The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-30
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I'll. Stevens ksi retired from tho Des Moines
Commonwealth, Hs ID succeeded BY Russell,
B.usman 1 els,mcns. ! Mr.. Bsasman h editor. y
The iowa City Press gives an account Of &
difficult surgical operation performed in that
CITY. Il seems that about FIVE years ago little
girl was attacked with scarlet fever, followed by
ulceroas sore mouth, and in healing, the rides of
the face adhered to the jaws, 90 that she could
only be fed BY removing tooth. An operation
asperfortned by Dr.. White, Of that city, assist
ed by three others. The ehild's mouth is now
open and she is doing we'll. e9t a',
FLVD At 4 DncoCSr.-Last week no less than
fifteen liquor sellers in this city were indicted
40 nuisances, and bound over in the sum Of FIVE
hundred dollars each. or course it created
quite disturbance among the dealers in cam
phene cocktails.-[Des Moines Commonwealth:
The building committee connected with the
Iowa City University have commenced to build
s" boarding hall.n-tPre~. .I Q ais''''sl "a I
The Waterloo Courier says the cars on the
Dubuque road we're to run to that point on the
It'll. ,5e ,.5tsat, ~. al a.,es Is 81 Bssigs saai
q SwIxDLlNa THE IsD,Ass-Under the new
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, william P. Dole,
Of Illinois, who may be presumed 20 be man Of
average honesty, il is to be hoped that the def
partment will bave thorough overhauling and
purgation.. If accounts are true it is the most
corrupt Of any Of the established arrangements
for robbing the United States Treasury under
false pretenses. The Indian Bureau disburses
between Eve and six million dollars annually,
nominslly for the benefit of the Indian tribes,
and within thirty years has spent two hundred
million dollars for them, and there is every rea.
son to believe that at least half this money has
been stolen by the agents of the government,
and the other half SO expended as to be q curse
rather than benefit to the Indians. One of the
officials in the Indian department. recently de-
clared it "a miserable, thieving concern from
end to end" No;sgents Of the government get
rich as fast as the Indian agents, and the system
of fraud has become so gross and notorious that
the Indians hold the agents and the government
they represent in supreme contempt This is
one chief cause Of the difficulties with the In.
dams, which have made an almost constant bor-
der war necessary A Washington correspon-
dent of the New York Tribune, who seems to
speak by the book, exposes some Of these frauds
upon the Indians and the government, which
are SO common that they may be justly set down
| as the ordinary habit and routine of the depart
ment - ,,sf
about the yea, 1850 Congress appropriated
$50 600 for the Pottawattamies in Kansas, for
AGRICULTURAL purposes. luis lay III thS GSdbuiy
for several years, feeling willing to see to
its proper disbursement At the annual pay
ment OF the tribe in 1856, G. w. Ewing appear
ed on the ground with this money, and offered
to dsburse it per capita among the tribe, one
half for the other. To this the Indians demur-
red. After two days spent in negotiating, they
| finally gave him 80 900, when he was not enti-
tied to one cent The Indians took their part
| and squandered it. Not ono acre was ploughed
or. fenced, nor any agricultural implements pur-
chased with this money. Mr.. Ewing then came
| on to Washington, and demanded for his SER
vices. which we're voluntary on his part $50, 900.
Mr. Manypenny repudiated the claim, but it has
since been allowed and paid by the department.
The case of Richard Thompson's claim against
| the Menomonees, where a small service was rem
dercd voluntarily and, / believe, against the law,
claim was set up for it Cover $50, 600, and he
| actually got over $40, 900, notwithstanding the
Indians protested that they owed him nothing
| and Col. Manypenny resisted, and finally became
so angry that he resigned because of these nu-
Merous vlanies, being too honest to lend him
self to defraud the confding Indians. The
claim of Ewing g. Thompson, the same persons,
amounting to over $4,000, against the Shaw
nees, vas of a similar character, and was paid.
The claim of II. NJ. Rice, of $4,000, was re-
peatedy rejected by the Commissioner of In
dian Affairs, but was paid last month through
the management of Charles E.. Mix, chief clerk.
The Sac and Fox claims now before the In.
dian department amount to over $4,000, and
are being pressed for payment by Ewing and
others. These are Kansas Indians, and the
claims ought not to be allowed. The newspa-
pers are now announcing the threatening and
dangerous condition of the Otoe Indians in Ne
braska territory, and the inhabitants are calling
for troops to protect them. The news has just
apriv hnrn hat hn u
formerly clerk under Mix has run away with all
the Indian funds, said to be between $40, 900 and
$50, 1000, leaving the Indians entirely destitute
This catalogue might be continued indefinitely,
as every transaction has this coloring. Another
source of fraud, and one of the worst features
Of the case, is the contracts for furnishing goods
to the Indians These are managed by the chief
clerk OF the Indian Bureau, Nix. The dry goods
purchased annually amount to from $25O,OOO to
100000. One firm in New York has had this
contract for thirty years or more, and such are
the evils connected with the letting of these
contracts that no merchant pretends now to bid
| against them. Mix owns an excellent city resi-
dence, paid for; farm in Virginia we'll stocked
with horses, cattle, and slaves; has elegant car.
rlages and carriage servants has a family of
fourteen children, lives like nabob, and ali on
salary OF $4,000 per annum. Mix has been in
the department. about thirty years, and entered
poor from Connecticut. A short time ago he
declared in the hearing of one of the clerks,
who wrote down the remark at the time and re.
peated it, that he would rather see this govern
ment dissolved and the Union broken up than 20
be prevented from travelling in the free States
with his slaves" ..r
A Coop ONE.-Emerson Etheridge, of Ten
nessee in his great patriotic speech recantly,
was hurting back the anathemas of the South
ern extremists with tremendous power, when he
was interrupted by Leake, of Virginia, with the
question: " On which side are you speakng9"
Etheiidge turned 70 him and replied, without
hesitation: g am speaking on the side which
has few friends heron TIE side Of nau country ~