I am glad to hear that you keep up communication with Mr. Brunot. He and his Commission are a power at Washington now, in their line of business, and they ought to be.
Eastern papers have lately a long dispatch from St. Louis announcing the arrival in that city of "Gen'l. Hazen, Commander of the Department of the Arkien [strike] Arkansas", and giving his version of Indian affairs. The substance of the whole is that the Kiowa, Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Apaches and Comanches recently held a grand council at Antelope Hills and decided upon commencing a deperae was of