Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-07-17
WHOLE NUMBER. LXV.

sympathy which that great event called IN
between the two nations Both govern
lhents,' he adds, saw there were political
reasons which rendered the acknowledg-
nent necessary; that the two nations were
IN great measure united in feelings. and
that every obstacle to more intimate and
reclprocai intercourse ought to be reno
Veo''-Ihls view of the matter was
strengthened by the conviction that the
lquestion had begun to assume in the Uni
teu states, the aspeanef political one
i'''ier 'han one of mere private pecuni-
l@iy interest. These circumstances. adj
ueu 70 the counter concessions of the Uni
'ed States, in behalf of sundry claims
made by French subjects, and in relation
to some disputes between the two conn
tries arising out of the tresty of cession
or louisiana, are assigned a, the consid-
eratlons for the treaty concluded in july
1881 and ratified in February last.
The report recapitulates the terms Of
the treaty, which have been faithfully OBJ
served on the part of the United States.
and calls upon the chambers to provide
The necessary means. 'The sum- says M.
Human, is employed in acquitting debt,
the justice of which cannot be denied;
good faith was interested in its admission,
and true political consideration required
that the arrangement of the affair should
not be Deferred
Accompanying the report is bill for
Iappropriating 5,I66,666 francs for the pay
ment OF the first instalment. OF this l,OOO.-
UoO francs were for the first nstalment of
interest on the whole sum, and the balance
Tor the proportion of the principal due,
being one sixth.
This bill and report were printed and
referred to the committee, as mentionedin
this paper, heretofore as an item of foreign
intelligence finer.
/ GEO. CATLN, ESQ. the painter who has
Just performed ga tour through the vast
and wild regions of Upper Missouri" has
made some interesting communications to
!. the New York Commercial Advertiser.-.s
T la44es f9 }rem S. :1Tlf5afts a~' - Gle
where the men are all red-where meat is
the staff of life-where no laaos but those
of honor are known-where the oak and
the pine give way to the cotton wood and
peccan--where the buffalo range, the elk,
mountain sheep, and the fleet bounding
antelope-where the maybe and chatter
ing paroquettes supply the place of the
red breast and blue brd-where wolves
are white and bears grizzly-where pleas
ants are hens Of the prairie, and frogs
have horns-where the rivers are yellow,
and white men are turned savagesin heart.
Through the whole of this strange land
the dogs are all wolves-women all slaves
men all lords"
! sin traversing these vast wilds, it gave
me great satisfaction to find nearly all the
savage tribes on the Upper Missouri and
its tributaries, to the Rocky Mountains,
enjoying the comforts of life to a great
degree, in climate delightful and healthy,
and country Astounding in mostparts with
game, which supplies them with plenty
of food; being supplied by the American
Fur Company with arms, ammunition, and
other necessaries of life, for which they
pay in furs and peltries on the return from
, their long hunts. Since they have learned
the use of fire arms, cloths, &c. it has
, become necessary to furnish them with
, these articles rnually, to prevent then
from going to the British Company, who
stand ready to supply them and monopo
lie the fur trade in our own country, and
7 cultivate an influence over them extreme
r ly dangerous to our frontiers"