Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-08
LETTERFROM RICHMOND.

RICHMOND, June In the Senate, to-day
the Joint resolution to provide tor the election
of q county Judge for the county of Northamp-
ton, was agreed to.
The House bill to incorporate the Piedmont
and Potomac railroad company, with the dlss-
preemeut of the House of Delegates to certain
amendments of the Senate, was laid over.
Bills were reported to incorporate the Rock
inpham Home Mutual Fire Insurance COM
pany to incorporate the Virginia and North
western railroad company for the relief OF the !
Merchants bank of Lynchburg authorizing |
the VIRGINIA Military Institute to borrow money |
| and to secure the payment OF the same; to
amend an act establishing district free schools
10 the county OF King George; to provide for
filing vacancies in the office Of superintendent
oil the poor.
The bill to establish system of public Tree
schools was taken up and amended, by PROVO
ing that mo dwelling, yard, garden or orchard
shall be invaded, nor in an Incorporated village
apy space within five hundred feet OF man,
sion house, without the onsent OF the owner,
be used for the erection OF school house, Or
used tor school purposes.
An amendment striking out the provision,
preventing white and colored children from be,
ipg taught in tho same schools: vas deleatea
by decided majority and the consideration OF
the bill then passed by.
Bills were introduced concerning pliotago CD
the Potomac and Incorporating the LYhch-
burg Banking and Insurance Company. ,,o
The House OF Delegates passed the Con,
solida!ion bill" without amendment, by vote
of 81 10 SO. So this vexed question IS endeo:;
Senate bill charterlng the Virginia Cane and
Fibre company, was referred. 49,
, X. NJ. Keyscr, OF Page county, qua!lued as
a member. A.
A resolution for two daily sessions OF the
House was tabled.
The examination into the forgery and 1raud
case in which MIR. Chahoon is involved, was TO-
day POSTPONED until Friday on account OF the
indispositon of Gov. Wise.
Information has been received here or the
death of the eldest brother OF the late hon.
W. &, RiVes, which occurred in Cincinnati a
lew days ago.
RED CLOUDS SPEECH, at the lndlan Coun-
ell, in Washington, yesterday
ST came from where the sun sets You
were raised on chairs l want to sit where the
sun SETS Here the Indian warrior sat upon
the floor, in Indian fashion, and PROCEEDED;
The Great Spirit has raised me this way nc
! raised me naked. run no opposition TO thf
Great Father who sits in the White House; l
don't want TO fight. have offered my prayer
to the Great Father that might come here
safe and we'll. What l have to say to you
J and 10 these men, ana 70 my Great Father Is
, this: Look at me- was raised where the
sun rises, and nov come from where lie SEES
Tn, nation which has the bow aud arrow the
red ncu and the whites, were ralseI togethe r
in this laud. =, :.
Whose voice was rsG heard in this land? 1t
was the rcd people who used the bow, The
Great Fl,hcr may BE- good and kind, but can
sec it, ain COOL and kind to the white peo
pc ana have given M lands, and have no"
come from where the sun sets 10 sec yau LIE
, Great Father has sent his people out there hna
, Ictt me nothing but an island. Our natl"n Is
melting away ike the snow on The SIDE OF 'he
hills where the sun is warm, while Your people
nre like the blades of grass in spring when sum
mcr is coming don't want to see the white
people MAXIM roads in our country, Nov
hat I have co:nc unto my Great Father . an r
sec i. hsSe blood when len, rc;uth
on the blades Of grass about tho line OF Fort
l Fetterman fell the Great Father TO remove
that Tort, then we will be Deaceabe and there
will be no more trouble. | have got two moua'
tains in that country, Black Hctt and Big
Horn. | want no roads there. There have
, been stakes driven in that hat country, and L
want them removed. have told these things
three times, and have now come here to tell
item for the fourth time. have made up my
mind to talk that way. | don't want my re
sarva;ion on the Missouri. Some OF these pee
pie here arc from there, and know whutl say
| What hear is thai my children, and old men
are dying off like sheep. The country does
not salt them was born at the forks OF the
Platte. My father and mother told me that
the land there belonged to me. From the
North and the West the red nation has come
into the Great Fathers house. We are the
las. Of the Ogallaas. We have come to know
the facts from the Great Father why the pro-
misses which have been made to US have not
been kept. | want two or three traders that
we ask lor At the mouth OF Horse Creek, In
| 1852, there was treaty made and the man
who made that treaty (alluding 10 Gen. Mitchell,
who performed that service Tor the govern
mcnt) is the only one who told me the truth.
Goods which have been sent out to me have
been stolen all along the road, and only hand.
full would reach me to 20 among my nation.
| Look at me here. | am poor ard naked. |
was not raised with arms. always want to be
pcaceablc. The Great Spirit has raised you to
read and write, and has put papers before you
| but he has not raised me in that style. The
men whom tho President sends U.s. soldiers aud
all, have no sense and no heart. [ know it To-
day. What has been done in my country | did
| not ask. Inc whites are gong through my
country and killing game, and it is The Great
Fathers fault. You are the people who should
| keep peace. For the railroads you are passing
throug h my country L have not received even
so much as a brass ring for the land they occu-
py. wish you to tell that to my Great Faith
er. You whites make all the ammunition.
What is the reason you don't give i6 to me
Are You afraid am going to war? You are
great aud powerful, and | am only handful.
| [ 60 not want it for that purpose, but to kill
game with. | suppose I must at some time 60
| to farming, but | cannot do it right away
Each sentence OF this speech was received
| with loud grunts, denoting hearty applause
| from the Indians present.
MAsoNIC.-"On the evening OF May ID, y
says the London Times, Earl de Grey was in
stalled as Grand Master of English Free Ma.