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Show FROM TKICKY. Slow hikI liiiMilliliPtorj n.tvo-uicuLs n.tvo-uicuLs So Iiuportuut ien. Torry'e ramp on Ycllowatono, August Au-gust -t, via Il:mnrt k, 4. Yestortlny nuiriiii'ir 'lVrry moved bis command, ufter mi ' iu'it days' rest, marching twenty inilud before camping. Crook hud chaugi'd bia camp tho day before, be-fore, iu ei-aroh of beater grass, toiog nine miles up the 1'owder river, bis hut night's trump being nbout ten miles iu advance of oura. Our road waa that diabolical trail which had cniict'd iitj so far to au little purpose, a ltd which bad been abandoned as a hopeless job. The only reasons apparent ap-parent for tailing it up again wora that tho generals were in absolute ignorance of where the Indiana had gnne or what they are delng and tint the campaign had proven a failure, so that something had to be done for appearance sake. That trail was the only Indian sign found, and tho army might reach tho agencies by thu route as well as another. Everybody bus grown disdatidBed with what they claim to be the continued mismanagement misman-agement of allairs, criticize their conduct con-duct severely and frankly express their tliiguit at having anything to do wit i a campaigu which id evidently evi-dently based upon theories. From the stcAiucj; which was still waiting near our last camp, wo learned that alio bad met the Josephine and YU-hwstime YU-hwstime coming up, forty miles below Glendine creek. Both vessels wero tired upon by Indians, one private being killed. Several small parties of Sioux were seen at diflerent points , on tho north bank of the river, but only one of them came within range, and they quickly retreated before sharp firing from the boats, one chap falling as though badly hurt. Juat abovo hero the Josephine picked up a white man who hailed her. He, with another, had deserted from the little garrison at Glendine creek. They had been surrounded by Indian?. In-dian?. His companion was killed, Bcalpcd.and mutilated, and be himself him-self badly wounded in the arm. Creeping between Eome rocks he lay in the pelting rain two days and nightd, and Indians tiring at him once in a while and evidently waiting till he waa starved out. Captain Rice, commanding a company of infantry at Glendine, sends word that h baa been attacked twice by small bands of Sioux; nobody hurt. His scouts claim to have discovered a largo Indian In-dian village some distance down th river, numbering from 1,000 to 1,500 men. On receipt of this news Terry rode over to Crook's camp, and the following plan was agreed upon: To crosi the Yellowstone at this point, twenty-fivo miles by water Delow Powder river, march inland a few miles and swing down toward Glendine Glen-dine so as to tap the trail if the enemy are moving north, and corrall thtm if they are still below the creek; to skirt the headwaters ot O'Fallon and Cabin creeks, and strike the Yellowstone near Gleodine, thus preventing a countermarch of the Indians, and heiuming them in if the village really exists, which ia doubted by many. A row may be expected within few days at least. Snould either column strike a fresh trail it will be followed without regard to a cooperative movement. |