The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-28

Sixth Infantry at Huntsville.
Orders have been telegraphed to the
captain of the Franklin to proceed TO New
\ ork instead of to Hampton Roads, and
deliver Tweed to the New York State au-
thorities. The Journey will occupy about.
thlrty days.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
RED CLOUD AGENCY, September 49,
The Sioux came In to-day. Among the
prominent Indians present were Red Cloud,
Little Wound, Swift Bear, Red Leaf,
White Sail, Sitting Bull, Pretty Grow,
Dressy, Young Man Afraid of his Horses
and Quick Bear. Many officers from Camp
Robinson attended the council, which
ias ed Tor two hOuIs. Red Cloud made the
first speech. He said he and his people
wee willing to give up the Black Hills
country; also TO have his young men take
Il journey to see the country spoken of as
the Indian Territory, and if they report 1t
good country his people will so consider
and if they report it bad, they will cousid-
or it bad. Quick Bear said when the
young men got back from that country the
Indians would 60 to Washington with
their agents and chiefs and interpreters
and have talk with the great father be-
who is an Ogalala Sioux, said: II have a
judgment against the agent. If he issue
every ten days, all right if he don't will
go North" Young Man Afraid of His
Horses said: My father shook hands
| with the gr' at father on the Platte, and
vas told this country belonged to the Da-
kotahs. l WAS brought up in this Country
| 10 be a chief. The soldiers have had no
concern in this country since have been
here. and tried to do right. wish to tell
You plainly that have been ashamed since
the soldiers Game here, and SAT down.
wish you, my friends, who have brains and
hearts would tell my great father what my
opinion Is, and what | have said. | agree
to The young men going on the journey,
but We are going to ask the great father to
agree to many things, and we expect to
have food and blankets as long as we live.
TIe great father has not lived up to his
promises in the past" American Horse
said: THE soldiers have no business here
IT they want to arrest anybody the country
is WIDE, let them go and arrest them.
There is great many bad men in the
North, let tine soldiers go and arrest them. "
! Daughter Oh the part of the Indians. }
Here Red Cloud took Mr.. Daniels, Major
| Harvard and Joseph Bis NETT and led them
among the chiefs, and said he wanted them
to do his business for him, and 90 to the
Southern country with his young men and
also wanted F. G. Boulher, Antonio Jonts,
Bul LOwland, Hand Cliff I'd, Todd Randall
nj n. Morgan 10 go rs interpreters. Red
! Dog said the Indians were not willing to
sign any paper until the young
men got back and they have a
chance to go to Washington and
talk face to face with the great father.
Black Coal, chief OF the Arapahoes, said
his people had an equal right with the
Sioux to the Black Hills country, AMI i they
would want their share of the money re-
ceived for it; he was willing to go and
look at the southern country. Bishop
Wbipple replied to the Indians that the
great father required them to sign papers
| binding themselves to go to the Missouri
river; if they did not go to the Indian Ter
ritory they would get no more rations. He
urged them to consent at once To the pro-
posal and 60 to the Indian Territory upon
the return of the young men. Judge Gay
lord, solicitor of the Interior Department,
| followed to the same effect, urging prompt
action on their part in order to secure
tions in future. While he was talking, Sit
ting Bull, to whom the President gave a
fine rifle last year, broke up the council,
saying there would be plenty more days to
talk. Supplies were issued to the Indians
| for a feast tonight, and 1t is thought an
other council may be had tomorrow.
RED CLOUD, Sept. 22.-The attendance
of the Indians at the Council was much
larger. After a long talk the commits
sioners nearly consummated treaty with
the Sioux, Cheyennes and Arapahoes,
agreeing to the propositions made them on
the seventh instant, without the change of
single word. The propositions have
already been published in full.
| The Cheyennes and Arapahoes will not
I sign till tomorrow, after which the COM
uissioners start at once for the Spotted
| Tail Agency to consummate the treaty
there. To the surprise of the commits
sioners after the Indians had offered their
| signatures to the treaty they hung back,
and speeches were made by number of
them before they would touch the pen ana
make their mark.
Crow with a Good Voice refused to sign
the, treaty and walked away with quite II
show OF Indignation, but all the Others
who had been selected and were present
attix ed their cross to the paper, a copy o.
| which was given TO them at their request.
MoDILE, September 23.-The publishers
of the Register denounce as a forgery what
purperts 10 be an extract from thai journal,
now being quoted as John Forsyth's. The
| forgery reads: 1.-The grave question to be
settled at much cost is, what is IT, be done
to get off the negro as voter2 He will he
DISTINGUISHED, and thrust out of politics.
The white men of all parties and of all re-
| lgiuus or moral condition may come
quickly to the consideration how to get the
negro out of politics with the least confu-
sion and cost. He must go, and there Is no
profit in standing long ON the order of his
going. The question of suffrage belongs to
the States respectively. When the rnor-
ganized Democracy of 1876 go into Office,
each State will be allowed to settle this and
all other social and domestic issues for
itself, and in its own way, without any in
reference from. the general government. "
No such ancartiele ever appeared in the
| Register. On the contrary, the Register ad-
vocateu and aided in securing the ratifica-
| tionl If the existing CONSTITUTION, which
was Iramed-and adopted by Democrats, in
| which the following article is incorporated
as an organic law: No educational or
property qualification, suffrage or office,
nor any restraint upon the same, on ac-
| count of race, color or previous condition
of servitude. shall he made by law. Signed
by John l.. Rapier & Co., publishers of
the Mobile REGISTER.
| .AUeUsrA, Ga September 23.-Sx hun
dred cases of yellow fever at B,unswIck
Georgia. The people are in a mist desti-
fute condition, being without food, physi-
clans or nHrses. A dispatch states that it
is impossible TO exaggerate the frightfuI
condition vt Brunswick. Some of the peo-
| pie will die from starvation unless speedy
aid is rendered. 4
SAVANNAH, September 23-Total inter
I a. II
Ifever.
| CHAIR ESToN, September % NO epi-
demic so far. Tue scattering " How few r
cases are traced to persons who have con =
municated with the quarantine aud to refp-
/ gees from Savannah. There is no signs Of
its spreading.
| SAVANNAH, September s3.-At q meeting
of the Savannah Benevolent Association
Formerly the Metropolitan Fire Company,