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Show ' 6 " BEWET OP COMMISSIONER. 1 be permitted to occupy a portion of the territory recently purchased from the Sioux, lying north of the Crow river. Arrangements for this urpose are in contemplation, and it is hoped they may be effected I $wing the next spring without cost to the government; but they should not be attempted unless the scattered fragments of the tribe can be thereby brought together, and all settled contentedly in their new homes. In the month of September last, the amendments of the Senate to the two treaties concluded in the summer of 1651 with the Sioux of Min-nesota were submitted to the different bands, parties thereto, and re-ceived their formal but reluctant assent. It would not be an easy task to estimate the benefits to both whites and Indians which the consum-mation of these treaties is calculated to produce. AU danger of future hostile collision between our citizens and one of the most numerous and powerhl tribes of all tbt region has been happily removed, a vast tract of admirable country laid open for peaceable cultivation, and ample means provided for the welfare and im rovement of the Indians. In consideration of the increased labor an $ responsibility that will hereafter devolve on the agent for the Sioux, h ~ ssa lary should be raised from one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars. ! The scarcity of buffalo the preceding summer was severely felt in the winter of 1851-'52, by the Sioux of the Missouri. They were thus necessarily driven, when spring came on, to ap ly themselves to the surer means of subsistence in the cultivation oft g e soil. Their upright and fkithful agent (Mr. James H.Norwood, whose death by violence has recently been reported to the department) rendered them what aid he could in having some lands ploughed for them, and they have been led to expect further assistance hereafter. Many white men, now, or for-merly, in the employ of the fur companies, have intermarried with these Sioux, and exert, for good or evil, a powerful influence over them. It has been suggested that it would be good policy to colonize these peo-ple along the rich bottoms with whlch those wild regions are inter-spersed, givin them lands to be held in individual right as long as ac-tuaUy occupie 8 . The suggestion is worthy of consideration. The Omahas, an impoverished but peaceful tribe on the western border of Iowa, have suffered much for several years from the tres-passes of the whites, and the rapacity of the more warlike tribes by which they are in part.surrounded ; butthe appropriationgenerously made 1 for their benefit at the last session of Congress will doubtless alleviate their distress, and in time greatly ameliorate their condition. It will be used chiefly for the urpose of furnishing them the means of culti-vating the soil, which, Born the disposition they manifest, it is believed they w,# readily appreciate and approve. The Kickapoos and Iowas of the great Nemaha agency, and the Sacs and Foxes thereto attached, have all secured rich returns for their field industiy, and they are all worthy of commendatory notice for their general gcad conduct. The Wyandots, now reduced to a comparatively small number, find it difficult to manage their ublic affairs, and are anxious to.aban-din their tribal organization an R become citizens of the United States; To this end they, in common with many of our white population, are |