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Show a representation from at least four of the six northern hands, hut would proceed with such rc-presentation as could he obtained. By the report of t.he treaty commission welearned of the failure of negotiations with those bands, on account of demands made by them, (under the advice of Mr. Brown, as it is alleged,) to which the commissioners did not feel justified in acceding, and the d8:legates returned to Fort Wadsworth. Sinoe that time a communication has heen received from a portion of these people through a mis-sionary friend, to whom they had written in their own language, (many of them being educated to some extent,) setting forth theirregret at the failure of .he ne-gotiatiaos, and their wishes to make some arrangement to improve their condition. I t is feared that tliese people will suffer much during the approaching winter if not aided in some manner by the government. If the policy set forth and urged upon Congress in the report from this office, under date of April 20, shall he adopted, t,he depnrtmeut will have the means of providing for these bauds at least, and it is recommended that a reasonable reservation in the vicinity of Fort Wadsworth may be set apart for them. The interest upon the capital fund restored, as recommended in that report, together with the avails of the reservation iu Minnesota now being appraised, will provide au ample fund fbr all these bauds of Sioux. Various papers referred to in this summary, furnishing details for the iaforma-tion of those who desire to know the particulars of the operations above men-tioned, will he found among the accornpaoyiog documents. Of the Upper Plalte agency, and the tribes under its charge, su5cient has been said under the head of thisauperintendol~cya, nd under that of Indian treaties. Affairs hnve been sadlv mismanared in uast vears. and the Indians erievouslv A d . u.n,!lgc~l lisP:.,vel~nniei~~lrl ict.rr\,t lnuar dirty i; xu3 topl.otcct tlrrm ill ilrc.:r rig~t.i, u~.ctt he 1056 df innny live* . I I n~ vnl anmirut or val~u~bplrr.o perty 11x3b een the result. I\'* m.tv be i~ermirtrd lo ilr,uc ti,!. Lettertliiorjitl t1.e rittttre. Uuon tire quiet and frieiAly fieling of the 1Ldians of this 'slperintendency depe;ds the safe t,ransit of the growi~~g,commercoef the plains, the overland stage and wagon route, telegraph, and Pac~ficrailroadtr aversing it through its whole length from east to west. CENTRAL SUPERINTENDENCY. The annunl report of superintendent Murphy is received, together with those of most of the agents in charge of the various tribes of Kansas, all living upon reservations except the Kiowas and Comanches, and thecheyennes, Arapahoes, and Apaches, who, while having a nominal headquarters in the neighborhood of ,Fort Lamed, in southwestern Kansas, roam over a wide extent of country. All of these Indiana are considered as belonging to a central superintendency; the Osages, however, on the sonthem boundary of that State, being in the southern superintendency. From the first-named tribes, however, me have no statistics; the remainder of the tribes number about 6,000, and of these the Kaws, whose population is 670, and the Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi, numbering about 800, do very little in the way of agric~~lturey;e t the statistics of these 6,000 Indians exhibit the fact that ikom 11,645 acres of land cultivated they have raised this year over 350,000 bushels of grain, and 27,000 bushels of potatoes and other vegetables; that they have cut about 4,000 tons of hay; that they own 6,000 horsed and nearly 6,000 head of other stock; that their wealth in property, owned by in-dividuals, is over%1,000,000, aside from their annuities ; and that they have eight schools, with 491 scholars in attendance. Considering the disadvantages under which these people labor, and the fact that so large a portion of their number as yet decline to enter upon aglicultural pursuits, it is submitted whether the averag prodncts of their labor do not indicate that the Indian race is capable |
