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THE BONAPARTISTS, esi GwE Buz inits THER BANQUET AT EVREUX—A STARTLING LET~ TER FROM A FRENCH ADMIRAL—FRANCE FET- TERED—THE ADMIRAL CASHIERED, Panis, Sept, 9, 1875. A Bonapartist banquet was held at Evreux on Sunday Iast, at which a letter was read from Admiral Baron de Ia Ronciére le Noury, the commander of the Freuch Mediterranean squadron, This letter was afterward Published in the Courrier deU Eure, and has created great excitement and viglent comment among all sup- Porters of the constitution. THE ADMIRAL’S LETTER, The Admiral dates his letter on board the Magenta, September 2, and expresses his regrot at his inability to be present at the banquet. He says his constant de- sire is to associate himself with every manifestation | looking to the union of the conservative party. He says:— “He is a conservative in my eyes, whatever faction to which he may belong, who repudiates the doctrine ofthe revolutionists of the 4th of September and of their sectaries.”” This passage and tho following are bitterly attacked by the republican and Orleanist journals :— “I ghall not ¢ease to be the devoted servant of the yovernment of Marshal MacMahon so long as he shall tot be borne outside of conservative paths, fn which to-day is concentrating his most ardent efforts. But T assert that when the moment comes France should be free to choose, and thus oneo more take her place among the European hierarchy, which is dented her by her present form of government. A COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, Yesterday, when he first heard of the publication of this letter, Marshal MacMahon called a council of Min- \stors to take cognizance of the matter, and tho Minis- Ser of Marine, who was absent from Paris, was sum- moned to return to participate in the council. THE ADMIRAL’S SUCCESSOR. The Journal Oficiel of this morning publishes a Yecree appointing Admiral Roze commander of the Mediterranean squadron, vice Roncitre le Noury, with- put comment, REMOVED ON ACCOUNT OF THE HIERARCHICAL LETTER, . s Panis, Sept. 9, 1875. Admiral Roze has been appointed commander of the French Mediterranean squadron in place of Admiral de In Roncidre le Noury. This actton was taken probably en account of the latter’s pronounced Bonapartist ton Jencies, he having written a letter which was read at Bonapartist banquet at Evreux on Sunday. THE GERMAN EMPEROR. A PROPOSED VISIT TO ITALY NEXT MONTH. Loxnox, Sept. 10—6 A. M. A Berlin despatch to the Morning Post reports that dhe Emperor William will go to Italy at the beginning of next month. He will be accompanied by Prince Bismarck and Generals Moltke and Manteuffel, SPAIN. nr GENERAL JOVELLAR RESUMES THE MINISTRY OF WAR. Manrip, Sept. 9, 1875, General Jovellar has resumed the Ministry of War and Rivera the Captaincy General of New Castile. peti Re GAC THE CROPS IN DENMARK, ABOVE THE AVERAGE IN QUALITY AND QUAN- TITY-—-FAVORABLE REPORTS FROM SWEDEN. Lonvoy, Sept. 9, 1875, The Pall Mall Gazette this afternoon publishes the following from its Copenhagen correspondent, who flates his letter September 6:— ‘The harvest is now over almost everywhere throngh- out Denmark. The various accounts agree that the quality and quantity will be greatly above the average. There will be a large surplus of Danish wheat for ex- portation. The information from Sweden in regard to the crops Ws also very favorable. BUPPOSED LOSS OF A STEAMER, apladersoeeernibinee Loxpox, Sept. 9, 1875. The steamer Martin Wiener, from Shields for Ham- burg, is believed to have been lost, with her crew. BUSPENSION IN LIVERPOOL. LIABILITIES OF SEFFER & SONS A HAL MILLION OF DOLLARS, Liverroot, Sept. 9, 1875. Mesers. Seffor & Sons, of this town, have sus- pended, Their liabilities are estimated at half a million dollars, THE RALSTON MEETING, COMPLAINTS MADE THAT IT WAS NOT A REP= RESENTATIVE ONE—EDITORIAL COMMENTS OF THE PACIFIC PRESS—AN UNADOPTED RESOLU- ‘TION. Say Francisco, Cal., Sept. 9, 1875. The meeting last night at Union Hall was largely attended, the hall being filled and the crowd filling the street to listen to open air addresses, In the Hall the addresses delivered were devoted mainly to attacks on the Bulletin and Call for their course during the recent campaign and since the failure of the Bank of California and the death of Ralston. Resolutions were adopted condemning these papers for their attacks upon Ralston, and calling upon the people to withdraw their support from them. In the open air meeting resolutions were read censuring the Associated Press lor telegraphing so-called false reports, the reading of which was greeted with many cries of ‘No, no!” as was the —cuse with — other resolu- tions read. The resolutions also referred briefly to the character of Ralston, embracing the usual expressions of respect and regret. The meeting was et and orderly, although some of the speeches wero wfrather an inflammatory order. No expressions of dissent were heard other than those above mentioned. It was evident that many of the audience were present merely as observers, and that the vote by which the | resolutions were adopted did not represent, by any means, the sentiments of the whole assemblage. The papers this morning confine themselves mainly to Jull reports of the proceedings, speeches and resolu- tions of last night’s meeting. Some comment is made rivately on the fact that the directors of the Bank of lifornia took no promiment part in the aifuir; also that the meeting, called ostensibly for the purpose of passing resolutions of respect and regret toward the de- ceased banker, should have been, by the action of those manipulating it, converted into an indignation meeting. ‘There were many oto who considered it a palpable departure from the purposes of the meeting as an- nounced, AN UNADOPTED RESOLUTION. (From the Evening Telegram of yesterday), Saw Frayectsco, Sept. 9, After the president had pronounced the great Raleton meeting adjourned Inst evening and the audience vegan to scatter, the following resolution was handed up to | the platform, but was hot read :— Resolved, That the course of the agent of the Aseo- Ciatea Press in forwarding the slanderous attacks on the late Mr. Ralston, and in sending « the worst street rumors concerning the solv of the bank and the character of Mr. Ralston, bas beon outrageously nu. Just to the people and interests of this coast; that the ‘use of the Associated Press despatches lusively in the partisan support of the Krening Bulletin and Morning Call in the dissemination of the slandors deserve public rebuke, and that Mr. J. W, Simonton, one of the pro. rietors of these pape: of the ew York Asso Press, is directly this prostitution of journalism. The meetings in tho street were very enthusiastic, and there this resolution and others were read and adopted with acclamation. SUSPENSION IN MILWAUKEE. Wis., Sept. 9, 1875. Tho Union Lumbering Company, of Chippewa Falls, has suspended, with liabilities to ihe extent of $650,000, id assets, according to the statement of the Presi- nt, of over twice that amount, Barrinonn, Md., Sop W. A. Cumming & Co,, flour and grain di pended yestorday afternoon. Thoir habilities ited, but are generally believed not to exceod $50,000, embarrassinent of the firm is said to be owimg to speculation in corn, able with | ground by Mr. THE MISSISSIPPI INSURRECTION. THE GOVERNOR ASKED TO SUBDUE THE TROU- BLE WITHOUT FEDERAL AiD—A CONFERENCE IN PROSPECT BETWEEN THE ATTORNEY GEN- ERAL AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE—SENA- TOR ALCORN ON THE SITUATION. Wasuinorox, Sept. 9, 1875. President Grant has sent a telegram to Adjutant General Townsend, directing him to instruct the officer commanding the troops in Mississippi to give Governor Ames such aid as may be necessary to maintain order and protect life in that State if the insurrection is too formidable to be suppressed with the means at the Governor's command, Before sending sech order to the commanding officer, however, the President di- rected the Adjutant General to consult with Attorney Gencral Pierrepont as to the legality of such contemplated military proceedings, Accordingly. the genticmen hada consultation on that subject at noon. to-day, Action on the President’s telegram will be de- ferred until {t shall be decided whether a proclamation shall be issued addressed to the insurgents, the Prest- dent having requested the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to consider whether such a proclama- tion is necessary. The Secretary of State being absent from Washington, the Attorney General is making ar- rangements by telegraph for a conference with him, and may leave Washington to-night for that purpose, unless he shall be advised in the meantime that the Secretary is on his way to Washington, which is thought probable, owing to the present trouble in Mississippi. tis definitely known that no action will be taken by the War Department until after the issuance of a proc- Jataation and the reception of information of a disre- gard of its requirements by the insurgonts. THE AVAILABLE TROOPS in Mississippi are two companies of the Sixteenth in- fantry at. Jackson, two of the Thirteenth at Vieksbu and five of the Third infantry and four of the Thirteentl at Holly Springs. Vour of ‘the Thirteenth are also at Baton Rouge, La. Oflicial telegrams will probably be sent to Governor Ames to-day, asking whether it is not possible he can bo aided in preserving the public peace by calling upon law-abiding citizens so as to avold the necessity of re- sorting to a federal force to suppress the disturbance, SENATOR ALCORN ON THE SITUATION. Mempnis, Tenn., Sept. 9, 1875. The Avalanche publishes a lengthy interview with Sen ator Alcorn in regard to the condition of affairs in Mis- sissippi. Mr Alcorn says there is great disturbance there and bad blood between the races and parties, and bad men Were finding employment in fomenting the disturbance. It will continue so, he said, until the peo- ple learn to follow a conservative course and to sink their passions for the public good, There is a bad state of fechng existing, and it only takes two or three drunken men at a gathering to cause that fecling to vent itself in blood and violence, as at Clinton the other day. T nator Was very severe on Governor Ames, who, he states, is vindictive and not actuated by any kind feeling toward the people over whom he is enthroned, The Senator charges the democrats of Mississippi with the responsibility ‘ot Ames’ election, as in the recent election they urged that it would be better to elect Ames, and make the State a heli first and democratic afterward, He thinks the bloody chasm does not fill up felicitously, and that the people of the North are no more prepared to receive complacently lectures trom Lamar, Gordon and Jef Davis than those of the South would be to hear Phil Sheridan, A DENIAL OF THE STORIES OF RIOT. Jacksox, Miss., Sept. 9, 1875, The following despatch was sent to the United States Attorney General to-night:— To Hon. Epwakps PieRREPONT, United States :— There are no disturbances in this State and no ob- structions to the executions of the laws, There has been an unexpected _ conflict at a political meeting and some subsequent disturbances; but everything is quiet now, The Gov- ernor’s call for United States troops does not even pre- tend that there is auy insurrection against the Stato government, as required by the revision of the United States Statutes of 1875, poses, 10 to 34, Peacegrevails throughout the State, and the employ- ment of United States troops would but increase the distrust of the people in the good faith of the aad State government. J. H. GEORGE, Chairman Democratic State Executive Committee, Attorney General INDICTED, ELEVEN OF THE GEORGIA NEGRO INSURGENTS INDICTED. AvGusta, Ga., Sept. 9, 1875. Ata special term of the Johnson County Court, con- vened at Wrightsvile for the trial of negroes, bills of in- dictment were found against eleven persons. Jake Hicks was put on trial first. After exhansting nearly three! panels a jury was obtained. One witness swore that the prisoner stated there would be hot times in the future; that there would be fighting, and that he would hold his gun level. There was some proof that the prisoner said that lands would be di- vided and cach colored man would get his forty acres and a mule, Jadge Johnson charged the jury that the evidence was insufficient to convict, and that no verdict against the prisoner should be rendered. Aiter an hour's absence the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. All the prisoners were discharged, and the Court ad- journed. ‘This ends the prosecutions, except those against Mor- ris and Murkeson, two of We leaders, who it is thought have lett the State, THE BLACK HILLS, THE INDIANS RELUGTANT TO HAVE THE “BIG TALK” AT THE RED CLOUD AGENCY. Rep Croup Acexcy, Sept. 7, Via Fort Lanamir, Wy., Sept. 8, 1875, Majors Bingham, of the Cheyenne Agency; Burke, of the Standing Rock Agency, and Howard, of the Spotted Tail Agency, yesterday morming endeavored to bring the Indians encamped there to this agency to hold a council here. It is understood that there is consider- able dissatisfaction among the Indians there on ac- count of the failure of the Commissioners to go to Shadron Creek to hold the council, according to a previous understanding This creek is half be- tween the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies. nder the circumstances pothing can be done until the return of these agents, which will be abont the last of the week. Ked Dog came in to-day and hada little in- formal talk with the commission. He is a natural ora- tor and a man of unusual judgment. He favors a sale of the Black Hills and will have more influence with his people than Red Gloud. BRIBING INDIANS TO NEGOTIATE. Wasinarox, Sept. 9, 1875. The following despatch was received this morning by Secretary Delano, dated at Red Cloud, September 8:— The Sub-Commission employed ‘‘Young-man-afraid- of-his-horses,”’ an influential cnief here, to go to Pow- der and Tongue rivers to bring in the wild bands, He performed the ¢ervice, and, as a consequence, 200 e. They were promised for this service One hundred horses will be required tot obligation, We are unanimously of opinion that the Ogallalas will require speedy eom- pliance with this promise before entering council for the purchase of the Black Hills, We have telegraphed to the Commissioner ot Indian Affairs for authority to give this assurance, but have received no reply. We deem this promise so essential that we trouble you with the facts that we may receive the proper authority, W, B, ALLISON, Chairman. Tho department has telegraphed that the authority will be given for complying with the promise. BEECHER. NE BRAVES HAY FEVER AND GOES TO MANCHES- TER, XN. H., TO TALK ABOUT TURNIPS. Manonester, N. H., Sopt 9, 1875. The Rev, Henry Ward Beecher left the Twin Moun- tain House this morning at about half-past nie o'clock for this place, where to-morrow he is to deliver the ad- the annual fair of the New England Agriculta- oelety, which is bemg held here, On his arrival he ved at the President's headquarters on the George B Loring, President of the and Colonel Daniel Needham, Secretary, who has ably served the society in that capacity during the lust eleven years. Mr, Beecher was immediately called upon by a large number of ladies and gentlemen, who ction to him, After the re ce quarters he was taken to the reporters’ gallery, and trom thence the guests’ guilery, where he wis most cordially met by a largo crowd Who gathered to greet him, He’ 1s being enter. ed at the residence of ex-Governor Fred, Smith, y will to-morrow, at half-past eleven o'elor Iino in his honor, to whieh the exeeutt the piety are invited, wil ernor Ch shire; Governor dress ral § was 1 snort) of Masatchusetts; Senator Boutwell and others, The address will “be delivered at one o'clock P.M. on onnd » railroad companies have made ex- for bringing tho vast multi- tude which it is expected will gather in Manchester to hear Mr. Beeehe: hy TWO CHILDREN BURIED ALIVE. Coxconn, N. H., Sept. 9, 1875, Fdward Toe, aged three yours, and Lewis Masser, aged five yeart, were buried alive in the sand this morn- ing, while playing in a sandbank. Another boy was burted to his shouldors, but was rescued, THE INDIAN. FRAUDS. Professor Marsh Before the Red Cloud Investigating Committee. HIS REPLY TO MR. DELANO. Fierce Arraignment of the Secretary and Smith. The Insinuations of the Interior Department Denied. Their Charges a Catalogue of Lies. _ Wasnixatox, Sept, 9, 1875. The joint commission appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and the President to investigate Professor Marsh’s charges of mismanagement and fraud in the ad- ministration of Indian affairs, particularly in connection with the "Red Cloud Agency, reassembled here to-day to continue their investigation, The members of the Commission who are here are ex-Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, Chairman; Hon. B. W, Harris, member of Congress from East Bridgewater, Mass. ; Hon. Charles J. Faulkner, member of Congress from Martinsburg, W. Va., and Professor George W. Atherton, of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J, Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, the remaining member of the Commission has not yet arrived, but is on his way from tho West. The Commission held an informal meeting this evening, at which Pro- fessor Marsh, who had been notified, was present, ATTACKS UPON PROFESSOR MARSIL. The Professor referred to certain statements affecting his position, which he said had been inspired by the Interior Department, and asked leave to reply to them. He alluded more especially to a pamphlet prepared for the use of thp Commission con- taining a number of official documents, to which the following is the introductory statement:—“The ex- traordinary efforts of the New York Tritnne to give publicity to the charges of Professor Marsh, and thereby, if possible, injure the administration of President Grant, by striking at Secretary Delano and Commissioner Smith, have led to the following statement for the Detter information of the public, It is proposed to make a bare statement of facts, in order that the reader may draw correct inferences in regard to those charges. Of Professor Marsh the writer knows but Itttle, and that consists mainly of information gained since he became the ostensible author of certain charges against the Red Cloud Indian agent. He is aprofessor at Yale College, which institution re- ceived some endowment from the late Mr. George Pea- body, who was a relation of the professor, and which endowment was probably intended to advance his in- terests, His specialty is paleontolozy. Last summer or fall Professor Marsh visited some of the Western Territories in search of fossil remains, and, desiring to explore the territory ceded to the Sioux Indians, it was necessary that he should obtain their friendship and protection. Before entering this region he had an interview with Red Cloud ‘a chief of the Ogallalla Sioux. Red Cloud exhibited the | usual grumbling and complaining propensity of his race in regard to the assistance he received from the Great Father. Having heard these complaints, Professor Marsh seized the occasion to put himself on triendly terms with Red Cloud in order to secure his con- fidencee @ and assistance, and promised him to make known to tho President on his return the nature of his grievances, This secured Red Cloud’s friendship, and the Professor entered the Territory un- der his auspices and such protection as the chiet could afford. Fort Laramie is not far from the Red Cloud Agency, and Professor Marsh needed also the favor and protection of the military. He was kindly treated by the army officers, receiving both courtesy and assist- ance, It is a fact well known that the younger officers of the army are generally unfriendly to the civil management of the Indians. The iatter furnish the army its, only hope of activity in time of peace, and, therefore, the active and ambitious young officers are gen- erally desirous of having charge of Indian affairs. As a result of this feeling the errors of the Indian agents are magnified and published in an aggravated form, and misrepresentations and erroneous statements are frequently made in order to damuge the Indian service, to create, if possible, a public sentiment that will result i turning over the management of Indian affairs tothe army. An effort to this end was made with great vigor at the first session of the last Congress, and renewed with less force at the second session. Professor Marsh received many unfavorable impressions from this source in reference to Inaian management, which fact will be clearly established be- fore the present investigation is closed. There is alxo a large body of ex-Indian agents, who served under the former régime and before tho religious denominations had authority to designate agents, who are dissatisfied with the present system, and who omit no opportunity to disparage, misrepresent and embarrass it. These influences were all brought to bear upon Pro- fessor Marsh, to which may also be added the misrepre- sentations of traders, disappointed contractors, dishon- est half-breeds and whites of bad character intermar- ried with Indian women. It will readily be seen that a man of limited general business experience, whose spe- cialty is scientific research such as Professor Marsh was engaged in, might be easily misled by the influences surrounding him, and which he failed to comprehend, About six months after his return from the Indian country Professor Marsh came to Washington to fulfil his promise to Red Cloud, and being from New Haven, Conn., and acquainted with the Postmaster General, from the same State, he saw him and presented in a genery manner the impressions obtained under the in, fluence of the circumstances already mentioned. The Postmaster General took the Professor to the Prosi- dent, atter announcing to the Secretary of the In- tortor his purpose to do so, and promising that the Professor would call upon him and give him all the in- formation that he possessed in regard to affairs at the Red Cloud Agency. Professor Marsh afterward saw the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the complaints which he made to him as coming from Red Cloud were simply to the effect that the supplies of coffee, sugar, tobacco, flour and beef were not as good as they ought to be, ‘The result of his interview with tho Commissioners satisfied fim that Red Cloud’s statements were exaggera- tions, and up to that time no charges of fraud, such as aro contained in his pamphlet, were alluded to, It must be borne in mind that Pro- fessor Marsh returned from the Indian eountry in the fall of 1874, and waited some six months beforo bring- ing Red Cloud’s complaints to the notice of either the department, the President or the public. He had promised Red Cloud, in consideration of pro- tection, to lay his grievances before the President on his return, Had he then supposed that the mismanagement at Red Cloud's Agency was a3 serious as’ he now represents ft to be, was he not guilty of great neglect in not sooner lay- ing the tacts before the President or the «department, and was he not guilty of breach of contract with Red Cloud in so long delaying the presentation of those complaints? Professor Marsh slept on these grave charges until the last of April or the 1st of May, 1875; and when he concluded to make thom known he went before the public through the New York Tribune, & newspaper known to be pronounced in its hostility to the administration, and In various forms of exaggeration and misstatement what he said appeared and was reiterated with unjust and abusive comments and criticisms. During theso assaults of the Tribune the Sioux chiefs came to Washington to treat in reference to tho relinquishment of their privileges in the State of Nebraska, and their hunting rights on the Smoky Hill Fork of the Republican River, as well as such portions of the Black Hills coutitry as might bo found to contain minerals suficient to justify mining During these conferences Professor Marsh volunta- rily presented himself, He must himself explain his object in so doing, He was not invited, nor was his Presence necessary, At the saime thine theattacks upon NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1875--TRIPLE SHEET. the administration, inspired by him, were vigorously continued by the Tribune with the usual venom and acrimony. The Professor had been here nearly two weeks under these circumstances without calling on thé Secretary of the Interior, between whom and him- self there was then no personal acquaintance, but who naturally felt that as the head of the department he was entitled to such information relative to the Red Cloud Agency as Professor Marsh was in possession of, The Secretary at length resolved to have his charges investigated, and, wishing to select an able and impartial commission and desiring to have the persons so appointed as to prevent the charge of partiality or incompetence, he requested the Board of Indian Commissioners toname for appointment three persons qualified to make the investigation, The Board of Indian Commis- sioners consists of ten eminent citizens selected by the President under an act of Congress to advise with tho Secretary in reference to Indian affairs, to supervise the lettings for goods and supplies, and all the accounts and contracts growing out of the Indian service. How the Secretary could have proceeded with greater evidence of candor and fairness it is difficult to see; but in doing this he seems to have given offence to Professor Marsh and his friends. Not knowing Professor Marsh personally and he hav- ing entirely ignored the head of the department and omitted to present to him his complaints, the Secretary saw fit to assume that a pro- fessor of Yale College and a — gentleman of culture and high character could hardly be guilty of treating a public officer with such dis, courtesy, and on the assumption that it must be some other person than Professor Marsh he spoke of the charges as coming from a Mr, Marsh. This was a grave and serious error, and the New York Tribune, so exalted im its tone and methods, so courteous and dignified in its treatment of public men, will hardly bo able to forgive this great indecorum, This request to the Board of Indian Commissioners was on the 10th of May last. Sonte time after this, while Professor Marsh remained in the city, the Secretary was informed of his presence in the room where one of the councils with the Sioux was to be held, and, the Professor being pointed out to him before the council begun, the Secre- tary went to him, introduced himself and politely asked if he would do him the favor to call at his office, The Professor assented and somo time after did call, and it so happened that when ho came General Jobn Eaton, Commissioner of Education, was present, and heard the entire conversation, The Secretary then urged the Professor to furnish him with the charges against the Red Cloud agent, assuring him of his sin- cere desire to investigate them, and referred to his request to the Board of Indian Commissioners to appoint a commission for that —_ purpose; but the Professor refused to furnish the charges and has never seen tho Secretary since. Thus matters stood until the Board of Indian Commissioners designated the persons to be appointed, Tho delay in this designation rests entirely with the Board, and was on account of the difficulty met with in obtaining acceptable persons who would consent to serve. Indeed somo of the persons first reported to the Secretary finally declined to act on the Commission, As soon as persons were selected by the Board willing to serve, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior prepared their instructions and wrote to Professor Marsh, requesting him to fur- nish the Indian Office or the Commission all the in- formation he had touching the abuses in the service at the Red Cloud Agency, together with all the proofs in his possession or to which he could refer bearing on the subject. It would seem that a distinguished sei- entist of the Yale College faculty, and an honorable gentleman, desirous only to promote the welfare of the public service, would have accepted this invitation and have laid before the Commission such facts as it was in his power to produce, Overlooking his dis courteous treatment of the Secretary of the Interior from the beginning, and excusing him for pre- senting the subject to the President and the public } through the columns of an unfriendly paper, it is still more amazing that he should fail to present his ease to the persons selected to make the in- vestigation. Let us see what he did. He prepared, or caused to be prepared, probably in the effice of the Tribwne, certainly under its auspices, advice and inspiration, an entirely new set of charges from those originally made, charges which he seems to have been gathering from all accessible sources, whether such sources wera friendly or hostile, reputable or disreputable, many of which were but repetitions of thrice refuted statements made by dishonorable men for sinister purposes, He embodies theso charges in two letters to the President so long as to cover one en- tire page of the New York Tribune. They appeared in that paper before the President had seen them, Mark, that up to the time of their publication in the Tribune they had never been sent to the Indian Office, to the Secretary, to the President or to the Com- mission appointed to make the inveftigation, but they first appear in a public print whose constant aim is to create a public sentiment hostile to the adminis- tration, and they were thus dissemenated to the coun try, without explanation and without an opportunity to explain. The insinuation that the Commissioners appointed aro not the right sort of men, is char- acterstic of the journal that has manufactured, fomented and circulated, all the attacks of Pro fessor Marsh. It is not the place here to inquire whether this last card of tne Tribune was played in order to secure an object it has long sought to obtain, namely, the injury of the Secre- tary of the Interior. There will be time hereafter to inquire into this matter, but justice to Professor Marsh, to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and to the Interior Department requires that the public should know substantially the history of these charges, in order, at least, that no erroneous inferences may be drawn before the real facts are presented by the gentlemen appoimted to make the investigation, STATEMENT OF PROFESSOR MARSH, The following is Professor VU. C. Marsh’s statement, made to the Indian Investigating Committec:— Mr. Cuairman—In addition to what the Commission may desire to have me say about special matters’ relat- ing to the investigation I have ashort statement to make, of a somewhat personal character, which I regard as important. I desire to make it at such time as the Commission are disposed to hear it. It affects the Commission as well as myself, and I should prefer to give it now, but will most cheerfully comply with the wishes of tho Commission, The Commission having expressed a wish to hear the statement, Professor Marsh proceeded as follows :— Mr. CHamman—Sinco I met the Commission in New York and frankly laid before you By ovi- dence in regard to affairs at Red Cloud Agency, Ihave kept perfectly quiet and published nothing on the subject, directly or indirectly, considering the. caso in your hands and awaiting with perfect confidence the result of your investigation. ‘The Interior Department, however, has not seen this, but from the very first has kept up @ constant attack upon me on account of the matters Pisce in your hands to investigate, Not only has his department printed for the struction of the Commission a pamphlet which purports to give the history of my charges, but it has also inspired and ‘dictated the despatches and letters of certain Washington correspondents, and afterward caused them to be reprinted and distributed from the Interior Department at the public expense. If these various publications, thus distributed to the country and placed in tho hands of the Commission, merely contained argn- ments and appeals, I should have taken no notice of hem, but I am prepared to show, “with a few minutes indulgence of the Commission,” that cach of these publications sent forth from the Interior Department contains gross and wilful falsehoods. The fact of such falsehoods in documents thus prepared and cirenlated not morely affects the character of high officials, but directly concerns the work of this Commis sion, inasmuch as it shows the spirit in which the Interior Department and Indian Office receive informa- tion of Indian frauds and the methods to which they resort to deceive both the Commission and the public. T have deliberately chosen the word falsehood, as in this statement I propose to call things by their right names, Tam willing to be condemned for such harsh languago unless I can show so many and gross misstatements of facts within the knowledge of the Interior Department. as hag od it beyond the doubt of any reasonable man that deception was intended. Both the Commission and the public have been the subject of this deception on the part of the Interior Department, and many of the falsehoods of which I complain have been brought to the attention of the Commission by tho Secre. tary of the Interior himself To como to the pub- ications of which T complain, if the Commission will allow me, [ will first, howe , Tefer back to the de- spatch dictated by Commissioner Smith to the agent of the Associated Press last May about beef cattle at Red Cloud Agency, and which I quote in my published state, ment, page 24, EXPOSING THE ¥. OOS, ‘This despatch, as I show, contains FOUR SEPARATE PALSEHOODS, and its object was to destroy the effect on the public of General Bradiey’s certificate, — Another — equally characteristic despatch of the. Commissioner in regard to flour I quote on page 33 of my statement, This despatch coniains two distinct false statements, as the evidence now in Your possession from Major A. K. Long, and others, Clearly shows, viz. :—That all the flour sent to the Red Cloud Agency was not inspected by Major Long; and, secondly, ‘that part of the flour he re- cled was afterward sent there, The latter despatch was published as a reply to my first presentation of the subject to the President, and is a fair sample of all the attempts at defence that have since been issued by the Department, whether over the signa- ture of the Secretary of the Interior or through some facile wol. The documents issued by the Interior De- partment when the Commission began its labors have een so umerous that I can ouly refer to a few of them, and out of deference to the high position of its acknowl: edged author I will first take up the official pamphlet printed for the use of the investigating committee, and A with which you are all, of course, famil very smail —_ portion this pamphlet relates to the present investigation, and this part alone I propose now to. discuss. In this portion addressed especially to the Commissioner there is hardly asentence that does not contain a misrepre- sentation, and in one of the letters from Secretary Do- lano himself to the Commissioner for your instruction there are at least three distinct falsehoods on a single page. Among the more important false statements in this official pamphlet are the following : OFFICIAL PAMPHLET PALSRHOODS, First—That I was not the author of my charges, but that they were written or directly inspired in the New York Tribune office. This statement, which is reiter- ated in various forms and in different parts of the pam phiet and other documents to which I shall refer, I pronounce absolutely false. My statement was written by myself alone, in New Haven and there printed. No person connected with the Tribune or any other paper ever saw it until it was in pring FALSEHOOD NO, 2. Second—That my statement was published in the Tritune betore bemg sent to the President. Pamphiet, P. This assertion also is wholly false. My statement was finished July 10, and it was my intention to have taken it to the President on that day, but having ascer tained that he was absent at Cape May, 1 awaited his return until the 13th, and then started ‘to present it in person. But uncertain whether he had really returned 1 mailed it to him from New York, so as toreach Long Branch that afternoon, Subsequently, but the same day, at the same time ‘I gave a copy of the pamphlet to the only two New York papers that had asked for it—namely, the Tribune and Evening Post—but no part of the do ment was published until the next day, Having asver- tained definitely on the 14th that the President had re- turned to Long Branch, I went there and called on him the same’ evening to explain to him my statement more fully and te state why I had not brought it in person. I would say here that in none of these interviews which I have had with the President on Indian affairs has the retary of the Interior been mentioned. Hence the statement that the President told me to go to Secretary Delano with my complaints is totally false, FALSEHOOD NO, 3, Third—That I did not make my first complaint to the Interior Department—this statement so often repeated 4 the department—is_ false. I went first of all to the Interior Department on the 23d of April and made complaint to tho © missioner of Indian Affairs, whom I then regarded and still regard as the proper person to re- ceive such information, How unwelcome the facts presented were, and how uncivilily received, [ have already stated before the Commission, —My_ promise to Red Clond to carry his message to the Great Father I fultitled the next day, and my reception by the Presi- dent was in marked contrast With that given at the de- partment, to. which I had gone as a matter of courtesy only. When I was next in Wash- ington, in May last, T again calied on the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and. also upon the acting Secretary of the Interior, Genoral Cowan, the honorable Secretary himself being then in Ohio. . During his absence I saw General Cowan several times = about Indian matters. He treated me courteously, and invited me to attend to the councils with the Sioux delegation, then in ‘Washington, and on ono occasion when a conference was held without public knowledge he took special pains to send me his written invitation. Hence the statement in this official pamphlet (N5) that I went uninvited is untrue, FALSEHOOD No. 4. Fourth—Tho statement in Secretary Delano’s letter to the Commission (N 7), that I declined his personal re- quest to furnish statements of my charges, is as false as his previous statements, and is at once dis- proved by his own ‘witness, General Eaton, who, in ‘speaking of me in his account of my interview with Secretary Delano, says:—‘He said hehad not put itin shape, but would do it” (R 7). Commissioner Smith also refutes this falsehood of the Secretary, for he says on the samo subject, ‘to this re- quest Professor Marsh has not yet responded, nor has he deelined it” (R 19), Secretary Delano knows perfectly well that I told him several times during our interviews that whenever the Commission of Investi- gation was ready to act I would lay before them a state- ment embodying my specific charges; and this, gentle- men of the Commission, you know I did at the first hour of your organization. FALSEHOOD NO. 5. Fifth—The statement (RK 8) that I have* made no communication to the Commissioner of Indian affairs in reply ta his letter of July 1(R 9), requesting a stato- ment of specified eharges with evidence, This is a wilful falsehood. My reply given on page 11 of my state. ment was written July 3, and I mailed it myself. Moreover, following the example of Secretary Delano and Commissioner Smith in their communica- tions concerning myself, I gave the letter to the Associated Pross and American Press As- sociation for publication, and it — appeared promptly in all the prominent papers, 1 hke- wise transmitted this letter in my statement to both the Secretary of the Interior and the Commise sioner of Indian Affairs, and that the former duly r ‘ceived it is admitted by him in his letter to you of July aes 7), which was written two phlet containing this falsehood was printed. Moreover, the same document was transmitted to him by the President July 15, FALSEHOOD NO. 6. Sizth—The statement of the Secretary in his letter to you of July 20 (R. 8), that his entire intercourse with me was the brief conversation in the Indian Council and the interview at which General Eaton was present is not only false, but does mo great injustice, I called on the Secretary, with Bishop Hare, June 4, before the Council, and the Secretary being absent, left my card. This fact 1 stated to him in the Council, when he addressed me. Moveover, on June °8, three days after the interview at wheh General Eaton was present, I had an- other long and important interview with Seerctay Delano, wich Tot; wnyae Fannbn. tte how ignores,” wenre this last interview I had already called, and, finding him out, had left an important message for him with General Cowen. SOURCES OF INFORMATION, In this official pamphlet there are many other false statements which I have marked, but which [ will not weary you now with quoting in’ detail. There is one statement, however, on page that can- not pass over—namely, that ’ reflecting on the sources of the information on which my charges are based. In reply to thisI have cae to say that you, gentlemen, are the best judges of the char- acter and disinterestedness of the fifty witnesses, whose names I haye given you, to substantiate m: own observations, The next to which I will cail your attention is important, as being one of a series to the continued and wide distribution of which the machinery of the Interior statement has been directed since the case was placed in your hands. [ suppose they have been duly transmitted to the commission, However this may be, _ they have been sent to nearly all the papers of the country, religious and secular. ‘The false statements to which I’have already called your attention in the offl- cial pamphlet are here repeated with many variation: but all evidently proceeding from a common sout ‘This particular document, which may be taken as a fair sample of this series as to truthfulness, [I have-good reason to behave was prepared in the Inte- rior Department. It was first published in the Znter- Ocean, of Chicago, July 27, and republished in the Washington Chronicle July 31. It was then reprinted in a separate form from the + types and distributed by the department it public ex. nse, Tho only point in this cument that care now to mention is a faise chargogf breach of con- fidence. When I was invited to appear before the Board of Indian Commissioners in New York, my invita- tion, which I retain, came from General Fisk, the Chairman, to meet the Board, April28. It contained no intimation that the meeting was to be a private one, and I bad no reason to beliove that such was intended. [ invited a Harvard professor interested in the subject to accompany me, but as he could not join mo I took with me another friend, whom I met on my way to the meeting, and who is the scientific editor of the Tribune: He is not a shorthand reporter and took no notes of the meeting whatever, supposing that the Board would publish an account the next day, as it had done of other meetings. Seeing no report in the next day’s papers, and thinking my remarks of sutli- cient importance, he made an abstract from metnory and and this appeared in the Tribune of April 80. No ob- jection whatever was made at the time to the admission ‘of my friend, and those given in the document, from which T now quote, are wholly imaginary, The ‘chair. man of the Board of Indian Commissioners, General Fish, has sinee informed me that there was no objec- tion to the publication of this report, and its truthiul- ness has not been qnestioned, A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL’S INSULT. Tho only other one of these semi-official publications which I wiil now notice is @ letter which appeared in the Providence Journal, July 16, and soon after was republished and widely ‘distributed through the samo channels as the ‘documents I have already mentioned, This letter evidently was writ- ten by a friend of Commissioner Smith, in lis behalf, and a copy of the reprint, which I now exhibit was sent to me with insulting anuotations by a government official in Washington, whose identity is fully established. In this document Commissioner Smith's friend endeavors to pay him a high compliment and to disparage me by a fictitious description of the Commissioner at a certain meeting of the Board of Indian Commissioners in New York. The truthfulness of the document may be judged from the fact that on the occasion named Commissioner Smith was not present, so that the described was simply aa figment of the writer's i nation, Nevertheless, the Interior Department« such statements and widely distribu P nthe qu tion naturally arises, what ix the object of these publications? Most’ certainly to mislead you and the public and influence both against me for having made Known matters unfavorable to the Indian service, The Interior Department and Indian Bureat have pursued a similar course from the time I first complat of mismana ntin tne Indian ser- vice. [tis carrying out th icy, long continued, of meeting evidence against that department by misrepro- sentation and falsehood. ares 'S AND SMITI’S INSULTS compared with these, discourtosy and ineivility are such small matters that L have foreborne to trouble the Com- mission with the details of what Lwas subjected to by. the Secretary of the Interior aud the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. But justice to all concerned demanag that I, at least, say to ys that long befora my statement was presented, when I was endeavor- ing to ascertain the true state of Indian affairs I was répeatediy treated with indignity by both t officials in their own offices, Is it strange that undes circumstances I should doubt the sincerity of sec. Delano and Commissioner Smith, when they papi announce as was done in the Commissioner's rotary ett that it is the sincere wish and purpose of the department to prevent frauds as far agpossible, and ta omit no effort to discontinue them when perpetrated?” { think the result fully jastities me in so. domg. If not T de. sire to call the attention of the Commission to evidenca snowing the suppression of previous information con- demuatory of alfairs at the Sioux agenet The reporta made by Messrs, Hosmer, Bevier, Alvord and others are on file in the department, and I trust the Commission will obtain them and alsa call these gentlemen before them and elicit from them the additional information which they guve orally to the Interior Department, and of which no record remains. There is abundant evidence from these sou! showing the knowledge of this department of mismanagement and frauds in the past at the Red Cloud agency. Whether the mismanagement and frauda still exist the Commission ean best decide. ‘The Commission will meet again. to-morrow to proe ceed with the examination of other witnesses. INDIAN AGENT GIBSON. THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE TO UPHOLD HIM, Kansas Crry, Mo., Sept. 9, 1875. Enoch Hoag, Superintendent of United States Indian Affairs, was in the city to-day and I interviewed him in regard to the imvestigation of Agent Gibson at the Agency. He stated that the committee of in- tion appointed by Congress would uphold Gibsom U wrong doing atthe agency. Gibson had been known to him personally for twenty years as an ho and he did not believe him capable of the The commission had examined all the Witnesses brought forward, and were of opinion that Gibson had been severely traduced. INRIAN TROUBLES IN NEVADA. THE RUMORED GENERAL UPRISING OF BRAVEd UNTRUE—A LOCAL RIOT, WITH BLOODSHED, EXCITES THE WARRIORS, Dexv Creen, Utah, Sept. 9, 1875. ‘The rumor of an uprising of the Indians in the cast. ern part of Nevada has been in a measure corroborated by Indians who have been out for the past three daya and who arrived this morning from the vicinity of Clove- land’s ranch. According to their reports tho Indian troubles originated in the following way:—Two Indians showed two white men some rich quartz, and the white men agreed to biy it, but subsequently refused to stand to their contract, A quarrel ensued, and one of the Indians, called Tobe, shot one of the white men. In a genoral mélée two Indians were killed. As. tho report of the affair circulated the excited Indians bo- lieved thoy were tho injared parties, which idea urged them to rendezvous at prominent places, the better todemand and to learn the results of investiga. tion into the cause of the trouble. The Indian Toba has been in great disrepute with his tribe for several 8, being of a vicious character and having caused le several times previously. He is looked a wizard by his people, who believe him to_ pos traordinary pe They all fear him. Runners. are out in all directions, despatched by prominent chiefs, with instructions to capture and kill him whenever found. White scouts follow the runners to aid them. Peanut, the war chief of the Goshoots, haa been greatly excited for several days, haying heard that his son was among the slain, and together with Black Hawk, his brother, had aroused their men to prepare to avenge his death should the report be corroborated, He consequently been reticent until this morning, when his son made his appearance, bringing the report as before mentioned, The favorable impression caused by the app ce of the chief's son soon showed itself by their coming to the station and explaining the facta and expressing regrets that Tobe had not been killed in place of the others. Great excitement has prevailed for several ¢ among the Indians and the whites, Scouts and guards, jointly furnished, have been scouring the country to detect approaching trouble. Arms and am. munition have been ordered, and every precaution taken to withstand an attack should strange Indiana make thair appearance, there being no trouble appre- hended from those of the valley. 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