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Show in Nebraska have been appraised at $54,634.97, and 4,863.74_acres lying in Eansas have been appraised at $28,911.86&, making a total valuation of $83,546.839 for the wholereservat~un of 14,411.98 acres. The act afore-said authorizes the pale of only ten sections of this reservation, to be selected from the western side. In accordance therewith,4,397.39 acres in Nebraska, at a valnation of *26,352 09, and 2,000.81 acres in Kansas, at a valuation of $10,577.78, making 6,398.20 acres, at a total valuation of $36,929.87, have bee11 designated as the land to be sold. Cherokee lands in Indian ~ekitovy. • -4 commission, consisting of tho ma^ P. Hennard, of cincoln, Nebr., El~enemerH . Topping, of Lonisburgl~K, aos., and Thomas E. Smitlt, of Paola, Kans., was appdinted by the Secretary of theInterior on the 30th of Jauuary, 1877, to appraise the Cherokee lands in tjbe Indian Terri-tory, l ~ i n gw est of the 96th meridian of west longitude, and west of the land of the Osages ceded to the United States by the Oherokee Indians under their treaty of July 19,1866, for the settle~nenotf friendly Indians, as provided in the fifth section of the Indian appropriation act of May 29, 1872. (17 Stats., p. 190.) Instructions were issned to this commission on the 3d of March, 1877, to appraise by townabips all the lantl lying east of the Indian meridian, and, if desirable, some Sew townships west of said meridian, but that much, if not all, of the counlrj- west of the Abilene cattle-trail and stage-roa. 11 tkom Caldwrll, Kans., to the forks of Turkey Oreek and Cima,rroo River might he appraised in large areas at oue prtce per acre. This commivsiunremained in the field until July, 1877, when it was co~npelled, by reason of the excessive heat and drought, to ailjourn till September 15, 1877. 111 the mean time iMr. Kennnrd resig~~eadn, d Mr. William N. Wikkerson, of .West Line, Mo., wns appointed by the Secretary, under date of September 8, 1877, to 611 tile v;u:anc.y, and instructed to join the commissio~a ~h .W ~chltaK, nns., on the 15th of September, for the con~pletio~oft the fie1 wo' rk.. The commission has not eobmittrd its reporr, but it is presumed that the work is uearly completed. When the schedul~?o f appraisemedt with report is ~uhmittell,i t will be forwarded without delay for .your approval and snbmissio~t~o Cougne*~a, s required try said act of 1873. ALASKA INDIANS. The Indians of Alaska, numbering over 20,000, being within the jurisdiction of the Urtited States, have at least a moral claim nl1011 the government fo'r assistance in the way of civilizatton. Uader the policy of let t~neth ese tribes alone. 111dia11wsh o are as vet without tbe i~~fluenae of eitherthe virtues or vicei of civilizatiou will pr;lduallg become victims to the practice of whisky-drinking and other deteriorating influences; those whose contact with whites has already resulted ill climoralizatioli will become still more de.e,r adad: aud those wbo. under Kunsiau rule and ~~ ~~~ influenct. brei~a~pt*:~ t.tiaIIyv ivili~rtl,w ill, by 'tile ~ ~ , i t h t l ~ sovf i ~thle restraints and ~ ~ r ( ~ t eut~ 1t <i 1~1~ssinaIn B \V, n11d the failure to s~~bs t i tote the ;iurhu!it\. 0t'rl1e 1J11itedS tates ( ; ~ ~ ~ ~ I I I I I rCt.IlIa~l~. a ei uto barh~r is~n. L~~~ ~~~~-~ ~ ~~~ The fact that theso tribes are not dependeut on the governme~f~otr snbsi~tellee,a nd arc !tot occupying lands United States citizens covet, should r~ot serve as an arr(ument for leaving then1 without law, order, or civilizir~gi1 15ueuces. Unless i t i~ the iutent io~o~f thegovem-meut to abaudou Alaska altogether, some plan fur bringing these |