The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-23

into Red Cloud on the 1Ote inst direct from
Colonel Dodge's camp in the Black Hills. He says
1t rains there ever day; never saw sucn a country
for that About 300 miners are in the hills ana all
are satisfied. He saw none who talked OF
leaving and did not know OF any going away.
He saw one little nugget worth SO ana a
number OF 81 each. All the men have some
gold, but they AFRAID TO develop
their claims because they expect to be removed
by military sent from Fort Laramie for that pur-
pose. The gold they have therefore, is all taken
from the surface o. very nea. that. DR.. Mills,
physician at this agency, has a handsome aug
get, worth about So, lately brought from French
Creek.
DisCOURAGING CIRCUMSTANCES.
The same reports circulated al Red Cloud
Every man In the hills has gold, but no one has
been knosn 20 have much Our correspondent
notices that men there VINO know most about the
miners are ret discouraged by this facr. They
say the circumstances under which the miners
and prospecyors have been placed make IL reasona-
bic that they should not have much time Tor work
in actual mining They have spent a censidera-
bic time in prospecting ana have had 10 watch
for indians, the soldiers and for something to eat
all at once. If they had been shoemakers and
compelled to make their own. boots under sucn
circumstances they would be barefooEed to-day.
LENIENT TREATMENT
1t is true hat the agency Indians comprising
the greater portion OF the Sioax are more toer-
ant and friendly 10 whites than they have ever
been be ore. Last year they would not allow any
white man or any hall-breed to go to the hills,
and any attempt to 90 so would have caused
bloodshed. The Indians, at the time or our CORE
spondent's writing, had Just brought into the
agency man and his family, who we're going 20
the mines. They were angry at the mans pre-
hut did nothing than cOmnpI
him 20 go TO the agency. 1t is only Of late that
they have SHOWN such leniency. Generally, when
they used TO meet lone man on the prairie III
their country, they took everything from him,
ON THE wAR-PATH.
Another correspondent sends us word under
daie OF the I2Ch from Red Cloud Agency. A
Sioux runner had brought word INTO he agency,
| tnat the Uncpapas had come down from the north
on tue war-path. He had seen twenty-five Unc.
! papa "S0ldersn who told him they would be re-
| venged on the whites Tor tresspassing in the
| Black Hills. They had killed three white miners
in one place and seven In another. These twenty
| five men lelt nlm ana headed towards Spotted
| Tail Agency. He saw the trail of another small
| band leading directly 10 the route between the
| Two agencies COMMONLY travelled By white men
| with wagons. He thought they were aiming to
strike the and attack the first travellers they
met The Uncpapas are a pand OF wild Northern
sioux VINO nave never, as BODY, acknowledged
other Indian reports That they wnl hlf the Rack
Hills with tracks of their horses' feet, by when
they mean that they Will overrun the district and
drive the miners out.
INDIAN COUNCILS
Al the last council old Spotted Tail showed him
self 10 De natural orator and an astIte thinker
wit mind that cuts through all evasions and
| subteriuges. He told the Jour Commissioners
that If they would adopt his plan for holding the
| next council he would do all IN his power TO IA
| ''Old Spotn has furnished 200 men as q safety
| guard during the next palaver
YOUNG BLACK HILLS PILGRIM.
The other day there came walking into our
office 1tteen-year-o old boy who desired an old
pair OF boots He gave MS name as Lewis Lamb,
Boston, and on MS way to make his everlasting
fortune in the Black Hills. lie lett Boston week
ago, without cent of money and not friend to
help him. He jumped ABOARD Western bound
train, determined to reach the Black Hills, and,
being put on he train repeatedly, he would
way, and about d third or the distance he has
ridden en- the pilot, sleeping Ia that rather
pokerish place Two nights For MS rattons he
mas depended upon the engineers, who, ne says,
have repeatedly divided the contents of their tin
pals with him. Failicg a few times to get any
thing to eat he laid OF and sawed wood, Jumping
on the next Western bound train. lie selected a
printing once to ask for the boots, as he said, for
the reason that he had been around printing
office enough TO know tnat all editors had sold
cloIhes.n TAis boy will be a success IN the Hills.
Starvation has no terrors for him. and the Indians
will never lit MS scalp because his hair is too
snort. II there are shining ducats 10 the rough,
slowed away in the rocks and sands OF the Black
| Hills, Lewis will md them. Treaties have no sig
ni1cance in his mind and military orders Will all
| Not long since we were up at Bridgeman's
ranch. This Is q most un promising looking place,
found protection from the storm last winter,
when tRey came out OF tue Black Hills so badly
lives to this friendly log cabin. Cap
tain Henry has received years leave
ruined ana ne Will probably soon be placed upo
the retired list. Brdgeman, proprietor OF the
ranch, is an Alabama man. VINO was in the Con-
federate army, captured a. Missionary Ridge, and
then volunteered to guard the frontier. lie long
ago married an Indian girl, and I've dusky
pledges OF affection now stnb their toes and chase
ponies in that immediate vicinity. They say that
Bridgeman is in dlfiiculty. Last year he bought a
on wheels: but the indians wanted the spoKes
Tor whip handles, and that revolving, back-actlon
nayrake looks ike hen that has oeen through
four days. rain. And they say that If Bridgeman
ever gets anything to eat at his ranch eight or
nine OF his copper -colored cousins come and stay
''you seem TO have good trading point mere"
eyes" said he, "Dut | can't make ANYTHING at
lt.n "Why notT' because any Indian Is liable
60 ask nae Tor $50 worth OF goods and stay here
until ne gets itn "CanL you make him under
stand that an article worth $50 costs money!"
Eyes, but that is just why he wants it.n
AFTER PROFESSOR MARSH.
AS Professor Marsh has kicked up something OF
arow Ia regard to the supplies furnished the Rad
Cloud Agency reference to local concern in
his statements may not be amlss. Mr.. o. p. Hur-
ford, OF Omaha, furnished the -four for the agency,
and has been greatly annoyed by being charged
with the responsibility Tor the quality OF the hour.
In a card published in the Omaha Herald ne SAYS
it is true that ne furnished nine-tenths OF the
nour for this agency, and ne is prepared to stand
by Its quality. The Commissioner Of Indian A.
which was made by MIR. Yates, of Omaha, com.
petent and reliable gentleman. At Cheyenne lt
was subjected to a secret Inspection, and out OF
5000 SACKS shipped BY Mr. hutiord l03 only were
rejected, and that was aiterward sold to white
people TO be used In the Black Hills. Mr.. Hu riord
| saws ne knows nothing OF Professor Marsh, ana
cares less. he says the Professor may be, for all
/ he knows, large boy throwing stones ior his
own amusement, but in the meantime Mr.. Hur.
ford is IN the position OF a very small frog In q
very large pond. and some OF his ''skppsrsn come
unoom lortaby near Mr.. hurford don't think
Professor Marsh got hold OF sample of his lour.
or II he did, 1t must have been after IL had gone