Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-15
PHASES OF THE INDIAN QUESTION.

PHASES OF THE INDIAN QUESTION.
The Black Hills country was included in the
treaty of 1868, with the Sioux, by which the ter
ritory Lying between the northern boundary
Of Nebraska and the forty-sxth parallel, and
bounded on the east by the Missouri, and west
by the one hundred and fourth degree of west
longitude, together with the reservations then
existing on the east side of the Missouri, was
set apart for the absolute and undisturbed
use and occupation of the Sioux for their
permanent home" In 1874 General Custer's
exploring expedition visited the Black Hills,
and in 1875 a scientific expedition under Pro-
fessor Walter P. Jenney, accompanied by a
military escort. Colonel Richard I. Dodge, of
the United States army. These expeditions
disclosed the fact that the Black Hills coun-
try, rich in mines, timber, and grazing was
unused by the Indians in whose reservation
the territory was situated. After them whites
poured into the country, against the orders of
General Crook, whose troops were too few in
number to keep them out, and when once in,
it was impossible to dislodge them. In the
fall of 1876 council was assembled at Red
Cloud Agency to negotiate the purchase of
the country, but concluded without making
any arrangements with the Indians, who be-
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affected left the agencies and joined in what
has become known as the 'Sitting Bull move
ment,'' and the war of 1876, led by Crazy
Horse and other Sioux chiefs, resulted in the
subduing of the tribes then on the war-path.
In the meanwhile the Black Hills had been
rapidly settled, rich mines had been found,
towns built, counties organized, and thousands
of people had made homes in the hills. There
have been many estimates Of the number of
Indians that were, in 100, in what we now
know as the United States, but none are sat-
isfactory. Indeed, even now estimates of
their number vary widely, the census of 1870
placing them at about $50, 900, while others
offer estimates which show that the Indian
population is about 100000. The more mod
crate place the number in the neighborhood of
275, 900 or 100000.
HUMAN ENDURANCE IN THE WATER
Men and animals are able to sustain them
selves for long distances, in the water, and
would do so oftener were they not incapacta-
ted, in regard to the former at least, by sheer
terror, as we'll as complete ignorance of their
real powers. Webb's wonderful endurance
will never be forgotten. But there are other
instances only less remarkable. Some years
since the second mate of a ship fell overheard
while in the act of hosting a sail. 1t was
blowing fresh the time was night, and the
place some miles out on the stormy German
ocean. The hardy fellow, nevertheless, man.
aged to gain the English coast. Brock, with
dozen other pilots, was plying for fares by
Yarmouth and as the main sheet was belay-
ed, sudden puff of wind upset the boat, when
presently all perished except Brock himself,
who from four in the afternoon of an October
evening to one the next morning, swan thir-
teen miles before he was able to hail vessel
at anchor in the offing. Animals themselves
are capable of swimming immense distances,
unable to rest by the way. A dog
recently swan thirty miles in America to re-
join his master. a mule and dog, washed
overheard in the Bay of Biscay, have been
known to make their way to the shore. A dog
swan ashore at the Cape of Good Hope, with
letter in it's mouth. The crew of the ship to
which the dog belonged all perished, which
they need not have done had they only ven-
tured to tread water as the dog did. AS
certain ship was laboring heavily in the trough
of the sea, it was found needful in order to
Tighten the vessel, to throw some troop horses
overheard. The poor things, my informant,
themselves abandoned, faced round and swan
for miles after the vessel.
REMARKABLE OATHs.-A few days ago,
in England, a Parsee, being called as wit
ness, and refusing to be sworn either upon the
Old or New Testament or the Koran, was
permitted to bind his conscience by holding.
openly in his hand sacred relic, which he
was accustomed to carry about his person, and
thus take the oath. The judge at the same
time remarked that, strictly speaking, Par
see should be sworn holding the tail of cow.
Tyler, in his History Of Oaths, says that Sir
James Macintosh told him that at Bombay he
once had cow brought into court for this
purpose. This would seem a good way to
swear milkman, but Parsee ought to be
sworn upon grammar. The twelve judges,
in Morgan's case, held that Mahometan
might swear upon the Koran. In Ormichu,d
v. Baker, it was held that Gentoo might be
sworn by touching the foot Of one of his
priets. In churchman's case, it was settled
that broken China saucer is essential to a Chi
naman's oath. The Israelite swears upon the
Pentateuch or Old Testament, with covered
head. The Bedouin grasps the middle tent
pole and swears by the life of the tent and
its owner. One form Of swearing among the
Scythians was by the royal heart.
The OLD NATIONAL PIKE-When General
Jackson, in 1929, journeyed from Nashville to
Washington, to take his seat as President Of
the United States. he travelled by stage coach
over the old national pike, that led over the
In the palmy days of coaching,
no post road in the country did so large busi-
ness as this splendid old highway, which open
ed the West and the Southwest to the East.
The wagons were SO numerous that the lead
ers of one team had their noses in the trough
at the end of the next wagon ahead of them;
and the coaches, drawn by four and six horses,
dashed along at a rate that would have made
IN English cOachman of the day mad with
envy. Besides the coaches and wagons, there
we're gentlemen travelling singly on horseback,
with all the accoutrements of their journey
packed in saddle-bags, and there were immense
1roves Of sheep and herds of cattle.
HUSBANDS AND WIvEs.-A good husband
makes a good wife. Some men can neither do
without wives nor with them ; they are wretch
I'd alone in what is called single blessedness,
md they make their homes miserable when
they get married. They are like Tompkin's dog,
which could not bear to be loose, and howled
when it was tied up. Happy bachelors are
likely to be happy husbands, and happy hus-
oand is the happiest of men. A well-matched
couple carry joyful life between them, as the
;wo spies carried the cluster of Eschol. They
Ire brace of birds of Paradise. They multi
ply their joys by sharing them, and lessen their
troubles by dividing them. This is fine arith-
netic The wagon of care rolls lightly along
IS they pull together, and when it drags little
heavily, or there's hitch anywhere, they love
each other all the more, and so tighten the labor.