The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1854, Page 2

AFFAIRS AT HOME. THE RED MEN OF AMERICA, | to:0, oxpressthetr vows of these claims, in tho form of i i f H : i H E : 4 z j i ‘The Annual Report of the Secretary of the | Annual Report of the Commistionce @f | sissaied to, end a resolution neanimously adopted ox- some prospect of ssccess, [tit about being commenced | to invest all moneys’ beld’ in trust for Indian a Intertor. “ >), ee reese of the wish and desire of the Shawnees ‘that be Temes, om esa New Mexico a pe iy a ang me s like and. tates : no countenance be given abould be no |. ‘Though ive at first, | There are now funds ‘considerable This ison able, statormanlive saaseiereatieg pepees | Omnox Ixpiaw Amaia, Nov. 25, 1864, Ww ae. tan Solemenld eeceeeiea Salen te aap Tet cont will notequal the amount, of the. lowes sus: from accrued interes, nods, he, wha for which it is sufficiently extended to present a review z—) submit for your the usual other of a like character.” tained by our citisens from the depredations of the In- | it would be good policy to invest; but in view of the fact . of a year’s operation of the numerous, diverse and com- | report from this branch of the Be becrion, selperam $0 ‘There are several other tribes in Kansas Territory diana. that United stocks are held at @ very * plicated imterefs committed to his management and au- | fonaente mene Tress site Giverent saperin: | with which it will be necessary to have new conventions ‘The Governor of New Mexico estimates the cost of put- | ip comparison with safe State stocks, a like rate pak he sameelihieh dal a artaaen ae ; yr ° at anearly day; and it is also very t that ar- ting this system in operation in tab Tewritory at fed | of interenty ond inteminch ne the gree a Saal pervision; it is a a | tions, for detailed information respecting the operations rangements be ‘made as soon as ‘pi with the fe ‘the first t for the thi in purchasing in its stocks at a high premium, ft Condensed as to bo within the reading opportunities of | eee ee erens end the connie SE Wn wanes Pawnes and Poneah Indians of Nebraska, by which their SS 900,00 fe aah at ee sacereding years, en memes tennis approaching session of all. Be mites be restricted and defined, and ‘assaults ‘the nt of losses sustained ite | Congress, in the hope thatit will take such action asmay the Inst fiscal year there have bee 11,070,935 | The remnants of the Six Nations remaining in the State gh ne Poacher me caer Ge sae sustained by the w’ ‘tend ‘thor ption PPR er) pars pa pun A and $100,017 acres | of New York present the interesting spectacle of one of other ree teas * pets ein —— prt XX, pest, at | 2 F the in “agreement Ago Fi Ee yal luring the Ssh, mati cheno runt, | Sermo of ah" as well ap t o ‘demand the efficient action of the government, eet eit hve tose | oe and by limita volume portions of the aboriginal race of this eS wintend Sts ten tscrea were sold for cash, and $9,285,533 58 rece! continent, still achering, with traditional tenacity aad pete jee pescmy lead thera therefor—being 5,952,240 acres more than were sold for | veneration, to the homes ef their forefathers. Sub- | Condition of the Indian tribes; while the umuaual and cash during the preceeding year. During the last fiscal _ jected to many trying and adverse vieissitudos, by which | protracted drought that haa prevailed in that region of ‘year 3,416,802 acres were located with bounty land war- | their numbers aud territorial possessions bave been | country, has caused, in many instances, an almost total Tanta, 11,033,813 acres for the States, as govermmacas | steatly diminished, this once barbarous and heathen } failure of the crops of wowe of those who have heretofore dands, and 1,761,962 acres for railroads, &. ‘Thus sho people, devoted only to war and the chase, have under- | attempted to cultivate the soil. ing that while there has been a large increase in the num panne ratifying change, and now ge acknow- Some of the tribes will have corn sufficien¢to supply: ber of acres sold for cash, a sensible diminution is felt in | ledge, and partially practice, the more enobling and | their necessities; and to guard against inevitable sufler- the various other modes in which the lands are dis- | beveficial principles sud pursuits of christianity and | ing and want, it has been determiued to retadn a portion Drought into market. Within the same period 7,' tied the most renown wed ction is inevitable. Ideem it proper to call attention to the claims ef aes were made at the late session of Con- | Indians to land bounty for military services rendered to ates d to enable the department to tortion of Con. | the United States, Underithe act of September, 1860, « posed of. | Civilization, Internal dissensions, alluded to informer | of the annuities of the present year, due to such as are | The agent for the Upper Platte and Arkansas o tories," in which considerable number of such claims were ‘and ‘The quantity of lends sold during the first and second | reports, have materially interfered with thelr advance. Gentitute of provisions, Gad thus afferd theg the means | experienced no apie dio nomatee tee | ate eee ee iene ch provision | cag, bot a, decision ha Peenete. eee ee eee sea yen is caps dd more than | caso, and nover hereatter be mitre ag peed aphes necosaary to procure food during the appeosshing winter | tribes who were partie to the ‘Arkansas treaty 10 the | ferred to ee dive Merrettod that these appropratices | ate not embraced by that, act, there are many, equally i ipetiod of * peculi : ee 2 pmendoads Eenate to that instrument, exeep ‘delayed until it was too late in the season to send | just, remaining unsa subject net having : were delay suring thé corresponding period of the last Gacal year. ine peopliae ie mee ip reed the Indians | “The various bands of Sioux, Gros Ventaees, Aricka- | the A) ; and he expresses the belief that’the Ca- | Sut the goods and other presents, without which the nego- under the jurisdiction of this office, Iam mat op: ‘The qnantity of locate: Land claims for services rende nince 1790, is $1,427, res. Jand warrants, under Simaued calling for 887,050 acres, a on of bounty | in the of the con- | ras, and others of the Upper Missouri who are | manches and Kioways have fal ‘complied with t cre i 1a nds of that i of Abi } of | with a reasonable of the particular grounds of that decision; ware | federated bands of Ottawas and Chippewas, was fully | Pardieato the treaty of Aliieas, woah toed/ductr ent | stiphlasions of the come meter in TOG feces orate Rees seiner had, traxthors,, necoasnily te bet ee Wer attection’ wants, Lax camaed erech deameaaitaciion: Seek And the measure deemed best for their | nual presents and annuity goods with great satiafac- | zens of New Mexico, seeming not to understand that | ferred ti next year. ‘In the meantime, warily to be de- | and as it is bat just that all should be compensated for Sere he eet con eentronupsceted. itis requisite that | tion, ‘The Arickaras, Mandans sud Gros Ventrees in. | that Territory now belongs to the United States. When | the Territories have beon called upon, in therr ca their services, 1 would recommend such tien as ned ‘ < oo - ib: sabebilne tee tected Chenaen tat ir et ade them, | formed the agent that he might in futare @lspense with | the agent met the Apaches he was without an interpre- of Superintendants of Indish Affairs, for information as | may be deemed necessary to secure them the value of maining warrants, ils supposed that about 200,000 4 pee Ee TANIA 6 hanges, jp rapier gv arin * | ony paber wey Cease) as beta “ea bepen ey | bei! and therefore could not submit the amendment to | ¢o the extent and nature of the various Indian . claims, Foie paler perp providing for the adjudication rf equired. iy | vt States for their own use, besides 8 quantity to 1e ropi m. i claims in this office. The introduction of the graduation principle into our | Michigan. Such arrangemants could not be effected | dispersion of the buifalo, a other causesalluded tin | Itis stated that the great majority of the Indians of | Vit, maps indicating ima rppee eget cee In several of the Western States and Territories public land system, engrafts upon it a new and impor. | without more or teas expense; and on the application of | the report of the agent, require that such action be | that agency have ne respect for the goverment of the | jasue the necessary instructions, and also as tothe cha- | there are bands of strolling Indians, Zant feature, The Secretary considers the law very difi- e department the sum of ten thousand dollars was ap- | taken at once és will lay'a foundation for the future | United States, or the citizens thereof; that emigrating | racter and descri of the articles most useful to the | from time to time, become severed from the cult of execution, and that fully to accomplish the ob- | propriated therefor by Congress. But in consequence of | gupport of these people. parties have generally to buy their way through the ‘and best #uited to aid in the accomplishment of | t0 kwhich the belong. They are e jects contemplated by its passage, material modifications | Led a period at which the appropriation was made, The discontent of some Of Alte :banda:con the Upper | country, and that the military force at the ‘afferent dep! ble condition, ati are a great annoyance to the must bo mace. The Secretary adheres to his previous | #n4 other her baets dope is lias been deemed advisable | yfissouri, and the attempts ef those who committed the | posts can render no assistance, being, indeed, unable to | * Tye reasons which prevented the accomplishment this | White population. ey ought to be removed to their views respecting the policy of granting alternate sec- | to postpone further proceedings until the next year. massacre near Fort Larimie, alluded to elsewhere, to en- | protect itself beyond the reach of the guns of the | season of trcaties with the Indians in New Mexico and il tions of land in uid of the con-truction of great leading Re the convention with the Menomonees of the 12th | jist all the Indians of that region to join them in a gene- | forts. Utah apply with equal force to the Blackfeet and other made of them; and to accomplish which an appropriatien: Lighways, when such works are likely to be undertaken — May last, they spa aiae lea to anne, ear of | ral war on the whites—for details of which you are re The Osages, Pawnees and others, have also annoyed Indian ot the Upper Missouri, and adjacent to the Ter- by reas will be , a8 there are now no funds public, and not me vlventar id speculators. 2 r » by + | sufficient to require prompt action, and such military | ‘The road: 4 is icem it my duty to call attention to a recent 4 uch grants, the 3 miLies S01 eneral su - ’ e s¢ | travel over the plains next spring. sands t ii uty of ly the policy of exercising, aa plications to Wis — in hi hee im the ba aoe — Fivere AB ibes, embrace the Indians in the Council Blu Agen- | millions in value, pass annually over the Plains, | procured and sbipped by way of Cape Horn, and the | ™oneys rayable to the Indians as will secure to them onld be bro Hee eee ee eee oct the auWorities | cy. Through the neglect of their formeragent, und the | gre entitled to. the protection of the goverument. | Superintendents in. those ‘Territories instructed to pro: | the full benefit thereof, and prevent their being fleeced | Sihiolt they had removed. “the tract grapted ‘thers | Gcl&y necessarily occasioned by his rejection by the | The weakness of the present military force operates in- | ceed, as early as practicable, with the nogotiatigns. | PY designing men, under corrupt snd iniquitous con- Uy the totaly Of Ande as 1° teal grap’ ‘ ha em | Senate, and the appointment ‘and qualification of a | juriously in various ways, and it would be mach better | It is hoped that these will result in satisfactory tintigns mage. | tracts or obligations, which in their ignorance and 4 | tea than civ hundred thesend womens Crag auetin pot | successor, these Indians have had but little attention | io withdraw it entirely, and let emigrants have notice | ments tor the permanent settlement of the Indians, and | } icity, they have been induced or xeduced to sign, or them by the convention of Mav Lect enithraceteoured 10 | during the past season. ‘The Omohas and Pawnees lave, | that they must protect themselves and their property, | in the establishment of such relations between them and | '¥ the recognition and allowance of claims and demanda | humdged and seventy-nix theasand four humired ana | #8 tuderstood, raised and gathered less than an ave- | and leave the Imdians to be dealt with by our agents | the whites, as will prevent the recurrence of such in- | sainst them having no foundation in right or jus- eighty acres, and jaa bet, pousand fost Reece ane rage crop of corn; but the Ottoes amd Missouris are | alone, than to permit the posts to remain in their pre- | human scenes and atrocities as have taken place in Ore- | ‘e- leh oie th their comfortable accommodation, Thelands. vel ceted without food for the winter, and all of themare nearly | sent weak and enfeebled condition, gon during the past year, and in which it 18 due to It haviug become known that the Menomonee Ia- the lands along the propose by them, though not suitable for their purposes, will be | Gestitute of clothing. When recently in Nebraska, | | ‘Ihe report of Agent Whitéeld reiterates the admoni- | irnth to state that the latter have in some eases been | dians had manifested dissatisfaction with the treaty : ae caremulieecen equally valuable to the government, if not more 20, th: directed the agent to make provision for the necessary | tion of his predecessor in relation to the impending fate | the aggressors, and shown themselves to be as barbarous | made with them in 1848, and that they were oh THe SaDNsiag ab At: Gare MEeLeOny. tte ereaiaNan Siete me: ? y Man | wants of the Omohas and Ottoes, and Missouris, aud | of the Indians of the Arkansas, the Platteand the Plains, | and cruel as the Indians. Indeed, the usual order of | bably entitled to a larger compensation than fist r he etrptis s ee ee In consideration of the great difference in the qui to proceed atonce with parties of each, to selest the | f some policy be not soon introduced by which th things has been to gome extent reversed, the department | stipulated for the lands which they thereby ceded, n not to make such reservations Eereafter tities of the lande thus exchanged, an @ | reservations provided for in the recent treaties, so that | habits, tastes and pursuits may be changed, The bu having had to invoke the aid of the military for the pro. | they were induced to enter into a contract with am | these Indians may be removed early in the spring. By | falc, on which they mainly rely, not only for food and | tection of the weak and helpless Indians from the por- individual to prosecnte a claim against the government ‘ tH t to the attent ) contemplated th vut 5,066 miles of road, which, allowing si » mile, would have requiged about tw of these which sidered (i determinati untii the grants shall have beeu actually made ares ‘The xeasons for this determination ar believed that the consideration stipula the treaty with it i 3 5 " » ge | y with the Omohas, it is stipulated that the | clothing, but also ‘for th 1. agree one- that such reservations are of doubtful legality. they had ‘been induced to eee by the treaty of 1848, | United Staten will protect them in thelr new home from | disappedring ahd must soon cense to ve a source er ee. | “iu thin connection, 1 would refer to the report of Sa- | which might be recovered, ‘About the annus tines lovee they retard the settlement of the country—the difficulty | Was iui Tein wet thettre ah Lge an th “4 the assaults of the Sioux, and other hostile tribes. | liance pag vp for support. The best policy to | perintendent Palmer, of p, and tothe elaborate | amount of claims of traders and others were raked of ascertaining in what cases it is likely the grants will tee ee nea a one hundredeand ity teoueeni del | Without this protection ‘they will, not, and indeed | he adopted to mect the exigency, it {s diMeult to deter- | report of Gov. Stevens, of Wasllington, as containing | to be prosecuted against the Indians, and to be pald ont be made, and the fear of injuring the section of country 10 Mem, uum of one hundred and fifty thousand dol- | ought not, to remove, and the militdty post before al- | jnine satisfactorily; but that something should be done, | much valuable and interesting information in regard to | of such sum; although a fund had been set apart i r a sontemp! y turning ts wax stipulated to be paid in fifteen annual instal- rit r ; by - Riyaz} be gets ae contemplated, by turning mente, pret encing with the year 1867, when she pay- | rast should be located with reference to such pro- | snd that speedily, must be apparent to every reflecting | the tribes and the condition of Indian affairs in those | the treaty of 1848 and srplet by the Indians to the ae The Secretary reiterates his recommendation that offi. ments in fulfilment of the treaty ef 1848 will expire. | “C10 mind. two Territories, tlement and payment of their indebtedness, and cers connect with the survey and sale of the public This censideration was increased by tho Senate, in the | ‘The Indians of the Great Nemaha agency, comprising In the report last year of the late Agent Fitzpatrick, Our Indian relations in California begin to weara moro | was doubtless considered amply sufficient to cover all Somain be proiibited by law from becoming interested ia dditional sum of ninety-two thousand six hundred and | the Saes and Foxes of Missouri,tand the Jowas and Kicka- | ne states that in his then recent visit he found many of | encouraging aspect. No serious disturbance has oceur- | tho just and valid claims against them. ‘The compensa ita purchase. eighty-six dollars, making the aggregate amount of two | 9P00es, will with the partial crops raised by them, and the } the Cheyennes, Arapshoes and Sioux ina starving con. | red there during the past year. The system of coloniz- | tion for the prosecution and recovery of these claims ‘ator the passage of the act September, 1950, granting hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and | Portion of their annuities withheld to meet thelr neces- } dition, om account of the seanty supply of builato; and | img the Indians, on reservations located so as not to in- | against the Indians was understood to be one-half the ahe governnient lands to the Stateg in which they lie, cighty six dollars. Having thus been permanently and | sities, get along without any serious inconvenience. It the Upper Missouri nt, in his last year’s report, also terfere with the p as of the white settlements, has | amount so recovered. The two transactions wire arm eeretir lends wore taken up be purchase or location most liberally provided for, and all causes of discontent { seatifying to know that some of the Indians of this | states that within Lis agency there are at Ieaet focs | thus far been attended with happy results, in withdraw. | rently in different hands, but there can be no doubt bu se gricaltural land. ‘The net of 1490 being a grant im Temoved, it is hoped and believed that in a few years the | AZ€ncy are impressed with the necessity of exerting | hundred thousand of these animals annually destroyed. | ing the Indians from the injurious contact with the min- | they were the joint and ‘partnership operatloas between presenti to the States, the United States cannot make Menomonees will exhibit some evidences of moral and | themsetves to change their mode of life, to adopt new ‘The present agent for the Upper Platte and Arkansas | ing and agricultural population, from which the painful | some three individuals. (See sere neats Pys in title to the individual purchasers or locators, and many , S0cial advancement. : | habits, and to have their means employed in the erec- | js of the opinion that, althou; Lag viabay ea be inevitable, | ¢0) fons and disturbances that have heretofore occurred | the appendix, marked A, B, C, D, E, F, h, , J, K,L, duhoultion have growa up under this head, to settle | The department has been perplexed and embarrased by | tim of houses and the opening and cultivation of farms. | yet the Indians alluded to will never voluntarily abandon | 808. While its tendency is to satisfy the whites that | M, Nand O, of which B, ‘C,'F, @ and’ H’ but’ recently which and afford relief, the Secretary recommends reme- the refusal of that portion of the Stockbridge Indians, of The crops of the Indians within the four agencies, em- | their present mode of life, and that to effect a change they will hereafter be secured from molestation and an- | came into the possession of this office, and to all of i dial legislation. Wisconsin, parties to the treaty of 1848, to accept the , bracing the Delawares, Shawnees, Wyandotts, Potto- | and obtain control over them, the United States must | 20yence by the Indian population, it 5 be romise of | which your particular attention is called.) Letter His a al legi eee . tract of land nclected for them, ia accordance with that | Watames, Kansas, Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, | first effect ‘ 4 | disposing of the Intter in a manner to admit af its being | copy of an agreement with an individual who had but The Secretary recommends, aa indispensably necessary i co wil , ; tually chastise every band of them. | heltl under proper control, and gradually improved ani | recently been the agent for the Indians, and was there. ‘to the tion of the vast tof business before treaty, and to which selection they at ono time cave Chippewas, Ottowas, Kaskaskias, Peorias, Weas, Pian- | Although having confidence in the prudence and judg- | hel n° pias, eset Sacther your the couaisuion fo | their sasent. ‘They are, oF pretend to be, anxious to re. | Keshawsand Miamies, have, to'a very great extent, | mont of the agentel am constrained. to think th dg | civilized. reservation has been established at the | fore doubtless supposed to boable to exercise am influ- main, where they wow are at Lake Winnebago; and indi, | failed, and suffering to an unusual degree will only be | suggestion has mot beon well: considered he he Tejan Pass, to which about seven hundred Indians® | ence over them, by which for a contingent-compensation Soe the band have repeatedts yistted tata prevented by the application of a portion of the ample | without questioning the beset ettests i ich thigh have been removed, and a considerable quantity of land | of $10,000 he was obligated to throw no obstacle im the urrangement to that effect.” For reasons. Money annuities which most of them have, to the pur- | result from the successful exeeation of such « monrce, | PUt in cultivation,” There are numbers of other Indians | way of the transactions, but to aid and assist in 'y special report to you of the 6th ult. their | chase of such supplies as may be necessary to their | jt would, in my opinion, if attempted, prove an utter | Tetdy and anxious to take up their residence upon this | both, in obtaining the largest possible sum application could uot he granted. The only alternative comfort. failure. ‘These Indiaus'have no fixed habitations, no | Teservation, who will be removed there as soon | from the government for the Indians, and square leagues of land, and 103 rejected, covering about ms to be, to find them a suitable home within the The agents have been instructed t» cause the exterior | houses, no fields and no property, herds or flocks but | 88 Arrangements can be properly and economically | all the claims against the latter that could) be proved, ‘343 aquare leagues. limits of Wisconsin; and as they require but a very — lines of the tracts reserved by the recent treaties with | such as may be moved with reat ‘colerity; and in their | made for their support and employment. The result | to be paid out of that sum. There was thus to be @ The Secretary adverts to the irregularities and in- small tract, this can’ be accomplished without prejudice the tribes west of Missouri and Iowa, for their fature | rapid migration from one portion of the country to ano- | thus far encourages the belief that the Indians of Culi- | speculation of considerable magnitude, and of a three- equalitios produced by the numerous and diversified — to the interests of the white population of the State, It | homes, to be surveyed and distinctly marked, so that | ther they leave no trace behind to guide and diract | fornia can be made a peaceful and self sustaining fold character. The government, the Indians, and the pension laws, and recommends some important modifica- | Should not be done, however, without making provision | the Indians may remove within them at the earliest | their pursuers. ple, and itis hoped eventually a useful population. They | alleged or pretended claimants against the latter, were . tions, with a view to restore the system somewhat to fer all belonging to the band, those partios to the treaty practicable period. In the case of the Shawnces. the | _ Iam not prepared to suggest any better planfor their | Ae easily controlled, manifest much interest in the sya- | all to be levied on. By ingenuity | and skilful calcula the original design of its projectors, and to increase its Of 1848, and those who were not, including alyo their united tribe of the Kaskaskias, and others, aud the Mia- | domestication and preservation than to make an ef- | t¢mand arrangement for coloniring and giving them | tion the claim in behulf of the Indians was worked up penolitn and restrict its operation to those who are really brethren the Munsees, whose rights and interests were mios, the homes of the Indians cannot be selected until | fort to colonise them in suitable tracts of | (™Pployment, and have with readiness devoted them. | to half a million of dollars, and those against them te and legilimately deserving objects of government favor entirely disregarded in that treaty. It is much to be re- | the government surveys are made, embracing the tracts | country, to be selected for that purpose, and | Selves to the agricultural and other occupations assigned | about ninety thousand dollars; the third part of the one and ‘protection, He reviews his recommendation gretted that such an arrangemont has not heretofore ceded by them: and if is, therefore vary desirable that | there teach them to labor and to cultivate the soil them. The Superintendent reports that the system has | and the nalf of the other amounting to upwards of two of s biennial examination of invalid — pensi heen effected; as the distracted condition of these Indi- tle public surveys in the Territory of Kansas should be | Some, no doubt, would at once embrace the opportunity, | beem so successfully organized and developed on the Tejon | hundred and eleven thousand doHars, which, less the ers, and cites the singular fact that whi ans, and the uncertainty as to their future destination, | prosesuted without delay. if preconted, and the improvement of their condition | Teservation that there will be no necessity for any mato- | ten thousand dollars to bo paid under the agreement plications are numerous, and constantly presen have been of serious injury to them. A recent personal Tho tribes in Kansas and Nebraska, with whom con- | would have its influence upon others, who, from their | Til expenditures there after the present year. A ge. | mentioned, was, in case of success of the scheme, to be themselves for an increase of pension on account of in- Visit disclosed manifest evidences of a former state of — ventions have rocently been concluded, as well as seve- | destitution and want, could, it is believed, be induced | Cond reservation has been selected some six hundred | divided, mainly or entirely, between some three indi- creased disability, but two instances have occured of a sdvancement and prosperity, fay beyond whatthey now | ral others within the range of the emigration to those | to take refuge in these retreats. A portion of the funds | miles further north, for the Indiansfin that region, and | viduals, making quite a handsome fortune for each out voluntary acknowledsment of a diminution of the dia. enjoy. ‘ f Territories, are now undergoing a sevore trial, and it is | now applied to the purchase of merchandise for annual | t# which they will be removed with all practicable des- | of one poor, miserable Indian tribe, to say nothing of ability fox which the pension was granted. ‘The only other Indians having territorial rights in | by no means surprising that their moral condition has | distribution among them, might be appropriated for this | Patch. These, two reserves will, it is expected, accom. | the further drafts which would no doubt bave been The department has been singularly successful in fer- Wisconsin, are the band of Oneidas, who occupy a small _ nos improved during the past year, Most of them were | purpose and the experiment made, without any demand | Modate and dispose of all the Indians in aud about the | made on the Menomonee portion of the fund if the plam retting out and bringing to punishment the perpetrators teservation uear Green Bay, and are so far advanced in to remove to new ‘Socatlons, ‘bat’ the conventions had | hpen ibe treasury beyond the amount required to pay | Present mining and agricultural districts, so that time | had suc of frauds on the Pension Bureau, Up to the 0th Septem- , Civilization, as to justify the presumption tbat, like the first to be ratified by the Senate, and the necessary ap- | the wages of afew employés and minor agents. ber last, and sinee the 4th March, 1853, thirty persons | Brothertons, they will, at no distant day, dissolve their propriations made to carry out their provisions. In this | The four principal tribes within the southern superin- have been indieted—of these eleven have been convicted; | tribal organization, and become citi» unsettled state, the minds of the Indians were ready for | tendency—the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws and Chicka- nine theta ir recognizances and fled; one died; one ; ‘There are, however, within the limits of Wisconsin, any and every {mpression that the circumstanges ‘sur- | saws—continue gradually to improve their condition. ide; two have eluded the officers, and six | ®nd also within the northern peninsula ef Michi unding {Lem would be calevlated to produce. The ef- | Having generally adopted the habits and pursuits of . small bands of the Chippewas of Lake Suy bas been, and will continue to be, unfavorable to {+ civilized life, they are probably more prosperous and | their annuity goods, surprised to learn that in go large * Still occupy their former locations on land: ‘hem, until they cau be placed securely in their new | lappy than any of the other tribes within our borders. | tin made et Tey Se tadlens. tue Mone ser anatunt: | ‘respon toeca wok ot thee keemasipebens aoe cat wettle lend claims in Califoruia. The commissioners thave, by their great assiduity, accomplished a great deal, and there is yet much for them todo. They have adjudicated 397 claims, which is about half the number prevented. Of these 24 were confirmed for about 736 and care can be taken in the establishment of the third | | Having become satisfied from an examination into the and last reservation. affairs of the Menomonees, and their relations wi On the 17th of August last, « train of Mormon emi- | government, that they were justly entitled to some ad- grants passed an en:ampment of certain bands of the | ditional compensation for the lands ceded by them Sioux Indians, who were waiting near Fort Laramie for | under the treaty of 1848, in consequence of the quan- One of the cattle belonging to the | tity thercof having beon under-estimated at the time tnd was killed | that treaty wasmade, aud also that the eountry thereby : and important a department as that of the In. teaties of 1837 and 1842. It hax not, thus far, ‘been | homes; andit will then require the most faithtul atten | ‘heir forms of government, which have been modified ; vetior, no appropriations ledgers were kept thercin ind necessary or practicable to remove them,” They | tiot.on the part of theiragents, andthe constant ani | ang improved as their kuowledge and experience have | t andant of the fort, who despatched Lieut. | for them, the supplemental auticle of May 23, 1854, xe by which ihe financial condition of the departinent | @fe very unwilling to relinquish their present resilences, oted efforts of the missionaries and teachers, to | increased, and the wanuer in which their internal aflaira | Ctattan, with twenty-nine men and an inierpretor, to | erred to elsewhere, was entered into, by whic could be_ ascertained, until the prosent Secretary took @# Are all the other bands of the same Iedians; and it prevent them” from contra the views and | areadmitintered. de then great credits while the seat | Ocmand the person of the Indian who killed the animal; | were given another and an acceptable Home, and an nd- charge of it. It now appears that an admirable aud may be necessary to permit them allto remain, in order cclecting the virtues ot civilized life. Tt as grati | and anxiety of their leading men for the ggeneral | be was not delivered up, and upon the refusal, or failure | «itional allowance made to them of $150,000, which was 1 econom’cal system has been devised, and is in sneces: to iequire a cension al the large act of country , however, to notice the fact tft, In the midst | education of their people, entitle them “to the | todo so. a ieee frites, pear pains Foie prope Shy eagerly ue rirage ha © yp re 1 ‘operation i i still own east of the pi, Which, om acconnt © Gr there adve: ences, the various mission | bighes nf” the .' they | Site command, an: 7 killed, The | $2,686; mak r 2,696, : so iigeton igen ta ae aae greed Soineesl pat yohac Ht ta) ea ORIEGE Ob trataclal Oot qitGverse influences, the various mission | highest commendation of the government. They | rartionlars of this melancholy and heartrending occur. | be divided fisto Steen anneal foytslnawatta coast superintendency from which | are loyal and friendly to the United States, und quict ved, are in sound, if not flour- } and generally peacetal towards each other. ly f, condition; and the number of Indian youth at- | cause of anxiety with regard to them, equal to that of any former year. they may be subjected to some hards) rence will be fund in the repors of Agent Whitfield, and | with the year 1867; and which is solemnly and sacredly the documenta accompanying it Pledged +2 be paid and applied, under the special diree- The Sioux belong to bands in amity with the United | tion of the President of the United States, ia such man- t portance to obtain. They would cequire but small re- re secyations, and thus permanently settled, the elforts | ish! to disbursing agents re: and the mean tic mom and advance by the wants of the public ser & . rtment to meet them. On the 5Ist of M for their improvement will be rendered mere ef- , tesding them g t a6 unt Of $948,475 40 was in the Lands fe ; | hexetofore reported to you, an association of per | in consequence of the shortness of their crops, bee a Ble-acnis Deer ns hee nciell Brad agi mdrprsapld yl sro om Apteetmme ke nino Fictacunes Aisa The Chippewas who reside in Minnesota, west of the 5 updertaken to appropriate to their own use | sioned by the extreme droaght which has prevailed in ind the Mormons should, t their condition and promote their permanent welfare. tment to cell in this amo: sissippi, are not, it is stood, desirous of ceding , portion of the land ceded by the Delawares, fronting o | that region, as well as elsewhere. ‘Intercourse Aci weve And any diversion of this fund for any purpose iu the portion of their country west of that river: nor ia | the Missouri river, and south of Fort Leavenworth, have TheScminoles within this superintendeney are in a | ‘We agent, who was in the vicinity, for redres slightest degree interfering with these it and benifi- could, under the law, have paid out of the ann cent ends, would be noi less disgraceful to the the property taken; but no officer of the military de- | ment than it would be injarious to the Indians. partment was, in pa opinion, authorized to arrest or try In the adoption of this measure of justice towards those agents only had o 20, an amount amply sufficient such a cession at this time deemed absolutely necessary, | outa ty thercon, and actually had a publie gale of | much less satisfactory condition, being ignorant and so far as the wants of our citizens are immeédiately con’ | the lots of the same on the th and 10th of Oc- | more or lessdebased, idle and addicted to dissipation. cerned; yet, in view of the rapid spread of population in | tober last. These unlawful proceedings have not | The Creeks, within whose boundaries they reside, com 0 " poundary be- that direction, and of the future interests of the Indians | only taken place under the eyes of the military officers | plain that they are the instruments and agents through | the Indian for the offence charged against him. these Indians, the department acted upon the ple tween th. United States and the republic of Mesieo themselves, ii is believed that an early opportunity | stalioned at the fort, but two of them are said to be | whom most of the ardent spirits brought inte the coun. Immediately after the perpetration of the | announced in the last annual report, anil which I take sould be completed within the time and ainount ¢s. should be embraced to cizcumseribe their limits, ana to members of the association, and have been active agents | try are introduced, and they have appealed to the gov- | Massacre, the Indians repaired to the ware. | occasion here to repeat:—‘\That there is no _abse- Tinated at the last session. Receut intelligence indi- concentrate them upon permanent locations, as 'xecom- in this discreditable business, Kneouraged by these pro- | ernment to interpoxe to abate this nuisance, whichis at. | houses of the trading company, near by, in which | lute necessity for the employment by | Indiam cates that a further appropriation may become necessary, mended for their brethren on th» eust side. Thereare also ceeaings, and prompted by those engaged in them, other | tended with much injury to their people. | thelr. stinulty goods ‘bad. been, stared, by, the oon. | Sikes, oC, attorneys. cr. agents... So. aiead: 38 Dut the Secretary still hopes that if made its use may be — bands of Chippewa Indians ing in the region north | persons have gone on other portions of the tract’ ceded | The united Senecas and Shawness, and the other amall | tTactors, for their transportation, and, without awaiting | their business at the seat of government,” and that im peo of the head waters of the Mississippi, wito, from the im- by the Delawarestin trust to the United States, and pre- | bands of Quapaws and fenecas, also wituin the Southera | the arrival of the agent ty make a distribution, took | their dependent condition, “it is the duty of the govern- The Seesetary recommends the demarention of — pérfection of former treatics, do cot’ participate in their tend to have made, and are now making such “claims,” | superintendency, are iu comparatively comfortable cir- | Possession of, and appropriated the goods among them. | ment, as their guardian, to cause all matters of a busi- the boundary line between the United States benefits, and are therefore ia a very destitute condition. as they aseert will vest in thera the lawful right to enter | cumstances; Tat the Onages in’ the same dis. | selve ness character with them to be so conducted as to pre- and the Beitish Nordh American possessions, | Some arrangement should be made to recure to them the the land at the minimum price under the pre-emption | trict, who' have not yet abandoned the chase, | Occasions frequently arise in our intercourse with the | Clude the necessity of the intervention of this class of and particularly that portien of it which forms the | means of subsistence and improvement. tay of July 22, 1854, are in much less favorable condition, Ancffort, which | Indians requiring the employment of force, although | Persons.” The new arrangement with the Menomonece northern boundary of the Territory of Washington, and _It having been found that the country proposed to be It is well understood that these parties can acquire no | has been partially successful, is now being made to | the whites may be, and often are, the aggressors. The | W#4 made not only without any such intervontion im also the acttlement of the claims of the Hudson's’ Hay given to the Winnebagoes, by the agresment made with — title to the Jands thus “claimed.” They must be sold at | effect treaties with these several bands, for the purpose | Indian Bureau would be relieved ‘from embarrasement, | their favor, but, as is well known, coutrary to the wishes and Puget Sound companies before difficulties aad cm. themlast year, for an exchange of lands, would, in public salo to the highest bidder, and the stipulations of | of reducing thelr territorin! possessions—which are much | and rendered more efficient, if, in such cases, the De- | Of the person or persons assumin® to act as thoir ator darrassinents grow up between the subjects of the two many respects, be fey {improper location for them, it the treaty complied with in good faith; and e govern: too extensive—end of bringing them under a better sys- pertment} i the direct control of Sp aaa nesaneeny brine py peal pind < ery —_ roe oer, ane tions respecting them. was recommended by the department that the agree- ment should at once interpose its authority,and expel all | tem of control and management, with # view to their | to exeoute its own orders. A force adapted to t 3 nations respecting big ’ Tadian service than any now employed, could, it is be-’| had the assurance and hai to go into the country sum of vide fur the promp' 2 called for, until other advances a: . { was estimated that the new line o "The Secret kes some judicious recommendations ment should be so amended as to assign them a location who are trespassing on the Delaware cession. ‘The effect | more rapid improvement. cmp! respecting the laws and organization of the Patent Office, on the southern branch of the Crow river, (o include has alreatly been injurious to the peace of the Dela- | ‘The question of a political separation between the | lieved, be readily organized. But careful attention and | of these poor, deluded, unlettered Indians, and surrep- wo us to secure the rights of inventor and increase the ‘Red Cedar Island Lake. warce, and it is due to them that such prompt and | Choctaws and Chickasaws, which has for some time been | kind and humane treatment will generally have more Mee ly obtain from the papers marked L. M, and efficiency of fice in proportion to the rapidly in- ‘The amendment which was adopted by the Senate, | unmistakable action be had as will assure them | earnestly eought for by the latter, but opposed by the | influence upon the savage than bayonets and gun- | N, (appendix, for the we st ching from them the ereasing Sacto ced i sada it. aa authorized the assignment of this location to them, or thatthe United States will keep its faith, The In- | former, and which has excited much feeling between the | powder, | = of eae 67, of which br 83 is to be for ‘The Secretary also recommend: she creation, im con. one further West, as might on evamunation be found dians should, under no circumstances, be permitted | members of both tribes, still remains unadjusted. Com- | — The wonderful growth of our distant possessions, and | {he Payment of an unjust, and unfounded nection with the office of Attorney General, of a Law Dv. mort advisable. A recounoisance of the country west, to become dispirited, or to lose confidence in the public | missioners, appointed for the purpose’ by each, were to | the rapid expansion of our population in every direa- aM A ia srocarie the additional allowance partment of the governmen: increase of the salary having thus been rendered necessary, the arrangements authorities: for if they do, all efforts to civilize them or | meet early in October, to consider and discuss the sub- | tion, will render it necessary, at a0 distant day, to re- | YO Mmiuely made to them through the» instra- of ihe Jndges of the District Courts of the United States, for the permanent establishmnent of these Indians, un- | to improve their condition. must be unavailing, Pro- | ject; but information us to the result of their conference | strict the limits of all thesIndian tribes upon our bw po ed arioungtner caine santa A ! and cortait fications of the fee bill of 1855. The fortunately for them, have not yet been consummated. | stination or delay in this case will induce others to | has not yet reached the department. frontiers, and cavse them to be settled in fixed | 4” Ne 3 Sect cura eal large amount of discretion is _ The diffigultien connected with our relations with the | Jae cessions, made by the Towas and | A political union similar to that between the Choctaws | and permanent localities, thereafter not to | lich, in view af the wettidd policy of the government, Jodged in the department in relation to judicialexpensos Sioux Indians of Minnesota, wero, a year ago, as ox s, and others, if pot upoa the homes reserved ws also exists between the Creeks and Semi- | be disturbed. The policy of removing Indian tribes, from et a wadan pomstble tae podem Aa’ recognize or re- of rations kinds, whieh he thinks ehould be regulated plained in the last annual report, of @ strious charactor, aud other Indians, noles, much to the dissatisfaction of the latter, who are | # the settlements approach their habita. | spect. and w = A coal Bit) entitled to af little com- by law. J but they have happily been ‘surmounted; Congress ow of the facts above stated, Iam constrained to | weak and feels in numbers and resources, | iz grounds, ‘must abandoned. Th tapes sae hit napho on ete Po ciao] the other demand. ‘A thorough examination of the subject has resulted baving, at its last session, confirmed to those Indians | submita fi i relation to the emigrated | plain of wrong and oppression from the breth | emi nd settlers were formerly content toremain | fese sums, too, are sous’ t bd be obtained from the im showing that t! inci to the office of the reservations originally intended for them by the | tribes in I ‘s,who, by the policy of the gov. | other and more powerful tribe, Like the hickasaws, | in the rear and thrast the Indian before them into the | {MONT 3: lowed bik supplemental agreement with Coroner for tne District, (amounting, perhaps, to sorae treaties of 1851, measures were promptly adopted for ment, adopted more than thirty years Ago, and re- | they cherish the natural and reasonable desire of | wilderness; but now the white population overleaps the | these a Rely Por gan. 8 stated, is otherwise $2,000 per annum,) are hot legally chargeable to the concentrating them thervon, and for commencing a tantly acquiesced in by them, were removed to and | a separate country amd independent government | revervations and homes of the Indians, and is beginning | A*créllt Medged, and which cannot be diverted without Einited States, and disbursements irom the Treasury on 8Y8(em of operations calculated to domesticate and habitants of the country now embraced in this | of their own. If their wishes in this respec2were grant- | to inhabit the valleys and the mountains beyond. Hence | Violation of PI Vag and justice. I cannot for- \ dhis beceunh base couscquentiy eonseé. iiaprove them. Already many of them have ceded, aud it is | ed, it would, itis believed, exercise » poworful influ- | removal must cease and the policy be abandoned. In. | bear expres op thal ‘ope that all persons Laving aay ‘The clerk of the United States courts in this disteict During the past season articles of agreement | expected that others will cede, the larger portion of | ence upon those in Fiorida, towards inducing them to | jury will not necessarily rosa t to the Indian race from a | *#°%cy of the administration of Indian affairs, whether | { teen required to conform to the law regulnting and convention were concluded with the Omaha, | theirlands to the United States for the use and occty emigrate, It is said that they are well acquainted with | change. By the operatiougof the former systera, some | Connected with the Executive or Legislative departments has also teen required to con! nfs in the tion of our eitizens.. ‘The faith of the nation was pledged | tho nature of the relations between thelr brethren west | tribes have eecome P and the ‘reduced numbers | °f the government, now or hereafter, will resalutely set kapoo, Delaware, Shawnee, Kaskaskia, — in the most colemn form before these tribes removed to | and the Creeks, and that they will never willingly emi. | and enfeebltd-and demoralized condition of many of | their faces against and frown down all attempts to se- et public money been thereby effected. Fiarkeshaw and Miamt Tadiens, all xe" | tie region west of the Mussissippi, that they ahould hare | grate so long as those relations, whiclt are very repug- | those who now rest upon the frontier, furnish unmis. | Cure the allowance or payment of auclt unauthorised and te pears that two hundred and twenty-three terms riding withm the central superintendency and in | tt nand control of the country, | nant te them, shall continue. | takable evidence of the offect of the system upon dhem. — 7 a — the Indians. a of Urea States courts are held during each year, at the newly organized ‘Uerritories of Nebraska and Kansas, | ond that the tracts assigned to them therein should be | | The Choctaw authorities are anxious to put im opera- | It is believed that by the propexed change advantages ‘or his culpable disregard of the spe sy ¢ depart- Gighty-eight different places; and in alluding ‘to the | Theye tribes posses xis hounded on the east by the their jermanent homes. Itwas called the “Indian Ter. | tion a general system of weighborbood or common | will also result to thewhite population, while the heavy | ment and his duty towards the Indians, ip having any- cee y hich yearly demand an increased appropriation | western boundaries of the States of Missour and Towa, | ritazy,” 2 reourse act made it unlawful for | schools among the people, but hays not the means ne. | drafts heretofore made on the national treasury, for | ‘ing to do with these proceedings, the sub-agent t Missouria, Sacs and Pox of Missouri; M4 the fees of other clerks of the United States courts in the =Ottoe au several States and Territories, and 6 considerable saviag te he jndici » Roe’ very por. | and lying between th ile! of 87 Geg. and 42 40 north | w .en to go into it, except ona license obtained, and | cessary for its accomplishment. They have requested | removing ludian tribes, will be saved. certified and authenticated one of the papers last refer- dor the apport of ‘the jdiciery’ Huciness treavaclen in | latitude, embracing. 10 the aggregate, nearly 10,000,000 | for spceiml purposen ; and, in this aeclucted | that the balance of the orphan fund romaining in the | Experience bas proven the law approved June 30, | ed, to. has been summarily dismissed from office. finently sug ferme. Tt appears thatin the | of acrés; all of which, will tue exception of about | home, it was ved the eflorts of tha govera- | hands of their agent, unclaimed, may be appropriated | 1954, “to regulate trade and intetcourse with the Indian | , The instruments marked M and N on the schedule, are : 00 aeres, being the amount of their several reser- | meut’ end the philanthropist to civilize the red man, | for that purpeve; but under existing laws the depart. | tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontier,” to be in- | i” the handwriting of one of the individuals whose name All the cessions | would be more anecessful than ever before. Such was | ment is unable to comply. It is probable that nofur- | adequate to meet and dispose of all ‘the varied | i* attached tothe contingent contract (H), with the late , ex- | not the case, howe Our population advanced rapid- | ther demands willever be made upon this fundjamount- | questions and — difficulties which __frequeutly | S¥b-agent, and the interpreters and other persons whe e bund of tae | which was to be the barrier, and with tho | ing now to $17,550 80, and to be increased as che or- | arise under, and grow out of, the existing | *ttest the execution of M, aro to receive of the funda esuaws, and the | cn nt upon our acqnisitions from Mexi- | phan lands in Mississippi are sold. The request is so | state of our Indian relations. It does seem to me essen- | Pretended to be assigned and appropriated by the In- he courts justifies the: fork district of Virginia, the courts are held at «ix | 1 Pitiaren’ pisces; inthe Northern district of New Yor®, | ¥ 4 eight. in California, at_six; im Louisiana, at six, and ¥ rida, at five. The Secretary seers to favor the cept those fromm t ; Kaskaskias and P : Jon of confining the sessions of the conrts to oue or two ; bes are, ttiat..| 0 f our newt easonabl i dians by virtue, of the same, to themselves and their as- aii gl i iid. | Delawares. The stipulations ides aro, that | c a of our new Twrritories, neces: reasonable and the objcet *o pralseworthy and appro- | tial, in order to the proper administration by the govern- 3 H pee ae aie e the erection of public Bitia | the land ceded by them, (except the Delawace Out: | ily Jans to that kint of contact with | priate, that it is to be hoped that Congress sutho- | ment of its Indian affairs, that further and immediate | "eps, the sum of $28,311 95, they being without excep- ings at those point . w , olidred at pub: | the whites which was sure to entoilon them the vices, | rize the department to apply the funu as the authori- | egislation should ve bad on the subject. jon interested parties. Niew to make them indepencent of the State or other i oe to norities. | lic | sale, T census statistics, called for by separate such portions as are recalations of the two houses of Congress at the | entry at $1 26 per acre lant “peste Ty to be laid beforg | which time Congress may r a ate ca toa week ating: Leen 6 ie then remaining uneold. survey, 1 ‘ew Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Minnesota nanan pe assone. the Menomonees as ot bean case, class, and illustrative of the outrageous and iniquitous ties of the tribe desire. to ‘The Indfaas in ti are ea ay to he pow more | the pervision of our indian affairs is given to the terri- ud promises mace to peaceful and orderly then they bave been during a great | ‘orial executive, who by law is made the Superintend- i Pte surrender of Palen of the y hivve committed many out | ent: and in Oregon, Kansas and Nebraska the same is | attempts of unsernpulows white ‘men to enrich them- Y fortion of Uicircountzy. ‘They said that they were | raget upon troutier gitizeos, and contioue their forays | contided to am independent officer, denominated the | S!ves outof the funds of the Indians. | The pecuniary Se at ined for that purpore has been disbanded, | ™Anaging, and sclling the land, is the nad “as long as crass grow or water run,” | beyond our boundaries, in spite of the military force in | Superintendent of Indian Affairs. atm satisfied that the | losses to the latter comprise only « minor portio Tical force obtained for ied Hieral appropriations for | the proceeds of the sales, and iho re cy feared the result it they should consent to | that quarter, and the efforts of the agents ot this de- | harmony and efiicicncy of the Indian. service would be ' The Becotary secre federal roetrorctis, and also the | the Indians. part cf their possessions. When they did con. | partment to restrain them, it ia in contemplation to | promoted by placing our Indian afairyin the first on the ‘ improvements: of ma a vareed ultdi fon tee 6 » prices stipulated fer the land acquired in Ne- | ent to’vell, if wax only on the condition that each tribe | collect and cclonive them on three reservations which | same tooting, in this respect, that they now occupy In erection of substantia) ie Wee, Navy, and Interior de. braska, do not exceed the sverage prices given her should retain @ portion of their tract asa permanent | he State of Texas has granted for the purpose, and | the last named territories. Fo mirage Re hy-e rope de- cominodation of the State. War Nery, ne a of a fone for Indian Inada, whilst those for the acquisition ia | Loine. Ail were unitedly and firmly apposed to nnotber | where wey are to be paztially subsisted at the expease | Of the various evils which beset our Ind'an polation, eeuuderving evant clvoener ne partrocnis, and suggests that @ Dettis SPP licatimcnot Kansas are greater. This is wtiributed to che higher | removal. Se fixed and settled was this iden that propo- | of the United States for» year or two, watil they can be | there is none more alarming than the trade (a arden Maitstion dec it portion of the =— AMOURE DOT propriety of donating | grade of title porseased by the Ind treated within | sifions clearly for their interest were rejected by them. | induced to turn their attention to agriculture and the { spirits. In spite of the Jaws of the gpverement, the ie edber of eck et the Menomonces tite fatal tendemoy he made. He also suggests the propriety ot eat be | dhe latter Territory, but which will not necessarily be The residences of the tribes who have recently | raistng of stock, and thus provide for their own subsist. | vigilance and exertions of is officers, and the efforts of | fi efver of such oecurrences may be seen in the in uch of tne vacant public lots in the city ax may not beh Ta the conventions contemplated (a be lidd-with | ceded thetr Ivnds should, therefore, be considered | ence. The cuty of making the necessary explora- | the truly philanturopic, the evil still exists, and hae its ate and demoralized habits and condition of Usli- needed for public purposes, to the city J the tribes there, who ore the more holders of title without | (subject in @ few cases to @ contraction of limits) | tions of the country, and of selecting aud sur- | sway. Considerable refection has confirmed me in the principal chief, and many others of the tribe. | while depr ‘ood influences af, civilization In the reeen A of the t | dw The; Congres, and the work having been completed, the cloe sidue to be pi eee ae, likew: naranty for nity by the United Strios. as permanently fixed. Already the white popula | veying the boundaries of the reservations, was | opinion that much may be done towards abat- | . But the evil ins goneral and growing one, formidable oe cesieens weer dene Lela pt brenalerne woh ed Sore poymectatave bees graduated and extended sofer | ton’ Is occupying the “lands. detween aad adja: | conSeed to RB. Neighbors, the printipal agent ag this, vile:, tesdsch tae with the | in ity combinations sae slarming in its ‘erulte, and Jasane Arlum: has been vigorously Pree emed Of. | A war deemed judiciote, in viow of Cio condition of the cent to the indian Reservation, "and oven going | of the department in ‘Texas, and to Captain H. B. | government on the part of the nd Tprritories | therefore,requiring the spesdy-a fy phe} Seetin te cnadae of Taann terventivale, ¥ tribes dependedt, from presend habits, upen annuities | west of end beyond them; aud at mo distant day all the | Marey, of the army, who were insteucted tomake a joint | bordering on the frontier. Earnest appeals Kave been | Tadical snd effectual remedy, All exeeutory contracts loara in charge of them respectively. ticed, andan ap- | for subsistence. ' Bat peryetual annuities Lave beau dis- country immediately to the west of the reserves, which | report of the result of their proceedings, with the plats | mace to them for proper legislation, but only with par. | Oi crery tind and description, made by ladiaa tribes or iat oe re Mir Mi to fre it from an old indebt- countenanced, as tending to indolonce and beiplessness. ying, Will have been taken up: and thon | of the reservations. At tbe Iast accounts the surveys | tial success. It is hoped that this important subject nds, with soe ate attorneys, ) OF other Se ee | The 4 have been placed, excep: in a few rrent of populsiion, until within a fow years fol- | had not been compieted,and their report had consequently | will arrest the attention of the and their repre- | Persons, should be nee 5 oe eee oe Tho Kecretary considers his chief clerk to have been | —and in those to a limited extent—aucor the control of lowing only from the Fast, now comes eweopiug like an | not been received. ‘The important ineasure of thus golo- | sentatives in the States and referred to, and | % agent, npaeneeee) ae Ota pene or Jooked wine the salaries of certain officers of the | the President of the United states, to be so applied as avalance from te Pacific coast; almost overwhelming | nizing the Indians will, when consummated, place them | that something efficient will yet be done by them to- sorti way connected as of ped nveeens cot were inereared by nu act of the last seasion, | Will, in luis opinion, most coudueo to civilization, com- | the indigenous Tadians inity approaches, It is there- | more fully under our contro}, and have a tendency to | wards vidi tertement in relieving the poor In = te taste beg neanee a: kind te, aod justly appreciating the yalue of his servicos—which | fort, and mental and moral improver my y iv clear, beyond doubt or question, | prevent the depredations and outrages from which the | dinns from the evils arising from the use of ardent spi- foals han 1b be ake aad} “pp! 4 | mont of debts contracted by # few individuals, or alleg emigrated trives in Kansas ‘Territory sre per: | border citizens of Texas bave #0 long suffered. rits and the power of the whiskey trader, n country; and all such attempts to injure and de- he gays areas arduous and important as those of the ot a a aasistant secretaries of the otuer departments—he re- | to have been contracted by them in t t sac of the — mauentiy thor-—there to be thorousbly civilwed, and | Conventional arrangements are necessary with all the | | In the last annual report, your atlontion was directed to Piagetian ofl ofan eng Q re nd termed nations! obligations, heretofore a pre- , to beconic a constituent portion of the population, or | Indians in New Mexico and Utah, except. the Pueblos, | thesnbjectof a general council of the semi-civitized tribes | 18, should be offences; pais Sod tm. ee Tae ba ssoees © ofisie, Lectin Geccetany fa | Boe wiures of bribery and corruption, are expressly for: Se ~ Ue ve ener dand exterminsted, ‘hat specs | for the purpose of fixing them in proper Lapeer — oe Ee tias avon tite Lie hj isonment. We have now penal laws . a te a y, 08 apiete, E iden, acle for the view of the statesman, philanthropist, | of giving to the department influence sad control | the prairies, iow ment of mu' ahe absence of the Secretary froin the department. | EE dis Ons sonuiretate of exctiliat quell lew philanthropist, Giving to the depai such influ felofloea of pence snd amity betwoom the several tribes, orien silbo from demoralisation, vy the introduction indians in the secure and unmolested ponses: of uy \ » eligi. | Clinstian|—n subject for the most profound considera- | over ‘hem as will enable it. as faras possible, to con- . Bann yes i a treaties have beon | | Toe Med: aveuow teiug Tapidiy settled, aud will | tionend rellcotion. With rescrvations doting the east: | Bie them thezwons and to induce them to resort to agel. | and of maksng available the occasion to irapresa the | Of ituor into their country; and, amt Coen ’ Indian. The Secretary consi re the | goon be brought under coltivation by that portion of our | ern portion of the Territory, there they stand, the repre- | oultore and kindred pursuits, instead of relying, a4 wilder Indians with a just appreciation of and pie esa on 5 tal tniusiée of buch Porm towards the poor India ae ectmply guficiont for the | population who intend to make there Territories thoir | ccuiatives cud remnauts of tribes (nce ns powerful aud | now do, for euppe=t upon the uncertain and jaun |, determination of the government of the Staten to | fro nes eee ens. Ae annuities provi 7 rly and judiciously applied, | future homes Creaded am they are vow weak and dispirited, By alter- | supplies of the chast, and when that fails, upon tthe nish them for their aggressions, if in, ned ip bie connection dcem it appropriate to eset ten highest uties of the govern. | _ Congress appropriated the funds neceensey to fold pate perwuasion eed am, ae of Howe tetten have tnore haar tous and injurious practice of theft and plun- p TO Ree ACT at cf and om good senna teat Tnieey 4d i womelimaee rt itedt yy semnies 4 fona of on tions, the Senate hay- | been removed step by etep, from mountain to y, | cer, Our citizens ought ave proper ‘ an - * for the o ment to see that our ments with those poorun- the stip tions of these Conver u m Bo ¥ 2 ei ve " ren, With parked providing payment of large muni of Mme t Jettered children of the forest, idly passing | ing ratified sll witbont amendment, except those with | snd trom river toplain, until they have been pushed | tection from Indian wppecetinte) - A a Ganges. Teberoch tease apeetammentiiica ikak Rey for alleged obgations arising in tle benaeh ot tes se Mines ond chawnees. ‘The nmeniments to the , half way across the continent, They can gono further: | present wiate of | thin . } aney, ee oe betray t ee erty | fenmer Gel not require, the eesent of the Tolians, gud | oa {Dw ground they iw occupy, the ersia must bo met, Hee thin, is tmpoeriBle, wha the mans forge | application ve made to Congreve for ea appeopetation to Weer ce bauileg inte, or teacinn ‘pom sh esate ; 4 thon ¢ re! esonted to by the Shawnees, aud their future determined. mong them may be hat could be sent there could not prevent su ry out ject. evidences " ; \ sneasures should be employed to induce them to abannn | Courien with the condition that either ths prevent oF fund the Suentedse'y ined and converted Tata. the | Cepredncions, etherwise than by the exteratination of | Iefecriag tom aupgestion made informer reports, in | nd other eyid alttary’ contol ovr the Mipoetaat te “Aha chaee, nnd ecome set einatextinetion; aad that | coy future counell ot the tribe shwul ever appropriate Uenighted ana inveterate heathen, aad every interme: | the Indians. Without implements or slack, and un J regard to the investiveat of moneys in locks, 40 as fe | Lereten commited to iia chan Which 1 60 Ne ‘Prinleh ia their only reid aot be resorted to except inex- | sny of the funds stipulated to be p them to the satis: | ciate grade. | Tut therg they ere, and as, they are, | taught and unasalsted ia} ert gird nee sapernitpns vane Mie OY ety ioaare | a eucceseful administration of ita fffairn; aud faction of r tended elaine of B. W. Thompson, with out-stending ‘ebligations, im their 4 cannot support otherwise tap uly, 7 \ AEERED COURS. sascatad Vy the Meiblary roeneel | GC. Johnson, ead. Rwings and Clrmer against the | 110 mout rolcn and ia perative charactor rola tarily | When, aa ie often the cane, the eaase dens 00h supe | it now to bemny duty ie allade Provision of tive fe: Haaeervennsn,’ 11 vueu onees bo hkl respeneems bee ae mane 1, resting tribe. The condith s deemed of eich a characteras | assu: y the gouvernthent. cir condition ie a or! | their necessities, they must steal 5 'y maual oad pee! of ARTES, nm | p> ened a arene on gt Re wating proPen | to require tbe consideration and setion of Ua Senate, Heal ene: Fuel ws to entitle them not only tothe jus- | either rubato) 90 coaulderab rs ae eae | CE een ee eretrer 2) he: prshy pe ig ieten Epler g ‘ d the pry turned to the lodians wi ioe government, but 6 most profou . | the white — — ee oe aaa Ln Bloat wed ret | gestion by the epariment that they shea cancel it, pathy af the people. Extermination may be thelr fete minated, or clas they @us8bo Colenired in auitedle le | Late Superintendent Beale reported the aumber at | tinent, difficulticn hare arisen and obst aad commendation by every statesman, P | "ako their assent ancontitional, aad, if they desired to © but not of necessity. Ry a union of cod influences nad | cations, and, toegune extent, be eubsisted by tho covorn- | the Tejan, tm February last, at ebous %,iK0. | themselves ou overy aldo; and it seems impossible new prilanthropiat. ; 5 .