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Show and loyal, (the latter characteristic shown by their having furnished 84 soldiers for >he army, of whom 24 have died,) but they do not appear to appreciate the benefits of a settled life, and care little for education. The Friends, mission school upon the reservation is, however, reasonably successful with the limited number of children who will attend, and some thirty are able to read in English. This tribe spent the early part of the season in the buffalo country, and had a successful hunt, from which they returned to put in their corn crop, which was also successful. Nothing of special interest has occurred relative to these Indians since the last report, except a kind of negotiation entered upon, and carried forward with every pretence of solemnity by some of their chiefs with the Pawnees, having reference to the return of certaiu horses stolen from the Kaws by the Pawnees. The latter tribe were profuse in their joy at the idea of making peace, but reti-cent of horses. They, however, succeeded in finding a few, which they were ready to return; whereupon the Kaw agent refused, on their behalf, to receive these horses, unless the remainder were returned. The agent was instructed to receive the instalment, and the Pawnee agent to return the remainder when found. Kzckapoos.-Agent Adamsrepresents this tribeas numbering 238 persons on the reservation, including a number of Pottawatomies, who, a few years since, pur-chmed aright to share the head-rightsandannulties of the Kickapoos. Only thirty families were found willing to accept separate allotments of land, and they are doing well. The remainder reside upon a diminished reserve, held in common, there being also reserved a sufficient quantity of land for 120 Kickapoos, who have for a long time been absentees from their tribe, and in regard to whom it is rumored that they have been destroyed in an encounter with the wild.Indians of the southwest. The remainder of the lands of the tribe, amounting to 123,832 acres, has been disposed of at $1 25 per acre, in accordance with the term of treaty, to the Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad Company; and the interest upon the purchase money will furnish a handsome incomefor the tribe. No school now exists upon the reservation, the miesion school which formerly existed having been abandoned, but the agent promises a special report, with a play for its re-establishment. The crops raised by the tribe are abundant for then support. Ottawas.-None of the Kansas tribes have advanced incivilization with greater rapidity or certainty than this, and they are independent and self-sustaining, and will soon assume the position of citizens of the United States, and abandon theil. tribal relations entirely. Many of them are doing very well as farmers, and are independent of d l outside aid. They number two hundred in all, their loss of some thirty by small-pox, besides deaths from other diseases, having been made up by accessions to their number fi.om the Otbwas of Michigan. They have made excellent provision for educating their children, and an extensive building is in progress, aided by large contributions from white friends. Sales of their lands, aside from those reserved for edncational purposes, have amounted to about $10,500 during the past year. Kiozoas, Comanches a d Apaches.-Although the headquarters of this agency is in Kansas, it is rather an independent agency, reporting directly to this o6ce. The Indians have no reservation, bnt were entitled, under treaty stipulations, to a periodical distribution of goods,and after receiving these goods, left for their various places of resort. Their agent, Colonel J. I[. Leavenworth, has for a long time possessed their confidence, and by his influence over them they have, for the moat part, if not entirely, abstained from all hostilities or interference with travel over the Santa FB r o d A portion of those who escaped from the Chivingtonmassacre took refuge with them, and they have hadmany temptations to join the other Indians of the plainsin their hostilities. Various communications from their agent, dated at Crow Creek ranch, sixty miles weet of Fort Lamed, |