The New York herald., 1876-07-13

without assistance the disaster OF the day. The
moment 1t was sheltered the enemy seemed to recog-
nize their repulse and disappeared There is no doubt
that II CooIel Royal had been permitted to continue
his advance and had been supported the right he
would have the abrupt palisades which enclose
the hollow on the west, and his line would naturally
have gained the other when he reached the ground
from which the enemy would then have been driven.
The falling back OF the Sioux may be partly atrib-
uted to the failure of their ammunition. Several OF
them after having wounded soldiers in their final
charge omitted to scalp hem but merely stopped
from their ponies and loose their BELTS which
loaded with cartridges and rode off,
The demorazing retreat on the LETT trial to the
stouest courage and is the barest justice to the off,
involved in IT to say that they displayed ortude
aud personal worthy Of exposure nobler
enemy
AFTyR
officers who revisited the after the firing had
ceased say that the distance from the last slope held by
the skrmshers to the crest where headquarters
(d)-was more than mile. The point on tho bank o.
the creek where the rest took place in tho morning Is
marked on the map by the letters BB On advancing to
the entrance TO the chaotic low land lying north OF the
battle field and again retreatng to the valley bvouac
made here for the night There gloom in almost
every mind caused by the loss OF ten brave fellows and
the incompeteness of the victory
In the evening gave courier a despatch which he
engaged to carry to Fort Fctternan About midnight
however he came hurricdly back into camp and said
that he had been pursued by the Sioux and had wan
dered their village that he had heard the squaws
mourning over their dead He was completely scared
and nothing could induce him make another start
A soldier told story of having blundered into the
Sioux village while riding with two friendly Indians
who were following their captured ponies 1t not
however credited.
The Snakes, notwithstanding the eight scalps which
they had won, mourned with direfu wailing for the
death OF of their tribe although he had come to
the war in the band of the Crows They buried him
carefully in the bed of the stream, and then drove
their ponies over the body, that the Sioux might
not suspect tho grave seeing the hoof prints in the
mud.
SAVAGE SPECTACLE.
On the morning following the fight as the
column moving from the place Of bi.
vouac, there suddenly among the
red allies singular excitement. One OF them
had ridden up to dark OBJ ec lying beside the stream
and sat and gazed at IT, and after others had Joined
him, they alt chartered wildly together as tho
South American monkeys when they discover the pro.
pinquity OF snake Afier gestures and yes they dis.
mounted and brandished knives. Approaching them |
beheld lying on the fresh dewy grass under the
Xcntlc snauoW oi shopping most horribc
OBJECT that could meet the eye dusky humen form,
nude aud -bcsineared, was writhing under the
knives of the merciicss This objec, was q
Sioux who. in the latter part Of the lghl had been
wounded by Snake, scalped and left for dead In
tearing the ,un OF hair from his head portion
OF the bone. fractured with stroke OF the tomahawk
had chung 10 tho flesh, and the brain aid bare.
And yet In the morning The savage was
still alive and bearing the tramp OF
horses and believing his tribe had
beaten the whites he had crawled Of the gully in
which he lay and called. "Minne!" (water) to Grow
who had passed and who he undoubtedly thought was
Sioux The Grow turned, and his lace kin tled with
fearful Joy. Six shots nred' the PROSTATE
figure The head and limbs severed from tho
body and the flesh hacked and the bones hewn until
there was nothing about Il recognizable as human.
lniames shameful and disgusting for record com.
pleted the CHASTITY climax OF horror. 1t Illus
ration OF the nendish isrocity OF all the Plains In
dams toward their foes The Sioux practise even
refined barbaritles, torturing their victims In
the most exquisite manner and making them more
dreadful by defcrrng, by every in their power,
the welcome relief of death
FoRNER INDIAN STRIPE
In returning TO the qaartsrmasisrs camp the column
Mountains and bivouackcd in narrow gorge at the
headwaters OF the Little Tongue River Deer buffalo,
bear and elk fed before u.s. On the same day the
horses were allowed to rest ai tho foot Of ofy conf