The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-10 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. B.—The Lord Bishop of Ely has
been pleased to collate the Rev. Edward Baines, M.A.,
examining Chaplain to his Lordship, Rector of Clip-
stone, in Northamptonshire, and late Fellow and Tutor
of Christ's College, in this University, to the Rectory of
Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire. The rectory of Clip-
stone so vacated, is in the gift of the Master and Fellows
of arist's College.
The Rey. Betheley Addison, 8.A., has been appointed
minister to Bedford Chapel, Charlotte-street, Blooms-
bury, London.
'the Rev. John Shaw, M.A., late Fellow of Jesus Col-
lege, has been presented to the Vicarage of Stoke Pogis,
Bucks, vacant by the cession of the Hon. and Rev. T. G.
Osborne • patron, Lord Godolphin.
The Rev. John Hampden Gurney, of Trinity College,
has been appointed Chaplain to the Lutterworth Poor-
law Union, in the county of Leicester.
The Rev. Mr. Gibbs, Dean and Fellow of Caius Col-
lege, and the Rev. W. Gleadall, Fellow of Catherine-
ball, Assistant-minister of the Church in Regent-street,
and one of the preachers at the Magdalen Hospital, were
admitted candidates for the vacant living of Christ
Church, Newgate-street, in the gift of the Governors of
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, at the last meeting of the'
Committee of that Institution. The Rev. G. Eveyard,.
the Curate, and the Rev. R. Lewis, of Magdalen-hall,
Oxford, and I\liuister of St. Peter's, Southwark, were
also admitted candidates, The living is worth about'
6001. a-year.

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years, to celebrate the sth
LISTUREANCE AY LEWES.---"it, has been the
opposite the'l64ii
ball at Lewes, and letting off fireworks in the. ;pnblie
pofracticeat.
November,Le wbeys,mfaokrinmganay
bonfire ,
in some instances houses having been accidentally, set
streets. Numerous accidents having taken pla,p,(wa4d,
fire to, several of the.respectable inhabitants applied to
the police to stop the nuisance. llandhills:wsre;issiled,
cautioning . parties against the practice, amt a number
of special constables sworn in to assist the East Sussex
constabulary. Notwithstanding these u.easures ' had
been taken, ou Friday evening last an immense mob as-
sembled opposite the Town-hall, most of them armed
with bludgeons. In a short time a quantity of faggots,
straw, and tar-barrels, were brought into the middle of
the street, and set lire to. The police, headed.by Fagan,
lawlessconip le t ecareer until nearly
the Superintendent, endeavoured to stop the proceed-
ings, when the mob made a most desperate attack on
them,knocking most of them down with their bludgeons.
Fagan received such severe wounds on the back part of
his head, that he was obliged to be led away. Several
of the constables, in addition to blows, got severely
burnt.
.possession of the
street,
two o'clock the following morning. During the time
the thoroughfare was completely stopped, and the
coaches and other vehicles had to take a circuitous route
to pass the town. Several of the mob known have been
and continued i nobobtatihneeidr
since apprehendd, and have undergone an examination
before the Magistrates at Lewes.
MURDER IN SHEFIP.IELD. ' 1
---About mid-day on
Sunday, two men, of the names of Stringer- and Rogers,
who are near neighbours, were: qUarrelling near the
Brown Sow, Red-cross, when Rogers stabbed Stringer
in the most brutal manner aboutthe side and neck, so as
to let out his bowels, and pierce the neek;gnite through.
Stringer died on the forenoon of yesterday, about eleven
o'clock, up to which hour he lingered-JAl:tit-Nit agony.
There are strange reports .connected With- thist Wow',
tion, implicating both parties, !is,Well ns twolother indi-
viduals, in a robbery at l-keele_yuMA *44 ;that the
quarrel arose about.. the divisionof the spoil. i Rogers's
wife was the more immediate . occasion of the awful
act. Roeers, however, is in •custodyy, and the whole
atrair rill be investigated. . •

LITERATURE.
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CATLIN'S MANNERS AND CUSTOMgAF

THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
Two Vols, 1841. liqvi9
.As the historian of the "red race" of Au eript4
as the biographer of a nation which is rapidly,
disappearing from the earth, and whose very ex-
istence and customs will soon become matter of
doubt, the author of these volumes stands in the
important light of one who has snatched their
memory from oblivion, who has fixed and-pre-
Served them for future time, and who has perpe-
tuated in his pages their lives, their dress, their
amusements', and their worship.
Voyager, historian, and tourist, Mr. Catlin ad-
mirably combines the capacities of each. • Bold
and adventurous in his youth, his restless and en-
terprising spirit little brooked the dull ploddings
of the law in a Connecticut office, and a circum-
stance Occurred at this period which decided his
after life. A handful of noble Indians, wrapped
in their pictured robes, and their brows plumed
with the wat eagle; suddenly arrived in the city
at which he wad staying. He was smitten with
the bold, intrepid,step, the proud deportment of
N ature's man : Im.e inquired of this people : they
were of the ",Far West;" the sound of this dis-
tant region rang like romance in his ear; he be-
came enthusiastic," and the " Far West," with its
stately figures, incessantly haunted his imagi-
nation : v. •

At Buffalo a steamboat was landing 400 passengers,
and twelve days out—" Where from ?" " From the
West." In the rich state of Ohio, hundreds were selling
tlieir farms and going—to the West. In the beautiful
city of Cincinnati, people said to me "Our town has passed
the days of its most rapid growth, it is not far enough
West." In St. Louis; 1,400 miles west of New York, my
landlady assured me that I would be pleased with her
boarders, for they were nearly all merchants from the
" West." I there asked, Whence come those steam-
boats, laden with pork, honey; hides; &e.?
From the West.

Whence those ponderous bars of silver, which those
men have been for hours shouldering and putting on
board that boat ?

They come from Santa Fee, from the West.
Whence goes this steamboat so richly laden with dry-
goods, steam-engines, &c. ?
She goes to Jefferson city.
Jefferson city ?—W i here s that ?
Far to the West.
And where goes that boat laden down to her gunDels,
the Yellow Stone ?

She goes still farther to the West.
go the West."
Accordingly, carrying his canvass to the Rocky
Mountains—the first artist who had ever set out
on such a work, Mr. Catlin visited in the space
of eight years, no less than 48 tribes, containing
5,000 souls, and has made several thousand
paintings of the actual persons and scenes them-
selves, engravings from the originals of which
are scattered to an unprecedented extent over
the present. vo'.uines.
At a distance of 3,500 miles from his native
soil, Mr. Catlin found among the red races of
mankind, and the regions of their inheritance,
fresh and. glowing scenes for his notice and ani-
madversions. He mingled with the tribes who
dwelt amid the plains and forests, with the Black-
feet, the Crows, the Sioux, the IVlandans, and a
host of other petty nations; he conversed fami-
liarly with their chiefs and sachems, their doc-
tors and their braves ; he accompanied them in
their baffalo-hunts and expeditions • his fever as
a

Then, said I, "I'll

sportsman was roused arid satisfied by shooting
ie swans and pelicans of their lakes, and the
deer, antelopes, and elks of their deserts; their
games and mysteries were constantly enacted
before him ; he slept in their wigwams, and
shared with them their food. From such it
must be evident that English readers will find
his book circumstantial and accurate, by warrant
of his long experience and intimate acquaintance.
Among the many curious facts which abound
in these pages, the following custom of the As-
sinneboins of boiling their meat, and from which
they derive their name, is singular:—
When they kill meat, a hole is dug in the ground about
the size of a common pot, and a piece of the raw hide of
the animal, a 3 taken from the back, is put over the hole,
and then pressed down with the hands close around the
sides, and filled with water. The meat to be boiled is
then put in this hole or pot of water ; and in a fire,
which is built near by, several stones are heated to a
red heat, which are successively dipped and held in
the water until the meat is boiled ; from which singular
and peculiar custom, the Ojibbeways have given them the
apellation of Asinneboins or stone boilers.
This custom is a very awkward and tedious one, and
used only as an ingenious means of boiling their meat, by
a tribe who was too rude and ignorant to construct a ket-
tle or pot.
Mr. Catlin's account of the Mandans—a peen-

liar race, who never bury their dead, but place
the bodies on slight scaffolds in the open air, a
little higher than human hands can reach, and
just out of the way of wolves and dogs, so leaving
them to moulder and decay—affords many sin-
gular traits : among others their utethod of swim-
ming

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The mode of swimming amongst th'e Mandans, as well
as amongst most of the other tribes, is 'quite different
from that practised in those parts of the civilized.world
which I have had the pleasure yet to visit. The Indian,
instead of parting his hands simultaneously under the
chin, and making the stroke outward, in a horizontal di-
rection, causing thereby a serious strain upon the chest,
throws his body alternately upon the left and the right
side, raising one arm entirely above the water and reach-
ing as far forward as he can, to dip it, whilst his whole
weight and force are spent upon the one that is passing
under him, and, like a paddle, propelling him :don.. -
whilst this arm is making a half circle, and is being raised
out of the water behind him, the opposite arm is describ-
ing a similar arch in the air over his head, to be dipped
in the water as far as he can reach before, him, with the
hand turned under, forming a sort of bucket, to act most
effectively as it passeS in its turn underneath him.
By this bold 'and powerful mode of swimming, which
may want the. grace that many would wish to see,*l am
quite sure, frgra-,the experience I have bad, that much
of the fatigue and strain upon the breast and spine are
avoided, and "thit'a'man will preserve his strength and
his breath much longer in this alternate and rolling mo-
tion, than he can in the usual mode of swimming in the
polished world.
Polygamy among the Sioux and other tribes is
allowed, and no way censured. The son of the
great chief Shoo-de-ga-cha distinguished himself
by taking four wives in one day. This bold and
original step suddenly raised him into notice and
importance. The astonishment of the Mandans
at toile author's representing them on canvass fur-
nishes a touch of unsophisticated Indian na-

tire

They pronounced me the greatest medicine-man in the
world, for they said I had made living beings—they said
they could .see their chiefs alive in two places—those
that I had made were a little alive—they conld see
their eyes move—could see them smile and laugh, and
that if they could laugh they could certainly spe;l:, if
they should try, and they must therefore have some life
in them.

The squaws generally agreed, that they had dis-
covered life enough in them to render my medicine too
great for the Mandans; saying that such an operation
could not be performed without taking away from the
original something of his existence, which I put in the
picture, and they could see it move, could see it stir.
Among the sceneries of nature, the author re-
joices in a succession of delightful pictures, whose
tranquil happiness, where disturbed at all, was
disturbed by man alone : man only had made
man wretched : the " pale faces," with their
whiskey, their small-pox, and their bayonets, had
made twelve millions of Red men victims.
Cruelly as this poor race has been maligned, our
author stands up in its defence; his long resi-
dence and truthful character speaks volumes; be
avows these persecuted beings to be brave, ho-
nourable, and religionS; and elsewhere avers that
"-tinder all circumstances of exposure, no Indian
eVer betrayed him, struck him a' blow, or stole
from, him a, shilling's worth of his.property."
The fast perishing races of the aboriginal world

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have found a benevolent advocate in Mr.
lie has travelled faithfully and far : he has
cloSely scanned, and thereby fairly potutrayed
the destructive influences which, on every part
of the frontier, are operating to the extinction of
this race: he regrets with a noble lamentation
the dreary prospects of these fading tribes, and
with the zeal of the Christian and philanthro-
pist, seeks, though we are afraid when it is too
late, to engage the sympathies of Europe and
America in their behalf.