HIDDEN POWER. CHAPTER I. THE SCOUT'S WOOING. HEN Lewis and Clark made their voyage up the Missouri River in 1803, after toiling for many days against the rugged current of that turbid stream, they landed at a place on the eastern shore and held a council with the Indians. They named the place Council Bluffs, and it is so called to this day. Many years afterward, the outskirts of permanent settlements hesitated and stopped for a moment on the eastern bank of the Missouri, and was now just invading the verge of what was marked upon the atlas of those days as "The Great American Desert." A few houses, some more or less pretentious, made up all there was of the "city" of Council Bluffs. In the bar-room of the hotel was assembled a crowd of men. Some were drinking at the bar, some were playing "poker," others looking on, or listlessly lounging about in different positions. Standing by a window and looking out over the wide, level bottom toward the "LAW IS LIBERTY."-(Inshta Theamba-Bright Eyes.) THE MANNER IN WHICH IT CONTROLS THREE IMPORTANT DEPARTMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. A DEFENSE OF THE U. S. ARMY, AND A SOLUTION OF THE INDIAN PROBLEM. BY T. H. TIBBLES. NEW YORK: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers. LONDON: S. LOW, SON & CO. MDCCCLXXXI. |