Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-10-08

ment, so that. IN lew minutes, more
than half the force was
HEAVILY COVERED BY WINCHESTER, sHARP's,
AND REMINGTON RIFLES,
at not more than ten to fifteen PAGES.
Mills company was Oh the right,
and completely double-covered. They
we're becoming altogether too thick
for Egan, when he complained, and
an interpreter was sent out to order
them back. They only doubled up
on Mills. Things were becoming
''scary" at this time. The cavalry
boys "stood to horse" with carbmes
in hand, while the Commission held
its seats as though nothing was oc-
curing, yet showing a proper degree
of uneasy interest in the matter.
Meanwhile the young Chief.
Young-Man--Afraid-of- His-Horses
had observed the movements of the
discontented reprobates, and, calling
his Lieutenant, he gave the order
that his band should at once move on
the Indians in the rear; and, Rs he
is very popular with the people, his
men were at hand, and, in a minute,
were dashing their horses in among
the hostiles, and tz7
CROWDED THEM OUT.
into the field to the extreme right,
and then formed on the flank, and
held the grolnd until the Council
closed. Meanwhile the Young-Man
was smoking his pipe as contentedly
as though in his own tepee, and,
after the Council closed, acted as
rear-guard, with his men, to the
Commission to the Agency. Previ-
GUS to the move of Young Man,
nearly all the half-breads near the
tent, and some of the Interpreters,
had received warning from friends
and relatives to clear away from the
tent, as there was great danger.
They did SO, and left the whites un-
warned. After the matter was over,
those of Young-Man's men who
turned out to "save the right" wear
most bitterly abused BY those who
had laid the plan for
A GENERAL MASSACRE. 7
All the cavalry-men were to be shot
down at the first fire, the horses
stampeded, and then the Commission
were to get particular Jerusalem
from that vacant space i'll front,
which was held by Little Big Man
and his crowd. TO the promptness
of Young Man and his men can be
attributed the prevention ofVa mas
sacre that would have been as COM
plete as it would have been treach-
cherous. In nadditiontothe warning,
proof is found in the fact that an
unusually large number1of shells for
breach-loaders were sold yesterday
by the traders 9 that the bands who
had camped near the road leading to
the Couneil-ground neIedr2 miles I
away in the morning land, also, that
a fu ther band of 800 warriors, armed
cap-a-pie, were discovered in canon
near by, who were supposed to be
there to make an attack on the
Agency, and to prevent the troops
from Camp Robinson from going
out to the Council-camp, miles be-
low, after the fight should have
commenced. A thousand facts known
here all point to a cotroboration of
plan for massacre of the wild
devils of the North. The threat was
made by them that they would kill
the first man who spoke for the
treaty and no man was brave enough
save White Bull, of the Sauc-Arcs.
and he only incidentally, to say a.
word in favor of the sale of the
country. The only Commissioners
proper to treat with such a gang are
Gatling guns, with a Crook to man.
age them. 60 -
/ At late hour last night the Un-
capapas moved their camp away from
the neighborhood of Spotted Tails,
and chose one easily defended. These
Indians have favored business action
all the time, hence, have been made /
THE MARK OF JEALOUSY AND HATRED
by the young discontents. Their
Agent, Maj. Burke, of the Standing
Rock Agency, leaves to-day for
home, and the tribe starts in the
morning.
In condition of things that calls
for. the aid of Indian soldiery to
avert a calamity, it is hardly proba-
BILE that treaty-making will be very
much of a success. The Commis-
sion will hold another Council to-
morrow, when Young Man, Ameri-
can Horse, and Sitting Bull, who is
now in charge of camp, will see that
the hostiles are effectually squelched.