The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-03-09

coded territory in Dakota. Gen. Crook
Will make his headquarters, it is expect
ed, at Fort Fetterman. where he can
personally supervise all campaign oper-
atoms and still be in telegraphic com
munication with the Secretary of War,
the General and the Lieutenant General
of the Army. A large force under Gen.
Custer, 1t is understood, will cooperate
with the troops from this department
(of the Platte), and occupy the terri tory
to the north and northwest The unea-
sinesS Of the Indians this winter has
been very noticeable so report ell who
have visited the agencies since the Red
Cloud council. The older chiefs, among
whom are Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Sit
ting Bull, the warrior, and others, are
convinced of the folly of war against
the whites. This Sitting Bull IS not the
Sitting Bull of whom a great deal has
lately been said. The chad" Sitting
Bull is the disaffected chief who is STIR
ring up the renegade Sioux to deeds of
violence and bloodshed. His people are
away to the north, where, during the
winter, they have received numerous &C.
cessiOns OF young ''bucks" whom the
more peacable chiefs we're unable to
control, and who have left their own
tribes to join their fortunes with Sitting
Bull, ''The Bad as he is called on the
frontier. The warrior Sitting Bull is
the same who had such consideration
shown him at the East, and who was
given many presents when he was at
| Washington for his efforts to harmonic
! his Indians with the policy OF the gov
eminent. In all this frontier trouble
and talk these chiefs must not be con-
founded the one with the other.
THE TEMPER OF THE YOUNG MEN,
who have gone to Sitting Bull, 1.-The
Bad" is by no means unruffied or even.
Many of them before leaving, and Oh
their way to the north, committed depre-
dations which have impoverished the
raided ranchman and sto2amen Swhom
they called on. Be it said to the credit
of the Indian agents, that they are ex-
erting to the limit their influence over
the Indians to quiet them, but in spite
of their endeavors the "bucks' VIII leave
the agencies and go on raiding excur-
sions. The best information I have now
from the front is, that the conflict, If il
comes, will be short and decisive. What
shape it may take I am now unable t.
say what Will be the theater Of strife
cannot yet describe. In ten days / shall
be on the ground, and events viii have
SO far developed themselves that a pro
phecy then Will be safe.
Yesterday party OF twelve or thirteen
men, under A. Arnold, left Columbus
Neb., a town ninety two miles west Of
Omaha, for the Black Hills, via the O
Neil City route. They will be JOINED
by about thirty more as they move north
and west, and intend to unite at O'Neil
City with Gordon's party of sixty men.
who are on the journey from Sioux City
to the hills. Daily small parties of two:
and tlrees and fives reach Omaha over
the Chicago & Northwestern and pass
on West to Cheyenne over the Unior
Pacific Railroad. These lines offer
with their usual iberality, good rates t.
MEN BOUND FOR THE HILLS,
and many are taking advantage OF thu
opportunity to reach the digglngs. Ev
cry day companies are leaving the towns
along the Union Pacific for the West
and if there are not 10, 0O0 men in thu
hills by July or August the present ant
contemplated exodus will have been
deceitful genesis.