The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-05
Nuoson Correspondence.
Hupsos. Sept. l, 1880.

MT. DART, sIact eatt "So0oSS
citizens at the Court House, on Monday
evening last, and--not processing to at
temp. 4 speech-made some interesting
statements whici Ii were wellfor every
voter to understand. Mr.. Dart who was
an Indian Agent in Oregon under Pres
ilsnt FilIimore's administration, afiirms
that the Indian wars which have disturb
ed that country subsequent to that ad-
ADMINISTRATION, might easily have been
averted, to the great profit of all parties,
except few jobbers who ffeeced the
Government enormously, through trump
ed up claims, and IN contracts Tor army
and Intian supplies. 81 7aqs
! To give this interesting class Of spec
ulators, opportunities of doing for the
Government, Joe Lane, now candidate
for the Vice Presidency, determined to
and did defeat the treaties negotiated
through theagency of Mr.. Dart-treaties
whose terms were beneficial as well to
| the Indians, as to the white inhabitants
of the region. These Oregon tribes, Mr..
d. informed us, were among the most
docilc and peaceable of their race-per-
fectly friendly towards the whites in
dustrious and proyident ia their own
affairs and supplying the settlers what
they very much Observation-Disclosures hands
and that too, at much cheaper rate
than white laborers could be hired for.
But these people were wontonly and
persistently provoked to luminosity, by
the influences and for the purposes above
indicated. .t.e
The speaker also declared that the
charges brought against the Mormons of
Utah, as the grounds on account ofwhich
an army of several thousand men, at an
enormous expense, was sent to and main
tanned in that Territory, were totally
false. He himself, backed by Mr.. Bern
hisel, delegate from Utah, applied to
Mr.. Buchanan, and offered to settle COM
pletely all difficulties between the Gov
eminent aud the alleged rebels, sa!isfac-
torily in all respects,to both parties. The
''old public functionary" referred him to
another old public functionary-the Sec
rotary of State, to whom accordingly he
addressed himself and who rejected bis
intervention, avowedly for the reason
that the Government in contemplation of
ending forces to that country, had al
ready entered into contracts for army
supplies, &c, which it could not refuse to
fulfill except at the price Of heavy for
FIXTURES to contractors. Therefore to
swell the number of administration re-
tainers, and to create Tin the contractors
media through which the money of the
people, or q certain proportion of it, over
and above fat remuneration, might be
disbursed to betray the people in their
dearest interests, the war was pusLo !
| forward. te
For one contract, connected with this
expidtion,, was an engagement to fur
nish for the army in Utah, flour at the
price of S2s or 500 per barrel, and flour
delivered in performance of the contract,
was purchased in Utah at 80 per barrel.
The exorbitant profits arising from this
transaction, were according to the orig
inal stipulation, divided between the job
bers, and persons in st. Louis, who had
votes to sell for securing Barrett's cleo
ton to Congress, and Blair's defeat.
The speaker referred also to the Par
aguay expedition, which, with its attend
ant negotiations, has cost the United
States twenty million dollars, and was
undertaken for the purpose of coercing
Paraguay, friendly power, into. the al
lowance of the claim of certain of our cit
zens against the Government of that
State-whieh, claim swelling eventually
towards million, President Lopez had
las the speaker was understood to say
offered to settle by paying some s32, 900
q sam which the u. S. Commissioners
| Ito the great disgust, as it is said of Mr.
Buchanen) have recently decided to coy-
er all that was cquitably due the claim
ants.
Where was the Little Giant-tLe
vauuted champion of popular rights
that he did not expose and protest against
these instances of INSTRUMENTATION. I
suspect the secret of his silence is, that
that there was no pet policy of his own
endangered by these operations. But
assall the hobby which, with its head