The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-02-14
THE DAILYaDBPATOH,
TIM CREEK INDIANS.

TTy9SUAY WB0NtNsy 8EN9tla9 Y u. -
THE CREEK INDIANS. 8
We published fcw days since : very in
teresting article on the subject Of the memo
rial Of the Creek nation Of Indians, praying
Congress for compensation for nearly nine
millions acres Of land In Alabama and Geor-
gle, which they were compelled by Gen. JACK.
SON TO cede 70 the government in 1919, ana
for which they have never received . do'isr
The report made upon this claim by the ae-
partznent of the interior, about twelve montns
since, recognizes its justice, and shortly ~
forwards It was followed by an estimate 20
pay the Indians. We hope that this viii De
done at the present session. No time can be
more propitious than the present to do justice
to the red man. The Golfers Of the public
treasury are full to overlooking, and while
the bounty Of Congress is appealed to by
railroads, steam navigation and other compa-
mics, it should certainly be- a point of honor
with our national Legislature to preserve It's
national faith in at least this one small matter.
These Indians, it appears from all the facts
presented. were solernnly promised indemnify
for their lands and depredations upon their
property. They have been driven from
their original homes into the Indian country,
west Of Arkansas, where they are striving to
learn the arts of civilization, and where their
progress in agriculture is highly creditable,
when the limited means which they can com
mand are taken into consideration. Among
them are few schools, and it is, we learn, de-
sired by them to devote large portion OF
the amount expected to be paid them. to an
extension of the school system and to their
agricultural wants. They are brave, and
have been a confding people; and while APP
preparations are being asked for at every
quarter. and for almost every public enter
prise, it is to be hoped that the prayer ofthese
people for justice long delayed will not be
neglected. We shall watch the action Of
Congress on this claim, and shall take plea
sure in being permitted. at some future peri
cd, to note that it has formally acted upon
TRINITY CHURCH-YARD.-We know no
fact more strikingly illustrative of the alb
sorbing devotion of the public mind in some
portions of this country to gain, than the
proposition, to which we have before refer
red and which is now being warmly discussed
in the New York papers, to run street
through Trinity Church-yard. In that Church
yard lie buried forty thousand people, en-
bracing the founders of the New York Com
k1av and IF ifc hast
and purest days; its brightest names in
church, in state, and in war; and representa-
tives of every generation almost from the
hour New York was settled down to the pre-
sent moment The only considerable ben
eft," says the N. Y. Churehman, promised
by the measure is, that it will increase the
value of certain pieces of real estate. We
feel, therefore, that we do the thing no wrong
when we characterize it as the mere vandal
ism of luxurious, reckless, unprincipled, in
human mammon-worship, that neither fears
God nor regards man." "There is some
thing horrible" says the Church Journal,
"in this ghastly cropping among the graves
for greed. Such creatures are the ghouls of
their race. Men are accustomed to shudder
ct the thought of that dread trade which
robs the grave, in order to supply the dis
secting room though the latter is necessary
that the living may be saved. The agitators
for opening Dead Mans Lane, however, are
incomparably worse than these resurrection
lists for they cannot pretend even the fig
leaf of "the necessities of science to cover
Oh IL -aJu IF ba;r po1oo
idol-Mammon'
The N. Y. Independent remarks "There
is nothing in our Northern civilization SO
grossly and repulsively barbarian to us, as
the facility with which men toss about the
relics of the dead, casting them off like offal
and refuse from the path of the railway, or of
some business street." An honest confession
this by an abolition paper of the "barbaric"
character of Northern civilizationw Yet
it is this civilization, which has no scruples
in making merchandise of the bones of it's
own dead, that raises its hands in holy horror
at the idea of African slavery, and looks
down with pharisaical selfrighteeusness upon
that Southern civilization which nourishes
the negro in life, and even treats his dead
body with more respect than the abolitionists
show to the remains Of their own white rela-
ti0ns.
CREsTs FROM THE OCEAN WoRLD.-This
is the title of new book of European trav-
els, which is spoken of by the National In
telligencer as volume of unusual interest,
and which has been highly commended by
the press of the Northern cities. The au.
thor, says the Intelligencer, is an eminent
teacher of Massachusetts,, well known for his
humane sympathies, and devotes the profits
arising frcm the sale of his work to the bene.
ht OF Miss Baker, an interesting blind ladv