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Show . . SHOSHONE INDIANS. One of the interesting incidents ' connected with the late excursion to Cache Valley was witnessed by a number cf the excursionists who made their blay at Franklin, which is the present terminus oi the U. R. R-On R-On Fridny morning, a sort oi council was held between Mr.D. B. Huntington, Hunting-ton, Interpreter, and the Hon. L. H, Hatch, on the one part, and a ecore of Shoahouo Indians, or, rather, a ' broken liand of that tribe, on the other.' These Indians have for a long tinio mado their home at this point, following tho ordinary avoca-cationa avoca-cationa of the noble red man, namely, hunting aud fiehing. Seeing how much better of! tlie white people are iho now inhabit the same country, a portion of this band seem inclined to imitate the white example, and go to work, and this council was held on that subject.' ' Heretofore the idle habits ol these people have necessarily necessar-ily ihipiihed a very onerous tax upon the" White people who have settled and improved tbat interesting country, the' more so, as it seems to haTe been the policy of the whites to feed, rather .than to fiijht, the aborigines, and this puljey . is still pursued, but we understand that iSiBhop Jrlath, who seems to bo the moving 8oirit in affairs there, has decided thai it would be better for all hands that the able-bodied Indians be required re-quired to work, and this meeting wag held to arrange matters. The Bishop says there is plenty of work for them, and Lhe people are willing to employ them and pay a fair compensation for their labor. Asecond chief, whose naiue Wc understand is Tsi-G witch to catch or grab was the speaker in the pow-wow. A dark, heavy set, greasy -looking son of the mountains, about sixty years old, and five feet eight inches in hi- moccasins, Of course, wc who do not understand the language were not much edified by the speech, but the old man grew quite eloquent judging from his ges-I ges-I tures and actien, by the way, is about all there is of oratory. The burthen of his discourse was love and friendship for the whites; a desire to live at pence with them; advice to the young men to work, work; but beftre they got ready to do eo, the good old chief was- very anxious to get a p:iss lor about eight of his bays that they might go down to the city and trade a litte and visit a day or two, at'itr which, like obedient fellows, fel-lows, they will pitch in and work in : the harve.andhay fields a consummation con-summation devoutly to be hoped for.. T-i-Gwitch,'owiiii to his misfortunes, seems to be in a condition to grab but . very little. These misfortunes consist con-sist in various rounds received at the hands of the gallant boys in blue , under Connor at one time and Step- i too at another, ut times we presume when Tsi G witch and his tribe were not . as friendly with the pale (aces 03 .they now arc. : -xarj old fellow, -we feel sorry for him aud his race, and hope that Bishop Hatch will succeed in inducing them to go to work in a regular way and , become as nearly civilized aa it is possible pos-sible for them to be. The Bishop informed in-formed us that about twenty of these , Indian men have-already become tax- ; payers; query, are they not voters also? Some of them express a desire : to take horns toads and become settled citizens. While wo have but little confidence in such plans, we sincerely hope this one may succeed, and whether it does or n:t there ia no good reason why they should not learn to labor like other men, and re-coive re-coive equivalent reward, hence we trust that the people will give them an opportunity. Many of them seem willing to work. Be kind to them, afford af-ford them facilities to learn to labor, and if possible reclaim them from their idle and irregular habits. lieibre breaking up the' pow-wow some person asked for a song by Col. McCallistcr, and that gentleman, assisted as-sisted by qui to a number ol ladies and gentlemen, executed in excellent style tho Hymn, 0 stop and Ml m red iu.ui. Mr. Huntington, who sootns to have the interest of these people very much at heart, made some interesting and feeling remarks.in the course of which we understood him to say tbat at tho present lime there aro some six hundred hun-dred of the red men who are Latter-day Latter-day Saints. It seems frum some remarks of Tsi-Gwitch that though dispo&ed to be peaceable and religious, some of these people are loth to give up allot thcir old habits. He said that some of the white people complained that the Indians In-dians were iu tho habit of whipping their wives. Now he thinks that the whites ought net to interfere in thatlitr tie matter, and wc suppose that he thought he made a very liberal proposition prop-osition when lie BaiJ, "You white folks kt us and our wives manage our afuirs without interference, and we will not interfere between yon and your, wives." Of course wc have no right, nor have wc any inclination to interfere with anybody's wife ; and yet, if our noble red brother would be influenced by onr disinterested advice, he will try to govern i f go vera he can hie wives by moral suasion, rather than by the force of arms. |