Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-04-28
INDIAN AGENCIES.

In the appointment of Indian Agents on this
frontier, is involved larger interests and more inn
porlant results than the public is generally aware
of and the selection of those officers, whether by
whig or democratic administration, creates great
inquiry and soiciude among the citizens on this
frontier. as well among the Indians. Large
annuties are due the different tribes from the 60
vernment; those Indians have extensive unsettled
claims upon the U. States, and in ali times past, as
well as the present, ravenous specuIatCrs have
been necessarily toIling to finger those funds. A
few years back, the Chickasaw and Creek specu-
lations offered the greatest field for those extensive
combinations. The Creek reservations have been
guped down by these cormorants-he Chickasaw
reservations and /" incompetent fund.- have gone
pretty much the same way,--ihe game there be-
ing ma rdly worth the candles.
The Choctaws, who have been skinned and
fieeced ever since the treaty of Dancing Rabbit
Creek, no, yet picked clean. and all the spe-
cuators from Alabama Mississippi, and Tennes-
see, have gathered in as upon a last chase, and
for the want of other subjects TO exercise their
enterprise, have doomed this poor tribe 10 COM
pete :. shucking QUIZ There is only one class
of speculation left, even here the claims growing
out of the 18th article of the last treaty granting
lands TO those members of the tribe who took cit
zenshp in Mississippi. The business has been
wound up by the government to project them from
the spectators; and instead of lands scrip has
been allowed them, payable one-haf in Mssissip-
pi, the other after they emgrated. The govern
men arbitrarily, but we believe for the true inte-
rest Of the Choctaws, afterwards, invested the lat
half in stock, the interest be paid annually
when the Indians remove West. The department
then, just arbitrarily. ordered the first half to
be withheld until the Indians moved West. This
order was said TO be made for the interest of the
Indians, and was no doubt done in good faith by
the government but it was undoubtedly brought
about by the intrigues Of certain SPECTATORS and
evidently favoured these same spectators, who
have trading establishments in the West.
| These Spectators have made exertions to get
control of the Agent who pays out this scrip-hs
they have been working for, harder and longer
than for any other object. To succeed in this,
the end of years of hard labor will have been ac.
complished. .-E
Up to this time these spectators hav failed to
get a controlling power at the Agency, but as it is
known that the leading spirit in this combination,
who himself is a Tennessean, has strong political
influence in that State and that one. if not the
most influential politician there, has taken the
southern Indian Agencies under his special charge
and manifests desire togive the Choetap Agency
to a n individual whose affinity to the spectators
is we'll understood, by wings and democrats, they
have expressed much concern in apprehension of
the preparation Of such outrage. All parties
here, interested in seeing that the Indians get
all that is due them, and be not swinded out of
their funds-1st: because it is a matter Of pecu-
mary interest to them. ID: because the peace and
good order of this frontier involved in the
treatment of the Indians, by government.
Then it must not be wondered at that so much
concern is felt here, abou, the appointment of In
dian Agents; or'if we should give it as our hum
bic opinion. that citizen of Arkansas, who has
never been involved in the Indian specuntions,
east of the Mississippi, should undoubtedly receive
this appointment.
We see that one Mr. Henry Broken has just
married, in Baltimore, Miss Bank So there is
one more bank now broken !--Philad. Times.