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Show now, and with means to make themselves and their families comfortable till they can raise a crop, it will go far to satisfy them that they have not suffered for a ' government which, in their distress and poverty, the result of their devotion to its cause, and faith in it8 protecting care, has forgotten them. Whenever, in the progress towards a final settlement of the questionsremain-ing open in regard to the reorganization of the Indian conntry, the proper time shall come, it will be advisable to provide for the construction of internal im-provements in that region calculated to develop its magnificent resources. With a territorial government organized and in operation, its fends healed, the swss ,of war gone from view, a judicious educational system in operation, the missionary establishments which hare done so much for the people in the past reopened, and the industry of the country in full process of development, will have come a time when railroads must traverse the country, bindingits several parts together, and all to one common Union, and giving a choice of markets and depots for exchange and shipment of produce, either on the Gulf of Mexico, say at Galveston, or northward, f, connect with the great central converging points of railroads in Kansas. Whatever can properly be done by the govenl-ment of the United States in paving the way for these improvements should, in my judgment, be done now, and thus avoid difficulties which may arise in the future. CENTRAL SUPERINTENDENCY. By the reorganization of the northern superintendency the following agencies have been taken from the central and annexed to the northern, to wit: the Omahas, Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, Ottoes and Missonrias, Pawnees, Upper Platte agency; and the tribes now under the charge of Superinten 9e.na t Murphy, who succeeded Mr. Alhin on the 1st of July lazt, are the following : Delawares, Agent Pratt ; Pottawatomies, Agent Palmer; Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, Agent Martin; Osage River agency, Miamies, and confederate bands of Kaskaskias, Weas, Peoriaii, and Piankeshaws, Agent ,Colton; Shaw-nees, Agent Abbot; Kansas, (or Kaws,) Agent Farnswol%h; Kickapoos, Agent Adams; Ottawas, Agent Hutchinson; Kiowas, Comanches, and Apaches, Agent Leavenworth-all of these agencies heing in Kansas. The headquarters of this superintendency have been, until the assnmption of the duties of the office by the present iucumbent, at St. Joseph, Missouri, hut were then changed to Atchison, that heing deemed the most convenient point for the transaction of the business of the superintendency. The location of this superintendency on the border, whence the freighting trains take their departure to cross the la ins, has induced the custom of re- , uiriug the nsperiniendnit to eupersirr tllh ~hiprnenr of the large qnnntitits uf In- %ian good^, annually furwarded to the upper lli,*o~rri, Colorado, Nrw Yt.siro. and Uralt, an<I the trihen in the wrntcrn portions of Xrhrnska and Kaara~. 'The exnerience of the last two o~ three vea; has develo.~ edi rreeularities and nn- ~u reasonable delays in the trausocrion of tbi? important huaines~, which have re. reired the special attenti011 of this orfice, axld which lneadurra will be taken ro avoid, if no~aiblri,n future, bv inniatiae nuon a strict aecounwbilitv on the uart of contr~ctorsf i r t~a n s~o r t~t i oannd: , i<necessary, by the descgnation of a special agent to attend to this husiness alone, under instructions. There are several interesting questions affecting alike a number of the tribes located in Kansas, whiCh do not at present apply to those in other States or Territories. When the present policy of concentmting Indians upon reserva-tions, and inducing them to turn their attention to agriculture was adopted, a large portion of Kansas was set apart for their use. The advance of the white population, and the gradually increasing attention of the Indians to farming, and their abandonment of the chase, resulted in new treatizs, by which the In- |