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Show REPORT OF THE acres of wet and worthless marsh, and of the remainder a very large proportion is nothing but sand. The only portions susceptible of successful cultivation are those densely cov-ered with timber, requiring from thirty to thirty-five dollars per acre for clearing, and the clay ridges so covered with grubs as to be only fitted for the plough, after an expenditure of labor nearly five times as great as the amount required upon the praixies and "openings." Upon the Stockbridge and Munsee reeerve the proportion of tillable landis even less than upon the Menomonee. The soil is a coarse, sandy gravel, abounding in granite boulders. In addition to the poverty of the soil, and the comparatively large amount of labor required to prepare it for farming purposes, the climate is another source of discouragement. Last year tbey were visited with a severe frost on the 19th of June, and again on the 1st of September. This year they have had frost each month. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to conceive of locations more illy adapted to the support and wants of a people but little acquainted with the arts of civilization, and it needs no argument to show their almost worthlessness as looations designed to encourage Indians to abandon their former modes of life, and engage in the cultivation of the soil as a means of subsistence. The report of Agent Davis, with its accompanying papers, shows coudosively, as I think, that these Indians are so far advaneed in civilization, and display such a commendable ambition to become proficients in agriculture, and to edu-cate their children, that no doubt can be entertained that if located under more favorable auspices tbey would in a few years emerge from their present condi-tion of almost .hopeless poverty, and become self-sustaining and independent communities. The quality of the soil upon the Oneida reserve is much better; and were it not for the pernicions effects of the liquor tr&c, I have no doubt they would soon be surroundedbY the comforts and conveniences of civilized life. As it is, I am satisfied that the best interests of the Indians of this agency, as well as I of the people of Wisconsin, would be subserved by the removal of the Indiauns to some point either upon the upper Missouri, or, what in my jndgment would be better, upon lands which it is hoped can be obtained from the loyal Indians of - the southern superintendency. and I trust that you will call the attention of Con-gress to this subject, with a view to obtaining authority to make the necessary negotiations. Besides the Indians already mentioned, there are, as estimated by AgentDa~is, from sevein to nine hundred roving Indians within the limits of Wisconsin. They are mostly Wiunebagoes and Pottawatomies, and lead a wild, vagrant life, gaining a precarious subsistence by means of the chase, and the gathering of wild fruits, which they sell to the whites. Some time in July last a white woman was attacked and murdered by some of these Indians during the absence of her husband, who, upon his return, retaliated by killing one or more Indians. This, together with the barbarous manner in which the bodies of the dead In-dians were mutilated, has doubtless exasperated those roving Indians, and led to the commission of other crimes, resulting in an intense excitement on the part |