Wisconsin Territory is said to be improving rapidly. About sixty persons arrived in one week, and are now engaged in putting up temporary accomodations for the workmen to be employed in the erection of the public buildings."

NAVIGATION OF THE WISCONSIN

"The Free Press, printed at Mineral Point, states, that two steamboats the Science and Envoy, had ascended as high as Helena, and that one of them had gone up as far as the Portage, without meeting the ordinary difficulties to be encountered in the navigation of new streams of even larger dimensions."

July 28. Santa Fe traders, Captain White's company, have returned to Fayette, bringing between $80,000 and $100,000 in gold and silver, the gold in dust, silver in bars. They lost most of their mules coming in.

INDIAN TREATIES

August 30. "The utter faithlessness of our government towards the Indians is every day more and more fully developing itself, and must, if persisted in, result in a serious war with the Indian tribes on our borders." Quotes a blister from N. Y. Mercantile Advertiser.

This is the burden of the Republican's song, while its party is out.

Sept. 2. The secretary of war has ordered Major Dougherty "to procure the service of the northern Indians for the Florida Campaign." The Indians are to receive $40 a month, transportation and rations. The Republican protests the right to do this without consent of Congress.

PACIFIST INDIANS

Sept. 7. It is said that the quota required of the Kansas tribe have agreed to go to Florida. "The Kansas are one of the most effeminate and unwarlike tribes on our frontier. They will as assuredly run as soon as they

get into a fight." The Shawnee "repelled the proposition with indignation."

Sept. 19. Still harping on my daughter, against the enormity of employing Indians in the Florida campaign, emphasizing their alien status. "The Indians stand to the United States, and are treated by our government as independent foreign nations."

Oct. 30. "Major Dougherty left here [St. Louis] yesterday for Washington city, having in charge a deputation of Indians from the Missouri river. The deputation consists of 4 Grand Pawnees, 4 Topage Pawnees, 4 Republican Pawnees and 4 Pawnee Laupes, also 4 Ottawas [Oto], 4 Omnobaws [Omaha] and 1 Missouri. These are nearly all chiefs and mostly taken from tribes living near the foot of the Rocky Mountains, who have no idea of the strength or magnitude of our Government. They will be taken to Washington and probably to Philadelphia and New York, one of the objects of the visit being to give them some evidence of the strength of this government; another object is to effect a treaty of peace between the Pawnees and Sioux of the Missouri. It is also probable, that the government will endeavor to purchase a tract of land including the site of Council Bluffs, from the Omnobaws, for the future residence of the Winnebagoes.

"We also learn, that by the importation of a quantity of liquor into their country a short time before the arrival of Major D-he has been delayed several days in effecting his object. The Siouxs under the charge of Major Pilcher, have returned from Washington."

These tribes of eastern Nebraska are here misplaced too far west, just as contemporary people, who should know better, persist in placing the mostly mythical Great American Desert far too far east.

Nov. 17. "The people of Wisconsin propose erecting a very large and spacious capitol for the accomodation of the Legislature and officers.-The Edifice is to be built of stone of the following dimensions: one hundred

and four feet long, and fifty-four feet wide; the walls to be 30 feet high, above water-table; first story 13 feet between joints; second story, 16 feet between joints."

Nov. 28. The Steamboat Boonville snagged a few miles above Independence; total loss. Destined for Fort Leavenworth, laden principally with stores for that garrison. Boat and part of cargo insured. "A small portion of the furniture only was saved."

ROBBING THE INDIANS

Dec. 13. "Scarcely a day passes which does not furnish continual evidence of the mercenary practices of those charged with the disbursement of the Indian annuities..." Quoted from Logansport Telegraph—criticism of forcing Potawatomi to receive goods which they didn't want.

ASHLEY AS POLITICIAN

William H. Ashley was beaten for governor of Missouri in 1836, (while yet a member of congress) by Boggs, democrat. He played the fast and loose game of Jackson personal preference and anti-Jackson principles successfully twice, but the third time it failed him.

SMALLPOX AMONG INDIANS

Jan. 20, 1838. Reports of deaths among Mandans and other Indian tribes are greatly exaggerated. Not onefourth of the Mandans have died.

MISSOURI RIVER

Feb. 8. The Missouri rose five feet suddenly on the night of the 6th. The ice rush broke up all ice from St. Charles to the mouth of the river.

NORTHWEST FUR TRADE

Feb. 14. Editorial. It is contended that Van Couver, "the Hudson Bay Company's fort," is within the territory of the United States which rightly extends some distance north of the present boundary of the operations of

the American company. The question is vital to St. Louis, which "is, and ever must be the intermediate point for the operations of this trade; and we believe that no other place can be made the point from whence the munitions of this traffic can be exported at a point into which the products of the trade shall be brought. It now furnishes employ, capital and profits to many of our citizens and as it is extended these benefits will be enlarged. St. Louis is, and her geographical position must always continue to make her the commercial emporium of North Western Territory. .

ASA WILGUS

Certifies in an advertisement that St. Louis white lead is not inferior to English lead. Signs himself as "painter".

STEAMBOATS

Feb. 15. Adv. The fast running St. Peters will leave for Fort Leavenworth and intermediate points "as soon as the navigation will permit... will run as a regular packet in the Missouri trade during the ensuing season."

"RICH RICHER, ETC."

Feb. 20. Editorial. Quotes partisans of the administration as contending that banks make "the rich richer and the poor poorer. The editor demands "why we should have one kind of currency for the government and office holders, and another for the people." Says Benton, in supporting the sub-treasury scheme and opposing local banks, has kept capital out of Missouri.

SMALL POX AMONG THE INDIANS.

(Missouri Republican, March 5, 1838-copied from the St. Louis Bulletin.)

From all of our information on this subject it appears that this dreadful disease has found its way to the most

remote bands of the Blackfeet, and has been fatal to a most lamentable extent. Thousands of the Blackfeet have fallen a sacrifice to the scourge, yet they are said to blame themselves, and attribute it to no fault of the whites. They now say that they always thought the traders their friends, and had they listened to their advice, their plains would not have been strewn with the dead bodies of their chiefs and braves. The "Pipe Stein" a chief of great influence, when dying called his people around him, and his last request was, that they love their traders, and be always governed by their advice. "I may", says one of the traders, "be blamed for not using measures to arrest the progress of the disease, but without resort to arms on the arrival of the boat with supplies, the Indians could not have been driven from the fort. An express arrived two days in advance of the boat, bringing the melancholy intelligence that the small pox was on board, and I represented to the Indians that they would if they went near it, be infected by it, but I might as well have talked to the winds. The survivors however are now sorry for their obstinacy, and are as humble as the poor dogs who seek in vain for their dead masters. Our trade in this section is utterly ruined for years to come, nor can all the peltries pay the expenses of the Fort. The few surviving Indians I have seen, beg of me not to leave them in their calamity, and if we will have pity on them, they promise never again to act contrary to our wishes.

From Fort Union the accounts from the Company's Agent, are distressing. A letter dated the 30th of November, 1837, says: "All our prospects on the Upper Missouri are completely prostrated, the trade is ruined, if not forever, at least for years to come.-On my arrival here on the 10th of October, I found the Small Pox, or whatever disease it is, (and it appears to me to be a hundred fold more horrible than the ordinary kind) had penetrated to the most distant part of the Assinaboin country,