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Show that portion of the frontier of Texas from further depredations by these Indians, and at the same time the United States will be relieved of the cost of feeding, caring for, or of fighting them, in the future. Inas-much as the same erounds for comvlaint existed in Sonora as in Chihua. hua, Colonel \l'ill'~;rn~ws aa anth;rircd :~ndi ~~r t rueteS~elp, tcurbcr 1, 187.5, to rrturn to CIII~UHLIItIo:sIe, e that the :~rraogeurenr~:bgreednp on by the autboritica of nlesiro, to provide o resrrrnrion in Chihenhua 3s a pcrmaneur home, kc., ibr tile ZIe%alero A I Y R Va~n~d Yotl rer Intfinus bad heeu properly effected, an11t u extrntl the visit into So~~oraan,d CII- ~lcurorto effret the removal of sucb other members of tbe A~mehet ribe as are in that State to a reservation, with a view to their yermanent settlement thereupon. EXPLOXIESG EXPEDlTION TO BLACK HILLS. An exolorine exueditiou. consistine of Walter P. Jenne~v.. ,e,~n n.. ~of th-e , ~ Sobool6f ~i n t ? a&, ew ~ o ; kC ity, as'mining engineer in charge; ~ e n r i A. Newton, esq., of Ohio, as assistant ~eoloaist:H enr? P. Tnttle, esn.. formerly oi the United States Savv. asastrGnomer: aud Dr. V. T. M;: Gi l l~c u d d~of, l'oarll's erl,e~l~tio<,'ntosl ~og~.:~per,'na.a~r ~thorizrido ~ the Hoe. Secretary of t b i h I~~rcrioi nr ,\ lare11 aud A111.ill ast, with inntr~le-ti008 t'rl,n~t l~isO ffice. to risit t l~Jri lack Hills couutry, i n the Tcrritorirs of 1)akotn a u~l\1 7~omir~wgi,t h a view to obtnil~a ccrllatr ioforo~ntit~inn rlation lo its mioenil deposits. 31r. d e ~ ~ t ~haesy a u1,mittt.d a prelimi-nary report, whit41 ia found herewith. SZOUX CESSION OF BLACK .HILLS, ETC. A commission, consistiog of Hon. Wm. B. Allison, of Iowa; P. W. Pal-mer, esq., of Illinois; Brig. Gen. A. H. Terry, of United States Army : Hon.Abram Comiugo, of Missouri; Rev. S. D. Hioman:of Dakota; G. P. Beanvais, esq., of Missouri; Albert G. Lawrence, esq.,of Rhode Island; and W. H. Ashby, esq., of Nebraska, nas appointed, in June last, by the Hon. Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of the Pres-ident, to negotiate with the Sioux Indians relative to tbe procurement of a cession by them of such portion of that country known as tbe Black Hills, belweeo the north and south f o ~ kosf the Big Oheyenne, as the President may determine to be desirable for the (;overnment to pur-chase for miuing purposes, and a relinquishment of their rights to that portion of Wyoming known as the Big Horn Mountains, and lying west of a line running from the point where tbe Niobrara Riqer crosses the east line of Wyoming to the Tongue River. No report bas been received at this Office from this commission, though it is known that its mission was not successful.* RED CLOUD AGENCY INVESTIGATION. On the noniination of the chairman of tbe Board of Indian Uommis-sioners, the Hon. Secretary of the Interior appointed Hon. Thomas O. Fletcher, of Saint Louis ; Hon. Beojamin W. Harris, of Massachusetts, Hon. Charles J. Fanlkner, of West Virginia, a special cornmiasion, to which Hou. T. 0. Howe, of Wisconsin, and Prof. George W. Atherton, of New Jersey, were added by tbe President, to visit the Rod Cloud agenoy, and were instructed to avail theniselves of all means within their reach so as to obtain the true state of affairs. and to make. with- 'Report since received-ce yagq-. |
