The provisional treaty, communicated to the Senate at its last session, concluded by Col Gadsden with the Seminole Indians, will be obligatory, on its ratification by that body. The deputation of their chiefs, which went to Arkansas to examine their destined country, has returned, and reported favorably upon it for their future residence. The want of an appropriation to defray the expense, prevented the removal of most, if not all of them during the past season. In the progressive execution of the late Creek treaty, an unfortunate circumstance took place, which has occasioned considerable excitement in the State of Alabama. By a provision of that treaty, all intruders were to be removed from the ceded land, until the country was surveyed, and the stipulated selections were made. This has not yet been done, and in the interim repeated complaints of gross injustice and cruel treatment towards the Creeks were received by the department. It was represented that in many instances they were driven from the lands they had cultivated, that they were unmercifully beaten, that their dwellings were bunt, and that they were compelled to flee to the woods for safety Under these circumstances of provocation and outrage, the persecuted Indians applied to the Government for that protection guarantied to them by the treaty. Instructions were accordingly issued to the marshal of the southern district of Alabama, couched in conciliating language, to expel the intruders, after giving them reasonable notice to leave the ceded land, aud so to execute the order as to occasion them the least possible loss and inconvenience. They had put theinselves in the wrong, and it devolved upon the Government to right the injured party. In the discharge of that duty by the marshal, an intruder, named Owen, lost his life by resisting the law of the land. It has been officially represented to the department that, previously to the catastrophe, on his evincing a determination not to yield to authority, he had been expostulated with, and cautioned to forbear resistance: also, that he was armed, and, while in the act of firing at one of the men on duty, was shot in that hostile position. The occurence, however much to be deplored, seems, from the above representation, to have been avoidable only at the extreme peril of lite: and that to the reckless rashness of the individual can alone be imputed the unhappy result of his original trespass. Under an act of the last session of Congress, to enable the President to extinguish the Indian title to land within the States of Indiana and Illinois, and the Territory of Michigan, commissioners were appointed, and a treaty has been concluded with the united nation of Chippewa, Ottowa, and Pottawatomie Indians, by which they have relinquished to the United States all their land within the said States, and all that was held or claimed by them jointly in the said territory. The treaty comes particularly commended in the fact of total cession without any reservation, thereby ensuring the prompt emigration of the Indians, and serving as a prevention of unjust speculation in their lands. The commissioners appointed by the act of July 14, 1832, to adjust difficulties in the location of the land of the emigrating Indians, and for other purposes, have happily succeeded in concluding a treaty with the Creeks and Cherokees, whereby the boundaries of the lands of the two nations have been definitively and permanently established, and a long existing controversy has been terminated to their mutual satisfaction. ritoty of Arkansas. them land weet of the Mississippi, to induce their removal from the TerThey have also concluded a treaty with the Quapaws, and assigned advantageously situated, and progressing towards civilization with The commissioners represent the Indians west of the Mississippi to be steady pace. lence and rapine. force among them, have, in a great degree, repressed their spirit for vio Indian tribes. Tendency to civilization, and the presence of a military) Few hostilities have been committed during the past year among the INDIAN SCHOOLS. an Schools, during the past year, a full statement of their condition canAs reports have been received from only twenty of the fifty-three Indi(See Vol XI. page 239.) not be given in this Volume Statement showing the amount and disposition of the funds, provided by treaties, for| purposes of education. Tribes. Date of Treaty. Laws. Amount Disposition of the Funds. Miamies Do Kickapoos 2,000 Do. do. 1,000 Do. do. 500 Schools in the nation. do. Do. do. Oct. 24, 1816 Mar. 3, 1817 6,000 Oct. 27, 1832 Mar. 2, 1833 Aug. 11, 1827 May 20, 1830 1,500 Not disposed of, July 15, 1830 Mar. 2, 1831 July 15, Seminoles Cherokees, West May 6, 1794 Feb. 25, 1779 3,000 Choctaw Academy. INDIAN AGENTS. Officers and other persons employed in the Indian Department. Agents. Hugh Montgomery ........ George Vashon........ John Campbell Benjamin Reynolds... St. Louis........ 1500 00 ....... Cherokee Agency, East....... Francis W. Armstrong.... Choctaw Agency, West........ ... Chickasaw Agency.. ...... ........... 1300 00 1200 00 Upper Missouri Agency............ 1800 00 Lawrence Taliaferro... 1300 00 Henry R. Schoolcraft..... Sault Ste. Marie and Mackinac... Thomas J. V. Owen... Chicago.............................. William Marshall........Indiana Agency................ ................. Leonard Tarrant.. .... William Armstrong... .... Choctaw Agency, East... David McClellan..............do......do.... West......................... Horatio Grooms.... ...... T. B. Burnett........ Prairie du Chien.......... 1400 00 1300 00 1200 00 1500 00 Creek Agency, East.. 500 00 500 00 500 00 ...... 500 00 ...... 500 00 500 00 500 00 do....... ........ ........ 500 00 David M Sheffield ....... Appalachicola Agency. R hard M. Haunum...... Arkansas Superintendency.. ... Jonathan L. Bean .... Sioux Sub-Agency... 500 00 ..... ....... 500 00 500 00 .............. 500 00 800 00 500 00 Interpreters Andrew S. Hughes.... Ioway Villages......................... Mandan Village... Edmund A. Brush........ French Interpret. & Translat. Detroit Paddy Carr.... ....Creek Agency, East............................................ ....do....do.. West......... ......... Alexander Saunders...... Cherokee Agency, East......... Jackson Kemp.......... Anthony Shane........... Shawnee Agency. ......... 350 00 400 00 480 00 400 00 .... 400 00 400 00 ..... Chickasaw Agency. 400 00 480 00 400 00 ........ Amable Grignon.......... Richard Prickett......... Green Bay........................................... ................... Upper Missouri Agency.. 400 00 ............ 420 00 400 00 ................ Toney Proctor.................................. Appalachicola Sub-Agency Jeffrey Dorney...... loway Sub Agency..................... .......... W. Thornton.................. ................ Cherokee Agency, West................ Sault Ste. Marie and Mackinac.. Mackinac.... Indian Agency... 250 00 360 00 360 00 120 00 480.00 500 00 400 00 400 00 480 00 480 00 COMMISSIONERS AND SPECIAL AGENTS. To treat with the Indians West of the Mississippi, and for other purposes. Montfort Stokes, Commissioner, Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissioner, J. F. Schermerhorn, Commissioner, $8 per day, and $8 for every 20 miles of travel to each. Samuel C. Stambaugh, Secretary, $5 per day, and $5 for every 20 miles travel. To treat with the Pottawatamies of Illinois. George B. Porter, Commissioner, } $8 per day, and $8 for every 20 miles of travel to each. To treat with the Miamies of Indiana. George B. Porter, Commissioner, $8 per day, and $8 for every 20 miles of travel to each. To locate Choctaw Reservations. George W. Martin, Agent, $5 per day, and $5 for every 20 miles of travel. To locate reservations of Choctaw Orphans. William Trahern, Agent, $5 per day, and $5 for every 20 miles of travel. To superintend Choctaw emigrations. William Armstrong, Special Agent, $2000 per annum. To superintend Cherokee emigrations. Benjamin F. Currey, Special Agent, $2000 per annum. For enrolling the Cherokees, East. J. M. C. Montgomery, Ageut, William M. Davis, Agent, William Harding, Agent, } $1000 per annum to each. To superintend the remoral of the Pottawatamies. Abel C. Pepper, Special Agent, $2000 per annuın. For the removal of the Pottawatamies, R. Schoonover, Assistant Agent, $4 per day. |