Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-11-14
Gen. Pike's Mission to the Indians-Its
 Complete Success.

D01Htcu DV LI6 l IcSlucHb III A1olCn loobt ONiA missioner to the Indian Nations and Tribes west of Arkansas but received no official notification of the appointment until about the 10th of May
 The anxiety of the people on the frontier Tn regard especially to the Cherokees, induced Com missioner Pike not only to proceed as soon as possible to the Indian country, without going to Montgomery for instructions or waiting tor funds; but to proceed first to the Cherokee coun- try, contrary to his own desire, which was hrst to treat with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, Se- minoles and Creeks, and last with the Cherokees, with whom he did not expect to succeed at the | beginning.
 On the 18th of May he left Fort Smith, four persons only composing the party, and escorted by company of Arkansas Mounted Volunteers, who returned to Fort Smith from the Creek Agency.
 | On the 9th of June the Commissioner had an
 interview at Park Hill, with the chief of the | Cherokees, who adhered to his policy ot neu- trality. On the 6th after addressing him let ter, stating his propositions, and requesting it might be laid before the Executive Council, the Commissioner left Tahlequah, reached the Creek Agency on the 7th, and remained there until the 22d of June, waiting the converting of the National Council of the Creeks, fixed for the 25th by him, and of which notice was given throughout the nation.
 A council of Creeks, Seminoes, Cherokees. Shawnees, Delawares, and the wilder tribes, was in the meantime being held high up on the North l Fork of the Cana1ian to enter into arrange ments for remaining neutral, which was meant by the leaders to be equivalent to siding with the North It did make such an agreement. Vague ideas of independence, of increased dignity, of a union of all tribes, and the dictating of terms, were afoat all through the Indian country. An emissary from Kansas was among the Creeks, as has since been ascertained. The Shawnees, l Kickapoos and Deawares, all from the North, ! were disaffected and adhered to the North, and influential Creeks, influenced by Mr. Ross, the Cherokee Chief, strongly urged neutrality-par | ticularly Ben Marshall, large slave owner
 lmong the lower or Arkansas Creeks and Ho-
 poi-ilth-thli Yahola, among the Upper Greeks,
 ,nce National Speaker, and brought from Aa-
 ,ama in 1886. or little later, in chains.
 On the 27th of June Commissioner Pike at
 ended the Creek National Council, near the
 North Fork village, and made them a long talk,
 sxplaining the controversy between us a2d the
 North and urging them to unite with us.
 delegation of Seminoles, headed by John Jun per, or Hiniha Niece, the principal chief, was
 present. and also the delegates, thirty-one in
 number, sent from the Choctaw and Chickasaw 1 Nations to conclude treaty
 Ho-poi-ilththli YahoIa, remembering the in-
 lignities he had suffered, opposed making treaty, in the discussions that followed on subse 1 1uent days, and at last withdrew from the coun- l il with his young men, and returned home- l The council then unanimously determined to go l with the South, and appointed committee to 'eceive the Commissioners propositions and ne l 5otiate treaty.
 | On the 10th of July treaty was signed with
 he Creeks, and on the 2th with the Choctaws
 md Chickasaws We learn that not only great
 airness was displayed by all the delegates, but
 hat they and the people generally acted in a
 manner so frank and loyal as to entitle them to
 our respect and perpetual friendship.
 These nations, as well as the Seminole3 and
 Cherokees, had large annuities and large debts l lue them by the United States, to be forfeited,
 Df course, by siding with us. Our success of
 course seemed to them uncertain, our capacity
 to maintain the conflict for any length of time
 very doubtful. They knew the United States
 ehieAy by their power, their great cities, their
 wealth, their vast population. They were them
 selves small tribes, easily to be crushed Besides
 hey had all been compelled to give up their
 ands east of the Mississippi to build up the
 yery States that now sought to convince them
 of their friendship and good faith; and many of
 hem bore on their persons the scars of wounds ! inflicted in wars with us, and some those of fet- CTS, the recollection of which was still bitter. 1 Nevertheless, in spite of all open and secret
 influences, the two treaties were made, and seem o have given almost universal satishction.- l The Creek treaty was ratified in General CounI
 il or the 2Oth of July, the chiefs of every town the Nation signing it. The Choctaw and 1 jhckasaw treaty was soon after ratified by the l ;hiclasaws, and has no doubt been ratified by l he Choctaw Legislature, which met on the first
 Monday in October
 On the 2lst of July the Commissioner reach l ed the Seminole agency. On the next day he l made his talk to the Seminoles, and on the day l liter to a number of chiefs and head men of the l Comanches, and other Reserve Indians settled 1 n the country west of the 98th parallel of lon l ,itude, leased by the Government from the Choc 1 avs and Chickasaws for their use, and who had 1 .ome to meet him at his request sent from the l North Fork.
 Mott Knnard, the principal chief of the l Jreeks and several delegates, were also pre- ent, attending at the request of the Commis- l oner; and with John Jumper and delegation 1 f Semnoles, went with him afterwards to the 1 Wichita or Reserve Agency near Fort Cobb | Mai. Elias Rector, the Superintendent of Indian | .ffairs was also present, and also accompanied he Commissioner to the Reserve Agency. On the lst of August the Seminole treaty was igned in the presence of the National Council. Having sent messenger to invite the chiefs ,fsome bands of the wild or prairie Comanches, o come in and meet him, and learning that l hey would do so, the Commissioner left the Se- ninole Agency on the Sd, and reached the