Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-04-30

come Of next year, Tor purse o. $lOO,OUO,
four years housing in well kept Washington
stables, with rent free, and other innumera-
BILE emo!uments, is now beginning fairly to
attract attention. Sebastopol has grown
stale, European affairs stupid, the State
elections are nearly all over, the Cuban
brawlis getting on swimingly, and can af-
ford to be left to itself, and nothing is up
now, to distract the attention of sportsmen
and Jocky politicians from the great glori-
Gus event Of '56. The next Presidential
campaign is upon US, and nags are in train
ing all over the country-nags of all sorts
sizes, compilations colors and kinds-thor-
ough bred bloodcd nags and shabby scrub
horses; rough prairie ponies and sleek city
steeds; fast nags and slow nags; quarter
horses and four mile horses; old stagers that
were born on the track and were never of,
and wild, wood colts that were raised of the
track and were never on it; nags with plen-
ty of heels and little bottom, and nags with
| unbounded bottom and no heels at oil.
There is lots Of sport in prospect, excite.
ment begins to run high, and millions of
result. For every horse entered there will
be a lot Of hackers ready to cheat. swindle
and Jockey for his success, on condition of
take a review of the race track, and notice
the entries.
First and foremost is Sam Houston, who
has emerged from the Tickets Of Texas, and
ssreioceth Ike q strong man to run race,''
He has never injured himself by hard rum
ming, but is in full race-horse vigor. He
trains and enters himself affecting to be a
thorough bred Know Nothing, anG is fa-
voritc with q considerable Northern party,
and would be sure Of all Texas. 1t is fear
ed however, that Sam is too long counled
to gather fast enough. His pedigree has
just been given to the world, from which we
learn that his former sires were of Scotch
/ breed, and his first wife an Indian fsquaw.
Opposite him stands q short stout nag,
born among the knobs Of Vermont, and now
in training in Chicago, known as the Little
Giant, short stout thickset, active and vigor-
Gus. His coupling on the contrary is too
short for long race, as his trainiDing last
year proved that he is likely to let down in
a four mile heat. Next is Seward, the favor
lite Of abolitionists, Higher Law men, anti Liq-
uorism, Anti Know Nothings, Womens Rights
advocates, and the vota les of other latter
day denominations at the North. He will run
magnifcently on Northern track, but will
make no show at all in the South. His ped
igree, also, has been given. Gen. Cass has
run before, and will try to run again,
though none Of his friends has the slightest
hope Of his success. He il emphatlcally
slow. He would tell Dravely only in a slow
race. Gen. Pierce is entirely out of the
question. He is broken down, spay:ncd and
used up, having been ridden to death. Mar
cy IS better, thonssa hardly good enough to
make :ny considerable show against 4 feet
American horse. Mr.. Buchanan is training
abroad. His Ostend visit did him some good
and his pedigree is irreproashable.
A New Jersey club has just entered Com
modore Vanderbilt, and some New York
club will, probably bring out George Law,
both steamship nags, and therefore consid-
cred fast. These are oil the entries yet
made; but the next six months will witness
full field Of them.
1t is hard to tell, as yet, which is the best
horse out. They are all about equal, and
none Of them frst-rate. There is no clean
limbed Lecompte with the prestige of past
success to make him a favorite, and no vic
torious Lexington with the name Of the fast
est racer in the world, to bring to his heels
q retinue Of enthusiastic admirers and back
ers. We shall know more shortly.-St. Louis
Intelligcnccr.
THE CHocTAw INDiANs.-This tribe is one
OF the most civilized of the aborigines. They
are in the immediate neighborhood Of the
great States that lie on the west side Of the
Mississippi, occupying that extensive tract
Of country, which in parallogram form, lies
imm ediatsly west of and adjoining the State
of Arkansas, between the Canadian, tribu-
tary Of the Arkansas River on the north, Red
River on the south, and having the State Of
Texas, on tho west.
Their population, which is already IS, 200
is rapidly increasing. Although their land
ed property is held, according to tho Indian
custom, as a community or tribal right, vet
they are cultivators of the soil, having redu-
ced and holding in severality their farms and
tracts, which they cultivate, and from which
they derive subsistence. The chase is aban-
doned, and they are gradually advancing in
civilization, and in those pursuits which I'M
der the wise management OF our Government
is elvating them in social point of view.
They have regularly organized Assem-
bly,, consisting of four Senatorial Districts,
each sending four senators, and Assembly
Districts, from which there is one represent
alive to every thousand people. They meet
once year ut Doaksville to legislate for the
tribe. The executive consists Of Q chief for
each district, elected quadrennially, and
these chefs assemble at the same time that
the Legislature does, and form sort Of ex-
ecutive council, the signature Of two Of them
being necessary to give effect to an act Of the
assembly.
They have eight principal schools, con-
sisting Of from fifty to one hundred pupils
each. Their language is reduced to written
form, and elementary works in it have been
published.
They are peaceful people, possessing