church regularly. They have broken one hundred and sev. enty-seven acres of new prairie. Twenty built, They have cut and hanled two hundred cords of wood, hauling some of it forty miles to market. * They have donc considerable frgighting with their teams, going sometimes a hundred miles away. new houses have been They have earned thirty-five hundred dollars, catching small fars. **One Indian has the contract for carrying the mail througlh Flandreau, for which he receives one thousand dollars a vear, ** It is bat a few miles from Flandreau to the far-famed pipe-stone quarry, and these Indians make many little sums by selling pipes, rings, ink-glasses, elc., made of this beautiful red stone.* to be taught how to make baskets, mats, cloth; and the young men ask to be taught the blacksmith and carpenter trades."

This is a community that only five years before had pushed out into an unbroken wilderaess without a dollar of money, without a They are anxious plongh, to open farms. "Without plonghs, they had to dig the sod with their hoes, and at the same time make their living by hunting. Thoy suffered severe hardships, and a number of their best men perished in snow-storms. Believ carrying out the wishes of the Great Father, as parties, ing they expressed in the treaty of 1808, to which they they were disappointed when for three years no notice was taken of them." were were There is something pathetic in the gratitude they are said now to feel for the niggardly gift of a few oxen, wagons, and ploughs, They have apparently given over all hope of ever obtaining any of the money due them on account of their lands sold in Minnesota. No further allusion is made to it by Dr. Williamson.

From the Yankton Sioux this year comes a remarkable re no law except the treaty and the fighting, and, with juil, port: We have no agent's word, yet we have no quarrels, no one or two exceptions, uot a single case of drunkenness during the year. This I consider remarkable, when we take into con