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Show COMMISSIONEB OP INDIAN AFPAIBS. 7 year. A vigorous temperance reformation has been set on foot, in which several of the ~rincipal men of the Miamies are active and zealous instruments. An unusual quantity of seed was planted in the spring, which yielded an abundant harvest. Largc quantities of hay have been mowed and secured, and potatoes have yielded abundantly. The health of all the Indians within this agency has been good. Arrangements have been made with the domestic mis-sion board of the southern Baptist convention for the education of the children within this agency; and as many of the Indians have mani-fested a laudable desire for the instruction of their youth, it is antici-pated that favorable results will flow from this measure. The Kaw or Kansas tribe of Indians residing within the Council Grove agency, in consequence of their proximity to the trading post8 on the Santa F . road, where they can procure intoxicating beverages from traders and emigrants passing through their country, have be-come addicted to habits of intemperance and indolence, and the com-mission of such misdemeanors and crimes as usually follow in the wake of the liquor traffic. The annuities provided for them by the government have proved rather an injury than a blessing, from the fact of their having been squandered for ardent spirits soon after their reception from the government agents. Thus exposed to influenyes of the most deleterious character, they have been guilty, in some 1 - stances, of the commission of depredations upon the property of emi-grants on the great thoroughfare leading to Santa FB. It cannot be reasonably expected that their condition can be improved to any con-siderable extent, unless the requisite steps be taken to circumscribe the area of their present reservation, with a view to their being con-centrated within a smaller sphere where they may be more easily con-trolled and influenced to engage in the cultivation of the soil, and whatever else may be regarded as indispensable to their civilization. The peculiar condition of the emigrated tribes in Kansas Terri-tory was stated at some length in the last annual report. They were removed thither under the most solemn assurances and guarantees that the country assigned them should be to them and their descend-ants a permanent home forever. In retroceding large bodies of land to the United States, by which portions of the Territory were lawfully opened to the occupation and settlement of its citizens, neither the government or the Indians sought to change the guarantees and stipu-lations of former treaties; but they were recognized as obligatory and binding within the tracts of land reserved for the permanent home of the Indians. The organic act of the Territory also regarded them, and it was expressly declared that nothing in the act should "be con-strued to impair the rights of persons or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Territory, so long as such rights shall remain un-extinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians." The peaceful possession and quiet enjoyment of the tracts reserved by the Indians for their homes are guaranteed and secured to them by the faith of treaties and the laws of the land, and it is to be regretted that, in different sections of the Territory, persons have trespassed upon their rights by committing waste and even locating within and making improvements upon the Indian Isnds. As cases have been |