The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-14
WARRINGTON.
The Remains or Stevens ~ Sta,e-
Funeral ObSequies 90 rake FIaCe
TO.DaY-Indian Allalrss

WASHINGTON, August 13.-The re-
mains Of Stevens were carried, at
! noon to day. from his late residence
70 the rotunda of the Capitol, where
1 they will lie In state until O'Clock
to-morrow morning, when his funeral
obsequies will take place. The body
was attended by detachment of But
ler's Zouaves, a colored military
organization of this city, under Capt.
Hawkins, preceded by General Eakin,
Sergeant Arms Brown, Senator
Mcdonald, DIR. Gray, Chaplain of the
Senate, and few personal friends of
the deceased, were followed by some
forty or fifty others, principally color
ed people.
The coffin was carried by Messrs.
Chauncey and Rose, and several other
employees of the House of Repre-
sentatives, aided by Lewis West, Mr..
Stevens's old body servant. Arriving
at the Capitol, the cortege fled into
the rutunda, between lines of Capitol
police, who closed in after it, exclud-
ing the crowd until the coffin had
been placed on the stand prepared
for it, under the centre of the dome,
Immediately in front of the plaster
statue of Mr. Lincoln, and until the
attendant soldiers had stacked arms
and mounted guard, when the public
was admitted to view the remains.
Among those present were Senator
Patterson of Tennessee, Rev. DR..
Emory, and a considerable number of
employees of both Houses of Con-
gress; but the attendance was not
large.
The Commissioner of Indian Af-
fairs has received a report from In
dian Superintendent Thomas Il. Muir
ply, dated Atehison, Kansas, August
9th, enclosing two letters from John
Il. Tappan, who was member of the
late Peace Commission, dated respec-
lively July 18th and July 26th, aud
stating that the Kiowas had delivered
up to him, as q proof of their friend
ship for the whites, boy about four
years of age, and girl about thirteen
years old, and that he had handed
commanding the District Of Upper
Kansas.
The Comanches had also delivered
up to agent Wyncoop, without ran
som, a girl about nine years old. The
Comanchcs still hold one boy, which
they have promised to deliver up to
their new agent when he gives them
their annuities. They say positively
this is the only white captive now
held by the Kiowas and Comanches.
WAsHINGTON, August 13.-Colonel
5. III. Leavenworth, late Indian Agent
Of the Kiowa and Comanche tribes,
now IN this city, has received letter
from the Clerk, dated Eureka Valley,
stating that Mathew, a chief of the
| QuOehataqua band ofComanches, had
brought into the Agency boy named
Thomas Barley, who was taken at
Line Dick; he was captured in Au-
gust last They still hold Freeman.
The Indians and whites at the Agency
gave three horses and a pair Of re-
volvers for the release of Barley. At
the same time il was ascertained that
the Comanehes had secretly been to
Texas aud killed one man and cap
tured three boys and one girl named
McElroy. Mathew acknowledged he
/ had five more captives in camp,
in q conversation with Cheyenne
Jennie, a squaw residing at the agency,
/ He stated he had nine, two were
chiefs, however, one belonging to the
| NOconee band and the other to the
! Antelope Skinner band. He says
they know he has eleven in his camp,
and that there is a party of O.
manches, to the number Of twenty
one, now on raid in Texas. Another
band of that tribe was expected at
the agency every day from Texas.