The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-02-25
TIE NEW GOLD REGIONS.
Miners and Troops Bound for the Black
IIiIis-An Impending Indian War
Gen. Custer Ordered to Dakotn-Discov-
cry OF Another Great Gold Field.
From the New York SUM-

From the New York SUM-
Gen. sCustcr, who has spent the win
ter in this city, was percmptorily order
ed last week to return without delay to
his command, the Seventh Cavalry, ut
Fort Abraham Lincoln, in Dakota. An
order was simultaneously sent from the
headquarters of that department to have
the horses of the regiment rough shod,
and the entire command in readiness
for active service in the field. Soldiers
and frontiersmen will interpret this to
mean u winter campaign against the III
dians. Gen. Custer, with his wife, his
constant companion except when he is
on the w%arpath, left the city on Thurs
day evening for Bismarck, the terminus
Of the eastern division OF the Northern
Pacific Railroad.
Probably both os the Sitting Bulls
with their bands OF hostile Sioux are
prepared 10 do something unusual in
Indian warfare, namely, to make II cam
paign in winter. The temptation to do
this when thcro i NO grass for their
horses, and when they are liable to be
caught in cold SNOW storms, must BE
very great. That temptation is furnish
: Ed by the parties who are now an their
way from Bismarck 20 the Black Hills.
Some Of these are marching on foot
carrying their tools, provisions and
blankets on their backs. The most will
travel with trains Of wagons, large or
small. There is n great deal IF tempt
ing property in these ''outiits,' and the
hostile Sioux are evidently going for IL,
grass or no grass, snow n 10 now
For it is known that the men Of at least
one Of the Sitting Bull bands have taken
their women and children to Il place of
safety and provided for them for the
residue Of the winter.
CAIIFORRIA JoE's TRAIN
left Bismarck on the eth. 1t consisted
of forty-eight wagons and snventy-fivc
men. Among its supplies was u saw.
mill. Another and L large train will
leave Bismarck on the LIST Of March. Il
will be made up partly by delegations
from Fargo, Moorehead, Detroit, Brain.
erd, and all the towns on the line Of The
Northern Pacific.
There is II great deal Of feeling il
Minnesota about the delay in the open
ing of the Northern Pacific Railroal
from the Red River to the Missouri
The running of that portion of the roa'
was stopped with the close OF business
on the lakes and the setting in Of win
ter, for the good and sufficient reason
that the winter operation of the Da
kota division does not pay, and vii
not pay till the road reaches good coal
t~wcnty-four miles west Of Bismarck
The merchants of Bismarck and tn,
Board Of Trade and the merchants O
st. Paul are pressing the railroad com
pany very sharply to open the DAkotf
Division instantly. But the worl
will require time and money; for the
destruction of the snow fences at the cut'
by travellers camping, who have useC
the lumber to make fires, has resulted
in the usual filling Of the cuts with thu
fine drifting snow Of the region, which
packs very hard. We hear that the rail
road company has compromised the de
mand made on them by promising q
have the Dakota Division. 1877 miles
opened and running by the ist O.
March.
NEW GOLD FIELD.
The evidence that the best grounC
thus Gar prospected by the .Blaek lSills
miners is on the northern limits % the
Hills, and within thirty miles of the
line Of the Northern Pacific Road, vii
create surprise. Col. Lounsberry, O
Bismarck, showed II letter to the st
Paul Beard of Trade, received from /;
miner who went to the Hills from Mon
tana, entering through the Big Horn
country, which stated that IN the valley
of that river he found ground that pros,
pccted 50 to the pan, and quartz from
which n man could pound $40 a day
with q hand mortar.
California Joe on his outward trip OF
the 7th of February will stake his road
the whole distance, will improve all the
crossings of the streams, and select and
locate the stations. The cost of i'm
proving this wagon road will be borne
by subscription in Bismarck, to which
the Northern Pacific Road literally con
tributed.
In a book called "Courtship, Love,
and M~atrimony," published 1860, there
is this clause concerning privileges OF