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their condition. No material change appears to have taken place in the Brothertown Tribe, (excepting that improvements have been made in the erection of several barns-) but as heretofore some are sober and industrious and others the reverse The same remark is applicable to the men of the Stockbridge Tribe. The South settlement of the Oneida Tribe affords encouragement by their improvement in agriculture, and it is hoped that the injury to their morals which is produced by the part which they and thelate other Tribes have taken in the late war will gradually be retrieved, for it was a satisfaction to remark that their young men manifested less disposition to enter into the army than the elder chiefs, and their stay was not long.