Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1879, Page 9

—— THE CHICAGO TRIBUN AMONG. THE UNCA-PA-PAS. The Sioux, Penceably Inclined --No Truth in War. Rumors. Correct Account of Custer’s Death eeShot and Killed by a Lad of 15, Other Particulars of the Fight, Dorived from Indians Who Were . Particivants, “aby tho Commission to tho Stoux Falled : -=Kt Did Not Make Itself ++ 1. * Understood. Marriage Botwoon a White Man and a Squaw-—Forty~Dollars Paid ‘for the . Wife. Onur Corrospondont Adopted into the Unca-pa-pa Tribe ond “Little. ) * - Enife's” Pamily. Seremontos OF the Occaston--te Receives the Name of “ Wank-pey-twar-cau,” and Becomes a Dig ‘*Sedieine-ng.”” . Boeelal Correspondence of The Tribune. Woop Mountay, N.-W. T, Juno 14.—Thero {s mourning in the camps of the ‘Unen-pa-pas. A fow days ago some young mich wero out hunt- ing the:buffalo, when they wore attacked by s war-psrty of ‘Crows,"and ‘Muskrat’? ond “Dln‘ck-Eogle’s-Feathers (Sioux) were killed, Runners, who came into the main camp yester- day, report préat’ eorrowing; and around the mountain the women Jament dismaily, and the menengerly discuss the battle. Bitting-Ball, sith bis band’ of ‘hunters, is encamped sixty miles ‘douth of Wood Mouutaln, and 100 mites cast of Fort Assinfbotne. The buffalo are comings north, just oagt of the camp, inimmonse quanti- ties; and thore fg every prospect of a good lignt, Tho runners say the camp will be back §n Wood Mouotatn, iti about a week, when the great #*Mcd{eine-"? or Sun-Dance, the feature of the'season, will como off, The return will bo durricd by. “ qn ROVING WAR-BANDS OF CROWS, who aro harassing the camp. Ina fale fight, oll things “béing equal, the Unea-pa-pas can whip ‘tho Crows; but the latter have better weapons ‘and better horses, and, in a general battle, the Bloux would suffor terribly. Bitting-Ball claima that the Crows are sct up- -on him by the Americans, Some little time ogo lie made overtures of peace to the Crow Chiefs; ond, shortly‘after that; a band of his encinics Droke into his cimp atid gobbled some of his horscs. “* “Look at it now,’ said Maj. Walsh to Bull. 4'You wanted to make peaco with the Crows, , ond hero they are on the war-path."” Bull refused to belleve {t. “Tho horses wero stolen by thelr younemen,” sald he. ‘The Chiefs had nothing to do with t,t? = 6 : ‘Since the late fight the old man begins to put some faith in the yindictivoncss of his focs. . Not long ago, ‘a runner came in from the Bpotted-Tail and Red-Cloud Agencies, and notl- fied Bull that the notions presided over by those ‘Chiefs wore snxious to leave their reservations and jotu'the’Sloux. The warriors wanted to Jeaya nght off, but the head‘men persuaded sthem to walt until the grass gwas ripe, promis- dng to lead them across the line as -soon as that ‘imu’ arrived, These Southern Indians have Deen stirred up by.ranners who are anxious for Acoalition and a row; but it is doubtful !f any- ‘uhtog’ will coma of it. If they come horo, It will make no difference from 4 warlike stand- ‘point, ‘The Sioux will not consent to any treaty jwhich looks toward trouble; and, while they ‘will welcome any Indians as allies, they do nat gock s campaign which they aro satisfied will eleai tliem out. Some little time ago, your local correspondent , at this point sent you an account of ie 3 OUBTER’S DEATH, which now turns out ‘to have been erroncous. ‘An Indian ropresented to him that Custer shot himself whon he saw his troops abandoning him. “Cpnvorsations with sevoral warriors who were present ‘at‘the felt, and with Obo, a-brothor of ‘Little-Knife, demonstrate that. the sulcide was caccidental,.and that the offlcer was not Custer, ‘Obo says hd baw the officor and attacked him, (Tho ofllcer turned his horse and fled, shooting ‘at Obo over his shoulder as the Indian pursued. +Ono of, the ‘shots Intended for Obo, instead of epasalng over the officer's shoulder, pierced his ‘Ddreast, and ho fell dead at the redskin's fect. sThreo ar four warriors corroborate cach other in their descrintion of Custer’s fate. He was cheering ov his men ond firing his pistol in the air,—the cayalry-signal to charge. From the start in be waa in advance of his command, ‘and, when he fell, was between the ludians and his flying. squadrons: While tryfiy to. re- ‘tore goma kind of order in his broken ranks, o stray shot killed a young buck not far from the Generalta-poeition, © The buck's brother, n lad 15 years of ae, ecized the deat warrior’s,gun, and, taking del berate alm, ... |. BNOT_CUBTER DEAD,’ and the-battle waa finished. My informants de- scribe-Custer accurataly, na they saw him before and after ihe pe, i ‘he: Knew him relly oud ojoicing in the ca s+ Here death of she tarrible enemg the boy fa still in.the camp; and thera is a deep notch in ‘bis Meoup athe to represent the takinu-oif of one of the beat Indian Nghtera the Plains ever knew. After the battle they gathered sround the remains of ‘song-llair,” as they called “him; and loud and {ibilant was the requiem they sang over the dead soldier, + In describing tho battle, the more si tous ‘warriors: contend that Custer erred fn dividinic his foree. ‘They are afraid of an army **bunched," ‘as they ‘term arranged compactly; and they, claim ability to whip any army which divides to: sgttack them. They say they saw another force ‘pot far off (presumably Reno's command); but sthey say it tack no part in the action, and never ‘mado a movement toward the support of “Long. Haire! Thea os we ‘TUR CRITICIBE SEVERELY tho conduct of the Seventh Cavalry. Little. Knifo tells me that,as soon as the soldiers atruck-tho cainp and the hattla opened, the In- ;dians saw they had an inferior force to contend ‘with, “The ncn were poor. riders, aud were eas- fly ahaken..from their horses, Jn firing they swere wild; and in retreating they fired over jthelr shoulders, killing their comrades a3 they went. ‘Thelr horses and themselves appeared to be unmanageable from the onsets and they fell @ prey to the stendy firo of the Todiaus, oud carcless and reckless shooting among them- {selves., Some, who were thrown from their horsus, approached the Indians with the hands ‘aps but they were shot down remoreslessly. ‘The only prisoper taken was captured be Rain- in-the-Face, who says be bad atripes on his arin, ‘This was probably ‘ CORPORAL RAN, Fle. was bound hand and foot with ' shag-a-nap- pee’ (stripped buffalo-bide), and left tn 9 judge. “There Was 9 wild dance that night, and o few youn ‘men, drunk with the excitement of tho bin-d)g, sought the Jodge and killed the poor ‘fellow with s ‘nite. P . by Lust Sunday I paid the lodge of Lttle-Knifo avinit, and doctored the sprained foot of that gentleman; and, white twas there, a woman belonging to his family told me that shu wit- inessed Ryan's dvath, > tHe cried bard und beeged for his Ife,” said ‘gho: * but in thelr fury ther killed bin,” Thero. hay been a tradition in the Seventh Cavalry ever since that Aght, to the effyet that Ryan is still held camive ju the camp of the , Unca-pa-pas; but the old woman secre to play stin ber welrd description of the Corporal'’s death, ‘The dame Joat her bus- band and uo few other supertluous members of _ her family in the battio; buc, wheo J saw her, eéshoseemed tothink that Ryan's murder had eaely, coinpensated for the loss she sustained, 1.d0 s]o-Ruifo hag befriended ber since her widow= Awning AUG has taken her fata bls faindly, and Po yorOF Her aud fed ber and her child. July lil Ie-by- The shivd ‘THIS LITTLE-ENIVR tolergb! i fora eyy serablo of a savage. Io his younger Tolra clear, days he wan ono of the most villainous Indians | ten, electrified! the country: by outlining the on the Plains; but he has braced up oan er pisdt ‘of the Blonx for the capture of all the posts {snow spoken of asono of the best old: men | on the Missourl Rivers Croftun “wae rebt orounL. Wood Mountain, enouch from the natura of ls information, “Sith Bull had very Helle todo with tho | which catno from a runner seul down for the tig battle,” sald ho to mo, Sunday, ‘Ho was | purpose from Montana, od a batte [hill] on the tank of the Indian ‘The aole anxiety of tho Sioux is to keen out camp. An the soldiers fell off thelr horses oF | of battle with the whites; and they will not wers killed, hia would send the young mee out | bring onn teht if they can help ft. To show to drive the horses into ourcamp. ‘Towards the how little they are desirous of blood, 1 wilt r clone of the flight he was In the eamp, keeping it | lata an tnchlent,—premiaing by stating that! {n order, uni Jooking after the women aud chile { woret fellows in an Indisn campare the " yount dren? inteks,!? or men ranging from 1+ 1025 years of Kane? ivas the Chief in command, Little | age. Lnat Tuesday I started out, halle WITH A YOUNG -UNCA-PADA, wa eiltere mas nono, ‘The bend-men commmenr | towards the White-Mud Iver, _ Ite was armel tral hg, inan aniler them, with bow. and arrrows aiid a Seventh-Cavatry htct. carbine he had picked up on the Litthe-Ble-Hora * How many men did the Indians lose? hattlenehte My ‘ 1 mttlefiehl. My gun wasn Winchester repeat- The old man named each one and counted | iy rife, and indiel sitperior to bis, As we rude y them on hie fingers. As Lean't apoll the names | acre site py atde, ho spied an antelone. Ile Tivon’t try to give then caked ne T I i roby jor iny rifle, which I loaned hin, and vitten Te eed two Inilaus actually he went ster tive antelope, wrhich had run into nay * pala solgiers??” acontey, In balf an hour he caine back with ME can't any reat many’? eben. all aut up. Wa. ands are sal wren . ot ” infor dinner, He returned my rife, but no’ ‘ Did your people cet nay TOO ee ao got | Untll he hail eteaned it for me. Now, shit sav- two liorns (buglesPand fa)? age bad me completely at his merey, He could ‘Almost every Unen-na-pa 1 ‘have seen f hinve robbed ine of horse and gin, and sete breech-l ne eseen i$ AFM | stookon the prairie, Ofty miles fram is Wuman ee reel te eas habitation, Lam frank to admit that he did Lean’t cat any traco uf the buules; but th TREAT Mit RATHER MEANLY standard was made up fato n altirt iis 5 but the | tn ine ond. ‘Towards evening we were Joined buck,—the red nnd white stripes running. yer by tivo other Indians, aut wi Fra AS nandlgany and Me bine old aneing over the | (Whe qomniner tin ast eeaieyof the aloe taftrall, 4 “ 01 tvaa gone, ‘Those three indians sat up all niche knee thera many scalps taken Little- ion and Rleaned ay ore) tis Jaah ierensecenitls Lt ¥ . on proaktasted sumptuously on aCe ava ey not one. Werrcalned nobody; wecame ) yy ig dtunbttul if the Indian will orizinate on «Hove inauy soldiers iid you kilt? attack on any inn to whom he bas contidences “None. Lnever killed a white man 4 nid the way to get his confitence ts to how Ifo," Hed the utd reprobate. “I pwan An MY | confidence fn him. | This position 4s. ilttatrated ed Crow Indians,” ; ave only Kills | ny the relations batween .Sitting-ull and Maj, Are you on the war-path now with Walsh. Hult does not make a move without ‘Amerteanal” p with the fully informing Wala: nul tnecorteaponidence i 7 . betiveen them, verbal af course, is curlons. 2 At Hoe bau a art oes ris Leake isstrone; L | few daya ozo. Hull sont Walsh the followin: tine LI lon't want wars J am thed of | message, explalali his reason for crosalng the fighting. Lam nut willie to go back ta my | jing to the Amerlean sie: country. even ff the Americans: will let me. 1 i im don’t want to give up my gins and horaca. t © We were forced across the Hne to the south want to hunt; but f will hurt no inau unless ho aida to save ourselves from stneving. the bat uurts me?” {alo went south, and we could only get them “Do yout remember when by mnoving on the Atmerican soil. * gi AMERICANS CAME TO TALK witit you?” OURS 18 A PEACEFUL MIS5tON “Tremember it. Iwas in the Council,” nnd Tasaure you that nelther, wlites nor thelr “Dia you understand what they proposed to property, sball be molested, Asis the whites to ‘OW Jet ts atone amt not rend their soldiers avainat Tog! (Yes). tis.—for, though we nro strong enonch to de # What did they prooose?”? “ fend urealyes we don't want to see dlood.’" Fe a Ae aeautrog Uisek. ba. ouF courite. |). Atenas inade ausiwers and give up our gung and lorses,’! Bo careful of the actions af your young men while south of the Hes and, if an’ American comes to your camp uit wants to speak with you, listes to hin. Do not permit hin to be Inolested, nor followed from the camp by your young men. Let. him come to your lodges nud Gepart in safety. ‘And Tt believe that, had an Ameriean gone there and behaved bimselt, [nll would have given bin a safe escor’ to his home. SITTING HULL he fe not a warrlor, Tle isa politician of t! eepest dye, amd a good deal of a demagogne, Jie is not enrrounded by a pHenomenal amount of eafety in bis own camp, wut bis fomily will noc tet hin inove around Hout acuard. Bull is sport of a Toscou king in the councils of his tribe. Ile is a “Didn't you want to got” “The soldters would kill us’? “No. If you had gone the soldiers would have been your friends.”* aenauahes at the Hen. pen sald we must give them our guns and horsea and go back, Mabie all they Fal Bates * Didn't they tell you they would feed 1, ‘Wanien! (No), y Nd fe yout n't they tell you that they wonld pro- tect you, and take care of you, as they do alter Inafans who have gono on the reservations?” Pa I nd, ao nil Tcould, it wouldn't go Into his head that the Terry Commisafon meant auythhnys but to take atvay thelr horses and arms aud lead the Indians into captivity. From white nen Who were present Eiearn. that the conditions of | starched, eloquent, impertinent, logiea, con: the treaty Were only read oyeronce. ‘They went celted, diplomatic, dictatoral, diengreeabla old to the Indians through an joterpreter, who had |! Nor ts be a fellow of sound and rellable hn Imperfect knowledge of theEngiishlaucuaye, | pivsleal courage, Not lone age, tn the Counetie a mia though he did the hest'he knew how, { lodge, he undertook, to ran things an a Bull could net couvey Ule meaning of the treaty pro- | basis, when Lrotty-lear took lim up; Bear posed. It is questionable if n solitary Indian made n tremendous socech, and finally, becom- REALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT TE Gomstisaton | jh fp tet (rer Folly aul pirentened te ‘MEANT. bi % abit richt foto the vitals ol ull. Pricuds erfered und got Bull out of the lodge; and, Further than that, the Council to which the ean- rf, « Connell, Lone-Dos Faerie atitiea ial ne tote right toes | Cite cers mernbet leat Pde eeanob tat cide or ie LEC RUP Te ThE S HH RH of —n convenient arrangemnent that micht be fi y studled by our C + America. That Council (the Indian as well us Se eager sa Sup Poncrese fs not. a Chi the Chicoge oultit) is fearfully aud wwon- on ‘ Gerfully constructed. First there | fs the AN IMPOSING CEREMONY family, which sends {ts — wisest. «man in the camp today, ‘The cook of our gutfittook. os delegato to the Band Council, ‘The unte wife a young squaw; and [ frankly admit Band Councils send some of their wisest. men that the solemnltics were striking, Having be- come sinitten with the chnrins of a 16-year-old betle, the cook sent for her friends und his, ond the whole lot sat down tn conclave sround a Deastly-smelling sinudge, ‘The aquaw’s mother conducted the berformiance on her side, while ‘Mr. Frea Cadd, one of the traders, took up the eudeels for tie cook. to the Tribe’Council, aid it sel ctsethe Grand Counell.. Aud yet they are not bound by the Councli’s decrecs. pon. making un ‘their minds, the Councilors report to the tribe, the tribe to the bands, aud the bandsto the tamltes, or leases, he scien is fallen ayer at the cant re, and ecssed in al be gampetire, und dlacussed. fe att tes Seance, | AMr. Cadd explained that the cook?s heart ax {n favor. of devepting the decision of the Coun- | 10% and that his life dragced heavily on the cll accept it..,'Those who are opposed to {t pack Fyouat because he was compelled to live atone. up their trans aba decatup. ‘There fs no ruling He Wked the girl, od wanted her to help bin by majoritios. It is avery.man for himeelf. around the Kitchen, and carry water for him, Fyon when there isa proposition to go ona and boa wifeta bin generally,—for all of which doifalochnut, it fy submitted An the way I inva | He seas willlug to pay $25, deacribed, and decided upon by all+hands. Now, Wa seoche wash ta (white man very good), Srerriommission suggested its terma to tha | gjaculnted the aquaw; © but paponsd better. Grand Council, and salted twenty mioutes for The papoose is a good girl, and E Jove ber more anegative answer. Then was the time to have | than €25, She is. pretty aud strong, und ean read the conditions again aud again, until they work. Make it $50, pari, AND ULL JIN YER This ts net Mteral, but os translated by Mr. Cadd,—for bo it known by all to whom these prosents may come, the cuok is not what might he terined a fucut Indian scholar, and can't, os he describes, “yaypeo the Thigu.? The cook came up to 35 und the aquaw down to 245, aud there thes stuck. ‘Then the cool Msplayed We wedding-presents: item, 0 blanket; item, a calico dress; item, a ditto for syuaw; {tem unccklacc; Item, a pair of moc- casius, At Joneth the trade was struck for $10, Acirclo was formed. The cook and the tert stood facing cach other, and the aquaw pped a blanket around the twain, ‘Fhe cook sed the girl a kiss ble and wet enough to water a horse, ata (he ceretony was complete. fle pald the 340 in sugur, ten, elrup, ralsins, flour, bacon, blankets, beads, and looking clase ideparted with his wife ta arrange the weddine-supper of biffuto-rteaks aod au- telope, Now, the cook Js A PECULIANLY*NINISIIED MAN. Years ago he used to whack bulls over the plains of Montana; but oue day he got ono of hfs legs complicated with the wheels of a cart, ploce which thie he tias been more or leas phys Teally ianpertect. tle has three lea, all toldl,— ohne fat-and-blead, ane wood, ait one cork. ‘the cork appardtis is for state occasions, und Iis wife hod never seen thie wooden arrangement. dust. ufter the service he escorted her to tie kitchen, aml, taking off his wedding or core Jeg, be prepared to aubstitute tht of wood, His wife was not fainiliar with such transforina- thon, and fled, yelling, trom the premi: few moments her fond brothers came explanation; and ot the time of may departure, which was somewhat hurried, the cools was en- gaged in satiefying’ his brother-in-law, with one Teg to stand on am ove fn each hand. to be avather council tomorrow, at which, it i hoped, the fanifly-diferenves will be ainicably arranged. {t may seein strange to the peonte of Chicago, but, around the Agencies andl trading-posts of the Northwest, many of the whites are MARIIED TO SQUAWS. Asa matter of course, these men are falthful to thelr wives; but are te wives as true? Jt fs the experienced of all “sqnaw-men"—as the thus married whites are called—that the Indian woman cannot babltuate herecif to the white inan’s woys, He timposes Jess burden upon her fn the way of hard work than her Indian futher, husband, or brother would impwse; but she don't acem toget along witht him very well, nud, svouer or tater, sho will elope with somo young buck who ta» angagcd the affectlony her white bnabaind can never secure. And, ax long ag she remains with her pate husband, sho keeps hbn in hot water, Itimatters not what he may give her, she ds inevitably ragged and hard-up. He may furnish her lodge today with {resi meat, bread, bacon, tour, robes, and blanket. By night the Jodze will beas barren as a wraveatone, Sho will give away cversthiye were thoroughly understood; whercuvon the Counc!) should bave been immediately ad- Journed, and - THE THING NREN PERMITTED TO WORK. All this fg nestiming that the Commission meant business, and seraanxlous for the acceptance of the terms. ‘Thy matter would then have gone Into-the lodzea; and the opinion hers fg, thatat least one-third of the tribe would have accepted the offer made, If the whole affair was merely a bluff to satisfy the Arerl- can people, or was gotten itp fora swell, per haps {t was just os well as it was; but, I the Commissioners were thoroughly fn earnest, they made © bad. mess of the whole affair, Jets douotful if Sitting-Bull, or Long-Dox, or any of the head-men would nave Iooked favorably ‘upon any proposition at tat tine, though, had they been compelled to report the facta to the trite, enongh would have avcepted to have ma- tertally weakened the natiun of the Unea-pa- pas. “ . It fa not much of an exegeeration to say that the whole frontier-campaign $3 conducted by BUOUTS AND RUNNERS. And n moro, unconscionable set of Mars ard yagabonis it would be hart to Mind, With the exception of Yelluwstone Kelly, there fe notons of them to be relled upon; anid their sole any and afin In life ore to stir up strife und inutsses withthe redskins, ‘This afternoon, Had-Soup, a brother-in-law to Sitting Bull, passsd through Wood Mountaln. He was en route from Poplar Creek to Bull's camp, and diyerved to this post tosce Little-Knife, We reports thut Brewler, Gen, Miles! interpreter, told bli that now ts the timo to stop the building of Fort Assiniboine. “If thut post is built’? safd Brewier, " you know ft will fnterfere with your huntiyg the buffalo. Sittng-Bult le on frienuty terms with: the Evglish, If the Queen ehowld ask the United States Government to atop the handing, the Government wauld consent, and you could huntall through that valley.” ana off posts Bad-Soup to carry the news to ae T haye no {dea that Miles knows what hls in- terpreter is up to; but the fnterpreter thor- oughty understands his business, “The butlding of Fort Assiuibofne will set Miles and Fort Keogh welt in the background, Assintbolne will be the distributing-palnt for Indian-war news, and the scouts und interpreters wround Keogh ‘will flud their occupation Interfercd with, If not goue, And tt is for this that they ave tryine to Dut up the job-to stop the construction of the Alitk-River post, aan order to nore fully demonstrate the fevl- 45 0! <2) MULLES' SCOUTS, it 1s pertinent to cite the contession of ang of them, At the time Terry was driving the Nez- Tefees, ho’ sent iw mesraize to Sturzes, through John F loward, the scout, to move forward wit cael UD athe Us aullage. fh Ansteuceltauy y the scout right throush Sturges! Unes to Miles, who acted.on the order; ane to this day Terry-does not kuow why Stureca did he provides her with) to “her family not obey him.--Aliles did not know what his | aud“ Srlends, and luok toa btn for acout had done. Ie received an order aut | more, At the Yankton Aceney there filed It. When asked, sometime aftor, by a triend to whom he related the tneident. say ho did such's thing, the scout repliod, Oh, wo havo got to bot that star for Miles anyhow!" This is the way. Howard toll it. . Perhaps ho Ned when he raid Terry sent any message by him. If he told the truth, the measaue ts ace Senne [ote 1 tee ‘There je no class of people more intercat Precipitating an dian war than arenes They carry preféniled taformation ag to the has. tle movements of the redékins to thelr coms mianding oflicers;. and this information fs sens to the Bast a5 buna-lide, aud the prople of the Btates kept ina constant foyer OF excitement, "The: froutlersmen- aml ranches of Montana also help the thing along,-for the movement of troops would be a godaend to then. As Teams, up the river, from Bismarck to Fort Buford, the banks of ‘the stream rang with the echoes of war and rymore of battle, T expected to find the northern purt af Montana covered with coroses, Here the only talk Is veace, and the Indian shudders at the idea of making wat, Wohito-Gut, Sitting-Bull’s favorite scout, DEFINED THE E1TUATION isa young white inan who worked hard for years und eaved a Httle money, He fell in love With a aquaw, marrled her, spent hie lust dollar tay keep her tn some kind of sbaput amd now he Junatle, whilu the wife is out on the Plains, the companion uf sone young Indian, wha will never do for her what her white hus- band did, but whom abe loves far more pnasian~ and than she could ever love a man with pallid skin. THURD 18 ANOTHER CLASS OF WOMEN in the Unca-pa-pa camp,—a class to which your elty ia not wholly a stranger, They ore not allowed to nasoclite with the respectable girls, Huduled in alodge by theniselves, they wear ont their lives aa other women of similar mils- fortunes do,—bdetter dressed periiapa than those around them, aud a tittle more brazen withal. ‘Theres no hopo ot honorable marrage for them, There is no respect shown them {nthe camp. Ifthey oro wungry, they are fed; but the loftier-minded people, Of the ‘tribe look upon them with contempt, For these people have exalted ideas of morality and soelety; and wroblty of character aul wisdom go farther in the catimate of worth than wealth—a fact which will tnake the student hesitate long over the proposition to ctyilize them. ‘They train thelr children to a faith in virtue, and to g due ana high regard for the ‘responsibilities of lite. Tho childrea are educated to modesty, und to a belief that chastity fs holiness; and God havo merey on the human being who tries with ue Jndlan girl's honor, for her father und brother are relentless in thelr vengeance, Ono of the ehlef objections on the part of the Unca-pa pa'a to guing on reservations 16 the presence of soldiers, and the horrors that result; and, when one tuoke on the loathsome creature by those around them, who falest some of thy e, “is out to hunt buffalo, not to kill the whites or to steal bores. If tbs left to us, there will be no fighting, fo Crow Jndlau steals my horse, I wilt steal his, Jf ony outs at me, 1 will shout at hi.’ ble, the extent to which the In- scouts, wut runners have been cop the frontiar tn a state of tur- moll; ad no one can compute the extent to which tle peoplo of the States have beon Hed to by the gang iu whose hands the manufacture of Indian-war hews {s confided. Not loug so, Col, Crofton, Istely 1a commund at Fort Tot- wonder that his family to that wait for Lower Agencies, ono can eearc the Indian atirinks from expoaing Se daneere coed the sufferings tow Mulltved-suoce Host at this point, whifelt has no other name than the Wood-Mountatn post, faa , DISGNACT TO A CIVILIZED PROPER. It 1s butlt of lows, plastered with mud, ts low {9 the coilings, and has nothing but tie ground for floors. ‘The men alcep in pens, partitioned off, and really unit for pigs, Tt was constructed: hurrledty by Walsh. when he waa sent Hlowtt here, of the best material ho could find, wud tn fhe beat way that his tine and circumstances would permit. A few old trading-Duildings were gathered In for three sides, and the fourth and nbastion bulit. to perfect the fort. ‘The men are an uncunplaining lot, who attend strictly to thelr duty of keaning Hquor aut of the territary, and collecting duttes on exports of furs, ond on {nports of goods used for tradhne with the In isos. But the myatery 14, how they can do anything with nny kind, of temper, situated as thy are. Probably the Wood-Mountain fort tx the’ most Important post in the Northwest Ter- Htory. Walsh has more responsibility on his friuds than any other officer in the Stounted Polk ‘To him fs delegated the task of taking care of the Cnea-pa-pasy atl he is certainly cn- titled to conifurtable quarters, It eecig as though the De nium of Canada micht afford specttbin quarters for her soldiers, and at vould nut take much of nn outlay to ft up the fort {nat least decent shape, Breakin of Little-Knite, there was a por- tentous ceremontal perforined in tis lodge this morning, upon the ADOPTION UF YOUR CORRESPONDENT INTO THE UNCA-PA-DA TRIBE amd the famfly of Mr. Knife, ‘The lodge fs9 large ones and, when evervthimg was in readi- hess, the Chiefs and warrlors who are here ar- ranged nulaiselyes sround the fire in the antddle of the tent,—Lhe squats aud papuoses forming aw second elrele in the rearof the men Ast wos conducted into the lodge, the scene wos picturesque, Chiefs, squats, aud babies were rigeed up in all Whelr Myery of gavly-palnted aking and bend-work: and, beside. the gaudily- dressed party, | taney [looked rather seedy ina sult of torn und patebed antclope-skin. I was rovelved tu perfect sence, wud aeglgned a Boxe ona buffilo-robe at the right hand of Little. Kolfe, His pon placed Iifineelé at my -richt hand, and filled.a plpe with red willow mixed with tobacen. From leit to right the pipe went around until ft had tiice accomplls ' clrele, oud then It was put away, and Lite Knife arose. “You have known ma long. comrades, Lom an old man now, but Lam stil of 9 brave heart, Crows have al- and my blood fn warm. ‘Th tacked the Unea-pa-pas. In t the Mik Tver the women h hat Two of the young men are dead, there is mourning and there are tears for th Little Knife was) here fic. Why was Litt Kulfe idle? His foot wag sick, and he could nut run or ride, [lis walk Was slow, and his heart sad, ‘The white man came to the lodge of Little- Kulfe. He bathed the foot and bound tt in olf and leaves, He was good to Little-Knife, and tender with ins and Little-Kuife loves We white man. Cotnrades, , Ur Is MY SON. Ladopt bin, He {3 your friend and Pine, aud! call him Wauk-pey-wau-cau. te 1s an Unca-pa- pa. We will love him and detend hitn,”! And then they came fo me, oue by one, and shook me by the hand, a “How colal How, Wauk-pey-wau-cau!” (Welcome, comrade! Welcome, S elne-Leat!) Tnm compelled to confess that I was a little atartied by the distinction conferred upon me, and not less eo by the name, which ot first sounded to my ears Uke“ Won't pay—walk off; und that /s about, us near the pronuncia- {lati as my puneil can be constrained to epproach. But Fam told now tht phe honor is one of the highest that could be placed on my shoulders. Itis also said that Lam the firse white man adopted foto the Unea-pa-pa tribe, “After the last aavage had shaken hands with me, Mrs. Knife conzratulated ine, and announe- ed that she didn’t propose to have any children {n the family withoue being consulted, and she thereupon proctalimed that ; I WAS ALSO EI SON. ‘The maternal {natinct immediately shot to the front, and, Itke every woman who has ny al- fevtion for a man, she stralghtway assumed that Twas hungry, and set befere mea most un- eayory (ish of pemican This haying been consumed, my respected father—God save hia soul aud wast bis skin!— proceeded to Invest mo with iny “ medicine 75 whiell tsa sprig of povlar-lenyes, and which T am to protect with my Iife, One has scarcel; any idea af the fnith’ an Indian pute in bts “modicine,”? or charm, and the desperation with which he will protect ft. Tearing a piece “feom the sprig. Little Zante bound it in rags and hid ft in tits Hrip-sack Thisto him is my spirits and, when | leave him, or If I dlc, he wilt consider that 1am always with bim, and be will ehurish me through my host. ‘At the concitalon of the obsequles of my civ- Mlizatlon, immediately began to manifest an in- terest In (he family, and endeavored to induce iny highly-reapectable connections to wash them- solves. But this was regarded aa an innovation ail revoluUonary, amd Twas compelled to re- cede from my umendinents. Now the news of wy adoption, and ao deserip- tion of me, my name nul my medicine, will be sent through of) the bands of the Unca-pa-pas, and, wherever I meet ono of the tribe, 1 wil ba welconed, and fed, aud begged of remurseless- ly, There is another Inconveutence. MY PAME AS A" MEDICINE-MAN "? fs nlready abroad, and every old squaw who hos an ailment hunts me up; every aa! who fanetes he hus an altmeut rousts me out; chil- dren with the croup and colle are brought to me hourly; aud my Jodge ts tiled nud surrounded with the Jame, the halt. and the bilod, And I alt np un my ‘hind I Hike a kangaroo, and pound a dram, and how! —ail of which, though notortholox among the 'pathies, Tilud to ba equally eflicactons amon the Indians, “Shere (s one cure fur every ill the flesh fs hefr to, wud tint is “ehon-dee ? Gobacco), If f meet with a case pecullarty dilicult to diagnose, Lelve t mitient a slug of the weed, and he is content- ed, Kquawe are lifted to the pinnaciy of robuet heatth by a pinen of sugar; watle papooses ure wreoched from the jaws of death by a few dates ar raisins, 1 honestly belleve these remu- dhes wonhd cure the cholera or yellow-fever,— ave not yet met with a solitary diseasa for whieh they Thive not proven a panacea, Ad near as Lean dure (t, my practice which ts ex- “tensive and extendiny, would cost inc in the elgnbortiood of $2,000 0 year If kept wp.—for all of which f hold as recompense the lofty po- sition of a Chief among Medicine-Men,' the naine of Wauk-pey-wau-cau, the privilere of supporting my new seb of parents, and a spriz of poplar. ‘This may Joo deseribliy facts. thro lila pe equal overdrawn to you, but Tam "That Littla-Knife adopted mo affection, there cun be no doubt. ‘That le believe me to be a physicinn, ts rtaln,—for my awful dad sticks out lis cured foot as evidence of my medical prowess, ‘Sly comes the inconvenient aspect, What one Indian lias, another is entitted to. Boing an Indian, | must divide with the balance, or [am gone, Stitt, it is some comfurt toa man to know he fs sale amongst th and tht he {seuru of sn aquare meal, tf thers be such a thing in the camp. Mrs, Knife, my dear mother, Is A GREAT REFORMER, She fs the Susan B. Anthony of the tribe. Sharo, wary, and pre-eminently virtuous, she keepsa sharp look-out for tie morals of the rest; and, if she secs anything out of the wav, there {sa terrible row. She {6 also a dross- reformer, and wears pautaloons and oo short dress. Me. Knife, to whoin I pin adevoted son, isu ilun-Chiof. It was he who led the Uneas pa-pas to the boundary, and he waa the first Indian to cross the line and shake Maj, Walsh py the band, Ie fs held In nigh respect by the whole tribe, aud fs a terror fn the Councll-lodge, Ho told me he was 4 great man, tue first ume I saw him; and Maj. Walsh assures mo that no one Chief stands hather in the community than my coppercclursd udopted sire, Moro than Hrat, he is held {a great esteem by the whites He likes Englishmen; but he bates Arnericans, aud Drather (magine that, ithe should discover my uatlvity, he would yank mo out tothe tooof thls mountain, eves at Abraham of old did Isaac of ancient tines, und I would have to do sone tall old hunting around for a_goat— which, by the way, does not aboutd in this vicinity. 8. H — The Porter Murder—Extraordinary Defensa Which be te sald ule WU Advance. Palladeipha North Amertean, Roferrluyz to the trial of Sin Currle for the murder of Mr, Porter and the wounding of Mr. Barrymore, the actors, at Marshall, ‘Lex. the Dallas dferntd of lust Saturday gives the follaw- ing additional particulars to the dispatches which have been received fn this city. That poeee says there 1s much popular nilsappre- tension wbout Currle’a crime, os viewed to a fega! light. There is a far ereater showing forthe detense, to save his neck at least, than haa com monly been credited, Express malice mus be established to convict of murder in the first degree, und the cifurts of the defense to clear Currie of at least this much and the greatest sin will certainly be masterly aud ingenious, There will be more atteupted. It is a matter of reportorial research that the defense will make wee of ono string to ita bow that is calcu- Inted to excite quite a sensation in public if not fn court circles. This will ba thu introduction of the tes*Imony of a witness living fn Loutst- ana, whose deposition, taken thera und forward~ ed bere, will throw all the welxht it may possess in fayor of a reversal of tho popular supposi- tent howed no mercy to aman with bis hands up. ‘This gentleman from Luuisiana will swear, on paper, fat he was present in Marshall at the the of the tragedy 4nd was a witness of the dillicuity from tte te. ginning, Ho will awear that tt was Currie's life. Tint. was tireatencd by Porter and Barrymore, both of thom were armed, and that in a mo- iment Currle got the test of, his enemies anit phot them in self-defense, Contrary to thepre- dictions of the Dallas paper, aml notiwitnstand. ing the progeention was all ready tor trial, aud showed that only Barrymore, Porter, Miss Cum- ming, and the restaurant-Keeper were present at the eliooting, the motfon of the defense for contiouance Was granted. . CURRENT OPINION. Vand {tn Hand, Washington Renublican (Rep.). Anti-resumption and ante-bellum restoratlon go hand in hand {2 the Democratic programme. Tho Foollshness of Olio. stich mond (V7a,) State (Her. je It looks very much now aa if the foolishness fn Ohio had made the nomination of Titden o necessity. Indeed thera appears to be no other way out of the dilemma, Jackson's Visitor, St. Donte lubes Democrat Ren). From present appearances the Democrate will not fare even ns woll as Prestdent Jackson's visitor. The “issues! which they will carry away are more threadbare than the rult of clothes which he accepted In Hew of the English intssion, In te Trance, 2 Afibeaukee Sentinel (Rep. s ft ts believed that Mr. Hendricks has the secret of the Australian polson which suspends antmation for a time, and hus taken a large dose, sauged to allow hil to wake up just hefore the Natfonnl Convention of 1839, Ele though that afer und easier than altting astride a ebarp tence until that thine. Not the Wiscat Way. Moston Heraid (nd. Dem.). We cannot neo why the sensible Democrats in Congress would not hayo dono better to sec the pofut before the Presitent made it in the veto mesanze, Prohibiting the use of the means tu enforce a inw stil unrepeated, and whieh the Executive is bound by his vath to enforce, {6 not ue wisest way to appeal to the people. A Southern Paper on fowa, Atlanta (Ga.) Constiintion (Dem Assoon as the Democrats cet control of the Government, Towa and Wisconrin will want to secede. Wisconsin may go, but Iowa never. That unfortunateState must be redeemed, purt- fled, cleanud ont, whitcwushed, disinfected, dis- enthrailed, disemnboweled, purged, and scoured out.” We hope to ive to see the day when Bure dette will be blowing the baes-horo in a Demo- eratle procession. Holding the Mirror Up to Hendricks, Hurdette’s Paper Een. No, no, no,!? stoutly ejaculated Mr. Ien- dricks, “I won't, I won't, I won't, and I won't, and -there’s an end of it. I will not do it, I won't accept, { shan’t take the eecand place on anybody's ticket, TI shan't do it, I won't, 1 won't, I won't. Say," he ‘nuded, coaxtnuly, aftera resolute pause, “who's talklue about me for the second place, anyhow? What do you reckon iny chances are!" “The Last Diteh.'* Anguata (Ga,) Chronicle (Dem, . The time for cutting off the supptics and com- mencing a Iast-ditch campaign has long since passed. Hartford Fost (Rep.). Mr. Thurman has led Ine party into “ the last, diteh.? And, when the fray is over, the barly form of the Ohio Senator will be found pros- tratein the mud at the bottom of the exca- vallon where bis compatriots have been wal- lowiDg. + A Stalwart Democrutle Howl. Nem York Sun (De. What haye they gained! ‘They will go homo Ieaving upon the atatute-books every Election Jaw that stood there four months ago. Notone Vue or letter has been wiped out by thelr ef- forts. The Repnoticans openly boast that they are left. free to vse the bayonet nt the polls to any extent that partlsan oxtroncies may reqnire., ‘The aystem of fraud and force that bas hereto- fore been used to defeat popular aufftage, and which put Hayes inthe White Mouse. remains in full operation, under the control of its old onginecrs. Worrled About Titden’s Stil Munt. New Orleank Limes (ends “Witness the cloquent silence of Mr. Til- den!” exclaims a New York journal in a tone of sarcasm, So we do, here in the South. It is just this cloquent silence that we don't like. It Meuns secret. methods und underhand dealings in politics. It means the process of burrowlig after n nomination. It is sugcestive af a half. hidden pullers bureau; of Nephew Pelton: of elpher-dispatches; of secret cruissaries, and a barrel of money, We say now, once for all, that the people of the South have had quite enough of Tilden aud his methods,—enoweh of his eloquent silence, with the significance it has to those who cherish American honor, Nein York Qranhte, Tle eame here to practice his art of Killing on us, To had no fntereat In our quarrel with the English, and cared ttle for the right or wrong involved {1 It, He held us as wild beasts, guod for live targets to practice on. It wns necessary for him to learn well the art of killing, for he was to bu a ruler of men, and tn elvilized coun- tries it Ia held that a great ruler of met must be very skitul nthe art of killing men, To moke himself a ruler he would wot have: nev tated to diaturt a peaceful country, and cause jhe barotng of towns and villages and the kill- ing of many of ils own race. We have pre- yented thie, for we bave killed the young men who came of his own avcord tokill us, Perhaps there will be some tu the civilized world to eny that, bad as it turns out for Me young man, we haye doue the elvilized world 4 real favor, Dreadtully Disappointed, but Resigned, Tautertie Courier-Journal (Dem. ). We mistook Mr. Hayes fors fatr mans and have ouly ourselves to thants for fuding him o juggling exotist, a foolish, alternating tme- geryer, and, lke the rest, a canting, hypocritic partisan, He has undertaken to ect ts word against that of a mujority of his countrymen. He has made an issue which a wiser, botter man would have avolded, He has his veto, and it ts with him to use or abuse'tt, He hos abused It, and we have no recourse but an appeal to the people. So wo back down and wo back out, be- fore an ineolent and desperate ollgarchisin, which is resolved to rule or to ruin, “We go te the country on the faene this oligarchieém has made. If the people ico acqulescent, 60 shalt we be. We, notmoro than the rest, aro concorn- ed in the reault, Our duty ende when we have given the clearest exprersian wo are able to gla of the danger, and the character and motives of those who aru responsible for ft. Dlundorers nnd Offenders. Albany Erening dournat (Tteo.). The Election laws stund. — Repeal and nullld- eation are both defeated. The warfare of tha Democratic leaders against the safoguards of the ballot-box ends in failure. But no thanks to them for the country’s escape. They have done thelr worst, and they stop only because they cannot coerco the President, and becauso they dare no longer defy public sentiment. Tad they not been the most recklosa tnd Incapable managers, they would have forecast the issue ant considered where they were coming, out. Hut, instead of acting like etther honest or pru- dent men, they rashly plunged into the contro- yersy without understanding where it would Tead them, and the result fs that they haye ex- posed thelr purposes without carrying their ends, al have piven the cotintry a thnoly Warne fig of what they would do if they had the pow- er ‘They hava presented a scandalous spectacle of mingled fucompetence und depravity, and thy public fudginent will brand them cqually as Diunderera and offendors. An Issue Betweon Democrats, ‘St, Loule fate Plapateh (Dam). ‘Thero are at Ieeat us many honest hard-money Memoerats in Ohi there ate Greeubackers. ‘There aro thousands of hard-nuncy Democrats {n that State who do not consider party-ties to bo hs bindiug’as Frank Hurd docs,—thousunds of sensible businessmen, for {nstauce, who, though fnellued to vote the Democratic tekot, are perfectly fadependent, are no polftciane, Yota aé they please, und only vote the, Demo- crate Licket as long as it represeate thelr views of what iv right. A In au interview recently published, Gen, Ewing declared = thut te Iyucy guestion @ omnade the most promiuont fasne of the campaign, We hope not. There ara suctt radical differences between the Democrats, of the true faith, who do not believe that, money ean be made out of rags even by the Natlonal Government, and the Groenbackera, that this {eque would be bound to Teal to eyil cor quences. It wontd be sure to Iead to an tas ren Democrats, Inatead of an fsauc tier tween Democrats arainat Republicans. It would stire to lead to Democratic division and dls- aster, Tho Okolona “tates? on Gon, Grant, Some Northern ‘newapapers having attached ‘pecullnr stgnifieance? to the reception given Gon. Grant In China and elsowhere, that stanch nui true Democratic organ, the Okelona (Miss.) Sonthern States, nakes answer? **Peenhar sleniicance "—eht Well, It don’t strike ua with with any ''necnilar significance” down here, save and except that a dead Grant would be hauled through the atreets at the tail of a nutin if ptry what ho haa jared to Introdnce in this tely learned’? In the Old Grant te epotted. ‘They will let hint All hie third term if he fs fairly elated bat tet Alm 4 to me Ma crown will ft his pull-dav forehead, or foral enbes ewer earl, around his low and vulgar form, spe x Let him, we say. tt inert ‘wou't be Just one, ot the prettlent ehin- dics that was aver seen In North America, tt won' be a4 the Okolona States thinks, CAG ‘Sod Grant will be buried, belly dawn, in a Potter's Ficid, and hare the honor of adance over his carcaes, {Down on the Darky. Piymauth County (f£4,) Sentinel, White the atniable idiocy that prevatted in Congress during the Reconstruction days was at its hight, the nigger was enfranchised, ‘He was luvested tith the ballot on the pretty theury that he was a man ond a brother, withan Infusion of sand fn his make-up. It waa given him on theschool-girl notion that affection for the party that ave bim his freedom would make Iiltn Its perpetual Instrument, Rut the nigger is less serviceable to the Re- publican party asa yoter than he was asa stare. fis needs tuo much coddling,—tuo much pro- tection. ‘ Ife can only vote ‘the Republican ticket when surrounded by a cordonof Republican bayonate, "Shere {5 no grit in him, There {s more yotlug energy and party strenuth Inn dyzen raw Irishinen than mathou- aaut well-fed wiggers. ‘There {s not an ounce of Stalwartism ino ton of nigger. "The more nigger, the less strength. As uslaye, the pleturesque, misery of the nic- ger was an unfailing artnors of party weapons; una freeman, there te no romuoce in him—cow- ardiceds not romantle. ey the Soutli he is throwing his ballot for Is and Traltore, when he votes at all. Ilv ie too cowardly to yote bis cooyivtions, or ton stupld to have convictlous. When the Stalwarts get Into power in 1580, he must ufther be disfranchised or cotnpelled to yote right. ‘The free nigger $s a fraud. IRELAND FOR THE IRISH. Great Mass-Meetlng for Free Womestenda— Hot Words Axalost Absentee Bloodaucklug Land-Monopolints, Correspondence Ipndan Times, Denis, Juve 33, 1879.—Another mecting in eupport of the anti-rent nuitation was beld on Sunday at Milltawn, County Galway. It was similar in its general character to that held ot Westport, with this difference only, thut, strong and outspoken as the latter was {nits tone, it was tame and timid compared with Sunday's demonstration, It ts catimated that 14,000 per- sons were $prescnt. Numerous contingents come after Inst. moss from ‘Tuam, Claremorris, and several other placesin the county; they marched {1 ecmi-military order, headed by bands and carryliz banners with suggestive mottoes, stich as “Down with the tyrants,’ “Down with land robbers,” "The land for the people,’ and God save Ireland,” The assembly included a large proportion of men on borse- bacl, and its general appearance showed Mttle of that distress nnd misery In the country which 1s depicted by popuiar orators in euch dark colors. It was announced in the notices that the meeting would be addressed by Messrs, Par- nell, Mitchell Henry, O'Connor Power, Bicsar Ma}, Nolan, ant other members of Varllament. Mr. Artbar Morris was catled to the chair, and In tis opening speech struck the key-nute for ather speakers He raid, mtd vier, thay lie had known since hia childhood haw the people were persecuted. He had known the doince of the landlords, aud le ad defend the Irish people; as long 28 thers wos a drop of blood in Dis velts he would Aeht for theirrights, If they could get anact passed to the effect that the Tandloras should live as eo many of their unfor- tunate tenants were obliged to Hye, unon Ludian meal, until they grauted a reduction of rents, {hey would not be long before such & reduction would be uranted. They must put ona bold face and tell tnose geotlemen they would not be trampled on, ‘Mr. Thomas Brennan, who was loudly cheer- ed, moved the first resolution respecting the right of self-government, and pledging the meeting to Ishor for ft. Ho said he thought that speeches stould be short, sharp, sit de- claive. ‘Ihe most cloquent nud significant speech wos Not avvthtue that could be said, but thy tramp of the mighty multitude of carnest and determinéd men whom they saw marching that day, Wheu he saw this magnificent meet ing aud saw their bold brows and bh petal fa he thankeit God that they ters no lon slumbering slaves. Their presences there proved that they kuew their rigtta and. weredetermined to insist upon them, ‘Tothls sentiment a yolcs responded. Down with the inndlords; down with the bailiffs." They were determined, the speaker said, amid approving plaudits, to tpe Bold thelr right toHye on the soll of drelwnd and to resist the robber who would plunder thelr homes and pluoder tha propecty which they had created by the sweat of thelr brow, ‘They wera determined, to use the expressive words of Mr. Parnoll, “to keepa Grim grip on thelr homestoads.” Three cheers for Parnell wera here called for undjluetily given. Mr. Brennan went on to say that It was only fn an Irish Sen- ate their richt to the ownership in the land would be recognized. THe thonght the people of Galway aud Mayo might) well congratulate themsclves on being the first to accept the true gospel of the lund question. Thousands of ten- ant farmers had proclaimed that the right to hold the soll coes with the right to till it; they declared thut the Jand belonged to the men who cultivated it, and not to the vampire landlord who spent in the gay capitals of Rurope the money extracted from the Starving peasantry of Treland, They had met that day not to talk of trenty-one years’ leases or of the revaluation of rente at the end of that period when the tenants had Improved the holdings, Noy but they were there In open {usurrection against landlurds in every form. Ite combated the statement that {{ tenants were made owners they would bein the work-house in a few years, Ile depicted the great industry of the peasantry, who tolled under discouraging circumstances to supply the Jaudtords with money to spend in foreln coun- trles in unbridled ‘centiousness. When tho sterile spot wos made fertile the land- font increased the rent, and the ten- ant. who could not pay was thrown out upon the roadside, ond then the Pharisees In Fngland would turn up their eves: with horror when the news of “another ugrarian outrage" reached them, [a was not there to justify such outrages, but ho asked what wonder When scenos lke those were of dally occurrence that they should sametines hear the report of the revolver fa the nigbt air? Talk of the Inw- lesaness of the Irish people, why, thera was not. a people inthe world who would bese such wronga with such patience. A volce responded : 4’Too long we bore it." He contiuued to say that every question must fall dowa before this one great question of Irish iberty, To make Treland a nation should be the first duty of thelr lives. Let them continue to be as faithful as the B00 Spartans who fell ot Thermopshe, brave as the three Komans who kept thu bridge, as faithful asthe threa brave Irishmen who, with the words * God save Ireland * on thelr lips, inet a glorious duout ab Mancheater, ‘The apecch was frequently iuturrupted by approving: chears. Mr. Malachi O'Sullivan, who acconded tha resolution, said wey bad come to. asserts with ho uncertain voice, thut the land of Irelurd be- longed to the poopte of Ireland, and not tp a few men, or to men whe vever saw the soll of tretand, ‘The [rrepressible yolco hero exclaimed, “We will ficht for it!" ond the coker answered, “You will and you must.” Jie had een informed that day, ho said, that in the ‘Town of Tusm there were, over twenty houses leit roafless by 9 Scotch- man. Here x a futer- csed, “Down with the Scotch,” and Mr. ‘Sullivan went on to say that if the people of ‘Tuam joined together Yo denounce that tan diey might make hin fcel, und 4 that did not make hun do so they sbould resort to other incans. ‘The suggestion was bromptly trans. lated by the vole, "They should shoot bin.” ‘Mir. O'Sullivan mentioned another caso of a maa who had sot a penny, but who bouche un estute with borrowed money and they raised the rents to euablo him to pay for It. Me complained that owing to the land-jobbers a farmer could not buy meat for biusclf or his family, or the ordinury uecessarics of life. How, he asked, wera they to of this system? ‘The yates replied, Bets * the assembly chvereds- | eetridof him,” and ‘They must have a aystem of peasant proprictora, ‘Three cheers wero then given for the French Nevolution nnd for the Irish Repubite, Ite told. them that they mnt save the people and toke the sharing into their own hands. ‘This advico elicited thece cheers for the Zulus and King Catywavo. Mr. O'Bullivam told the meeting they did well to cheer for the Zutus, for, «after 700 yenrs of English rule, they knew what the Zulis were likely to suffer {f they wére vrought. under it but they would not, for they would fight to tho last. | fio exhorted bls audience to return good inen to Parliament, itke Mr. Par- nell, not men who were ready to take any good altuation which offered. As tothe question af rents, he would: just say that if there wasa man who would tot listen to reason, trould not act quietiy, and who would not accept a fair, equita- ble ‘rent, _he would adviso them to pay none. The Inndlords might exterminate an individual, but they could not exterminate n nation; they never ‘could oxterminate .o body of nen determined to keep their holdings, ‘They should stand together as analion, they shonld unite, and be organized, and bo carncst. He saw no house in tho distance apread out hefore him, there must te honses there twhen lic nextcame. ‘The voice replied, “Not an fron house (a police barrack), that must be taken down. {Cheers} We will shove It awar.’? ‘Mr. O'Sullivan continued to aay they must have a national army to guard the nattonal inde- pendence, aud they must work and never cease working until they secured that independence. ‘Mr, Davitt, the Mberated Fenian prisoner, moyed the next resolution, which declared tho lund syatem to be a continual disregard of the well-being of tho country and of tts interests, whicl, Imperattvely demaiided the restoration of anattonal lund aystem which recognized the cultivator of the soll as the proprictor thereof, ant was opposed to all intermediate rights ot property between the estate and Limectf. Ho observed thit sf there was nothing to be gained. by violent Isnquage, there was nothing to bo galned by a cowardly, cringing, and bemoaning: tone, ‘They were there becaure they wanted & reduction ti rents; they wanted a reduction of rents, or a total destruction of the power ef the Jandtords. GOVERNMENT OF LONDON. , Complaints of Wich Taxes, Bad Gas, Bad Water, Dirty Streets, and Poor Fire-Do- partment=Iteform In Biuntcfpal Adminis- tration Demanded, fandon Timer, June Se . the House of Commons had yesterday tollisten to one of the crics of discontent which periodic ally go up from the 4,000,0000 iniabitants of this great city. The Intest complaint, ff truc, fa very terrible, and {t fs strange that every one {s so calm after Mr, Bafllic-Cochranc’s dolor- ous tale. He has surrcyed London east, west, north, und south, and he bas found nothing pleasing to the eve, From Dan to Beersheba, from Hampstead to Brixtou, it is atl barren, ‘The government of London ts without form or order. Tt is parceled out among a multitude of patty suthoritles, who prey upon the rate- payers like feudal Barons of old. Wo pay much too dearly for everything which they give us, and most of the work which they do is not well done, Tho gas companies charge exorbitant sums for lght- Ing. ‘There fs no adequate machinery to pre- yent or put out fires. The vestries and district: poards do not keep the strects clean or water them often cnough. They are far too parstino- nlous in regard to sanitary matters, and they aro grossly extravagant fn providing costly Iuncheuns and dinners for finance and aseces~ ment committees, Mr. Baillte-Cochrane and Mr. Hankey, who supported his motion fors Select Commnittec to Inquire {nto the powers uf vestries aml the administration of the funds at’ their disposal, had rather loose and crude ideas, ns to what was wrong; Indecd, {t plainiy ap- peared that they were not at one on the subject. But the upshot of the jeremiads of both was the conclusion, to which the Intter cave a terse expression, that “the general manngement of the metropolie was abominable.” It was sald last mieht with perfect truth by the foriner that mavy eminent statesmen had directed tieir attention’ to the improvement of the movern- mentof Londou: but we scuceely think thap the ardent, discursive remarks of the mover nnd bis chief supporters last night will do mu to accelerate the coming of refurm. ‘The dytst- ime Metropolitan Local not, of course, the last words of Tegisiation on the subject; but no substantial, cleurly cou- celyed taprovament upon lhe seheine of coy erminent which they embony wos suggested. It {a not unfairly {neumbent upon ono who de- plaren the existence of confusion 10 show that he hie a distiges {dea of a new orcunization, and this wns {ust what wns mnfased in the desul- tory tals of Inst. night. The mover skipped rather almlexsly from subject to subject. Ho acnrenty took the trouble te be consistent; aud 60 the House beard Mr. Butle-Cochrane itamliug the vesteles for Bhortcomluga with respect to gas und water, with which they bave nothing to du, and Wetened to suggestions, interpolated fn on appeal for economy, with respect to tha speedy removal from die strects of snow and mud, which would seridisly add to the local expenditure, It 1s, perhaps, nover lost time for the House of Comuigys to devote a tow hoties to the diecnssion of the affairs of pie Cap- ftal. ‘The discussion is. a nt urgent; some defect which can be remedied is sure to be dis~ cuvered; and the mind of the codugry (s ut all events trained to cousider a farnes Bi must one day be approached in ap warnest @pirit. But arambling talk about the shortcomings of the duatman amd the luxury of vestry Nitncheons will ao Httle to advances the discusslony and it was not necessary for the success of & root cause to seek to make the vestries reepotsiblo tor evils with which they have as little to do'as they hove with the wet summer. ‘There 18 no question that the expenditure of the metrapotis has seriously ipereased, en: eclally aines the establishroent of the present form of foral government in 1858. ‘Pots was the greut moral to be deduced frown Mr. Goschon’s well- Known report to the Treusury on local taxatlun, Ile showed that the metropolitan counties of Middlesex and Surrey, whilo they exhibited un {unusual Increase in the rateable value. of prop- erty, had to beara ‘still greater proportional ine crease in the ainount of rates levicd within them, Mr. Sclater-Buuth mentioned last nicht that the net increase of the expenditure sluce 1800 by the vestries in Loudon wus amiilion and a half, though he pointed out that the rateable yalue bad iucreased by more - thatr. seven inillions during the samo decade. But these figures do hot tell the whole story. It Is in the nature ‘of things thet the expenditure ota great capital—much of which Is, atrictly speaking, not for local, but imperial abe jecta—should increase. ‘There ie vo cumbiolug the advantages of a village aud the chlet city of acreat Empire, The preliminary question mines always be whother the public is mdily aprycd by the many local bodies which have the Privilege. of mulcting it, Now, no doubt it would be easy for auyoue to polnt out s scoreof ways in whieh Loniton could be mado amore pleasaut und far more heautiful city than it is. It ts not only thot mud is left to Me in our streeta and that they are frreguiarly. watered. ‘Thero aro more serious shorteotnlugs than tesco; but cau they be made good without fresh expenditure! New strecta piercing: denacly-inbablted districts; parks which would serve a8 fuogs to uobealthy parts of the metropolis; tha removal butldings which are yesores, constmicted without regura_ to tory seience, would be works a powerful and enlightened municipality would undertake. Bat they. would involve yast cost. ‘They would make Loudon an excel- lent city for the rich and a place iu which a poor tan would find st bard to lve in comfort. We inies ot present a wnultitude of the Jururics and goincof. the necessaries of civic life, But, on the whole, few of the great essentials of roupice rule sre wantipg. “Tbe miracle of goveroy Ing 4,000,000 of closely packed peoplo withuut the use of force Te with little interference Js daily repoated, Even the vestries do thelr work ina tolerable fashion. ‘They leave people to fo thelr own ways, and they give offense chirily when they act ‘in the spirit of Dr, Balllio- Cochrane's advice and increase thelr actly ‘Mr. Haukuy’s cure for the preseot wastelulnces is the establishment of a central body, to be placed over the yestries, and to bo armed, WO resuine, with far larger powers thin the Me- ‘Fropolituu Bourd of Works possessca. | Tile is a strange guarantee for ecoucmny. Surely neither “comtnon senso nor the experieuce acquired since 7855 would lead ono to be sanguine us to tha realizing of thie hope. Thy yestrics may Wor contain a sufficient elemevt of persans whose minds are set upon economy, ‘They may cone tuln too suany persons interested, If not dlrect~ ly, yet circultously, in contracts connected with the parishes, and the provisions in the Local Manazemont-acts for the suppression of evils of this sort may be totally {nadequate. But tt ie unreasonable to finagiue that a ‘powerful inunic- {pal body, the mourberé of which would by re- moved from local control, would be any moro zealous for economy Bs to pave oF takin Dew streots than the tradesmen whose prod! ty was lost night held up to execrauou, : probabllity fs Haat the floodgates af extraya gance would be opened wide. And, uplore tunately, this ia an ubjectlon which» pple to, most proposals of municipal refor: r faces by bitter complaints about extravacence, +4 generally coutain within them the seeds Of sane disease. ~ . re Manugement acts ‘gra_ \ 4 ‘