The New York Herald Newspaper, June 28, 1869, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. 940 per THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, | these sas io act tal con vl tne company rorere THE INDIAN QUESTION. Report to President Grant from C by not include an atlowanoe for mune maak, Weie- | Interesting Letter from Geueral Marcy tothe Morrie—Fallure of the Com: graph, &e.; but % $6,000 per Suit add to | Commission for Visiting Indtane—Why ail Faith with the Goverument—The Road Not | fis the mortgage bonds for qao per mile, first | Previous Efforts at Civilizing the Savages @ First Class Oue—Its Probable Sale and | aeducting $6, inile to ex} ine ae a) Have Failed—Dishonesty of Traders aud Heavy Lose to the United Statee—Sugaes | frente ed tor tucn'purposcs $12,000 per ule, | AWente=Sugaentious fer a Practical Settle- tiens Made. and add the remainder, $20, mile and the ment of the Question—The Reservations Mr. Isaac N. Morris, one of the commissioners appointed to examine the unaccepted portions of the Union Pacific Railroad, has made a report to the Pregident, in which, after giving a history of ita con- What and Where They Should Be. ‘The following letter from General R. B. Marey on the subject of placing Indians en reservations, teack- mg them agricuiture and other elements of civiliza- £ 39,840 together, ana it will show 3 surpius of $35,940 per miie above the cost of the road. reault will enabie 4 man ef ordinary intelligence to determine whether the members of the com} paid auvning out of theirown to it, Bus take the struction and ite present condition, he makes the | SVeTge per mile for the whole distance: of | 1401 wins ne sound very interesting and Instructive:— following statements and suggestions, which will be 2 47s—and who doubis but this of itself shouid be Wasuinaron, D. C., Jane, 1869, Messrs, WEESH, BRUNOT and others, Commissioners for Visiting Indians, &c.:— GENTLEMEN—4n compliance with your request 1 take great pieasure in submitting for your cousid- eration. the following views regarding What I con- coive vo be the wisest policy that can be pursued to- ward the Indians at ns present time, The civiliza- tion of the natives is asubject that has engaged the attention of pullantnropists and Christians ever since the discovery of America; yet we seem to be to-day nearly as remote from an acknowlodged gatrsfactory practical solution of the question as Colufabus was when he landed upon the island of San Salvador, 877 years ago, Among the prominent causes of fail- ‘ure in} the efforts that have from time to time been made to reclaim the American savages from a_ state of barbarism may be mentioned the salient fact that no consistent, just and benignaut national pol- icy has ever been i ated and persisicntly ad- hered to for any gr length of ime. Numerous treaties have been made with the different trib and the negotiations attended by the observance o! all the diplomatic forms and ceremonies practised among independent, absolute nationalities. In some instances, however, these treaties, beiore they were ratified and carried into effect, have been 80 altered and amended as to very materially ehange their original signification, and this without the sanction or knowledge of tie Indians, In other cases tle failure of appropriations, or the malfeasance or negligenee of unscrapuious or untaithful agents, has prevented a strict adherence to treaty supula- tons, and this has, of course, occasioned @issatisfac- lion among the Indians, us they expect every prom- ise to be fulfied to the ietter, and when this ts not done they regard the non-compliance ag a wilful violation of good faith “nd integrity. No excuse or explanation of unavoidable accidents, or delays contravening the possibility of a literal fulfilment of @ compact, has the slightest weight with them, and for t's reason no pledges should be made to Indians when there is not an absolute certainty as to the power of executing them. The policy adopted toward the aborigines by the early colonists of New Bngland, Virginia and Georgia was eminently humane and praiseworthy, and the preliminary labors of missionaries among them were found of curious interest to the public. He saye:— The charter of the company provides that these bonds should be a first len on the road, roliung @tock, &c.; that no more than every alternate sec- tion of Jand for teu miles on each side of the road should be given and that payment of Londs should only be made when forty miles were finished. No permission was couferred on the company to issue Mortgage bonds at all. In this case, as in similar ones, the company went back to Congress, not to surrender any right they had acqured—for corpota- tions never do that—but to ask addtional grants and privile es, ‘They asked that the government bonds made a second lien upon the road, and that they be allowed to issue morigage bonds in amount equal wo apr cxoient bonda, and that these mortgage bonds, issued by themselves, should be the frst lien; Shat they should have every alternate section of land for tweaty miles ou each side of the road instead of ten, and that they suould\ receive bends when each twenty miles of road was done, mstead of when each forty. The legisiative body, most unfortunately for the country, granted their request, ‘The result will beasale of the road on the company’s mortgage bonds, which are @ first lien, and the governmeut will get nothing uniess it prevents itself being made @ party to the proceedings and thus forces a settie- Ment or compromise, which, however, would amount to littie’or nothing in the end, for it would yield everything in the controversy. ‘Ten or fifteen millions of the coinpany’s mortgage bonds wil! full ito the hands of some one; how can be imagined. The inverest will not be paid, the bonds will be foreclosed, and who is to bid against the holder of them, representing, as _he will, a pow- erfui moneyed interest? No one. The government cannot doit. If i owned the road ninety per cent Of its earnings would be stolen and 1t would soon run down. No individual would have the means of doing it, and while the government will lose the amount of her bonds the helders of the major part of the mortgage bonds, who will not be shrewd capitalists, but unsuspecting widows and minors, Will lose from fifty to seventy-five per cent on their Donds, because they will only receive upon them a pro rata of what the road selis for, I am sufficient to bulid and equip the road and construct A line of telegraph, and there 18 still left $32,000 per mile in mortgage bonds tn the bands of the com- pany, making in ali $34,762,000 for the whole length of the road, 1,086 miles, These are drawn trom experience and reason, The exact amount made by the company will never be known, fer it will never be tu their advautage that itshould be. The company receive, besides the bonds, from tne goy- ernment every alternate section of iand on each side of the road for twenty miles, aggregating for the 1,086 mules, if it followed a direct line (a it does not it wilt be somewhat less), 13,900,800 acres, Or 12,400 ac og per mile, which at $3 per acre amounts to $41,702,400, Add tis amount to the 762,000 of bonds, and we have a sum total of $75,454,400— enough wo make seventy-tive individuals ‘million- aires. But throw half of thia away and you have nearly thirty-eight mulions of profit left tor distri- bution among a few men, to say nothing of capital stock. 1am satistted my estimate is low. Divide $53,116,872, the whole amount of govern- ment bonded debt on the two roads, by 1,776, the number of miles from Omaha-to Sacramento, and it g'Ves $20,907 as ihe average governmeut subsidy per mile. Add to this the same aimount for mortgage bonds, and it wul show the whole average boudea debt of the road to be $60,815 per mile, or $106, 231,744 in all, upon whieh the government hgs only a second lien on half the amount, $53,115,872. Upon tue main road aml branches, inciusive, it has a second lien for $62,907,192, furmshed in bonds, bearing six ber cent interest. It ig an easy thing to create a public debt, but not s0 easy to pay it out of the labor of the producing elasses, who have to pay all pub- jic debts, and not the mulonaire. The Union Pacific (I Know nothing of the Central Pacific in this regard) has provided for Issuing $100,000,000 of capital stock, aud has actually issued about $25,000,000, This stock has been séldag in the market heretofore at seventy-five to eighty cents on the dollar, How much itis worth now 1am not advised. How much it will be worth when it 1s not held by those who hold the controlling power over the road, intelligent men can judge. RECAPITULATION, Railroad companies to the people, Dr. — only writing here the experience and _ his- , " For $53,116,972 of government bonds, attended with results decidedly favorable. Un- ana pA me ba pened be pcereth Paine For $53,115,972 of mortgage bonds. fortunately, however, the ultimate success Operate the road or not (many belleve it is not their | For $¥, 324,962 interest paid for their use. Githeir efforts to civilize and elevate the For $60,477,056 for 23,492,352 acres public lands, moral character of tie Indians was then, as purpose to do go) the resuit will be substantially the same. The Cy object will be to get clear of the government lien oy foreclosure and sale under the mortgage bonds, This wiil be done unless the gov- ernment, as I have already suggested, refuses to low itself to be made a party to the chancery pro- ings, Or unless the suggestions contained in the following paragraph are acted on. They are of the highest importance to the whole country. ‘he amendatory aet of July 2, 1564, subordinates the government lien, secured by the charter, to the has often been the case since, thwarted by the mach- nations of avarictous and designing white men, who, for the accomplishment of thei own selfish purposes, have incuicated and practised among titese simple minded children of the forest ail the vices that disgrace civilized society; and tiese baneful adverse influences have generally preponderated over the teachings of better men, and the Indians have retro- graded upon the scale of human progress to a posi- tion far beneath that which they occupied before they came in contact with the pale faces, For $100,000,000, amount of capital stock au- thorized to be issued ou the avove basis, about twenty or twenty-five per cent of which is ia the hands of the public. For income of said roads, For the railroads themselves, tl rolling stock and all property of every nature aud kind connected therewith. . ‘The people to the railroad companies, Dr. mus the privilege of riding over said roads by pay- for it, mort fe bonds issued b; the company. The A wide diversit; f epini i th 6 ‘ue amount realized for the capital stock, whether wide ersity of opinion exists among the Stat Congress may at any timo iter amend or re. | tWeuty-ivo, ity or one hundred muliéus, 15 30 at the present day in Fegart! to the wisest ‘course te 1 this act.” The words “at any time’ may per- | Much additional gain to the company, be pursued by the government toward the Prairie So the companies have the bonds, $106,231,744— the beneiit of $3,334,962 In trust paid for taem by the government—the @apital stock amounting to as above stated, $100,000,000; the lands, $60,477,056— proceeds of 23,492,352 acres, and own the road and all the property connected witi it besides. This is what is calied 1m this euuntry the enterprise of capi- tal and its investment for the public geod. It may be a misnomer, If Congress made a bad bargain I am not for re-, pudiating it. I think, however, the government should protect its tuterests by availing itsetf of all reserved rights, and insisting upon a rigid com- pliance on the part of the companies with their en- gagements before anything more 1s patd or the lands [Sogo ‘There 1s certainly nothing wrong tn this, he right to pass over the roads, such as they are, by paying for it is all the people will get for the enormous amount they have beeu compelled to con- tribute for their construction, and they are certaini: entitied to have @ “first class road” ‘‘in all respects,” that they may be assured of fe and limb, Unusual care should be taken in operating this road, as weil 48 In Constructing it, for if a serious calamity should happen to @ passenger train, it would be almost im- possible to obtain medical aid and proper sLelter for the wounded, so sparsely is the country settled. I wul add, in conclusion, wnat on my return to Omaha I was shown a prepared report, gotten up by oa Oflicer Qf the company, On the first section of enty miles of the road west of the last accepted section, setting forth it was constructed in strict compliance with law, and was told that other sini- lar reports for the remaining sections were in pro- gress of preparation; that such was the accus- vomed way for reports to be prepared for Commis- sioners, and then they signed them. Not being salisiied that I could, without a violation of duty, adopt the usual form and sign such a paper, I have prepared this report for myself and as eXpressive of my own views. PERSONAL, I regret being competied to go over the road with- out my associates, 1n consequence of a misunder- standing of the time the Commission was to meet at Omaha, growing out of an unexpected delay tn in- structions, Ish@uid have been ighly eras to have accompanied General Warren and Hon, James F, Wilson. As that pieasure was denied me I was obliged to perform my duty by making the necessary examination alone. Noteven the privilege of con- suiting either of these gentlemen before this report Was prepared was atforded me. I therefore submit ps be regarded as subject to some limitation. The courts might hold (I even doubt this) that this salu- tary protective ¢! ayy would not apply aiter the completion of the road, or more certainly after its ptance by tho government. Before that time re ig no question but it follows the eter bonds wherever they go. No matter in whose hands the bonds are found the plea that they are heid by innocent parties, so often interposed, cannot avail. The purchaser is bound to take notice of the law which constitutes a part of the condition of the bonds, as mueh so as If 1t were written upon their face. Tite road 13 not completed nor anything like it, and the power is yet in Congress to protect the government, ‘This should be done promptly and effectually, The government bonds should be restored to & first lien, as they stood in the original charter, and the mortgage bonds of the company should be made @ second instead of a first len. ‘This done, all cavil and dimicuity with the company will be at an end. ‘The government has supplied means far more than sufficient to build tne road, and why should it be given away? What moral or equitable right has any set of men to it? ‘The money of the people built it, The provision irf the amend- atory act granting an extra quantity of land should also be repealed or suspended unul the road ts con- Btructed us required by law. At least an opportunity should be offered for this legislation to transpire be- fore another dollar 1s paid to the company, While it cannot be regarded that Congress chose the most appropriate time to pass the resolution ap- proved April 10 last past, authorizing the President So appoint @ commission of five to examine the whole road, atter the subajdies had been Hearly all paid, without any hope of their recevery, still that resolation must be regarded as an expression of Congress that it did not regard any part of the road as tinally accepted. it may be that body was look- ing to the restoration of the government lien by its action before it was preciu irom doing so by lapse of time. The title of the resolution would seem to establish this conclusion. Itjs as follows:— Joint resolution for the protection of the interest of the United states in the Union Pacitic Rallrond Company, the Central Pacific Raliread Company and for other purpopes, The “interest” of the government 1s now attract- ‘ing attention, and it is to be hoped that considera- tion will be sufficient to lift railroad matters out of the grooves in which they have been ranning—some- thing for the people and not everything for corpora- dons, if the subsidies should be all paid and the lands cause and have cost us many vaiuable lives and a great tribes, That these merciless freebooters have often made war upon our people without any suflicient expenditure of public money during the past three years is unquestionable, Those who have come in contact with them and suffered trom their lawless and diabolical propensities very naturally entertain feelings of implacable hostility towards them and advocate @ war of extermination as the only effec- tual means of settling the perplexing question, while the benignant impulses of others who have but ysale pete of the idiosyncratic nuture of these par- ucular tribes dictate thé moré benevolent And ¢on- ciliatory policy of parenesing their good will with annuities and presents. The exclustve adoption of either policy is, in my judgmeat, unwise and inade- quate to meet the present exigency of the crisis, it is probable that we might in time, with a lar; force and a heavy augmentation tour aire: gigantic pecuniary national itavilities, annihilate the Indians; but this woula be a slow process, as they are inured to war and ure familiar With all’ the arts and subterfuges necessary to prosecute a suc- cessful partisan campaign, and with their numerous feet and enduring horses they are at ali times, except in winter, enabled to elude pursuit upon the vast expanse of the great prairies, every inch of which ts familiar to thei. supplied with firearms and ammanition, 8) that the discrepancy between them and our soldiers is noth- ing like as great now as it Was when their only weapons were the bow and arrow and the lance. To act against an enemy who ts here to-day aud Jar dis- lant to-morrow; who at one time stampedes @ berd of animals upon the headwaters of the Arkansas and when next heard from 1s in the very heart of the populated districts of Mexico, laying waste hacien- das and carrying devastation, rapine and murder in bis steps; who leaves his women and children con- cealed in @ locality far aistant from the theatre of hostilities, and has neither depots uor magazines so defend, nor lines of retreat to cover; Who draws lis ratious and clothing trom the couutry he operates in, and is not encumbered with @ nolsyfmoving town on wheels, in the shape of a baggage train; who hever comes into actign without the advantage of numbers or position, and disperses and vanishes whenever the issue of a battle is against him, and wiro, under a preconcerted arrangement, assembies again at a point far distant; with such au enemy ex- termination would be a siow and exhausting process, exceedingly dimicuit of execution. Moreover they are well ut for myself, Most respectfully, The humane peace policy would, in my opinion, be jorarh bh imaaheara iy on cle oat eke mye ISAAC Pe TOREIS, Commissioner. oaseny. inadequate to accomplish Lue Object desired, 5 May 28, 1860. provided no other means were adopted but that of the contrary, it would be for their interest to keep them only in possibie running order, even if they intended ‘to operate them in the future, until the gale is made on a portion of the mortgage bonds and he government lien extinguished, for the reason ‘that the worse condition the road is in the less it ‘will bring. The temptation to do this ts too great to giving annuities aud presents; for s0 long as the In- ‘ans are permitted to lead @ roving life they will, whenever game fatis to aiford them sustenance, ve compelled to steal or take from their neighbors. This policy bas been thoroughiy tested during the past twenty years, but has not thus far been at- tended with anything like satisfactory results. The THE EXPELLED NEGRO LEGISLATORS IN GROAGIA, Letter from Judge Fleming on the Decision of the Supreme Court. SAVANNAH, June 23, 1969. be resisted. Wiping out an encumbrance of some | sty Dear StR—Yours of the 2ist ist. requesting | Indians of tne Plains do not seem to’ have fly odd millions of dollars on the roads, when it me to give my opinion upon the effect of tue eens the most distant conception of the seuti- can be done by a eres cuancets, proceeding. oe ton lately made by the Supreme Court of Georgia | ment of gratitude, and appear unavle to advantage railroad gece and avail themselves of, The practice of gov- emment and communities furnishing the means to build ratiroads and then allow those who take the contract to build them, for that is all it is—without investing a dollar of their private means, to own them after they are built, is not @ very wise system of financtering on the one hamd, but excessively shrewd on the other, ‘There is still another and more powerful argu- ment why the railroad companiés should be hela to She strict letter of the contract and receive no more special favors. They are not released from the provision of the sixth séction of the charter, Which requires them to pay at maturity the princi- 1 and interest of the government bonds; only from ¢ provisions of the fifth section making the bonds @tirst lien. The following statement will show the amount of bonds issued on each mule of the road, or 0 be Issed-— UNION PACIFIC, The eastern base of the Rock Mountains was fixed ata point 626 miles west of Omaha, on the sand comprehend the motive which inspires an act of be- hevolence or charity, and they (unlike their brethren who once occupied the tern Stal ho were said to have been grateful for favors received) in- variably attribute it to fear or the expectation of reward. When they make @ present it ts with a view of getting more than its equivalent im retura. The Indian practice of giving and receiving pre- sents, a3 weil as their diplomatic attributes, do not seem to have undergone any great changes from the"customs of their ancestors. When William Penn arrived amoung the ladians ifving upon the present site of Philadelpiia he wrote a letter to his friend, Robert Boyle, in which this paragraph occurs:—“in treaties about land or trame | find them (the Indtans) deliberative in council, and as designing as 1 have ever observed among the politest of our Europeans. 1 » two large Wwacts, and had two pre- which cost me altke,” D’lberviile, the first governor of Louisana in 1762, ina mana- Script memorial on the subject of Indian policy, the grigiual of which is in the archives at Paris, says:— 1t is imprudent to accustom the savages to be upon the status of the expelled negro members of the present Legisiature, is received, 4 Ihave no idea that my opinion will have, or in- deed ought to have, any weight in “moulding public opinion;”’ but, as you desire it, and only because you desire it, I wil give it, Ican see no reason why this decision should have an effect diferent from other decisions, ‘The decision of a court, decides the case in which the decision ts made, and of course becomes @ precedent for the decision of other cases in which the same question arises, But whoever heard that the decision of any one case decided every case involving the same questions. There must be @ separate decision in every case as it comes up. The case decided by the Supreme Court settles the question that White, although a negro, may hold the office of clerk. It can have no other effect beyond the retaining of White in office, except as authority to control the decision of other cases as they arise involving the same bane But the di ion will have to be made in every case. It cannot possibly have the effect to put in or out of office others whi are styan- plains, gers to the judgment. 1s it not a weil settled prin. | spoken to by presents, for, with so many, it would 625 miles at $16,000 $8,401,248 | Cwmie that a judgment binds only the parties to it? | cost the king more than the revenue derived from 150 miles at $48,000. + _7,200,000 , the trade, When they come to us tt will be necessary There are some cases in this county (Chatham) where white persons have been installed into office by the Ordinary, who, I think, very ea, felt it his duty to do so, under the decision of Judge Schiey. Can it be that the edect of the decision m the case of White is to put them out and put the negroes in? Could a judgment of ouster be entered up against them on the judgment of the Supreme Coart in favor of White? Can these negroes be put into office ex- cept by ety regularly instituted for the pur- pose?’ I think not. same, | suppose, is true of the negroes who were elected to the Legisiature. The decision in the case of White cannot put them in or the white men out, and for the simple reason they were not parties to that act. And now comes the question, can the negroes geome to the Legislature make a case before the ju- jal tribunals of the State? I have no difficulty in 824 iniles at $32,000, 000 $25,998,762 m the 1,000 mile post to Promon- tory Summit, a distance of 86 miles, bonds have not been issued, neither has it been decided as to which company will be enutied to receive them. ‘They Would amount, at $52,000 per mile, to... $2,752,000 Total....... r 704 $28,760,764 Nork.—It bas often been assorted that the Union Pacific Railroad js not 1,086 miles long. I know nothing of the truth Of tue. The government, however, should uave the length of ‘ll the roads upon witch it has issued bonds measured, CENTRAL PACIFIC. Western base of Sierra Nevada Mountains was Gxed at a point seven miles west of Sacramento. ++ 10,307,504 to bring them to subjection, make them no presents; compel them to do as we wish, as if they were Freuchmen.’? In my humble judgment the practice which nas existed for many years of licensing white traders, who for the most part are of the most dissolute and unscrupulous order of humanity, is unwise in the exjpreme, for the reason that they exercise a most pernicious and controling influence over the savages. They sell them whiskey, debauch their women, furnish nostile tribes with arms and amumu- nition, and all their energies are exerted to perpetu- ate their trafic, which would be so dimintsied as to become unprofitable if the Indians had fixed habita- tons and cultivated the soil, D'Iverville wrote to the &uthorities in Paris in 1702:—“No Frenchman (traders) should be allowed to follow Indians on their bunts, as it tends to keep them hunters, as is 7 miles at $16,000. . 4,880 they cannot. There is but one tribunal with | seen in Canada, and when they are in the woods 150 milos at §48,000...... ++ £7,200,000 jai atictton to decide this question, and from the de- | they do not desire to become tllers of the soil.” A 612 miles at $32,000... 16,410,240 cisions of that tribunal therefis no appeal. It is final | very powerful influence has, without doubt, been and conclusive, thet at 726,120 nich. ye which the decision can be reviewed or reversed. ‘That tribnnal ts the lature itself, “Bach House shall be she judge of the election returns and quall- fications of its mem! &c, Constitution, article 4, section 4. Respectfully, &¢c., W. B. FLEMING. A. R. Wriaut, Esq. A Divorce Suir Exrraorpinary, Says that a divorce suit ts about to be that ol see! wielded by Indian traders for many years past, but it has only been about forty years stfce thetr claims agatnst the Indians for goods sold them baye been recognized or provided for in treaties. On the 7th day of December, 1535, a conversation took piace at Fort Snelling between the command. ing oMicer and the Sioux agent (a very excellent and honest man, by the oy Which goes to show that the traders Were not without intlucnce in those days. Speaking as to the probabilities of a new treaty being made the agent satd:—"l do not know but such @ treaty miglt take piace, It is desirable on the part of the traders of the American Fur Com- pany that a treaty should be bad with the Sioux. he treaty of 1830 first indicated @ disposition to cause the United States to pay for lost credits. [ then det ed their object; for I view the allowance ‘Qo other tribunal before 470 $23, 20 miles not reported on, term- inating at Promontory at GBB000. ceecscececeeseeeees — $640,000 —— —— $44,365,120 1,776 Miles, aggregating. .........eseseeeee 116,872 The above account does not include $6,303,000 of bonus issued to the Eastern division of the Union Pacific, $1,628,320 to Sioux Cit Pacifi Jentral Brauch Union Pacific an 30 to Western Pacific, all issued ander the #awe law, subject to the same conditions and simi- Jar in etfect. These bonds segregate $9,861,320. Add the amount to the $63,115,872 and the result is 2,907, v2 av the amount ofratiroad bonds issued by The Troy Press comtnenced 9 it Jott an pai noe eet” ote ers me attentions, escorting her to the theatre and to church on ‘one or two oeeastons, tho government. The dierent companies to | There had, however, been no lovemakin; on | of all such claims as a fraud committed upoa the ‘whom the bonds were tas now owe | either part Some two weeks ago the Tather treasury, although legalized by a treaty. The com- the goverument $8,334,008 for interest they | of the young lady came suddenly iuto the room pe ¥ are much opposed to me on this ground and euowd have paid on bonds, but | where she and her mother were sitting, and said to ar me, an would be glad to have ine out of the which tho government was compelled to pay for | her, “Go and get ready; you are going to | country. 1 know too much and they are fully aware ‘then: to preserve ita credit, From this what may be get married in an hour. Th mother con- | of my independence. I am determined at some expected in the future? If ibe compa: canngt irined the statement, and told he: to go wad get a | future day to address the President, He abhors imi How, with all the tmmense resources with whl lady. frend of hers, Wing hear, to stand up with | quity and deception aud he will protect me.’ they have ucen supplied, pay the interest on the gov: | hi ‘The girl asked to whom ste was to be married, General Z. Taylor, Whe served @ long time upon erminent bonds, how can they hereafter pay interest | The father ned eae “To Heary” (th poor ir the Western froatter and saw a good deal of Indian nal! the bonds? fore itionedy, The girl took ii nee Joke yyy traders, did not entertain a very exalted optnion of J will not, however, tun over in detall the whoté | and her friend. When @he came back a minis. | their morals. In the your 18¥0 he was oue of the in Of finmices as connected with the main | ter oe prema, and in less than ten minutes she | commissioners for making & treaty with the Indlang Ears ppc Tootatunt naa es | Sue” Be Rae a hae tenet | Ree cate iy sey . a0 conlused ol consummation o| stows tuat te road I su on nate that her parents were tn a the Proceedings that the General, in a letter written she did not know what ste was at that time, said, “Take the A: that she was wartied to the young man ‘wuuout her ; age in te and t the greatest pany the ageregate an re the greatest undrels the World ever knew,’ 7 to return to the subject of the Prairie Indians, Unt’ within @ few years the Comanches, Kiowas, aren, & portion of the Stoux and other no- mi tribes have Itved exclusively on budalo meat, many of them never having tasted bread in their pron heed ry day not one of them ant Footer ago they roamed will over all that vast district of country lying be tween the eastern bare of the Rocky Mountains government vouds ¢ mTe0 To. fe mi Donde ‘prea the i will De. $61,401 A ol 5 Ds vide $23,760,752 by 1,086, t Tt eflivabow the a d Eee eee rae etate ees THe Fins? Gkorata Corron Bout.—A getieman from Burke finced on our table ioe he first cotton the season @ cotton talk growingon ne . 8. Blanchard, of Alexander, Bui county. | The that it ‘ras not guinergd tone voluutes potion plant, but that tn the same ned Trom mm wien thee 1 ‘that the avera.te cost Of the tes was ninety cents | came there are many more of the same kind. the Missouri river, and it was only at rare interna! each, or $2,240 9g 2,600, the namber cone Bt mile; | Were no fertilizers of any kind used in thia Geld, that they came in contact with s white man, The that the tron coat on the ground $100 per ton; tha. a | yet we are told that the cotton m it wil average in | few white men who crossed the Plaina-were traders, handred tons were Used per mile, costing $10,0u0, | height a man's Walet.—Angusia Chronicte and Sen- | rappers or adventurers, not suMcientiy numerous nd thut it cost §60u "OF inile to lay the track, Add | finel, June to molest the game or other wise distury the ludians, - and ‘“Kelumsee’s”’ bands, who for the most part continued peaceapie and well disposed. | ‘fhe condition of indian affaire 1s, how- ever, very different now. Rich and stiver mines have been discovered and developed within = Po Ran he ll ce Seeriries ‘and States ve, sprung up thro our Vast mouatain ranges, anu the hunting grounds of the Indians have been encroached upon and inter- sected in every direction by numerous roads that are angually traversed L, 4 thousands of a lin who kill ana disperse the io and come cou- finaal contict witn the savages. Hence the Indians sane larese toloog epce us as enemies who are crowding tuem on sides and depriving them of ‘heir means of subsiatence, and war to the knife bas been the reauit, Ido not for a moment suppose that the itinerant warlike propeusities of the prairie tribes can at once be eradicated and a disposition for peaceful agricul- tural vocations substituted therefor, ‘their in- stinets, education and habits of life from time im- memorial have been in direct antagonism to those of civilized peoples. Predatory warfare, with its coucomitants of norse-stealing, kidnapping, pillag- ing, assassination, scalping and ouher barbariti instigated by their gavage nature, and sanction and commended by their moral code, has been car- ried on for too many generations to render it proba- bie that they will at once lay it aside and adopt our ideas aud customs, It can scarcely be expected thatthe young men of the present eration who from infancy have been taught to believe that war ig the Only honorable profession, and that the occu- pation of a farmer is: degrading in the extreme, should ever be prevailed upon to work In the fleid and become husbandmen. On the contrary it is presumed that wheu their tribes are placed on reservations they will often steal away on war or raiding expeditions in spite of ail the efforts of our authorities, Indeed such has already been the case with some of the Indians Who were jocaied south of the arkansas. They have comraitted depredauons in Kansas, and this fact has been adduced by the enemies of the colonization scheme to prove the experiment a failure. Whereas, in my judgment, this is nothing more than what might have been expected, and | believe that with the assistance and encouragement it will be in the power of the government to aifurd these people, tie women and childrep, Who are industrious and capa - ble of performing a great amount of labor, can be induced to Work iu the field, and alter two er three crops have been raised they will perceive that their condition 18 80 Muck Improved that it does not seem unreasonable to predict that the next generation of men will prefer the certain and abundant products of agriculture to tne precarious and meagre results of the chase, ‘The Prairie Indians, having recently felt the power of the government and received a sound chastise- ment from Generals Sheridan and Custer, will not be likely to forget it soon, and the majority of them will grobably be glad in future to remain upon their reservations, As a check upon the lawiess pro- pensities of refractory young warriors the chiefs should be held responsible for all the acts of their followers, and when any of them co:mmii depreda- Uons they should be required to give up the perpe- trators to our authorities to be dealt with according tolaw. Many persons are fully impressed with the honest conviction that the Prairie Indians cannot be civilized, bus tiis | believe to be fallacious, as will be apparent from an experiment that was wied some years since with the Southern Comanches. It will be remembered that when the republic of ‘Texas was annexed to the Union the State was per- mitted to reserve the exclusive proprietary tenure aud control over all the vacant domain within her extended boundaries, In 1863 the Legislature of the State appropriated a small fraction of this Jand in perpetuity tor the colonization and use of the In- dians upon her borders, authorizing the United States authorities to locate this land upon any part of her vacant territory. In accordance therewith I was ordered, 10 1854, to select aud survey the reser- vations, one of which was locatea on the Clear Fork of the Brazos river, and was designed for two bands of the Southern Comanches, known as ‘‘Senaco’s”’ ‘the greater part of those Indians went upon the land, and an exceilent agent (Major Neighbors), who had their welfare at heart, Was appointed to take charge of them. Farmers and mechanios, with all the cattle, agricultural im- piements and tools necessary for Instructing them im the rudiments of husbandry, were liberally sup- piled by the government, and they were assured that this locality would be their permanent home for all time. Up to that period they had been exclusively a hunting people, having never raised a crop or even put a seed in the ground, yet they manifested a per- tect willingness to try the colonizing experiment, and cheeriuily submitted to their new maaner of living. ‘Their women and children and some few of the meu worked well, and under the teachings of the farmers they, made commendable progress, 0 that in the course’f two years they fenced and cultivated very respectable littie farms and were in a fair way of speedily becoming self-sustaining. Moreover, they seemed to be gradually acquiring an attach- ment to their novel method of life, and encouraging hopes were entertained that they would ultimatety become civilized; but uniortunately for the success- ful consummation of the experiment, some of those Aumeysous outlaws on the western borders of Texas happened to get thelr eyes upon the improvements, and velieving it an object to acquire possession of them, they levied a large force of their confederates, marched in the night vo the reservation, and without the slightest provocation or excuse made a sudden descent upon the unsuspecting and unarmed Coman- ches aud indiscriminately slaughtered a large number of men, women and children. Those that succeeded in making thelr escape Wandered off into the Piains with the firm conviction thas the entire white race Was treacherous and inimicdl toward them, and as @ necessity they resumed their nomadic life and commenced a retaliatory war upon our people, so that the colonizing scheme had to be abandoned with them. 1 understood that their lands and im- provements were seized by the filibusters, aud, for aught I know, they may still have possession of them, Major Neighvors, who unlesitatingly gave expression to his opinion regarding the turpitude et the proceedings, was a short time afterwaras iohu- manly murdered by one of the cowardly gang, who shot him in the back, but was, of course, never pun- ished for it. Where the Indians have been allowed to occupy their lands permanently, as in the cases of tho Choc- taws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Creeks, the most sausfactory results have been obtained, These tribes, through the persistent and contin- ued efforts of the government authorities and the missionaries, have gradually cast off the habits of the hunter and adopted those of the "l- culturist, so that now we find them occupy! comfortable habitations, and possessing well tik grain feids, with horses, cattie, sheep and hogs, more than sufficient to supply all their necessities. They also have churches and schools, that are well attended, and they have adopted a form of govern- ment siutiar to that of the Uuited States, They elect their presidents or chiels periodically, hold their legislative aud court sessions as regularly as with us, and previous to the rebellion were emi- nently prosperous and increasing in numbers. In- deed, their condition, both politically and socially, would bear favorable comparison with that of the white settlers upon the borders of Texas aud Arkan- sas, and laws were more respected and better en- forced among these people than ,they were among their white neighbors. These gratifying resuits have been mainly brought about, as | remarked be- fore, through the agency of a few zealous and good men, who have labored faitnfuily among the Indians for many years, and taught tuem, besides agricul- ture and thc arts, to reverence the principles incul- eated by our holy religion. Some of them are edu- cated and accomplished men and weaithy planters, and a few of them are ministers of the gospel. I have mentioned these facts somewhat in detail, in order wo show the fallacy of the opinion enier- tained by many that the wild Indtan is incapable of being civilize The time must soon come when gatue Will fail to afford subsistence to the nomadic tribes of Indians, and, as they have no knowledge of agriculture, they will soon be, unless the govera- ment provides for them, forced to the alternative of depredating upon the border white setuemeuts or dying of starvation. The goverament will soon be driven to the necessity either of making continual warfare upon them until they are exterminated, feeding them perpetualiy or of placing them upon reservations and teaching them to ull the soil, and = in time enabling them to become seif-sustain- ng. ‘rhe disposal of these people in such a manner as to afford a reasonable guarautee for permanent se- curity both to the white man and Indiap 1s a prob- Jem that has engaged the attention of both our civil and military authorities for many years, and numer- ous experiments have been resorted to in colonizing them on reservations of public iauds and attempting to imstruct them in the rudiments of agricul ture; but, fur the reasons that have already been stated, and for the additional that they bave im most instances only been al- lowed to occupy these reservations for a few years, after which they have been forced further and Jurther back wolil they ceased to take much tnterest in the lands ailotted them, and returned to their roving habits, the experiments have im many in- stances proved abortive. To insure success in civil- izing wild indians I regard it as ubsolutely essential that they should have permanent locations which they call their own, and in the ton of witch they should be protected by the government from molestation by designing ‘and unprincipled border white men; and this can best be accomplished in @ region of couutry that the military authorities can control, which 1s not frequented by the whites and as far removed as possibvie from the great routes Of travel over the pluths, Another condition indis- pensable to ee Indian reservation ts that it should be suited to agriculture. All the arable lands West of the Missouri river, in the direction of New Mexico, Colorado and Montana, through which the tide of emigration to the mineral districts ts anna. ally setting aod rapidly being taken up and cuiti- vated by our adveuturous hea. and there is no suitable resting place in this direction for the In- dians. If they were located Sarees in this section of country nan aan therefore, be in continual Pop boy @ white settlers, and would soon ave sbould only gain a ary respite Be that now coulront us with One exam ich has come under my own ob- servation, Wil 'samee. to niowr ther gawise policy of prvi | Indian ions on (he track Oo i gration an hen 1 firat visited Wis- ) in 1833, the Indians were located they had lived for generations ta prosperity tad hap. ved for eriby ani a Soon afte eis that . mwas Wa f sion tr ements, au! tie dian chiefs were Savin ‘visit Washingt lieving that the motive wasto prevail upon ii sell their lands they by first ih togoiic The: were answored, as 1 was ‘med, tha: vo such ge was contemplated and that they would not be asked to dl ee of their country. Upon this pledge some of the minor chigfs were prevailed upon to accept the invitation, but the greater part of ihe principal «mem remained at home. When from the dim. some of the somewhere else, so that we | the the delegation reached? the capital they Were at onee importuned to dispose of their lands, ook thay doniess upon the nd aaj sey Bad po. ity for negotiating a treaty; onthe , that they were Nally instructed by the tribe they lett home to make no treaties whatever. Notwithstanding this were detained at Washington a long time, uutil at length ‘they became so homestek and #0 anxious to return to their people that to order to get away they were fiually induced to @ treaty disposing of their though the compact never re- ceived the sanction of the tribe they were held to it, and ita stipulations were removed to Tur. 4 river, filty miles west of Prairie du Chien, and this they were assured would be thelr permanent abiding place for ail time. Although the arrange- ment was far from being satisfactory to the majority Of the tribe, yet there was no alternative butto sub- mit, ana they went to work improving their new hoi not anticipating any further molestation; but to astonishinent they were soon encroached upon here by the white pioneers and were sea foreed to remove to Minnesota under a new treaty, in @ few years another treaty was brought about with them, and a third removal ensued to a different art of Minnesota, and simimar causes operating ‘here shortly atterwards caused them to be remov to a reservation on the Upper Missouri, above Fort Randall, where game was scarce avd where the sol! Was so arid and barren that but tte grain could be cultivated, and tt became necessary to subsist them from day to day upon rations issuéd by the govera- ut, The co uence was that the Indians soon ame dissatisfed, and mgany of them deserted the reservation aud scattered in small parties over the country searching for spots where they could cullt- vate corn aud find game. The course that has been pursued toward these Indians, and which may have been the result of cir- cumstances without the control of the government, has proved most disastrous to them, causing such a Tapid diminution in their numbers that there 13 now only @ miserable remnant of half-starved beggars re- maining, Tue history ef the Winnel presents a correct type to that of many other tribes which were ouce numerous and powerlul, but which, from similar causes are now almost totally annihilated, ‘The contrast between the present condition of the remnants of tribes that formerly lived in the Eastern Slates and that of the indians J have aliuded to west of Arkansas is Most striking, and attords a key to the solution of the troublesome question as to the wisest policy to be pursued toward the red man. As | said before, the Isurmountable diiticuity we have heretofore encountered in carrying out the colonizing policy has resulted from the fact that the Indian reservations have been required for the ex- tension of our white settlements, and the Indians have been forced to give way; but if asection of country can be found where the white settlers would not be likely to intrude, and which ed the requisites that have been mentioned, that, it seems to me, would be the place to locate the prairie In- dians. On the 30th of September, 1830, a treaty was entered imto with the Choctaw tribe, wherein the United States ceded to them all that vast tract of territgry iuciuded between the Canadian and Red rivers, extending from the westera boundary of Ar- kansas to the loth meridian of west tongi- tude, embracing an area of about 30,000 square miles, and equal in extent to the entire area of the States of Vermont, Massochusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and more than a square mile for each aud every man, woman and chud in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. The Choctaws a few years since ceded to their neighbors, the Chivkasaws, @ portion of the southeastera part of their reservation, but these two tribes ouly oc- cupy the eastern borders of the tract, their sparsely Populated district not extending much beyond the ninety-sixth meridian of longitude, thus leaving some 20,000 square miles of territory which they have no use for, and which they have leased to the United States for the colonization of other tribes, and itis upon this tract that our authorities have recently placed the Comaacnes, Kiowas, Cheyeunes and Arapahoes. The tract embraces the Washita Mountain Fange which is about forty miles in length and intersected with many ferttle,valleys, abounding in excellent wood, water and grass, Besides this thero is a great extent of other desirable farming lands, which are eievated and gently undulating, in- poeapereca with prairie and timbered lands, and boun- Ufuily supplied with streams of pure spring water. ‘The soil here is exceedingly rich and productive, everywhere covered with a heavy coating of rich nutritious grass, admirably adapted to stock raising aud the cultare of cereais, The climate is highly salubrious and eminently calculated to promote ihe health of laborers. ? ‘Tue original Choctaw reservation embraced nearly all the arable lands lying between the Ked and Cana- dian rivers. West of this the country is arid, barren aud almost destitute of woodland. ‘The available portion of the reservation will be ample for all the tribes that are now being collected upon it, and pro bably suficieat in exteat also for the numerous bands of Sioux in the country bordering the Upper Missouri, sould that section prove unsuitable for agriculture. In my opinion the extreme aridity of the soil upon the waters of the Upper Missouri, with the destruction to vegetation resulting from the annua! raids of innumerable miuititudes of grasshoppers that have swept over that entire section for the past tour years, will render this anything but a desirable agricultural locality. Every vestige of a crop ior 4,000 iniies over which I travelled Jast summer in the Sioux country, including the setueiments along Kea river, in the Hudson bay Coppany’s territory, had been devoured by grasshopvers. The portion of the Choctaw reservation set apart for the wild trives does not lie in the track of emigration, a3 upon tae south aud west it juts up to the border of the great American. desert of tte Liano Estacado, over wich roads can- not jade on account of the entire absence of we Water, so that all travel from the east toward the mining districts and California must oi necessity deflect to the north or south of this. ‘Lhe consequence 18 What there 1s not a road passing over it west of Fort Washita that is travelled by white men except for military and indtan purposes. Hence you will perceive tuat Ludians located upon this tract will be removed trom contiguity with the border white settiements, away from the great overiand thoroughfares, aud with an intermediate pee | link of civilized Indians who are friendiy to botl races, and Wiose prosperous condition and example would doubtless have a good influence upon the Wild tribes, exhibiting most clearly to them tue great benetits to be deriyed irom husbandry and the cultare of the arts of civilization. Until the Indians ure taught the rudimeats of agricuiture they will, of course, have to be subsisted by the United States; but in the section of country under cousideration corn and beef are cheap, and when tt canuot be procured from the civilized Jndians it cau be had at low rates in Arkansas and ‘Texas, and trausported during the high stages of water up Red river to near the reservacion. In conclusion | remark that, in my humble judg- meut, the system of indian affairs as recently in- a@ugarated by the government will, if carried out and perpetuated in the same benevolcat spirit that it was conceived, result in more lasting benefits to the red men than anything that‘has ever before been done for them, aad 1 believe that the appointment of agents from the philanthropic discipies of William Penn, who, ever since the first treaty with the Indians at Phiadelpiia, have maintained the kind- est disposition towards them, will prove eminently wise, Evea the wildest Indians possess as keen an appreciation of right and wrong as any other pevpie, and,they understand periectly weil that they lave often been deirauded by dishon- eat agents, aud tuis knowledge las contributed more than ail otier causes combined to destroy their con- fidence in our authorities, as well as to incite them to hostilides; aud if the “Frieuds” pursue their usual just and honovable course in their dealings wiih the Indians it will doubtless tend greatly towards the restoration of contidence, harmony and good ieciing. Payments of annuities and disiribu- Uoa of presents were, previous to 1549, made to the Indians by army oiMoers, and I have yet to learn of the first complaint having been made by the indians against them or of the first dolar ever having been withheld from the ludians; and it was rare iu those days that Be had ! troubie with them, and in those instances the diMcuities tuvariably grew out of their tiostility to being removed upon new reser- vations. Do not the’e iacts afford a cogent argu- ment in support of the wisdom of returning to the vid system of disbursements, with @ reasouable guarantee for fature fair dealtug? ‘The Chociaws, Chickasaws and Cherokees, who have evmced a destre to ald in the work of eiviltzing thetr untutored brethren of the plains might be able to render very eificieut service as farmers and ta- structors in husbandry. Af the white missionaries, instead of searching for heathen in foreiga lauds, wouid practice tae maxim that “charity ins at home,” and turn a greater portion of their atcention to the savages on the prairies, who, up to this moment (with the exception of some of the Sioux) have not the remotest conception of the first principles of the Christian religion, they might, in co-operation with agents and farmers, accoipliah important re- suits. The zealous and disinterested labors of Father De Schinidt among the tribes about the head-waters of the Colum!ia and Missouri rivers, and the ssful results of the eiforts of the Protestaut missionaries with more eastern tribes, conclusively show this. Tue tribe of Navajoe indians, numbering about 7,800 sonls, who have recently, their at own en request, been returned from the Pecos river to their old haunts in the mountains west of the Kio del Norte, ate Kindly disposed aud anxious to become civilized. Their men and women are eminently industrious and willing to work in the fHelds, but unfortunately their lands upon tie Pecos, on account of the alkad in the soil, did not yield much grain. The northern part of (ucir preseut re- ‘ajo juan servation, as Wetl as the wip bey ed Upon the head waters of the San J ad Aminos rivers, which is occupied by the Capota and Womenoche Utes, ts one of the very best grazing and stocs raising sections I have ever seen. ‘he best quality of grasa grows most luxuriantiy all over this country, it ts well freerea Frith ‘gumeroas spring and here 18 @ great abundance of pine timber. banat here during the entire winter upon the sheltered valleys, @ sow is rich in ‘8 and the frequent showers during “a wee P sgpara an et the ne- coamity 0 srigate in cultivation rain. \ery Fospecttu My, i ‘obedient servant, ‘ R. BMA Y, Inspector Gonerai, U. B. A. From New Yore to St, Lovis sy Warer.— Joveph Brown yesierday left the ol make tite ex with the vessel once chartered, there need be no fears about being able to bring her to St, Louls aud take her back to New York safely, and that with « bo a M hota fall, cargo. =f, Louis Repuntican, une OHIO. The Contested Election Case of Eggleston and Strader—Pendleton, McClean and Vallandiz- ham .in Council=The Gubernatorial Con- test—Probable Democratic Candidates. CINCINNATI, Jane 24, 1869. According to promise made in my letter to you of the 19th, Ihave seated myself to give you some Political jottings down and party inklings from this ‘standpoint In Ohio; for, notwithstanding Cincinnat and Hamilton county are both largely republican, Dotwithstanding the election of Strader, democrat, over Eggleston, republican, at the last election, here ‘he leading politicians of both parties most do con- Btegate, Speaking of guns, the election of Strader, whois no orator as Brutus was,’ and who, like “Single Speech Hamilton,” made himself famous by the only address delivered by him on the stamp dur- ing the entire campaign, which was short and sweet— “Never mind the weather, boys, as long as the wind don’t blow’’—rather surprised all parties, and non@ more so than ‘Benjamin,’ the then Congressman, himself. Now the aforesaid Benjamin owned a line of freight boats on the Miami Canal, while his oppo- nent, P. Wilson, owns all the omnibuses running to the various rafiroad depots of Cincinnati; so that the contest, like many of the battles of the rebellion, wad really a land and water fight. The naval comman- der—that 1s, the admiral of the fleet of seows on the “ragin’ canawl’—proved but a “slow coaeh’’ along side the omnibus man. After going to Washington and seeing how the land lay, counting moses and comparing notes, it kind of struck in on Benjamin that his opponent, who 1s reputed to be both wealthy and pious, had been elected by buying up republican Votes, and thereupen he served a notice upon hing that he would contest his seat, Accordingly both parties have been industriously engaged in taking testimony until within a week or so, long after the time named in the commisston, The result has not transpired; but if Strader was elected by buying up the indepen dent sovereigns the case stands a good deal in the light of a suit once argued belore the Supreme Court of California, in whieh one of the Snitors, although not an attorney admitted to prace lice in the court, was allowed to argue his own case, In we course of his remarks he ciarged that the opposite party had bribed the Court below 4o decide in his favor, two Judge J. ©. Baldwin, author of those opular works, ‘Flush Times m Alabama” and resentative Mea, ” leaning over from the bench, quietly remarked, “sir, ——, why did you not do the sane thing, and beat him at his own game ? oe would have one 80, your Hoyor,’ innocently ree marked the old cock, “but the fact is, Juage, I nadn’t the money.” But Eggleston would not have gone into the contest wituout polling the vote of the majority of the House and making his ‘calling and election sare.” the cup and the lip. Still, there is many a slip between The bitter feud between Bem Butler and Bob Schenck, who let the Committee of Ways and Means go it alone to California minus & head-fthat_ is, wMtaout a chairman—and recently ran off to Europe, as he remarked to a personal and political friend, to get rid of the host of office-beg- gars besetting hwn, will wax hot at the opening of the next session. inevitably take place, and furious Splits must and party schisms be the order of the day, and Benjamin may ultimately make nothing by his mowon, leaving **Wils’? to alip into his seat. democratic party in ousting Lew Campbell The fact 1s, the precedent set by the and voting in Valiandighan in tne famous Third district contest, has reacted upon the party a thousand fold. No sane man acquainted with the facts—no matter to what party he belonged—bat what believed thas General George W. Morgan was elected by a larger majority three years ago, yet Delano appealed to tix majority of his Hamphfey arty in Congress, him, his seat in the face of all the law and in the case. and they voted facia Marshall being 1n the Capt- tol when one of these reactionary cases was decided, and the democracy were, much against their will, forced to take @ dose of their own medicine, re- marked significantly, ‘‘Methinks I see the ghost of Lew Campbeil stalking A few weeks since 1_ saw a strange through —that 1s, the coming together of a most mteresting trio—in one of the strects of this city. It Was that of George H. Pendleton and his Fidus Achates, his particular man Friday, his groomer and trainer, Wash McLean, of the Cincinnats Enqutrer, In a bi L, Vallandigham on the sidewalk. , and Clement lat the subject of the confab was ts not for me to say, nor is it wer- mane to the matter in hand; out the singular meet- ing of these parties Was most allow me to digress, and litical history of secret festive. And here he past two years. After the defeat of Allen G. Thurman for Gevernor of Ohia by @ small majority, although the negro suffrage -ainendment to tne constitution was voted down by nearly 50,000, the democracy carrying the Legisia- ture, in which they had @ decided majority on joint ballot, a tremendous mass glort was held at Hamilton, Builer county, Bogner. @ life-long dem: loubtedly written un which Chris Val” himself, endorsing Vallandigham for the United States Senate. Not withstanding all the efforts of the latter, he waa Jargely beaten in caucus by Thprinan, who was sub- uently elected. KIN Columbus Vallandigham remarked, While m: tis canvass in with that pecus lar hyena manner he bas of showing his teeth when excited, ‘Let George Pendicton dare to Oppose me for the United States Senate, and I'll cut his throat politically, G—d d—n him!’ Although Pendleton took no open ~~ in the fight, his feelings were un- doubtediy in didate, Mark the eur ago, Six Of the OI favor of Thurman, the successful can- uel: On the 6th of Juiy, one ‘10 delegates to the Tammany Hall Convention retired, giving piace to who? Cle- ment L. Valiandigham, Allen G. igs rag ge E. Pugh and three others, whose names tne writer of this does not recollect—all professed Pen- dieton men, of course. Vallandigham gets in, and, whiie voting all the time for Pendieton, ts really co-operating with Dan Voorhees and the other re- cusant delegates {rom Indiana, who, in the face of their district and State instructions to go for Pendie- ton first, last ana all the ume, took up Hendncks and went for him on every ballot when Pendievon had the sitghtest approach to a noménation. beauty of the whole matter was that upon the meet. ing of the Convention on the morning of the 7th of duly, Vailandighai is selected by McLean to read the letter of decliuation, Written him by his friend and candidate on the ad, thus not only permitting him to kill off his man, bat allot neral sermoa afierwards, asked McLean, some thusly,” in reply than piety, hum to preach his fu- “G—d d—n —_ through him we could get certain Southera vote: that we could not otherwise get 1” T reckon.” vem? in his letter published 5 Seymour been nominated, Chase would lave been i McLean was undoubtedly the head and front of the movement to withdraw Seymour, and put up Chase, tmnijediately alter the elections m Onto, Indiana and — og HY bp hy ten 9 fata to the democratic cause, as as resag of @ nfost disastrous defeat. The fact ts that Wash McLean 1 &,power in acity, county or State cam- paign; even here he ts fast losing his grip; but when = ‘ive him the entre Union—“the by M4 st within au hour, “Not ae, waded Continent’ wofully wanting, since the electi “Did you ge! Vallandigha for a field—he and no man knows it better at this present writing than George iH. Pendieton, These parties arg interested in a good Wany ope rations, and are much more successful ax Guancial than as political operators. The paper under McLean's control, the £nquirer, James J. J. Faran, ex-member of cinnati, being ‘oe aud eX-Postmaster of Cin. @ joint partner with edited by MeCuliough, better known & Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Com- merevai bWo years since; and G. M. D, Bioss, author of the “Campaign Life of George H. Pendleton,” ig fast losing caste with the old lige democracy of Unio; in fact, some of the journals of that class in the ins terior of Ohie are already making the inquiry if that aper is not the organ of the republican party of hio, The course of the Lnquirer in advocating the claims of General Samuel Fenton Carey, the uew fledged democrat clected_to Congress two years ago by the working men brawny hand,” a8 he tate, and if f Cinclanati—“the man of the Tamitiarly styled —does not go down with the sterling democracy of the Buckeye the EZaquirer is really a democratic sheet the fact cannot be proved by such wheel. horses as Chris Hughes, of Oid Batier, who assatiet the course of the paper ia the last Ohio Legisiature, and the other oid standbys of the party. In addition to the candidates just named forthe nomination for Governor at the 7th of July conven. toa at Columbus Generai J. Durbin Ward, or, as Durbia Ward, and Milton Sa are spoken of. now styles hims: both 01 Cincian he ior, The former was late United States vistrict Attorney here under Andy Jolinson. He is a fair lawyer and his war record ag good, on Which account he was put up by the demo. cracy of the Third district to run against Boo Schenck two years ago. belore the democratic convention of the same dis. trict last fall, and came within one vote of a domi. nation, When Valiandigham stepped in oyster and handed Ward and Chris Hugh He was also a candidate took the hes each w Shell as a memento—"When this you see remember me.” The other candidate from Southern is Milton want the vflice, and most probably could hedtd. As General Thomas pier te y and Satlors’ se concurrenily with it a as a citizen of in the Cooper Convention last course, In and run imputation of bilities are that the part of and ne Bostontene bad 6 Pi, happy, | ani bappy, said to IN Christmas, is happy, the little Grats are happy, happy. Saylor, ts Sola if or will be Ne na, “Grant Is wud the little Col In fact, al of w Saletan tn my last vention faxes eles to be will be ‘may Ve hapry yet? these corridors.’¢ rh) you a little bit of the . Lion meeting introduced a resolution But the yhen the weiter of this since, “why was thig to the questien how le came to open the door and let Vallandingham in to slaughter his man, be answered and emphasis promised to beliave himself, and we thougn said, with decidely more he thas mM said that had not McLean, and “Mack,” the