New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-16
Later from the Plains.

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Later from the Plains.
The st. Louis Republican publishes the follow
ing letter from Benta Fort, Upper Arkansas river,
dated September 81:
Hon. A. B. Greenwood, Commissioner Ct Indian
Affairs, left yesterday for Kansas City thence to
see his g great father I" at Washington. &c had
with him his son, the Of his brother-in-Iaw
his brothern -law himself, the son of Secretary
Thompson, besides the sons, but believe no
daughters, of several other persons-in all amount
ing to fifteen souls. Two of the fifteen were Della
ware Indians, whom Fremont had with him in his
last expedition, and were taken along as guides to
show the party the way from Kansas City up the
well marked any thoroughfare in Missouri
We shall soon hear OF taking guides to show us the
7 route from st. Joseph to Denver, or from the
Planters House to the Levee in st. Louis
Capt. a. r. Potts was sent out month III aa-
vance of Judge Greenwood, to get the Arapahoes
and Cheyennes assembled at Bent's Fort, and
syely circulated that the treaty was 10 be with all
the Indian tribes in this region, numbering some
eight or ten, but such is not the case. The coun-
try which the whites wish to obtain possession Of
at present is that owned by the Arapahoes and
Cheyennes, on the head waters of the Platte and
Arkansas, Accordingly an appropriation of $751;
O0O was made BY the last Congress for the purpose
of defraying the expenses Of the Commissioner
and for making suitable presents TO the Indians.
Capt. Potts succeeded in getting none but the Ara
. pahoes to assemble at THE Fort. On the day ap-
pointed for the treaty, the 18th September there
were not far from seven hundred Arapahoes on the
: ground and but about fifty Cheyennes some wo-
men, children, and few superannqated braves,
whose lodges have stood near Bent's all the sea-
son. A few Apaches appeared just to beg some
food and more forlorn looking crowd than they
could hardly be imagined.
| Deliberations were commenced on the 16th. Lit
tie more was done than to fill the huge paunehes
, of several chiefs with bacon, coffee, bread and
} sugar, and their heads with exceedingly elevated
notions of the goodness and greatness 81 their
great father. Nobody got drunk, az whisky was
& one of the articles not sent ont by Government
| On the 18th uitimo, the wagons were opened and
third Of the goods lately arrived were dstri-
! buted to the Indians present. Blankets, shirts,
/, cloth, cooking utensils, scissors, knives combs,
!, ETC., found quick market Bacon, -four, sugar
and coffee also rejoced the eyes Of the poor In
dans.a :" talk u was had with the Arapahoe
|, chiefs, Little Raven, Storm, Left Hand and Big
!, Mouth, with reference to their settling down and
i | living like white men on lands reserved for them.
They expressed their willingness to do so hut the
lands were not agreed upon Medals, on which
Old Bucks head stood ont IN bold relief, were pre-
scented to Little Raven and Storm by the ComTnis.
Y sioner, accompanied with appropriate speeches,
4 and responded to in choice Arapahoe. Some M
i principled and wicked wag gave to others Of the
Big lniins y campaign medals of the Douglasand
Johnson, and also of the Lincoln and Hainn stripe,
telling them that they were sent out by the man
who would soon be their great father. The braves
were delighted, and expressed their thanks by an
a, indefinite number of /" How's.'
i In the evening there was grand dance after
the Indian fashion the scalp Of unfortunate
IAWlee, taken from the owner on u late i0faY.
= Their dancing would not be admissible at Will
lards or on Fifth avenue: and their music sounded
Ps,id ha loud d. note ss,, e hungry swine
o. In the evening, twelve Cheyenne Chiefs came
y in stating that their band was about fifteen days
travel behind them, and was engaged in preparing
U bufaic robes for trade and drying the meat FOR
their own use, and making short marches each
day Black Kettle, and white Antelope" were
the only head men of those who came in, and The
next day talk was had with them and the Ara
nahoe Chiefs together. L resulted as follows
The Indians see that game is becoming very scarce
on their hunting grounds, and that subsistence
: from the proceeds OF the chase ia extremely pre-
carious, and accordingly desire to quit wild life,
and to cultivate the ground and live like the white
man. They will give up their claim TO the eoun-
try, If their great papa will send men TO teach them
how to work, and put them on land where they
u can farm suecessfnp5'.5 They want the privilege
OF going to the monntafs1Snear Golden City ID
cut lodge poles and also tfS same ground for
a buffalo hunting that they have at pFessHf.
Il was finally decided that d reservation COM
mencing at the mouth of Sandy creek and follow
4 ing the New Mexican boundary to where D line
te due north would cross the Arkansas five miles be-
+, | low the mouth of the Huarfano, thence due north
to Sandy creek and down Sandy creek to point
begun at. The reservation is about one hundred
4. miles on the Arkansas river and embraces area
= of fifteen hundred square miles The treaty was
: merely a verbal one, as the Cheyenne chiefs would
be Obliged to consult all the braves of the tribe
before they could afix their unique autograph to-
n the precious documents. The Arapahoes were
y satisfied with the terms offered On the part of
u Uncle Sam annuity of $4,000 for fifteen years
is to be given, and farmers, missionaries and
70 teachers to be sent among them. White men are
to be prohibited from settling on the reservations,
and the Indians on it to be protected from the ag-
gressions of hostile tribes. The papers are to be
sent out for signature, either this autumn next
spring probabyfnot until the latter period. 1t
will be work Of much difficulty to get these In
dians TO live aud cultivate the soil like white men.
: doubt il the Commissioner has accomplished
anything that will not have to be done over next
Enh hth Fnrhi 10 F.. g.
The Creeks Choctaws and Cherokees are point
ed out as examples of what has been done In the
way of civilizng the red man. but they not
so thoroughly acjh az were those of the Far West.
Their concessions it is half believed, were made
more to secure the presents that were given to
) them and will be forthcoming hereafter. little
has been done. however. in getting them verbally
to agree to yield their interest in the gold region
! II treaty can be concluded any time within six
months or year, and the Araphoes and Gheyen-
mes placed on O reservation, and made to work
within ten years, even, it will be doing something
for the good of Pixies Peak. But at present the
commission of Judge Greenwood must be looked
upon as half failure
Col. W. w. Bent has resigned his post of Indian
Agent for the Upper Arkansas District, and left
with the Commissioner for Kansas City and St.
Louis Who will be his successor is not yet deter
mined.
Col. A. G. Boone, of Denver, formerly of Vest
port. NO., is asked for by the Indians and recon-
mended by those who know his fitness for the
position A better than he could not be found
| and it is to be hoped, for the good Of the abort
ginals, that he may receive the appointment. A
grandson of Daniel Boone. of historic fame and
possessing much OF the sagacity and shrewdness
that characterized the veteran of the Kentucky
woods, and having been nearly forty years in the
Indian business of the frontier, his antecedents
speak well for him.
MELANCHOLY FATE OF A MIssIosAgY,s WIFE.-On
the llth September, the bark Punjaub, of snnder-
land, having on board passengers French
missionary, (the Rev. A. abonsset) his wife and
six children, struck on the Seven Stones, between
the Scly Islands and the Lizard, three times The
longhoat was got out; and after great exertion
four children were got into her, but the wife OF
the Rev. A. Abousset could not be taken from the
rigging. Seeing that the vessel was sinking fast,
the captain and remainder Of the crew went into
the boat, and still tried to extfeate Mrs. Abonssat
from her perilons position, but could not succeed,
Shortly after the vessel sank, Mrs Abousset go
ing down with 1t in the sight and amid the screams
of her husband and children. The two boats were
afterwards picked up. N. Abousset had been Ia
boring in Southern Africa since 1882, on behalf Of
the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society. He had
no time 10 anything. Mrs. Abonssat was an
English lady, about As years Of age.
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