The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-25

Treaty with ths NebraakA Indiana
MAJOR GArHwooD on HIS WAY - wAsHMaroN
CALCULATIONS OF TH1 rRRArY-8,00O,0O0 or
From the st. Louis Republican, Feb 2o]
Major Gstswood Of the Council Bluffs Indian agency,
arrived In this city yesterday In COMPANY with sxtssa
Indiaps from the Hebasks Territory OF whom fourteen
Chiefs and two inssrprsss Insss sniss are q sns
The party are ON their way Warrington city, aAd came
their journey BY land. They leave on an Ohio
II. Republicans Of dis eity has been made ssessdnsy
unhappy BY the obstinate conduct OF some OF the upper
ssos Eastwood vss eotns 70 MAKE was mailing, and
bad made treaties With the Aforesaid Indian tribes The
announcement and 1t last declared that Major Gate
xooc had 80 more authority TO make treaties with the
We presume the editor Is right We suppose that every
senooooy knows that no private individual nor subori
rs.s onssf a. me Eovsrnms.t can make treaty,
matter Bat yet an individual ofosr or minister.
such - Nicholas r rrst or Major Gstswood Gensral
pea re .sf
same IL a. ws.Snssos city for consider
treaty With Mexico" Bot i It treaty or osiy pro-
Of n. 5. fs y
rSs facts We .an from Major sa,svosd are q follovs:
he was directed 10 prevail ths Iadians mentioned
consent 70 treaty with tbs Uaited States fer sale Of
their land and he was furnished With written powers
ss.s . psss 70 70 e r. e e %
to ooncluds tho treaty Major Gatewood could mot suc-
sssS with thu P:oD.0 n: o asa z: little
have in OF their leaders and public tsachsrs As ell
events they wanted to know something aboat the treaty
hard in making IT, Therefore, Major G. failed In the
Hnt fehsms. Bat, nothing daunted. he went to work
ls sensible man. and got the nsxs cs:s thing ne ooua
eating chiefs to 20 Washington and conclude tbs
med or adapt the treaty to tie views Of the Unitsd
States goverpmen This quite good IN arrangement
as the original one, and it satisfied the Indians Oar
government ought and It NO doubt viii, DO liberal with
them The terms Of the treaty agreed to BY them We
think she ud be accepted They to very liberal
Gawcod for the tact he displayed in getting the slsns
propose treaty and to send chiefs to conclude It,
And his agreement with the Inisns - justly spoken OF
ss Gstewoods treaty., - GAdsden's with Mexico -
ssGadsden's treaty"
These matters being thus understood, hope the Re-
another repetition Of the particulars Of Major Gate woods
treaties, by which half Of Nebraska including the
great Wiley Of the Platte to be cleared Of Indian title
opened to white settlement 30 here goes from the
Savannah Sentinel
The main features Of The treAty with the 0mahas are
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running north e e. =. the ioSws ss and wns
Z: .h.s pS.sn q country sm...Sa y
braced in this treaty about 900 900 aores which will
probably include Of good arabic land for which
term o. thirty years payable smi annually furnish them
with backsnith gunsmth, break two hundred acres Of
land and pro iect them from the Sioux.
The 0,oel treated FsbruAry4 The amount Of land en-
braced ths treaty between two and three mill, Of
for which 10 stipulated that she shall
they reerye their future lies due vest
old Fort KearDey upon tie west side Of The Big Blue
being miley In width and running indefinitely
The Pawnees hunt but they have been ready
to for long time aud the OIL tribes having osded
there 10 no doubt about them.
The quantity Of land bargalnsd for by these treaties
amounts raid to about 10 COO COO The ssopt
near the northern boundary ue Of Missouri, to thu
mouth Of Iowa creek, opposite the southwest c,rner
Annefota Territory II fronts about 200 miles on tn
vest side Of the Missouri, and Is splendid, rich Lime
stons country.