Show Re report lort the annual reports of the heads head of depart ments and military com commander manden show that tho the territories oie at e receiving more attention in washington than during daring any previous year wo regi ct that our limited space cut our giving more than a brief synopsis of the zoe tec ommen tiati ons most interest our read els cis general grant in of indian says ays with a frontier constantly extending and encroaching upon aport the hunting grounds of f the indian hostilities opposition at least fro oscur occur to and to protect the emigrant emige nt on biscay bisi bis may ay to tho the mountain territories hitoi ri ies troops hae ha e been distributed to gi give e the best protection with the means at land hand few places arc occupied baymore than to and many by but a single company during the past summer inspections were ere made b by sherman rope pope ingalls ingalla sackett Sacket and tand babcock to determine de the proper places to occupy to give tho the best protection to travel and settlements and to determine the most economical method of furnishing famishing supplies I 1 would respectfully suggest for the consideration of congress tho the pro propriety p biety of transferring tho indian bureau f aiom 10 tho the interior to the war department and the abolition of indian agencies with nith tho the exception of a lim cited number of inspectors tho the reason for this change seems to mo me both obvious and satisfactory is it v result in greater economy of expenditure and as I 1 think diminution of conflict between tho the indian and white races lieutenant Licu tenant general in his report which is ii transmitted with that eliat of general giant refers to indian affairs as fol follows loNs I 1 will not here renew the ho discursion but merely futato bbate as the result of my own judgment that the entire management of tho the indi avs uj mu su ties and that the comin commanding anding officers of tho the troops should havo have not only the survell sur veil lanco of cheso indians but should supervise and control the disbursement of moneys r and distribution of presents pie to tho the tribes under tinder past and future treaties indians do not read and nd only know of your power and strength by what N hat they see and they always ahi alq look to the man mail mho iho commands soldiers the representative senta tive tiro of our Govern government merit I 1 pi omose tho the coming year ni uth ith your consent and with that of the secreta secretary i c of f the interior in m hose cout control r ol 01 these indians 1 d s aye are supposed to tb bo be to restrict the sioux north of tho the platte west of tho the missouri river and east cast of the new road to montana which starts from laramie for Vi iginia city by way of r forts orts reno phil philip I 1 kearney 0 F lith smith etc all sioux fourie found outside ut id of th these ese limits without a written pass floell sora some military nit a com commander mander defining clearly th their ei r object m 6 7 should 0 U a bo be dealt with summarily in like manner I 1 would le strict the Arapah oes Che Coman chea chei apaches and Nava Nala joes south of the arkansas Ark nims and east of fort union it is our duty and it shall be rn my aoudy to make the process i of construction of the great pacific railways that lay in this thi i belt of the country as safe as possible as also to protect thes the stage fago and telegraph lines against any a ny hostilo bands without they are so go long lone that to guard them perfectly is is an impossibility 3 I 1 unless wo we can restrict strict le tho the indians a as ai i herein bedein stated in tho the department of dakota I 1 propose that general terry shall make the missouri river as safe to boats boata as possible and that he shall open and protect the now route from minnesota to montana and afford the stages and wagons that travel that long aud and exposed route all tho the assistance in liis his power in tho the department of the platte I 1 propose that general cooke shall continue to cover the building and engineering operations of tho the pacific railway that is i s under construction up the eliat ho shall next year complete the daou wagon road from fort laramie to virginity Virgini fir tf city which tho the indians give notice they will resist they represent it as passing through tho the only remaining hunting grounds they have but this road load is necessary to montana and must bo finished and made we atison it is on this road that wo we have encountered most trouble this 5 car and the indians have killed lieutenant daniels infantry 21 soldiers fiol diera and about 20 citizens connected with nith trains all these deaths must be avenged next year by lemon of tho the discharge of all volunteers and the lato late period at i which bich va we e were provided a agular i army n nc c were too weak to attempt it Us this year and must do so tho the next SECRETARY OF TUE TUB rn in speaking of tho the public lands says frays tho the anomalous condition of affairs in utah has prevented any burdys hole acie since the year of 1857 at that date acres had bad been surveyed burve in order that they way may be ba dl bowa po sedof of it is i d that a land dis retreated be bo treated created in this territory the affairs of the diffrient dif pacific railroads are dai discussed elli ellisea sed at considerable length and the following information g gi IV ven en to the public sun Siu eying patties have been actively on engaged in ascertaining rt aIn the most direct and practicable route N taking ilig on the south platte at tho the mouth of lodge pole creek about miles west of omaha a as a starting point and has having ing furnished a statement of tho comparative ai distances stances quantities and ana gra gradients digits of lines ono one via la cache la and antelope pass one via camp walbach and crow creek and the other via gladgo pole crook camp Wal baell and cheyenne pass it is expected that tho the definite location of this chii part of tho road roul will not bolong belong deferred tho the company depoi that in april 1863 their engineer commenced on an extended gooon noi nois ssan sanco of tho the countr country yeast cast of great salt lake with a 4 view to find a practicable onto louto i over tho the wasatch mountains to arpen river via spanish foil foik and the uinta after ascending the fork to its headwaters ho be exploit ed the w hole district of country lying between the hundred and tenth and hundred aundre d and clev eleventh anth meridians of longitude and between the iho parallels p in gilels of forty decrees de e e s and forty fort ay degrees and thirty minutes of fl latitude ti t d e tb tho result of these examinations satisfied him that such a route could not bo be found tho the survey of tho the line linao by the way of tho alley of the sweetwater tho the south pass of the rocky mountains and the valley of blacks fork of green eiver was then commenced it established the important fact that the sum summits mits of all tho the passes of which surveys had been made in tho great ranges of those mountains havo have very vert nearly tho the same altitude alti tudo above tidewater tide tido water further examination sw ere made by the companas comp anys engineer in that region the details of m which inch have not been furnished to the department one of the most important of this companas comp anys surveys extends from great salt lake W wt west t to tho the humboldt valley between the and tho meridian of longitude traversing tho the great american desert although in binom om pleto it has resulted in the discovery dis covery of a line vath ath grades not exceed exceeding iii g sixty feet per mile from great sa salt it I 1 lako L 0 cit city y to the valley of the humboldt across tho the humboldt range of mountains a distance of miles for about ISO miles across the desert no fresh water was found by tho the engineer ho he is from his examinations that it can be obtained in ia tho the passes over cedar mountain on the eastern side of tho the desert and the first lango west of the beselt lc leaving alin g only sixty miles without fresh freshwater water tho th soil is admirably adapted ada apted to a fine lund roadbed road bed bcd the results of the survey aro are satisfactory to the company and show that tho the difficulties to be overcome are much less formidable than were anticipated VALUABLE 3 JEWELS STOLEN srole X the newark advertiser ad cruiser of december aa states that on Wednes wednesday dav last the iron sate belonging to st johns johnq loil lodge e of that city was ocene opened d ly by picking I 1 aching the ION lock and the ancient jewels consisting of the masonic insignia mado of solid silver v etero ere stolen their pecuniary value was wai wa i tho the least part of the loss since they had a historic and peculiar associations which m ancic cie prized by tho the members of cf the lodge far beyond any an estimate of their worth woral that could be mado made hy iri money they aro said to han iao 0 been sears 3 cars old and wei e used by general john X N cummings a ho u lias as master of the lodge before the revolution Ee during tho the war they were loaned to the army anny lodge at morristown presided over by washington and bic also used on the occasion of mitia 1 ting general Lafa lafayette yetto into tho the brotherhood of masons the circumstances of the robbery indicate that it was perpetrated by some one familiar with the place and home unworthy member of the fraternity is suspected of being tho the guilty party |