Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-21
ReinfOrcements for General Terry
Standing Rock Camp Deserted by
the Bucks-Sitting.B
Certainly Dead.
Miners sealped-Panic in Minnesota =
Military Companies Called Out
Dread OF General
Indian War.
Custer's PredictiOn-A CIairyOyant's
WaTning-HOW the Indians Get
Arms-SuggestiOn TO Pre-
pare for the Worst.

REINFORCEMENTs FOR GENERAL TERRY
ST. PAUL, July 20-Six companies o
the TWenty-SecOHd i'm autry left Bis.
marck to-day, on ths steamer Carroll, t,
reinforce General Terry. Nearly all the
bucks are sbjent from the Standing
Rock camp, and have undoubtedly
joined the bOstiles.
SITTING BULL AND OTHER CHIEFS
KILLED.
ST. PAUL, July 20.-A Pioneer Pres,
and Tribune special from Bismarck says
the statOAursrir that Sitting BnIl.wss
Killed in the fight with Custer is con-
firmed from Indian sources. Crazy
Horse and Black Moon were also killed.
The statement that Sitting Bulls band
of Unipapas lost one hundred and sixty
killed, and that the total loss of the
Indians will reach nearly four hundred,
is received.
ALL QUIET IN CAMP.
OMAHA, July 20.-A message received
this morning from the commanding off.
Ger at Fort Fetterman says q private
courier had just arrived from the COM
mand in the field, who left on July 18th.
The day previous q courier was started
with the mail and official matter, bu.
has notyet arrived. All quiet and well
in camp.
FOUR MINERS sCALPED.
ST. LOUIS, July 2O-The Globe Dem.
ocrot's special from Lesvenworth says
that sdvices received at Fort Leaven-
worth this evening from Fort Laramie
state that a party OF four miners from
the Black Hills, on their way to Chey-
enne, have been killed, scalped and
stripped by Indians. One was named
Laughlin, from st. Louis; two, names
not given, were from Alton. No date is
given.
PANIC IN MINNESOTA,
ST. PAUL, July 1.-THE disaster to
Cueter's expedition naturally caused
some uneasiness in the regions of the
country near the Sioux reservation in
Dskots, and this upeasiness in some of
the border counties of Minnesota de.
velOped the proportions Of o panic. Set
tiers in Murray, Douglass, Grant and
other sparsely settled counties fiOcked to
the villages and more densely populated
districts, and sll sorts OF wild Tumors
prevailed. TIE people of these counties
are new settlers, wholly unfamiliar with
Indians, and they naturally class the
ton with The wild savsges OF the plains
To dispel this grOundless panic Governor
Pillsbury, several days ago, sent agents
to all points of the exposed front to ex-
anime into the facts of the case. These
agents have now nearly all reported, and
show the utter groundlessness of the
alarm. The Indians are all perfectly
peacs able and peacesbly disposed. The
most exaggerated stories were easily
traced to very small foundations. A
band of Pipestone Chippewas, on their
annual pilgrimage to the Pipestone
quarry, neatly depopulated Murray
the imagination of a telegraph
operator in an isolated station panicked
Grant and Douglas counties; squad of
villagers gathering blue berries sent a
thrill of alarm aloug the Red river val
ley, and five hundred men organized for
defense. Several military companies
have been Tganized at frontier points,
to whom Governor Pillsbury has dis
arms, not because there was the
slightest cause to anticipate their need,
but TO aid in alaying the fever OF exci'et
ment prevailing. The action OF the gov
ernOr hiss had the &c sired effect, and the
settlers ere generally returning to their
homes satisfied that their fears were
without the shadow Of foundation.
INDIAN STRENGTH UNDEREsTIMATED.
BISMARCK, d. T., July 17.-Originat-
ing with the recent battle, there has
been much uneasiness among people not
Oh the immediate frontier, and in some
Instances unfounded rumors Of the pres
snce or depredations of the Indians have
caused q general stampede. This is true
1f several localities in southern Dikota
md western Minnesota, and an ul-
iounded rumor was telegr2phed thst the
Indians had murdered two families near
Brainerd. No Indians have made their
appearance in this locality since the bat
lie except small parties, undoubtedly
passing to and fro from the
sgencies. Rumors of hostile intentions
have grown out of the fact that seventy
odges of agency Indians are located
near where the Black Hills train from
Bismarck crosses the Cannoc-Bal; but
shese Indians are well known and
Known to be friendly, and are located
IN reservations. So, though each day
brings forth new batch of rumors, they
lass for such and no harm is done. In
iced, there is no cause to spprehend dan
yer to settlements east OF the Missouri |
liver. The Indians are successful only |
when they can move rapidly, and they |
will take no chances for the sake of re-
yenge or scalps, pluDder being tue great |
particularly horses. The |
liver is too great an obstruction 10 their |
for them to be caught on |
he wrong side Of it; but frontier settle
nents in Nebraska AID Wyoming, and |
more particularly those Of Montana, are |
a
Sherman and Sheridan |
underestimate the strength of |
he hostiles. SittiDgsBults band, before |
{ Yves joined by Crazy ysHorse, NUM- cred |
eighteen hundred lodges-over six thou
aud effective fighting force-and Crazy
Horse has proven himself strong |
enough to defeat Crook in every engage
nent without the aid OF Sitting Bull.
Iolonel Burke, agent al Standing Rock,
Who certainly is well informed, and not |
disposed to eKsggTSgste their strength,
the fighting force Of the Sioux
L ten thousand, and it should be re-
that women and children
ire not elements Of wesk CESS, for every
line-year- old boy will handle gun,
tone, mallet or bow TO better adVsn-
age than q msiority of recruits handle
0elf- uuShPkSs ~ 1uo VS. w thC Nsu1 u
b luigery, and s-e ready for the battle if
heir services are nee;;t!AAd- ! tried to
i've you last week an Indian account OF
he battle, hut could not reach you in
sme. Sitting BulPs Uncpspas lost one
hundred ana fifty, and other bands
Iesrly Ss many. or the three principal
hiefs, fof time Le.ieved to be Sitting
Bull, probably Crazy Horse was killed.
Inc les at Fort Lincoln mourned sew
raj days over CusteT's death, cutting
themselves with kniuss and exhibiting
genuine sorrow in ether ways peculiar
0 the Indian. One refused to mourn,
Iud in the widest manner called on
;nster's spirit to drive the Sioux from
he land, and insisted thst bis brave.
and would do 1t. To your correspond.
ent's certain knowledge a DR.. Thomas,
lsirvoyRnt physician Of Minneapolis,
hree years ago, while in trance, gave
fair sketch OF Clusters battle-g ground,
nd foretold the massacre Of the entire
,arty at that point, and giving correct
dea OF the sorrow throughout the land
GLOWING. This circumstance was re-
allied by an officer Of TeTry's command
to whom the prophecy was
elated at the time Of Cusier's Black
Hills expedition. in the presence Of your
Tne fact that Custer, al
hOugh with the expedition, and nOm- |