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Show then removed to their present place of abode, which has proved to be almost entirely useless for farming purposes. No class of Indians at one time were more intelligent, thirfty, better educated and promising, than these; but to-day, through the adverse circumstal~cesw ith which three years ago to obtain from the Oneidas a part of their reserve as a home for the Stoclibridpes, and the agent for these tribes mas iiistructed to ent.er into a treaty with the Oneidas for that purpose, who, however, declii~edt o part with their land, and the desired object failed of being accomplished. It is shll thought that some arrangement should be made mith that tribe for procuring a home for the Stockbridges, for unless sometl~ingo f the kind is done, they, as a tribe, must become wholly de-moralized. New Ywk I%dians,residingon several reservations in the State of New York, number 4,991 agaiust 4,136 repcrted last year, an increase ac-countedfor by including the St. Regis Indians, who were not enumerated in the census of 1868. These tribes, the desceiidants of the powerfiil Six Nations. who filled so larre a anace in the earlv historv of this couutr.y, l~aveto 3 :-wilt I ' X I C I I ; ; ~ ~ U On~l fngetht:r, ;~lsa<~lontiro~r lh abits all11 cosr<nn~oaf their ~~JT(.I'LITII~~aIns,d are IIO\\. steadily ;1n11 s~~~.c~.sslillly l'ollo\~i~t~brg pursllils of II lriglier st)le of life, nlany 1 8 f \v11#1rn will t.uni- 11;irc't l~\~ur;~li)l ll yt llrir. ou; l i~~n~r\irl.titsh the rvllires hg nllola 1llc.v are surru1111de11T. lwir &rlluoIs,I ':I~IIIS:, ~ I I ChI n~isrsr,~ ag:~rfdo r iiior!iIit~: I I I ~ reli%i~!;~ir~e ,th e evidtmcc dt'a rcA ~ I I C1In arke11; ~ ( IV~ I I ~ ~ : I I I iIl:lI ItIlt e srale of Christian civilization. An increase of interest is manifested in reference to education. On t.he several reservations twenty-six schools are in uperation, besides which there is a large institution lmown as the Thomas Orphan Asylum,establislledfortheir beiiefit, and alarge manual-labor school is about to be opened up011 the Tonawauds reservation, the Rate having passed an act appropriating $3,000 for that object, the Indians giving the necessary land therfor. I would call attention to the interesting report herewith, from their agent, Captain Ames, United States Army, in regard to the agricultural fairs held by these people. NTimebagoes and Pottawatomies, in Ti7isconsi~~n,n mbering alto-gether 1,500, are t,he fragments of tribes who at some prerioos time resided in that State, but are now in Kansas. They range in the country originally occupicd by them, having su~alpla tches of corn under cultivation, sometilnes trading with the whites. They gather berries, and occasionillly serve as ha~tdsi n thcir harvest and hop fields. Their proper place is with the tribes west, but it seems impossible to get their consent to join them, as they are so strongly attached to their present home, and if remo~ed from it would return, as they did once before. So long as they do not trouble the whites, it may be prudent not to at-tempt their removal by force. A party of Chippewas, numbering one hundred and ninetythree in the State, desire to be included in the special agency for these Indians. ~Tacsa nd Foxes in Iowa. numberina 262. are a vart of the tribes resid-ing in Kansas, and who'are permitied by act of Congress to receive their shareof the annuities due the tribes, at their present abode. Com-plaipts heretofore have been made by citiiens of their presence land con-duct, but of Pate a better opinion has been entertained respecting them, .as they labor in the fields of the fanners, and, in a measure, have ehanged their disagreeable habits. They o m four hundred and nine |