there a country which wonld answer for their new home. The commissioner advises that thcy should not be allowed to go there, but to the Indian Territory, of which he says, "The geographical situation is sach that its oceupation by lawless whites can be more casily prerented than any other portion of the eountry." ognized as the Indian country, and I have strong hopes that it will eventually prove for them a prosperous and happy home."

In 1864 their agent writes that the greater part of the per- sonal propcrty owned by the Delawarcs is in stock, "whiclh is constantly being preyed upon by the whites, until it has be- come so rednced that it is diflicult to obtain a good animal in the nation." He says he is unable, for the want of proper in- formation, to determine what amount they had at the begin- ning of the vcar, but believes, from observation, " that it has undergone a depletion to the extent of twenty thousand dol lars in the past year."

What a picture of a distressed community! The men away at war, old men, women, and children working the farms, and twenty thousand dollars of stock stolen from them in one "By common conscnt, this appcars to be rec- year

Iu 1865 a large proportion of those who had enlisted in the Uuited States Army were mustered out, and returned home The agent says: "It affords me great pleasnre to chronicle the continued loyalty of this tribe during the past four years; and, as events tend westward, they evinco erory disposition to aid the Government by contributing their knowlcdgo of the coun try to the officers of the army, and rendering such services thereto as they qualificd to perform." are

They "have distinguished themselves in many instances in the conflicts on the bordcrs;" nevertheless, in this same year, these discharged soldiers were prohibited by the Government from carrying Tevolvers. When the commissioner instructed the agent to disarm them, the agent very properly replied, 44