New-York tribune., 1885-03-29
LOUIS RIEL'S REBELLION.
RUMORs OF ANOTHER sKIRMIsH.
ELEVEN MEN REPORTED KILLED-TRoOps GOING TO
TIE NORTHWEST.

TIE NORTHWEST.
ST. PAUL, March 2S.-A dispatch from Win
nipeg to The Dspdtch says Further exciting rumors
come from Carleton, stating that there has been
other skrmish In which eleven more men were killed;
but this has not been confirmed. General Middleton,
Colonel Houghton. and 25 officers and $50 men Of the
9th Battalion started last night and reached Qu'Ap-
pee this morning, where they Joined the first detach-
ment of field battery Of fifty, and squad Of fifteen
cayarymen, and started this morning for the West 10
is understood In military circles that General Middleton
will not advance Immediately with the troops, but viii
await further developments. He was heard TO remark
that IL the rebels meant fight, he would not advance
without strong force.
MONTREAL, March 2s.-Tbe whole city volunteer
force has received orders to hold themselves In read
ness to proceed to the Northwest
TORONTO, March 2s.-No developments havo
taken place In regard to the movements OF the troops In
the northwest. Both regiments sti waiting orders
The Mail the Government organ, in article the
trouble In the Northwest says Yesterdays encounter.
particularly since IL resulted ia victory for the
hafbreeds is no doubt the beginning of serious
pagn Rie is reported to have 1,50o adherents armed
with Remington rifles obtained from American traders
and six American field guns Graver danger, however,
is to be feared from the Indians s evident that
Beardy's band, who are Piegans must have sided
with the rebels against Major Crozer. and should
the disaffection spread to the other Indians
In the Carleton Agency and to the large bands In tho
BattlefOrd and Edmonton Districts the task of stamping
it out will be formidable one The Government has
TSe and SSe
Der TO- and the garrison at Carleton 300 with civilians
Rie and 300 volunteers with two Armstrong guns six
seven days travel away In addition to this force
500 Eastern troops to- the spot This brigade
will consist of 100 men from each Of. the two bat
Of the two Toronto corps, the Queens Own and Grena
ders and eighty from the School Of Infantry under
now on the way from Winnipeg to Qa Appele viii take
chief command Of the whole body OF troops From
viii be necessary transport them BY seghs over gap
OF seventy miles OF unfinished road.
be His first move, that he has openly
taken the field will doubtless be to secure supplies by
plundering the Government. Hudsons Bay, and other
Join Join him him. in resisting the ., Queens author,
M tSey goT work % be- made Of the half
breeds but should any considerable number OF them go
over to Rel land there are about 10000 OF them In the
Canada will be taxed In earnest There is good ground,
however for saying that up to the present moment none
OF the bands except perhaps Boardys has shown signs
OF wavering.
CHICAGO, March 2s.-The Daily Nerss winnipeg dis
patch of yesterdays date says: correspondent tele-
graphs late tonight from Fort Qu Appelle that James
Scott station at Duck Lake, teegraphs that fight
killed and wounded. The loss OF the rebels Is
known This believed to be the second ghtas the first
according the reports, occurred yesterday Rumor
has it that Crozier and the police under him have sur
rendered.
A telegram from Brandon says the mounted police
have captured Louis Genve, cmissary OF Riel who
had with letters the Indians and habreeds
of Broadvew Oak Lake and Bail St. Paul. The papers
were not found The prisoner says that he left Re six
days and that he had then six American cannon and
1900 men, and that he was being Joined by American
Indians Major Crozer and his men, he says, have been
made prisoners General Middleton Informed Of the
capture and ordered the prisoner brought here. He
arrived on special car this afternoon and is locked up
for examination Great uneasiness IL felt here over the
report that American Indians are going to join the
rebels.