F.-Report of the Pottawatomie female manual labor school, conducted by the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, October 1, 1856, to September, 1857.

Number of girls admitted from October 1, 1856, to September, 1857, is 92.

ST. MARY'S MISSION, KANSAS TERRITORY, September 14, 1857.

J. B. DUERINCK.

SIR Please permit me to make the following report, viz: We have had ninety scholars within the last year-fifty boys and forty girls. About forty-five or fifty are pretty regular attendants, but the balance are transitory. We have six boys studying arithmetic, eleven reading and writing, twenty-eight spelling, and five in the alphabet. There are eight girls reading and writing, eight reading, sixteen spelling, and eight in the alphabet. The boys are making some progress in reading, writing, and arithmetic; and the girls are improving in reading, writing, and sewing.

I have two teachers employed-one male and one female. J. G. Thompson is teacher in the boys' department, and Miss Malinda Arnent for the girls; but, for the present, Miss Malinda Holloway has charge of the girls. I have two hands employed on the farm, James H. Jackson and William Christman. I have three females employed as cooks and housekeepers-Miss Ann E. Jackson, Miss Laura A. Jackson, and Miss Cornelia Holloway.

We have about eighty acres of land under cultivation, and about sixty of it in corn, the balance of it in oats; and, owing to the drought, the oats were very short. The corn crop looks tolerably well, but is very late, in consequence of the drought during the summer.

The fencing about the farm is in good order, but the buildings are pretty much out of repair, and the compensation that I receive is not sufficient to enable me to repair them. Owing to the scarcity and high prices of provisions, it scarcely enables me to defray the common expenses of the school, and, as yet, I have received nothing at all for the present year's services.

All of which I respectfully submit.

WILLIAM E. MURPHY, Esq., Indian Agent.

JOHN JACKSON.

No. 79.

SAC AND FOX AGENCY,
September 1, 1857.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following as my annual report for the present year:

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The Sac and Fox tribe of Indians numbered, at the spring payment, thirteen hundred and sixty-seven, (1,367,) divided as follows: 354 men, 386 women, and 627 children; the latter embracing the young men and women of the tribe who are not "heads of families." my first annual payment, which was in November, 1853, this tribe numbered seventeen hundred and forty-eight, (1,748,) which shows a decrease, in three and a half years, of three hundred and eighty-one,

(381.) They own four hundred and thirty-five thousand two hun dred (435,200) acres of land, situated about the centre of the Territory; it is twenty miles north and south, and thirty-four miles east and west; the Osage river and its tributaries running through it the long way. If their land was divided among them equally, it would give to each one three hundred and eighteen (318) acres.

I am confident the whole tribe does not cultivate annually three hundred (300) acres; nor do I believe they ever will, so long as they receive the large annuity they now do.

This tribe receives annually seventy-one thousand ($71,000) dollars in money, forty barrels of salt, forty boxes of tobacco; is supplied with a gunsmith, blacksmith and assistant, with iron, steel, &c., for the use of both shops; with ordinary industry, and some little management, I see no reason why this tribe should not live well, and eventually become a wealthy people; but it is with them, as it is with the red man generally, liquor is the great drawback upon their advancement in civilization; they will give any amount of money or property for it; in fact, it is one of the impossibilities to keep them from getting drunk. I have used all the influence I possibly could to induce them not to frequent the "doggeries" which surround them, but, I am sorry to say, it has done but little good.

These Indians, with but three or four exceptions, live in bark houses, shave their heads, dress with the blanket and leggings, and universally paint; coming in contact and living as they have heretofore among the whites appears to have been of but little advantage to them. What little work is done among them the squaws do; in fact, I have never seen a man work since my residence here. They go upon the plains twice a year to hunt the buffalo for meat, in the spring and fall. Notwithstanding their large annuity in money, and the buffalo meat they get upon the plains, they are frequently very short of provisions.

I would recommend that a treaty be made with this tribe, and the other two small tribes within this agency, at as early a day as may be deemed practicable. The Ottowas, at the payment made by me last fall, numbered two hundred and forty-five (245;) 68 men, 78 women, and 99 children, which is an increase in three years of five-though I am inclined to think a few of their friends from Ohio have emigrated among them; they are at present not on the decrease. These Indians are all farmers without an exception that I know of, live in comfortable houses, and have a sufficiency of stock around them. They own seventy-four thousand (74,000) acres of land, east of the Sacs and Foxes, the Osage river running through the centre of it, and it is as good land as can be found in the Territory. If it was equally divided among them, each would have three hundred and two (302) acres. They draw annually twenty-six hundred dollars, besides some interest upon money invested for land sold since they have removed here. A portion of their children they have had at the Shawnee Methodist school, though I believe none of them have been during the past year. A school established among them would be of great advantage, as I believe they are anxious to educate their children. Several of this tribe belong to the Baptist Church, a meeting being regularly kept up among them; one of the chiefs of the tribe is among the preachers.

The Chippewas of Swan Creek and Black River numbered, at the last annual payment, forty-two, (42;) 11 men, 11 women, and 20 children. They are all farmers, and live in tolerably good log houses. Their land is between that of the Sacs and Foxes and Ottowas; having thirteen sections of land, which is tolerably good for farming purposes, and well adapted for grazing. Were it equally divided among them, they would have one hundred and ninety-eight (198) acres each. This tribe complains, and I think justly, of their neighbors, the Sacs and Foxes, for stealing what few hogs they raise; they say they would raise more stock but for this. They have an annuity in money of three hundred ($300) dollars per annum, with some trust money at interest, which accrued to them from the sale of some lands left by them in the State of Michigan. This has been a very dry season, there having been but little rain; notwithstanding, I think the Ottowas and Chippewas will raise a sufficiency for a support during the coming year. They have plenty of fine wild grass in the bottoms upon the Osage river, which they are having made into hay for the purpose of wintering their stock during the coming winter.

Health has been good within the limits of this agency, with the exception of a few cases of measles, which proved fatal to a few children of the Sac and Fox Indians.

I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,

Colonel A. CUMMING,

B. A. JAMES,

Indian Agent.

Superintendent of Indian Affairs, St. Louis, Missouri.

No. 80.

KANSAS AGENCY, September 26, 1857.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following as my annual report of 1857:

The Kansas having made but little advancement in civilization during the past year, I have therefore but little to report concerning progress. Since their country has been taken from them, and occupied by the whites, the cultivation of the soil has been on a much smaller scale than heretofore, and even this has been carried on by a few individuals only, who availed themselves of the precious privilege granted them by their kind friends, the "intruders," to cultivate the ground which they had been accustomed to do heretofore; and some of these Indians then only to be deprived of the privilege of reaping the fruits of their own labor.

As the Territory of Kansas becomes populated, drunkenness and other vices become more prevalent. Their treatment has been unlike that of some tribes that were located at an early day in juxtaposition to the white settlements of Missouri, where provisions, farming utensils, and the general necessaries of life, could be easily obtained, and where laws were provided and regularly enforced to prohibit the sale