The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-21

night Inc uetallS are CONTRADICTORY, ana
the result of the fight seems 10 have been
caused by great haste and anxiety TO get
/ away from the Indians.
The following is the very latest: Crook
| City, Black Hills, September ~, via Fort
| Laramie, Wyoming, September 16--Yes-
terday morning Gen. Crook dispatched
party of the Fifth Cavalry from the camp
on Cow Creek to press forward to the Black
Hills aud send back provisions for the hun
| gry troops. Col. Miles was in command,
and Lieutenant Bddd, commissary officer,
was sent TO buy food. The dried meat and
| fruit captured in the Iudian village near
Shrs Butte was not sufficient, as SUPPOSED,
10 sustain the column till it could reach the
| Black Hills, and on the tenth horses were
| again batcLered and issued as rations. The
advance party was u sort of forlorn hope.
The captured Indians said many war parties
| were prowllng near the Belle Fourche river
| and the foot of the hills, and probably the
braves Of Crazy Horses band. The relief
party was mounted on captured Indian Po-
MES. We lett the main column in a dense
mist and bitter storm and marched by tue
guidance of the compass alone. Our trail
described many eccentricities. During the
night following it was impossible To dlstln-
| %, b the land marks, as the darkness was
| impeDetrable The next day we were
cheered by the breaking of the mist, and
a glimpse of the sun exposed the outline of
the Black Hills. BY rapid riding we reached
their base at the mouth OF Wh'tewoOd
! Canyon at dusk. Leaving most of the par
ty there, l gaIloped with Capt. Jack and
HomIdan Frank to Crock City. The In
dian, Black Wolf, had limited that it was
deserted by the miners on account of the
SiOux's persecution, but we were delighted
after rafting through the timbered eulch
to see the lights glimmer in the darkness.
Plenty of food is stored here, and Gen.
Crook will tomorrow be met at the Belle
Fuurche by loaded wagons and herd
of beeves. The Black Hills are in
tested by hundreds of Sioux, and peO-
pie are being killed daily Milton Pro,
vince was murdered ten days ago while
hauling hay in Whitewood Conyon. The
Indians captured three tons of hay. At
the same they attacked Nathan Weinchior's
train, going to Fort Pierce. A teamster
brought back the news, but the result of
the fight is not known, as it was progress
ing when he escaped day before yesterday
A party of Sioux Indians ATTEMPTED
depredations 200 yards from the main
street of Crook City, and were forced to
skedaddle by a hot fire from the citizens.
4 At Rapid City within the past two weeks
five white men have been killed, and u great
I number of horses stolen. A party of citi
zens pursued the Indians and killed one,
losing one of their own lumber. The
war of savage life and civilization is at its
height in the mountains, and its nature
horribly desperate. The citizens do not
Ii nit their revenge to an imitation of the
Indian custom of scalpIng, but when they
kill Sioux they cut off his head, exhibit
and sell it at auction. The village near
Slina Butte was captured on the ninth.
| 1t belonged to the band of Roman Nose, a
Butte chief, and contained $40 lodges.
| WASHINGTON, September 1S. A New
York HegaLd special from Bismarck of the
seventeenth says Sitting Bull, with a col
umn three miles long, crossed the Missouri
river thirty miles below Fort Peck ON the
ninth. Gen. Terry will make desperate
effort to Overtake him, but will probably
| fail, as the Yellowstone rose two feet. The
troops on the Yellowstone are supplied by
steamer. 7't
T. s. Burke, editor of the Black Hills
Tribune. is missing. It is supposed he has
been killed by the Indians.
The President will be the guest of Mr..
DrexeL of Philadelphia, till Saturday.
James r. WATSON, of Iowa, has been ap-
pointed paymaster in the army, with the
rank of major, rice Major Seward.
The State Department has information
that after forty days from June % the i'm
portation of American silver into Venezue-
la was to be prohibited.
WASHINGTON, September 18.-There is
nothing official regarding the Indian fight.
The river rose eight feet at Harper's
Ferry, last night, and is still rising.
Two army engineers have been assigned
to test the foundations of the Washington
monument
WASHINGTON, September 19.-The storm
was the severest ever known off Cape May.
The Stockton House and Congress Hall
were unroofed, and several cottages were
also unroofed. There was no serious per-
sonal disaster.
Vessels dragged their anchors at Will
mington, Delaware. Half of the apple
crop were blown, unripe, from the trees
Innumerable small crafts ashore and dis
masted, but no loss OF life is reported.
The hurricane is exhausting itself in New
England with a-dimlnishing wind and rain.
Cautlonary signals are ordered at Eastport.
The lower Potomac rose rapidly.
WASHINGTON, September 19.-The trial
of Babcock for conspiracy TO injure Co
lumbus Alexander, and known as the ''safe
burglary" Case, was called to-day. Ten
jurymen were obtained. Governor Shep-
herd and other friends of Babeock were in
the court room. .-,eI ..#5<tges
WASHINGTON, September lathe naval
officers who have been furoughed or
placed on waiting orders by Secretary
Robson, upon the plea that appropriations
are inadequate, claim that he has been ac-
tuated by personal and partisan motives,
both in his general action and the Selection
of victims. These officers have employed
counsel, and the authority of Attorney Gen
eral Taft is invoked to restrain the Secre-
tsry of the Navy. t' =
WAsHrNeeeN, September 19.-The Pres
ident signed the following commissions
to-day: Lafayette NJ. Laws, postmaster at
Savannah; Vincent Balring, pension agent
at Lexington, KY; Thos. E. Burns. mar
shall, XIV. +
Commander Smith W. Nichols has been
ordered on duty as inspector of lighthouses
In the Seventh District, at Key West.
Changes of stations and troops during
the week ending Saturday, September is
Company L, Second Artillery, from Fort
Macon, North Carolina, to Lancaster, South
Carolina; Company F, Second Infantry,
from Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama, TO
Chattanooga; Company G, Second. Infant
~, from Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama,
| to Atlanta; Company A, Second Infantry,
from Livingston, Alabama, to Atlanta !;
Company C, Second Infantry, from Hunts
vile to Atlanta; Company K, Second Ia
fantry, from Mobile to Atlanta; Company
A, Tenth Infantry, from Fort Concho,
Texas, to Fort McKavett. A post mas been
established at Lancaster, South Carolina.
No deaths are reported IN Baltimore from
typhoid fever. anIa sS4
Dispatches at headquarters con6rm the
associated press reports OF the events and
situation in the IAdian country.
f-r4 DOMESTEC NEWS. r
SARATOGA, September 13.-The conven-
ton proceeded to take an informal ballot.
Lucius Robinson had 1S9 votes, Potter
l01, Homer A. Nelson 81, Augustus Schoo
maker s3, Jas. Trarbuck 8, Hezekish .Stur-