Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-03
EASTERN OISPATC HE'S,
BY Overland Telegraph.
[spEo1AI. TO THE DAILY SENTINEL.
Another Account Of the Custer Mas
Sacre.

Another Account of the Custer Mas
sacre.
CHICAGO, Aug. /.
Captain Poland, of the Sixth In
fantry, commanding the station OF
Standing Rock Agency, reports to
Gen. Ruggles that seven Sioux Indians
who were i'm the battle of June 18th,
have arrived at Standing Rock and
give the following account of the bat
tie: The hostiles were celebrating the
''sun Dance" when runners brought
news of the approach of the cavalry.
The dance was suspended and a gen.
eral rush followed for the horses,
equipments and arms. Reno first al.
tackled the village at the south end,
across the Little Big Horn. Their mar.
rative Of Reno's operations coincide
with the published account-how he
was quickly confronted and surround
ed. how he dismounted and ran into
the timber, reinounted and cut his
way back over the ford and up the
bluffs with considerable loss, and at
the time when runner arrived from
the north end of the village or camp
with the news that cavalry had at
tackled the north end some three or
four miles distant a force large enough
to prevent Reno from assuming the
offensive was left and the surplus
available force followed To the other
end of the camp, where, finding the
Indians successfully driving Custer be-
fore them, instead of uniting with them
they separated into two parties and
moved around the TANKS OF his cav.
alrv. They report that a small body of
cavalry broke through the line of the
Indians in their rear and escaped, but
were overtaken within "a distance of
five or six miles and all killed. AT
ter the battle the squaws entered
the field to plumber and mutilate the
dead. General rejoicing was iudulged
in and a distribution of arms and am.
munition was ~hurriedly made, and the
attack ON Reno vigorously renewed.
Up TO the attack on Custer the Indians
had lost comparatively few men, but
now they say their most serious loss
took place. They give no idea of the
numbers of the killed, but say there
were a great many. Sitting Bull was
neither killed nor personally injured
in the fight. He remained IN the
oil but directed operations. Crazy
Horse, with a large band, and Black
Moon were the principal leaders on the
18th of June. Kill Eagle, Chief of the
Blackfeet, was at the head of some 20
lodges of their agency. The Indians
were not all engaged at any time.
Heavy reserves were held to repair
losses and renew attacks successfully.
The fight continued till the third day,
when runners, kept p%urposely on the
lookout, hurried into camp and re-
ported a great body of troops, General
Terry's command, advancing up the
river. The lodges having been previ-
ously prepared for a move, a retreat IN
a southerly direction followed TO ward
and along the Rosebud mountains.
They marched about fifty miles and
went into camp and held a council,
when it was determined to send into
all the agencies a report of their sue
cess, and call on the Indians to come
out and share the glories hat they
were expected to bear in the future.
Bslknap's AcauittaI.
New York, Aug. l..
A Tribunc's Washington special
SAYS: The verdict Of the Senate in the
Belknap case to-day was a farce. 1t
reminded a Western Member of Con.
gress OF the verdict of a Texas jury.
which tried a man for assault and bat
terry. The jury found the man not
guilty-if he would leave the State.
The fact that a vote was to be taken at
IL o'clock to-day was widely adver-
tised, but attracted comparatively few
people to the capital. Half an hour
before the time for the lmpeachm ent
Court to meet the galleries were hardly
half full, and at no time during the az.
ternoon We're they crowded. On the
floor a double row of chairs, arranged
behind the desks of Senators, accom-
modated twenty or thirty members OF
the House. But very few distinguished
persons, In or out of official life, came
to witness the giving of the verdict.
VIM. NJ. Evarts occupied Dawes seat
during a portion of the time, but after
ward retired to a sofa in the JUS
tice Waite, of the Supreme Court ofthe
United States, was present, and also
Justice Drake of the Court of Claims.
The Senate was unusually full. A few
Senators were detained from their seats
by sickness, and two or three We're out