Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-20

General Miles. with n large force, viii
ambush them on the Missouri and wipe
them off the face Of the Garth The
gathering Of American troops in the
northern'Montana country has in a man
ner confirmed these stories, and Sitting
Bull fears, or PROCESSES TO fear, treachery.
1t is said the commissioners will not be
here for month. In that case they will
almost beyond doubt return empty
handed Sitting Bull has said from the
beginning that it the wakasta.sotaa (nen
with power did not meet him before tue
first snowfall he would remain on British
soil for the winter. This fort is in lad
tnde 50 deg, 3 min. Already the nights
and mornings are excessively cold, and.
infallible sign Of an early and rigorous
winter 1.-THE bufalOes are already moving
southward a fortnight hence there
will be snow on the Three .Buttes
a month hence driving snow.storms
throughout the country, Sitting Bull,
even were he 90 inr ined, could scarcely
take his dilapida;ed force across the from
tier ip such weather. In October, how
ever, there is often a short period Of very
chilly lnGian summer, and if the. COM
missiOners can arrange means to transport
and provision the force, they may make
the Journey then; but major Walsh, as
! salc before, believes the wild stories
from Fort benton have scared Sitting
Bull out Of the notion Vt leaving British
40 or the resent. 5000
The legion in which ritting-Bull Is en-
camped is full of pleasant places. Not
many years ago the country between
Wood mountain and the Cypress hills
swarmed with buflloes. Now their
skulls, whitening on the plain and the
deep.worn tracks which traser7e the
prairie in every direction, are the only
evidences Of their former existence.
For two or three days past, however,
vast herds from the north have been
passing southward, ana the Sioux are
laying n abundant rations Foxes,
wolves, badgers, skunk and n Ink TEEN
both in thee bills and Wood mountain, !
and muskrat7 are very abundant in the |
swamps and ereeks. On the prairie the |
little gopher or ground-slnirrel and tie |
mole are found in populous colonies. |
Prairie chickens, ducks and geese, cranes,
bitterns, plovers, sand-pipeIs, suipe and !
other wader,, as well as pigeons, black. |
birds and larkS, are found everywhere,
and serve to keep the wolf from the door
of Sitting BdlPs lodge. Wooded belts
are scattered throughout the country |
The herbage is clean as well shayen |
lawn, and clumps OF aspen and poplar
abound, Between the Cactus, Plain and
Wood mountain the Great Salt plain,
that begins Just west of the Touchwood
hills, seems to renew itself. Hundreds
Of small lakes OF saline or bracklsh water
any visible outlet are to be found,
and these are frequented by wild fowls in
Hocks. Sitting Bull has ammu-
milton enough to keep his camp supplied
with the luxuries of the season, his
braves being wonderfully expert in stalk
ing the cabri or prairie deer.
The mounted police are anxious to get
rid OF their guests, but the general henet
Is that, owing to the inexplicable delay
in the arrival of the commissioners, the
Sioux will remain with us all winter,
md perhaps, like the Sioux who fled
rom Minnesota in 1882, became we'll
'egulated Kanuck savagts.