Show abour THE INDIANS tho the volume now issued by the oon sus office to is a splendid quarto of about seven bu hundred adred pages illustrated by lith lithography ogra abr mape anil and other plates platea designed to show allow the condition of the various tribes of indish their customs habitations etc the olm whether the indiana are actually dying out and ao if so BO at what annual rate to la difficult to an ewer owing to the necessarily incomplete reports formerly obtained tati present number dumber br bf the given as a and this thle show bow a the independent in anif its issue of may the census of 1880 of more than baa while the apparent doors decrease sim in libe mi previous decade was hut but little over As jong ago air a indian population was given as 68 while to ID 1860 1850 it was wail stated to be ba over probably the lat two censuses sus are more nearly correct than any preceding one acid from these the conclusion would seem to be warranted that the I 1 indiana are dee ing at the tb rate or about a year it if this is ie corn corneel rel in another forty years yean the whole abo race would be practically annihilated la in the report an attempt to Is made mad to illustrate the number at ian jan wages aage or rather of amoust the be american and the tion of these groups te in the united states canada and mexico from this it appears chak the tb stock okapi oc api sear deafly iyall all of canada from the Ati atlantic antic tu we iv eluding luding tt Theal sores of tbt outturn fealt of f hudson bay lowth to lo seat eat ot of Us fa BAUsis sippi and aad benh 0 1 the Carolin awand atao 94 lawrenc Lawr nc river excepting except Mig new borhi parti part of sylvania 4 aad a put part of ohio which beloise to the iroquoian sto cir that TB rl louan embraces the tb territory terri west weilt of odthe the minstrel api north of texa extending to we be canadian line alij including a large martof and blon montana tans the rusts of tits states batea of the be pacific slope alope excepting california and washington arre the ground fit 0 tits the sto took 1 ek including shu ebone Banno oko utes and plute th tah stock I 1 bound io in texes part oll of nebraska and a portion of nuran dakota its it 18 upp oed that twenty one dif ferest cookk for worly merty represented la 12 ahr hatate have now entil of the indian n BOW living jmar IDS ASO MO re UM jolted adf waked overt oven tee and ad teM biam tho aft ow york duji ad the be five olvi civilized civilised civili used sed whoa of at indian territory Terri tery lo 10 afa aea of the indica is i bivien me ore of by and 27 2617 by ibe cader abe voicy et 0 allotting allot lands to fa millem millot mente have bow be wabe sad aad u cupoo po a those lande families are jiving and euganeo in the work of fulti besides them there br are other indian fam lau llla silles engaged in ID farming or in civilized and it appears that upward of indiana I 1 ad ana wear citizens olt izena drosis dreu wholly io in part rl can read and use enough for ord loary leary purposes eee ass indication of civilization teore are dwelling dwell log houses occupied by indiana it is ia a just bat remark that these results are by no onesin meane with the exception of the POne erd of U dab early settlers of at this country frequently adopted a policy of extermination rather than iban civilization it being a foregone conclusion that no other solution lution Bo of the it druian dian question was practicable there are however signs of cf the dawn of a more humane bulene policy i and its adoption way may yet bemoans be meane of saving we be ancient race from total extermination |