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advent of the Spaniards, they had disappeared, ex- treatment has been steadily kept up since, till nearly
cept in Mexico. They seem, however, to have been two ounces had been given.
gathered into a nation, and to have maintained The symptoms continued with little or no appa-
themselves to a much later period in Kentucky than rent abatement till Sunday or yesterday, when they
elsewhere. The name means the " Dark and were considerably less marked. The fits occurred
Bloody Ground," and it was there, that the only less frequently, and with less severity. The _
unfor-
tradition remained of the extirpation of the prior tunate lady bad ceased biting herself, and had
inhabitants. We give entire the concluding re- sufficient knowledge of her situation to wrap her
marks on this subject in the Edinburgh Review:— arms up tightly in the bed clothes, when she felt
"It is proverbial among Transatlantic travellers the spasm coming on, to keep them out of danger.
that he who has seen one tribe has seen all, so Though very far from being out of danger, the
closely do individuals of every family resemble abatement of the symptoms has been so decided as
each other, notwithstanding their immense gco- to create some hope of her recovery, which, if
real-
graphical dissemination, and those differences of ized, will make this one of the most remarkable
climate which embrace the extremes of heat and cases on record. A great many physicians and
cold ; and after devoting a lifetime to the inves- hundreds of the people of the vicinity have visited
titration of their linguistic affinities, the late vene- her, and some of our city physicians, we under-
rable Albert Galatin arrived at the same conclo- stand, wiil visit her to-day.
sion. However differing in their vocabularies,'
he remarks, there is an evident similarity in the
structure of all the American languages.' From
whasevcr land the Aboriginal population of North
America proceeded— from Eastern Siberia, by the
passage of Behring's Straits, or by the Aleutian
Islands, or which we conceive to be much more
probable, from the Bactrian heights, or Hindus-
tan, by the Indian and Pacific Oceans—the in-
fluence of their genius, mythology, and civilisa-
tion has not wholly declined to this day. Hence
many have likewise been led to believe in the
unity of the American race. Without impeaching
the justice of this opinion, so far as it affects the
tribes of native Red Indians, we cannot but think
that the original occupants of the soil disappeared
long before the advent of the Spaniards. So far
as is now known, the highest civilised races at the
era of the conquest were restricted to the territory
falling within the 10th and 25th degrees of north
latitude, and to that smaller region which is
watered by the Rio Colorado and the Rio Gila,
and their tributaries. Every other portion of the
Continent, with one notable exception, was occu-
pied by indigent and semi-barbarous tribes, widely
scattered, and subsisting for the most part on
the produce of the chase. The exception was
Kentucky, bearing the ominous appellation of
the dark and bloody ground, which bad
long been shunned by every Indian with super-
stitions dread. According to the traditions of
the locality, the now attractive banks of the Ohio
had been the scene of a frightful carnage many cen-
turies before the arrival of the European. An
entire nation, both physically and morally distin-
guished from the red skins—white men—and who
had been settled in the country from time imme-
morial, were unexpectedly assailed and overwhelmed
by their enemies. The manifest incompletion of
several of the monuments in the valley betoken a
sudden cessation of labour on the part of their con-
structors, and thus far confirms the terrible reality
of the Indian legends. If those ill-fated people
were not the true Aborigines of the soil, they were
undoubtedly connected with them, as may be in-
ferred from the peculiarity of many of their struc-
tures, the relics exhumed from their tumuli, and,
above all, from their primeval mode of sepulture.
" In the absence of documentary proofs and posi-
tive evidence, it is extremely difficult, and often
impossible, to determine the aboriginal migrations
of a people. The primary immigrants of North
America are no exception to this general rule. They
arrived in the New World, we believe, by various
routes and at various epochs. That comparatively
narrow territory which stretches from the Pacific nua
Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, and which is so especially
rich in stupendous and highly-decorated monuments,
many of them bearing indisputable marks of the
_hoariest antiquity, was the first abode of the civi-
lised nations. Those nations, as Mr. Taylor argues
on a priori grounds, brought their civilisation with
Abbe them, it was not of indigenous growth ; and the
Brasseur de Bourbourg, who has laboured
long as a missionary in that part of the Continent,
a. s well as in the interests of ethnographical science,
Inclines to the opinion that the Mayas of Yucatan
are their degenerate descendants. Thence popula-
tion was diffused, and radiated through the immense
regions of the North. Almost the same combina-
tion of mounds, terraces, and pyramids is found
throughout the Valley of the Mississippi, as at
Copan, Palenque, and Uxtnal ; a fact which goes
far to prove that the inhabitants of the interior de-
rived their civil as well as their religious institu-
tions, and such knowledge of the arts as they pos-
sessed, from Central America. The one, no doubt,
was a modification of the other. By one of these
refluxes, which were so common in the early his-
tory of mankind, the tide of population returned to
its original source, but by a circuitous or north-
westerly channel, commingling in its passage with
several streams of later immigrants to the Continent
by Bhering's Straits, or the Aleutian Isles. Hence
the cause of those national changes and revolutions
which may be faintly traced on the face of the
most primitive monuments, and which are most
distinctly portrayed on the more modern ones. The
mild religious services of the first ages were
superseded by the sanguinary ritual in vogue at the
time of the conquest ; political domination had
completely succumbed to sacerdotal rule • the Inca
added to his other functions those of' supreme
pontiff. No doubt there were many intermigrations
of more or less importance, the order of which,
however, it is impossible to indicate. In connec-
tion with these we may remark, by the way, that
no existing tribe of Indians, located east of the
Mississippi, lay claim to the monuments surround-
ing them. According to their several traditions
they found them much in the same condition as
they now appear, when their forefathers, centuries
ago, arrived from the West and possessed them-
selves Old societies had utterly
perishedonlyf e ft
ahgtehe sebefore,extent
ofleavingytheir
dominions
posterity ignorant,butalso
not
o f
their very titles. The Atlantic sea-, but
from
New England to South Carolina, would seem to
have been but sparsely peopled till within a com-
paratively recent epoch. The
on that
than
slip of territory are much less m
remains
u ei nr
historical u
else-
where on the continent, and f
deduc-
tion almost valueless. Nearly ther
w hole of them
are the supposed works of the Iroquois and their
affiliated tribes, and do not possess, it is reported
au antiquity very far back of
the discovery.' "
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HYDROPHOBIA.

(From the Indianapoli4 Journal.)
Some eight weeks ago Miss Selina Eller, an in-
telligent young lady of 22 years, daughter of Mr.
Harvey Eller, residing at Beck's Station, on the
Peru Railroad, in Hamilton county, some 15 miles
north of this city, Was bitten by a rabid dog while
she was endeavouring to drive him out of the house.
The wound was ou the finger, and so very slight
that it excited no alarm, although the dog was
known to be mad. As usual in cases of hydro-
phobia she thought nothing more about the matter
until the morning of Monday, the 25th ult., when
on going to wash her face the touch of the water
" made her shudder," as she described it. The
fearful truth flashed on her instantly, but being a
lady of great self-command, she simply said to her
sister, " I am going to go mad ; I can't live ;" adding
that she would, however, " finish spinning the rolls"
she was engaged upon. She worked on during the
day with some increase of the horrible symptoms,
but nothing visible to others ; and the next morn-
ing, on sitting down to the table, she remarlred to
the family, " You must take that water from the
table, or I can't eat anything." She ate but a
little, and got up saying she would go to work
again.
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She continued through that day as before, but
with a decided strengthening of her repugnance I
to water, of which she said, " the very sight
cent a tingling feeling all through her." She
also complained that the gliStening face of
the clock affected her in the same way. On
Wednesday she was too far overcome to work, and
while standing on the floor speaking to some of the
family she began grinding her teeth, and directly
after fell down in a fit, the foam working out of her
mouth, her teeth gnashing, and her body frightfully
convulsed. Some of the younger children who were
with her at the time ran out in great alarm, and the
neighbours hurrying in found her on the floor near
the fire in the same terrible condition ; but she bit
so furiously at every one who touched her that it
was impossible to do anything with her. The fire
' was removed, so that she eight
not injure herself
by it, and she was left lying until the spasm had
passed off. She was then placed upon the bed, and
Dr. Rooker called in. When he arrived she was
again convulsed and senseless, uttering short, bark-
ing sounds, and snapping at everything that ap-
proached her. A bloody froth was constantly issu-
ing from her mouth, which she tried to spit at those
around her. Ile caused her to be tied down in the
bed, and proceeded to administer morphine to re-
lieve her agony.
In a lucid interval slie remonstrated, saying, g 4
must die. I know it, and I want to die in my senses,
so don't stupify me with medicine." After another
fit the doctor proposed another dose of morphine,
and at last she consented, but added, "you must
give it to me with water." But this remedy pro-
duced little effect. The awful paroxysms contin-
ued, with the same frighful suggestions of doggish
sound and the same frantic efforts to bite. She bit
her hands terribly, and bit pieces out of the pillow
and bed clothes. Dr. A. G. Ruddle was also
called in, but his assistance was as unavailing as
that of Dr. Rooker. This, we believe, was the
next day, Thursday, but at all events on that day
Dr. Rooker determined to try the effect of bro-
mide of potassium, which had been recommended by
some European physician in cases of hydrophobia.
Dr. huddle happening to have a small quantity
with him it was at once administered, and the