The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-25

his prosoand peninence snd cpaaritious for pot being ah,e e Ind them, and ask in purchasing prosisioas and faFa<e for them and in paying sick soldiers dis charged, all bis own moneys and to keep the same moneys on hand st the anne time, b use in some other way for their benefit
 Xi. He apologies to them fns nos being able to create a world out of noth- ing and to transport monry to the Choc- tas Nation ont of Treasury guarded by Mir. Memminger, upon a simple re- quest transmitted hy telegraph. He equsaly spologises for having permitted superior cfficeTs and a horde of vaga- bonds to take and appropriate to them selves the arms and supplies, for the want of which the white men of hts con- mand are unarmed. lean and hsggar with hunger and Restitution, their horses skeletons, and themselves naked, bare foot and destitute Of everything.
 XII. He apologies to them fr beins in the command of the Indian coun-ry 1: for the necessity of doing anything to secure the country to the ConfedeTacy ; for tie outrage committed on them by Providence, in making any Indian ooun- try at all; for his severity and harshness in punishing them without sentence of Court artiai, for the most innocent and even laudable acuops; sr enclosing himself with a chain of senuneis. and allowing no soldier to have access to him for listening to no complaints. giving them no information, and refusing to prepare papers for them. and relieve them and their officers from duty and especially foy his own idleness, while they have raised so many monuments nt their industry. until their tolls and hard ships have brought upon them a prema- ture old age.
 XIII. He is greatly grieved that they have been compelled to remain so long in the service and regrets thas each of them could not have been fortunately blessed with some of the diseases, so prevalent at Fort McCulloeh. and for which many less deserving citizens have been discharged; and he has been pro foundly impressed with . sense of .he unjust partiality of Providence, in be- slowing on SO many others and not on them, the welcome boons of fnguinal hernia, Phthisis pulmonalis, Hepatitis chronicus c sstritis chronicus, and Gen. eral Debility by which each Of the tor tunase reeipicn's of these blessings in disguise was unil for duty precisely forty days.
 KY. He regrets that there is nothing in the Regulations or the Articles of War that enables all the free citizens of a country to be in the army and a, home at the same time. to h ve money paid them when there is none, 10 relieve them from eating beef a, all, and give them bacon every day in the week, and to enable them to toil and light for their in- dependence. by proxy. He comedies with them for their unheard of cruelties, admires their cheerful cons,ancy ana patience under them, and is profoundly penetrated with sense of their unprece- dented gratitude
 NV. He regrets the unheard of hard- ships. to which the men have been sub jected. in performing picket-duty and standing guard; and the ruinous conse- quences to their health and constitution, of the immense labor done by them on the feldworks; which, in their presen, condition, will always remain as the strongest evidence of what a patriotic army can do aud endure, when if has in- dependence in view, a home to fight for and an extra ration of coffee in prospect By order of Brigadier-General Albert Pike, Commanding Department of h. dian Territory:
 C. A. SCHwARZMAN, Major and Assfsfasf AdjNkanf- General