West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-10-19

soon come, and the Indians must at once
new development. General Hooker, Of
Mississippi and Judge Boone, of Ken
lucky, Followed in Interesting speeches.
All the members Of the committee expressed
surprise at the fine display OF products the
Indian Territory exhibited. An indications
now point 20 an early and satisfactory set
clement Of the question: Of opening the ter
ritory.
The following dispatch from Wallace,
Kansas, dated October &, referring to the
band of Indians which left the reservation
near Fort Reno, is just received: The In.
dians crossed the Kansas Pacific Railroad
Sunday morning, going North. When
about twenty-five miles north of Buffalo
Station, they commenced killing the set.
tiers, and so far, seventeen dead bodies have
been found along Sappa Creek. The In.
dians do not 60 out of their way TO kill the
white people, but il they meet "A man on
horseback, they kill him aud take his horse.
They are now eighty or hundred miles
troops pressing them pretty hard. They
have killed no women or children, and have
not thus far mutilated the bodies of their
victims. The report that Lieutenant Brod-
erick was killed IL untrue. There has been
no fight since Friday, and Frederick is here
well and hearty.
From Ogallala, October &, we receive the
following: Four stock men who went
from here ms guides with General Thorn
burgh, returned this evening, and report
1hornburgh still after the Indians When
they left his command, at four p. m. yester.
day, they had travelled twenty miles with.
out any water, and no signs Of reaching any
for twenty FIVE miles further. The Indians
made directly west, then turned and trav-
eled south towards the Plat River,
abandoning horses every few miles, leaving
them with pack-saddles on tn cir backs,
being too closely pursued TO take time to
unsaddle them. Another courier arrived nj
Big Spring this evening with n dispatch
from Thornburgh, saying that the Indians
had scattered all over the country, and were
abandoning their ponies every few miles.
He also reports his own stock as being very
tired, causing him to abandon some of il.
A Leavenworth (Kansas) dispatch says
that General Jeff. c. Davis, Colonel Of the
Twenty-third Infantry, arrived at Fort
Leavenworth Sunday evening, accompanied
by Captain Rice and Adiutant Broderick.
The party came from Fort Wallace. The
rumor that Adjutant Broderick was
wounded during a skirmish with the Indi.
ans, WAS without foundation. IL is not
known what disposition will be made OF the
several companies OF the regiment sent from
Fort Leavenworth, they being yet on the
frontier.
Notes from Abroad.
General Noyes, United States Minister 10
France, entertained General and Mrs.
Grant at dinner October :. Among the
Americans invited were John Welsh, Min.
lister to England; John a. Kasson, Minister
to Austria; j. Meredith Reed, Charge
d'Affaires TO Greece General Hazen. United
States army; General Lucius Fairchild,
Consul General at Paris; Ex-Governor Nc
Cormick, Commissioner General to the
Paris Exposition; Ex-Governor Smyth, OF
New Hampshire, and Miss Waite. daughter
OF the Chief Justice. see. Heavy failures and
general financial panic is reported in En-.
gland.
1t is reported the Turks have collected
provisions at Prisrend for forty thousand
men........Sir Francis Grant, the famous
portrait painter and President OF the ROYAL
Academy, died suddenly in London, on the
bth.........The Bank of Mona, a local branch
OF the City OF Glasgow Bank, in the Isle Of
Man, held 81 100000 to $780, 900 OF de-.
posts, about all the spare money in the Is.
land, and many persons are left destitute.
Inc Norwegian brig Patriot arrived at
Liverpool Saturday from Wilmington.
\. u with all hands, the captain and four
men, down with swamp fever. One seaman
was buried at sea on the 9th ult, one on
~ckH ulL.b anu the 0rSt mate the
5Oth.........lt is Just learned that DR.. August
Peterman, the famous German geographer,
whose death was recently reported, com.
mitted suicide. He was driven 20 distrac.
ton by bodily pain and the prosecutions
OF his brst wife, from whom he had been
divorced. DIR. Peterman's father and brother
also died by their own hands.
The British are enterning Afghanistan
by the Khyber Pass. There are two en-.
frances, the Shadee Bhagiaree and the
Jubogee. The first of these is the shorter
and the larger, the other is longer and comes
into 1t near the fort of Ali Musfd, which is
five miles from the Shadee road. The e1.
treme length Of the Khyber Pass is twenty.
SIX miles. News has been received in
England OF the capture Of Ali Musiid, an
important success in It's way, though before
Cabul is reached other narrow and easily
defended gorges must he marched through.