The republic., 1851-09-05

money was paid 10 the Chlppe"a9, with other
moneys The Sioux thought that the Chippewas
ought TO be made TO pay them, and they conf
planned to me because had taken their money and
paid il to the Chippewas. when they cay the Chip
pewas' money ought TO be PAID To them: had
s. 800 taken from the Sioux and paid TO the Chip
| pewas for scalps which the Sioux had taken. But
you the business Of taking scaps does no good.
Killing women and children 10 bad business and
no man ought to have any thing to do with it, and
| therefore talk 10 you did to the Sioux. This
! thing of making war ON each other ought to be
stopped. Your great father is displeased, and the
Great Spirit is displeased with it. Both you and
| the Si0ur must quit IL.
| Now, you know that your country is great
way of. II is impossible for your great father to
be there cannot be there TO see TO your interests.
You see, therefore, that your great father must
employ agents to look to your affairs. You have
travelled over this country; you saw how many
people there are; thousands and millions. Your
great father employs chiefs under him to see to the
interests Of this great people lie tries always to
get good men to fill these places under him; but
he may sometimes be mistaken. You know that
! you sometimes mistaken when you employ
men to act for you; and everybody may be mis-
taken. Now, your great fathers wish ls, and
give instructions accordingly, that all the agents
be faithful honest and kind, and look well to the
interests of the Indians. This is what your great
father desires. Sometimes an agent does not do
! right II find out any one acting wrong, and
| not doing his duty, turn him out, and put
other in his place, one who IS a friend of the
red man. and who will do his duty. If shall
hear at any time of any thing going wrong, or that
an agent is not doing his duty, will have him
! turned out, and good man put in his place. But
when was in Minnesota inquired among many
| people whether the agent was bad! was told. in
! reply, that he was good man, that he obeyed the
orders OF the Government, and was disposed to do
what was right. Now, come OF you chiefs know
| that it is impossible to regulate your young men,
| who among you every day. How, then, can
you expect your great father TO regulate affairs
among you when he ia thousands OF miles away?
hos ta-a irnp IN from lin
nesota and you must recollect that when any thing
takes place in that far off country it takes long
time for your great father TO hear OF 1t. We hear
different accounts, and don't know, sometimes
what TO believe. OF one thing you may be certain;
your great father is your friend. You have no bet
| ter friend. He desires nothing more than your well
| fare. There is no tribe he looks upon with more
! favor than he does on the Chippewas; they are
known to him to be warlike, brave, fearless race
] Of people. And if you will make up your minds
that what the Government wants you to do is for
the best, and act accordingly, and do what your
great father desires, although you do not that
1t is good now, it will be, better, in time, for both
you and your children Your affairs are now in
somewhat of an unsettled state, and it will take
some time to regulate them
After while your condition will improve, and
you will see that it was better to acquiesce in the
will Of the Government and to do nothing against
the will of your great father.
The CoMmrssIosER inquired how long the In
| dams wished to remain in the city, to which
The INTERPRETER replied, to-day and to- NOR
row, soon as they can get away.
The COMMISSIONERS. How are you of for funds?
The INTERPRETER. We have not a cent, and
sometimes had to walk to get here.
One of the delegation pointed to his moccasin,
to show that it was wearing out.
The COMMISSIONER. The Government does not
| generally pay the expenses of Indians who come to
| Washington, unless they are specially sent for;
| but in this am disposed TO be kind, and am
willing to give money enough to defray your ex-
penses home. want you to go back and tell your
| people that you have been here, and made known
| their wishes, and advise them not TO set them
| selves up in opposition to the Government, but
| be true to treaty faith, and act like true and
honest men; and, although it may cause them
some inconvenience to break up and remove to
the country, 1t will be better for them If any
thing goes wrong, tell them TO go to the agent, who
is instructed to listen to their complaints. sup
that they want to see their great father, the
President of the United States, and know what
time 1t will be convenient Tor him to receive them.
! accept their presents with pleasure, and always
| attach much value to presents from Indians
| CRossING SKY said that he was very anxious TO
get w-mi, as he wanted to build He cut the
logs last winter, and wanted a saw-rnill, and he
| wished to know if he could sell his logs for plank
The COMMISSIONER. Better let the agent COM
municate to the Department.
The lNTERPRETER. We did speak to the agent
last winter. He said he would write about it, but
| never received an answer.
The COMMISSIONER. will write letter to the
agent, and see what is proper to be done (Io the
lncrpreter.) Iell them that glau 10 see tneH
have desire to work, and have shops and mile
among them | suppose to morrow or next day
they can the President. He is much occupied
now attending to business having recently returned
| home They will only have few minutes talk
with him; they must make short visit. When
hear from the President when he can receive them
will let them know.
CRossINa SKY replied We are very glad that
we have been permitted to you, and perhaps our
great father. We have seen great many of your
chiefs. We cav strange things we had no idea OF;
and more, we wish to sec our great father. Some
of our people have visited their great father, and
when we present the words of great father
they will highly believe them When we get
home to our people, we will tell them what you
have said. We know that they will be glad, Per-
haps this will be the last visit from people, and
we should like to take white people TO present
what you have said
| The COMMISSIONERS, Ito the interpreter.) Say to
| them that ii s about the dinner hour, and
time TO break up the day.
This was communicated to the delegation; and
they then shook hands with the commissioners and
other gentlemen present. and departed
The GEORGE WAsHINGroN.-Th beau
steamboat will make her fret trip to Mount YER
non on Wednesday next.
Since her arrival from New York we have heard
much about her racing from Piney Point with the
William Selden, which vessel outstrpped her, hav-
ing made preparations and gone down to Piney
Point with the intention of testing her speed" by
running up with her. 1t is but fair to state that,
when the George Washington started from New
York, she had board thirty. five tons of coal and
five of firewood, and brought from fifteen to twenty
tons of the coal to the city with her. The proprie-
tors not having determined what description OF
fuel will be made of, the arrangements for con-
suming coal were not completes and in conse-
quonce, at times, good head of steam could not
be raised We assured that Captain Corson
would not undertake race without orders from
the company, and that none were given.
Piney Point is about eighty four mile, from the
| city; and, in account of the speed of the Will
liam Selden; it is said that she accomplished the
distance in five hours and ffty-sx minutes, and
that the George Washington would probably take
! about half hour more.
AS to the comparative running merits of these
rivals, if such they may be called we know moth
ing; but there seems to be An unmistakabe dispo'
sition the part of the owners of the George
| Washington to test the mette of the William Sci