Show A THREATEN cloud tim THE strawberries and cream and the other good things on which the indian chiefs were fed at washington failed fail fall edit lt seems to reconcile them to the determination mi nation of the government Go to maintain fort fetterman they or at arst bed red cloud had evidently set his heart on gaining this point the other requests which they had made and some of cf which the government acceded insignificant in his eyes compared with the removal of this fort he was in a bad humor at this request not being beling granted and the probability is that his and the other chiefs visit to washington may not in the end be very productive of good at the final council which they had with secretary cox and commissioner parker Park erthe the chiefs expressed considerable dissatisfaction as the following report of the speeches will show bod bed cloud said tho the troops in his country were all fools and the tho government was throwing away its money mondy for nothing the officers there are all whiskey drinkers tho the great father sends out there the whiskey drinkers because ho he does not want them around him here I 1 do not allow my nation or any whiteman to bring a drop of liquor into my country if he does that is the last of him and his liquor spotted tail tall can drink as much as he pleases on the missouri river and thy they can kill one another if they choose 1 I do 0 not hold myself responsible for what spotted tall tail does when you buy anything with my money I 1 want you to buy medhat me what is useful ido I 1 do not want stale nour hour rotten tobacco and old soldiers clothes dyed black such as you bought for spotted tail tall I 1 only tell you what ia Is true yon you had a great war but after it was over you permitted the tho chiefs who had been fighting to come back backo ll 11 secretary cox explained the treaty kofl to the indians and said the best way is to be friendly and deal honestly with each other the last treaty made provided fora rora railroad to be built the sioux agreed not to disturb it and that it should be built bulit now if tho road interferes with hunting we will try to make good tho abo damage by feeding you u we mean that the tho government shall nei lel keep keer back the white men from going into in to the indian country as well aa as bad indians from going into the white country this thesis is what the troops are there thore for if any of our people at the do not do what is right the president will punish them and send sand better men in their places the same treaty gives the lines of the indian country A ma map was tie tto produced reduced rod and the secretary explained planned the boundaries fixed in the treaty of 1867 red ked cloud looking on with awat interest he said ho he was asked to sign the treaty merely tosho that hoaas he was peaceable and not to grant their lands he continued saying this is the first time I 1 have heard of such a treaty and do not mean to follow it I 1 want to know who was the interpreter who interpreted these things to the indians the names of three were mentioned and he said 1 I know nothing about it it was never bear in the grass said the great spirit hears me today to day and I 1 tell nothing but what is true when I 1 say that these words of the trea treaty t were r e not explained ext pla ined it was only said ate that t treaty r eaty was for peace and friendship among the whites when wo we took hold 0 of the pen they said they would take the troops away so wo we could raise children secretary cox explained that the treaty was signed by more than different sioux of all the bands red bed cloud I 1 do not say the commissioners lied but the interpreters inter were wrong I 1 never heard beard a word only what was brought to my camp when the forts were removed beame I 1 came to make peace you had your war harness when you removed I 1 signed a treaty of peace we want to straighten things up secretary cox I 1 have been very care cane falso that no mistakes should be made and that our word should be as open as daylight so that we may understand what binds the sioux and ourselves we are trying to get congress to carry out our promises and we want the indians to do their part we simply say this is the agreement made as we remember we have copies printed we will give one to red cloud so it can be interpreted to him exactly what is rea bed cloud said all the promises made in the treaty have never been filled rhe the rho object of the was to crush the indian down to nothing the great spirit would judge pudge these things hereafter all the words ta I 1 sent ent never reached the father they thoy are lost before they get here I 1 am chief of the thirty nine nations I 1 will nob not take tako the paper with me it is all ali lies iles the secretary distributed copies of the tho treat treaty y to the interpreters agents and traders present and adjourned the council IT is said that unbounded enthusiasm prevails amon among yachtsmen yacht men at new york as the time ap preaches approaches pro aches for the arrival of mr ashbury from england with his hia y yacht a cht the cambria aam bam bria and her competitor mr douglas yacht the Daunt dauntless leas leBs nearly every schooner is getting ready for sea and these will receive a warm welcome when they arrive from their ocean race mr ashbury has entered his hia yacht for all the races in new york waters and no opportunity is to be lost of testing her speed he seems confident of winning judging by his expressions pres at the dinner given by a friend of his in london last saturday A cable dispatch stated that in a speech which he made on that occasion he remarked that be he had purchased six of the finest cups he could procure for a contest in american waters he hoped to bring them all back and also to pass the sandy handy hook light ship ahead of his competitor the dauntless but if he does his craft must do better than she did in her recent race in british waters with the american schooner sappho which beat him badly though it is asserted in english papers as a salve probably for the mortification of defeat that in his anxiety to prepare for the ocean race across the atlantic with the dauntless mr ashbury paid too little attention to the contest with to show the means adopted to ensure success in these races it may be men meli tinned that the sappho was carefully covered with blacki black blackhead ead lead and polished from keel to gunwale the cambria also had her copper black leaded most carefully this was done that the yachts might slip more freely through the sea and to make the water fly oil the hull speedily |