The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-02

strain IS DrougAG.to beal upon him,
Senatoy FerrvAs chances &c become
Chelf Magistrate Of the nation may
be considered good, Washington
Special to the Chicago Times
Sitting Bulbs Biography-What the
Sioux Expect.
Sitting Bull IS Teton Sioux and
only thirty five years of age. Cap
tair McGarry, Of the steamer Benton
tells me that he, has known Sitting
Bull about the Upper Missouri ira.
ding, posts for many years. His
principal barter!ng place was at Fort
Peck, though Of late years he and
his band have followed the buffalo
north on the Souris and Pembina
rivers, and have bartered their robes
and tongues for guns and ammuni;
ton with the French half-breeds Of
Manitoba. Sitting Bull was a con-
vert and friend of Father De Smet,
who taught him to read and write
French. He has always scorned to
learn English, but is fair French
scholar. In the Delaware language
he is also yersed, and declared to be
a greater orator than Little Pheasant,
Chief of the fanktonnais. Captain
McGarry says he knows that Sitting
Bull has read the French history Of
Napoleon's wars, and believes that
he has modelled his generalship after
the little Corsican Corporal. Sitting
Bull has never accepted an overture
of peace, the report that he gave in
his adhesion to Sully to the contrary
Notwithstanding. He has always
been All unrelentihg and vindictive
savage Ito the Americans what
Schamyl was to the Russians.
Father De ,Smet kept the Teton
Sioux from the war-path until,1s6S.
He then left the Upper Missouri,
and Sitting Bull became a Chief. No
organized effort was made to array
the Sioux nation, against the whites
until after the Minnesota massacres
of 1868, when the Sioux were driven
west of the Missouri into tie bad
lands and mountains of Dakota.
Sitting Bull aspired to the leader
ship, but Red Cloud, Spotted Tail,
Little Pheasant and the Ogalalla
Sitting Bull chiefs repudiated, him.
From that time he has been a NAL
content, and at war with the chiefs
Of the Sioux nation, though he has,
by his persuasive oratory, seduced
many hundreds Of their young
braves into his ranks. He is also
largely reinforced by young braves
from the Crees and Assiniboins of
Manitoba. Every summer for five
years he has been up north among
these tribes and now they are flock
ing K his standard. If these re-
ports ire TO be believed, and ] have
INC geasof to question them, when Ire
next makes q stand against the Fed.
erai troops he will have in the neigh
oorhood Of 5000 warriors, every ono
armed with repeating riaes. A great
: deal is expected from Sitting BULBS
inability TO take care Of the wounded,
already on his hands, and which is a
; sacred duty among the Indians. /,
he mas not sent his wounded north
] among his Manitoba friends he vii
do so before he hazards another fight
} The telegraphic report Of Captain
! Smith, who brought Reno's wounded
3 down, thai Terry mad found the bier,
c of nine chiefs killed il the engage
ment with Custer, IS q mistake
They were the remaias Of sub chief
: and braves killed by Custer when b.
: was Nth Stanley III 1871. I'll
S Sioux custom is to carry of thei
Il dead braves to a secluded vale,
y and, after Tie customary monrnin
, period mas expired, to lay out til
Z dead braves on platform hig
c enough to be beyond the reach
IS wolves OF Coyotes Frontier Lett,
o to the Chicago Tribune.
a.
?. Now that James N, Tyner has BET
+: made postmaster general in ord
!. that the department may be used