cver; so says the Annual Report of the Indian Commissioner for 1853; and adds that, with a maintained friendly relations among themselves, and " mani fested an increasiug confidence in and kindness toward the whites,"

single exception, they lave Some of them have begun to raise corn, beans, pumpkins, etc., but depend chiefly on the hunt for their support. But the agent who was sent to distribute to then their annuities, and to secure their assent to the amendment to the treaty, reports: "The Cheyennes and the Arapaloes, and many of the Sioux, are aetually in a starving state. They want of food half the year, and their reliance for that scanty supply, in the rapid deerease of the buffalo, is fast disappear ing. The travcl upon the roads drivés them off, or clse con- fines them to a narrow path during the period of emigration, and the differcnt tribes are forced to contend with hostile are in abject nations in sccking support for their villages. Their women are pinched with want, and thcir children constantly crying with hunger. Their armns, moreover, are unfitted to the pur suit of smaller game, and thus the lapsc of a few years pre- sents only the praspect of a gradnal famine." And in spite of such suffering, these Indians commit no show inereasing confidence in and kiudness toward the whites. depredations, and This agent, who has passed many years among the Indians, speaks with great feeling of the sad prospect staring them in the face. He says: "But one course remains which promises any permanent relief to them, or any lasting benefit to the country in which they dwell; that is, simply to make such modifications in the 'intercourse' laws as will invite the residence of traders among them, and open the whole Indian Territory for settlement. Trade is the only civilizer of the Indian It has been the precursor of all eivilization heretofore, and it will be of al hereafter. It teaches the Indian the value of other things bcsides the spoils of the chase, and offers to him