The head chief Sawycr's pay is still in arrcars quarter of 1863, and the first and second of 1864, he has re ceived no pay. No wonder he has ceased to be the "apolo gist" of the Government, which four years ago promised him annuity of $500 a year.

Spite of this increasing disaffection the Nez Tereés are in dustrious and prosperous. They raiscd in this year 15,000 For the last an bushels of wheat. "Many of them carried their wheat to be ground to the mills, while many sold the grain to feed, while much of it is boiled whole for food. Some few of the better class have had their wheat ground, and sold the flour in the mining-camps at lower prices than packers could lay it down in the camps. Some have small pack-trains rnnning through the summer; one in partieular, Cru-cru-lu-ye, some fifteen auimals; he sometimes packs for whites, and again runs on his own aceount. A Clearwater Statiou Ier chant a short time ago informed me of his buying of Cru-cru-lu-ye last fall. After the grain had been weighed, and empticd out of the sacks, the Indian brought the empty sacks to the scales to have then weighed, and the tare deducted, saying he only wanted pay for the oats, Their sales of melons, tomatocs, corn, potatoes, squashes, green pease, ete., during the summer, in the different towns and mining-camps, bring in some $2000 to $3000. Their stock of horses and cattle is increasing fast, and with the benefits to be derived from good Ameriean packers for runs some oats stallions, and good bulls and cows, to be distributed to them under the stipulations of the treaty of 1803, they will rapidly increase in wealth."

In 1869 their rescrvation is still unsnrveyed, and when the Indians claini that white settlers are establishing themselves in side the lines there is no way of proving it, and the agent says all he ean do is to promise that "the white man's heart shall be better;" and thus the matter will rest until another disturb- ance arises, when the same complaints are made, and the same