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Show Order of Cicii. Sheridan. Caicago, Lieut. -General Sheridan, Sheri-dan, to-day, sent the following onler by telegraph: "Brigadii-r General Alfred II. Terry, St. Paul, Minnesota: Should the companies now organizing ,at Sioux City and Yankton trespass Ion the Sioux Indian reservation, you are hereby directed to use the force nt your command to burn the wagon ' trains, destroy the outfit and arrest the leaders, confining them at the ncarot military poat in the Indian country. Should they succeed in reaebin' the interior you are directed lo send such force o! cavalry in pursuit pur-suit as will accomplish the purposes , above named. Should Congress open up the country for settlement by extinguishing ex-tinguishing the treaty rights of the Jndia;i3, the undersigned wiil give a1 ivnbjil support to the settlement of j the Black iiilis." A duplicate of these i itln:ct:ons has been s-.ut to General , Ord, comin Hiding the Department of the Pi ilte. ! |