There was another very curious bit of legislation in regard Lo the Delawares this year, viz., an Act of Congress authorizing the Scerctary of the Treasury to enter on his books $423,090 26 to the eredit of the Delawares; being the amount of bonds which the United States had invested for the Delawares in State bonds of Missouri, Tennessee, and North Caroliua, and which had been stolen while in the eustody of Jacob Thomp- son, late Secretary of the Interior, in whose department they had been deposited for safe-keeping. (At the same time thero were stolen $66,735 belonging to tlhe Iowas, and $169,686 75 belonging Piankeshaws, and Keas.)

In this year the Commissioner of Iudian Affairs visited the to the confederated bands of Kaskaskias, Peorias, Delawares, and reported them well advanced in civilization, in possession of comfortable dwelings and farms, with personal property averaging Many of them were traders, and travelled eren to the bounda ries of California. one thousand dollars to an individual

In 1862 two regiments of Delawares and Osages enlisted as soldiers in an oxpedition to the Indiau Territory, under Colonel Weer, who says of them: "The Indian soldiers have far ex- cceded the most sanguine expcetations. Thoy bore the brunt of the fighting done by tho expedition, and, had they been properly sustained, wonld have effectually ended the sway of the robels in the Indian Territory."

There was during this ycar a terrible condition of affairs in Kansas and the Indian Territory. The Indians were the side of tho robels; yet, as the Indian Commissioner said in his report for this year-a paragraph which is certainly a spe- eies of Irish bull While the rebelling of a large portion of most of the tribes abrogates treaty obligations, and places them at our merey, the very important fact should not be forgotten that the Government first wholly failed to keep its treaty stip- ulations with them in protecting them." largely on "By withdrawing all