Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1844-02-10
VOL. 3-NO. l.
MIR. WRIGHT'S LETTER ON SCHOOLS IN The
CHOCTAW NATION
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MIX. WRIGHT'S LETTER ON SCHOOLS IN THE
CHOCTAW NATION.
WHEELocK, July 3, 1913.
Dear Sir:-l herewith send you the report Of
the state Of the Wheelock female school for the
year ending July /, 1913. You arc aware that
the national council, in November last, among
other appropriations, made ono for the support Of
II female seminary at this place. Tho intention
of the council has been carried into effect. The
pupils have been selected, and were placed on the
appropriation on tho first day Of May last, lS43
In order to give satisfaction, and to avoid the
appearance of partaluy, the selection was made
from the several clans into which the people are
divided. Seven were taken from each Of tho fol-
lowing clans, viz: the Ahepotukia, the Oli-e.fe-
LEILA, and the Ok-a-ha- nall. and three from the
uri-he-sahe clan, making twenty -four in all who
were placed on the appropriation. The selection
was made from list nf about fifty applications
for the privileges of the school. Only one was
taken from family. Seven only of those who
had previously belonged to the school we're placed
on tho approPrIaton-the seventeen others. with
very few exceptions, being entire new schoinrs.
The selec ton believe has given satisfaction. and
the school has commenced under favorable auspi.
ces.
Mr.. II. X. Copeland and wife reside at Wheo.
lock. and assist in boarding and taking care of the
children. Mr.. Copelrnds house is about forty
rods fiom my own dwelling. The children, in
our respective families, are kept separate when
out of school. This arrangement we deemed pre-.
frrable to having all the children board at one
place.
AS part Of tho buildings necessary for the
school were already erected with funds Of tho
American board of commissioners for foreign
| missions, and as 4 part of the necessary stock
was on hand, belonging also to the American
board, have engnged to pu, up the remaining
buildings, and furnish what more stock may BIO
needed, with funds Of the same society, without
encroachlns upon the appropriation made by tho
nation BY the arrangement, the buildings and
stock will be the sole property OF tho American
board Of commissioners for foreign missions, and
the whole Of tho appropriation from the first be
expended on the school. 1t also further sti-
puated. between Ihe committee acting on behalf
OF the nation, and myself. acting on the part Of
the American board, that that body, in addition to
the buildings and stock, aid in sustaining the
school, and contribute yearly in the proportion tho
| Methodist Episcopal missionary society are
quired 10 aid.
The gospel, like the oaven hidden in the meas.
49, or r"1'', !, UN7TuIIS a srIuur uu' restraining
and transforming influence. The day spring from
on high hath visited this people, giving ligh, TO
them that sit in darkness and in the shadow Of
death, and guiding the feet of many into the way
Of peace. The church at Wheelock consists Of
one hundred and siAt members. tweniy-six Of
whom were added during the last year, There is
an increasing attention TO the preaching Of tho
word There five preaching places connected
with this station. AT two of these places, Vince
lock and Red River, public worship is held every
Sabbath. In the absence Of the pastor, the serv.
ices conducted by tho candidates for the min
Istry elders Of tho church. There are three ma.
tlvcs under the Of tho Presbytery studying for
the ministry; and two of these members of the
Wheeiock church, and one Of them an elder
Two Of them received very respectable educa-
cation in New England, the ether was several
years ut school in Henrietta, Ohio. They are all
pous, devoted men, and at no distant period will
be licensed to preach the glad ,idings Of salvation
Ialso forward you the report of the school taught
by Miss A. Burnham, on Red river. This, with
the two papers relating to the school at Whceock,
will, trust, furnish you with the facts necessary
to bo imbodied in your report to the War Depart
mont.
Respectfully and afftctonatoly,.
ALFRED WRIGHT.
Capt. WILLIAM ARMSTRONG,
| United States Agent.