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[difficult to read due to bleed through of back side of page] THE INDIAN HERALD Published Every Tuesday. W. McKay Dougan & Co., Editors and Proprietors. Terms: $1.00 per Year in advance. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE HERALD has a large and increasing circulation, and increasing circulation, and cannot be surpassed as an advertising medium. Shrewd advertisers have already learned that it is not he oldest papers which pay the best, but the new growing papers that circulate among high-class, well-to-do families, who have confidence in carefully conducted publications. We advertise for 10 cents per line for first insertion; for each subsequent insertion, 5 cents. A discount of 20 per cent will be made on yearly advertisements, when payments are made quarterly in advance. George P. Rowell & Co., New York, and Rowell & Chesman, St. Louis Agent. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CENTENNIAL LETTER "Dese am rudder libely times we's a habben now!" remarked the sable gentleman who handed me my beef steak and onions the other morning at the Continental Hotel, "de wedder am fine and dar's a heap a people in town"- and they was right, for we have just passed through a week of delightful weather, such as I have seldom seen even in June. In general excitement it has exceeded the opening week, and I think the number of visitors will almost equal that very interesting occasion. Early in the week the Knights Templar began to pour in from every portion of the country, and as they came not alone, but in the majority of instances, those who were lucky enough to have wives, brought them along, while the fortunate possessors of failies ranging any where from five to eleven in number, wer not forgetful of their marital obligation, and brought the dear little cherubs to see the fun too, and as a natural consequence, this extra addition to our population, as my colored friend remarked, "made tings rudder libely." The events of the past week have been numerous and important, principal among which were the Decoration Day-the convocation of Knights Templar-the meeting of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania-and the meeting of the Social Science Association. In the closing portion of this letter I shall briefly notice each of these events, but trust I may be pardoned if I digress one moment to say a word in behalf of the Centennial committee. There are many excellent people in and out of Philadelphia just now speculating on the possibility of the financial failure of the Centennial Exhibition, and who are constantly informing the public of this shortcoming, and that lamentable oversight of the Centennial Committee in not adopting their peculiar views-and, are frank enough to say what they would have done if they were in the committee's place; wretched scribblers without brains enough to drive a second class fish wagon are constantly calling in question the wisdom and policy of the gentlemen having charge of the most gigantic undertaking of modern times, and requiring an amount of forecast and judgment fully equal to the government of a nation. It is barely possible that if the United States had been raked with a fine tooth comb, a few better men might have been found for the positions on the Centennial Committee than the gentlemen who now occupy them, but even that is exceedingly doubtful. Human wisdom has never been deemed infallible and in all probability never will be. Even the Almighty, whose judgment is unerring, having made his last and most perfect work, man, in his own image and likeness, in a little while repented that he had made him. Is it to be wondered as then, that there have been some mistakes, some errors of judgment, some short comings of performances? Don't look at these spots on the sun; look at the sun itself. Don't seek for what they have not done; look at what they have done, and if a man's judgment is not warped as crooked as a ram's horn, he must confess, without any disparagement to the exhibitions of other lands that the grander exhibition than this at Philadelphia has ever been given on that face of the globe. Having relieved my mind, I will now return to Brazil. On entering the pavilion erected by the Brazilian government, nothing impresses you more strongly than the rightness and elegance of everything she exhibits. Spain looks gloomy and forbidding. Brazil is light, airy, beautiful. Near the door are cases of costly books, admirable in workmanship and rich in splendid binding, rare contributions to science and art and worthy of the great nation they represent. The show of cotton goods and cloths is not up to the standard of English manufactures, or of the products of the loom in the United States, still they have abundance of the raw material, and under their present wise and energetic ruler, will no doubt avail themselves of the brains and muscle of other lands. The countries south of Brazil have long been famous for hides; here we have the manufactured leather, and it seems to me I have never seen its superior. The exhibition of manufactured articles of various kinds is also exceedingly creditable as also are her [unreadable] agricultural products of coffee, sugar and grain, and give her a status among the nations of the earth for which northern people were [unreadable] prepared. But if Brazil were twice as big and as rich as she is, we could only afford to give her a passing glance, for a greater than Brazil meets you at every turn, a potentate by divine right in the arena of science and art, an autocrat in philosophy, a fearless apostle in religion, a daring demigod in war. I refer to those dauntless "islanders upon whose blood red flag the sun never sets and whose reveilie beat is heard around the world." I confess it fills me with admiration which I find it difficult to express when I see grouped in this comprehensive manner the grand production of England and her Colonies. When I look at the map of this, our mother land, and see that you might drop that seagirt isle within the limits of the State of New York, and then have room to spare. I say it fills me with admiration unspeakable, when I see the wonders she has achieved in every department of human knowledge. She meets you everywhere-go into the machinery department and her engines are among the finest and most substantial ever made by human hands-in cotton goods she has no superior in the world, and it is esteemed no small compliment to stand her equal on any of the marts of commerce; in silks she rivals the looms of Lyons; in carpets she is almost without a peer; in cutlery she is master of the situation; in silverware she need not fear to enter into competition with the artisans of any land, and in the million and one kinds of small items that go to make up the business of the world. She displays an activity, and grasp that is marvelous to behold. Go where you will in any of the departments and there you will see on great flags, Great Britain and Ireland, Colonies, or Colonial dependencies, and when taken together there is nothing that man produces or secures by his labor and his genius; his courage or his perseverance, but what she seems to have a part in it. The sea, the earth, the air, in every land and every clime, are nil compelled to pay her tribute. The contributions of a single colony are superior to that of many nations; and here her children are grouped around her so closely that she resembles some little women I have seen with exceedingly large families and not by any means the smallest of her blood relations, is the young gentleman, Brother Jonathan, who is entertaining her so royally today, and of whom no doubt she feels as proud as she does of the most favored of her children I have spoken of the variety and magnitude of her contributions. In her African department you have as the spoils of her hunters, the tasks of the elephant, the skin of the springbok, the hide of hippopotamus, the feathers of the ostrich, no longer however, a wild denizen of the plains, but a useful domestic bird, raised in flocks like geese or sheep, but yielding a richer tribute. The agricultural contributions are amply splendid, wheat, wine, wool silk, and multitude of things too numerous to mention. Canada, too, looms up grandly, a mighty child of a mighty sire; with such elements of greatness as she displays, one wonders that he has not known more of it before. In agricultural machinery in particular she has made a magnificent display and I should not be at all astonished to hear that she had borne off a great number of the prizes. The West India Islands send rich contributions of sugar, coffee, dye, woods, and other sources of tropical wealth. And right here is where you estimate the power of England. Every product from the equator to the pole is exhibited in some of her departments. No matter what any other nation puts on exhibition, she is there to rival them, roam among the splendors of the art gallery, and amid the congregated gems of genius from the world, are tho statues of Chautry and the paintings of Landseer, and the works of the multitude of grand apostles of art, who have made her name immortal. But I feel that my space is running out, and must devote what remains to the events of the week. On Decoration Day we had a fine parade of the Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, who in performance of a sacred and holy trust went out to decorate the graves of their dead comrades who died in defence of the Union. One of the gratifying features of the procession was the tribute that was paid to the Confederate dead. Let the weeping mothers and sisters, and widows who wait in vain for the coming of those who long years ago went out to do battle for the stars and bars. Let their grief be softened, and their hearts cheered to know that the graves of their loved ones are not forgotten, but that kindly and loving hands with each returning year scatter beautiful flowers over them even as they do over the graves of their own heroic dead. The procession was very imposing. In the reunion speeches no allusion was made that could hurt the most patriotic feelings of [unreadable] lately opposed to them; and seeing the graceful tributes paid by brave men to those who were once their foes, I could not help believing that this was indeed a year of jubilee and peace. The procession of Knights Templar, on June the first, was simply grand. They began to invade the city early in the week, they came from every State in the Union, and such a welcome as they received has hardly been seen in the present generation, never before at the reception of any organization base I witnessed such enthusiasm. Such a cordial and hearty greeting; not only hotels and public halls were placed at the disposal of the Sir Knights, but private houses flung their portals wide, and the whole city seemed overflowing with the most lavish and generous hospitality. Here was no North or South, East or West, no division lines, no orthodox distinctions; but one grand homogeneous family, bound together by the sacred ties of charity, acknowledging the universal brotherhood of man, the universal fatherhood of God. The procession formed on Broad street, and was at once grand and imposing. Embracing many thousands of the mystic brotherhood. In the afternoon their officers were installed, and in the evening there was an immense reception at the Academy of music, at which the most distinguished people in the State were present. The Society for the advancement of Social Science has had a most interesting series of meetings, at which were present distinguished savans from all portions of the country. The Medical Society of Pennsylvania has also had an interesting session, at which considerable feeling was manifested at the admission of some Homeopathic practitioners into one of our public institutions. Resolutions were passed condemning the disciples of Hahnenian and com- (Concluded on fourth page.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PAGE 2 THE INDIAN HERALD Tuesday, June 20, 1876 "The subjection of the Indian people, or any other people in the United States, (who are not members of the army) to military control in time of peace is in violation of the genius of free institutions, is a backward step in civilized and enlightened Government, is contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution of the United States, denies the right of petition or appeal for aid to the civil powers, or to the people for relief from or redress of grievances and it paves and licenses the way to the advance of military power over the civil, which has always, when permitted, encroached in the overthrow of free institutions, and is in violation of all treaty stipulations." Our Own Department. We desire to say to our readers, especially those who have some knowledge of the first year's life of this paper, that the present U. S. Agent has no connection with; and assumes no control over the publication. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - First Act. Of the Newly Organized OSAGE GOVERNMENT A GRAND ONE. It is not within our knowledge, either from observation or history, that the chiefs of a tribe of wild, uncivilized, blanket Indians surrendered, willingly and from a sense of duty, one of their people, to be taken to a distant point for trial upon a charge of crime. It has been done sometimes under pressure, or to relieve hostages of grater value from peril; but never the full, free, spontaneous act of their own, and from the right motive. The Osages have just done such an act, and in view of their traditions, character and previous history, it may well challenge the admiration of all thinking men. Striking as their action in this matter, its greatest value is as an earnest for the future; an evidence that under wise and proper treatment they will soon become a law-abiding and law- respecting people. But recently there could have been no material for the narrative we are about to give. In fact it was notorious at the Court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, having jurisdiction over this Territory, that no Osage had ever been arrested, although often attempted. On this occasion the marshal, Mr. Brandon, to whom writs were given for the arrest of two Osages charged with horse stealing, was very positively told that his effort would be futile; too many had tried it before and failed. He displayed in the matter the soundest judgment, by making no display of force, threats or any intimidation whatever; and he came at a most opportune time. The tribe had just held a general council, in which was developed a determination to become civilized than they had ever shown. To facilitate their movements in this direction they organized a government consisting of Governor, Chief Counselor, and an Executive Committee of five and to these gave full power to transact all their business. They thought this organization would be more efficient than a larger body; and as they had recently been made to believe that the Government of the United States would treat them as men hereafter, not as children, provided they would assume and discharge the responsibilities of men; with one mind they determined to do all that in their power lay. Hence the living desire of the Governor, Chief Counselor and committee to deserve this confidence of the Government, represented not only their own feelings but those also of all the leading men of the tribe. Marshal Brandon, by visiting their villages and in other ways was confirmed in the opinion given by Agent Beede that owing to the difficulty of the identification, facilities for escape, &c., it would be impossible to make a forcible arrest with the power at command. A military force would be needed, and that only could arrest the leading men of the tribe and hold them as hostages for the delivery of the men named in the warrant. None could fail to see the cruelty and injustice of this, as well as the totally demoralizing effect it would have upon the tribe, nor the hopeful feeling, and the zeal that had been enkindled in the cause of civilization, and equally unwise and inhuman to pursue a course that would rush all this, and roll the wheels of progress backwards fifty years. He consulted with the Agent and it was determined to call the Governor and council together and refer the entire matter to them. This was done. They came promptly. The matter was laid before them. Big Chief, chairman of the committee, and hitherto unjustly stigmatized as being opposed to civilization was the first to speak: "One of these men, he said, whose arrest is sought is my dead brother's son. When dying he asked me to watch over the boy, and I love him as my own child. It makes me very sorrowful to see this my son as I all him, sent from among all his friends to a great distance, to be tried upon a charge of crime, in a strange language and among strangers. But, he continued, I want to do right, and as I understand it, I will do right, however much it may pain me. The laws must be respected and obeyed, and we must help to maintain them. The young men shall go with the officer of the Government." There was no dissenting voice. Every member of the Council expressed the same opinion, coupled ever with an expression of sorrow. They sent at once for the young men-thirty miles away. They came promptly, were delivered to the marshal and are now en-route for Fort Smith. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Some farm lands in Toas valley, and near Santa Fe, New Mexico, have been in constant cultivation for over two hundred years without the application of fertilizers of any kind, yet their productive qualities are not perceptivly diminished. What do the people of the old worn-out lands of the eastern states think of this? There the coat of the manure, in ten years, to keep their land up, will amount to enough to irrigate and put in a high state of cultivation a farm in New Mexico that will last for ages.-Caddo Star. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MAGNIFICENT OFFER! Liberal contracts, which we have just completed with the Weed Sewing Machine Company, and George Woods & Company, will enable us, we hope, to place their celebrated machines and organs in many families throughout the country. So fine an opportunity to secure a first-class sewing-machine or organ seldom occurs. May we not expect the friends of this paper to make an earnest, united effort to extend greatly its circulation, and thus help to increase its influence. WE WILL LIBERALLY REWARD THOSE WHO WORK FOR US. Readers, can you not form a club in your neighborhood and secure this sewing machine or organ premium? A FEW HOURS OF WELL-DIRECTED EFFORT WILL OBTAIN IT. Postmasters in smaller towns and villages can, with a little thought and effort, easily send us the requisite number of names. Has your Church or Sabbath school an organ? If not; call upon a few ladies and gentlemen of the congregation. Tell of you plan, and ask them to help. In your congregation, lodge, Sabbath school, Grange or neighborhood 60, 65, 70, 150 or even 210 subscribers to THE HERALD for a better knowledge of the nature, habits, old customs and probable fate of the aborigines, the previous existence of whom is curiously marked in every quarter of the United States. Our terms are low and within reach of the poorest in the country who read anything. Send us $60, $65, $70, $150 or $210, and we will forward for one year this paper to each subscriber, which will pay full value of the subscriptions, and in addition we will make a present, to any person you may designate of a beautiful Sewing Machine or Organ. Is there not depending upon your society or neighborhood some poor widow or other unfortunate woman, to whom a sewing-machine would be a blessing for years to come? Pass the subscription paper. TRY IT, FRIENDS. DON'T WAIT! BEGIN THE WORK AT ONCE. Send us word that you have undertaken the formation of a club. Remember, the machines and organs are warranted to be perfectly new, latest improved, and in perfect order. TERMS. Style of Machine Price No. of subscribers Style 1 $60 60 Style 2 65 65 Style 3 70 70 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Style of Organ Price No. of subscribers Style No. 63 $150 150 Style No. 5 210 210 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NOTICE The undersigned now having charge of the Agency Flouring Mill would respectfully announce to the citizens of the Osage Reservation that on every other Thursday and Friday, commencing on the 18th inst., the mill will be run for the accommodation of the public. JOHN P. SODERSTROM, Miller. April 9, 1876. 2fl0tf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - S. O. Ebersole, Watchmaker, COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS. Solicits patronage from all readers of this card for Watches, Jewelry, Spectacles, Plated Ware, Toys in every variety, Balls, Fishing-tackle, Pocket Books, Combs, Bill and Blank Books, School Books, Slates and Stationery of All Kinds. Violins, Accordeons, French-Harps, Violin Strings, Spanish and Guitar Strings, Keys, Bridges, &c., &c. All kinds of small Musical Instruments Repaired; Music Books of any kind furnished on order at publisher's prices. Goods sent to responsible Parties for selection. Orders by mail will receive careful attention. Address S. O. Ebersole, 2v3tf Coffeyville, Kansas. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - S. Matlack, Pawnee Indian Agency, Indian Territory, DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, ROBES, FURS, AND INDIAN CURIOSITIES. 2v10tf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Florer and Rankin, United States INDIAN TRADERS FOR OSAGES. Address, Mail and Merchandise. OSAGE AGENCY, Indian Territory, Via Coffeyville, Kansas 2v9tf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PAGE 3 The Indian Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1876 --Fine weather for harvest; and as of old "the harvest is abundant but the laborers are few". --We've said our say about the Fourth of July, now let some body else speak his little piece. --It is amusing to see he crowd of happy citizens at Hiatt & Co.'s store, gazing at the postoffice. --The Cana not only raised one foot, but the other also, this week, thereby delaying the mail one day. --The Osages are rich, yet they have no money to get their work done. How would a white man feel in such circumstances? --The tarantula harvest is at hand, with prospects of a good crop. Two were killed at the school house the other day, and one in Main street. --Last week, Tommy Adams, of this place, rode to Hickory Station and back, a distance of 60 miles, in eight hours. We consider that time as being hard to best. --All mail matter for this place should hereafter be addressed "Pawhuska, Indian Territory, via Coffeyville, Kansas." The postoffice here is now in working order. --Through the kindness of Hon. W. P. Adair, we received a copy of the Congressional Record, from which we take the Osages protest against a territorial government, found in another column. --One of the Osages taken to Fort Smith by the Marshal, might enjoy himself as did the school boy who laughed when being whipped, and when asked to explain said: "Why-ha-ha-you-you've got the wrong boy". --From the Indian Journal, published at Muskogee, Creek Nation, we learn that Daniel Childers, of that Nation, recently captured over 400 head of stolen cattle. The thieves made their headquarters in a cave in the hills about 40 miles north of Childers' ferry. --The citizens of Pawhuska, although few in number, yet well supplied with sociability, ought to celebrate the Centennial Fourth with a pic-nic. No doubt all would derive pleasure from rambling through the woods, and in wishing each other "many happy returns." --Dr. W. McKay Dougan, editor of the INDIAN HERALD, published at the Osage Agency, was in town some days ago, and called in to get acquainted with the Journal. The Dr. is a very pleasant gentleman, and is determined to make the HERALD a readable paper. He has gone on a visit to his friends in North Carolina and will return in about three weeks.-Coffeyville Journal. --Mr. L. W. Marks, of THE INDIAN HERALD office, (Osage Agency) appeared in the city Wednesday, and being a printer, he could not conscientiously pass by the Journal without calling. He says the wheat along the line of his route here is astonishingly large, and he wonders where men are to be found in sufficient numbers to cut and take care of it. Farmers in Chautauqua county, he says, offer one-half their crops to any person who will cut and thresh them. Most of the wheat is ripe and ready for the reaper. The Osages have considerable wheat. They have but two reapers, and it is a question how they are going to harvest the crop without more help. They are trying, but not successfully, to get Kansas men to go down and cut for them. Verily this is a wheat country.-Coffeyville Journal. --Bro. Peffer of the Coffeyville Journal will please accept our thanks for favors recently received. --The following "fashion notes for Republicans" appear in the good-humored New Era, of Hopkinsville, Alabama: "Fares are worn long. 'Rings' are still in vogue. Plain hempen neckties are shown for officials. Pockets are made full and are of steal colored material. Striped suitings are much in use for the elect. They are cut a la Joyce. Broad steel bracelets, with a new patent lock are to be worn this summer. Black is the popular color for reputations. Patterns for 'office' wear are gored in front and extensively trailed." --The following extract is from the editorial correspondence of the Indian Journal. We wish our space would admit the publishing of the whole article. "In the neighborhood of Mr. Lipe, whose home has the most picturesque surroundings of any in the country, is the postoffice called Clermont, after Clermont's mound and which in turn is called after a celebrated Osage chief of that name who had a town near it on the banks of the Verdigris. It was around this mound and over its sides and up to its summit that a hard battle was fought, it is said, by a party of Cherokees, who then resided on the Arkansas river, about Dardanell, and a large party of Osages. The former were led by Captain Dutch John Drew, and other noted warriors of that day, who forced their enemy from this mound with a great loss, and the bones of whose slain were visible a few years ago if not at present. The residence of Mr. Hicks, on Black Dog creek, was the seat of the village of Black Dog, another noted Osage chief. Black Dog was over six feet and of Herculean form and build. He received his name from sending an arrow through the heart of a black dog on a stormy night, whose constant barking was about to reveal the presence of his war party to the foe, resting near their camp fire in superior numbers. The dog ceased to bark and the incident gave name to the warrior who was enabled b it to obtain a brilliant victory at the dawn of the next day's light. It was at this place that Dr. Bird Powell, of a phrenological turn of mind, more than thirty years ago gathered a number of Osage skulls, for the purpose of adding to his museum, and came near having his own put in a proper condition for the same place, by a party of Osages who became suspicious of the business in which he was engaged." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DURYEAS' SATIN GLOSS STARCH TRY IT! Use it once and you will use no other. - - - - - - - - - - DURYEAS' IMPROVED CORN STARCH Pronounced by Jurors of GREAT INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, Paris, 1867, to be the "PERFECTION OF QUALITY." A trial will insure its popularity everywhere. None genuine without Duryeas on every package. FOR SALE BY GROCERS GENERALLY. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - All parties sending for Calendars or ordering articles advertised in our columns will do us and our advertisers both a favor by mentioning that they saw the advertisement in "THE INDIAN HERALD." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - T. B. ?LDRIDGE, BANKER, Coffeyville, . . . Kansas, DOES A REGULAR BANKING AND EXCHANGE BUSINESS. Special and prompt attention given to collections in the southern part of the State. Interest Allowed on Time Deposits. Corresponds with a refers to Kansas City National Bank, Kansas City First National Bank, Paola, Kansas. Second National Bank, Lawrence, Kansas. First National Bank, Hartford, Connecticut. Hanover National Bank, New York. 2v2tf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Furniture and Coffins!! A. J. EVARTS, Coffeyville, . . . Kansas. 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[Unsure of names as they were difficult to read] He Latter never requiring Tuning, and giving the Organ the Brilliancy and Promptness of the [unreadable]. These remarkable instruments possess capacities for musical effects and expression never before [unreadable]. Adapted for Amateur and Professional, and as ornament in any parlor. [unreadable] GEO. WOODS & CO., Cambridgeport, Mass. War[unreadable] and Washington St., Boston: 170 State St., Chicago: [unreadable], London. THE VOX HUMANA-A leading Musical Journal of selected music and valuable reading matter. By mail [unreadable]. Each member contains from [unreadable] worth of the finest selected music. GEO. WOODS & CO., Publishers, Cambridgeport, Mass. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - W. McK. Dougan, M.D., Physician & Obstetrician, Makes the Treatment of CHRONIC DISEASES of WOMEN A SPECIALTY. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THIS PAPER IS ON FILE WITH [unreadable logo] Where Advertising contracts can be made. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PAGE 4 (From first page.) mending the action of a couple of young sawbones who resigned their official position rather than receive the little pill doctors to respectable standing among the medical brotherhood. There has been on earthquake in consequence thereof, and the world still rolls on. The attendance is increasing every day. On Tuesday last it reached 44,000. An inoffensive gentleman was almost clubbed to death by a policeman. The big Krupp gun is nearly in position, and a Chestnut street heiress is reported to have run away with a rolling chair man. Country cousins, aunts, uncles, grandmothers and mothers-in-law are pouring in upon us by the million. We are delighted to see you all; but when you come bring your lunch and money enough to pay your expenses back home, for our money is all borrowed, and our spare rooms let to permanent boarders. BROADBRIM. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT [From the Congressional Record.] Mr. Sparks, by unaminous consent, presented the protest of the chiefs and headmen of the Great and Little Osage Nation of Indians, residents of the Indian country, against the establishment of a territorial Government for said Indian country; which was referred to the Committee on Indain Affairs, and ordered to be printed in the RECORD. The protest is as follows: To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled, Washington, D. C.: We, your petitioners, chiefs and headmen of the Osage Nation of Indians, resident in the Indian Territory, learn with some alarm of the introduction of several bills into Congress for the establishment of a territorial form of government over the Indian country heretofore guaranteed to treaties to the peaceable possession of the various Indian tribes resident therein forever, most whom hold their titles in fee-simple to patent of the United States or by purchase of grantors holding such patents, which purchases have been confirmed by act of Congress. We entertain grave fears that the introduction of these [unreadable] in the interest of extensive [unreadable] for the purpose of securing land grants contingent upon the extinction of the [unreadable]. We fear that the establishment of a territorial government over our country would be regarded as but the stepping stone to opening up the same to settlement by citizens of the United States, and consequent extinction of the Indian title. [unreadable] we have grave apprehensions that the establishment of a duly-organized territorial government would be regarded by the courts as conferring under existing laws, the right to citizens to settle upon the unoccupied lands thereof. This, we feel, would be a grievous wrong upon the Indians, the rightful owners of the soil by purchase; a wrong committed by a great Government upon a weak people, in violation of its solemn treaties; a wrong which in itself seems almost to determine our future existence as a people. We cannot believe that the Government of the United States, our assumed protector and guardian will perpetrate this wrong upon us, and for these and other reasons we do most earnestly protest against the establishment of a territorial government over the Indian country. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A newspaper is a window through which men look out on all that is going on in the world. Without a newspaper, a man is shut in a small room and knows little or nothing of what is happening outside of himself. In our day, the newspapers keep pace with history and record it. A newspaper will keep a sensible man in sympathy with the world's current history. It is an unfolding encyclopedia, an unbound book, forever issuing and never finished. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alas! Little does the world know how many a broken heart is hidden under a cold and stern demeanor of the face; little does it dream of the anguish that is stifled by the rigid lip of pride, or what feelings lie buried, but alive forever in the heart of those whom it looks at daily, as moments of hard, unsympathizing selfishness. It is written, "Every heart knoweth its own bitterness;" and that concealment has been ordained by the same wisdom which has given to us the knowledge of the fact. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ADVERTISEMENTS. HIATT & CO., U. S. LICENSED Osage & Kaw INDIAN Traders, KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A COMPLETE LINE OF INDIAN GOODS, ALSO A good stock of merchandise suitable to the General Trade which we offer at prices to Cash Customers that will defy competition. Parties desiring Indian Ponies and Relics; such, for instance, as Bows and Arrows, Moccasins, Tomahawks, Battle Axes, Pipes, and a Variety of Ornaments, would do well to correspond with us as our facilities for filling orders fro these articles are unlimited. 2v9tf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Wanted! Wanted!! Indian Relics, Pipes, Pottery, Hematites, Ornaments, Spear-heads, Axes, Celts, &c., &c. Also Minerals, Fossils, Coins, Precious Stones, and Rare Petrifactions, Rare Old Books, Paintings and BRIC-A-BRACK. (Send Stamp for Price list of cheap Minerals.) Mercer's Natural History Store, No. 117 West Sixth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 2v91y - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE MASONIC JOURNAL Greensboro N. C. The only Masonic WEEKLY, but one, published IN THE UNITED STATES! Eight pages, thirty-two broad columns. Treats of all topics of interest in the Craft. Literature [unreadable], and is a household Companion of which every Mason in the country may feel justly proud. Terms, One year, $2; Six Months, $1.25. Remit by P. O. Order or Registered Letter. Send stamp for specimen and get a club. Address E. A. WILSON, Greensboro, N. C. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Death Bed of Andrew Johnson. A FINE ENGRAVING, just published on heavy plate paper, 14 x 19 INCHES IN SIZE. It touchingly portrays the last moments of the great Statesman, with family, and fiends grouped sorrowfully around him. It is a beautiful gem of art, and should hang in every house and cottage in the land. Sample copy sent by mai, mounted on a roller and post-paid on receipt of 25 cents, or three for 60 cents. Address BURROW & CO., Publishers. BRISTOL, TENNESSEE. AGENTS wanted everywhere to sell our new popular Pictures of Moody and Sanky, Death Bed of Andrew Johnson, Centennial, and one hundred other subjects. No money required until pictures are sold. Send stamp for Catalogue and terms, and say you saw this Advertisement in THE INDIAN HERALD. Address as above. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5 to $20 per day at home. Samples worth $1 free. STINSON & CO., Portland, Maine. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SEND 25 c. to G. P. ROWELL & CO., New York, for a Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing list of 3000 newspapers, and estimates showing cost of advertising. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $12 a day at home. Agents wanted. Outfit and terms free. TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine. 2v?hf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE HERALD, Only $1. per year. Liberal PREMIUMS. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Geo. Slosson, Coffeyville, Kansas. WHOLESALE and RETAIL DRUGGIST, -DEALER IN- DRUGS, MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, FANCY and TOILET ARTICLES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, STATIONERY, LAMPS, GLASS, &c. &c. Would return thanks for the liberal patronage extended to him in the past, and offers special instruments to residents of the Indian Territory either at wholesale or retail. 2v2if. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE COURT HOUSE LIVERY AND FEED STABLES. Located on Main St., near the Court House, INDEPENDENCE, KS.. Are the largest and finest stables in the City. Parties wishing to go to Osage Agency, or elsewhere, will do well to call in now. Our prices are reasonable, and we make Good time on the road. RITZ & PUTNAM. 2v2tf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - J. J. Barndollar, COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS, WHOLESALE AND Retail Dealer IN FLOUR, SALT, BACON, COFFEE, SUGAR, TEA, TOBACCO, And everything in the GROCERY LINE. We solicit a visit of buyers from the Indian Territory or elsewhere. CASH paid for HIDES, FURS, ROBES &c. 2v2tf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -OFFICE OF- R. C. Crowell and Company, WHOLESALE GROCERS AND Forwarding Merchants, -DEALERS IN- HIDES, WOOL, BUFFALO ROBES, AND FURS, COFFEYVILLE, Kansas 2v2tf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Eldridge House, COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS, Geo. W. Selby, Proprietor. The above House is now reopened for guests; having been renovated and refurnished throughout. The proprietor relies on his past reputation as Hotel Keeper as a guarantee that all who patronize him once will come again. 2v2tf