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BKMARCK, DNJDAYj JULY 16, 1877. A SEPUBLldAN NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED TRI-W: AND WEEKLY MY THE BISRULRCK Bismarck, Dakota Territory. IBBSCBIPTION PRICE: Tri-Weekly, One Year. $500 MX 800 Three Months 1 Weekly, ne Year 200 itaMonths 1 2o 'three Months 75 ADVEETISDIO IS WEEKLY OB TBl-WBEKLTI COSTIUCT Inch one year Two Inches $25; 4 inches 8 Inches $70; 15 inches $125; one cola on $150. LOCAL NOTIOI cents per line drst insertion; subsequent inse tton five (cents.

One- haw added lor black type or eclal place noticej. ASD OT'I. Noncwft-Per ttnea Nonpareil Insertion, each tttfent insertion 15 cents. TBMSIMT A lines insertion tl.OO; additional nve centtiaddHioial Insertion 3 cent per line. C.

A. THE BIG Further Reports as HORN to Gold eries--The Connti igation The Milw mkee Sentinel, of Thursday, says that from the most reliable information it is esti uated that about one tenth of the wheat crop in Dakota is destroyed by the grasshoppers. the Big Horn--Thje New Post. In Friday's TRIBUTE we gave soihe notice of the recent old discoveries in the Big Horn moun ains. To-day Tommodi re had the pleasuae of rr eeting Montgomery -well known on sippi, Alabama and other sou the steameV --the owner of The Capt.

says wl mer lay at the mouth of the two parties, one of fiv and one of elev en A telegram, under date of July 12th, from Winnepjeg, says that the Sioux carpet baggers powder and ball from, the traders on British soil, and forthwith Hills. A strange Territory. I Manitoba forcibly took came to that poSrit fr th mountains for supplies. The the river on a rait tUirty-fi about twenty-five mil is' from They were reticent in for the Black itory comes from the Indian is nothing more nor less than the reported discovery that the language of the, Cheyenne cisely the same as that Europe. Tornado's breadth of the union, seems to be unusually frequen been a good able destruc feets of the Stewart, Indians is pre- of the Swiss in river when the discoveries relatic coveries but exhibited) a nuggets ranging in value fro one to tjen dollars, and one ot the part fi- rive John He his si a- Little He rn open al resh the wounds of a year on tha ors tha dreadful field deserve ajll the can be paid them and ago, est honoi that could be confen ed and bring a fresh cup of sorrow grief stricken.

The hrave ones who'fell 11 thetion- the gjreat- wOuld be to bbry them where they fell. Loving hearts and willing hands would have planted flowers about their graves and a giateftl people would have contributed to the i section of a suitable monumient. Tiu'siriay yet be done for the private it will it be done In ply to your question BY TELEGRAPH. I feel that tf i someth ing must be done and er close here- Montgomery that he had ne thing to compare the covered either in the Black California. Gen.

Buell said fied the party had struck vei The party of eleven throughout the length and this There has many deaths, and consider- ion of property from the ef- torms. A commission consisting of Bishop Whipple, H. M. Rice and Dr. C-, have been appointed to examine intb the management of the White Eartli Indian matters.

The agency is under he auspices pf the Episcopal Church, anJ we believe everything has been honestly and judiciously managed. ent portion of the njiountaijis but tl had certainly struck went on to Bozeman party of five was from a ps who who went from Mi all were experienced minors rich i for si Big Hjrh came do miles 'were to the numbei with tl sum of ten dollars Jpvards. struct! ig a suitable monumen ry of ie enlisted men who fell, that th remains of the officers have reroov id nothing can be. done for thfe en listed men except by the "action of friends-1 all orer the country whb are willing! to contribute their mites. you my offering aind incite others ie same and if they feel as I do a suitable monument an be erec- to dot about ted thi told Cart, rerseenaify- cis- in is- Hills or he was sa rich min es.

om a diff r- ey lines. pplies. They The rty of thii ntana, 'a id Mr. Lin with en pilot of the boat, converse from both parties and gained- the sa idea as Com. Montgomery, though gave less in detail.

Cotnn odore Montgomery is BO well satisfied that therej no sham abeut this that he Another i nember of the Florida returning board is been cared for in the appointment Dr. Coghill marshal of Dakota Territ ry- J. H. Burdick. marshal, had resigne i.

Delegate Kidder called tipon the Pi esideht to-day to ask him to appoint a man of his, but the President said he had already appointed Coghill. He had bee driven out of Florida by the Democrats, and-he had to be taken care of. --Sfeclal Dispatch to Chicago Times. Recent advices from old Sitting Bull would indicate that the old scalper is not altogether happy on British soil. There is not much doubt but what he longs for more blooc, but as long as he is a resident of Jo inny Bull's dominions, he will be a way east to build a new called the Libby Caster Big Horn packet.

The i navigable to the foct of ie mountains and Commodore Montgoi lery says fifteen thousand dellirs i deepen ihe channel at two or three po its necessary, have to time, the he Indian. Future Gen. Br have himself. In the mean ch gold fields of the Big Horn country, the occupation by the whites of the former haunts of Sitting Bull, will liave a tendency to dispense with his ompany on this side of the line for th future. Even there will "be no room him and his followers should a thoroughly good, Christian the Powder River Region.

sbin, in a recent letter to the N. Y. HWald, says: The Po fder River country is destined to be the 1 ome pf a large and rich population at 10 distant day. It possesses all the elements of wealth, a fine soil and good climate, coal in abundance, lime- he spring n- There no rocks to and make the river navigable for t(vfO hundred ton boats fijom in til ice in the fall, be removed and the bottort of the stre imj is gravel--no shitting san The Com modore describes tie cou try as be ng well adapted to faming oij grazing ir- poses. He says PU all is cutt ng wild hay that averages thr tons to he acre, and that the mid oat are so gh that they can he tied over i i horse's Jt He says the timber Horn will average cne and in width, cotton wood, ash, abounding.

He sp aks oft belt by Gen. Buell for th Big Horn Post as ing very beautiful. It is a latteau atx twenty feet above the riv scattered here anjd ther tains, thirty-five miles dist stone and superior building and undoubtedly great mineral Iron is found in many places and gold has been discovered, by chance prospects, in quantities to warrant the belief that the Big Horn and Little 'Wolf mbumtainsj will prove to tie rich in precious metals, when they are thoroughly explored. Abundant streams of pure water run through ihe countjry, and they will furnish rnone Waterj power than all the streams of New England when the time The climate is much tie supposed from the egreos to 45 degrees; climate on the Pacific comes to finer thaji would latitude, it is abouft like tin Railroad rees it is use therr but fron i 45 degrees to 46 deg- lder, being influenced much by almSsjt constant westerly winds, which bring to thq soft airs of the Pacific. The Indians I call this section: ''Mjedicine because it, is so pleasant and healthful.

Snow falls in small quantities, and ot vfinter the weather is de- lightlul temperature on that of conn Cattle a all wint or cut-of-door Tlie average Ihe Big Horn is, about bordering thje Ohio. all kiilids of stock can live out without shelter, and Jwith no Horn and othei i points of terest plain'view. busily engaged bt ilding has placed his saw mills raftinj these twenty miles' and is manufactured by construction. Lack of time and I notice ve shall this matter and giv at all and best ir.formatit obtai THE ens TEK to the! Fell. I Tuly: To the Editoir Bismarck BISMARCK, D.

tion to the removal Custer. In coaclu say: It is with deep of this matter bu the removal of take. Of What space A grat ful country will provide for the officers, A steamboat was sent for their remain 5. But who is there to for the enlisted men whose hearts still bleed for the los The often and fi gentleman, refuses the use of her of their loved ones? TRIBUNE acknowledges the receipt olters from the author of the above dollars from a lady who, like the ty party. nel he' IB mow on teamer to pressly foi ed on men i India; Horn hone fall to the enlisted mei Now been Special to THE WAR.

ST. July are current of a seve re battle near Biola which lasted two days, but resulted indecisively. i THE BRIDGlk at Simintz. owing to the sinking of the pontoon, has given' away cutting off all passage af the, river for several days. td British influence the war feeling ifi i GREECE i against tlhe Turks is much abated and no apprehe isions are entertained at present; who fell.

that Greece; will adopt towards the Turks. a hostile course PASHA 8 MECHKT, success in Armenia Appears to be complete. He is now preparing for aq on the Russian Center. The Russians forward twenty thousand men R1VJBK. Arrijral of the Kendall--Splendid TU ie of tile Key West on the Tello-n -stone--From -Buford to Tongue Ri rer and Return in Less Than Fi and nn s--Movements of Vessels up the Riyer.

ARRIVALS. Alex. Kendall, fit. Loula. Gen.

puster, Ft. Benton. John 0- Fletcher, Fort Lincoln. DBPABTOUS. Alex.

Kendall. Yellowstone. John G. Metehw, Big Horn. steamer Kendall, which was due aom arrived Saturday.

After takt igonone hundred tons of grain she pushed out for the Yellowstone. Peqinah and Far Vest ate operating hetwein Tongue River and Big Hdrtt The ateimer Key West bn hw asi trlfl made the run from BufoYd to ftrtt ffo. 1 and return, ID 4 days and 21 htajtrt, delivering 201 tons of freight Sha left-Buford on July 12th, with 270 tons of The City closed bn i I lack Hills Items. banks at Deadwood are now indays. M.

Tov ne has established a line of Hon tea freight Big Horn ns between Deadwood and oran; of LeSuer arrived.at ie American House, Deadwood, Jon 1 jesday last. The towards the Big Horn M. country, seems to the Champ scales ever ys the Deadwood Pioneer, ive leased entirely. TheBisriarck Stage Company, says on, have erected the first hay set up either in Deadwood Or her Id name trust. present and accepts the ve appointed Col.

John H. 'Sftev- for the We ha ens, resident of the Bismarck TRIBUNE Comp my, a well known and jresponsible treasurer, to receive such further contri imtions qs may be forwarded. He will si that the money is faithfully expended for the purpose for jrhich it is contributed--for a monur to be erect- the field in memory of the enlisted ho fell in that most terrible of all massacres--the battle of the Little TRIBUME will acknowl- i and the ill edge it's columns all contribute ne dollar or upwards, publishing thent Mae of the party where' ihe conitrib- permit the use of the rem; ams namej. We repeat, now that of the officers have been renioved, i 1 1 long the Itig one-half mile ine and cedar te spot chos enj shall 4e done for the enlisted fell? i his or her with tr the nt, the Lii JCr Gen. Buel post.

tie "I IS hie up the ri er pint ItmiDer mills for its or bid keep track BIG HOBN CITT. M. H. and Z. H.

Daniels hare pure used 1 Col. Black's drain and the PeiBJ, Black Go. goods at this point, and rill conduct business here. Saga Brush Bottom juot above Peas will prove the ultim ite site of Big lorn City, as it offers tlie best ferry li nding--the boat is nejarly ready for 1 usiness. BAKBB crry.

MI and Haskins has opandd a hotel here--firm name, Thos. McGirJ Co. They set an excellent cati ter, accommodate man and beast. PEASE'S BANCIIE. ie McClaine boat, loaded eggs, for Tongue imes the latfest Of able.

rACRE, Unlisted Mled notice in the TRIBUNE of to- lay an article in rqla- mainsof ling tile article fcelindithat we sp it seei these reir a4count food biit what tney pick up; the jgrass in this air drying on the ground without losing its nu good foij food as usual Gen. when tl riment, and it is just as cut and cured" in the Brisbin is good ese things prove authority and true Bismarck will have the honor of being thje distributing hQint to the great Powdjr River country). thefr wolv of the defceased a the of their one and otherwise Jhem were, graves by picked of every pajrticle work of gathering rying them'where ed by the erection ment, Restoratio Id hav to thei tion they are in wi fail to satisfy any to us ins is a the friends cached scalp as most n. ak from the flesh. tiiat 4 of their boi Tmd ir and bi to be hon utable moi noil; i hi the condi not ojih but if but- be raijiche.

a Nevada ported swamped, opposite lost, Rileyj passenger, drowned. COAL BANKS. These banks, situated 100 miles afbove the mouth of the Yellowstone, and of Mai. Pease, others have said 90 uaijyMajSr H. He reports the 'coal quaitity and'exceptionable Burned in thg furnacejs of i A.

inexhaustablje in it-left no s'lig and cnide ateam beenrtrisi- in pu the rity. Fan- are sending to join twelve thousand who have already marched from Saratowa for Armenia. MONTREAL ORANGEMEN met yesterdaj' in large numbers and passed resolutions condemning the city authorities in Rigorous terms. H'ACKETT'S FUNERAL was postponed till to-day when an immense crowd will attend the interment. JOSEPH'S BAND, it is reported, has lately received considerable accession and many other reservation Indians, it is feared, may join him.

For this crisis Col. Schully suggested calling two hundred volunteers into imme- diater service, which suggestion being approved by Gen. McDowall, was laid before the PRESIDENT who immediately ordered the call with authority to increase the number tp five hundred men. INDIANS DEFEATED. ST.

July Portland, Oregon, dispatch, states that Gen. Howard, on the nth struck a band of Indians three hundred strong, under Joseph, near the mouth of Cottonwood river, and defeated they in a pitched battle. The Indians lost thirteen killed and a number wounded, ajnd are making for the Snake river countj-y. GEN. HOWARD lost eleven men killed and twenty-four wounded.

Among the latter CapL Bancroft and Lieut. Williams. Howard's command numbered four hundred men. Another dispatch via Walla Walla states that on the loth inst. Joseph's band surprised a party of THDXTY-ONZ CHINAMEN, coming down the Clearwater in canoes, and murdered all but one.

EASTERN WAR NEWS unimportant. Mohammed AH with his army has left Montenegro and is marching towards Siemia. The Prince of Montenegro is about laying seige to Nicsis. i FARRELL, a painter, has been arrested in Montreal for the murder of the Orangeman Haok- ett on the i2th inst. HEAVY RUNS were made on some eight or nine of the St.

Louis banks on Saturday, growing out of the closing of the" Butchers and Drovers bank but none of them were seriously damaged. An attempt to reorganize thei Insurance a receiver freight for Tongue river. Ihe Gen' Ouster, arrived from Benton on, Satjurday. She will undergo aomje, repairs here and will be ready for a return trip in a day or -two. The steamer R.

W. Dugan is now loading and will leave for. Standing this evening. By telegram from Benton we learn thaifthe steamer E. H.

Durfee, left for Bismarck on the 13th with large passenger list and 200 tons of ere. The steamer Ouster reports meeting the Fontenelle at Dauphin Rapids July 8tbJ with broken shaft. Oapt. Braitb waitehad succeeded in making temporary repairs, and she would proceed to Benlton. The Fannie Tatum was also the Hills.

The Dai Times reports the Clara May lode, ahou one'mile from Harney, owned by J. W. ibson, as bearing both gold and silver. The firs ftre proof building ever built in the Bla Hills is in process of erection at! De wood by the Northwestern Stage Cox pany. The 1 roa I agents have commenced their depredatic ns on the Sidney route.

It to be hoped that these rascals can caught an 1 punished. During the last week June mm: saw mills were shipped from adwood, and seven engines were awaiting shipment, il lode, on Sheeptail r. Dan Harnett, according made by Black Hills ks. yields $87-33 to the ton. mpion thinks that farming at the hills is next to gold min- quartz a Sidney to and boitr The owned by to the smelting.

TheC the foot oi ing. It jis me idl; the am below Benton. Tfe river at this point is falling rap, and the large sand bar in front of landing begins to make its appear- he John G. Fletcher left for tbe Horn. Saturday evening, he Kinney is still in port, but will away for below to-morrow.

harvest the acre is Deadwo kept busy placers an golden tri ted strea- till $80,000 day's trai gineer, is not uncommon see 40 and eo acres under cultivation. The wheat 1 be large. Forty bushels to an average yield bankers on Tuesday were LAND OF THE AKOT AS, AiJ Interertiag 8TILLWATER. he ammunition belonging to trylnan seized some time los $2 ye Si Na th of i on an of trasburger, Sperling by the recent robbery now foots up of the gloods; bias as 00. No tracft been Southern Dakota It clip the following from Sunday's ux City Daily Journal: "The First CHARTER OAK company, Hartford, has tailed; mil new be appointed.

Love at Sight and Marriage tonal of Yankton spolrts locjk. hey have had it as as 101 shade at Yankton. iahy farmers celebrated the uly harvesting rye and barley ohn McGraw, of Union com among a number who are nglisb estate worth ove oliars. (We notice in a recent Yeilmillitm Re- i statement of his circumstances, his love, piebliean, the following in re craps in that vicinity: "The county, left by tbe hail an IBS bejtter near as gard James Ryan is the name of a soldier ot twenty yesrs service, for many years stay tioned on the Western frontier, who, in consideration of faithful performance of duties, has recently received his discharge and an appointment to a light house on the Pacific. On his way to his new duties Mr.

Ryan stopped over in St. Paul for a few days to see life as it exists in Minnesota's capitol. Fate directed his steps to the American House for his abiding place while in the city, and on Monday last that same fate threw his affinity in his way. She cjame as a pretty waiter girl, of trim form and pleasant face, by name of Nora Neeland, a niece of Senator Heory of Belle Plaine, Scottt county. Ryan watched Miss Nora as she deftly purtb arranged the substantiate and delicacies he had ordered for his bodily nourish( ment, arwj with a promptness character- 13 istic of agiood soldier, immediately fell lirs to ee piy ove Straightway he opened a time in letter of BlMik Hilli From BU- Country, jtht villashewr Mall.

O. T. July TO to rain, continues riferjis up and. our fleet of Iwptbusy carry tbifl port to the Up- l)fi8ipuiii Yellowstone. years ago Iwo diatinguished generals ordered take stations at the frontier posts of One Gen.

stationed at Fort Sully; be performed was to the coutttry and people from th0 Black. Hills, and to bold. to as a wit- before, a Congressional Committee to swear i thai Commodore Konntz's steamboats were unseaworthy. The second, and greatest was the late dashing George A. Custer; he saw at a that Northern Dakota was destined tft be a great country; that it's rich and fertile prairies would make prosperous times for millions of people'.

He never rented until be explored the marvelous canyons and gorges of the Black Bills and sounded the golden cymbal of their richness to the world; then he was off in quest of greater gold fields in the heart of the Rocky mountains, the Big-HowiS Country, and had he lived out people would be those secret caves of gold, but it has, been the. policy of the Indian Ring to land Dakotas agrand hiopoclrome intQ which they jcpttld store away countless hordes of savages to draw rations for; but the people under the new administration of affairs are becoming too much for them, in the reception of dust: The quartz mines pouring iri their in an almost uninterrup- froin thei opening fof their closing. Not less than Id have changed hands in the ictions, and possibly more. Fine, surveyor and civil en- receipt of a letter from Hen. the U.

S. Surveyor General, saying hisl commission as U. Q. Deputy Mineral arveyor would be sent in a few days. Al that H.

C- Rohleder, had been nstructed to establish States mil eral monuments in the Whitewood min ng district, arid that Mr, Fine should coi meet all his surveys with those mbnumen ts. ThePiqneer of Thurday says: Vfe were sho by Cham lode. self on in the has si a. vis mill the ton. neer yesterday a gold bnck made C.

Davis from the Wooley Major can congratulate him- one of the richest mines The fame of the "wooley" and wide. Five, tons: and ore was crushed in the weekj averaging $29.52 to 'he ore was not assorted, but taken without selection from the face of the cut at dump. In rega to the dreadful work of hi waymen the Cheyenne route, Champioi. of Thursday remnrks? W4 A have wha we consider that the 1 aders of the Fiable authority present gang of highwayr len, now doing such handsooui work in iccessfully robbing the stfjge, are our olp friends the James Brothers; who figured so conspicuously in the Northfielf bank robbery last fall, inipnh nection Twlith the Younger Brothers. We have a little gratuitous advice to give to those whi are ambitious of immortalizing themlelves by trying to capture these bold outlaws, which is that they had ter hire ojut the job to some parties to whom earth has lost all charms.

Messrs! Burch and Anthony are the owners 01 claim No. 23 below discovery on Deadwood, one oi the richest claims in the cn Within the past 30 days this clainihas yielded over ten thousand' dollars. biggest clean up was made June 24thL and amounted to $653, this be- 1 J.U-. nf 4-MVA mg the The tola week wa claim ha days, em of only one hours' run. for of until within the last loyed 18 men, but, on account amount cleaned up $3,600.

The 'owners co be hoped that President jurtail iU ihe big reserva" Jiisuouri river, and lat fiUup with people. Bis-, now has the finest and largest having just ted atla cost of fifty thousand dollars. It is, to be called the Sheridan House: Steamer Silver went through herself fifteen miles above here to-day. No one hurt. Com.

Charles has ordered up another steamer to take her load. need new Cylinder of scarcil of water, have been obliged to curtail tl ieir force. The pay- streak from eigftty to one hundred and feet wide, and has been worked out one half A take two its width Burch es years Ion TheC beads. The Names off Nails. The terms "four-penny," "six-penny," "ten-pennv," as applied to nails, mean this: means four ru Hshment route, turn to Hills, liu rates of that it a use of th matters another ing witi Compan wo'uld hi for a distance of 100 imates that it 'will line aloi class con a million negotiations for an! introduction, which secured, he followed up vigorously by the to the an all that, concluding with an oft'er of i O.

crop in this marriage. Miss Nora thought the mat- 'hbniners ter over little, looked Ryan over criti- cally, and finally accepted him, and this Mr. tana, gi the is lucre aropect for small we can judge, not fth of the crop her by both hail an something happens appear, wheat, oats larger than for fei ras ii graii mon i ha: 'ht nrhicl and irs be eyer a 12; As 'than been pers. docs alrley re." 1 morning Mr. procured a license, and the two were legally joined in wedlock.

Mr. ant at the Co will rema par ture ft I Mrs. Ryan have appartments smopolitan Hotel, where they a few cfavs prior the der Mr. Ryan's new trust on the or fVi Ll 'i th St Paul pisfatcft. ct pounds to the thousand nails, six pounds to the thousand, and so on.

It is an old English term, and meant, at first 'ten-pound' nails (the thousand being understood,) but the old Englishman clipped it to and from that to ten- and so it generated until 'penny' was substituted for So, when you ask for four-penny nails, now-a-days. you want those a thousand of which will weigh four pounds; but in these- degen- erate times, we question whether you will; boi.ly get as many as a thousandhin4hat weight, i Gen. Cus When'a thousand nails weigh less than one pound they are called tacks, brads, ane are reckoned by ounces (to thousand;) sp you will see '10- on papers of tacks. It is said, and possibly it may be true, that hell hath no fury like a woman to workout this claim. ampion gives us the fol Stage Express ning between this city and ave in contemplation ef a'telegraph his would be a peoplf, not only to thMe residing outsde.

elegraphing are now most places an embargo telegraph for anything, except the gravest importance, ne running in here a the Korthwettern 's lipe at Bismarck, our.people ve cheap, expeditious first eBlack The sbhigh on Jthe lections with some certainty of their me reaches destination the siuvvvs a isichcs three rocks, tl tbe best true fiss han by ox teams. A Rich Lead Mine. i te Shevlin, formerly of er, us tbe following of mines: The Flagstaff iow developed by an incline pf md at the face a solid KM a 10 inches wide. The ter incline is in 4.0 land inches of galena that is fttHy it. lead.

The Highland.Chief ilenrly defined crevice of: 12 clear and solid galena. ttiesc leads have both jtvall. i tegular'casing, and airei by miners in the district, Clflled re 111 VSPAPERI.

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