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Show Washington Advices. Washington, 7. Secretary Dclanc has notified the Indian bureau that n commissioner will bo sent to the Sioux nation to negotiate with the Indiana for the relinquishment ol their hunting grounds in Nebraska. The president has directed that all lands lying contiguous to the Mississippi Missis-sippi river within twelve miles of the mouth, be reserved for military purposes, pur-poses, under the act authorizing Captain Eades to construct jellies for deepening the channel. General Henry V. Barry, member of the house of representatives from Mississippi, died suddenly to-day in this city of apoplexy. |