Show tny THE CHOCTAWS five choctaw chiefs have recently been imprisoned by an indian trader for destroying a quantity of whiskey belonging to the latter and another trader at fort fott washita the cherokee Chero kee keo advocate publishes a communication from the indians in in which they justify their course and ask tobe to be discharged the advocate says ewe awe we are truly glad giad to see the stand they have taken in the premises law and e equity it must bear them out for ardent spirit spirits sTave have been the bane of them and the U states knowing it to be an evil have bawd wise wige ame wholesome and laws law to prevent its introduction uc among the indian tubes tribes and it is to be regretted that tint the white man should so far forget his moral obligations to his country and the indians indiana as to introduce it among them thema kathe the old method of converting the indians continued ED |