New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

Figured and counted and weighed to see
What an eightieth widows third would be;
And the end Of it ALL as you we'll might know,
Was n0uaht but grief to the Turkish beau;
For lovely WaskA Singty Wee
Said: go back alone to your old Turkeew
-Scribnef for May.
The Failure Of Reyuolds' Expedition.
The special correspondent of the Nev
York Tribune, writing from Cheyenne
April l, says:
Now that the expedition is over, IN,
while the troops are permitted to take
breathing spell. it is proper to review 1T
work. First, it made q march of nearly
900 miles through hostile country, in
terribly inclement season, much of the tim,
on half ratlons. As for shelter or warn
clothing and bedding, there was none. TIT
frozen, snow-covered ground, with sucl
shelter as brush and banks could afford
was all they had from the time of leaving thu
train on Crazy Woman's Fork until they
returned to Old Fort Reno. That more was
not accomplished than the destruction OF
Crazy Horses village can not be charged to
the discredit of the troops.
When General Crook took upon himself
the burden of caring for the pack train,
and sent General Reynolds forward with
the real fighting strength of the command,
to attack and destroy any camp of saw
ages to be found on the Powder river, he
acted generously, and gave his subordinate
officer an opportunity which many an off,
Ger might serve a lifetime and not get That
greater results were not obtained is due to
the tact that General Reynolds failed to do
his work as thoroughly as he should have
done. Upon his success depended other
movements which would have in ell pr0ba-
bility resulted in the complete subjuRation
of ell the hostile ssvages south and east of
the Yellowstone river. General Crook was
particular to inform General Reynolds of
the Importance of securing the ponies of
any band he might attack, and also of
loading all the meat and provision Of every
kind that might be found in case of captur-
ing village, upon the ponies, and bringing
it away for the use of the command. With
our rations thus replenished, and with
plenty of animals to replace those of our
own that were breaking down, General
Crook proposed to push boldly down the
Powder river to its mouth, and attack Sit
ting Bulls band before the latter could pos
sibly escape him. This would have ended
the war. and prevented the necessity of
sending other expeditions. General Rev.
nolds neglected to obey these injunctions
when he captured the village Of Crazy
Horse, and burned, destroyed. and left
enough meat there to have fully enabled
G Crook to carry out the plan
u1 as' and dam dpny partial 5d' rs xta tss
four days left, it was impossible to
take the command further, and the only
thing left to do was to return to Reno.
Moreover the substantial fruits of the
captured herd of between 700
and 800 ponies-General Reynolds per-
nitted to escape, after it had been driven
INTO his camp, twenty miles from the battle
ield; and, when informed by the chief of
'couts, Major Stanton, on the next morning,
hat the herd had escaped and was only
lriven away by the Indians, he made no
fort whatever to recspture it. When
General Crook came up in the afternoon it
vas too late to recapture the ponies, and
here was no meat in the command, so that
General Crooks plan was completely frus-
rated.
The fact is that General Reynolds left the
battlefield, taking with HIM q battalion,
which he kept most of the time on the trOt.
'aying no attention to what was going on |
u Inc rear, not knowing whether the herd |
vas coming or not, and leaving his dead |
nd one wounded man to fall into the hands |
t the Indians. The factlof wounded man |
eing left on the field was reported to him /
y Captain Mills, but he would not order
nything to be done about the matter,
When Major Stanton found that no one had
rders to bring off the herd, and that it was
bout to be abandoned, he got together such
,outs as General Reynolds had not taken
nd drove it away. As it was large, un-
ieldly, and hard to manage, he applied to
sptain Moore, whose battalion formed the
,ar guard, for few men to assist him, but
lis officer declined to furnish q man.
Further, there lie every probability that
Moore's battalion had taken the place
'signed it, covering the rear of the vii
&c before the attack was made, not an In
an would have escaped General
eyn0lds failed to call this officer to &C.
unit for his noncompliance with orders,
I'd virtually sustained him. Captain
CORES failure jeopardized Heedlessly the
res of the members of the company that
ade the charge under Captain Egan. He
hour after the attack was made, and |
me in then upon the same path
at Egan charged over, firing wild
lleys at the flying Indians, who were
IT hiding among the rocks and bluffs
erlooking the village. General Crook
as not nearer than twenty-five or thirty
les to the scene of action at the time it ]
ok place. He had remained in the rear,
tn the pack train, purposely to give his
oorolnato every opportunity possible to
Ike brilliant reputation. He can not,
9refore, be charged in any manner what !
Dr. with the blunders committed BY Cen
Il Reyn0lds-errOrs which were not only 9
ev0us enough in themselves, but which I
re of such a nature as to completely
strate General Crooks plans for holder
vements.
The country lying east of the Big Horn :
untains, a,ong the Rosebud, Tongue and
WIDER rivers, is extremely uninviting. 1t
bad land country, with high
ties of indurated clay and sandstone,
aiming almost the magnitude of noun
ns. But in this entire region there is no 4,
ferrous strata, and no rock harder than u
t above described. feel compelled to
ke this statement in opposition to the g
tements of many maps Of that country d
ich are being scattered throughout the Ii
d, upon which gold is represented as 7
Ong the minerals to be found in the Pan il
r and Wolf mountains 1.-THE high bad | 9,
d buttes above described), and where ! b
re mot only is no gold, but where the ooun- "
has not single g0ld-bearing strata or | II
;ure. Big Horn range Of mountains, one al
the finest on the continent doubtless il | Il
! in precious metals, end this region is N
70 enough to give room for . large min p
population. The Black Hills country 81
\ nOk Nrmuara With IL in AvfAnk anS | II