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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INUIdN AFICAIRS. 35, 1 entirely cnt off from communication with us. They axe even now successfuF agriculturists, and were able to sell to General Carlton'~c ommand, when on its. waj from California, more than one million pounds of wheat, being the surplns. of their last year's crop. I entertain not the slightest doubt that, by judicious. action on our part, these Indians will in a few years attain that degree of suc-- cess in the arts of civilization which will relieve the government from the neces, sity of any further specialcare in relation to their welfare. The Apaches are wild, hostile, and barbarous. They number about eight thousand, and, considering the exposeied condition of the country, are a tnly formidable foe. While it is not known that the authorities of the rebellious States have succeeded in forming treaty.relationa with them, it is quite evident they have done nothing tirestrain the outrages of these savages, it evidently being their policy to encourage rapine and murder on the part of the Indiana, rather than provoke their hostility towards themselves. The immunity from chastisement they have thus enjoyed has rendered them insolent and defiant. They have indulged in all manner of outrage, hot hesitat-ing ever at the murder of dcfenceless women and children. There should not be a moment of annecessary delay in strengthening the military force of New Mexico, so that not onlythese,but all other hostile tribes therein may be chastised and reduced to subjection. Equally powerful and hostile, and even more dreaded than the,Apaches, are the Navajoea. During the past four years they have been a continual scourge to the people of New Mexico, and have committed innumerable depredations npon their settlements. There is absolutely no security, except armed force, in any part of the large region of country through which they roam; and the last has proved even more disastrous than former years. Aside from the Apaches and Navajoes; it is believed that hut little trouble would be experienced in pre- ' serving peace a.nd quiet with the many tribes and hands of this superintendency. With the Apaches and Navajoes the task will he more difEcult. The goveru-ment has so long delayed the adoption of some efficient policy, that they have become insolent arid defiant, construing our forbearance as an evidence of weak-ness. There is no evidence that these powerful tribes are in league with the Sioux of the north, but it is known that they are well informed as tu all their movements, and from the well known character of Indians having a common enemy, it is easy perceive that a delay in indoptingsome efficient po1icy;whercby the hostile Indians of this superintendency shall be reduced to subjection, and a permanent peace he established, may result in formidable and dangerous com-binations that will vastly inereaae the magnitude of the present evils, and the di6culty and expense of secnzing peace and safety for om frontier settlementa. The idea of exterminating all these Indians is at once so revolting and bar-barous that'it cannot for a moment be entertained. They must then, by some means, be provided for. New settlements of whites are springing up throughout |