13, 1876 The following despatches wero received trom Gencral Sheridan to-day by General Sherman :— Cuiéaco, July 13, 1874 General W. T. SHurmay, Washington, D. I know nothing of any special importance to commu- nicate to-day, Tho supply train and five companies of infantry sent to Crook were expected to reach him yes- terday, the 12th, Crook never sends a courier unless he bas something important to say or wants somo- thing, hence tho non arrival of information from him, RAYORT FROM RED CLOUD. General Merritt reports the return of a messenger from the Red Cloud agency on the 12th, reporting ali quiet and the probability that all the Indians there will Keep quiet, Captain Jordan reports ono day later that much excitement oxisted about Custer’s fight, and on account of there being no beef issue when due, the Indians having only corn and flour, I have = directed = Merritt, . who was coming into Laramie, eo that he could go to’Crook if necessary, to keep a close watch out on agency Indians and go there with his command if necessary. In ex- pectation that the Senate will concur in the House bill for posts on tho Yellowstone, I send Forsyth to repert for consultation with Torry for location, so that we can push them elong. HOSTILE INDIANS COMING IN, Hostile Indians are reported as coming in from the field to the Missourt River agencies bragging about being in Custer’s fight. 1 will take up their cases in a fow days by some suggestions to you. P. H. SHERIDAN, Licutenant General, ANOTHER DESPATCH. Curcaco, July 13, 1876, Generat W. T. Suxnaaw, Washington, D. ©. :— Your despatch of this date received. I am not aware of the slightest foundation for the report that General Croak has had engagement and was killed. 1 constant communication with Fort Fetterman by telegraph. It 1s the nearest point to Crook, and where all couriers come in, and there is no such in- recent an am in formation there. A coarier is expected daily, but as Crook bas no fixed time for him to start he may keep him until he has somothing to communicate. P. H. SHERIDAN. UNCERTAIN CONDITION OF AFFAIRS AT THE AGENCIES--NO ISSUE OF BEEF TO THE IX- DIANS—PRECAUTIONS AGAINST TROUBLE. Oana, July 18, 1876, Recent despatches from the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies state that affars there are very uncertain owing to tho recent news of Custer’s defeat. The In- terior Department are issuing nothing to the Indians but corn and flour, and have Jailed to issue them beef entirely, SCOUTING PARTIES have beon withdrawn from the road between tho agency and the bridge on the Sidney route. Ono com- pany still remains at the bridge, The commanding officer at Robinson thinks the necessities of the case demand a company at that post, It ts not probable that the Indians will make trouble at the agencies, as that is their only city of refuge in case we are whipped. NO TRUTH IN THE REPORT OF FEAT. | Oana, July 13, 1876, ‘A despatch from Fort Fetterman last night says there 1s not a word of trath in the rumor of General Crook's fight with the Indians and defeat; that all sorts of rumors are afloat, which are contradicted by the officers, and that nothing has been heard from Genera! Crook for the past ten days. A courier is ex- pected daily, ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF OUSTER'S FIGHT. Derrort, Mich., July 13, 1876, Licutenant John Carland, of Company B, Sixth in. fantry, with Gencral Gibbon’s command, writes as fol- lows concerning the slaughter of the Seventh cavalry and General Custer. Tho letter is dated Mouth of the Little Horn River, June 29, and proceeds as follows:— STORY OF THE RATTLE. At tho mouth of the Rosebud on the 22d of June we struck a jarge Indian trail leading up tho Rosebud Valley. General Custer from there took command of the twelve companies of cavalry, and pushed on after the Sioux. Ho followed the foot of tho mountains, and found by scouting the valley ‘that they were encamped ona branch of the Little Horn. This was on the night ofthe 24th. On the 25th he took five companies and followed the stream down one side, while Major Reno CROOK'S DE- ‘with seven companies went down on the other, Major Reno was to attack the enemy in tho rear while Custer fought them in tron This would bave worked all right, as Reno had got in their rear; but General Custer, marching down on the other side, saw what be supposed was the front of the camp and made a charge on them, the Indians giving way and letting him right in the gap, ‘THE FATAL MISTAKE, ‘The brave maa rode in with bis 300 men and would have killed the whole 2,000 Sioux, I believe, if there had been no enemy behind him. But mstead of charg ing the front he was right in the centre of between 3,000 and 4,000 Sioux. Thore that were bebind him kept coneealed until he was right in their midst, and then, when it was too Iate, he made a bold dash, trying to cut through them. But the enemy were too many, He fell about tne first one, and the horses becoming ‘anmanageable the poor soldiers were cat down in less time than {t takes to tell it h THE ATTACK ON RENO, ‘The Sioux then tarned with all their force upon Major Reno. He chargea them with one company and re. turned with only ocleven men. He then retreated a short distance, placing his men on @ bluf Ho kept them off until the night of the 27th, his men going without water forty-eight, hours, Ho was relieved by Generais Torry and Gibbon who saw the smoke {rom where they wero on the Little Horn. and, thinking ita signal of tho Sioux, marched that way just in time to save the lat handfal of the Seventh cavalry, Oas of the whole regiment only 328 them to’ 5 men are left, and 1d forty of tnem aro badly wounded. | masesone heart sick to look over TOR BATTLE GROUND and seo the poor fellows, some of them with theis entrails cut out, others with their eyes dug out and hearts. laid across their tace. They even stopped te cut their pockets to get their money and watches, THE MOST YEARVUL siGHT was Colonel Cook. He was a splendid looking mam with long dark whiskera They dug bis face all out s¢ as to get his fine beard, it is supposed. They did nos disfigure Custer in any way but his brother Tom Custer was pened and bis heart taken out, The following are the names of the officers and citizens who were killed :— . General NAMRS OV THR KILLED, Coneral Custer. Captain Tom Caster, Boston Custer, First Licutenant Calhoun, brother-in-law of th General. ‘A. H. Reed, the General's nephew, who came to Fou! Lincoln with me. Theso five brave men all fell within ten feet of each other. The Adjutant, Colonel W. W. Cook. Mark Kollogg, correspondent for the New Youm Henatp. Captain Smith, married. First Lieutenant Sturgis. Captain Yates, married. Second Lieutenant Van Riley. Second Lieutenant Crittenden, son of Cetouel Orit | tenden. Second Iteutenant iianaes! First Lieutenant Porter, married, Lieutenant Keogh, married. First Lieutenant McIntosh, Indian, First Lieutenant Hogan. Doctors Lord and De Wolf. Charles Reynolds, chief scout. Tho wounded are now on the boat and will start fer Fort Buford to-morrow. We estimate the LOSS OF THE ENEMY 500, though it is hard to tell how many were killed, ea they carried most of them away. Some of ours claim that Sitting Bull was killed, as he is known by some, and an Indian answering his description was found dead, but no doubt this is false, as they would have tried to carry him along. THE FEELING IN THE COMMAND, General Terry and the remaining officers are feeling very badly. I was standing by General Custer when General Terry came up and as be looked down upon the noble general the tears coursed dowa his face ashe said :— “The flower of the army is gone at last’” Custer was supposed to be the first one who died, but though he fell first we found seventeen cartridge shells by his side, whero he had kept them off unti} There can NO BLAME be attached to any one for this fearful slaughter. If Custer had had the whole regiment it would only have been worse, as the Sioux were too many. Of course there will bs some biamed by Eastern papers, but as an eye witness of the whole battle I cannot consure any one. There is one poor Crow Indian on the boat who has five shots through him; yet he if happy because he has nine scalps at his side. This ig statement of General Custer’s brave cbarge. These Sioux were all from some agency as we found camp cquipments that had nevor been used; also blankets that were new and branded “'U. 8, Indian Department.” + There is very little moreto say, and as the scout starts for Lincoln with the mailin a few moment, I will close. the last moment. a true HOTEL ARKIVALS. Congressman Charlos H H. Joyce, of Vermont, arrived last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Chief Jas- tice 0. A. Lochrane, of Georgia, and ex-Congressmen, EK. D, Standiford, of Kentucky, and Johu M. Krebs, of Illinois, are at tho Filth Avenue Hotel Rev. Dr. J. Ireland Tucker, of Troy. is staying at the Hoffmag House. General Charles H. T. Callis, City Solicitor of Philadelphia, is at the Union Square Hotel. Dr. Same uel M. Horton, United States Army, 1s registered at the Sturtevact Howse. William Faxon, of Hartford, for. morly Assistant Secrotary of the Navy, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. HK. 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