The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-26 00:00:00

.17 L 13ahr,

FI.:I4TIT:RGII, FED. 12.—The navigation of the Lower Elbe is now
Torfeetly re-established. The ships which have wintered at Cuxha-
er.'n have Cor the moat part come up to the city. 114 wen NI those direct
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BLARNEY.—In the highest part of Blarney Castle, in the
county of Cork, is a stone usually pointed out to .the visitor,
which is said to have the power of imparting to the person who
kisses it the unenviable privilege of hazarding, without a blush,
that species of romantic assertain which many term falsehood.
Hence the phrase of blarney, applied to such violations of accu-
racy in narration.—BßEWEß' S Beauties of Ireland.

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.—We saw at Buffalo numbers
of Indians of the Seneca, Tuscarora, and other tribes, the rem-
nants of that division of the aborigines called the Six Nations.
They were all of copper hue, and had long coarse black hair.
The woman wore loose cloth pantaloons, ornamented with
embroidery at the ankles, and large blue-bordered blankets
covered their heads and enveloped their persons. The ears and
necks of these bronzed damsels were bedizened with silver
ornaments, whilst their feet, cold and wet, had no other protec-
tion than soft shoes or moccassins manufactured by themselves
from the skins of the wild deer; 'but not having soles, the *ter
penetrates as in a sponge, rendering them extremely uncom-
fortable. Some of the squaws, as the wives of the the red men
are called, had infants or papoose in swaddling clothes braced
to boards, and carried on the back under the blankets. We
asked permission, or rather, as the squaw did not understand us,
we made signs that we wished to see her infant, and proceeded
to unfold the blanket. The little copper-faced brat being sud-
denly awoke, gave us each a look of suppise which I Shall not
soon forget, awl then set up a scream which pierced the ears of
all around. The men were attired in long frock coats and
trousers, and wore hats : most of them wore large red worsted
sashes around the body, as is the custom in some parts of the
south of Europe. During our stay at Buffalo; we made excur-
sions to the village of the Seneca tribe of Indians, which is
situate about three miles from that place : the road was so
bad, that it was scarcely passable either for waggons or persons
on foot. On the way thether, we met an Indian in a small
vehicle driven by an American boy. On asking the latter
the distance we were then from • the village, and happen-
ing to state that we were strangers and English, the Indian
jumped out of the waggon, and, to our great surprise, shook
hands with us very cordially; stating, in no very bad English,
that he had been in our country, and was delighted to see us.
On explaing to him the object of our pilgrimage, he insisted
upon being our guide, and, allowing the boy to proceed to
Buffalo, walked with us to his village. Upon further conver-
sations, we found we were indeed highly honoured in the person
our cicerone, who proved to be the nephew of the celebrated
chief, Old Red Jacket, then in the eightienth year of his age,
and since dead, to whom he promised we should be presnted
Thus escorted, and full of wigwam anticipations we visited
some of the cottages,, in which we were not a little disappointed,
as tourists, to find every thing in a comparatively advanced
stage of civilisation. In one of these humble habitations the
squaw, who could not speak a word of English, was highly
decorated with silver chains and other pendant ornaments;
and, in this gala attire, was busy making cakes of Indian meal,
while the papoose or infant lay sleeping.. The different articles
of furniture were such as are found in the cabins of white
settlers; but what more particularly attracted our attentions
among the movables, was the display of Birmingham tea-trays,
and blue and white Staffordshire crockery, which with us were
associated with such opposite picture of.rural life. Many of
the Indians are converted, or rather have been persuaded to
to -profess particular systems of Christianity; for how is it pos-
sible that the dogmas taught by the missionaries, and which
have been fertile subjects of dispute among the most learned,
from the first to the present century of the Christian era, should
be comprehend by the unlettered child of the forest ? Was
the pure morality of the Gospel alone inculated by practice
as well as precept, leaving speculative opinions to man's own
bosom; the result would probably be much more favourable
to virtue, and consequently to happiness. We were told that
the old chief of the tribe resolutely maintained his own reli-
gious opinions; and his nephew wisely declined any discussion
on the subject. This otherwise communicative individual in-
formed me, that the tract of land they occupied was ceded
to them by the state, together with a pecuniary compensa-
tion ; and he seemed to feel a degree of pride on declaring,
that nobody dated to cut down one of the trees on their little
territory without permission.--Three Years in North

BURNING IN EFFIGY.—An article in the Guardian of last
Saturday, has so highly offended the hand-loom weavers, that a
number of that body of men formed a procession on Monday, and
alter carrying two effigies of the editors of that paper about the
streets in the neighbourhood of Ancoats and Newton-lane, they
consigned them to the flames at New Cross. An oration, from
which the following, is an extract, was delivered on the occasion :
" Oh! all you people of Manchester, lo and behold, here are the
two editors of the Manchester Guardian, who have stated iu their
last week's paper, that the weavers are ,doing better than what
they have done for many years, and that there is no distress.
amongst those who are depending on the cotton manufactory;
and for this tissue of falsehoods—this deliberate statement of
lies, we, the suffering, insulted, and plundered weavers, hold them
up to public scorn, in effigy. We consign their bodies to the
flames; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Amen,
amen, sp be it."—Manchester Cowin: