Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-08-17

The merchants Of Southern California have

VIA t'io iitAi iiioe.' ioui companies or the
Fourth Artillery, atSan Francisco. were.or-
dered to Cheyenne.
Company -, Fourth Cavalry, arrived at
Fort Larabie and win leave for Ctanan
Robinson to-day. ~
a heavy gale on the coast OF Scotland and
the north of England last week. caused
some casualties and loss oflife. 9v~
Thomas Conyngham, a memember of a
& first family of Wilkesbarre, Pa, is q ftl
gitlve, having forged business paper to the
amount Of $500, ,000.
American miners have gone up the Atra-
to river, Central America, with hydraulic
machines to get out the gold Which it is said
abounds in that river.
There is to be an attempt to keep Lamar.
of Mississippi out Of the Senate, on account
Of alleged frauds in the election of tie Leo
islature in that State.
4 bill was passed i'll the House on the 11th
lust, giving pension of $50 per month to
the widow Of Captain Yates, Of the Seventh
Cavalry, killed in the recent fight
Hallet Kilbourne has entered suit against
The Speaker Of the House, Sergent-at-Arms
and members of the Real Estate Pool COM
fnittee, claiming $150,00o damages for in
iuries sustained by reason of imprisonment
without cause.
In Congress, on the 18th inst, the House Ju-
dietary Committee agreed to oreport, through
Representative lord, The followigg joint
resolution originally introduced by Repre-
sentative Blaine, but amended by the Com
mittee:
Resozoe9, BY the Senatean and House Of Rep
rescntatiyes of.tlle United States ofAmerica
in Congress assembled, two-tlirds of each
House concuring therein, that the following
be proposed to the several States of the
United States as an amendment to the Con-
stitution, namely:
A Cheyenne dispatch, dated August 10,
says, the Government courier, Wagon, who
left Fort Laramie for Red Cloud Agency
Monday morning, was attacked before day
light on Tuesday morning, near Running
Water, by six Indians, firing from. a distance
of fifty yards. They drove him into the
sand hills, and chased him twenty miles,
when he lost his horse, it being wounded,
and bid in gulch all day and at night re-
tprned to Fort Laramie.
ART. l6. No State shall make a law re-
specting an establishment of religion or pro-
hibiting the free. exercise, thereof, and no
money to be raised by taxation in any
State for the support Of public schools,
Or derived from any public funds there
for, nor any public lands devoted there
to, shall ever be under the control OF
any religious sect or denomination. This
article shall not vest, enlarge or diminish
the legislative power in Congress.
Gen. Forsythe, of Gen. Sheridan's staff,
passd through St. Paul on the 10 inst, hay-
ing left Terry IS camp at the mouth of the
Rosebud, q week ago last Tuesday LII Z
conversation with army officers while there
Gen. Forsythe corrected several erroneous
statements recently telegraphed from Bis
mark and forwarded from that point. L
had been stated that Gen. Terry had faller
back eighty miles, which is the merest non
sense and gives false impression to The
public. There was no falling back at all.
The Chicago Times Fort sully dispatch
Of the 10th says: Indians from The hostile
camp hayearriyed with report that Terry'S
command had encountered the hostiles, The
latter had been flanked by Gen. Giibbbon ant
badly beaten. The Indians acknowledge
100wonnded, and that Sitting Bull had beei
shot through the thighs twice. Thy ar,
quiet on the number killed. AS an Indian
can travel by direct route from Sitting Bul