Presbyterian church of one hundred and thirty-five members, and pay half the salary of the native preacher. On the oeca sion of an auniversery mecting of the Dakota missionarics there, these pcople raised one hundred dollars to pay for their entertainment. These three bands are far the most advanced, making steady progress.

In 1876 the news from the Sioux on the agencios is that, but all the others are owing to the failure of appropriations, the Indian Bureau had becn unable to send the regular supplies, and the Indians, be- ing in almost a starving condition," had been induced, by tho apparent purpose of the Government to abandon them to starvation," to go north in large numbers, and join the hostile camps of Sitting Bnll This was in the spring; again in mid summer tho same thing happened, and many of the Indians, growing still more anxious and suspicious, left their agencies to join in the war.

Congress would probably have paid little attention at this the reading of this extract from "Kent's Commenta- time to ries:" Treaties of peace, when made by the competent power, If the treaty requires the obligatory payment of money to carry it into effect, and the money can not be raised but by an act of the legislature, the treaty is morally obligatory upon the legislature to pass the law; and to repeal it would be a breach of the public faith."

A disturbed and unsettled condition of tlings prevailed at all the Sioux agencies, consequent on this state of things. Companies of troops were stationed at all of them to guard against outbreaks. Owing to lack of funds, the Yanktons obliged At the Standing Rock Agency, after the Indiaus had planted eight hundred and seventy-two dollars worth of soeds-of corn, potatoes, aud other vegetables-the grasshoppers came and de- voured them. "Many of these Indians, with their whole fam- on the whole nation, are give np their weaving and baskot-tmaking. to were lies, stood all day in their fields fighting these enemies, and in