The Arkansas advocate., 1831-03-02

of it then require him to bring the letter named
 and kept sending til the rightletter was brought. I Afterwards all were jumbled together, and the children were required to set them in alphabet
 ical order.
 During this period Occum lived in q house,
 covered with mats of flags. His abode was changed twice every year, for the convenience
 Of being near the planting ground in the sum
 mer and the wood in the winter. lie was very industrious, not only keeping school, but plant ] ing and cultivating bis own corn, potatoes and
 beans; providing food for his family also with his 1 fish-hook and his gun. The feathers ofthe fowls
 he killed ssmore than paid for his powder and shot" He also bound old books for Easthamp- ton people, made wooden spoons, stocked guns, and worked on ceder to make pails, piggins, churns, &e. He was ordained as minister of the Gospel by the Presbytery on Long Island, August @, l759.
 h 1865, Mr. Wheelock, forthe purpose ofpro- noting the interest of Moors Indian Charity School, at Lebanon, (now Columba) sent him aud Rev. Nathaniel Whitaker of Norwich, to Great Britain. Between February I6, l766, when he preached his first sermon in England, and July the 9, i767, whenhe preached lnya- rious parts of the kingdom, between three and four hundred sermons. His visit to Great Bri- tain had an important bearing on the establish ment of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, whether Dr. Wheelock removed Moor's school from Lebanon. Dr. Dwight, who had heard him preach, has left behind him an honorable testimony of his talents and pie y.
 Joseph Johnson was another Mohegan Indi- an, of greater talents than MT. Occum. He was born at Mohegan about the year I750, and was educated at Mr. Wheelock's school. At the age Of i5 he was sent as schooimaster to the Six Nations of Indians in N. N., and was there , years. Afterwards She wahdcred,a as he says,-'up and down in this delasive world.n Returning from whaling voyage in TIT, he repaired to his farm at Mohegan, and there, in time of sickness brought on by his vices, he be- came a christian convert by reading the New Testament and Baxter's Saints Rest. After wards he was licensed to preach, and was for years Missionary in the State of New York. Some of his manuscript sermons arc well writ ten and able.
 Capt. Joseph Johnson, of Mohegan, was. as is supposed, the father of Joseph Johnson, tue Missionary. He was an active officer in the French war of l757. In this year, Aug. 2d, he received at the camp at fort Edward, a com mission from It. Col. John Young of the Roy
  l iel Webb to command a scout of 26 Indians, and proceed to Lake George and Tincoderagc 1 John Cooper, the richest man among the Mo hegans, possessing yoke of oxen and two COWS,
 was in 1903 their religious teacher.
 l The Royal family of Uncas is, as the writer
 believes, now extinct. Owaneco, his eldest son,
 commanded a party in expedition against the INarragansetts, in l676 John Uncas was the
 grandson of Uncas. Sam the son of John died
 in TAI, in his 2Sth year. Pomp JTncas, son Of Benjamin and Ann, died in TAO in his Dist year. Elizabeth Joqub, daughter of Mahom- ct, great grand child to the first Uncas, died in 1926, aged 27years.
 1 Such is the pref history of the last end of a once powerful tribe of aborigincs. The story of their courage and doclit,-their demosticinter-
 course and their border wars has already be-
 come the property of Playwrights and Roman cers: fiction is moro attractive than history, and
 the least that the Novelist can dofor the "Poor
 Indian" is to speak kindly ofhis virtues.-Bos-
 Ion Courier.
 l British Tourists, &c.-We see it stated, in
 one of the late New York papers, that cele-
 brated British novelist intends shortly to make
 the tour of the United States-and already, in-
 direct solicitations arethrown out to him. that he
 will give good report of as-of our customs,
 manners institutions, laws and morals--in the
 Book of Travels, which he will of course pub-
 fish on his return home. With just such four
 ish of trumpets did some of the bakers at the
 heels of would-be great men, herald the ap-
 proach and progress of Capt. Basil HaIi-and l in like manner, we suspect, will their serle
 conduct be rewarded-that is, by narrative,
 full of insulting reflections upon our national
 character, ,misrepresentations of facts, and down ] right falsehoods. But, of what consequence 1 is it, what British tourists say of our manners
 and morals, that such ridiculous efforts are
 made to propitiate them in advance? We ne
 yer could rationally account for the keen sensi-