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Show THE ItRl CLOUD B.IIAS. XeiiPly All tlio U nrriorH Gouc lo Juiu Silting Bull. Xrw York, 21. The Tribune's dis-p dis-p tc!i from the camp of the Fifth cavalry on S.iyo creek, eays: Out of 2.800 Cheyennes belonging to Red Cloud agency, have gone north except about oUO men and children. There haa been a great demand for ammunition; the Indians even oflered 1 a pony lor thirty rounds of cartridgea. j About 100 Iudians, wounded in j Crook's tight on the lioaebud in June, j are mw distributed among their I fiienda at the agency. There is much : mourning for the Indiana from that .agency who were- killed in that sn-igAyement. sn-igAyement. The Indian acknowl-i acknowl-i edge the losd of eighty-six killed in : Crook's fint, and a loss ol 2S0 in Cuater'a fight, lied Cloud has armed and sent out a great many warriors to bitting Bull, even taking the rations ra-tions of beel issued from the women and children to supply these warriors with something to eat on the way north. Out of lil.OOO Indiana belonging belong-ing to the agency there are 4,000 not present now, and the agent is no longer able to deny that bis Indians hare mostly guno north to join Sitting Sit-ting Bull. Many wanted to go immediately im-mediately after Lbe sun dance of lat June, but were restrained when tho news of Custer's defeat came to them . They began leaving at once in lari.; and small parties until now the Chey ennes are nearly all gone and at least the entire fit;htiug Btrengtn of tiie Sioux. |