24 JULY 1875, Page 2

The Government of Washington have got the Black Hills. The

Sioux find fighting too dangerous, and have accepted $25,000, or /5,000, to resign their rights in the territory. It will now be thoroughly explored, the best mines worked by Americans, and the worst sold to Englishmen, and we note as proof of its value a report that very little gold has been discovered there. -Until all arrangements are complete, it will be profitable that the geology of the district should be despised.