Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-07-20

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suit-and being sure it was him Der
indo called out:
"For Gods sake, Tom, don't leave
us here;
They were answered in Sioux with
volley. Girard shifted his person.
Derindo escaped to the river, and
dropped into it, found a new hiding
place and reached camp in an hour
or two after Girard. During the
night following Derindo was pursued
into the thickets, but a lot OF beavers
at work there jumped into the river
about this time, and their splashing
diverted attention from him and
saved his life. DR.. Porter aud Gil
rard both give very intelligent ac-
count of the battle. agreeing fully
with the stories already telegraphed
you- OF course, the news of this bat
tie and its result caused great de-
preston among those not engaged as
well as among, g,the survivors. -fei a
Curley, the Crow scout, would not
trust himself to speak for three days
after the fight, except when he told
his story at the steamboat, but would
sit around detected and apparently
in deep thought Humming Grow
tune and throwing up his right hand,
he displayed two fingers. and said:
- Eve got two ponies; heap Sioux;
much heap Sioux; white man all
dead; we got two ponies" bEa -tissit
@Humming moment, he again
said. 10 Artt.u g is.1 ti@iNnH
white man all dead, we got two
popies - asl1 % i'sfa'lsf ssa 5ta me
! 1t was then he told the story re-
lated in my former dispatch
es.., Col, Smith informs me the
map of the Battlefield as drawn by
lCurley at the steamboat is absolutely
correct, No engineer could improve
it in any of its details. g7n 2fi,f sEs71
Il Among the characters of the cam
paign, Grant Marsh, of the steamer
Far West, deserves mention. The
boys delight to tell stories of him
One OF them who accompanied him
up the Yellowstone. on the occasion
of Stanley's expedition says that the
Captain actually walked his boat half
a mile over dry land to reach point
indicated by Stanley. fn 37s
To the captains energy and intelli-
gence much is due. He pushed his
boat fifty-four miles up an unex-
plored river to the mouth of the Lit
tie Horn, taking position where his
good sense dictated and where it af-
terward proved the most aid could be
rendered.
The wounded, who were brought
in from the battle field, fifteen miles
distant, reached the boat at o'clock
on night so dark that fires were
built, under General Terry's direc-
ton, to light those carrying the lit
tiers down the hillsides; and within
sixty hours after leaving that point
the wounded were comfortably placed
in hospital at Fort Abe Lincoln, 900
miles distant. Had the captain re-
manned at the mouth of the Big Horn
General Terry would have been
obliged to transport his wounded
forty miles over dry prairie. Though
the pilot house was barricaded with
boiler. iron and the deck with wood,
while an escort Of one company ac-
companied it it is believed but for
Colonel Benteen's galIantry Sitting
Bulls desire, long INDUCED, to- cap
ture steamboat, would have been
gratified. His promptness and his
galIantry on the field not only saved
Reno's command, but saved the Far
West from destruction. W
Whether Custer did right or wrong
in attacking as he did your corre-
spondent is not prepared. to say. An
officer informs me General Terry did
not expector desire Custer to attack
the Indians until he should reach the
Little Horn and gain position from
which he could support him. Custer
attacked forty eight hours in advance
of the time Terry was TO reach that
point An officer informs your CORES
pondent when Custer came in sight OF
the 1,SO0 lodges, village of upward
OF 1000 Indians, he swung his hat
and said: "Hurrahl Clusters luckl
The biggest Indian village on the
American continent!"
Hating here only for coffee, he
pushed forward at a rapid gait; took
five companies for his personal COM
mand; gave Reno three and left four
in Ieservo under Benteen0nd sailed
in Dr. Porter believes the result
would have been the same had Gus
ter charged with his full regiment,
only the massacre would have been
more terrible.-B Bismdrk Special to
Netr York Herald. q. "a
On Wednesday, July 8, the infant
daughter.i2 years old, OF Robert and
Mrs. McNay, of this place, when in
charge Of her brother about 10 years
old, fell into their cistern where the
water was about 3 feet dep. The boy
saw her fall in and gave immediate
alarm, but before the father could
hurry from the table to the door that
boy was in the water holding his lit
tie sisters head above the surface.
which came up around his neck, ask
ing to be taken out as soonii as pos
isible, because the water was so cold
The cistern, whicheis usually covered,
had been left exposed by boys who
did not know the danger. TaIpdr-
also Tjdefte.lao2 '.89as .lanno9
A Dakota man got mad at the editor
and, stopped his paper, The next week
he sold all his old corn for five cents be-
|, low the market price; then his place
|, was sold for taxes because he didn't
know, they were due; be lost the nomi-
nation fer supervisor because he only
heard of it three days before it adjourn
ed. He lost ten dollars by betting on
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