Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-05-15


Information from Washington communi-
Gates the fact, that the Yankton-Sioux In.
dams have sold by treaty to the United States,
their right Of occupancy to twelve millions
of acres Of lands in Dakota Territory.
The cession embraces both the Valleys of
the Big Sioux and of the James or JACQUES
Rivers. and lies along the Missouri as high
up as its tributary Of East Medicine river
coming into it on the left side or bank there
Of. The Northern limit is line drawn from
Kampesca lake near tho Big Sioux to the
head Of Wamdushka or Snake river, which is
a small tributary of the Jacques river. The
region north Of this line, embracing pref
ty good country about the head streams of
the Jacques, Big Sioux and Minnesota rivers
has not been coded /; but why not, is mys-
terry to US, as we understand the Sisseton-
Sioux by whom it is in part claimed were
present at Washington to participate in the
sale! If this country was also obtained and
likewise the left side of the Valley of the
Red River Of the North for sixty miles
westward, the entire habitable portion of
the proposed Territory of Dakota, which
white men could use, would be open for SET
Element.
The treaty just made will be of compare
lively little advantage to Minnesota, as the
country it opens will be principally reached
by emigrants through Iowa or up the Mis-
souri, river.
But, if the Sisseton country and the Chip
pewa country on the Red River were at once
purchased, we might anticipate that the thor
oughfare of the settlers into them would lie
in Minnesota /; and the main supply and start
ing point of those settlers would be at st.
Paul.
We confess we do not like the game Of de-
lay which is being practised here and at
Washington in keeping back the Pembina
and Red Lake Indians from taking their trip
to Washington as per invitation of the In
dian Department, three months ago! 1t is
all bosh to pretend that Mr.. H. NJ. R1cE's
agents could not have induced them to 60 on
to the federal city, if that white chief had
desired it !! But hear what that honorable
individual himself writes to the Pioneer, on
this subject,-as follows
1--WE also learn from Mr.. Rice that, in con.
sequence of the non-arrival of the Pembina
and Red Lake Indians, it is uncertain whether
a treaty will be made with the Sioux taken
to Washington by Major [Joel Brown. 1t is
contemplated, however, in case of failure
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Minnesota, during the summer, a commission to
complete the negotiation of the treaties contem-
plated"
That is it! A Grand Treaty Commission
to cost thirty or forty thousand dollars Ia
Grand Buffalo Hunting Party, consisting of
Mr.. RICE and his friends, with Uncle Sam to
pay expenses and some Of Mr.. RIcE's favor
ties to furnish the supplies this is the So
luton of the non-appearance of the Chippe-
ways, as per original programme!
In the meantime, the settlement Of the
Red River Valley, both of the portion in
Minnesota and of that in Dakota, must be
delayed WHOLE YEAR to crafty some pri-
ua.e arrangements of HENRY NJ. RICE and his
friends !!
We desire the people of Minnesota to no.
tice, that the Missouri river portion of Da-
kota territory is thus by his interested ma
neuverings opened to settlers a gear in ad
vGnce OF the Minnesota portion and that
besides putting in the field another compe-
tor for immigration against ourselves, we
have not the satisfaction even of being made
the high-road of the emigrating crowd!
How long will it take the People of Mime.
sofa to get it through their wool, that RICE
and his personal faction, use Minnesota only
as stool pigeon to decoy fat Jobs and con-
tract and Offices into their own pouches, and
that they are entirely innocent of regard f,r
the interests OF anybody but themselves
But for HENRY M. RIcE's private inter.
ests, the people of Minnesota and ST. Paul
might have at this time either in operation,
or in fair prospect, aRailroad bet,0een ST. Paul
and the head of Lake Superior, which road,
after all, is the great vital railroad for this
State. 1t would connect the head of navi-
cation on the great lakes at Superior with
the head of navigation en- the Mis-
sissippi at Saint Paul and place Min
nesota, practically, as near New York
as Galena and Dubuque are. But Mr..
RICE happened to own piece Of wild land
near LaPointe on Lake Superior which he
laid out into a town and called Bayfield,
and to advance the interests Of this town of
his own, and enable him to sell out at an ad-
vance to innocent Southerners, as he did, he
went in for Railroad through Wisconsin to
Lake Superior to terminate at his o,on city
with its other termination on the Mississippi
at Prescott instead of at its natural and
proper terminus in St. Paul That is only
one of many other instances in which Mr..
RICE has sacrificed St. Paul to fill his own
pockets.
This management above alluded to in
DELAYING the extinguishment of the Indian
title to the Valley of the Red River Of tho
North, and in giving the Missouri River Re-
gion of Dakota territory the preference Of
settlement by whole years advance in its
purchase, is still another example of his
patriotic regard for Mr.. RICE and Mr.. RIcE's
interests, and his little care for those Of the
public. There is, no Tever, one excuse for
him. A man who lives as fast, and at the
rate he does, MUST resort to expedcnts and
all sorts Of official jobbing to keep his mill
a-going. But the People ought not to be re-
quired to pay him we'll for sacrificing their
interests to his own, and humbly thank him
into the bargain. He seems to expect as
much, however.