Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-08-04
From The Plains.

fcrson county, Va. ani thirty-onc Others.
have just returned from Sacramento CT Y,
California. on mules. in seventy DAYS.
They could have made the trip in sixty
days, but stopped at Salt Lake and Forjs
Laramie and krarny. They saw no In
dams until they crossed the North Platte.
They then LOST mule. Five of the par.
~ pursued the Indian who stole the mule
and shot fourteen bullets into him. They
left him where he feel and recovered their
mule.
Rhujohn, the trader at the North Platte
Bridge, informed them that there were 49,
900 warriors between there and the Rock
Hills. He had the body of young Gibson
who had been killed few days before, al
Deer Creek near the foot of the Black
Hills. The circumstances of his death
were these
The Sioux had determined in council
TO suffer no white men 10 pass, out alter
wards they concluded 10 let The emigrants
90 unmoested. but kill and scalp all who
belong TO the service of the United States.
Gibson's party was the first that attempt
ed 10 pass. They were met by thirty
warriors, who inquired for the captain.
Gibson said he was the captain. One OF
the leaders offered him his hand, which
Gibson took in confidence, when another
Indian shot him through the heart. The
band then retired, and suffered the others
10 90 on. They make no explanation OF
this deliberate, cool-blooded unprovoked
murder.
They say they intend TO fight the U.
States troops; that they are apPnsed OF
their coming, and intend TO wipe them all
out; that they had purposed to make a
stand al Ash Hollow, but their numbers
grew so large that they were induced TO
take up theii position in the Black iilIS,a
hundred and twenty-five mics beyond
Fort Laramie; that they have been gather
ing their forces there, and now number
some Is, 600 warriors. That they cannot
only resist, but conquer any force that the
u. States can send against them; that We
have none but old men and women left in
the country now, save few soldiers that
we keep for show, and if we send those
few out, they will afford them ONLY sport
and paslime.
These Black Hills cover a space oil
twelve or fifteen miles, and are rough, alb
rupt, precpitous, full of gulches and ra-
vines, and covered with stuned oak ana
pine and cedar. 1t is the best hiding
place for the Indians that could have been
selected between here and California, and
it will be difficult matter 10 dlslodge .
them. Our forces are on the way, and
IN fine condition. The number OF Indian
warriors is, we have no doubt greatly eX-
aggerated.
HoHovay's Ointment and Pills have
effected another Wonderful Cure Of Sore
Legs.-Anthony Harrison Scard, of Mar
tinsburg, Va, was sufferer for twenty
eight wears from sore legs,so bad at times,
that human nature could scarcely bear 1t,
rs thew were covered with wounds and
proud flesh. His friends had given up all
hopes of is ever regaining the use OF his
limbs, as he was in SO piiable state, the
more especially as The doctors told HIM 1t
was constitutional. Having heard from
several people the good effects 1iollo-
WAYS Pills had produced in cases OF this
nature, he made up his mind TO give them
trial; after using them for a few weeks
he felt much better, and by continuing
them for two months and half, he was
perfectly cured, after beirg % years a
cripple and considered beyond human aid.
BLoopY TRANsACTION.-A German ma
med Frederick lately visited The house OF
Mr.. Malone, about twenty miles from
Austin, Texas, and asked for some butter
milk. Mr.. Malone arose from his bed
10 procure it, when Frederick walked de-
liberately TO the bed where Mrs. Malone
was sleeping and sheathed broad knife
in her breast, killing her instantly. When
Mr.. Malone returned, and saw what had
been done. he altackad the william and at
ter desperate fight succeeded in render
mo him powerleSs. He then tied HIM,
and having attended 10 the burial OF his
wife, started with the prisoner for Austin,
before he reached there the murderer
brealhcd his last.
A terrible gale visited the village OF Ma
rietta, Marshall County, Iowa, lately,
blowing down tenor twelve dwelling hou-
ses, shops and stores, scattering the goods,
over the prairie for miles, and doing olh-'
or damage. One man, whose house
caucht fire during the storm. and who at
temDted, with a young child in his arms,
10 reach nelghboring house, was caught
bv The wind and carried over mile. His
wife found shelter under the leeward side
of barn.
LATER rKoM SALT IAKE.-St. Louis,
July 26.-Advices from Salt Lake to June
9Th, state that the prospect of brcadstnils
in the valley are quite gloomy, and that
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