The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-01

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and WHISKY IN ere -r,,
TER CITY. ..'1 ~ '' 'es'
From the Denver Sews.l
A wellknown Denyerite. who sold an.
and left here for the Black Hills sorne ,veoSs.
ago, having reached Custer City, writes The the
following rather newsy letter from tbera
arrived in Custer Thursday night. and
found everything in grand confusion. with
moderate stampede in progress-not 40
had been reported on the road, however
With starvation staring every one in the
face, and Indians so thick tina. =
person could neither get in or ont
OF toWn-but with excitement over late
favorable news from Deadwood and White
WOOD guiches, to which localities there il al
present quite rush. Many, however, were
leaving Tor the States, determined that
they would not prospect, for. fear thew
might lind something that would induce
them to remain. What such people ever
came here for is more than can say. Near.
ly one half the party which came in with
our train remained here only one day. and
will probably have as much to say against
the country on their return as many of those
who preceded them.
Custer has one Of the most beautiful town
sites ever saw-almost as level as a house.
floor. The streets are laid out with regu.
larity, and are quite wide. There are, T
should judge, fully eight hundred houses
within the city limits, some OF which are
frame, two stories high, and nicely finished.
Work Is being commenced in the gulch
both ways from town, and few weeks will
decide whether there is gold in paying guam.
titles in French Creek. Building is not
being pushed with that vigor that character.
lied it few weeks ago, owing, presume,
to the fact that many businessmen are leay.
ing for Deadwood and other northern
camps, and for many other reasons which
have not the space nor the time to enume.
rate. 1t is believed by many old miners
here that the Big Horn will prove the rich.
est mining country in the world. The
Deadwood miners are making from SIS to
$40 day, but the claims in that locality are
all taken up, and prospectors who wish
to 90 further north are waiting for General
Cook to open up the country. There
| is no doubt but that the main portion OF all
the strong bands Of Indians are in the Big
Horn country, and there, probably, is where
the big fight will be made. There are quite
number Of small bands watching the road
| from Cheyenne river fifty miles distanD to
this point, and also some small parties OF
five to ten each in this vicinity; but do
not believe there are. all told, 300 Indians
on the war-path between here and Chey-
enne.
The body type Qsome 600 pounds) for the
new paper, the Pioneer, was shipped from
CHEYENNE on the 18th Of March, but has not
yet arrived, and the proprietors can do no.
thing in the way Of issuing paper until it
gets here.
Provisions at present are high. Flour is
worth SIG to 800 bacon, 80 to 40c.; sugar,
35c; the market overstocked with whiskey !;
and everybody cursing because more flour
and less whiskey has been brought in.
One man was killed by Indians about
twenty miles from here on our way in.
That was the only trouble we had on our
trip. Old Mr.. Sargent, OF Denver, was cap
tain OF our train, and acted very suspiciously
with $3.50 which was found on the person
of the murdered man after the body was
brought into camp; but the officers OF Gus
ter made him "come down. N.