, 1872-12-31
there might be delivered at the Library foo1ns,
before noon tomorrow, 25, 600 Volumes
ONE OF THE LOST TRIBES.

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| ONE or THE LOST TRIBES.
Just before the adjournment OF the laat bes'
sion Of Congress- an appropriation OF S5oo oot
WAS made to be paid to tho Teton Sioux Indians,
and in tho struggle for the place of egent to dis
tribute the money Illinois was victorious. The
money was paid out during Inst summer aid
[ fall and now thoro nro men in Washington,
claiming to have personal knowledge Of the
fact, assoverating that there is no such trlbo OF
| Indians as the Teton Sioux. There must bo some
| mistake about this. The Teton Sioux are very
| large tribe. They are BY no means confined to
| any one location. Their range is very wide.
They may be found in the lumber districts Of
! Maine, and upon the distant streams Of Minno-
| sofa; they are numerous in Kansas, and the
members Of the tribe prosper amazingly in
Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. They
follow the game wherever it may be, and their
| scent is keen and never blunted The passage
! OF the appropriation WAS known to every Teton
in the United States, and they awaited the Paymas
ter with the impationce with which hungry men
esupposedto wait for dinner. The pretence that
there are no Tetons, or that they are but few in
number, is an absurdity. Had the appropriation
been sufficient to divide $1,000 per man, there
would have been Tetons enough to have claimed
all the millions that Congress might appropriate.
There iB hardly Congressional District in this
State that has not its Teton Sioux. They have
adopted the general habits Of civilization. They
understand politics, and are violently opposed to
Civil Service Reform. They understand the
strategy Of County Conventions They can
make any nomination that is paid for They
are prepared for any hunt that promises
game, and have no hesitation in sealp-
ing any opponent who does not employ
them. Last September, there was profitable
hunting in the woods Of Maine, and the Tetons
locked there from oven as far South as Caro-
lima. In October, they made grand hunt in
Pennsylvania, being the most successful display
OF their activity ever made in our history.
There were enough Totons employed in pub
fishing newspapers, some Of them very "big
lnjuns," to have taken three times the money.
The Tetons in Chicago arc too we'll known to ro~
qulre to be named, and these mpudent fellows
who deny that there is any such tribe can be
answered by the production Of enough sta1wart
warriors, whose tepees are pitched in Chicago,
to have justified an appropriation Of $50o, 900.
The question of tho propriety Of supporting
this tribe from tho Public Treasury is hardly
pertinent. As Elder Logan says, the Scripture
declares that he who does not take cure Of his |
own household is verse than IN infdel; and, un-
der these circumstan :es, Congress can hardlyre-
fuse to provide for the mea who make Congress-
men and Senators, and even, when occasion ro-
quires it, may make President It is true the |
President, in the case of the Philadelphia Post
Office, religiously adhered to the rules Of the
Civil Service, and disregarded the demands of
the Teton Sioux; but that was particular and
extraordinary case, and was no precedent to be
followed in other places. To deny the necessity
of large appropriations for the Teton Sioux
might peril the safety of the Republic; might
lead perhaps to the REIMBURSEMENT Of tho
blacks, and possibly to the Inauguration Of JEFF.
Davis President.