In the report of the Indian Commissioner for this year there is also a paragraph which should not be omitted from this sketch:The present seems to be an appropriate occa sion for calling the attention of Congress to certain treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes which the Government, for a number of years, has failed to execute of the cession of their lands to the United States by some In consideration nine tribes of the Mississippi and Missouri regions, among whom were the Delawares-"it was on the pari stipulated of the Government that certain sums shonld be paid to said tribes, amounting in the aggregate to $2,806,600, and that the same should be invested in safe and profitable stocks, yielding an interest of not less than five per cent. per an num

"Owing, however, to the embarrassed condition of the Treas- ury, it was deemed advisable by Congress, in lieu of making appropriate from year to year a sum equal to the annnal interest at five per cent. on the several amounts required to be invested. On this amount the Government has already paid from its treasury $1,742,240-a su which is now equal to two-thirds of the principal, and wiln a few years be equal to the whole, if the practice of appropriating As there is no limitation to the pe- the investments, to the interest be contiuued. riod of these payments, such a would prove a most costly one to the Government. end of every twenty years it will ave paid from the public treasnry by way of interest the full amount of the stipulated investments. ** The public finances are in a prosperous con- policy indefinitely continued At the dition, Instead of fiscal eumbarrassment, there is now a redun- dancy of money, and one of tho vexed qnestions of the day is, What shall be done with the surplus in the Treasury COu sidering the premises, it seems to be quite elear that so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose should be prompt ly appliod to the fulfilment of our treaty obligations."