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Show sire to have their treaty so amended as to enable them to allot their lands in severalty and become citizens. The agent does not regard the school as a very successful one, on account of the irregular attendance of the pupils. The Sacs and Poxes are but a small tribe, numbering but 95 persons, and occupy some twenty-five sections of land. They make hut poor progress in civilization, being represented as lazy and shiftless, and have raised but little for their own support this year. Of course they are negligent of the interests of their children, and will not send them to achool. Both of these tribes will be permitted tb send delegates to this city during the coming wiuter, and it is hoped that satisfactory measures for their improvement may be devised. Pamees.-This tribe, numhering now 2.800 persons, has fora long time been friendly to the whites, though enjoying a high reputation among their own race for their skill in possessing themselves of the property of others. I t is gratify-ing to know that their cl~aracterf or honesty is much improved of late years, as . a natural consequence of their improvement in civilization, and acenml~lationo f home comforts by their own labor on their reservation. During last wiuter eighty-seven of their braves were regrzlarly mustered into the United States service as scouts, and employed in the military operations on the plains; and a still larger number is now in the governmeut service against their old enemies, the Sioux. The superintendent, in hisvisit to the agency in Se~tember, found that the tribe had returned from a successful summer hunt, and were harvroting a tinrcrop, raise01b y thc!oaelv~au pon rhr esc~llentla nd of ihrir rewrmtion; and their condiriou fur the winter N39 rxp~r tedto bef ,~vor~l~le to thc,ir eomforr. Thr ~uprrinter~denfri u ~ ~tlidut aO;~iraa t th~a: zc.ney pn,rwr were not in so satisfactoea condition, the late agent not having fo; reasins stated in the special report of the superintendent, attended to the raising of any crop upon the agency farm; the consequence heing that grain andother supplies must be purchased for the use of the employ6s. It is suggested that the steam mill provided by treaty eauses a useless ex-penditure of ntoney, and that a fine stream in the immediate vicinity may be availed of for running a mill by water-power, which will save the salary of an engineer and laborer, as well as a large consumption of fuel. Although the treaty provides for a stearn mill, the benefit to be derived from this change is .so apparent, that I think a diversion of the funds for thia object would be pro-per, and have no doubt the Indians would gladly consent to it. The posting of a company of United States troops at the agency has given the employ& as well as the Indians a sense of security which they have uot enjoyed for several years, and protected the latter during their hunt. The present agent, Mr. Wheeler, represents the Indians a8 desiring that their annuity provided for in goods by treaty he given to them in money, to be expended by their agent for agricultural implements. This office will take pleasure in carry-ing ibto effect, so far as is practicable, jbis laudable desire of the tribe. The manual labor school-house, which has been in course of eonstruetion for parts of the two years past, isnearly completed, though it has not been formally accepted. It has cost a large sum of money, and there are deficiencies in its construction, and irregularities connected with the operations of thelate agent and the.contractors, into which an investigation is being made. I t has been deemed advisable, however, to remove the scholars to it from the unhealthy quarters where they have been, and it is intended to proviie at the earliest pos-sible day for at least one hundred children at the school. Great hopes are en-tertained by the better class of the Indians of the good to be done by this school, and there is now some prospect of their heing realized. The agent recommends an appropriation of $100 to satisfy with presents, in a manner approved by this people, the relatives of a Pawnee who was, not |