r known as the neutral
ground and annual annuities for twenty-seven years of $10,000 in specie
and a further sum, not to exceed $3,000 annually, for the purposes of
maintaining a farm and a school for the education of Winnebago children
during the same period of twenty-seven years.

TREATY WITH SACS AND FOXES.

After concluding the treaty with the Winnebagoes, and for the purpose of
making a lasting peace with the Sacs and Foxes, these Commissioners
held a treaty at the same place, and a week later, on the 21st day of
September, with chiefs, head men and warriors of that confederate tribe.
The Commissioners demanded, partly as indemnity for expenses incurred in
the late war with Black Hawk's band and to secure future tranquility, a
cession of a large portion of their country bordering on the frontiers.
In consideration thereof the United States agree to pay to said
confederate tribes annually, for thirty years, $20,000 in specie; also,
to pay Messrs. Farnham and Davenport, Indian traders at Rock Island, the
sum of $40,000, to be receipted for in full of all demands against
said Indians. And, further, at the special request of said confederate
tribes, the United States agree to grant, by letters patent, to their
particular friend, Antoine LeClair, interpreter, one section of land
opposite Rock Island and one section at the head of the rapids of the
Mississippi river.

THE CITY OF DAVENPORT, IOWA.

This beautiful city now covers that "Section of land opposite Rock
Island" that was donated by treaty to Antoine LeClair by the Sacs and
Foxes, and also three or four more sections. At that time it was wholly
uninhabited, the Foxes having removed their village from that point
some three years before. As a town site it was regarded by strangers and
travelers on steamboats as the most beautiful west of the Mississippi
between St. Louis and St. Paul, and now, with its twenty-three thousand
inhabitants, elegant residences, magnificent public buildings, fine
churches, schoolhouses, extensive manufactories, and large business
blocks, it Stands unrivalled as a beautiful city. It has ten miles of
street railroads, affording easy access to all parts of the city. It has
two daily papers, the _Gazette_ and _Democrat_, (morning and evening)
both ably conducted; and also a German daily and two weeklies. The river
is spanned by an elegant bridge that was built at the cost of nearly
a million dollars, which is used by the various