Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-03
Sitting Bull,

NOT READY TO SURRENDER.
The following dispatches have been forwarded
to the War department by Gen. Terry:
FORT KEoGH oct. 3sth.
The following dispatch is respectfully for
warded:
Cditonf,eiit. Poplar Creek, October eth, Breuet
Major General ". A. Niles. Keogb:-Have only
partly succeeded. Sitting Bull win not give a
Walsh Indians were saucy and Independent:
was kept prisoner two days In camp A dfvi-
SION exists In camp; part wanted to go back
with me; greater portion under Sitting Bull
hostile; Sitting Bull prays that you make no
move until he hears from Major Walsh; camp
On MIX river at mouth OF Rock Creek; both
been In the saddle twenty .one days and two
nights. (SigneO w. E. EVERETT
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY INDIANS SURRENDER.
For several months It has been stated that
MAJOR walsh was to return November 10th and
L al them to some favorable country. All the
lndians here corrooorated the story. AS he
ment, request that there be no delay beyond
that date. If he is not to return, and cannot
1aInll the promises, they should be so informed
at at =, once by the same authority: and request
Cnat ample arrangements may be made to ar
rest any that may cross the line before our
troops. As the camp Is now reduced this can
oe done. Captain Higgins arrived to-day. with
camps OF Spotted Eagle and Rain-1n- the.Face-
about $50 Indians.
(SIgned) MILES, Commanding.
FORT KEoGB. Oct. 2S.-Lieutenant Miller 5th
infantry, Is this side of Terry's Landing with
2.5 head OF cattle, bought by the sale OF surren.
dered Indian ponies. Captain Higgins cd cav
airy. reports that he Is moving In slowly, with
camp or Spotted Eagle and Rain.in-the. Face
10 lodges OF indians. expect them to arrive
at Keogh within three days. Lieutenant Clark
20 cavalry, has gone further north for more.
Slgned1 MILES. Colonel Commanding.
A WIFE WANTS DIvoRcK.-To- day Mr.. S. C.
Mills for Matilda c. Serrtn, filed bill for
they were married In July, 1869. In Georgetown.
and they lived together until october 1877, when
he compelled her to return to her mother. She
tempted to cut her with razor, and In October
1877 he drove her away and has not since per
mitted her to return.
A DECISION UNDER THE GAMBLING LAWS
To-day, In the Court In General Term, {Chief
Justice Cartier and Judge Wylfe,) the case OF
Cornelius Vessels, convicted In the Criminal
Court OF Keeping gaming table, under stat
ute, and sentenced to the penitentiary, was
argued by Mr.. A. B. Williams for the prisoner
and Col. Corkhil for the government. The
court reversed the judgment below, holding
that to convict under the statute the table must
be one used specially for that purpose, with
device, &C., and II party permitted gaming on
his premises IL became nuisance, for which
the party was liable to Indictment under the
common law and to Imprisonment In jail
In TIE DEPARFxnrs.-A few of the clerks
who voted in New York yesterday returned to
were In the departments, however, and they
were the happiest crowd seen here In decade.
The streets were lively to-day. Everybody
seemed to be moving about. It was not evident
that they were looking for returns, tor they
did not go In large numbers where returns WeTe
to be found. The only topic Of conversstion
was the election. The interest In ascertaining
the nnal result was marked, but there was 40
hunting after telegramA DemocraIdc head.
Quarters on street was not lively. The cur.
tains were pulled down, ana the chairs were IA
tne same CONFUSION g TO legs and positions IN
which they were let last light. fheY didnT
get any dispatches there to-day.