The Van Buren press., 1870-11-15
has built unto himself, his friends and
foes, white pine shanty. by the unrufiied
stagnant waters of Russelrs Creek. IT'S

ridge, faced to the north with a wall of
sand stone. He hired men to dig him
wells. They dug two. One went down
through the shsle, the clay, thin coal
seam, coal, clay again, and lit and rested
on thin limestone. The other began in
the sandstone, continued eighteen feet in
the sandstone, and there rested in the
sandstone. Water drips collected. Boui-
mot called unto him his men and ex-
claimed, "Well done, ye good and faith
full diggers," And they lifted mp their
voices and yelped, "All's we'll" Where
at there were several pipes lit, but no
whskey, as the water was so good. The
The soil is made Of rotten leaves and
sandstone. mind me, in some Of the
by gone days of Van Buren, when our
people went a strawberrying and crap
ing, in a horticultural discussion between
Gov. Drew and VIM. Walker, chiefly
touching the rearing of grapevines-
Drew strenuously maintained the great
value of fiat rocks placed under the roots
of the vines. If such be good Boudinot,
and his vinedressers, will have the finest
vineyard in all the land, when they put
out their vines. Look out, Herbemont
Pray Bacchus the wine be not fiat nor
rocky. B. has also got a coal pit on his
place, near the house, in which he found
an eight inch seam of excellent coal |
believe, on farther trial, he will find
another and thicker seam under Then
won't he be a crate man. Charter Oaks
and other stoves will testify to his worth,
while blacksmith will gleefully offer him
their smutty digits. His place is named
Coalridge, after the great Bard, the man
who shot the Albatross His house there
is fuller of pleasant faces than his house
at the Factory, which place Uunclc Sam
has rented to the owls and the bats, who
are rolling tobacco quids.
From BIS. domicile you have most
righteous view of Chetopa. You see
three steeples and their churches very
plainly, but the saloons, the billiard
rooms and the turning lathes where the
honest pennies are picked up, arc in the
shadow. You only have the pious aspect
From the same spotyo have very ex-
tensive outlook over the broad, broken,
undulatng, now russet, rail way spanned
prairie, far to the south and west and
north But the scene is too monotonous
1t wearies. You see the windings of the
Neosho, with its fringes Of wood, now
and again climber hill, ~ one or two
mesas looming up from the plain but
you see no blue up-risings of hills, no
cosy coves, no dim glens, no flashing of
waters. And in the winter won't the
northers howl. The Arctic anthems will
be awful, and your ears would tinglc to
hear EN- DR.. Thruston got satisfied
with northers in Texas Ireckon Boudi
not will be satisfied with them at Coal
ridge.
One Morris, an eX-hon, and an EN-
ployed attorney for the Cherokees, in a
speech before the House Judiciary Com
mittee, 9th June last travelled out Of his
way to abuse Maj. Boudinot, and uttered
language concerning him false to Boudi-
not's actions, history and feelings. This
speech has by the enemies of Boudinot
been scattered broadcast over this com-
try, and therefore l need not quote his
epithets. They are unworthy an advo.
cate were made by man ignorant alike
of Boudinot's and Cherokee history;
were based on the defamation of Boudi
not made by his maligners; were deliver
ed behind Boudinot's back, and are so
so malicious and untrue that they evince
very vindictive spirit, and demonstrate
to all impartial minds that he, Morris, has
received some personal sting from Boudi-
not which he thus takes occasion to re
sent, hoping to execute his vengeance
through some ignorant and maddened
full blood /" | will refute some of this
mans speech as to Boudinots enmity
towards his people, and his alleged eff
forts to sell out" the Indians, by sim
ply stating that in the pages of the Com
pilation Of the Cherokee Lars, may be
found evidence of intent TO "sell out the
Nation" by some of the very men who
employed this attorney,te ten times stronger
than any act ever asserted against Boud-
not. These acts have been lately pub
lisbed aud can be read by all men Yet
BOudinot nor his friends ever branded
these men as traitors therefor. Their
attorney, however, has done So, implied
w II Buudinot be " traitor, how
much more so are they. But neither are
so. Again, the Records of the u $. Dis
trict Court, at Van ourcn, show, this day,
that Boudinot is the only Indian lawyer
who ever undertook to defend Indians
arraigned before that Court, maintained
the rights of the Indians under treaties
when invaded by the officials of that
Court. This he has often and earnestly
done, and that without reward. This
looks like cnmity to his people. Again,
this whole country can bear witness that
Boudinot's manufacture of tobacco, late
" violently destroyed by the Govern
ment, vas doing more for the improve
ment of industry and agriculture among
his people, was bringing them more