New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-08
BURNING WOODS IN EUROPE
East India Cotton Crop Improving
DEBATE ON ELECTION OF KING OF SPAIN
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MARKETS
WASHINGTON.


formations by she senate-Oregon Elec.
tlOa-Grover's Election Conceded by
Republicaes, but tho Lsglslsture
Claimed on Joint BallOt-Census Mos
shaps Pay Bill Goes to the President-
Aub.Treasury Balance-Red Clouds
Speech Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, June 7.-Internal revenue
receipts to-day nearly S5OO,00O.
The President has nominated Albert n.
Barney for Collector of Customs at Brazos
de Santiago, Texas.
The Republicans have favorable private
dispatches from Oregon.
The following.named officers were con.
frmed by the Senate to-day: Smith, Asses.
sor of the Eighth Virginia District; Greene,
Postmaster at Petersburg, Virginia; Slater
at Wythevilie, Virginia; Rose at Abingdon,
Virginia; J. J. McHenry. Macon, Missis-
sippi.
the election of Grover for Governor, but
claim the Legislature of Oregon by one ma
jority on joint ballot, thus securing the next
Senator. Nothing definite received through
the regular channel.
Sendte.-The Committee on Education re-.
ported adversely to the incorporation of a
blind asylum in the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Harris introduced bill granting the
right of way and lands to the Arkansas and
Delta Railroad.
The business of the Committee on Com
merce will be considered Tuesday next.
The consideration of the Indian appro-
priation bill was resumed and considered
until executive session, after which the
Senate adjourned.
House.-The. bill allowing Deputy Census
Marshals about fifty per cent increased pay,
goes to the President.
The currency bill ELECTED a long debate.
The House is in session tonight discussing
the subject
Sub Treasury balance sss, 166 900, of which
| 50 5S7, 900 is currency.
Senate The discussion in executive ses-
sion developed much more favorable feel
| ing toward ratification of the San Domingo
| treaty, than has heretofore been manifested.
| Red Cloud made speech to-day, at a
| of the Indian Commissioner, saying that he
| wanted Fort Fetterman removed, and the
| military taken out of his country. He de-
scribed the people who were sent there as
men who had no sense and no hearts. He
wants his reservation moved away
from the Missouri, and protests that
it is the whites, and not the
| Indians who have been unfriendly. He
made an earnest demand against the whites
| coming on the Black Hills and the Big Horn
Mountains, which he said belonged to him.
His people were melting away like the snow
| on the hill sides when the sun is warm
while the whites are like blades of grass
in spring, and were great and powerful.
| He wants 'ammenltlon.
| Thr speech was of great length, and was
| delivered while he was sitting on the hoOr.
1t is not at all probable that the government
will give them powder at present.
| The usual speeches were made by Messrs.
I Cox and Parker. Mr.. Cox said they could
not give the Indians powder until they were
| all at peace with the whites.
Franklin Beaumont has been confirmed
postmaster at Port Lavaca, Texas.
The Forrest City, of Rockport, Illinois,
| beat the O.ympics, of Washington, in the
game of base ball played in this city to-day,
by score of eight'tO seven.
| Red cloud delivered the following speech
| in the grand council held to-day:
81 come from where the sun sets; you
were raised on chairs; want to sit where
the sut sets (here the Indian warrior sal
upon the floor in Indian fashion, and pro
ceeded); the great spirit has raised me thi:
way: he raised me naked; run no opposi-
ton to the great father who sets in the
White House. don't want to fight l have
offered my prayer to the Great Father. Sc
that might come here safe and we'll. Wha
have to say to you, to these men, and t(
NV Great Father is this Look at me.
was raised where the sun rises, and now
come from where be sets, the nation which
is the bow and arrow. The red men an6
the whites were raised together on this land
| Whose voice was first heard on this land
1t was the red people. Who was the law
The Great Father may be good and kind
but can't see it. l am good and kind t
the white people, and have given my lands
and have now come from where the sui
sets to see you, the Great Father.
The Great Father has sent his people on
there, and they left me nothing but an is
land. Our nation is melting away like snow
on the side of the hills, where the SIN i
warm. while your people are like the blades
of grass in the spring, when summer i:
coming l don't want to see the white peo-
pie making roads in our country. Now tina
have come into my Great Fathers land
see if have any blood when return tC
my home. The white people hav'
sprinkled blood on the blades o!
grass about the line of Fort Fetterman
Tell the great father to remove that fort anc
there will be no more trouble. / have got
two mountains in that country, Black hiil
and Big Horn. / want no roads thefe
There have been stakes driven IN tna'
| country and I want them removed. 1 nave
| told these things three times, and now have
come here to tell them for fourth time.
| have made up my mind to talk that way.
| I don't wait my reservations on the his
| SOnrl. Some OF IIlteC pCopiC AANAiA NiASAN
and know what say. What | hear is my
children and old men are dying off like sheep
The country don't suit them. l was born al
the forks of the Platte. My father and
mother told me that the land there belor ged
to me from the north and the south, and ths
east and the west. The red nation has comt
into Great Fathers house. We are the las
of the Ogallalas.
We have come to know the facts from our
great father, why the promises which hsv'
been made to US have not been kept. l wan
two or three raiders, that we ask for at th'
mouth Of Horse creek. In 1852 there wa
a treaty made, and the man who made tbs.
treaty was alnding to General Mitchell
who performed that service for the govern
ment, is the only one who told me the truth
Goods which have been sent out to me hav
been stolen all along the road. and only
handful would reach me to go among m
nation. Look at me here. am poor AM