The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-14

THE TREATY OF TRAVERSE DEs SlUox-
The Minnesota Pioneer, of the 8 lst, gives us the
following particulars of the important treaty just
concluded with the upper bands Of the Sioux
nation of Indians:
By the conditions of the treaty, the Sioux In
dams cede to the United States ell their lands
east of the Sioux river and Lake Traverse to tho
Mississippi, except reservation of about one
hundred miles by twenty, on the head waters of
the Minnesota river, amounting to more than
81 900 900 acres. On their removal, which will
be in two years, the Indians will receive 1916
900, sum believed to be sufficient for them to
settle up their business and to enable them to re-
move without embarrassment to their now home.
Then they are to receive annuities in addition
for fifty years. They are to receive in all 3D.
6650oo, to be paid as follows:
After removal to reservation !. $275,000
Expended in breaking land, erecting
mills, and establishing manual labor
school 10000
The balance of ST. 800, 900 is to be invested at
five per cent for fifty years. giving an annual in
come of $4,000, payable as follows
In cash annually $4,000
Civilization fund $4,000
Goods and provisions 10000
Education 5000
After fifty years all payments to cease, and
the principal (Sl ,360,000) will revert to the
United States.
An Indian agency will be established at Lac
que parle.
The treaty now in progress with the lower
bands at Mendoza will determine what further
payments will be made TO complete this pur-
chase of the most magnificent Indian EN- pire on
the continent,
The commissioners came down from Traverse
des Sioux in a Durham boat, every man working
at the oars. They made the run down, of more
than one thousand miles, in twenty-four hours.
leaving the Traverse on Wednesday and reach
ing Mendot on Thursday.
The Pioneer is in ecstacies with the tready-
We extract a paragraph or two:
The news of the treaty exhirates our town,
and il looks so esh, and lively. and blooming
1t is the greatest event by far in the history OF
the territory since it was organized. II Is the
pillar of fire that lights MS into broad Canaan
of fertile lands. We behold now clearly in NJ
remote perspective, like an exhibition of dis
solving views, the red savages, with their tepees,
their horses, and their famished dogs, fading,
vanishing, dissolving away and in their places
a thousand farms, with their fences and white
cottages, and waving wheat-6elds, and vast
iungles of rustlipg maize, and villages, and cities
crowned with spires, and railroads, with trains
oil cars rumbng afar oif-and now, nearer and
nearer, the train comes laundering across the
bridge into St. Paul. fifteen hours from St.
Louis, on the way to Lake Superior. IL this
dream What but dream, then, is the history
of the Northwest for the last twenty years!
| The treaty is made. II is good treaty. 1t
has been skilfully negotiated. The amount TO
be paid TO the Indians is not larger than they
ought to receive and certainly not as large M
it would be beneficial to our territory to have
disbursed, for the increase of our business and
the home consumption of such products as we
shall have to cell to the Indiana. There are
men in the world who have more than single
idea, and that an added one, in their hesds.
Such man is Commissioner Lee---a gentleman
who has conducted the treaty with full and
perfect knowledge of the various interests IN
volved in the treaty, the interests of this terri
tory, the interests of the Indians, and his duty
to the government.