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Show 34 REPORT OF THE COMMIBSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. By the latest report8 they had 60 schools in sncce~sfnlo perad.ion, all, with the exception of onemanaged by the Moravians, maintained out of the national school fund, and having in attendance 2,133 scholars. Three of these schools are for the education of the freedmen living in the country. The orphans of theCherokees have been heretofore pro-vided for in private families, by means of the interest derived from cer-tain funds invested for that purpose, hut during the past year an orphan asylum has been established under an act of the National Council, where are now gathered 54 of this class. This school is designed ulti-mately to embrace in its operations all the orphans of the nation. The Cherokees have no treaty-funds paid to them or expended for their benefit. They have, however, United States and State bonds held in trust for them by the Secreta~v of the Interior, to the amount of $1,633,627.39; also a recognized claim on account of. itbstrected State bonds to the amount of $83,000, on which the interest is appropriate,d annually by Congress, making in all $1,716,627.39. This sum is divided under the following heads, viz: National fund, $1,008,285.07; school fund, $532,407.01; orphan fund, $175,935.31. The Interest on these several sums is paid to the treasurer of the Cherokee nat.ion, to be used under the direction of the National Council for the objects indi-cated bv said heads. 1~11tilllct prewnt conilition and gencr:~l~ ~ ~ , o ~ pocf r itht ey Clierokeer; are as indicated aho~et,h ere :ire some 111attel.st liiit have bet!^^, ant1 i l l n:irt ore rill. r;oll~i*rs<d,ifu onirt and dissatisfiii:rio~ai monr Ihen~.T hrnc hatters will 'be found fully dlseussed in the annual r&ort of Agent John B. Jones, accompansing, and may be here briefly stated as : 1st.' The unlawful attemnts of citizens of the United States to settle noon la11ds bclo~~yiritgo ihe Cllcn,ket,~,w it11 tile pnlbahle eupwriition ihitr t l~eG orcr~~riicnwto ulil tacitly i.mlst.nt to rhtair rcmilil~iiigl i1111 t ~ c ~ i f uallv secure them in nossession. At one time duriua t,he uaut summer, forrthle measures should be ti~ki&fo r their removil. which. after some ~ ~ .~ ~~ ~ ~ delays, was efecteil by themili&ry fbrces of the~ehr tmen'ot f the Mis-souri. It is hoped that this actiou of the Government in thus vindicat-ing tbe intedty of an India11 reservation against lawless and even defiant encroachments will sufficiently establish the conviction in the minds of all persons eimilarly disposed that at last red men have rights which white men are bound to resuect. 2d. Tho iurisdiction ex-eGised by the United ~tnt'esc ourt for t h i westerq d i s t r h of Arkansas orer the Cherokee Countrv, to a degree and for purposes mhich the In-dians assert to coustituf& a viola%ion of treat$ stipulatious guarau-teeing to them the right to have their own courts and administer jus-tice in all cases concerning theirowu citizens. It is alleged, on the part of the Oherokee authorities, that the disrekard of this guarautee was the cause of t.he recent tragedy in Going Snake district, through an attempt by the United Stabs mar8rJh to arrest an Indian who was at the time on trial before the Oherokee. court. on a charge of having murdered a Cherokee woman, the ground of tbe action of the marshal being that tile Indian was also charged wit,h having committed an asmult with in-tent to kill upon the murdered woman's husband, who, although a white man, had been duly a,dopted into the Cherokee nation. In this unthr-tunate affair eight members of the deputy n~arsbnl's party were killed and three wounded, while' of the Cherokees present athnding court three were killed and seven wounded. 3d. The eEorts of certain parties |
