Star.
London, England, 1827-10-27 00:00:00

DINNER TO THE OSAGES.

FOOM ran PAM Cornucopias:me OF " Tel MOW rums."
I have been favoured with the following account of
a dinner patty, at which the Osages were present. It is
!loin the pen of one who has contributed more than,
puthaps, any man now living, to the advancement of
'braille and civilization throughout the world; and,
mere it only upon this account, it could not fail to be
mad with feelings of the deepest interest :
'. The monthly dinners of .Societe de la Revue Ettcyclope.
clique, established for these nine years at Paris, have sac.
enssively assembled at the same table distinguished men
of all nations. It is a species of institution which draws
together, in amicable connection, a number of hench-
men and of foteigners, in the same way as the Rem
itself approximates the inhabitants of the globe, by
scientific and literary communications, renewed every
month, and opens to them a central school of mutual
instruction, where old prejudices, old enmities, and old
tivalry, which separate nations, may be effaced and de,
sttoyed. The great truth proclaimed by Christianity is
here recognized and applied—that turn are brethren,
that one spirit of fraternity, and reciprocal benevolence,
ought to unite all the members of the great family of
Adam ; and that, whatever bad been the land of their
birth, the colour of their skin, their language, their cus-
toms, their political institutions, their religious belief,
they ought to love each other and to help each other.
The exchange of mutual good offices, like that of the
productions of the soil, and of physical and intellectual
labour, is aft uitful source of riches and of well being
to nations and to individuals. This truth, which ele-
vates the soul and gives comprehension to the under-
standing, is found (it we may so say) in a clearer light,
and applied in a new way, in the numerous and chosen
assemblage of which we are about, very briefly, toque-
sent the principal points and characteristic features....
It *as curious to observe the approximation of maay
men the most highly respectable in European civiliza-
don, with those dcmi•savages, who have come from
the banks of the Missouri, and who picture to our eyes
the early infancy of society. Four Osages only, the
Chief, the Dark Spirit the Big Soldier, and the Young
Soldier,accompanied by Mt, David Delannay, a French-
man by birth, and a Colonel in the Ametican army,
and by their interpreter, named Paul, fixed at once the
attention of the assembly that was assembled to receive
them. The two female Osages, Gritounia and My-
anga, who were both indisposed, could not accompany
their compatriots. One of them, it is said, is famous
in her tribe as an improvisatrice.The costume of the
Osages is well known among us, since(
,' the theatres. It consists of a mantle
black or blue, hung round their
chest entirely naked, which, while
or rather bronze colour, contributes
tain air of dignity, not untui.e.l
almost sombre physiognomy.
table in the following order—,
young Lady, a skilful singer, and

Pace they appeared at I
sande or woollen cloak,
shoulder/ leaving the
le it seteok their copper
utes to give them a car.
,41 to their serious abd
They were placed at
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nd his iaterpretat

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