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Show Tin: INDIAN XV A It. N'o News IVom Croolt Tim ItoiiKii 1'iiNseiI ii ltill to Kn-luthli Kn-luthli Tho CumpM In tiu-Nioii.y tiu-Nioii.y Country. An I n H n ii Mory ol CuHtur f'iuliliiii: TIm-j Fvnr Uio Sub reM. Washing! mi, 12 General Khf r-dan, r-dan, who li'legraphed General Sher- man yestt rdav (hat he expected i. he ir from Crook last night, tele-graphts tele-graphts to day that there is no news. ANOTIIEIt RKlilMF.NT TO THE I'RONT. Tho office ra of the Seventh cavalry have been ordered to join their regiment regi-ment inirueiliatelv. AN LNTKBYIEW. General Sherman and Secretary Cameron had an interview with President Grant to-day on the Indian war. TWO MILITARY POSTS. Tlie house has passed u bill appropriating appro-priating $200,000 (or the construction of two military posts or depots in the Sioux country in accordance with the recommendation of Generals Sheridan, Sheri-dan, Terry and Custer. AN INDIAN STORY. Sioux city, Iowa., 12. Ihe agency Indians along the upper Missouri, who have accounts of Custer's light through some hosliles who look part in it, say that Custer ehot three Indians In-dians with his pistol and killed three with Ins sabre, when he was shot through the head by "Rain In The Face, " a chief whom Custer had iorcihly a r re? ted some time ago tor murder. The Indians lost seventy killed, among them many noted chiefs. The light was hand to hand. The Indians say they did not fear the pitituis as much as they did the sabres. : 1'hey are nearly out of ammunition and will not light again until they get a supply from the agencies. UtNERAL CL'aTEK AND MAJOR RENO. New York, 12. The newspaper i charge again.-t Major Reno of disobedience dis-obedience of orders in Custer's fatal campaign is received with gre&t distrust dis-trust by his friends, who claim that an investigation will relieve him completely. com-pletely. The later and calmer review ot Cueter's conduct assumes that he weut into the fatal tight in advance ot time, for some reason not clearly statfd. It is supposed that lie moved much more rapidly than agreed . upon, because when lie struck the Indian trail he believed from reasonable reason-able evidence that the Indians were iu rlight. Terry and Custer both fully supposed the other branch of the force sufficient to drive any Indians likely to bo found, but they did not then know that nearly 1,200 Arrapahoes and Cht-y-pnnes had reinforced Silling' Bull. Not knowing this he rushed to the aUack when his men and ani- ' mals were exhausted by long, rapid marches, supposing that if he waited the Indians would get beyond reach altogether. Clearly, neituer Custer nor Terry can safely be adjudged rash or inefficient. GENERAL SHERMAN'S OFINION. General Sherman this mornioc had many visits from friends and relatives no apprehension whatever in regard of General Crook 'a troops, who anxiously anx-iously inquired after their safety. Gen. Sherman assured them that he felt lo the safety of Crook; that his reinforcements, rein-forcements, which will give him a column 2,000 strong, must have already arrived, and tnat Terry's reinforcements re-inforcements will make him 1,S00 strong. He thinks all the lighting Sioux do not number 2,500, and that their loss must have been heavy and that they are new retiring. Our iroops now on the ground, he says, are more than a match for the Sioux. |