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and Jarts. ? Edward E. Gayle, of Raleigh, N. C., who recently graduated at West Point, has been appointed by President Grant to take charge of one of the military companies stationed at Raleigh. ? "Woman," said the fat man on the cracker barrel, reflectively, "woman is like a boil. When another man has her we laugh at him; when we have her ourself, we cherish and protect her." MIoo \TortrtIfl Wo^/)inr*fAn o slanrvVltar f\f I ATX loo XfA?gglO IT yUUIUgUUU) H UWUguwt w* John Weddington, of Crab Orchard township, Mecklenburg county, N. C., was found drowned in a neighboring mill-pond on Saturday of last week. It is supposed she committed suicide. ? The New and Courier says that the intelligence of the massacre of General Custer and his command, by the Indians, created much excitement in Charleston, and that if the Government should call for volunteers, Charleston would furnish at least 1,000 trained veterans to go to the plains within a fortnight. ? Father Hands, a Catholic Priest of Charlotte, N. C., and Miss Cora Bradshaw of the same place, went over to Lenoir and were married, much to the scaudal of the pious Charlotteans, inasmuch as the Reverend Father had not formally renounced his vows of celibacy. ? In the British House of Commons, a petion. wound on a roller three feet in length and two feet in diameter, and signed by 102,000 persons, was presented, praying that no further advances be allowed to members of the royal family until a full statement be made of its present income. ? A queer case has just been decided by the English courts. A man that married a woman that gave birth, a few weeks later, to a child that wasn't his, though for twenty years he has been the reputed father, brought suit to restrain the child from calling him father; but the court decides that, after so long a silence, he can't deny the paternity. ? The report of the Secretary of the Interior to the House, will show that between ? * - ??? M * V 1 11* T 1 183b and lSbU, over a million ana a nan dollars' worth of State bonds were purchased with Indian trust funds, on which there is over a million due as accrued interest. The bonds are those of Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. ? Mr. Blaine has now been at his home in Maine two weeks. So far there has been no special change in his case. The nervous prostration is still the marked characteristic of his attack. He is not able to leave his room and is almost entirely confined to his bed. His physicians think it will be many a week before he will resume work. A European trip is strongly recommended as soon as his strength is sufficient. ? The Newark and Clinton Horse Car Company have introduced an invention on their road, whereby horses can be supplied with water while traveling. The arrangement, which is very simple, consists of a reservoir of water on top of the car, with rubber tubes leading therefrom to the bits of the horses' mouths, the bits being hollow and perforated with small holes. The driver can, at pleasure, open the tubes and cause the water to run into the mouths of the animals. ? The Texas Legislature recently passed a bill which makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $100, for a person to use profane language within the hearing of any private dwelling. The Morristown Herald says that a man's mule got balky in a Texan town the other day, and the man got angry. The beast would start off suddenly, run about twenty yards, and then stop fifteen minutes to survey the neighborhood, and before the man got out of town he owed the authorities $80,000. ? The last Legislature of California passed an act authorizing the infliction of corporeal punisment upon men convicted of whipping their wives, but until recently no magistrate has had pluck enough tc take advantage of the law in that respect. Two weeks ago, however, a man named Reynolds was convicted of the offense in question before a Justice of the Peace in Calusa county, and sentenced to receive 21 lashes on his bare back; and now his lawyer has made a constitutional question of it. The defense sets up that the law is invalid, because "cruel or unusual punishments" are prohibited. The higher Courts will have to decide whether whipping comes under the rule laid down. ? Respectability is beginning to be recognized as such an essential to a Presidential nominee, that the Graphic, in response to the demand of the day, has published the family tree of Governor Hayes. The Republican standard-bearer is the result of a compromise between Scotland and Connecticut. If this feature is really to enter into the campaign, it would not be amiss to refer to the fact that Governor Tildenis a lineal descendant of JoUp Tilden, Mayor of Tenterden, England, 1585, on the one side, and of Oliver Cromwell's sister on the other, who married a regicide, Col. John Jones. This is good blood for a Democratic President, and the Jones element appeals to a large class of American citizens for family support. ? Brigham Young is the father of sixtychildren, forty-five of whom are living. More than half of these are females, and, with but two or three exceptions, are all blondes, and none that may be called beautiful. The last child born unto Brigham is a little girl, about six years old, daughter of Amelia Van Cott, Brigham's fourteenth wife. She is a woman about forty, rather pretty, and the next favorite to Amelia Folsom, his eighteenth wife. No. 18 is credited with having a high-grade temper, and it is said that she treats Brigham as if she was his mother-in-law instead of his wife. Mormons charitably say that he is controlled by her because he loves her, but a man with so many wives cannot love either very much. Love and polygamy are strangers. ? Of the negroes brought to Texas direct from Africa by Monroe Edwards, some fifty are still in existence in Brazoria county. They are described by a correspondent as industrious, frugal and honest. 'Not one of them has ever been guilty of misdemeanor, and their promises can always be relied on. Tknw /I fODO nlolnlr Kllf 11 XTCk troll JL UUJ U A WO piUiU A j y vwv uvvvuvij) ?? v v II via and are frugal almost to the point of being miserable. Several of these ancient Africans are employed on a plantation where convicts are worked. The part of the ground under care of the Africans is much better cultivated than the other, and the negroes seem determined to surpass the convicts. Tlfese people Dever quarrel among themselves or with others, and if wronged quietly submit* but never have dealings with those who once deceive them. In every respect, these Africans are in marked contrast to the other negroes. ? A writer in Macmillan's Magazine presents some interesting statistics to show that knttloo qco nr?f noar as Gnnorninarv. fiinno the comparatively recent great improvements in arms and munitions of war, as they were when weapons were of a more primitive type. Thus in the great battles which occurred between 1758 and 1815, the loss in killed and wounded ranged from one-eighth to two-fifths of all the combatants engaged. At Zorndorf, in 1758, 32,800 of 82,000 combatants were j killed or wounded ; at Waterloo, the loss was one-fifth of those engaged ; at Marengo, one-1 fourth ; at Leipsic, nearly one-third, and at Eylau, more than one-third. At Solferino, in 1859, only one-eleventh of the combatants were placed hors de combat; at Konniggratz, one-fifteenth; and during the late FrancoPrussian war, the proportions in the most j important engagements were as follows: Woerth, 1-11; Gravelotte, 1-12, and Sedan, j 1-10. ? San Francisco, like all the leading cities of the country, is complaining, in these dull times, of the large number of unemployed people. The number of mechanics now idle is said to exceed ten thousand, which is a very large proportion of the working popula-1 tioo. There are, also, at least five thousand unemployed clerks and bookkeepers in San Francisco. One of the newspapers says that the merchants and business men of that city are "hampered to the verge of the grave" by the importunities of the unemployed. In the office of the Central Pacific Railway there are over four hundred applicants for clerkships on file. Wells, Fargo & Co., the Express Company of the Pacific coast, make a very similar report. Two advertisements for en* ployees, recently inserted in a San Francisco paper, brought, during the day, nearly eighteen hundred applicants. This sad report is similar to what we hear from all the large cities. The condition of affairs in all is about the same. The ranks of clerks, bookkeepers and similar classes of employees were always overstocked, and in the present depressed state of business their condition seems much worse. We do not think, however, that the trades are so overstocked elsewhere as in San Francisco. A good mechanic, in most trades, seems pretty sure of employment in the Atlantic cities, though wages are generally declining. YORKVILEE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1876. THE HAMBURG OUTRAGE. Owing to the preoccupied condition of our columns, we are unable to publish in full the details of the difficulty in Hamburg as given by the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel of Sunday; yet we copy enough to furnish a clear insight to the affair, showing its origin and the legitimate results of the action of the young Hotspurs who figured so conspicuously in the incipiency of the disturbance, but who seem to have retired upon failure to obtain redress for their wounded dignity. We ad mit that, ordinarily, a militia company, whether composed of whites or colored, are inexcusable for obstructing the streets of a town, or the public highway, to the detriment of horsemen or vehicles ; and it is equally patent that colored militia-men, as a rule, when on parade, are prone to display to the fullest extent the "glorious pomp and circumstance of war," and if menaced by private citizens, as seems to have been the case in the present instance, it only has the effect of heightening the bellicose disposition of the dusky holiday warriors. "We even concede that the negro militia were not warranted in parading on the streets of Hamburg, and more particularly did they transcend their privileges as a portion of the military arm of the State in obstructing the street. But it cannot be urged that they would have remained in the same position any considerable length of time, and - 1 11 iL.i L.J il ? li is qune prooaoie mat nau muse youug gentlemen remained quiet a few moments, they could have passed on without serious or protracted detention. This would have been the wiser course, viewing the question from any and every standpoint. The subsequent conduct of Doc. Adams, captain of the company, in calling out his men and refusing to be arrested when a warrant was issued charging him with obstructing the highway, is to be equally condemned; but after this scene, was the action of the whites, led or controlled by Gen. Butler, and encouraged by citizens of another State, altogether blameless? Was Gen. Butler legally author* ized to demand the surrender of the guns of the negro militia-men ? And on their failure to comply with the demand, was he acting within the pale of the law to attempt to wrest the guns from them by force. The negroes may have sought shelter in the Sibley building for protection, or they may have entered it for aggressive purposes, and in either case, it does not palliate the preceding conduct of the whites. And if we are to censure the valiant Georgians for bringing e?. a nnrnooQ uvcr a uuiuuu uuua xiuguota iu& tuo of bombarding the Sibley building, what shall we say of the magnanimity displayed by thra citizens in shooting down the negroes as they attempted to escape from the building in vdbdcfcf they had taken refuge ? But all this ,pS6li|fced by the closing scene in the drama, ran a number of the negroes, in the position of prisoners, and ostensibly on the way to jail, are turned loose is an open field, told to run, and, while obeyinglhe order, shot down in their tracks?murdered by a more despicable foe than the stealthy assassin! Verily may we turn to the savage Sioux for an example, if this is the boasted chivalry of men who thus appease their wrath at being detanabd on the street by the parading of negro i&ilitia-men! We say not too much when we condemn this act as the grossest outrage ever perpetrated in the State, and it behooves all peaceable, law-abiding citizens who have the welfare of our people at heart, to stamp it as such, placing upon it the seal of their utter condemnation. ? ? ? PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 3rd, while discussing a motion to adjourn, Mr. Conkling said it was the duty of Congress to conclude the public business as speedily .as possible and adjourn this session of Congress. He expressed the opinion that on Wednesday the difficulties arising out of the appropriation bills would be settled, and the Senate would then be ready to go on with the Belknap trial. He hoped that when the hour for that trial arrived, it would be proceeded with and finished. The committee on military affairs reported adversely on the House bill to revive the law to extend the time for filing claims for horses and equipments lost by officers and enlisted men in the service of the Uuited States?indefinitely postponed. The report of the conference committee on the appropriation bills was ordered to be printed. The political disabilities of Robert Ransom, of North Carolina, were removed. The resolution to pay Pinchback was discussed at great ! length, but without result. Adjourned to | Wednesday. In the House the Republicans fillibustered all day to prevent the introduction of the bill to repeal the Resumption act. In the Senate on the 5th, appropriate Centennial resolutions were passed unanimously. The reDort of the conference committee on the post office appropriation bill was adopted. The report recommends the adoption of the following provisions: All third class mail matter, except unsealed circulars, shall be transmitted at the rate of one cent for every two ounces or fractional part of an ounce, and the sender may write his name therein or on the outside, preceded by the word "from," or may write briefly, or may print on any package the number and name of the articles enclosed, and publishers of magazines, etc., may print thereon the time at which such subscriptions have been paid, and addresses upon postal cards and unsealed circulars may be written, printed or affixed thereto at the option of the sender. The sec tion prohibiting the sale of envelopes and newspaper wrappers below actual cost, including clerk hire, legal postage and all other expenses connected therewith is retained, without alteration. Mr. Sherman submitted concurrent resolutions looking to the speedy completion of the Washington Monument, which were passed unanimously. In the House, the Senate amendments to the bill punishing the mailing of obscene literature was agreed to, and goes to the President. A resolution inquiring of the Secretary of the Interior what Indian trust funds had been invested in other than United States securities, was adopted. Holman reported the post office bill as agreed upon in conference. Answering questions regarding county papers, Holman said that it did not affect them at all. They would still circulate free of postage within the counties. He congratulated the people that the first appropriation bill that would become a law in the second century of the Government, was the one in which there had been an earnest and sincere effort to retrench expenditures and restore purity to the administration. The report was adopted. The Geneva award was discussed, without definite action, beyond the defeat of an amendment to convert the unexpended balance in the Treasury. In the Senate on the6tb, the question of Chinese immigration was discussed at length, and finally the following resolution, submitted by Mr. Morton, was agreed-to: "That a committee of three Senators be appointed to investigate the character, extent and effect of Chinese immigration to this country, with power to visit the Pacific coast for that purI nnMA 4-/% A-vm *\AMC]/vna nnrl nartaNl anH FA* pUOCj tu OCUVI 1U1 pgiOUIIO ouu MUM ?w port at the next session of Congress." Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, opposed ?the resolution as being antagonistic to the idea of American freedom. At 12 o'clock, the Senate resumed the consideration of the articles of impeachment against W. W. Belknap, late Secretary of War. Manager Lynde opened for the prosecution. The examination of wituesses commenced. Nothing new was elicited. In the House, the Geneva award bill, providing for the payment of claims resulting from damage done on the high seas by Confederate cruisers during the late war, was passed. The election committee reported, in the case of Butts vs. Mackey, from South Carolina, that there is no election, thus ousting Mackey. In the Senate on the 7th, a new conference committee was appointed on the sundry civil appropriations bill. The bill removing Gen. Beauregard's disabilities passed. Mr. Ingalls, of Kansas, subletted a resolution calling upon the President for information in regard to the troubles with the Sioux Indians. Agreed to. Mr. Paddock, of Nebraska, introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President to accept the service of five regiments of cavalry or infantry, or both, from the State of Nebraska and the Territories of Wyoming, Colorado, Dakota and Utah, to be employed as a part of the array of the United States against the tribes of hostile Sioux, the said regiments to be accepted for nine months' service. On motion of Mr. Ingalls, the Senate adopted a resolution requesting the President to inform the Senate whether the Sioux Indians made any hostile demonstrations prior to the invasion of their treaty reservation by the gold hunters; whether the present military operations are conducted for the purpose of protecting said Indians in their rights under the treaty of 1868, or of punishing them for the violation of tbat treaty;"and whether the recent reports of an alleged disaster to our forces under Gen. Custer in that region are true. The Houbo proceedings were devoid of public interest. In the Senate on the 8th, a resolution extending the appropriations ten days from the 10th of July, passed. A motion by Mr. Logan to take up the bill foi* the equalization of M.J 1 OA i._ OK Vf_ oounues, ianeu uy a vute ui iu au. iur. Logan said the bill had passed the House five times, and be intended to call it up every morning, and call the yeas and nays each time, so the country might know who was for and who against the bill. After impeachment proceedings, Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to complete the Washington Monument. Mr. McCreary announced the death of Mr. Parsons, member of the House from Kentucky, and as a mark of respect the Senate adjourned. In the House, a bill declaring the land north of the North Platte and east of Summit and Big Horn* mountain open to exploration and settlement, elicited a long debate and a full history of Indian affairs. Mr. Steele, of Wyoming, stated it was not a fact that the recent military operations were carried on without reference to the peace policy. He said anybody who knows anything about the Indian nature, knows that the legitimate result of that cowardly policy of "peace at any price," was to defer only the evil day which has now come upon us. The bill went over without action. The House then proceeded to the consideration of private bills of which a large number passed. Mr. Knott, of Kentucky, rose to announce the sudden death of Mr. Parsons, and after the adoption of appropriate resolutions in reference thereto, the House adjourned. MERE-MENTION. Governor Tilden has received congratulatory letters from seven ex-Governors of South Carolina. The observance of the Fourth was more general throughout Virginia than at any time since 1860. The Republican members of Congress from the South, whose districts are close, deprecate any use of troops in the South at the approaching eler tions. The German Minister to the United States delivered an autograph letter on the Fourth from William, Emperor of Germany, to President Grant, congratulating the American people upon the occasion of having attained their one hundredth year of National ! Independence. Santa Anna died in the j city of Mexico, on the 20th of June. His ! age was 84 years. Senator Morrill qual! ified last Friday as Secretary of the Treasu| ry. A quarter of a million of specie was shipped from New York on last Thursday. Mr. Bristow has indicated that he will refuse to testify before the Whisky Fraud Committee on confidential relations between himself and the President. Sioux is properly pronounced too. Dakotah, which the Sioux Indians inhabit, was, in 18i)U, regarded as a county 01 lowa, tnougn j it was not included in the census of that year. The area of Dakotah was, at that time, estimated at 1100 square miles: A damaging storm passed over Central Iowa, on Tucson*. r?f loot, wppTn WnrrAn and ; Madison counties nineteen persona were killed, I and great damage was done to live stock and | crops. The trial of G. W. Swepson, in . the Superior Court of Wake county, North ! Carolina, for the murder of A. G. Moore, resulted in the acquittal of the accused. It j is thought the impeachment trial of Belknap ! J will not last more than ten days. E. Y. Parsons, member of Congress from Kentucky, died suddenly last Saturday. It has just been reported to Secretary Fish, that in the latter part of Juue, despite the protest of the j American consul, the Governor of St. Domingo had an American vessel boarded and a poI litical prisoner taken therefrom and shot. LOCAL AFFAIRS. CHURCH CALENDAR. Serrices for Sunday, Jnly 16th, 1876. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Rev. L. H. Wilson, Pastor. Services at 10i o'clock, a. m., and 8 o'clock, p. m. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Rev. J. E. Carlisle, Pastor. Services at Yorkville, at IT) o'clock a. m., and 8 o'clock p. m. EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Rev. R. P. Johnson, Pastor. Services at Rock Hill, at 11 o'clock, a. m., and 8 o'clock, p. m. ASSOCIATE REFORMED CHURCH. Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. Services at Yorkville. atlOi o'clock, a. m., and4i o'clock, p. m. BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. P. R. Elam, Supply. Services at Yorkville, at 4 o'clock, p. m. > :? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Col. A. Coward, Principal?King's Mountain Military School. J. H. White, Chairman?Ratification Meeting. H. F. Adicltes?Bargains? Domestics?For Gentlemen?Laces. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? J. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis., Applicant?Leonidas McNeel, deceased. John C. Kuykendal?For the Best Chewing Tobacco, &c. SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX. The election on the question of levying a special tax in Yorkville school-district, for school purposes, was n?t held on last Saturday, as had been advertised; but was postponed until Saturday the 22nd instant. CIRCUIT COURT. We are informed by the Clerk of the Court that a term will be held, Judge Mackey presiding, commencing on the 21st instant, pursuant to adjournment, for the hearing of causes not requiring a jury. No jurors will be required to attend in that capacity. ' FIRE COMPANY. The young men of town are taking steps to organize a Hook and Ladder Company. About thirty names have been enrollod, and we learn they will meet Intendant McCorkle at the Court House, this afternoon, (Thursday,) for the purpose of perfecting the organization. LATE PAPERS. We are under obligations to Mr. J. F. Jefferys, of Spartanburg, for files of late Northern papers in advance of the mails, which enable us to give a full account of the recent battle with the Indians. Mr. Jefferys is on his return from a visit to the Centennial, and called by to see his parents and numerous friends in this place. EXTENSION OF MAIL FACILITIES. The Postmaster at this place Informs us that he has advices from the Postofflce Department in Washington, to the effect that from and after Saturday next, the 15th instant, mail service will be performed by the Chester and Lenoir Railroad to Dallas, N. C., its present terminus. Th^following is a list of the postoffices on the Chester, Lowrysville, McConnellsville, Guthriesville, Yorkville and Clover, in South Carolina; and the following in North Carolina: Crowder's Creek, Pleasant Ridge, Gastonia and Dallas. THE INDIAN WAR. We devote much of our space to details of the recent battle between the troops of Custer's command and the Sioux Indians, on the 25th ultimo. Besides the general importance of the sanguinary engagement, many of the soldiers who gave up their lives on that eventful day, were known in this county and throughout the State. For several days after the first intelligence of the battle reached this place, there was a painful suspense with many as to the fate of Lieut. George D. Wallace, of Company G, Seventh Cavalry, a son of Hon. A. S. Wallace, of this county, and assigned to that command after his graduation at West Point. From the accounts of the battle, it will be seen that he was in Reno's column, and consequently escaped the dreadful slaughter visited upon Custer's command. In confirmation of his safety, a telegram was received here last Saturday night, announcing that he went through the battle unharmed. t m. i vrmrv wmnVlT T At UUClvt ninwtnuiji The Walhalla Courier of June 29th, publishes the following pleasant paragraph: Mr. F. T. Moser, a gardener, formerly of Walhalla, has fallen heir to a considerable fortune. His uncle, F. von Ernst, justice in Berne, Switzerland, died some time ago, leaving a considerable fortune to Mr. Moser, who would, no doubt, be pleased to get the latter information. If the individual mentioned is the same F. T. Moser who lived in Yorkville this time last year, many persons hereabout will be pleased to learn with certainty that he has fallen "heir to a considerable fortune," and he will receive the congratulations of quite a number who have good cause to remember him. But with the knowledge in our possession, we deem it no more than a simple journalistic duty to caution the good people of Walhalla against extending credit to Mr. Moser on the faith of any mere representations of the above character that he may make. THE PU1ILIC SCHOOLS. We have been requested to give notice that a meeting of the citizens is called, to be held in the Court House, at 11 o'clock, on Saturday next, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of consolidating the publicschools attended by the white pupils of Yorkville school district. A similar movementhas already been successfully inaugurated with the colored schools of the district; and those who have given the subject attention heartily approve the plan, as being more economical and securing better teachers and a mora systematic course of instruction than can be obtained under the prevailing management. The proposed system, if adopted, will also, granting that a special school-tax be levied (in the absence of a fund raised by private subscription) ser\f fV*q Poahndtr flHimnfirmal fiinrl Ulii U n put UUU UI VMW A VWWV/MJ VMMVMMWNM. .MMM, aud may lead to the adoption of the more elaborate system of graded schools now in successful operation in many localities. The matter being oneof importance, a general attendance is desired. Whipper Defiant. At a Fourth of July celebration in Orangeburg, Whipper made a speech in which he is reported by a correspondent of the News and Courier to have said that "the war was not proposed by the North to free the slaves, and that Lincoln's proclamation did not intend it, until, as a political necessity, it was forced on him and the North." Whipper was then asked if he would claim his seat as Judge, whereopon "he swelled with indignation, and said he would ; he had been elected by a vote of eighty-four, his right was just, and he wanted no fitter monument than to die, if required, in maintaining it. He urged hts colored friends to stand by him, and his call to them to know if they would was responded to by a defiant yell of assent. He urgq^ them to remember who opposed him, and slashed the Governor in bitter style." The correspondent concludes that Whipper's speech means ill, and thinks it is the duty of the Orangeburg community and the Governor to be prepared for the demagogue. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM KING'S MOUNTAIN. King's Mountain, N. C., July 8, 1876. The crops in this section are backward? I.!-..!.. _1? U-.i XAttAil [mniuumily uutbuui uuiu auu vv/bbvu. vunuu | is not doing well, being from ten days to two | weeks later than it was last year. Low bottom corn is quite small, but is beginning to grow; though should wet weather prevail as it has been for the last three weeks, the corn crop on hottom lands will be very near a failure. Upland corn is looking fine. The oat crop is better than it has been for several years. Wheat, though harvested, has not been threshed ; but the opinion prevails that there will be but about a half yield of the crop. Last Tuesday, Capt. Bell's school, at this place, closed its first session. The next session ' will open next September in the new academy building just completed. We have a fine building, capable of accommodating two hun-' dred pupils. On the occasion of the closing of the recent session, an interesting address on J the subject of education was delivered by Dr. B. F. Dixon. J. B. I SEVERE BATTLE WITH INDIANS.1 UTTER DEFEAT OF THE U. S. SOLDIERS. For the last week accounts have been slowly received of a desperate battle fought between United States soldiers and the Sioux Indians, on the 25th of June, on Little Horn river, in Montana Territory. Little Horn is a branch of Big Horn, the latter being u branch of Yellowstone river, and west of Rosebud river. The scene of the battle is a short distance north of the old Benton wagon road, about 700 miles northwest of Omaha, and about 250 miles in the same direction from Fort Laramie. Fort Kearney is on the Benton road, where that road is crossed by Powder river, and is about two hundred miles south of the battle-ground, while Fort C. F. Smith is about the same distance west of the battle-ground, at the intersection of the Benton road with Big Horn river. The 6ght occurred in the Black Hills country, in the south-eastern part of Montana. Before detailing the particulars of the bat tie, it may be well, for the guidance of the reader, to premise with a resume of preceding operatious. A vigorous campaign was organized last spring against the hostile tribes of the Sioux, who, under the leadership of Sitting Bull, refused to leave their camps oq the Big Horn and Tongue rivers, in the Valley of the Yellowstone, and enter upon the reservations which the Government had set apart for them. Last winter the Govern1 ment despatched scouts into the Big Horn country with a peremptory notice of ejection, and the threat that if they should not heed the summons within three months, troope would be sent into the valley to drive them out Sitting Bull received the message with contempt, and the troops were ordered into active service. Three columns, under the command of Gen. Gibbon, Gen. Terry and Geo. Crook, were equipped and placed under marching orders. The objective point was Sitting Bull's camp, in the Big Horn country. The three columns were to meet on the Powder or the Tongue river, and combine their forces in the heart of the enemy's country. Gen. Crook, at Fort Reno, was to strike north; Gen. Terry, with Gen. Custer's cavalry, at Fort Lincoln, was to march west; and Gen. Gibbon, at Fort Buford, was to descend the Yellowstone Valley and join Gen. Terry. Gen. Crook set out from Fort Fetterman on May 29, and after halting at Fort Reno, pressed on to the headwaters of the Tongue river. On June 9, the Indians attacked the camp, but were repulsed. After remaining in camp several days the march was resumed, on June 16, in the direction of the Rosebud Valley. On the next day the Sioux surprised the troops while on the march and attacked them with vigor. Ten men were killed and 19 wounded, and Gen. Crook ordered a retreat to Goose creek. Gen. Terry meanwhile bad reached the Yellowstone at the Powder river, and had opened communications with Gen. Gibbon, who was in camp ? a iU i?u ? n? n.,? UU LUt) uuriiii uaua. ui two jiyci. ucu. vuoter, with 12 companies of cavalry, pushed into the Rosebud Valley, and not finding Sitting Bull's camp, struck across the country to the Little Horn, a branch of the Big Horn. Subsequent events are detailed as follows, in a dispatch from Stillwater, Montana, under date of July 2: Muggins Taylor, a scout for General Gib? boo, got here last night from LitiltfiTorn river. General Custer found the Indian camp and 2,000 lodges on Little Horn, and immediately attacked the camp. Custer took five companies and charged the thickest portion. Nothing is known of the operations of this detachment only as they trace it by the dead. Maj. Reno commanded the other seven companies, and attacked the lower portion of the camp. The Indians poured in a murderous fire from ? 11 lsnni/I/\n (Ua nuAnfai) r?/M?f 1 An an uireuwuuB, ucoiuco iuu gioatoi ^uiuiuu fought ou horseback. Custer, his two brothers, a nephew, and a brother-in-law were all killed, and not one of his detachment escaped. Two hundred and seven men were buried in one place. t The Indians surrounded Reno's command and held them one day in the hills, cut off from water, until Gibbon's command came in sight, when thej broke camp in the night and left. The Seventh Cavalry fought j like tigers, and they were overcome by mere brute force. The Indian loss cannot be estimated, as they bore off and concealed most of their dead. The remnant of the Seventh Cavalry and Gibbon's command are returning to the mouth of the Little Horn, where the steamboat lies. The Indians got all the arms of the killed soldiers. There were 17 commissioned officers killed. The whole Custer family died at the head of their column. The exact loss is not known, as both adjutants and the sergeant major were killed. The Indian camp was from three to four miles long and was twenty miles ud the Little Horn from its mouth. The Indians actually pulled the men off their horses in some instances. FURTHER DETAILS. George Herendon, a scout sent by Gen. Terry with Gen. Custer's column, relates the following as his experience in the recent battle, which is telegraphed from Bismarc, Dakota Territory, to tne New York Herald, under date of the 7th instant: STORY OF THE SCOUT. ^ We left the Rosebud on the 22nd of June at 12 o'clock; marched up the Rosebud about twelve miles and encamped for the night. On the morning of the 23d we broke camp at 5 o'clock, and continued up the Rosebud until 9 o'clock, when we struck a large lodge pole trail about ten days old and followed it along the Rosebud until toward evening, when we went into camp on the trail. On the morning of the 24th we pulled out at 5 o'clock and followed the trail 6ve or six miles, when we met six Crow Indian scouts, who had been sent out the night previous by General Custer to look for the Indian village. They said they had found fresh pony tracks, and that ten miles ahead the trail was fresher. Gen. Custer had the officers' call blown and they assembled around him, but I did not hear what he said to them. The scouts were again sent ahead and moved along at a fast walk. We moved at one o'clock, and, while the officers were eating their lunch, the scouts came back and reported that they had found where the village had been quite recently. They moved again with flaukers well out to watch the trail and see that it did not divide. About four o'clock we came to the place where the village had been, apparently, (infiira onH Br An t. into CftmD UUIJT a ion uojo UVIUIV) *?mv? _ two miles below the forks of the Rosebud. The scouts all again pushed out to 'look for. the village, and at eleven o'clock at night Custer had everything packed up and followed the scouts up the right hand fork of the Rosebud. THE VILLAGE DISCOVERED. About daylight we went into camp, made coffee, and soon after it was light the scouts brought Custer word that they had seen the village from the top of a divide that separates the Rosebud from Little Horn river. We moved up the creek until near its head and concealed ourselves in a ravine. It was about three miles from the head of the creek, where we then were, to the top of the divide where ike Indian scouts said the village could be seen, and after hiding his command, General Cimter. with a few orderlies, walloped forward to lo^V at tbe Indian camp. In about an hour CuFter re turned, and said be could not see tbe Indian village, but the scouts and a half-breed guide, "Nuch Bayer," said they could distinctly see it some fifteen miles off. While General Custer was looking for the Indian village t,fie scouts came in and reported that A (; ... ? r, lf, be bad been discovered, and that news was then on the way to the village that he was coming. Another scout said two Sioux war parties had stolen up and seen the command; and on looking in a ravine near by, sure enough, fresh pony tracks were found. Custer had "officers' call" blown, gave his orders and the command was put in fighting order. The scouts were ordered forward, and the regiment moved at a walk. After going about three miles the scouts reported Indians ahead, and the command then took thtf trail. Our way lay down a little creek, a branch of the Little Horn, and after going some six miles we discovered an Indian lodge ahead, and Custer bore down on it at a stiff trot. In coming to it we found ourselves in a freshly abandoned Indian camp, all the lodges of which were gone except the one we saw, and on entering it we found it contained a dead Indian. From this point we could see into the Little Horn Valley, and observed heavy clouds of dust rising about five miles distant. Many thought the Indians were moving away, and I think General Custer believed so, for he sent word to Colonel Reno, who was ahead with three companies of the Seventh regiment, to push on the scouts rapidly, and head for the dust. Reno took a steady gallop down the creek bottom, three miles, to where it emptied into the Little Horn, and found a natural ford across Little Horn River. He started to cross, when the scouts came and called out to him to hold on, that the Sioux were coming in large numbers to meet him. He crossed over, however, formed his companies on the prairie in line of battle, and moved forward at a trot, but soon took a gallop. The .valley was about three-fourths of a mile wide. On the left, a line of low, round hills, and on the right the river bottom, covered with a growth of cottonwood trees and bushes. After scattering shots were fired from the hills and a few from the river bottom and Reno's skirmishers returned the shots, he advanced about a mile from the ford to a line of timber on the right and dismounted his men to fight on foot. The horses were sent into the timber, and the men formed on the prairie and advanced toward the Indians. The Indians, mounted on ponies, came across the prairies and opened a heavy fire on the soldiers. After skirmishing for a few minutes Reno fell back to his horses in the timber. The Indians moved to bis left and rear, evidently with the intention of cutting him off from the ford. Reno ordered his men to mount and move through the timber. Just as the men got into the saddle, the Sioux, who had advanced into G-tiA of nlaoa wannnonrl HI 1 dA Ann LUD IIIUUUI j lit 0?w* ab VIUOV taugonuu nuivu vmw soldier. Colonel Reno then commanded the men to dismount, and they did so, but he soon ordered them to mount again and move out on the open prairie. The command headed for the ford, pressed closely by Indians in large numbers, and at every moment the rate of speed was increased, until it became a dead run for the ford. The Sioux, mounted on their swift ponies, dashed up by the side of the soldiers and fired at them, killing both men and horses. Little resistance was offered and it was A COMPLETE ROUT to the ford. I did not see the men at the ford and do not know what took place further than a good many were killed when the command left the timber. Just as I got out, my horse stumbled and fell and I was dismounted, the horse running away after Reno's command. I saw several soldiers who were dismounted, their horses having been killed or having run away. There were also some soldiers mounted who had remained behind. I should think in all there were as many as thirteen soldiers, and seeing no chance to get away I called on them to come into the timber and we would stand off the Indians. Three of the soldiers were wounded, and two of them so badly that they could not use their arms. The soldiers wanted to go out, but I said no, we can't go to the ford, and besides 'we have woundea nierr and must standby* them. The soldiers still wanted to go, but I told them-I was an old frontiersman, understood Indians, and if they would do as I said, I would get them out of the scrape, which was no worse than scrapes I had been in before. About half of the men were mounted, and they wanted to keep their horses with them, but I told them to let their horses go and fight on foot We staid in the brush about three hours, and I could hear heavy firing below on the river, apparently about two miles distant. I did not know who it was, but knew the Indians were fighting some of our men, and learned afterwards it was Custer's command. Nearly all the Indians of the upper end of the valley drew off down the river, and the fight with Custer lasted one hour when the heavy firing ceased. When the shooting below began to die away I said to the boys, "Come, now is the time to get out." Most of them did not go, but waited for night I told them the Indians would come back, and we had better be off at once. A NARROW ESCAPE. Eleven of the thirteen said they would go, but two stayed behind. I deployed the men as skirmishers and we moved forward on foot toward the river. When we had got nearly to the river, we met ^five Indians on ponies and they fired on us. I returned the fire and the Indians broke, and we then forded the river, the water being breast deep. We finally got over, wounded men and all, and headed for Reno's command, which I could see drawn up on the bluffs along the river about a mile off. We reached Reno in safety. We had not been with Reno more than fifteen minutes when I saw the Indians coming up the valley from Custer's fight. Reno was then moving his whole command down the ridge toward Custer. The Indians crossed the river below Reno and swarmed up the river on all sides. After skirmishing with them, Reno went back to bis old position, wbicb was one of the highest points along the bluffs. It was now about five o'clock, and the fight lasted until it was too dark to see to shoot. As soon as it was dark Reno took the packs and saddles off the mules aud horses and made breastworks of them. He also dragged the dead horses and mules on the line and sbel* tered the men behind them. Some of the men dug pits with their butcher knives and all slept on their arms. At the peep of day the Indians opened a heavy fire, and A DESPERATE FIGHT ensued, lasting until 10 o'clock. The Indians charged our position three or four times, coming up close enough to hit our men with stones, which they threw by hand. Captain Benteen saw a large mass of Indians gathering on his front to charge, and ordered his men to charge on foot and scatter them. Benteen led the charge and was upon the Indians , before they knew what they were about, and killed a great many. They were evidently much surprised at this offensive movement, and I think in desperate fighting Benteen is one of the bravest men I ever saw in a fight. A 11 .1? Ua inflo nninn oh/tut ihrnilorh fcllft ' XX11 bliC blUiC no Tfoo gviug hwwww wu>w?gH bullets, encouraging the soldiers to stand up to their work and not let Indians whip them. He went among the horses and pack mules and drove out the men who were skulking there, compelling them to go into line and do their duty. He never sheltered his own person once during the battle, and I do not see how he escaped being killed. The desperate charging and fighting was at about 1 o'clock, { but firing was kept up on both sides until late i in the afternoon. SUFFERING OF THE MEN. I forgot to state that about ten o'clock in the forenoon, and soon after Benteen made his charge, the men began to clamor for water. Many of them had not tasted water for thirty-six hours, and the fighting and hot snn parched their throats. Some had their tongnes swollen and others could hardly speak. The men tried to eat crackers and hardtack, but rnnld not raise enough saliva to moisten them. Several tried grass, but it stuck to their lips, and not one could spit or speak plainly. The wounded were reported dying j for want of water, and a good many soldiers volunteered to go the river to get some of perish in the attempt. We were fighting on | the bluffs, about 700 yards from the river,' and a ravine led down from tbe battle-field close to tbe river's edge. Tbe men bad to run over an open Bpace of about 100 yards to get into the bead of the ravine, and this open space was commanded by tbe Indians on tbe bluffs. The soldiers, about fifty strong, dashed over the open plateau aud entered the ravine. They rushed down to tbe mouth and found it closely guarded by a party of Indians posted in the timber across the river. The water could be approached to within abont thirty feet under cover; but then one bad to step out on the river bank and take the Indians' fire The boys ran the 'gauntlet bravely. Some would dash down to tbe river ^ with camp kettles, fill them, and then take ' " shelter in the bend of the ravine, behind the iwbo, oiiu wucic uauicciis were uiieu ouu ear- ?^ ried up the hill. Before all the men and wounded were supplied, one man was killed and six or seven wounded in this desperate attempt. One man had the bone of his leg shattered by a ball, and it. has since been am- . * putated. , About two o'clock the Indian*began drawing off, but kept skirmishing until late in the afternoon, and near dark all drew off. We now got water for the animals, many of them being almost dead, and they were put out to graze on the hillside. ; CHANGE OF POSITION. In the evening Colonel Reno changed his position and fortified the new one, it being higher and stronger than the old one. We expected the Indians would renew the attack next day, but in the morning not an Indian was to be found. Every one felt sure that Crook or Terry was coming to our relief, and Colonel Reno sent out runners.' About ten o'clock the glad intelligence was received that General Terry, with a Targe column of troops, was moving up the valley, six miles distant, and the head of his column soon came in sight. In reply to questions, Mr. Herenden said':? . . . <v" I went in with the scouts on the left of Reno's line. There were about sixty of us, thirty-five being Ree Indians, six friendly Sioux, six Crows and the rest white men. 1 saw Bloody Knife, a Ree scout, throw up his arm and fall over, and I think he was killed. The two cavalry soldiers I lefff n the timber when I went out, I have no doubt were killed, _ _ A.I 1 1. 1 * as wey nave not oeeu aeeu biucc. LIEUTENANT #'lNTOSH. I saw Lieutenant Mcintosh soon after he fell. He had^his horse shot under him early in the action, and at the time he was killed he was riding a soldier's horse. He waa shot on the river bank while riding baok to the ford. % v LIEUTENANT HODGSON. I saw Lieutenant Hodgson also. His horse was shot and he was wounded. His hone fell into the river near the opposite bank of the ford, and to help himself up the steep bank, Hodgson caught hold of a horse's tail and got up the bank,when an Indian sharpshooter picked him off. Caster's paoks were with the rear, and the Indians did not get any of diem. Neither did they get any moles. - Meet of Custer's horses were shot in the action, and I do not believe the Indians got over 100 animals by the fight ' - ' TOBTUBED AND MUTILITATED. ' I think some of our men were capt&ed alive and tortured. I know the colored scoot Isaiah was, for he had small pistol halls' in his legs from the knees down, and I believe they were shot into him while alive. Anoth* er roan had strips of skin cut out of his body. Hordes of squaws and old grey-haired Indians were roaming over the battlefield howling like mad. The squaws had stone mallela and mashed in the skulls of the dead and wounded. Many were gashed with knives and some had their noses aud other members cut off. The heads of four white soldiers were found in the Sioux camp, that had been severed from the trunks, but the bodies could not he found tho or : did not kill any squaws, but the Rees Indian soouts did. The bodies of six squaws were found in the little ravine. . NUMBER OF THE INDICES. 1 .'<! ' - ?*" W I think the Indian village must have contained about (5,000 people, fully 8,000 of whom were warriors. The Indians fought Reno first and then went to fight Custer, after * which they came back to finish Reno. The same Indians were in all the attack. I think think the Indians were commanded' by Sitting Bull in person. There were eight or nine other chiefs in the field. ?. t ' RENO'S COMMAND. ' A correspondent writing from the expedition under date of July 6th, speaking of the iunction formed by Gen. Terry's command, with the attacking columns under Caster and Reno, says that the battle was planned to take place on the 26th, on which day Teriy weald have easily been on the ground, but that Cue* ter and Reno evidently came upon the Indiana on the 25 th,unexpectedly,and were compelled to fight, Terry being then a day's maroh distant He advanced as rapidly as possible, and before reaching tbe scene Was met by a scout, who informed him that Colonel Reno, with a remnant of the Seventh Cavalry, was intrenched on a bluff near by waiting1 for re- + lief. The command pushed rapidly on, and soon came in sight of a group surroundiing a cavalry guard upon a lofty eminence on the right bank of the river. &en. Terry forded the stream, accompanied by a small party, and rode to the spot All the way the slopes were dotted with THE BODIES OF HEN AND HORSES. The General approached, and the men swarmed out of the works and greeted him with hearty and repeated cheers. Within was found Reno and the remains of seven companies of the regiment with the following named officers: Colonels Benteen and Weir; Captains Felix, Maylan and McDougal; Lieutenants Godfrey, Matbey, Gibson', Dernded, Edgerly, Wallace, Varnum and Hare. In the centre of the enclosure was a depression on the surface in which the wounded were shel??J Dann'g fMUnmini) ^ ICrVU) UUVCICU TV 1L11 VAUVnOi JLlrVuv ? vv?hu?mmw had been fighting from Sunday noon, the 25th, until the night of the 26th, when Terry'p ar- v -v rival caused the Indians to retire. Up to this time Reno and those with him were in complete ignorance of the fate of the other five companies, which had been separ. ted from them on the 25th, to make an attack tinder Custer, on the village, at another point. THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. After the battle, 261 dead were found, and 52 wounded were brought off the ground. From the official list of killed and wonnded, we copy the following, the oompanieo to which they were attached having at one time been Btationed in different parts of South Carolina: KlUbJUJ. Field, Staff and Non-Commissioned Staff?G. A. Custer, Brevet Major-General; W, W, Cook, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; Dr. Lord, AssistantSurgeon ; J. M. DeWolf, Acting Assistant-Surgeon ; W. H. Sharrow, Sergeant-Major; Henry Voss, Chief Trumpeter. Company B, at one time stationed In Union county?Lieut. Hodgson; privates Dowan and Mass. ; Company C.at one time stationed at Chester? Colonel E. W. Custer; Lieutenant H. M. Harrington; First Sergeant Bates, Sergeant Farley ; Corporals French, Foley and Ryan; privates Allen, Crindle, King, Birckrall, Egmont, Engle, Brightficld, Fobald, Griffin, Harpett, Hattisdall, Kings, Southerns, Mayer, Phillips, Russell, Bex, Ranter, Short, Shea, Rhodes, Stuart, St John, Thodrid, Stanellan, Warren, Wyndham . and Wright Company D, at one time stationed at Yorkville?Charles Vinoent, farrier; privates Patrick Golden and Edward Housen. Company K, at one time stationed at York ville?First Sergeant WInny, 8ergeant nugnes; Corporal Callahan; Trumpeter Heimerf Private Ed. St. Claire. Company G, at one time stationed at Spartanburg?Captain Donald Mcintosh ; Sergeants Batgirl and Considine; Corporals Martin, Hagman and Welis; Henry Dodge, trumpeter; Cransford, saddler; Privates Rogers, Monroe, McGinnis, Selattey, 8teffenman and Papp. Company M, at onetime stationed at Spartanburg?Sergeant O* Harris; Corporals Seal tie and St urges | Privates Gardner, Elatabursber, French, Myers, Smith, Lemers, Tanner, limey ana Vaight. WOUNDED. The following is a full list of the privates, belonging to the above companies, who were wounded: Company C?Alfred Wheeler, right elbow; Pe