The Black Hills

A Eed Cloud, Neb., correspondent of of the New York World, under date of Maroh 29, writes : Mr. J. 8. Collins, Post Trader at Fort Laramie, W. T., arrived here yesterday. He has telegraphic instructions i'rom the President authorizing hini to negotiate tor the sale of the Black Hills country. He held a council this morning, at which were present Red Cloud, Red Dog and Blue Horse, with a nurnher of othir prominent Indians. Mr. Collins in his address, after stating bis authority for being here, advised the Indians to sell that country between the two Cheyenne rivers. Ho advised them strongly to do this, saying the white men would come in anyhow, as the Great Father at Washington could not keep them out (which, by the way, was einphatically denied by Red Cloud). Red Cloud, Red Dog and Blue Horse replied to Mr. Collins, saying in substauce that the Indians did not want a commission to come out to negotiate for the sale of the country, as the Coinmissioners were apt to He, but they want to send a delegation on to Washington to talk with the Great Futher hiinself ; the delegation to be accompanied by some old settlers, half-breods, and interpreters. There is no doubt of the willingness of the Indians to sell tho Hills. ïhfi only thing is, they want to make as much out of it as they can ; and a trip to Washington would not detract from the pleasure of the bargain. The Omaha Herald has an editorial on Michigan, in which it gives ït the credit of being the best governed State in the Union, extending the compliment both to its State government and to its municipal' adininistration. Il says: " A Legislatura without a lobby, rigid economy in the appropriation and disburseuient of the public money, and careful husbandry of the public lands and property, are aruong the features of Michigan government which breed low taxation and prosperity with the certainty that effect follows cause. Michigan is a pattern State in all that concerns honest administraron and good government as well as the extent and character of its educational and charitable institutions, which, begmning with a great university, and ending with its splendid system of free sohools, reform schools, agricultura] schools, blind and deaf-and-dumb asyIuids, and other splendid charities, furnishing models of excellence for other States to iinitfcte. Michigan, moreover executes its laws, all but that of prohibition, whereby it sends house burners defaulters, and other public rascáis, to prison, unfortunately for other States even though it does not always succeec in keeping them there. All of which is due to the education of a people whom civil war has failed to corrupt with the idea that it is honest to rob and steii.1.