Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-21
THE YELLOWSTONE.
Fight Between the Crows and the
Cheyennes.

From the Helena Gazette, Dec j.
We were happy to receive call yester-
day morning from Col. Bracket, of the
Second Cavalry, a portion of which is now
stationed at Fort Ellis. The Colonel, we
regret to say for ourselves, leaves the Ter
ritory for Omaha, where he is ordered for
the winter. He thinks it more than likely
that all the regiment viii be ordered to
Montana in the spring. The Colonel
went down to the agency at the Yellow
stone, from Fort Ellis, to witness the dis
tributiOn of the annuities, and gives US the
following items The Crows had
fight with the Cheyennes, in the Sioux
country, in which the Crows were victori-
Gus. They killed six Cheyenne adults
and captured four young ones. These
they tortured in barbarous manner, first
cutting off their feet and hands, and fin
ally killing them. One Crow was badly
wounded. and afterward killed. The
daughter of Iron Bull, principal chief,
also died at the Agency, and her body was
wrapped up in furs and placed upon the
scaffold with great pOmp. Over her and
the warrior who died from his wounds
the camp is in general state of mourn
ing; black paint is bedaubed on every
hideous face, gashes are being cut with
knives, and enough hair has been torn out
by the handful to furnish New York
belle with chignons for lifetime.
There are about $500 Mountain
Crows at the agency, encamped
on Bowlder Creek; and a great
many of the River Crows encamped
a short distance below. After some diff
Guilty about the character of the goods,
the annuities were all distributed. The
Crows had a very successful fall hunt,
and there is over 5000 buffalo robes in
their camp, which is beautifully stocked
with buffalo meat. The buffalo now are
ranging within twenty-five miles of the
Agency, and the Indians viii go after
them again as soon as the annuities are
disposed of. ''TendOy's" band of Ban
nacks, who have been hunting with the
Crows, are now encamped at Fort Ellis.
THE WONDERS OF CALIFORNIA.
Mr.. Samuel Bowles, editor of the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican, who
visited California last year, thus sums up
III du dEllClb III iuC 21tttLftltC mummy,
the novelties of nature in that State:
With suddenly developed yet securely
held wealth, as these few facts illustrate, the
future of California looms up before the
visitor with proportions that astOund and
awe. Her nature is as boundless in her
fecundity and variety, as it is strange and
startling in its forms. While Switzerland
has only four mountains that reach as
high as $1,000 feet, California has a
hundred or two, and one, Mount Whitney,
that scars to 900 feet, and is the high
est peak of the Republic. She has a wa
terfall fifteen times as high as Niagara.
All climates are her own; any variety
which her long stretch north and south
does not present, her mountains and val
leys produce. Dead volcanoes and sunken
rivers abound in her mountains; the
largest animal of the continent makes
his covert in her chappaTel the
second largest bird of the world floats over
her plains for carbon; the Oldest man has
been dug out of her depths; the biggest
nugget of gold (weighing 1876 pounds and
worth S37, 400 has been found among her
gold deposits; she has lakes so thin that a
sheet of paper will sink in their waters; so
vOracious that they viii eat up man,
boots, breeches and all in thirty days; so
endowed in their fountains that they will
supply the world apothecaries with bOrax,
sulphur and soda; she has mud volcanoes
and the Yosemite Valley; she grows beets
of 100 pounds, cabbages of Is, onions of T.
turnips of 26, and watermelOns of so
pounds, and grape vine fifteen inches
thick, and bearing $500 pounds in one
| season.
Her men are the most enterprising and
audacious; her women the most self-re-
liant and the most richly dressed, and her
| children the stoutest, stuTdiest and the
sauciest Of any in all the known world.
Let us worship and move on!