, 1876-05-02
THE SIOUX WAR.
Gen. Gibbons Expedition Against
tho Refractory Snvagcs.
Tho Crow Indians 10 Cooperate uith tho
Troops...A largo Mining Party
Hound for tho Big Horn.

DozEMAs, ". r., Apttl 14.-lcu, Gibbons
commAnd-conB'sttng of Companion II. Il, T., X,
A, aud I, Seventh Infantry, and Companies II.
+. @, and L. Second Cavalry, o detachment Of
mounted infantry. two Gatlings, and ono Napo-
loon glin-left Fort Eltta, Montana Territory, on
tho 1st OF April and marched for Tho Sioux coiln-
try. The infantry companies arc commandodty ty
Capt. freeman {i[) Capt. Kirkland [D). Capt.
Clifford {E). Capt. Sanno (fi) Capt Logan (A),
and Capt. English ~; tho cavalry companies
by Capt. Ball (ll), Jicnt. loo {F). Capt. Whoe-
Ian co., mud Capt. THOMPSON {L); tho mounted
detachment Of infantry by Lieut. bradley and
tho nrtlllorY by Lieut. Woodruff. Tho infantry
battalion Ia Under tho immediate command Of
AIaj. Henry u. Frooman. Bevenih Infantry and
tho cavalrY. mounted Infantry, Rnd artillery. aro
undor Gen. Drisbin, Major Bocond Cavalry,-tho
whole being commanded by Gen. John Ulbbon
Colonel Seventh Infantry.
Tho column encountered great difficulty In
getting over tho rnngo Of moupla!nH botwecn
Tort Ellis, in tho 0allatin Valley, aud the YoI-
lowBtone Valley. Tic wagons HHro tl,roe days
passing osor. II miles OF soad, and 1t required
eighteen muIoH to move solno Of them through
tho mud. On tho otllor aldo tho roads wnro
bettcr, nud tho command marchod rapidly down
tbn Yellowstone Yaioy.
DiHpatches and lo!ters received hero last night
from otlicorb state that Gen. GibbonB column
| Ia in camp at Countrynan'a d Ranohe on tho Yel-
loustono, 100 miles distant from Fort Ellis.
| Con. Glbbou had gone to tue Grow Agency to
| hold d council with the Grow Indians. aud In.
| duce them, Il possible, 10 taAe tie heid against
the Sioux. Tho Grows were oncampcd on Still
wator, noar tholr Agency md tic Agent Con.
| Clarp, reported 220 lodges Of Mountain CroNs
present, numbering about 5000 Indians. All
tho Crow Chiefs were beloved to be opposed to
| active operations against tho Bion1] but the
! young mon wanted to 60 to war along with the
| soldiers. 49,.
1 Con. Gibbons command was supposed to be
heading Tor the Dig Horn, by way Of tho old
Fort G. 7: Smith trail. It Lad largo train Of
wagons With it, carrying sixty days 1ationat aud
| forage foF GOO mon aud animals. A depot had
boon nado at tho Grow Agency, Ia which thirty
days supplies OF grain aud food we're placed
aud tho command was proparing to uoso for
ward with thirty dsys' supplies in The wagons.
| LATEH.
| Letters day later from Gen. Gibbons COM
mand state that The council with the Grow In
diAns had been held on tho 9th OF April, and tho
! Grows hnd agreed to aend out war-purties To find
and fight the Sioux, Ssynnicen young warriors,
under tue Chiof Pretty Lodge. asartod on the
Heart. Spotted iiorae, Crano.in- -tho.sky, snl
| other Chiefs, would start out soon. Cen.
Gibbon Ind selected TWENTY-FIVE young
CrowH to SO with hsa column and act
soeras to have changed Gen. uibbon's intontion
| OF going to tho big Horn, as he at onco COM
uoncol moving hLs atorca down tho Yellowstone,
| bringing theln back from the Crow Agency,
which Ii Is rncs out on tho Fort Smith road.
! out to tho Big Horn.
| Two hundred MINORS, who had bocn waiting
for several days At tile Crow AEenoy to $40 Gen.
0lbbon, had IN interview wish hin, on tho night
of April 0, and on tho morning OF tho 10th nioy0d
on, taking tito Fort Smith road. The miners
| were unlor tue command Of William Lnngatou,
| and actually uumbored on the rolls 190 mon.
| Thoy had tneuty y-aoYen wagons aud largo num-
1 n f,ar auinHlA nrh rMrrini Rit ii
monthss' proyiaions. They wero going to Fort G.
| F. Smith, on tue hosdwaiers Of the Big Horn,
and from there to old Fort Pill Kearney. On the
hoadvate1a OF Tongue 1uver. Thoy intended
1lg Horn, and Tho pineys mud Gooao
Crock, Oil tho head Of tho Tongue 1sivor.
goid :digf,ngs On doose Creek that
paid IL por day to tho hnud. but they wero
ported diggings near Phil kearnoy tl1at would
pay $40 per day. but Tho Indians would not allow
thom to work them. The soldiotB, when station.
cd at phsl Kearnoy, in 1866, Just before tho Fet-
.esman masaacro found gold o. both forks Of
tho whole country up there is rich IN gold. Tho
object Of tho present expedition IS to lind new
| dgginga wcBt Of tho Black tlills, and 1t Ia be-
1ioyed they mill succeed. II they DO not find
Tongno niyer. then they will push on, by way Of
Forts Fettcr1nan and Laramie, TO tho black
| Hills. II is balioyed Gen. Gibbon will nBe the
| minerH and Grow Indians "a Big Horn column,
mouth Of the big Horn, and prevont any lu'
dans Crook. Cnstor, Or tho Big-florn miners
may stir up aud whip from escaping north.
Ii tue minors should lind now gold-aolds on
tho head OF Tongue or Dig Horn River, they
would be distant from Medicine Dow sutton, oll
tho Union Pacific Rallroad, about 200 miles; and
the route to them would DO by Fort Fcttefman
aud the North flatte River. ~. DookHr.