Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-08

needed for the service, at prices to be hSed by
a Board of naval officers was passed. The bli!
suspending work on the District Jail was also
passed.
The INDIAN REPORT The Indian Peace
Commission have unanimously agre d upon
their report, which will be laid before the Pres
ident as soon as it can be properly copied
The Commission begin by stating what, in TIER
Judgment, were the causes of the late Indian
war, and they say, under this head that the
primary cause was violation on our part OF 'he
Indian treaties. They specify that the build
ing of the military roads through the Powder
river country, and the ordering out OF the In
dams from the hunting grounds between the
Arkansas and the Platte rivers, were notable
violations The find, with respect to the
burning OF the he rnne village by Genera
Hancock, that he acted Il official reports made
to him by Mai. Douplas, which repor;s were
subsequently proved 10 be wholly false They
also found that the white settlers on the iron
tier had been guilty Of long-continued series
Of depredations upon the Indan reservations,
and that this was in part cular one Of the iu-
citing cause Of the war. They censure the
Overland Express company for lis order dirt Ct
ing employees to shoot down all Indians who
came near the posts, and thanked the nj itary
authorities for preventing Green Clay Smith,
Governor Of Montana from waglng unprovoked
war with his militia upon the Crow Indians,
with whom we haze always been at peace
They censure Congress for its tardy and lnefi-
Gent manner of dealing with the Indian ques-
ton, and the various missionary societies OF
the country for overlooking The home field and
turning their tention to the ends Of the earth.
They recommend that the Indian Bureau be
made q separate department., leaving Con-
gress to determine whether the head shall or
shall not be member of the Cabinet; that no
more money annuities be paid to the Indians,
but that Whatever is due them be expended in
buying agricultural Implements, food, and Goth
ing; that renewed efforts be made to promote civ
ilization among the various tribes; that all friend
ly Indians shall he controlled and dealt with
by civil the arm of the Government, through
the new department; that the power to declare
war with any tribe shall be vested solely in the
President; that any tribe assuming hostile
attitude. or refusing to keep the peace, shall,
by the President, be put under charge OF the
military that C'ngress designate time, not
later than Feb, 1869, when all the Indian agen,
cies and uperiGtendercies shall be declared va
cant, only the best men of the present il cam
bents to be reapponted; that Governors OF Ter.
ritories, who are generally politicians, should
not be made superlntr !ents; and that our In
dian intercourse laws De comp led and published
for general circulArion..
They also recommend The setting apart OF
two reservation exclusively for Indian occupa-
tion-that for the Southern ndi,ns being what
is now known as the Indian Terri Dry, and that
for the Northern Indians being the portion of
Dakota Territory bounded on the north by the
| forty-ffth parallel. east by the Missouri rlver,
south by Nebraska, and west By the one hun
dred and fourth meridian. They recommend,
| finally, that the Commission be continued, and
sent out in the spring o meet the Northern In
dams, who have expressed willingness to
| hold council at that time Wash. ErpreSS
| ARMED NEGROES IN THE SOUTH. Nine out
of every ten of the negroes to be seen daily on
our streets are EARNED and equipped" as the
| Radicals direct Some have huge budgeons,
some immense knives, some pistols OF every
pattern, while, by lar the larger number carry
at shoulder" or in, careless Or indifferent
manner, the regular Government musket, and
many of them with fixed tayonet Why the
negroes are thus armed the whites know not.
| There is certainly 10 cause for these hostile
acts on the part of the law abiding whites.
| These are carried abont with the negroes wher-
ever they 20, night aud day. It j. common
occurrence to hear firing al hours Of the night
in all parts of the city. Bullets have entered
several private residences within the past few
| days, going in close proximity to the sleeping
inmates. Notwithstanding all such positive
| violations OF law, 20 arrests have been made,
either by the military or the civil authorities,
so far as We have been able to learn. Such is
| Radical rule and ruin in Alabam -lMontqom.
cry Maiz
| No reunion of the Feoian Brotherhood has
yet taken place, as has been generally reported.
Gen. O. Neill simply assumed the presidency
of the Roberts wing, that position having been
relinquished by Colonel Roberts.
GOLD.