New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-02-19

| them in the determination 70 naVo tnohi
suited, and occasionally, to show there
was nothing mean about U.S. have sent them
Major Generals scalp. Moro than all this. we
have sent class of men to deal with them Win
whom in vigor and dash and grip for currency
the bounty-iumpers Of the late war bear no
comparison; and there, too, is Orviile Urant'
the brother of the President, only two re-
moves from the nude North American, taxing
toll and commission like patriot and phllah
thropist and member of the family. Anu
with all this the Indian is not happy.
Ho complains that there is not enough Oh
him, and that he cannot repeat as nc wouiu.
A noble Sioux. for instance, whose share or
the appropriation, before it goes through the
usual sweating process is about sufficient to
support q small family in Madison-ave hnds
that when the bounty which this great anu
glorious Government gives him for being red
in color and handy with hair, and wearing
only one garment, reaches him, it VIII hardiy
buy drink of Orvile Grants commonest
whisky. So he moves away and organizes
another tribe. The Department oil the IN
terror hears of his dissatisfaction ana lorSh-
with sends a commission out to meet nm anu
negotiate with him. Discovered In the stage
of intOxicatlOn, at which the Imagination Is
most active and numbers are of small con-
sequence, he answers mathematical cohun-
drums in the large way OF q lord Oh the SOIL
The Department recognizes him as trioe
and calls him, for instance, the Ieton oiouA'
He says there are ] 400 lodges OF MN. Inc
DEPARTMENT at once estimates eight souls TO
lodge and computes him at 1890. What could
the Department do then but ask for an APP
propriation of 100000 for himi The amount
was voted. Parties were sent out from
tbe Department to find this Teton
Sioux and present him, on behalf of the Gov
eminent with 100000, less mileage and ex-
penses of the commission. Inc expedition
failed. The Teton Sioux, who was ll,2Oo, had
gone away. and the Committee, which COM
prised some Of the best talent in the Depart
mept. could not find him. They found another
one, however, who was reasonably SOBER, anu
was only about 5000 Teton Sioux. They came
back and made an appropriation OF S2oo'Vot TO
him. and sent it to him by the usual channels.
Nothing has since been heard Of him, but 1t Is
supposed that he got tired, as we'll of being 80
many as of waiting so long, and suffered abb
sorption into some tribe, or perhaps sea-
change into something rich and strange.
Nothing so kindes the enthusiasm OF the
Interior Department as the knowledge that
Teton Sioux is wandering through Montana
or Dakota in q state of savage unrest.
Immediately q committee from the Depart
nilent goes for the Teton, finds him nomadie
and disconnected, says to him, How many
L" art thou, TctonP" and conjures him by his
expectation of lodge in tho happy hunting
grounds to enter into treaty and consent to
accept an appropriation from the Government.
Having obtained his reluctant consent to
receive aid from the Oppres5or, the Depart
ment gets an appropriation and divides it
among deserving persons who support the
Administration on account Of its admirable
Indian policy.
Who would not, under such circumstances,
DO an Indian-Or at least an Indian agentg
Who would not unite with tho poet in the
aspiration, /" l want to be an Indian and with
" the Indians standT Let us mourn that the
red men are disappearing from the whisky
shops of the frontier but let US give the
Interior Department the credit it deserves for
making the most of them while they remain.