fulfil his promise, their hearts failed them; not one ventured to take the lead; their purpose was abandoned, and the Indians were saved."-BURNET on the North-west Territory

The Commission consisted of Brigadier-gencral Terry, Hon. A G. Lawrence, and Colonel Corbin, secretary. After one month's journey, tia Omaha, Nebraska, lelena, Montana, and Fort Ben ton, these gentlemen were met on the Canadian boundary by a Canadian officer with a mounted escort, who condacted them to Fort Walsh, wlhen they were met by Sitting Bull and the other chiefs

General Terry recapitulated to then the advantages of being at peace with the United States, the kindly treatment that all sur rendered prisoners had reccived, and said: "The President invites you to come to the boundary of his and your country, and there give up your arms and ammunition, and thence to go to the agen cies to which he will assiga you, and there give up your horses, cxcepting those which are required for peace purposes. Your arms and horsos will then be sold, and with all the moncy obtain ed for them cows will bo bonght and sent to you."

It is mortifying to think that representatives of the United States should have been compelled gravely to submit in a forumal council proposals so ludicrous as these. The Indians must have been totally without sense of humor if they could have listened to them without laughter. Sitting Bull's reply is worthy of being pui on record among the notable protests of Indian chiefs against the oppressions of their race.

He said: "For sixty-four years you have kept me and my people, and treated us bad. What have we done that you should want us to stop? We lave done nothing, It is all the people on your side that have started us to do all these depredations We could not go anywhere else, and so we took refuge in this coautry.** I would like to know why you came here. In the first place I did not give you the country; but you followed me from one place to another, so I had to leave and come over to