of the homes allolted to them under the provisions of their trcaty.

The trust lands belonging to the tribe have been placed in the market, and from the amount already sold has been realized $82,537 62. Au appraisement has also becn had of the lands of the diminished reserve, and the sanc will soon be placed in the market."

In tho Report of the Superintendent of the North-west Ter- ritory for the saine year is the following summing up of their case: "Thc case of these Winncbago Tndians is one of peculiar hardship. IHurried from their comfortable homes in Minnesota, n 1863, almost without previous notice, huddled together on stcamboats witlı poor accommodalions, and trausported to the Crow Creck Agency in Dakota Territory at an expense to themsclves of more than $50,000, thcy were left, after a very imperfect and hasty preparation of their new agency for their reception, upon a souri River, in a country remnarkable only for the rigors of its winter elimate and the storility of its soil, to subsist them sandy beach on the west bank of the Mis- sclves where the most industrious and frugal white man would fail, five years out of six, to raise enough grain upon which to subsist a family. The stern alternative was presented to this unfortnnate people, tus deprived of comfortable homes (on account of no crime or misdenmeanor of their own), of abandon ing this ageney, or enconntering death from cold or starvation They wisely chose the former; and after encountering hard- ships and sufferings too terrible to relate, and the loss of ser eral undred of their tribe by starvation and freezing, they arrived at their present place of residence [the Omaha Agen cyl iu a condition which excited the active sympatlhy of all who became acquainted with the story of their wrongs. There they haye remained, trusting that the Government would re-

deem its solemn promise to place them in a position west of the Missouri which should be as confortable as the one which they occupied in Minnesota.