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Show ninty live thousand, seven hundred land ix dollars. When conferred by i the U. S. Congress and the money 1 paid in the . S. Treasury subject to the order of the Cherokee Council, etieh Cherokee man, woman and child, will have about The Chcrokces' homes, are mostly located in the eastern part; in the (i inhered country. This country is subject to cold ''northers" and the woods form a protection. As a ! rule, they build only for pleasant I weather and are necessarily un-I un-I prepared for such cold blasts. While the Indians do not rain their livelihood by fishing; ami hunting-, yet they have not lost ' their love for the sport, Jk-er. 'antelope, wild turkey, jreesc, ducks, rabbits, squirrel, quail, opossum and raccoon, abound in the wooded country, also do he mass, white acorn a nd roots of vegetation so profitable for. the fo.nl of boos, which run wild in the woods. And as Ihe Indian don't like unnecessary unneces-sary work, he likes to live where he can almost fell a tree in his door-yard. door-yard. Hail fences and log houses are generally in use, making a de-ma de-ma ml for timber. The Indians like the wot uls best. The white element like the praire country, where they can spread out, and, according to the liberal laws of the Nation, have extensive farms and a givat scope of country for gracing purposes. The mission is gradually gaining headway; a friendly feeling is on the increase; prejudice is abating; prospects arc favorable for a good work to be done here in the near future. Enquiries are made in dillcrent places, old acquaintances send word for the Elders to call, old friends lake exceptions if the Elders doi'T eonie and see them, and when they do call, they are treated wit h due eourtesv and IN IMQIAH TERRITORY. An TiiteiestiiifJ T..-lt(-i- Ileliilive to the Ceple of Tlitit S.'.-tioii. Your old (-orriSjiondi'iU, in coin-p;iny coin-p;iny with :i Willard friend, ar-ri ar-ri vi'tl in our old missionary field on N'rw Year's day; were received with a kind welcome ly two of the Elders and Ihi' innial.es of our old riulin ii home. We ha ve visited quite a numher of our Cherokee anil white friends and found a. universal uni-versal welcome. 'c visited the Cherokee capital ; found that many changes liad taken place since we wcro there. A new female seminarv has hcen erected at a cost of alum; T'.S."i.()()U, which will nccommo late, in (he neighborhood of lioO jiitpils. It. is modern in evcrv particular; size, 100 by ::')() feci, or more; three stories hitrh and well built. Several new buildings for business, busi-ness, hank and resilience purpose have been erected. Three weekly newspapers arc published: The S')iliifl, the iilirt Arrow and the Chrrohrr Alroratr, The latter is published half in Cherokee. The Cherokee Council has just ended for the term. They did nol hstened Id with interest. While we do not expect to accomplish ac-complish much until the Spirit of the Lord works with theni, yet we have t be satisfaction of knowing that flu re is a great preparation. Some of the rough obstacle.? are being removed and an inroad made to their hearts, where the seeds of truth can he planted, which by the cultivation of the Holy Spirit will bring forth an increase. Our visit so far has been among tiie Chcrokces. We have enjoyed ourselves very much, and no doubt accomplished some good in one direction. We have awakened new interest; re-established confidence confi-dence and caused many to reflect. The people have remarked many times that they were afraid we would go away and leave them ; that they would h.we nothing to tie to. Hv our returning, we have convinced Un m of our love and permanent interest in their behalf. We now expect to go south to the Canadian river, which is a dividing line between the Chcrokces ami the Choctaws. Mere at the extreme of this nation we , ill meet our lirii.-hani lirii.-hani boys and have a time of rejoicing re-joicing together. Weather is cold and drv, no snow; health on the impruVL n lent generally an excellent, excel-lent, time for the boys to travel a'-d talk by the fireside. It is no ordinary ordi-nary pleasure to sit by one of these old-fashioned oak log (ires on the hearth ami toast one's toes while we explain the plan of salvation to those who are sitting in darkness. AxnisKW KiMiiAix, Dai.ton. TAtn.iorAii, T. T., Jan. 1 lib, '92. accomplish much, save to pass on flu; sale of a strip of land in the west. The Council is composed of two houses: the Mouse of Iteprc-sentati Iteprc-sentati 'es and the Senate. The Senate has eighteen members; two from each district. The House has forty, di vided propoi't iot lately according ac-cording to the population of each district. During the session, In 'jrifir. seized and killed the Chief and Assistant Chief, and prostrated the successor, whom the Council had put in. We came five miles, from town and are now kindly entertair.el by one of the Council, and one of the best men that ever lived. - The Cherokee nation is one of the live civilized tribes occupying the Tndiiin Territory. The other .four are Creeks, Choctaws. Chickasaw's Chicka-saw's and Semiiioles. The Cliero-j Cliero-j kees art; decidedly in advance of the others, being well up in mat- tern df agriculture, ytoek-raisiiiLf, education and religion. lies-ides t he live i-i vil ized I rihrs ahovc nieutinned, there are several remnants of civilized trihes in the north-east, and the Shawnces and Delaware are adopted to the Clie-rokces. Clie-rokces. The Osaes are semi-civil- "ized, while (he fell ia i 1 1 de '. t'ei 1 1 1 1 a 1 1 1 S of trihes in the west, called Ulanket Indians, on the 1'nited States reservation, res-ervation, r.csidcs these (here are ahmit iiflcen hundred white people !Zainin;4 rights hy inter-niarriaetiud act of Council, ami renters ..' the 1 Indians, and a ;nvn1 many negroes. ! Th,- Chcrokces numher twenty-l twenty-l wo t h-uisand a nd occupy the '. north-east portion of the Terrilm-v. This is the country mostly 'mhah- iled. i The Territory of Oklahoma and the Cheyenne and Ampah"" ivcr-j ivcr-j vation, emhraeiiii; S,1 1 I.USO acres. I more or le-s. At the hist Council session a 'eoininissioll of seven inen olltf-ide the Council repn-s.-utiii the Cliero-kecf. Cliero-kecf. and a 1". S. commission of three, have negotiated for (lie Pale to the V. S. of the ahove strip of land for $1.-10 per acre, or tin; sum 'of eight million Ii vo hundred and |