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Show and outlawed Banilocks of that region. A considerable portion of the troops hitherto stationed there has been withdrawn, and the settle1.s are ~rotectine tlen>trlrto nfrr x very rr ugh ~iisloiuo. .Ill illis r.$n be prevented, aud llrncefi~l rrl.~tiui~r.r- rnlli;l.vrl, i t ' tht dcpn11n1e1.t I:.id t11v 1nca11ro f negotiating wilh t l ~ o trited uf i11e c.,onr.r N I K ~ Ch uutinz ~r0111ldadr e invndid by tlle w l l i t r ~ .a nd who, in many cases;mnst steal or Gake; or, if formal t r e a 6 negotiations are not deemed advisable, of making moderate provisions for their physical wants until they can he taught and habituated to self-sustaining labor. Just as tliis report is completed, advices are received from Governor Bdlard of great discontent among the Tiez Percks, on account of'a claim set up by a private individual to the section of land including all the agency buildings. MONTANA. S o a nnual rrport from rl8i.i mperinrc.n~leuryh uc l.ren rereived. 'I'llr gn\.ernor, and r?r.qlp:.io a~i~~t ! r i~o t e tN~dI IeI~I~S. i t,.ln ey Ed*rton, bas bern ahsrut lion1 the Territorv :t cotl>i,l+t. :ahle n<,rtio,l of the time. the vcnt.ral irltvreats uf thr <, service Gave been in the kands of General hleagher, secretary and acting gov- ' ernor, who, at last accounts Was about leaving the capital of the Territory to visit the Flathead agency. The agency last named, after having been transferred, on erroneons informa-tion, to the Idaho superintendency, was early in the year again placed in its former relatioi~s to Montana. The absence of report? from Agent Chapman is much to he regretted, an the agency is an important and interesting one: The only other agency in the Territory is that for the Blackfeet Indians, with its headquarters at Fort Benton. Mr. Upson, who had charge lafit year, left for Washington in Jannctry, uia San Francisco, hut died in Califoriiia. A treaty which had been made in November, with the Blackfeet and Gros Ventres, was l%~inda mong his papers, and reached this office after the lapse of some time. Other pn:lers were also transmitted, exhibiting the fact that a part of the Indialis treated w i ~ hha d almost immediately broken out into hostility. These accounts being coufirmed by advices from the acting governor, it was not deemed advisable to recommend the ratification of this treaty by thnpresident. The several bands ofBlackfeet, it appears, are the Indians who have persisted in hostilities, while the Gros Ventres, associated with them, have been entirely friendly and peaceaille as to the whites, and also as to other Indians, so far as the attacks of the latter upon them would allow: I t is much to be regretted that a separate treaty was not made with these Gros Ventres, 90 that they mieht have received the benefits oromised them. In view of their good conduct. it waa designed that the northwestern treaty compissioners shonldY reach them and enter into a separate treaty with them, but that commission found it impracti- I - . cable ta do so. A new agent for the Blackfeet, Mr. George B. Wright, accompanied the com-misfiion as far as it went; but instead of proceeding direct to his destination, a*, from the advices received, it is thought he might safely have done, he returned down the Missouri, and proceeded to his destination overland,arriving at a very recent date. Such informatioq a8 has been received from him is placed among the accompanying docnments, where also will be fonnd a report by Mr. Upham, who had charge of the agency in the interim between the departure of Agent Upson and the arrival of Hr. Wright, and who gives full evidence of the hos-tility of the Blackfeet. Beferonce to n recommendation by the agent of the Flatheads in f'avor of uniting the Spokanes, Cmur d'Alenes, and other tribes upon the Flathead res-ervation has been made under the head of Idaho. Among the recommendations by acting Governor Ueagher was one for the establishment of an agency for certain bands of Bannocks and Shoshonees, rep- |