Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-07-16

tepritv in the administration OF their affairs
well as to improve their general Condition, and
approaching fully the friendship and interest
which your society has ever maintained 10 their
behalf, directs m" to request that you VIII send
him list of names, members OF your society,
whom your society will endorse as suitable per.
SOUS for Iudiau Agents. Also TO assure you
that any attempt which may or can be made
by your society, for the Improvement, cduca-
ton and christianIZatiOn OF the Indians under
such agencies, will receive irOu HIM, a. FRESH
dent, all the encouragement aud protection
which the laws vi the u. 5. will warrant him
in giving.
Very respectfully, Your obt. serv't.
+. 5. PARKER,
Brevct Brig Gen, u. ;. 4.
In accordance with, aud IN response 10 the
above, We gave him list OF namcs, anu they
were appointed, and we took charge OF what Is
known AS the northern superlDtendcncy, chiefly
or wholly in the State of Nebraska, with head
quarters of Superintendent at Omaha. Oar
Orthodox Friends would not join with US but
upon Invitation to meet us at " ashlngton on Il
riyen day, went beforehand and choose the
middle superintendcucy 10 Kansas, and that Is
where the trouble is now. calling OH the mil
tary. The uorlhern supcrlnteudency lDclnda>
five agencies with five agents and their en-
uoyccs- farmers, mechanics, school teachers,
Ec, The pawnee agency was allotted to DaltI-
more Yearly Meeting, vi which we, AtvX#n-
drlans and Sandy Sprlug, and others I0rln a
mart, 1t is the largest agency Ui any one Of the
i've, and has a reservation oil fifteen miles vide
and thirty miles long, and containing about
29U, 900 acres of very rich prairie land, on
both sides of the loop fork of the Platte river,
in Nebraska, aud about llO miles west u
Omaha. and 90 west Of Columbus, Oh the
Union Pacific Railroad, to where The agency
buildings are situated, which consist OF iar"'
brick boarding school building, 100 by ~ act
about, two stories above he basement, where
the cooking and dining roslns are, the >:hoo
aud living ROOMS on the ueXt h00r, aud HE
odping rooms above The school CONSISTS O!
about 50 youag Indians. aud conducted on Tie
Normal labor plan, the children being Taught
to do all kinds OF house and gard work to sup
ply the school with the necessary vegetables,
and the work generally about such an establish
mcnt. There is also q figuring NIL! on the
agency formerly driven by steam, but recently
changed to a water ln, there being abundance
of water IL i stream By the mill, called Beaver
Creek. The dam was broken not long >lncc
by great treShet and not get repaired,
but which we urged to bc done. There are two
other day schools on the reservation Dear 10y -
a farm house where the farmer aoG his vile
live and employ the Indians 10 do the farm
work. They have POO acres OF sprung wheat.
winter wheat will not grow IN that couutryJ
which is good and promises tue yield hc
other farming processes are III good order.
There is also blacksmith, tin smith, carpcn-
ter, &C., there to instruct the young lndlanS III
all the arts of handycralt, each OF which have
Indian apprentices.
We agreed with the President when we ac-
copied the supcriutendency to send out a CON,
mittee every year to look after our agents aad
employees there which was the occas!on o! my
visit there at the present time.
There are two Indian villages on the rc&er-
vation,n which all the Indian men and women
(squaws) live except such Us arc engaged about
the schools and farm &c Those ;wu villages
are composed Of different bands OF lnGans, bi'
all of the Pawncc tribe. The Skedec band are II!
one village above. The other is ccmpo>ed
of three bands, VIZ: The Ch0wcc. klt-ka had.
and Peta- how-crard Pc;a means ulau III power,
and their head chief is pcta-!a-slala, !arse
formd, broad faced, and inc looking mau. There
are some s or 10 other subordinate chiefs AMI
soldiers or police The children and mcH about
the reservation buildings other than the VII
lagos, are clothed after the English or our own
fashion, but at the villages they are cIotacd III
the Indian style. or | should say not clothed
at all. The children under 10 TO y years arc
entirely in state Of nu lily. The babes pap
poose are either put into blanket anu sung
at the back Of the Nurse and carried about with
out hat, bonnet, or anything on the head, and
when asleep the head hangs oyer, the >un SIM
ing it hard in the face, or arc strapped TO a
board and the whole set up against the side OF
the tent or lodge, or strapped to the BACK OF
the mother or nursc-hcad bare and III the
sun, and all 20 barchcaded; men, women and
children The women all wear skirts down TO
the feet, but the men wear only u cloth, very
narrow, around the middle, put on like cur
nurses do the young children, and blanket
sung loosely around the shoulders OF any color
ESQ it is red Some few when dressed wore REQ
Ieggins like our horscmen 10 muddy weather,
but ordinarily 20 without anything, and II Is
amusing to sec them riding their popIcs. which
is very common. III full run, with neither sad
die or pautalouns, their bare legs hanging down
the horses sides Their lodges or tents are
elaborate, made Of poles set up cndwlSc and
dashed together end cross dashed, running up
to a considerable hight, with a hole III the top
to let out the smoke aud the light IN, the only
means they have Of lighting the lodge The
entrance to it is on the south side with an Gu
try or gangway 10 to Is feet in length, not high
enough 10 stand up straight, aud some kind OF
door at the out end and a blanket at the IN
end where it enters the lodge. y hole III the
ground in the center is the ire place, with two
erotches and pole across to hang the cooking
utensils on. | measured one lodge OF one OF
the chiefs, and it was 10 feet across on the III
side. They are all covered with dirt and pre-,
sent at distance the appearance OF an old
stack yard-the stacks nearly rottcd down
The country is so level aud treelcss that these
villages and everything else Gao be seen Tor
many miles around. I. Gll1lSGhAA.
Accotink, Va. 9TH mo-, 1874.
Bishop SOuthgate'S Sermon.