three hundred of them had settled down on lands which were outside the Cherokee Reservation, and had boen assigned by the Government to the Osages. This unfortunate throe hun- dred, therefore, are romoved again; this time to the lands of the Peorias, where they ask permission to establish them sclves But in the mcan time, as they had made previous ar rangemonts with the Cherokees, and all their funds had been transforred to the Cherokee Nation, it is thought unfortunate that they should be thus obliged to seek a new homo;" and it is said to be "quite desirable that the parties in interest should reconcile their unsettled affairs to mutual ad to be "very vantage. We are too much inclined to read these rccords carelessly, wihout trying to pieture to oursclves the condition of affairs which they represent. It has come to be such an acceptcd thing in the history and fate of the Indian that he is to bc always pushed march of civilization, that to the arerage mind statements of these repeated removals come with no startling force, and sug gest no vivid picture of details, only a sort of reassertion of an abstract general principle. But pausing to consider for a mo- ment what snch statements actually mean and involve; imag- ining such processes applied to some particnlar town or village on, always in advance of what is called the bappen to be intimately acquainted with, we can soon that we come to a new realization of the full benring and import of them; such uprooting, such perplexity, sueh loss, such confu sion and uncertainty, inflicted once on any community of white pcople anywhere in our land, would be considecred quitc cnough to destroy its energies and blight its prospects for years. may very well be questioned whether any of our small eom unities would ave recovered from such successive shocks changes, and forced migrations, as soon and as well as have many of these Indian tribes. It is very certain that they would It not have submitted to them as pationtly.