Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-11
WASHINGTON.
The Army and Navy.

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WASHINGTON. Aug. 10.-Rear Admiral
Lee has been ordered to the North Allan
tic feet
The names of the new Army Board have
been officially announced To morrow
they will act upon the applications of
officers to be retired, under the recent act
of Congress. One hundred and fifty cases
will be brought before the court
decentralization.
Official telepra1ns from London announce
tie exchange and ratification of a naturaii-
cation treaty with Britain.
The European War.
The Prussian minister has advices that
DO battle has been fought since Saturday,
but he expresses the opinion that the most
decisive and the most gigantic one of mod
ern times, with at least 200, 900 men on
side, will be fought in the vicinity of Metz
this week, which will end the Napoleo1ic
rule. He anticipates a counter demonstra-
ton against Napoleon in Paris, which will
contribute to that result.
Indian nAffairs-Murder of a Family.
In May last Bohemian family named
Brobia1ty WAS murdered by Indians on
the Niaborab river, on the boundary be-
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crossed the river into Nebraska and
made the attack while the man
and his wife and children, a boy
and a girl, we're at work in the field.
Coming suddenly on them, they shot the
wife, the ball passing through her left
thigh. They killed the boy and stole the
girl, carrying her away. They then re-
crossed the river to the Seneca Reserva-
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eca camp, carrying away ten horses and
other property.
To day the War Department informed
the Indian Bureau in regard to the names
of the tribe and camping grounds of the
Indians who committed the deeds of blood
and robbery, and reports that Running
Antelope, chief of considerable influence,
at the Grand river agency, told and be-
lieves the act was committed by party of
eight or more Minnucups, and a band of
Sioux, led by Thunder Ring, who is en-
camped on Powder river,
Information from the Crow Greek Agency
concerning the same matter, states that
Little Pheasant, Lower Butte Chief, and
The-one-who-eats-h -hke-asbear, of Kettles
band of Sioux, reports that in the fall of
1869 a party of about twelve Minnecanjeros
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Hills, for the purpose of committing dep
relations on the settlers of the Platte
river, returning in the spring. Previous
to their raid on the Platte, they made an
attempt to steal horses in the vicinity of
Fort q. F. Smith, but were repulsed by
the whites, and one of their number killsd.
The brother and relatives of One Feather
composed the party that murdered the Bo- |
hemian family. The same band was not |
long agoencamped on the Big Cheyenne,
near the Black Hills.
At the request of Gen. Hancock, Capt.
w. H. French, the Indian agent of the
Crow creek, offered ten ponies, or five
American horses, to any Indian or Indians
who will arrest one or more of those parties
implicated, or give such information as will
enable any military commander to effect
their arrest. Several Indians have already
started from the Grow creek agency, on
the track Of the murderers.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has submitted to the Secretary of
the Interior, for his approval, clear list No.
II of the school indemnity selections by
the sale of California lands, containi ng an
aggregate area of 20. 286 acres.