fearcd that the white people would do as they did in Minneso- ta in 1862, after tbe Sioux maRsacre, when the Winnebagoes were driven from their homes in Minncsota. * * * A number quiet and industrions men became alarmed, and of our most noved their families to Wisconsin, encouraged in so the hope of rcceiving from the Government a share of the funds which have been set apart from the annual appropriations during the past four years for the beneit of the Wisconsin Winnebagoes, and which they snppose aggregate a large amount doing by which will soon be paid in cash."

This brings the story of tle Winnebagocs down to the What its next chapter may be is saddening It is said by those familiar with the Nebraska Indians present time. think to that, eivilized though they be, they will all make war to the knife if the attempt is made by the Govcrnment to rob them of their present lands on the ploa again of offering them a permancnt homc." That spccious pretence has doue its last dnty in the Uuited States service. No Indian is left now so imbecile as to believe it once more.

Whether the Winnebagoes' " patents" in Nebraska world, in such a case, prove any stronger than did their "certificates" in Minnesota, and whether the Winnebagocs themsclves, peaceable and civilized though they be, would side with the United States Goverument, or with their wronged and desperate brethren, in such an uprising, it would be hard to predict.