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Show Advantag(: bas been taken of Governor Lynn's recent vi~ito this city to ob-tain mucl~v ~tluaLloi ~~formatioinn reeanl to the Indiana uf Idnl~o.a nd Ire had returned with funds to pay the si~ms-past due under treaty stip"lations with the Nez PercBa, and with authority to conclude a new treaty with that tribe, which, it is hoped, will reach this city in time to be ratified by the Senate in-stead of the one now before that body. Authority has also been given to Gov-ernor Lyon to conclude a treaty, if possible, with the Kootenais and Ccenr d' Alene Indians in the extreme northern Dart of Idaho, and it is exnected that very lnrg? IrnCtJ of ininiognt~dn gricultur.ll land will be openet1 to 11,; publir by these tre:ttie~,w lrilr t l ~ Irl ldinns will I~~rmrlen:dneeurei'romm olcrtutionulmntl,rir dimini~lledr eservps. From t l ~ ere Dort of Acent Hutchina.of Jlontana. it would appear doubtful whether many of {he ~ootFnaisb, eyond those who are already included within the provisions of the Flathead treaty, can justly claim any rights this side of the British line, and the attention of Governor Lyon will be called to this point. In the course of the governor's extended tourthrough theTerritory, he met, at a point not very f a distant from the present capital, BoirB City, the chiefs of the LIois6 Shoshonees, and made with them a kind of preliminary treaty agree-ment, by which the Indians agreed, on the fulfilment by the gove~nment of cer-tain rather loosely defined conditions, to cede to the United States an extent of country estimated at many millions of acres, and comprising a large part of muthern Idaho, and to concentrate upon a reservation of moderate dimensions. This treaty not being in a condition for submission to the Senate, authority has been given to Governor Lyon to conclude a formal treaty with the tribe referred to, upon the general basis of the arrangement above mentioned. In the region about Fort Hall, in southeastern Idaho, and bordering upon and occupying the nortbern pad of Utah, so far as their limited numbers and migratory habits allow them to occupy any territory,is arlotber band of Sho-shonees, understood to be one of those with whom the late Governor Doty con-clnded treaties of amity, providing for unmolested travel through the country by the whites, and a srnall annnel payment by government to offset the neces-sary limitation of the means of subsistence of the Indians, resulting from the drivine off of ealne and destruction of nut-bearine trees. &c. These Indians are cayled by Governor Lyon the KammasPrairieLrihe, and are represeuted by him as desirous of being coucentrated upon a reservation of limited extent; and the necessary powers fir the purpose hive been given to him. The Nez PercBs are snpposed to number about forty-five hundred, the Cceur a'Alenes, Kootenais, &c., some two thousand, the BoisB Shoshonees one thou-sand, and theKammas Prairie Indians about two thousand ; and if the proposed arrangements with these tribes are successfully made, the whole 'remitory of Idaho will be thrown open to settlement, except the limited reservations above rt.frrred to. Nrw rnnil routc? have jnat been oprne11, greatly facilitating the rummnuica-tionn hctw<.cn the capital of Idaho and San I.'n~neiaro, and thin will pnjbably be for some time to come the shortest route for letters and snpplies. - MOKTANA. . The Indians within this superintendency are comprised iu two divisions, the Gros-Ventres of the mountains and the various tribes or bands of Blackfeet Indians--all east of the Rocky mountains, and whose numbers are estimatedas follows: Gros-Ventres, 1,800; Piegans, 1,870; Bloods, 2,150, and Blackfeet n.mo.er.. 2..450 . the last three makine the Blackfeet nation: and west of the mountains, the confederated tribes r4resented at the ~l a t l i e i dtr eaty, and num-bering as follows, according to a census taken last spring: Flatheads, 551 |