is all that I bave to tell. If we told you more, you would not pay any attention to it. This part of the country does not helong to your people. You belong on the other side, this side belongs to us."

The Crow, shaking hands, and embracing Coloncl MeLeod, and shnking hands with the other British oflicers, said: This is the way I will live in this part of the country. ** don't hide anything, they are all the people I like, years ago I shook hands with the soldiers, and ever since that I bave had bardships. I made peace with then; and ever since then I have been running from one place to another to keep out of their way. *** Go to where yon were born, and stay there. I came over to this country, and my Great Mother knows all about it. These people that Sixty-four She knows I came over here, and she don't wish anything of me. We think, and all the women in the camp think, we are go- ing to have the conntry full of people. ** I lhave come back in this part in pcacc, and raise children."

The Iadians then inquired whether the commission had any thing more to say, and the commission answered that they had nothing more to say, and tlhe conference closed

The commission, witlh a natve lack of comprehension of the true situation of the casc, go on to say that "they are convinced that Sitting Bull and the bands under him will not seck to return to this country at present. It is believed that they are restrained from returning," partly by their recollcction of the seyere handling they had by the military forees of the United States in the last winter and spring, and partly by their belief that, for some reason wlich they cannot fathom, the Government of the United States earnestly desires that they shall return. In thcir intense hostility to our Government, they are determiued to contravenc its wishes to thec best of their ability." It would seem so even to the extent of foregoing all the privileges offcrcd thom on their return-the giving up of all weapons-the exchang ing of their horscs for cows and the priceless privilege of being shut. up on reservations, off which they could not go without be- ing pursucd, arrested, and brought back by troops. What a depth of malignity must be in the brensts of these Indians, that to gratify it they will voluntarily relinquish all these benefits, and continue to remain in a country where they must continue to hunt, and make their own living on the unjust plan of free trade in open markets ! the country plenty more pcople,