The New York herald., 1875-09-27

sent in little request for historical sketches geoop
cal ana botanical specimens collections of rare ami
mails implements Of war, together with an article
the country and its pecuantios, covering thrtytwo
pages, and requiring an extensive acquaintance with
ancient and modern literature the sciences arts and
various departments of human knowledge For doing
this work and feeding and keeping peace with the In
dians whom the agent swindles and preventing up
rising and general massacre the said clerk receives the
enormous sum OF 5000 year nterspersed with fro
quent insinuations and rebukes My Information does
not come from Mr. Courtenay, but from others who
know what is going under the agency roof Courte-
nay and everybody know that the ratons are smanot
than third OF what they should be; but In Mr.
Sperys absence the Indians fare far better than when ho
here looking after his contracts and vouchers The
Indians speak we'll OF the clerk and they say
IL not for him they would be obliged to leave the
agency drive Sperry away. But 1t may be asked II
the clerk does most of the work. how is it that many
false entries and fraudulent papers are made out2
leave this question for Commissioner Smith TO answer
1t is not for to tell who reports irregularities" to
Washington. know that damaging statements have
been forwarded to the Interior Department and that
the abuses not reformed II an agent has com
peent clerk to do all of his legitimate work. he has
plenty of time and chances 10 manage his outside bus
ness such drawing his dividends from Indian goods
sold by his partner and preparing special vouchers for
transportation companies The Legitimate duties OF the
agency should not be confounded with Mr.. Sperrys
operations.
Mr. Courtenay's system of issuing supplies Is admir-
able He has brass checks like railroad baggage checks
They numbered and entered the rolls opposite
the Indians names If 'Black Cathshp has check
No 345 he draw his until presents it,
As each Indian receives his portion check mark Is
made against his name on the list The amount OF
rations now issued is as folows:-
THE RArIoNs
Six ounces of pork to each Indian week; three and
one-eghth pounds of flour, with coffee, sugar,
beef Last winter the issue was one beef animal to
sixty-four Indians, every fifteen days. one sack OF
-four to sixteen people every fifteen days. three pounds
OF pork also divided among four persons every f
teen days No sugar nor coffee were given except to
those who worked for and paid traders prices These
items show the proportion-the amount each man got
during a certain number OF days. When it is divided
into daily rations the amount is small.
The schedule OF issues has been revised Each In
dian n
three and one-eighth pounds Of flour, but no beef,
coffee sugar, except in wages for work
THE APPROPRIATION
for the three tribes this agency this year is SS5 000
There said to be about 900 Indians the reserva
tion who draw raons. From the day that Mr.. Sperry
first foot in the village he has been at war with the
Indians and opposed to living with them or near them
Finally after much letter writing and many journeys to
Washington, ho obtained permission to erect new
buildings on the river mile and half below With
framed houses and a new corps of assistants,
he expected 10 run his little empire to
the satisfaction Of himself and the joy of the depart
ment But this investigation business has destroyed
his schemes and now he sends in his resignation
which he had ought TO have done two years ago The
sword OF Damocles has not hung by single hair, but
be has been in real danger OF losing his scalp ever since
he began speculating ON the Indians labor That he
owes his life TO the faithful services of Judge Courte
nay no one doubts for an instant. When they have
been actually starving no has issued extra supplies,
and when they we're out Of fuel and the storms were
80 terrible that none could be hauled from the woods
ss ss'I 'o Uo sGras S , om nn the agency % pile Tor
fuses 70 listen 10 their complaints the clerk calls the
terprcter and waits patiently until their wants
made knOwn Then, u proper, he secs that they are
now TROUBLES ARISE
II Is difficult 10 prevent msunderstandinge which
NAV lead serious results even when both sides are
la the right | remember occasion, when an In
dian claimed pay or some hay that he had cut Courte
nay said that he had been paid Still he insisted that
he had not Then the receipt shown where he had
made bis mark, aud witnesses were called in TO provo
kven the interpreters tried to make the Indian
dersiand thai he had been paid They all remembered
The circamstance we'll Now, Mr., sperry would have
stopped hight IRE and driven the savage from the
hours "a explaining the matter determined TO do
justice, and he finally sent 10 distant part of the vii
age Tor chief who also present when the debt
said % have boon paid The warrior soon came bound
ms into NE oaice with smile on his face. The case
Was stated
yea said he ''you paid Yellow Horse for hay, but
Il Wa young lcio~ Horse This Is the old man By
s0ac oversight tie names Of tho two persons had been
good natare and paien investigation prevented trouble
The "old man 0urst into a laugh when he saw how 10
was and. shaking hands with tho clerk went out to
tcil the Joke 60 has frieEds Courtenay works from
eiEht ociock IN The morning until late al night After
hr bad rciieted the suffering Indians ia the winter
sporry came home and set terrific growl about
travagAnce.
He the man who 90, bis schoolmates and relatives
% leave ther homes ia the last and work tor HIM. He
uao thom colorod promises and said he would
that they should want for nothing When they ar
rived they Assigned quarters In the log
barracks Winter The winds howled
with desoatinF fury. The floors open and the
ceilings fa % creyccs Dust ratified down, and the
Carpenter around in few days, said the rcfJrmer
But the carpenter did not for weeks because tho
additions and Partitions aud carpets, while the wives
and children of has friends ~orc shiyerng with cold.
have heard them te q these things with their eyes
hashing aud bands cienched aud they asked II man
who broke hts promises 10 hs own KIN coad be ex
pccsod 20 keep faish with the Indians
HOS ruK rRKArkD EMPLoYEs
Mr. r. y Morgan, Of Panama, Chautauqua county
~ who married spcrrys cousin, was asked to be his
q waut you said the young agent 80 be my right
hand man We viii run thngs IN Christian way, and
vii give you a. 900 year Morgan is an intelligent
and accomplished They ~ the agency lie
worked Tor the agent long he could without mort
gaging ms soul and body 10 the man, then he went
hack Esst sporty reduced hs wages until they were
only Syo0 lie charged himself his Wlfo and child
$500 for board thai he had nothing for his
And ~ AZ THIS very time, The sham reiormer
stealing goyurnmrni provisions tor his aud pocket
ing tho procceds This h only one instance of the
BONG ist " ouirasea pefeAied on NJ Morgan aud his
Lass summer James boyle, former employ6 At tho
agency, was ordered 81 tho reservation he saddlcd
hls horse aud The point of LEAVING when sperry
came and asked him what ho came thoro for No
said % 49, hs Indian wife fhon he ordered TO
not 10 uni hc 70, ready spcrry saw that he could 30
uothluE alone. De- called Indians who did
h"t hAh bnle an hAl thcm dfite nm away fOr
doing ths he gave them according 20 their own state
ucnt one SAGA ~ noar side o bacon, nilcen pounds
Of sugar and ten pounds of coffee sperry told him
thai he bad orders nom hasliugun 10 drive hm from
tho agency. and o. nece-sary call thc military
far asa Dor ths beueat Of she taxpayers viii
say ttaf Boyle Lad hls eye evidence
afaiuEt -psrfy, and be- already ha1 knowicdge Of
some Of b. biauk voucher schemes she agent waniei
70 So rd o. him Tbs explains why the Rev. \. r.
nn.ith Eavr I.ermssiuu o. order nut the .litary
NJ Maigury, 40 u1 cmpiUyt, hauled some cOlec Cor
TIE agency last fall H. states positively That because
une uf 10 package came open in ihs n4uun and a
pvrtiou uf M ruase spllfd slcrry charged him fu
aul made 80 enifg ci ie mpuHy IN the agency books
Aoeu' 90 msanesi th'us ihat spefry has ever done
y Via ID thn nlutnf NhUu thr weather very
cold and the luaeAs sncamped up
the rftr m Nsf Nluicf Quafiers, 10 killed
q lui ~ tutT Catlir fnf hume use and
cent lhem tha euiras. hnoa ant horns have
sen the men u1o 90 ~ haulng ant tlfy say they
could bardY af az sirarA r.ifrfsciion had gsns
faf tls erathef o1ll Nai tle rfiasf maitcr bad
sln n hfaIf an1 aUif tue tufafe oI tha cnmroEt
ifntHn lnaflran i0ais aIa go rEcofl rparry pad
W me1 irp.u a. tn a. ltl fur asslsirE the IN
fsinoas iaaoai iu unuff. Uos in enifas-hut - pro
fisianf lhsi leIenrei fa tla intiaaH IhH IA shy NJ
rItffF 1ffsus kft tfGanir4 us kuaes ttat dars
efs aft aeaFt pu hln. he kngas ilai a. snf hour
he nay O. tNaAenfd nf tht sase e hhis PEI ht hair
1al AaF siiaH tlm uertf nat iua ana Naa SO ouy