Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-25
Friends Meeting.

Yesterday morning a party Of $50 Friends
from Indiana, consisting Of men, women, and
children arrived in this city over the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad on their way to their
annual meeting, which takes place on the 3lst
instant at New Garden, near Greensboro
Gullford county, North Carolina. The party
remained about the Baltimore and Ohio depot
for some time, waiting for transportation ar
rangements, and attracted much attention by
their simple and unaffected manners. They
arc plaiuly dressed, honest.lookiDg set of peo-
ple-the men being in homespun, with broad
brimmtd hats and wide coat skirts, the women
in plain but neat dresses with hod shaped bon
nets, and many of them bearing chubby faced
children 10 their arms. They appear to mind
their own business, SO much 50 as to be almost
clannish, keeping to themselves, although po
lite aud respectful when addressed They are
from various parts of the State of Indiana.
These yearly meetings of the Friends cor.
respond to the church conferences Of other de-
nominations, when all their church affairs are
discussed, all being on an equality, with DO
delegates, and no particular preference shown
to one Individual more than another. The ex
curslon is under the management Of Friend Ad-
olson Coffin, a jolly large man, and who seems
we'll calculated to carry it through successfully,
being constantly on the alert to the wants of
ALL Round trip tickets have been obtained
from indianapolis, good for one year. The
meeting will continue in session about one week,
when most of the excurslonists will return by
way of this city. The party took the train to
Richmond at .. 80 o'clock p. NJ Washington
Chronicle.
THE INDIANS AND THE PRESIDENT The
delegation of Crow and Ute IudiaBs,. accompa-
MED by the Secretary of the Interior, and the
Commissioner Of Indian Affair, paid their re-
spects to President Grant yesterday. Blackfoot,
chief Of the Grows, said to him that his tribe
had always been friendly with the whites The
bones of Crows and United States soldiers lie
together, the men having fallen in warfare
against the Sioux.
The President expressed his pleasure in
knowing that the Crows had always been our
friends, and had no doubt they would continue
of that mind. He counseled them to cultivate
their soil aud engage 10 the pursuits of the
white men, 10 order that they might be ready
to support themselves without their care, and
be ready to meet the tide of immigration to-
ward their country, promising them that the
government would always be prompt to extend
its assistance to them. The President subse-
quently accompanied the Indians to the green
house and presented them to Mrs. Grant and
her daughter.
Uray, chief of the Utes, said that as the
President was his father, Mrs. Grant must be
bis mother, and, as consequence, Miss Nellie
Grant his sister.
While on visit to the navy yard during the
6riog of Gatlng and other guns, and the parade
of soldiers in the presence of the Indians the
wife of Blackfoot propounded question,
"Wby do you not bring such guns against the
Sioux, aud why don t the soldiers march against
the Sioux as they are marching now.