The native American., 1837-08-26
the U. s. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
a GRAPHIC SKETCH.

"What . mass OF representatives. there are neIe'
ssys the Knickerbocker Magazine. sWhat singular
samples Of our vast country! Here sits Tennesaean,
there Missourian, educated among Buffaloes, ana q
nurtured In tie forest-as inmate with the passes OF
the Rocky mountains as the cit is with broadway
who lives with hunters and rappers have vexed every
hill, and who cares no more for Pawnee than pro-
fessed beau for brightp plumed belle. Here is man
from the praires, and there another from the sWaPs
and morasses whose blood the mosquitoes nave utterly
stolen away. There is sallow face from the rice
grounds, and here the flushed cheek from the noun
iains. and by his side from the pine grounds
land Of tar and turpentine. What people we are!
What country is this of ours! Wow wide in extent
how rich in production-how v3Nous IN beauty!
have asked in my travels, for the west IN the streets
Of the qneen Of the west-a fair city, which but as
yesterday was a wilderness. They smiled at my in
quiry, and said it among the shoosiers of lndi-
ana or the suckers of Illinois. Then journeyed
along. crossed great rivers and broad prairies, and
again asked for the west They said it was in Mis-
souri,. | arrived at the capital. They complained
that they were 'stoo far down east" But go, they
said, If you would the west days and days. and
hundreds and hundreds of miles up the Missourfar-
ther than from us TO New England and beyond the
Rocky mountains, and among the Snake Indians of
the Oregon, and you may find it, 1t the work
Of dozen years to find the west. and turned about
in despair. Indeed, have found no bounds to my
country. have searched for them for months, in al
most every clime-under the torrd Of Louisiana,
the land Of the orange and the olive and beneath the
cold sky Of Maine. have the rice-planer gath
ering rich treasures from bountiful soil, and the fish
erman anchorng his little bark the rocky Island,
dropping his hook as carefully if the ocean were
full Of pearls, and not of-mackerel have the
millman saving wood in all variety of forms, the
farthest soil Of New England; and have beheld the
wood floating down the Susquehanah, or the beau
tfu Alabama, in the strangest metamorphoses it may
be, in clock, regularly ticking off the time, in pa
perchance in button, and, for aught know, in a
taseless ham, or an unfragrant nutmeg! have never
been of the soil Of my own country; and vet have
seen the sun go down, ball of fire, without mo-
ment's notice, twilight fingng over rich, alluvial
lands, blooming with magnolias and orange trees-a
robe of gold; and again have stood upon the bare
rocks of cold cmes, and when the were pnched
by the early frost, Ihave marked the same vanishing
rays reflected from the leaves as if THOUSAND bids
of paradise were resting in the branches; and when
the clouds. streaming with red, ard purple, and blue,
tnged and tipped with the pencil of beauty, were
floating afar, like Tainbows in motion, as if broken
from their confinement-now mingng and interacng
their dyes, and gtterng arches, and anon sprink ed
over, and mellowing the whole heaven-then have
fancied that was indeed in fairy land where the
very forests danced in golden robes responding to the
setting the statue Of fabled memnon gave forth
its welcoming notes the ray of the morning payed
upon its summit. | have been where the dog star
RACES, scattering pestence in its tran-where the long
hangs from the tTees-where the pale faces and
sad countenances give admoniop that this is region
of death~I have stood by the wide prairie, and be-
held the green hilows rise and fall and the undula-
tons. chequered with sun light and shadow chasing
after the other afar The wide expanse. And
have gone amid the storms of winter, the high
hill, upon the oudcracking crust, amid the music Of
the merry sleigh bells. And here are the representa-
tives from all these regonshere in one grand coun-
cil-a speaking one language-all impelled by one
law! Oh. my country, my country! If our destiny
be always linked as one-if The same flag, with its
unon-never unfurled or defended but by freemen-
then poetry and prophecy, stretching to their utmost
annot pre- e.announce that destiny!'
WESTERN MOUNDS. The Fort Gibson (Mis-
sssppD Sentinel, contains an article with respect to
these singular remains. person by the name of
Powell, phrenoogist has opened some Of the mounds,
and upon examination Of Of the skulls found in
them, comes to the conclusion that the celebrated
Natchez tribe Of Indians and those who erected the
mounds, the same peope.-Ihe following ne
gives as his reasons: son the azoo river, fourteen
miles from Vicksburg, eight mounds. six of them
so arranged to form circle-the others are some
distance removed and contain crania OF the same form
At this place the French built fort and church-and
at this place. as at Nachcz, the French massa-
cred; with the crania Of this place also found French
beads. In mound four miles above Vicksburgh,
obtained the form Of skull also in several mounds
in Virginia. These people were from Peru have
female skull taken from the temple OF the sun,
near Lima which must have been deposited there abont
three hundred years since. have cast of the same
head. This skull resembles the female skulls which
/ have obtained from these mounds. For it must be
remarked that the female heads Of the Natchez and
monumental Indians not deformed by artificial
compression. These female crana are unlike the fe.
male crania Of the present tribes. The Peruvians
built mounds, 50 did these people. The Peruvans
worshipped the sun, did these people, according to
the French history These people were agricultural.
All their remains found on the most fertile soil.
They were not military. No warlike implements are
found with them or abont their abitaons and besides
if there had been they would not all have been de-
stroyed."
There are several mounds in and around Kalamazoo,
some Of them of large dimensions. One or two have
been opened, and quantity of human bones snppos-
ed to be those of the Indians, found in hem also
row heads, made OF flint stone, and earihenwae have
been dug out of them.
FRENCH POLITENEsS. In consequence Of its
having been made known TO the French chamber Of
deputies that rule existed in the house of represen
tatives Of the United States, giving the privilege Of
seats on the floor within the hail, during the stRgs
of congress, members Of foreign legislatures, they
were resolved manifest the civility to members
Of the American congress The difficulty how
the affair should be managed to place Mr. White, Of
Florida, on footing with their members at Washing
80 tbere were No priveued seats within the hall