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Show THE 8I0UX INDIAN CAMPAIGN. The news from Little Horn river published in Thursday's Herald was the sinealion of yesterday. The regular edition of the Herald was sold at an early hour and another had to be printed to eupp'.y the demand. de-mand. During the day the oflice was the resort ot civilians and soldiers enquiring en-quiring for the latest news. In the forenoon a dispatch was received by General Sheridan from Bismarck, to which point it was sent by a courier from General Terry, confirming the news received in this city the previous evening by way of Bozemau, Mont. Later in the day a report became prevalent in tho city of a subsequent attack by the Indians upon Terry's command, and another fearful massacre, mas-sacre, including General Terry himself. him-self. This, however, could not be confirmed from any Eource and was probably a more sensational rumor. The Montana telegraph line under the charge of the Western Union company, has been down for some days beyond Snake river, Idaho, and the dispatches received here on Wed' need ay night were brought to thai point by the daily Montana stage, Unfortunately the line went dowr yesterday near Malad, Idaho, whict lessened the chances of obtaining further particulars from the Beat 0 war last night, though twenty-four hours can hardly elapse before additional addi-tional news is received. The reports received are too meagre for a full understanding of the plan of battle and operations. It seems, however, that but twelve companies were engaged, en-gaged, while Gibbon's command was not in the fight, but was within marching distance and relieved Major Reno from his desperate position, having a force sufficient to cause the Sioux to retreat. Why were Custer's 'five companies allowed to bo butchered butch-ered by wholesale while Reno stood by at the other end of the village with seven companies? Had not sufficient time elapsed for th&se forces to have communicated with General Crook, who was whipped on the Rosebud river one week before and bad fallen back on Goose creek, where be was waiting reinforcements? It looks as i4 iu both fights our men had simply fallen into traps set for them by the wiley Sioux chiefs, who appear to be playing the Napoleonic tactics of dividing the enemy and whipping him in 'detail. It will be remarkable with the advantage Sitting Bull has obtained ob-tained in these encounters, if he does ; not use his opportunity to inflict still more terrible destruction upon the detached fragments of our little army in the Montana wilderness. Evidently Evi-dently our military men have not tully estimated the strength and fighting ability of the Sioux warriors, or they would not have commenced an aggressive war against these powerful pow-erful tribes with so meagre a force. Of course the Washington authorities cannot be taught anything by frontiersmen, fron-tiersmen, or they might have learned from GAnoral Pjinnni" artfi oCtl6r Sioux fighters just what kind of material they would have to contend with in the Black Hills and Yellowstone Yellow-stone country. It looks very much as if both Sheridan and Sherman had underestimated the job on hand. However this may ba they will now be obliged, after sacrificing hundreds of brave men, who have simply been overwhelmed and butchered by the redskins, to go to work and reorganize reorgan-ize the campaign, either by massing all the avaiUble army against the Sioux, or accepting the services of volunteers, of whom 20,000 good Indian fighters can easily be obtained on the Pacific coast and the mountain moun-tain regions, and make a business of effectually whipping Sitting Ball's warriors, and bringing them to terms which they will hereafter bo glad to respect. There should be no boy's play in this matter. The peace commissioners com-missioners will have to go to the reai. Congress should at once turn over tbe Indian bureau to the war department and give Sherman carle blanche to clean out the Black Hills country. The politicians should not be allowed : to tamper with and cheat the Indians, This is the fruitful causo of much of tbe dissatisfaction and trouble. |