return. Apportionment of arms to the Militia for the year 1833, under the Act of 1808. STATES AND TER- Date of the Number of No.ofarms) Ordnance and Ordnance RITORIES. Mame New Hampshire Militia. apport'nd. Stores distributed to the 444 315 505 278 Rhode Island Militia under the Act of Vermont New York New Jersey Maryland Virginia North Carolina 18.33 Kentucky 1,100 pistols. Tennessee Ohio Louisiana Indiana Mississippi Illinois Alabama Missouri Michigan 1,310 sets infantry accou Arkansas For da 73 six pounder iron cannon and carriage, with equipments, &c. complete. 70 percussion cannon locks. 1,010 muskets, complete. 300 rifles. 1 Hall's patent carbine. 550 sabres. 201 artillery swords. 300 sets rifle accoutre ments. 450 sabre belts, white leather. 400 do. black leather. 1,100 pairs holsters. trements, black. 600 sets do. white Dist. of Columbia Quantity of Lead made at U. S. Lead Mines, annually, from 1821 to 1834. 500 artillery sword belts.] 1,250 cavalry catridge boxes. Note.-The total amount of rent lead, accruing for the above period, is 5,699,631 lbs. Operations of the United States Lead Mines, in the vicinity of Fever River, from the 30th September, 1853, to the 30th September, 1834. Pounds of lead made during the year Pounds of lead which have accrued, as rent, the present year 7,971,579 452,792 211,094 Total of rent lead due 663,886 Pounds of rent lead received in the year, ending Sept. 30, INDIAN AFFAIRS. Operations under the Indian Department during the year 1834. Measures have been adopted for the execution of the several treaties with the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Appalachicolas, Quapaws, the united bands of Otoes and Missourias of the river Platte, and the four confederated bands of Pawnees of the Platte and the Loup Fork, all of which were ratified at the last session of Congress. Preparatory steps have also been taken for the removal of the Creeks and Seminoles, and it is expected that a considerable portion of those tribes will be removed beyond the Mississippi during the ensuing season, and find a happier home in the domains set apart for their residence, under the guaranty of the United States. In pursuance of instructions from the department, General William Marshall, Indian agent for the Miamies, opened a negotiation recently with the chiefs of that tribe, for the purchase of their land in the State of ludiana. He has succeeded in procuring from them a cession of two hundred thousand acres, on terms advantageous to themselves and the United States. It may be considered the precursor to a total cession of their remaining land in that State, and their consequent emigration to the western territory; a result desirable in many respects, especially connecied with advantages to a portion of our citizens, and doubly gratifying from its being compatible with the best interests of the tribe. The alteration proposed by a resolution of the Senate at the last session of Congress, in the boundaries of the land granted by the Chicago, treaty of 1833, to the united nation of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatamie Indians, has received their assent under certain modifications, specified in their agreement of the 1st of October last. No material alteration has taken place during the past year in the condition of the Cherokees. The question of emigration finds them still divided, and a considerable portion appear to be insensible of the manifest benefits accruing from its adoption. Without tolerable unanimity, it is impossible to proceed with it advantageously to all parties interested in the general issue. In the mean time, the division has engendered much malignancy, and the opposing parties appear to evince a rancor bordering on hostility. Occasionally their animosity has broken out into acts of violence; and, in one instance, resulted in the death of a very meritorious and much regretted individual. On his return from their National Council at Red Clay, in August last, where the question of emigration was agitated in a tumultuous and excited meeting, John Walker, jr., one of their leading men friendly to its adoption, was waylaid and shot. The necessary orders for the arrest of the assassins were promptly issued by Governor Carroll, the present executive of TennesSeveral persons are now in confinement on a charge of having taken part in the murder Should the occasion call for it, the military will be ordered out for the protection of those who decide on emigration, and of the emigrating officers of the government engaged in this hazardous and responsible service. see. A negotiation has been commenced by Governor Lucas, of Ohio, with the band of Wyandots in that State, for a cession of their remaining land, and their removal to the west of the Mississippi; and recent com munications furnish strong grounds of belief, that under his judicious management it will be eventually brought to a successful close. The expedition to the far west, under the command of General Leavenworth, undertaken in compliance with orders from the War Department, for the objects therein detailed, proceeded on its route through regions almost unknown, and amid difficulties of the most perplexing nature. In consequence of the death of that brave and lamented officer while in the performance of duty, the command devolved on Colonel Dodge, who returned with the expedition to Fort Gibson, bringing along] a number of the chiefs of the Pawnee and Kioway Indians, bold and warlike tribes, who have entertained no very friendly feelings towards our citizens, between whom and them there had hitherto been but little intercourse. These tribes being borderers on the newly occupied Indian territories, it became imperative to repress their hostile disposition, under the guaranty of the United States to afford adequate protection to the emigrating Indians. With the view of establishing pacific relations between these and other tribes, a general council was held under the auspices of Colonel Dodge and Major F. W Armstrong, which resulted in mutual engagements of peace and friendship, fortified by proper intimations on the part of those officers, in behalf of their government, of support to the injured, and punishment to aggressors. At the general council, impressive speeches were delivered by several chiefs of the Creek, Cherokee, Osage and Choctaw tribes. In their addresses to the warlike chiefs then assembled, they took occasion sub-| stantially to observe, "that their people had opened their ears to the advice which had been given to them, and adopted the habits of the white man, and that by so doing they had become peaceful, prosperous, and happy; that they had relinquished the chase, and cultivated the earth, and that by becoming agricultural they lived in peace, and in the enjoyment of abundance; and that the same inestimable benefits would assuredly await all the tribes who would walk in the same path." The duties and services of the commissioners west have closed by the expiration of their commission, according to the provisions of the art under which they were appointed. Great benefit has resulted to the various tribes by virtue of their mission. Important treaties were cou cluded by them, existing divisions were healed, difficulties that threatened collision were settled, and a spirit of peace and conciliation was infused among the Indians through their instrumentality. There is little mention to be made of Indian hostilities during the past year. They have been few, and those not of an aggravated nature. A steady and onward course is observable among the Indian tribes towards the grand point of civilization. Their long imputed indomitable spi t of revenge, and their eager thirst for war, have undergone a sensible change in the process of meliorating circumstances The happiest consequences may be anticipated from extending the means of tuition among their young people, from the introduction of mechanical arts into the different tribes, and from the increased attention bestowed on agricultural pursuits, under the patronage of government, throughout the territo ries of emigration; nor can the gratuitous but useful labors of the missionary, and the inculcation of the pure doctrines of christianity, be overlooked in the enumeration of means that are conducing to the great end so precious in the sight of the philanthropist, and so dear to the finest sympathies of our nature-the transformation from the cold and barren Confines of savage life, to the sunny and fertile regions of civilization and religion. INDIAN SCHOOLS. Statement, showing the number of Indian schools, where established, by whom, the number of teachers and pupils, and the amount allowed by the Government. The annual donation to the Baptist General Convention is $2,000; to the American Board of Foreign Missions $2,200; to the Roman Catholic Church $1,300; to the Methodist Episcopal Church $400 Other dona tions are made, upon representations entitled to favorable consideration. The number of Indian children receiving instruction at the different schools is eighteen hundred. Exclusively of these, there are one hundred and fifty six Indian scholars at the Choctaw academy in Kentucky, the expense of whose education, is defrayed from funds appropriated by the Indians themselves, under treaty provisions with different tribes for this particular object. The flourishing condition of this academy furuishes the best evidence of the sound views and philanthropic motives of those with whom it originated, and leaves the question of Indian improvement in letters and morals upon the social basis no longer doubtful. The Convention also support one district school among the Ottawas and Cherokees, and three among the Senecas. †Two of these teachers are natives. Statement showing the amount and disposition of the funds provided by treaties for purposes of education. These tables exhibit the number of teachers and pupils at the schools, of the condition of which reports have been received. In all of them, instruction is imparted in reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography. At many of them the boys are initiated in branches of the mechanic arts, and cultivate the soil. At the Tuscarora station, in New York, tuition is imparted on the plan adopted for infant schools, and with marked success. The temperance society contains eighty members, the sabbath school thirty pupils, and fifty are united to the church. The children at the Mohegan school, in Connecticut, are employed on farms cultivated by natives. Others of the youth of this band enter on board the ships in the whale fishery. And as an indication of a spirit) of enterprise, and industry, the wish of some to cultivate the mulberry} tree, with a view to the establishment of a silk manufactory, may be cited. The American Board of Foreign Missions propose to print at the Union station, in the Cherokee country west of the Mississippi, books in the languages of the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, and Osages. And the Rev. Mr. McCoy, under the auspices of the Baptist General Convention, has issued proposals for publishing a semi-monthly periodical at the Shawanee mission, three hundred miles west of St. Louis. Several books have been printed at this press, in the languages of the different tribes. The object of Mr. McCoy, and his associates, is to furnish historical sketches of past, and notices of present occurrences, including the transactions of the general government, and of societies. |