The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-29
OEn Nl ~ ~ r..
Special Herald Report
from Leipsic.
Communist Agitation in an I'M
portant City of Saxony.
A Grand Centre Of National Commerce
Seriously Disturbed.
MILITARY INSTRUMENTATION AND SOCIALISM
TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD
The following special despatch to the
HERALD has been received from our CORE
spondent in Leipsic, Germany =
LONDON, August %, 1873.
The HERALD correspondent at Leipsic, Ger
many. reports as follows: -The disturbances
among the soldiers serving in garrison here
are growing serious.
AN INKLINa OF THE COMMUNE.
The ssocial democrats have the city in
their control, and the military and police are
almost overpowered.
The people are taking the law in their own
hands.
F o R T SILL
Reported Capture Of the Place BY
KiOwas and C0manches.
The Story Discredited at Army
Headquarters.
General Sherman'S SuSpi-
ciOns Two Weeks Ago.

CHICAGO August 2S, 1873.
The report from Waco. Texas, VIA New Orleans,
OF the attack by Indians on Fort Sill and the
massacre Of women and children ana part of the
Fourth cavalry is undoubtedly an error, as no
report or such an attack has been received at
General Sheridan's headquarters here, which
would certainly have been the case II one had
been made Furthermore, the Fourth cavalry is
at Fort Clark on the Rio Grande, and not within
500 miles of Fort Sill.
General Sheridan Has Heard Nothing
of It.
WASHINGTON, August %, 1878.
The despatch to the effect that the Indians have
captured Fort Sill, Indian Territory, is not credited
at the War Department General Sheridan would
have been promptly ADVISED, whereas ne has not
heard word of any difficulty. The Tenth and not
the Fourth cavalry has It's headquarters at Fort
Sill. Seven companies Of this regiment under
command Of Lieutenant Colonel Donaldson
are stationed at Fort Sili-viZ., Companies
A. G, d, +, G, and M, also Companies
and K of the Eleventh infantry and
Company G Of the Twenty-flth infantry. The fort
is the most substantial one In the West, built OF
stone and well protected, so that two companies
could hold it against all the Kiowas and Conan
ches on the Plains. Waco, where the report origi-
mated is 200 miles from Fort Sill, which makes
the story improbable In the opinion OIL army Oul-
GERS who have served in that part OF the country.
The Tenth cavalry is composed OF colOred men.
The officers are all white, and most OF them have
their families at the fort. Colonel Grierson Is at
present on recruiting service in st. Louis.
II the reported massacre by the Indians near
Fort Sill proves true 1t Is limited here In army circles
that the presence OF Satanic and Big Tree may
have Influenced the attack on the fort. These
Indian chiefs left Houston Texas on the 10th inst,
and would be due in the vicinity of the alleged mas
sacre about this tme One theory is that the Indians
knowing Of the presence of the chiefs and the
ditiona terms under which they were returned
for a council-having no faith in the promises OF
the government-have made combined attack on
the tort. Heretofore the Indians In that vicinity
have been peaceful, and this fact excites distrust
as to the probability OF the alleged wholesale
slaughter. The report causes considerable anxiety
in army circles as 1t has been well known here
that the KIowas and Comanches have been OF
their reservations for some time General Sher.
man not ten days ago called attention to the
TACT that these Indians were not complying
with the treaty, "and he did not know by what
authority they were Off their reservation" At
the same time, he thought the troops should have
the privilege Of Furnishing them, as he knew from
experience that they were treacherous band.