To the Editor of the Times and Seasons

SIR:-It may not be uninteresting to many of your readers, to peruse a sketch of the Red-Men of the western wilderness. From a report

of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the Executive Departments of the Government of the United States, many important facts are gleaned, relating to the Indians, both as to numbers and habits, and progress, and expenses. It is generally known, that our government has been engaged for some years, in removing and locating the remnant of the tribes of Indians, left among our citizens in the states and teritories [territories], to, and upon a more congenial, and better adapted space for hunting, and husbandry, where, by degrees, these noble "relics of a once mighty people," might gradually grow into civilization, arts, science, agriculture, manufactures, virtue, national importance, and religion. The appearance, however, of a very speedy advance, from Indian to English, or American habits, customs, manners, improvements, refinement and intelligence, is not, by far so prominantly [prominently] perceptible, as their imitation of the pioneer vices. The improvement is hardly equal to the amount of money expended for removing, for agents, mechanics, teachers, preachers, &c. &c. As to numbers the reports will range about as follows:

Tribes. population.

Cherokees, .......................................................................................25,000

Choctaws, ........................................................................................15,000

Creeks, ...........................................................................................20,000

Senecas & Shawnees, ............................................................................500

Quapaws, ............................................................................................500

Sacs & Foxes, ............................................................................ .....7,000

Sioux. ............................................................................................23,000

Osages, ............................................................................................4,300

Chippewas, .......................................................................................4,000

Pawnees, ........................................................................................12,000

Camanches [Comanches], ..................................................................20,000

Pagans, ..........................................................................................30,000

Appaches, ......................................................................................20,000

Assinaboins [Assiniboins]. ................................................................15,000

Grosventures [Gros Ventres], ............................................................17,000

Crows, ............................................................................................7,000

Eutaws, ..........................................................................................19,000

Black feet [Blackfeet], .................................................................... ...30,000

Total, ......................................................................................... 269,300

Yet remaining East to be removed,..........................................................25,000

Making an aggregate of......................................................................294,300

The commissioner's report, however allows the Indian population in the United States and teritories[territories], to be 333,000.

This, I think does not include those now occupying the space west of the Rocky Mountains.

Thus you have a glimpse of the lights and shades of the aboriginees [aborigines] of the west, in their low estate, showing that the wilderness does not yet "blosom [blossom] ast [as] the rose," although the signs of the times would indicate, that the time is near when the mountains will drop down new wine, and Jacob's face will not wax pale. P.