The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1837-08-25
From the ST. Louis Bulletin.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.

1Opy vi d iCtttI Iloih tue CuitOI Vi ilG
Peoria Register and Northwestern Gazet-
teer, now on tour in Wisconsin Territory,
10 the editor of the St. Louis Commercial
Bulletin, dated
CArrEEsE, July Ash, 1887.
DEAR SIR The pecuniary embarrass-
nenls Of our national government are like
ly to affect most previously the repose of
this frontier, in stirring up the Indians TO
acts OF hostility. will explain.
By the treaty Of 532, 10 which the Sacs
and Foxes ceded their lands bordering on
the Mississippi to the United States, gene.
rally known as the Black Hawk purchase,
government pledged itself to pay $4,000,
annually in specie, AID to furnish them with
a certain quantity Of tobacco and salt. Ia
the treaty Of 1895, ceding the Ioway re.
serve, similar stipulatIons were made
Hitherto government has faithfully per.
formed its contracts, and the Indians have
been perfectly satisfied, and Of course en-.
iirely friendly toward their white neighbors.
This year they repaired 10 Rock Island,
IN June, as usual, TO the number OF four hun.
dred, to receive their annuity, amounting 10
$4,000 on the Black Hawk purchase.
$50, 900 on the loway reserve, and 81 900
under former treaties, together with 40
kegs Of tobacco and 40 barrels of salt. ln
the loway treaty (ast year, was also pro-
vision, binding the United States to furnish
$4,000 worth az horses, to be ready at
Rock Island at the same time. Judge Of
their surprise, on reaching Rock Island, to
6nd tina, no preparation had been made TO
receive them, and that not even the agent
was there. A gentleman present, at his
own risk, chartered a steamboat to proceed
to Prairie du Chen, the residence Of Gen.
Street, the agent, and urge his immediate
attendance. General Street replied that II
was needless 10 90 down as government
had provided no means Of paying the an.
uuitv.
He however returned in the boat, and at.
tempted to explain 10 the Indians the cause
Of the delinquency, arising from the suspen-
sion OF specie payments by the banks. The
caei- replied that the president had prom.
,sed them the speele---said that they bad
been told that II was ell his and that he
could pay them If be chose. The agent
farther attempted 10 explain. but could not
satisfy them. Well, where is the tobac.
CO and sall, and where are the horses for
our sumner hunts |" said they. Uniortu-
naieiy these had rot been provided, and the
~. IL tod
by mui,erngs, long and strong. Gen.
Street offered TO accompany them TO 81.
LOUIS, TO see Capt. Hitchcock, the disburs-
lng agent, and satisfy them the money
would soon be paid. Twenty of the chiefs
and head men repaired thlher with hun &C.
cordIncly; aud YOU doubtless saw them 10
your city las, week, without perhaps know.
lug the object cE their visit. They, how
ever, obtained nothing, and returned IN the
steamboat Pavilion, passing 0quaka cn Sat.
urday last, where then was.
DO not be surprised II something serious
should grow out Of this. Mr.. Phelps, of o.
qnaka, who knows the Indians as well as any
man living on the Mississippi, told me be
had never known them SO highly lnflamed
without breaking out into open hostility
Indeed they have already commitied some
depredaionS on Skunk river, (below Bur.
Iington,) BY driving off two or three white
families and they have also killed some
cattle belonging To settlers on the loway,
near where now write you. It's thought
that kpokuk viii be able 10 restrain the
Sacs on the Des MONIES, but the Foxes on
The Ioway will be more difficult 10 control.
Should il be asked, why does mol the Go.
vernment take the specie from the land OF.
fees and pay the Indians | reply, IT has
no specie IN those offices, or comparatively
none: it was deposited in the banks before
the late suspension Of specie payment, and
can no more be obtained by private indi
viduas.
have written you this letter, in order
that should frontier var grow out of this
affair, the cause of it may be properly un.
derstood. There are two or three other
circumstances, growing out OF u well meant,
though misunderstood advances of our gov.
eminent toward the Sioux, the natural enc.
MES of the Sacs and Foxes; and of which
keokuk spoke with bitter irony at the last
meeting, which 70 to irri,ate still more the
disatiected. | sincerely hope, however, that
the annuity will be speedily paid that the
apprehensions of danger which now prevail
may speedily pass away.
| remain &c.
SAMUEL II. DAVIS.
TWO whiskered handles, with hair long
enough on their upper lips TO suit grena-