Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-25
VIEWS OF THE SECRETARIES.
CANADIAN NEWS OF SITTING BULL.
TIE Fight Of the 17tk.

IN litClan warfare inc l(tn or the month
appears to be day of fights. On March II,
1876, Gen. Crook attacked Crazy Horse on
Powder river, and on June IT., 1876, the same
general had hard encounter with Sitting Bull
on Rosebud creek. To-day, about noon, Lieut.
w. p. Clark, of the Second cavalry, who went
forward with G company of his own regiment
under Lieut. Hoppin, and l company of the
Fifth infantry, mounted, under Lieut.. Borden,
together with some eighty Indian scouts,
mostly Chcyennes and Crows, struck
LARGE HUNTING PARTY
OF Sitting Bulls young men, on Beaver creek,
about twelve miles from Campbells house, and
Il running fight, in which the hostiles did the
leg business for some time, was the result;
falling back, they rallied on their reserves
with their usual ability, and soon swung
around Clark's command in a manner that
made it very lively for that officer. He sent a
courier to Gen. Miles, who was on the march,
and tho whole force started
TO THE FRONT AT A aALLop.
The demoralized Assinniboines were making
tracks for the rear, slashing their ponies and
crying Help! Sioux" in accents of terror.
The. daring Cheycnnes, stark naked, on their
warehouses;, who were left to guard their pony
herd, rushed forward like fury, yelling in their
peculiarly terrific manner.
The painted Bannooks, who had little stom-
ach for row, sat still on their ponies and
seemed glad enough to be out of the fight.
Scout after scout came back to say that the
hostiles
HAD CLARK SURROUNDED,
and that he Was nearly out of ammunition.
Gen. Miles sent forward pack-mules with a
fresh supply, riding with tho escort in person.
Soon 'hc white puffs of smoke from the two
sk!rmish lines were visible; but the Sioux near
est TO Miles rctreated when they saw the adj
vance.
Clark then charged them in front and drove
them across Little Rocky creek, their pace
much accelerated by the fire of Col Rice's
Hotchkiss howitzers, which, by great exert,on,
were brought in time to give the rascals
A PARTING sALvo.
After the second discharge the hostles left
in great haste, and Rice piled shells into them
at u distance of twenty-five hundred yards.
The hostile party numbered between three
and four hundred warriors, who had mostly
wickyups instead of regular tspees. They had
only a few squaws with them. One was cap
tured and one was killed by stray shot from
the Grows. The friendly Indians
TOOK SEVERAL scALPs,
but their JOY was somewhat dampened by the
loss of Medicine Stand a gallant young Chey-
enne, and an impetuous Grow warrior, both of
whom were killed in advance of their own
skirmish line.
Olo Assinniboine got badly wounded in the
thigh, and may have to lose limb.
Private FL. I'll. Hartman. @ company, Second
cavalry, received a bullet in the left foot, and
private Etyenne Genin, of the same company
was shot through the right shoulder. Both are
doing we'll. Several soldiers received scratches,
but these enumerated were the only COM
bltants
WHO SUFFERED SEVERELY.
Lieut.. Clark drove the enemy ten miles be-
fore the main command could overtake him.
Oar scouts on Frenchman's creek report that
Sitting Bull, with 1000 lodges, has moved
nearer to us Little Rocky creek, north forks.
We hardly think he will attack us, but we have
not sufficient force to attack him 50 as to make
th@ attack q success.
The sooner the war department
REINFoRcEs MILES,
the sooner this affair will be settled, unless a
repetition of the delays and disasters of the
1878 campaign is agreeable to the country.
SIXTEEN HUNDRED HOSTILE LODGES
will, at the smallest average, give the Sioux
chieftain three thousand two hundred fighting
men.
IL there are people in the Feast who suppose
that a little force like this can do effective
work against such an outfit their estimate of
the fighting qualities of the hostiles in spite of
sad OK perlence is
DEPLoRABLY FALSE.
he weather IS damnable. It rains most of
the time. The sun is very hot and the roads
arc horrible.
The report that Sitting Bull, with
AN OVERWHELMING FORCE
is within q few miles of us is confirmed. He
may place us ON the defensive, because, what
ever may be the military idea on the subject in
the States, it is u mathematicals i'm possibility
for one soldier to surround and capture from
three to five Sioux, which will be about the pro-
portions against him. Perhaps it is useless to
state these facts to the military authorities.
Perhaps the rest of the twenty thousand sol
diers OF the regular army have too much to do
elsewhere, Our government always begins an
Indian war the home operative plan. and
ends ii on no plan at all. Miles may come out
all right but it he does it will be the result of
LUCK AND PLUCK,
and not of sufficient numbers. The camp at
this moment is filled with rumors, and we may
be said to dwell in the midst of alarms. al.
though we still dispute the reign of Sitting
Ball in this horrible place.
Insane Through Grief
HALIFAX, July M.-A passenger by the State
of Virginia, named Paden, whose wife and two
children were drowned at Sable Island, has be-