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mosphere of unpopularity, which to a certain extent, impairs his usefullness, and it may be doubted, whether it would not be better for the service, to put a new man, in his place, against whom no prejudice existed, to carry forward the work, begun by him.This is Maj. Sperrys opinion as well as my own, and he tells me he had sometimes ? forwarded his resignation to the Secty. of the A.M. Board: to be relieved by the end of the present quarter.
There are no indian schools here, at present,
partly due to the burning of the agency building last fall and I understand there never has been much progress made in this direction. I have directed a school to be opened, as soon as the new agency buildings are ready for occupancy, or suitable rooms could be procured among the old, if it was found to be unpracticable to get the children so far away from their village.
The danger of an attack on this village
by the Sioux Indians, perhaps well formulated,