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Show 32 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIO~IER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. Our relations with the Indians of this superintendency are still in an unsatis-factory kindition. Bnt little progress has beenmade in subjecting ihe Indians to the policy we haveadopted for their government. The efforts of the superintendent andagents to ameliorate the coildition of the Indians axe very much restricted for want of adequate means, and I have bnt little doubtthat many of the depredations committed by Indians are indneed by want and privation. Another cause for the restless and rebellious siirit manifested by the Indians is attributed to an unwarrantable interference, on the part of the Mormons, with the legitimate discharge of the duties of the =per-intendent and agents. . By far the most numerous, powerful, and tronhlesome Indians within the Territory are the Shoshones or Snakes. These Indians roam overthe northerp part of the Territory, along the line of the overland emigrant and mail route, and have created se~iousd isturbances during the past season. Vast numbers of homes, cattle, and mules have been stolen, and large amounts of propertyde-strayed; and in some instances lives have been lost. At the last session of Congress an appropriation was made for the pnrpoae of negotiating treaties with these Indians. A commission has been appointed to effect this negotiation, consisting of Superintendent Doty, Agent Mann, and Henry Martin,-esq. But, owing to the remoteness of the country, the difficulty of transportation, and the lateness of the season at which they must necessarily commence preparations, it is doubtful if they will be able to effect a negotiation in time for the constitutional action of the Senate during its approaching session. This is much to he regretted, 6a there can be no reasonable prospect of quiet within the Territory while the present relitions of the government with the Indians continue. Serious apprehensions wereentertained: during the latter part of the summer and early in autumn, that a general uprising of the Indians of the plains was imminent. From the nature of the information received, it was deemed proper thab a notice should be given, warning those contemplating the crossing of the pl&s by the overland mail route of the danger. I t is worthy of remark that a deapatch was received from Salt Lake, dated 26th Angust laat, directed to the Postmaster General, informing him that an outbreak on the part of the Indians east of the Missouri river was at hand. -That this despatch should be dated almost contemporaneously with the bloody scenes enacted in Minnesota would seem to indicate that the wild and disaffected Indiib of the country, however widely separated, are well infoimed as to contemplated movements on the part of an+ of the tribes. I think there can he bat little doubt that emissaries of the rebellion have, by every means in their power, endeavored to bring about a. general war with the Indians, and that to these wicked schemes much of the unnsual disquietude and hostility of the Indiana is to he attributed. As stated in my last annual report,, the farms and resewations of Utah were |