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ing, ana IN Ireland also, but IN Eng'anu
and Scotland there will hardly be an aver
age crop. Wheat. therefore, has advanced.
The manufacturing districts in Engla
were every day improving. American
stocks were also improving, and upon them
there are some slight advances, but the
London market is so full Of them that the
quantity creates suspicion, il not alarm.
JOHN ROSS AND THE INDIANS.
The following passage, says the Fha-
delpha Inquirer, from the New York COR
respondence of the Montreal Courier, is
not without interest, especially in connex-
ion with the recent intelligence from Gen.
Gaines. The project alluded to, appears
rather Quxotic, and yet nearly all impor-
tant projects seem so at first, except to the
few enthusiasts with whom they originate
The Indians have been sadly wronged,
ruthlessly robbed and yet, the future is
pregnant with many similar scenes Of out.
rage and oppression. The march of CHILL
cation is onward-and so is the progress of
plumber!
My present object is to speak of John
Ross, the chef Of the Cherokees. 1t is
his object, and he makes no secret Of it, to
| those with whom he is on familiar foot
ing, to 60 among all the tribes of Indians
and have "taIk, ITO tell them hat they
have warred with each other long enough
that they must now unle-it is The will Of
the Great Spirt-or they will be swept,
away. The white men are advancing, and
though they now say they will not encroach
upon the lands marked out for the red men,
IN few years they will want to remove
them again. When Ross has gained his
object of uniting the various tribes of his
: brethren in one common interest, he then
proposes that they should all abandon the
NlountaDs-in which there are numerous
flats, and delightful pasturage, buffalo, &c
and let the white men take possession OF
. all the low county to the Rocky Mountains
but permit them to encroach no farther
but, with the immense forces they will pos
sess, in the Businesses 10 the mountains
+ fight for the last relic Of their own, theil
native land, if it be necessary, to the death
There is something very noble in thi;
Indians resolve But Ross is no ordinary
man. He is one Of those apparently mark
. ed out by nature for great and lofty enter
prise. Should he carry out his designs
, and should further wrong be attempted OF
d the hunted lords of the soil--their stand a
: bay will be terrible. Our government ha
. taken the scattered tribes of Indians, will
that singular infatuated policy which char
acterises all its dongs, and placed them al
together. They are now, likewise. as the,
IS they have been before, alive to their inter
a ests, versed in the tactics of our warfare
6 and enabled to compete with Us in inslan
# ces successfully. Ross has another idea
!, which shows how deeply calculating he
@ in regard to his people and brethren. II
q proposes to purchase Of Mr.. Ca,lin his In
!. dian gallery, and to take it with him to III
d Rocky Mountains, there TO build tempt
=, for its reception, and invite the warriors c
is all the tribes to visit it. There they wi
see. many Of them, their own portraits uE
# on the same wall. He will tell them tina
\, the Great Spirit created The great ned
,r cine man, (Catlipj to bring together, q
,f they see themselves on the wall, in ordc
re that they shall night each other no more
n but be united. He will make it grea
10 temple and none but those who have dis
ID tingulshed themselves will be allowed t
l.. enter it, and that only in the performanc
~ of religious rites and ceremonies. Tn
"a would unite the Indian heart and soul =
y Mystery is the key stone to all their az
A., tons Such mystery would make thos
r. who had ragged with the enmity Of tiger
peaceable as lambs. You have now SON
lde of the Cherokee chief John Rosa.
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