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Show BEKW OF TEE lqorted as doing well, although they have been in eonatant alarm, m i o n e d by the continual threats and excitement of the citizens on the frontier of Texas, who erroneously. charge them with committmg dapred&tions. The superintendent aaeerts, positively, tbt not one of these Indians has ever left the reserve. In this "leased couptry" there is a roving band of Kickapoo .Indians, who pretend to live by hunting. They also are accused by the citizens of Texas of the commission of depredations upon the ' fzoontier of that State. As to the correctness of this charge the super- ' iptendent is in doubt. I t is recommended, bwever, that this band of ! . Kickapooe be removed to areservation to be selected for them near the other bands of Indiana. and oomaelled to settle uaon and cultivate the A land. 3 In consequence of the unprecedented heat and long continued drought of the last summer, which caused almost a total failure of \ their crops, a bill to provide for indigent Choctaws, and for other pur- i poses, was passed by the general council of their nation. This action -was had with a view to aqert the horrors of famine with which they 'aremenwed. The agent of the Choctavs, intransmitting a copy of the act of the :council referred to, exprcssea the opinion that, without the aid of the government of the United States, many, of that tribe and of the Chickasaws will suffer, and i n his report lipon the aubject urges prompt action in regard to an appropriation out of the Choctaw and. - .: C hickasaw funds for their immediate relief. The-general and excessive drought the past Beawn haa been most ,eeverely felt throughout the extent of $he southern superintendency, /and has utterly destroyed crops which in the spring of the year indi- ' iated a most abundant harvest. . In consequence of this calamity great !dietress and suffering already prevail among the various tribes, and govdrnment is invoked to furnish food to supplytheir wants for another gear, snd thus avert the dangers of famine with which they are now threatened. Loas of their crops from any cause cannot reasonably be anticipated bp Indians, and as many of the tribes depend for' a subslatenee entirely upon the products of their labor in the cultivation of the soil, . . p total failure to realize any return for their toil soon reducea them to / a condition of comparative if not absolute poverty. i To prevent starvation among the suffering Indiana during the a \ proaching winter the assistance of government should bvrenderea); \ and I have the honor to suggest that a recommendation be made to Congress at an early day for an appropriation sufficient to meet their 1 immediate and pressing demands, and to mpply thern with food tore- I lieve their future wants. The importance of establishing a military post within or near the limits of the Cherokee country-cannot he too strongly urged. The condition of 6ffairs among that tribe is such as to demand the imme-diate attention of 'government, and action should he had without delay; with a view to tlie maintenaa? of the authority of the united f3tates and the enforcement of law and order within the limit& of that country. |