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Show Latest lews EY TELEGRAPH LAST KIGKT. Secretary Cox on Indian Land. Sales. A Strange Couf.'.siou. Important Indian Address GENERAL. COX ON INDIAN LAND BALES. New York, 13. A IriLune dispatch says Secretary Cox stated in an interview inter-view with Judge Lawrence and others, who called to ascertain his position upon certain features of the Indian question, that he did not consider it policy for government to sell public lands in large tracts by treaty; that he believed there was no constitutional authority by treaty with the Indian tribes to sell lands which they hold by occupancy to railroad companies or others; and he would not favor making any such tieaty. Rut when such treaty sales had been made, the interior in-terior departmt-nt could not declare them vahd, but leave that to be decided de-cided by the courts. He said that prior to the time he came into the department, the act of Congress of June 2nd, 1S62, to establi.-h a patent office in Colorado had been constructed as extending pre-emption laws only over Colorado; but that he had held that it made all public lands to which the Indian title has been or shall be extinguished subject to the operations of the pre-emption laws, and a treaty sale could not be made to defeat this act. STRANGE CONFESSION St. louis, 13. J. E. Lemerne, confined con-fined in Alleghany City, Pa., penitentiary, peni-tentiary, for robbing the bank at Clearfield, Pa., has sent a statement here purporting to be a con'ession that he and two .others blew open the safe of the sheriff of Franklin Co , Mo., in '60, and robbed him of 11 000 dollars. Sueh a robbery as continued continu-ed at that time, and Lemerne was arrested ar-rested for the crime but acquitted. One party implicated by Lemerne, is Col. David Murphy, a highly respectable respect-able citizen of Washington, Franklin county, and editor of a newspaper published there. IMPORTANT INDIAN COUNCIL. St. Louis, j 3. Representatives of the Cherokee, Creek, Semincle and Osage Indians, inhabiting the Indian territory, held a council at Akomulga, in the Creek nation, June 4th, to consider con-sider the territorial and railroad bills and other schemes affecting tha welfare wel-fare of the Indians, and alter a full discussion adopted an addiess to the president, congress and people of the United States, in which they earnestly affirm their determination to preserve pre-serve friendly relations with the government gov-ernment and place themselves squarely upon their treaty and their line of progress. They oppose territorial government, gov-ernment, the survey and allotment of their lands aud the donation of their lands to railroads, present or contin gent, not because they are enemies but because they see in them less of their homes and independence, if not their extinction itself. The address reviews the history of the events which placed them where they are, ana the struggles by which they have attained their prosperous condition, and asks, as a right, that the policy of government, as provided for in treaties with them, shall be honestly hon-estly administered. They repel the chaige of opposition to progress and to improvement, or to the christian religion. relig-ion. Their form of government suits them; the tenure on which they hold their lands is such as they prefer, and they ask nothing except that the compacts com-pacts between them and government shall be faithfully observed ; and they appeal to the president and people ol the United States to defend them from the schemes of ambitious men. SAN FRANCISCO NEWS. Pan Francisco, 13. The French ship Euryale, from Tahitato San Fran-ci.co, Fran-ci.co, was wrecked March 4th, at Star-buck Star-buck is and, on a coral r.-ck. six miles long, incorrectly located and the cause of many wrecks. The oilicers and crew were on the island thirty-five days and were rescued by theSwcdish ship Mina and taken to Tahita. The commander cf the Euryale determined the true position of the island in latitude fifty-three fifty-three drgrees and .-even minutes south, longitude a hundred and fifty-eight decrees, sixteen minutes west ol Pans. The Sutro tunnel is in twelve hundred hun-dred and r.venty-nVe feet, with indications indica-tions of sinking tue ledge. There was a slight shock of earthquake earth-quake at irginia city Nevada, on June 11th. |