opinion, great distance to be travelled, liability to sickness on the way of grown persons, and the desire of performing the trip in as short a time as that item not extravagant.***Whatever may be necessary in more than n very few persons being hauled The possible, induce us still to thiuk our estimate of the emigration of our people to their eomfort on the way, and as eondncive to their health, we desire to be afforded them; at the same time it is onr anxious wish, in the management of this business, to be frce at all times from the imputation of ex- travaganee." They added that the item of soap had been for gotten in their first estimate, and must now be ineluded, at the rate of three pounds to every hundred pounds of rations.

are exclusive- ly interestcd in the cost as well as the comfort of the removal," he did not feel himsclf at liberty to withhold his sanction from In the report of the Indian Commissioner, also, it is stated that "the cost of removal, according to the Indian estimate, is high ;" but the eommissioner adds, "as their own fnnd pays it, and it was insisted on by their own confidential agents, it was thought it could not be rejoeted."

Noble liberality! This nation of eighteen thousand indus- trious, self-supporting pcople, compelled at the point of the báyonet to leave their eountry and seek new homes in a wilder General Scott replied, "as the Cherokce people thcse ostimates. ness, are to be permitted, as a favor, to spend on their jour ney to this wilderness as much of thcir own money as they think necessary, and have all the soap they want.

The record wIhich the United States Gorernment has left in offieial papers of its self-congratulations in the matter of this Cherokee removal has an clement in it of the ludierous, spite of the tragedy and shame.

Says the Secretary of War: "The generous and enlightened policy evinced in the measures adopted by Congress toward that people duting the last scssion was earried into effect by the general appointed to conduet their ably and judieiously