they do not understand is, while they are at peace and are conscious of no wroug intent, that they should be murdered.

"One of the chiefs said: 'I no longer want to live; my women and children have been killed before my face, and I have been unable to defend them. Most Indians in my place would take a knife and cut their throats; but I will live to show these people that all they bave done, and all they can do, shall not make me break faith with you so long Janguage we know as you will stand by us and defend us, in a nothing of, to a great governor we never have and never shall see.

"About their captives they say: 'Get them back for us. Onr little boys will grow up slaves, and our they are large enough, will be discased prostitutes, to get money for whoever owns them good women, and they and our children have no diseases. Our dead you cannot bring to life; bnt those that are we gave to you, and we look to you, who can write and talk and bave soldicrs, to get them back.

I assure you it is no easy task to convince them of my girls, as soon as Our women work hard, and are living zeal when they see so little being donc. I have pledged my word to them that I never would rest, day or night, until they should hare justice, and just army as to be ordered away from them, them away from here. But you well know the diffieulties in the way. You know that parties who would engage in murder like this could and would make statements and multiply affi- darits without end in their justification. your influence on the right side may be made either a means of making good citizens of them and their ehildren, or of driving them out to a hopeless extermination. They ask to be allowed to live here in their old homes, where nature supplies nearly all their wants. They ask for a fair and impartial trial of their faith, and they ask now I would as soon leave the or bo obliged to order I know you will use I believe, with them, this war of