Southern telegraph., 1836-12-20

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aud beheld its conSlusiOn. Il was signed
yestesday, and to-day Of course, is one Of
revel and luxury--of show, of war-parades
aud dances. The whole OF the Sacs and
Foxes are gathered here, and their appear
ance is very thrilling, and at the same time
pleasing. These people have sold so much
oftheir land lately, lhatthey have the luxu-
ries Of life to considerable degree, and
may be considered rich; consequently they
lOnk elated and happy, carrying themselves
much above the humbled manner OF mist
of the semi-oivilized tribes, whose heads
are hanging and dropping in poverty and
despair.
The Sacs and Foxes are already drawing
an annuity Of $4,000, for 80 years to
cImc, in cash, aud by the present treaty
Just concluded, that amount will be cnlarg-
ed to S36,00O per annum. This treaty
with the SacsRnd Foxes, held at Rock Island,
was FIR the purchase of a tract Of land Of
266,000 acres, lying on the Ioway river,
west Of the Mississippi, a reserve which
was made within the tract of land convey.
edto the Government by treaty after the
Sac war, and known as the 'Black Hawk
purchase"
The treaty has been. completed BY Gov.
Dodge, by stipulating on the part of gov
ernment 10 paythem seventy five cents per
acre for the Reserve, (amountng to $l92,-
O0O) in The manner and form following
Thirty thousand dollars to he plid in specie
in June next, anftcn thousand dollars an
nually for ten years to come, at the same
place and in the same manner, and the re-
manning sixty two Thousand in the p1ymcnt
Of their debts and some iulc donations to
widows and halfbrecd children. The Anne
ricnn fur company was their principal cred
ltor, whose accounts fir goods advanced ON
credit, they admitted, to the amount of near
ly fifty thousand dollars. II was stipulated
hy an article in the treaty that. ono-half Of
these demands should be paid in cash as
soon as the treaty was ntfed--and FIVE
thousand dollars should he appropriated an.
nuaIIy for their liquidation until they were
paid Off
twas proposed by Ke.o-kuI in his speed
(and it is fact worthy of being known, f5r
such has been the proposition in every iii.
dian treaty that ever attended that dc
first preparatory stipulation on the part of she
government should to to pay the requisite
SUM of money to satisfy all their credIlnfs,
who were then present, and whbse ae-
counts were handed in, acknowledged and
admitted.
The price paid for this tract Of land Is 4
liberal one comparatively speaking, for the
usual price heretofore paid Tor Indian lands
has been one and a half or three quarter
cents Gnstcad Of seyenty-iiee- cent, per
acre, for lands Which government, has since
sold ont for ten shilIings. Even one dollar
per acre would not have been too much to
pay f'r this tract, for every acre Of it can
be sold in one year for ten shiIIngs per acre
to nc;ual settlers, 50 desirable, and so fer
tile is the tract Of country purchased
These very people sold to government a
great part oftho rich States of Illinois and
Missouri, at the>IOw rates above mentioned.
and this small tract being the last they can
ever part with, without throwing them.
selves back upon their natural enomies,
it was M more than right that government
should deal with them as they have done -
literally.
As an evidence Of the immediate value
ofthat tract Of land to government, and as a
striking instance Of tho overwhelming tor.
rent of emigration to the "lIar Wes;,n | will
relate the following occurrence which took
place at the close of the treaty:-After the
treaty was signed and Witnessed, Governor
.Didse addressed few very jlidicIots ant
admonitory sentences to the chiefs anc
braves, which he finished byrcqnesting them
to remove their families and property from
the tract, within one month, which time he
would allow them, to make room for the
whites.
Considerable excitement was created
among the chiefs and braves by this suc.
gcstion, and a hearty laugh ensued, the
cause OF which was soon after explained BY
one of them in the following manner:
any father! We have to laugh--We re.
qiire no time to move--we have all left oui
lands already, and sold our wigwams lt
Chemokemons white men n)--some fm onr
hundred and some for two hundred dollars
before we came TO this treaty. There arc
already four hundred Cbemokemons on the
land, and several hundreds more on thei
way moving IN and three days before Wi
came away, one Chem,kemon sold his wig
wan TO another Chemokemon for two lhoa
sand dollars, to build Il great town."
In this wise is this fair land settling an,
filing mp, one hundred miles or more wes
of the Mississippi--not with barbar;ans, bu
with people from the East, enlightened an,
intelligent, with industry and porsovoranc,
that will soon call from The soil all the lux
urics, and add to its surfaceall The taste an,
beauty OF Eastern refinement. r
The treaty Of itself, in all its forms wa
a scene Of interest and beauty. The Sac
and Foxes are very beautiful and pictur
esqne Indians in their appearancc-thei
heads shaved except the scalp.lock Of thre,
or more inches in size, on the crown of lh
head, to which is fastened tue crescent q
hair from the deer's tall, colored of dee
red; over this, and attached to It's centr
waves the eagles qnill, tipped with ernine
u Preparatory to The commencement Of th
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