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irtttratmcnf tvith the national party, made a treaty U'itlh the otfare. whose marked feature wa* a pr* vi»-ilt;*ii that the Hon h**rn party, though not toTBittllv staled from the nation, fthon'd be alb v ta a crtlain j»ft of the territory for their exclusive u*e and occupancy; they agreeing to n il their right to certain portions of thena i »nal d* maiit This treaty was not, however, laid 1 eh re tlie Senate; but after another month of ri gotiation a treaty vat* finally concluded on the 19th of July, which, although not entirelyft t7 fj artery to any party tv ax the best possible tscttilt;rtflt;nt of the mat It r attainable '*1 In* wft* the treaty under which both sales ofthere laiidt* tm k t!aceOr* the 29th of Angnst, 1866 the day beforethe contract wa* executed. the following protestwas t-eiit to Secre*ary Hailau, and received byhim, as appears from the record:“VY AftHlNOTOS, August 29, 1866.•‘//er». Jen es Harlan, Srretary lt;f the interior;but—As attorney* for the Cherokee nation of Indiana, we beg leave to inform you that it is reported that a Fate I* be inf? negotiated by \cu et ihe 8CKM CO acres of lands in Kansas, Known as the Neutral Lands, in whole, or in part. Oft ertdtt and to protest in behalf of the nation against such sale ’Then follows an argument to show that the treaty contemplated only a ca?h sale. The tut* ter ctot'Cf* as foil* wp: * ’/“Ve ut drretand that it ie proposed to makethe sale nominally for ca~h and then invent the ptocud* in bond* issued by the purchasers, thus giving to an actual credit sale the appearance of a rush sale. This will not relieve the ti Amaction of illegality. * * ** We therefore repeat, and ask to he filed in the department, our protest as attorneys ot the Cherokee nation against such sale.“Yei v icepectfully, your obedient servants,(bigued) “Titoa. Ewino, Je.‘ John W. WmcHr.”The next day the same gentlemen, acting inIIthe same capacity, wrote to Harlan, saying they bad not heaid from their pro est, that they understood he contemplated making the saleIon credit that day, and a-ked to set- the con-tract, and be beard against it. This Harlan recti vlt; d, as appears from the records, but no attention was paid to it. and that day the contract wiih the Fmigrant Company was executed, and he received a draft for $25 000, the amount of the first payment, into his own hands. But ofthis again. * I -'Here whs a sale made so secretly that theegerts of the nation interested could not learn it« exact character, and were not allowed to see the contract, or be heard against it.On the following day, bent. I, Mr. Browning emend upon his duties as Secretary of the Intel ior, in place of Mr. Harlan.On the bauit nay. Messrs. Ewing and Wright, as aUorneys for the Clierokeea, addressed him a letter, which is now on file, setting torth *hat Mr. Hailan had sold the neutral lands illegally, in spite of their protest, made before the con* tiuct was executed, and usked that Mr. Browning wcmld cancel it.On inspection it was ascertained that the teimr of Mr. Harlan's sale were $25,000 down; $25,000 on the approval of the surveys; $25,000 on the 30th or August. 1867; $75,000 on the 30th vf Augmt, 1868; the same in August, 1869, and 1870, and $100 000 annually thereafter till all w»b paid, wiih five per cent, on each sum from the date of the approval of the surveys.Just previous to the sale Mr. Harlan* bad taken mtans to inform himself of the value of these lards, as appears from the record On the 3d ot August, 1866, he instructed ludiau Ageut G. C. Snow to proceed at once to the neutral lands, and inspect them. -*n 'On the 18th of August Snow had reached Washington, and reported in writing to Mr. 11 as Inn that he had been over a considerable portion ot the land in person, and had mademany inquiries of the settlers. That “a large portion or the land along the valleys and streams is very good.” »**•*! would iudge that one-tenth of these lands is timber—from fair to good. The principal varieties are oak, walnut and hickory. It u believe that coal exists iu laige quantities. * * * Although none of the veins examined by me were over twenty-two inches thick, it U probable that a more thorough examination may develop thicker veins.This report should be read in connection with a passage in Senator Harlan’s speech, in the k 1 Senate, of January 18. 1869, w here be first aired1IlIIi3\tIMr, Grinnell quotes this, and adds; •“A* lathe Fecund untruth in this, that I, was the middle man in the dealing* wi*n the 1 Ci i tifcticut t‘f rnf any ’ 1 knew nothing of the iegoiiation or the sale of the landi Until the ! contact was announced in the press ’’ \The attention of these gen'bun on is respect- J fully m. kid to the apparent discrepancies ne- | twet n these statement# and the letter of Mr Griufiell, given above. t. ' .Mr. Grtimcll Would have done beher had he }bft u mole cateftil ot hi- English, and ret ti ted ;his Latin, “Jalsu* in uno fahm ht omnibus/ ‘for ftersotial use. ^The treaty which Mr. Grinnell came to ne- ; got tate w a- corud tided' A pn! 27th t w j da vs • after the - date of his letter, and ratifiedJune 6th. 1868 Under it Joy obtained teints somewhat similar to those w Lick Harlan accorded *he Emigrant Company, lut ditiering in important particular*; for instance, he was to pay $70,000, within ten ! days, for the benefit of the Cherokee*, and was required to respect the claims of actual settlers at the date of the ratification of the former treaty. *'*: ...1 here is nothing in the treaty which directly birds Joy to replace the $25 000 the Emigrant Company had paid to Mr. Harlan. That, h »w -ever, whs doue by a formal transfer, dated at Hartford, Conn., four days before the Pr«sid-nt had approved the treaty, and witneosed by tn tt emiiely disinterested individual. Hon. J. B. Giini ell. It wits agreed ?hat the$25 000 paid by Bftitboiomew to Harlan should be nirned over to Joy, and tie applied on the $70,000 dun from him under the sale. 1lt;L dMr Joy’s statement of the case, in his late loiter, was thi*: “That amount ($50,000) was paid to the American E mi grant Cora pa uv, of w hich $25,600 was to reimburse it f *r the same aitiouut which had been paid to the Secretary of he Interior by it. on its contract, and which the railroi d company acquiring the lands had the benefit of a* a payment on Its own contract . 1 be other $25,000 wa* paid as being thedifference in value between a contract on time al 5 per cent interest and a cash contract The records Fbow the following very queer bifttoty of the nay meat of the lii*t $25 ttfki to Mr. Harlan: Whentthe Etuigraut C unpnvw ere claiming that as their contract had heen closed, and the Secretary had received the 6r*t pay merit, their title w’as good, and they intended to com eat the matter in the Courts, Mr. Kro cuing concluded to withdraw the $25 000 he supposed to be in the Treasury to their credit, and tender it to the company. On sending tor the proper cleik, through whose hands it hadpHSF*d, he found that this getit lemau had no re-cot d of it, and knew nothing ab-jut it. He was ordered to investigate the matter and report. The Treasury Department reported no sum in itF poseF#ioti to the credit ot that company.Mr. Jam. A. Will in m*o e, in charge of Neutral I.fti«d mattersf continued bis search, and found that on the day of the payment to Mt. Harlan, there weie two amounts, of which the Indian office knew nothing together making $25 t*Mt, that bud been covered into the Treasury in Me. Harlan’s name by J. B. Goodwin, Disbursing Clerk These items were as follows:To detray expenreft of surveys ot the ChorokceNeutral b uds n Kaimw, Au............. St5,OAO11AIFor fulfilling treaty siipulstioos witu ».rie Uae»rokev ludiaiif•*•***i1eisi»ee60?9yed10,000Mr. Goodwin was then called on for a report in the matter, and on the 13th of November,18tt. he made two, the last a few hours afterj The first one contained the following:[. 4*l Iwivethe honor to report that the books in, piy har ds hhow that the money was deposited, in the name of Hon. James Hrlan, 8ecremryi of the Interior, August 31st, 1866 On the same day the certificates of deposit were transmitted to the Fecond Auditor fbr the appropriate ■ aciion ot his office* * j Mr. Goodwin further stated that on the 9th i of October the Second Auditor returutd his i lists of deposits wnder the above beitds.I Shortly after, on the some d»^\ Mr. Goodwin made a supplemental report, indorsed ou the j wrapper so as to show that it. was in reference : to a sum paid by G. W. Bartholomew, of the j Emigrant Com|iany to Mr. Harlan. He says:i * * ♦ *q have to say that on the 3t*l day ; of AuguFt, 1806, Mr Harlan handed mea draft (by whom drawn I do not nowremember), with a request that 1 would have Ithip knowledge of the French and Italian languages in an attack upon the press. Referring to this neutral laud matter, he paid:4 The inference of these newspaper critics is that the lands were worth vastly more, and the Fecretary did or ought to know it. Now. I happen to know personally that they were not. I adopted the means of knowing that the refuse lands, after taking out the lands selected by settlers, weTe not worth more. Here were 8lt; 0 000 acres of land in Kansas, of which 200,-000 acres were*selected by the settler* them-selves. These 200,000 acres of land embraced every stick of standing timber on the whole tract, and every vi-ible out cropping of rock or coal, and every mill site or desirable valley.’’ Now, is it not strange that Mr. Snow, who was sent by special instructions from Mr.f-fptlftn to report «pw these lauds, end ^ame,A 1 after ths isppectiou, all the way to Waahisgtoaifeif1[:oI-:ee4dftdrs . T «$■ ...cashed at the Fir*t National Bank, and that Iwould then deposit the $25,000 fa the Trea*arvStates, in hi* name, to thaefedlttion. I did **« arlan the certifi-I1Iof the Unitedof the above beads of approi*ria requested and gave to Mr. Harlcates of deposit. ^“By reterence to the books in my room * # m it appears that the original certificate wa* seat to the Treasury without having been first sent to the Indian Office, and without their hise for bis action. This Course on the part of the Requisition Clerk was entirely irregular.“I am, sir. very rasper!felly* _ , „(Signed) ‘J, R. Goodwiji, DisbursingClerk.’, It is almost unnecessary to say that such an unusual operation will bear explanation. The solution most creditable to Serretty Harlan ia that he purposely deposited it in thi* way. especially to prevent the suece**or getting it ootto return to th** Ktaljgvant Oomiwtnv if beel red to sot aside the sale. Hut even Utb would— a widow Mi«t 184u. A no* her taorgauat^s lL.arik9ye wae that of the late King of Denmark. r redern k the Seventh, wh*». af or being divoicrt* from two Pi 1 nce^se* taarried m »r-ganaiieally a plain dre.-Mu^ker t*y the na ue of lvH:iino*u, with * Hum ht* lived happily tidLie oenth. He firat encountered her under vety eingiilar tircatu^latii'e*. It is ihe cu^t »ioot 11*|enheger*. when a large fire occ*tfl, f »r©he «»i the I’m ces to at tend n and ro rake command lt;«r the detachment oftroopii which i# al- A waFcaU«d out u» keepotdcr while th«tir©.aea eodeavor to extinguish ihe eottffstrati it.Fitdtlick, ihc Uiuwti Prince, wat once per- ~ toiio ing this duty when hi* eve ©aught sight offtwaxtignrelu a wlttdow ot a dre^^m tkera tbop. in ihe Mcoi d 8»ory ot a burning butiditijf In the t.urry and excitement ot the m lt;tu«ut ho tu^Usik 1 hin lay figure I.m h liiiuui person endeavoring to escape from the window ftjeap-ii.g tion* hi» borae he plunged into th« build-it g aid AM-ceded the r*tai:ca.**e. I)u his wav , ihiungh ihe rooms be discovered the owner of the diet*making otabli bmeut, who wo he-wildeied in theemoke, and whom ha conducted to a I dace ufealety. Tin* was the woumci he Fuletquently marrad, giving her the title of CtHit lee* Danner,- and *#*titug upon her a Urge p dowry. She survived him only a year or tw kAmong the existing member ft ot prUcdy bouse* w ho Lave continetc*d ilii^ kind of mar-tinge Uiay he loeuiioued Prince Le ipold of Saxony, IT luce ( Lai let ©t Bavaria, and PriuoaAlexander of V\ iirtemburg It i* a s ra of itie IhfI Bfttrd, an oiLtfulug of his too ganatic raar-liage, who, under the name of Prince Te**kf lately married Queen Victoria’s cou-io, ta*Pi i r»eess Mary of Cain bridge. A singular i**~ nance of » morgana*io union i* that of Print* Kdwaid, of Saxe-V\ eimar, w ho is married iuUii# Dianner Ui the daughter ot the proud 1 ike vi Richmond, while another English uobletnao9the Duke of Ham it ion, wedded, «#n uirra* orletlect equality, a Princess of tho G^and Ducal x$me of Badei», whose rank is certainly as high fib that ol Prim*© Edward, ^ . : =The only modem ease with which we am familiar ot a morganatic marriage iu which ; the bride was a person of superior rank, U that of the Princes* Elizabeth, of italy, *sh*ter-te-law ot Victor Knmmtuiel, who was uinrrted wit It the left band, in 1856—a year after the death ot her hut band. Prince Ferdinand—to the Marquis Rapalio. Victor Emmanuel himself is said to have been uiorc 1 ban once on the point ot contracting a molgauatic union witn some of bis tar antes, but has been prevented by the *d-vice ot his niiuintere, who, *oniein.w or otfiwr, detm it betier tor the interests of the 8 ate that he Fhouid live iu a more reprehensihie oma*r HUT. ♦ f t ? 9 rT^r-. - .J r) U p, •»The reigning dynasty of Baden presents an ieolaud instance of the scion ol morganatic maniage* breaking thiough the trammeliug precision of suco an union, and sac cut*-ding to the laiik of his {lareht in tae sarue way as theoffspring of an equal uiiion. In 1830, with the death o! the Grand Duke Louis, tfi« striotiy lo-itimate line of this ancient uriucees ol Ba-en came to an end. King Louis, of Bavaria^ i was on the point of taking posse**!on of the ; country as next of kin, wh**u Leopold, the off-| epiiugofa toorgHuatic man mge of the presi-dii g Grand Duke Gharlea Frederick, with aI Madame Geyaerberg, sudftenly proclai»ot*d Tim-I self Grand Duke. He wa* supported by the people, who admired his character and bold-* ness. Bavatia threatened war, aud marched her armies through the Baden frontier, hut the outbreak of the French revolution of 1836, which' wap followed by disturbance* in varhoi* pert'#* ©f Germany, induced King Louis to peu^e, and be finpijy god tented himftelf with issuing a sol-! emn protftftt hgainst what be called n* tinmtion of the crown, ihc reigning family of Baden has tincc then never becudisiurbd, aud it-% claims have been fully reo*gtmcd by the German \ powers. Leopofd*$ eon Frederic Is wow on tho throne, at»lt;f Is married to a niftier t»f the present King ot Prusftia. One more ittstance of a morganatic anion in that of the desfKitic Elector of Hcphc, whofte dominions Prussia recently an* r*ex« d, to the great joy of bis subjects In 1831 be fbl! in love with Gertrude Lehmann, j the pretty wifi? of a non-com missioned officer in ; the FrtMsim army. A little pecuniary nr-. riwigement was tnade w ith Her husband, a lt;ti-roirt* obtaioed, and immediately afterw ard tb© Klcct«»r Frederic Wffliatn U»ok her to witcinor-ganatically. - He made her first Cottnaw of Fchanmbur|^ and the Piincess of Ilanan. She has htrne him six sons and three daughter*, who have taken their titles from their mother. It Dsaid be intended to declare bis eldest non heir *© the throne, notwithstanding the legal hindrance in the way; but Prussia, by her summary proceeding, has prevented the executionof ***y such project.; ^ ^KThe lives of seven hundred and eighty-six**otis were saved by the lifeboats of the oyal National Lifeboat Institution in Rug-laiid last 2ear* Twenty-eight vessels were also saved Arom destiucthm, and reward# woregiven for the firewmtiand sixty live* b| fishing[rty-six hv’sg saved. In, some estseathrew hundreddher boats, oiak-d oua huadrwdost-MIit*g a grand total ot one thoUeanand ft __8*® vikM in^ i,.pn w»«hM orcc^4 trc® bu; recur«re4
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Cincinnati Semi Weekly Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Jan 18, 1870
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