Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-07-19
Sitting Bull.

SiGttIS Bull.
In anticipation of recruits going forward to
General Terry every station between ST. Paul
and Bismarck was crowded with an eager pop
ulace. No troops, however, we're along, and
so the eager populace had to feast ITS eyes upon
the sanguinary form Of your correspondent,
who, by the way of joke, was generally pointed
out bv the conductors as ''Standing Bull, the
great Chief of the Indian Peace Commission. .
There is nothing additional from the front to
what YOU have already received by telegraph.
| have not had time as yet to see any OF Reno
wounded mcu, but shall do so tomorrow. he
Inducements apd sixteen tons OF ammunition
will leave here for Terry 90 Saturday morning.
| lcaru however, fr m the most reliable DATA,
that all the agency warriors between here ana
Benton have aoue away, undoubtedly 70 Joln
Sitting Bull and his victorious warriors. AT
Bismarck to day a rumor Was circulated tEat
old Sitting Bull, an Ogalala chief, had been
killed 10 the Custer tight. Ihls IS mistake
as | have since learned that the old Chief, WHO
has If late years been friendly to the whites,
was at Fort Seward on the day OF the Custer
massacre. | have ais" learned almost com-
plete history OF the hostile warrior, Sitting
Bull. He is y Teton-Sioux and ouly thirty-hVe
years of age. Captain McGarry, OF the steam.
or Benton. tcls me he has kuown Sitting Bull
about the UPPER Missouri trading posts TOR
many years. His principal bartering place was
at Fort Peck. though OF late years ne aud his
band have followed the buffalo north on the
Souris and Pembiua Rivers, and have bartercd
their robes aud tongues for guns and ammuni-
ton with the French halt-breeds of Manitoba
Sitting Bull was convert and frieod OF Father
DE Smet who taught him to read and write
French. He has always scorned to lear q English,
but is fear French scholar. ln the Dakota Ian
guage he is also v,rsed, and declared to be
greater orator than Little Pheasant, Chlet of the
Yanktounais. Capt. Mctiarry says he knows
that Sitting Bull has read the treuch history of
Napolcons wars, and believes that he has
modelled his geperalship after the little Corsl..
can Corporal Sitting Bull has never accepted
an overture of peace, the report that he gave
in his adhesion 10 oSuy to the contrary notWlth-
staudug. He has always been AS uurelentlng
and vindic,iveIy savage 10 the Americans as
Schamyl was to the Russian. Father De Smet
kept the Teton-Sioux from the war path untll
1865. He then left the Upper Missouri aud
Sitting Bull became a chief. No organized
effort was made 10 array the Sioux nation
against the whites uuti after the Minnesota
massacre of 1868, when the Sioux were driven
west Of the Missouri into the bad lands and
mountains of Dakota. Sitting Bull aspired to
the leadership, but Red Cloud, Spotted TAIL
Little Pheasant aud the Ogalalla Sitting Bull
chiefs repudiated him. From that time ne
has been macontent, aud at war with the
chiefs of the Sioux patton, though he has eV
his persuasive arts Of oratory seduced many hun.
dreds of their young braves into his ranks. tie
is also largely reinforced by young braves from
the Crees and Assio,boins of Manitoba. Every
summer for FIVE years he has been up north
among these tribes, and now they are Hooking
to his standard. If these reports are to be be
licved, aud | have 90 reason to question them,
when he next makes stand against the Fede.
raj troops be- will have in the neighborhood OF
5000 warriors, every one armed with repeat
lug rh $. A great deal is expected from sli'
ting Bulls Inability to take care OF the wound,
ed already on his hands, aud which is sacred
duty among the Indians. If he has not sent
his wounded north among his Manitoba friends,
he will do so before be hazards another hight.
The telegraphiug report of Captain Smith,
who brought Reno's wounded down, that Terry
had found the biers of nine chiefs KILLED 10 the
engagement with Custer is mistake. They
were the remains >of sut-chefs and braves
killed BY Custer when be was with Stanley 10
ISL. The Sioux custom is to carry OFT their
dead braves to secluded valley, and, after
their customary mourning period has expired,
to lay out the dead braves on platform hign
enough to he beyond the reach of wolves or
coyotcS-Chicago Tribune
WrTu SHERIDAN NINE HUNDRED MILES
AwAY.-The Sioux have been underrated as
krI in
Every fresh piece of Intelligence brings proof
of this. Our special dispatch from Bismarck
put. their forces down as ten Thousand, and
though they may Dot have that maoy warriors
it Is, as our corr spondeDt points out, near'y
ali fighting force Its mobility Is ten times as
great as our army's. Viewing these facts, the
lishtncss Of our forces iu the field aud the 10
Suti.i ncy of the rentorcemeDts at present on
their way, the country will read with feeling
OF strange regret the Lieutenant Generals dis.
patch from Chicago, In which, after telling
Gcuera Sherman that he would suggest to
Crock to unite with Terry and attack those ln-
dianS, he adds, but | am so far away -
Sheridan pine hundred miles away. Sheridan
o! the Valley mine hundred miles away Will
strike the country with longing that he was
not 50 far. Let the gallant Little Phil, who
knows what Iudan fighting meaos better than
any uau 10 the army, get nearer to the fray.
Let HIM take the command iu person win ten
cr twenty thousand men and end this war tor
ever That is his way when be SETS about It.
The opera ious want q head to make them sue
cesstul. We do not desire to be regaled with
boasts defeats and stories Of hunting expedi
tions from the camps while Custer Is unaVeng
ed and the Sioux uusubdued. They must De
whipped 90 large scale. The crisis requires
great soldier; cool, quick and many sided
L needs force of ten or twenty thousand men
.crIdan is the soldier. Lat him select hl
meu. " y Herald
NHOICE FAMILY FLOUR.
- We have just received supply of the neV
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