, 1876-08-24

6ptcl4@ Uttf1fch 10 1Ae Tribune.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. &.--No informa.
tfou Of any recent encounter with the Indians
has yet reached army headquarters. Reinforce
mepts arc being moved to tho Departments Of
tho Plattc aud Dakota, part Of which will be
sent to Join Terry to head the llostllcs of II
they attempt to cross the Yellowstone or Mis-.
souri, River. Companies A, G, D, and l., Fifth
Infantry, comprising tho reminder OF Gen.
Miles regiment, hare been ordered to the site
Of the new post on the Yellowstone, under COM
manl Of Lieut.-Col. Whistle. Fort Hufori],
Dak., bus bccn made the supply depot for the
troops in tho 1c1d, and Is commanded by Gen.
". D. uazen.
BTANDlN1 RocK.
The commanding officer at Standing Rock
Agency having reported that his force was In
sufficient to arrest and lsarm Kain-itl.the-
Face aud other hostile Sioux who participated
In the Custer massacre, and have since came to
that agency, four additional companies have
been sent there, and the force placcd In CON-
mand Of ". P. Carliu, Seventeenth Infantry.
Tie force Will be composed Of Companies and
X OF the First Infantry, A Of the Sixth, E and F
q the Seventeenth, and Il Of the Twentieth.
On thelF arrival this hostilcs will bo disaraned
aud arycsted.
PROM TEXAS.
a battalion Of the Eleventh Infantry, Compa.
nscs E, F, G, Ii. and X, have been ordered from
to Yankton, D. T., aud thence by steamer to
join Gen. Terry.
FROM UTAH.
In addition to these troops, two companies Of
from Fort Cameron, In Southern Utah, to takc
= post at Cheyenne. and onu company from
Camp Dougas, Salt Luke City, to Medicine
Bow, wyoming, near Fort Fred Steele, to
strengthen those points, Il being feared that, II
Sitting Bull finds himself pressed too closely,
bis forces will break into small bands and mako
for the railroad to deprcdate upon the settle
ments.
NEW COMMAND
3 has been established under Gen. Crook, to be
known az tho District Of the Black Hills, mud
Gen. Ronald 8. Mackenzie, Colonel Of tic
Fourth Cavalry, IL assigned to It's command,
with llts Headquarters at Camp Robinson, Red
Cloud Agency, Nebraska.
Officers have been designated at each post #,
the Indian Territory, Kansas, Colorado, Nc
braska, Wyoming, Utah, Minnesota, aud Da-
kota to recruit tho men authorized to 6ll up
the cavalry regiments, with Fort D. a. Russell,
IN tho Department Of the platte, and Fort
Abraham Lincoln, Department Of Dakota, as
rendezvous a1sd camps of instruction. Recruits
are allowed to select the regiment In which
they wtsll to serve. Those for tlIc Second,
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Will bc sent to Fort D.
Lincoln.
THE HoRsE-MARINEs,
!, Officers Of the Murine Corps arc urging that
their corps be sent to tue frontier. They clalln
week, which would make as stroug force as
any two regiments In tic army. Gen. Sherman
is willing that they should be sent.
0RN. siIEAMAN's OPINION.
Gen. Sherman says this evening that the nd
vices he has received for the last few days as to
the movements Of our troops und the apparent
tnoyetnents of the sioux lead him to believe
tl,at the 1ndIaHs cannot escape without our
forces striking them. lie feels entire confidence
tn the ability II Crook and Terry to tuf!ct &C.
we're punishment.