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Show FORT BRIDGKR. Either tor (lie News of (be Indian In-dian Massacre. Utes ami Shuslioucs on the War Path Tho Convict Williamson. Wil-liamson. Tho Fourth luTuutry Ittind IlL 1 ll 14), Fort Bkidokk, July 7, 187i. E.titors Herald : You ought to have seen the scramble to read ihe Salt Lake Hkramj ol yesterday containing the news of the Custer massacre; the sensation was profound and the general gen-eral topic all along the line of the llnir.il l..:fi-, 'Pl. . ' rnent at Washington have boeu trying try-ing to reduce the army, but the Sioux ' Indians are uow doing it in earnest, 1 and no nne knows what the neit dispatches may announce. As yet little auxieiy is felt fur the safety of 1 the railroad, as the scene of hostilities hostili-ties is too far north, but unless tho rod men gut a good dressing, trouble 1 may yet be had with them nearer 1 home than the Littlo Horn river. Many ot tho military posts are but poorly provided for defense, and but few men left tor active duty. The Salt Lake daily papers are the only medium between Laramie and Sacramento Sac-ramento to get full details of the latest news. The Evanston Aje has grown backward to a tri-woekly. So the residents between the before mentioned men-tioned places must look to Utah for particulars from the seat of war before be-fore they can be obtained from elsewhere. else-where. I was informed to-day that Williamson Wil-liamson and auotber of the escaped ennvicta had been seen on Smith's Fork, near Fort Bridger, seven or eight d ays a go. Th ey had good horses and were well prepared to receive re-ceive any stray deputy marshal that might meet them, being well armed, with Henry rifles- A man generally known as "Dutchy" was the person who saw them. From thirty to forty Shoshones, on their way to Camp Brown to join the old chief, Wash-a-kie, under Crook's command, are encamped near by. To night they are performing a war dance over two fingers of a dead Sioux Indian, forwarded to Doctor Van A . Carter of this post, ae trophies of the late fight with the Indians on Rosebud creek. They all seem ready to meet their old enemies, the Sioux and Arapahoes; and if report does them justice, the Indians were instrumental in-strumental in saving two whole companies com-panies in that fight trom destruction. The weather here is delightfully cool aud bracing. The first rain for four weeks fell this morning, and the distant Uinta mountains have a fresh covering of snow. The cloud eflects are mangnificent. The band of the Fourth infantry that went to Ogden to celebrate the Fourth of July, are delighted with the trip. They speak in high terms of the hospitality ot the people of Ogden. They are an intelligent, gentlemenly set of men which accounts ac-counts for their good opinion. It is no small treat to have the best music discoursed from the parade giound, daily, in the midst of a "howling wilderness." Your criticism upoo their playing at Ogden does them lull justice. There is a decided Gilmore touch in it. More anon. S. R. C. |