"They have ample provision for the education of all their children to a degree of advancement equal to that furnished by an ordinary college in tho States. They have seventy-five day-schools, kept open ten months iu the year, in the common different settlements. For the higher education. of their young men and women they have two commodious and well-furnished seminaries, one for each sex; and, in addition to those already mentioned, they have a manual labor school and an asylam. The cost of maintaining these schools the past year (1877) strnction, $78,441 65, of whieh $41,475 was paid as salary to teachers They have twenty-four stores, twenty-two mills, and sixty- fire smith-shops, owned and condncted by their own citizens. Their constitution and laws are published in book forn; and from their printing-honse goes forth among the people in their own orphan was, as reported by the superintendent of public in- language, and also in English, the Cherokee Advo cale, a weekly paper, which is cdited with taste and ability.

They have (and this is true also of the Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles) a eonstitutional government, with legislative, judicial, and execntive departments, and condncted upon the same penses of whieh are paid out of their own funds, which are de- plan as our State goveraments, the cntire cx rived from interest on various stocks and bouds-the invested proceeds of the sale of thcir lands, and held in trust by the Government of the United States-which interest is paid the treasurers of the different nations semi-annually, and by them disbursed on national warrants issued by the principal chief and secretary, and registered by the auditors.

"They are an who live by tlhe honest fruits of their labor, and scem ambi tious to advance both as to the development of their lands and the conveniences of their homes. In their council may be found men of learning and ability; and it is doubtful if their intelligent, temperate, and industrious people,