The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-19 00:00:00

BEGGING.

A number of men, women, and children were brp)lght up
this day, to answer charges f begging in the strcets,'npriio-
tice which has recently become very common' fitid Very
annoying. In most of these cases the -parties vietd., com-
mitted to gaol for various short .periods; but,sumn
on inquiry being made, were found to to objects..o
misseration, from the state of • destitution to l'vliielnhey
were reduced. Amongst these cases was that OP :a: poet
widow with six children, living in a cellar. - One• of 'the chil-
dren, a little boy, had been found begging, and was placed
in the bar. His mother appeared, and stated that they :were
in a state of great want. A. police Officer accompanied her
to the place, and reported that her story was !rue. They
lived in a miserable cellar, with a few . shavings in a corner
for a bed. They had had little
.cr nothing to eat for two
days, and had only then got a few potafoes Which they were
boiling. Mr. Rushton ordered the boy to .be, given to his
mother, telling her to beware of sending him out to beg ;.and
the case being represented to Mr. Evans, he said he should,
relieve thein.

INDIAN VILLAGE.—As soon as this introductory feast
was concluded, we accompanied the chiefs to the village,
which was about twelve miles a-head of us ; at length we
came in sight of it, and a more interesting or picturesque
scene I never beheld. Upon an extensive prairie gently slo-
ping down to a creek, the winding course of which was
marked by a broken line of wood here and there interspersed
with a fine clump of trees, were about five thousand savages,
inclusive of women and children ; some were sitting under
their buffalo-skin lodges lazily smoking their pipes; while
the women were stooping over their fires busily employed in
preparing meat and maise for these indolent lords of the
creation. Far as the eye could reach were scattered herds
of horses, watched (or, as we should say in 'Scotland,
"'tented") by urchins, whose whole dress and equipment
was the slight bogy and arrow, with which they exercised
their infant archer'y upon the heads of the taller flowers, or
upon any luckless blackbird perched near them. Here and•
there might be seen some.gay young warrior ambling along.
the heights, his painted form partially exposed to view as his
bright scarlet blanket waved in the breeze; while his small
fretful horse was scarcely to be recognised under the Variety
of trappings with which the vanity of his rider had tricked
him out ;—near him might be seen another naked savage,
without a saddle, and his only bridle a thong round the
horse's head, galloping at full speed, and waving in his ex-
tended right hand a laryette,' with which be was chasing
some refractory mule or runaway steed, who had escaped
from his gang: while the banks of the stream were alive with
the garrulous voices of women, some washing themselves,
their clothes, or their infants, others carrying water to the
camp, and others bearing on their backs a load of wood, the
portage of which no London coalheaver would have envied.
them.--Murray's North America,