country an entire regiment of Indian troops, raiscd ostensibly for service in the rebel army, deserted and came over to us, and have eyer since been nder our comnand, and upon all oc- casions bave proved themselves faithful and effieient soldiers." In the course of the next year, however, many more joined the rebels: it was estimated that between six and seven thousand of the wealthier portion of the nation co-operated in one way or another with the rebcls. The result was that at the end of the war the Cherokee country was rnined.

"In the Cherokee country," says the Roport of the Indian Bureau for 1865, "where the contending armies hare moved to and fro; where their foraging parties have gone at wil, sparing neither friend nor foo; where the disloyal Cherokees in the service of the rebel government were determined that no trace of the homesteads of their loyal brethren sbould re- main for their return; and where the swindling cattle-thieves have made tlieir ill-gotten gains for two years past, the seene is one of utter desolation."

The party feeling between the loyal and disloyal Cherokees as it did betweeh the loyal and disloyal whites, and impossible to make opposing parties in the Cherokee nation agree to live peaceably side by side with cach other, as it would to make dis charged soldiers from Georgia aud from Maine settle down in But after long and troublesome negotiations a treaty was concluded in 1866, by which all the ncces sary points seemed to be established of a general amnesty and high гan as it looked for a time as if it would be as the two one village together. реасе.

That the Indians were at a grcat disadvantage in the making of these new treatics it is unnecessary to state. The peculiarity of the Government's view of their sitaatiou and rights is most Alluding to the at no vcry distant time new treaties with all these Southern tribes, one of the Indian supcrintendents näivcly stated in one of the reports for 1862 neccssity of making