New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-08-24
aisrsllauifs.
From the Otsego Republican
lights and Shadows of Prairie Life.


hamlet of 90 houses situated two miles cuH oil ~.
juncre Of Cedar River with the iowa The river Is
fordablc in many places below the junction. 50
of Juno n ANAL steamer .3assed up Indian s'iA7
miles above Iowa City, called FoweshleF H.. .Io,p
was iustly deemed an important event by the H.,
IL Iowa as settles the mooted question Oh - Tho ouI,
of thu. river for at least six months OF the w. i,s,
difficulties are the sand bars and the 2 ,,b
n L,L,l.ss H.. nayigabIc al least TWO inoh'H9
for the largest boats that on the "'s Ut. -
between the Iowa and Cedar TOR man! MI, & sand 20,
towards Iowa City, consists aii',t ~; fro IN, crcr
nevertheless il i very productive JHu-'H5 ~
-, go and ,,bca saw growing. The bnis on the south
, IS tho Iowa rise in places 10 the n'sht OF 'o iee
1h , lo,h of the Iowa and Cedar Is OF the most To-
character aud few finer landscape views than are to
10 ,,;n4d from the lofty bluffs of the Iowa, can be found
west of the Mississippi The banks OF the Iowa nave an
additional interest on Of ho having been for loSg
time the residence Of celebrated Indian Chiefs a Back
Hawk keokuck Wapelo &c. In iraversn9 Its banks the
poles of their desoate wgwams sl standnT are frequently
met with These rude structures made by scH'n5
sufficient number OF poles the earth at suitable distances
The Ups poles either side are then bent over 10
wards each other Tapped and bound together with thongs OF
hickory bark Transverse poles then bound on these
and the whole covered win bark except small aperture
TOR the escape Of the smoke Before the bark laid on
these conicHroced dwellings strongly resemble arDoS ana
suminer-oises gardens Puweshlek band amounts
about 1000 souls The whole number OF Sacs and FOXES
j. 1000 Most of them the Desmoncs he DacotahS
ar Sioux have their range about 100 miles to the northwest
this and number said forty thousand SOUS hieen
Thousand of whom are warriors 1t their boast that they
have shed the blood Of white ere tey lnci"H
hostile and animated with the lnd"nniao1e spirit
of the Semnocs bv uniting with the Sacs ana Foxes tiS
would sweep Iowa with the bosom of destruction But
an eatingusabc and deadly eud, exists between these
tribes that Constitute the guaranty OF settlements
against hostile incursions from that quarter purpose at
some period not far distant explore the Indian country
when shall be able say something farther OF them from
actual observation Many interesting particulars are re-
corded of them by Major Newhal in his Sketches o Iowa
well work, of the o. Gazetteer, and
NE
information $ To be derived herelrom.
1t the general impression believe and perhaps cor
too that the character of the inhabitants OF Iowa Tor
enterprise industry, intelligence and morality OF higher
order than that of their shbors of Missouri and Arkansas
One thing however that during my bret soourn
here have heard of theits OF horses and other properly
than heard in the whole OF years residence IN Mis-
This be and doubtless accidental. Dut u
committed here, much greater certainty exists ct
their being visited with Ietrbstive justice In the slave
states there exist much greater insenSbly IN
the public mind when garng outuges against the suprena
the laws committed than sections settled
almost exclusively by The descendants of the Pnrans For
this nsensiblity do pretend TO account; merely state
the and let all draw their nierenccs In Missouri
have heard numbers justify of the most cod-oooli
murders that ever was committed By their laws the perPe
traitors of such murders admitted to ball. apparently Tor
no other than give them oppo uny OF escaping
10 Texas where it is we'll known these dcspc1does ere re-
ceved with open arms and rewarded by promotion 10 le
highest offices the gift of those land pirates. Much ms
apprehension exists the east and nor IN regard 10 some
distinous shed traits in western character Those demsav
age manners modes of living, provincial phrases profanity
coarse expr, son &c. revong all persons OF refined
taste and feeling and particularly Newly rkers and New
Englandes which down by tourists characteristic
people of the West riehttly belonging only To
that portion thai emgrTe from the southern States. They
are not traits Western but of Southern. he dit
ference in habits manners modes OF living, and the tone
of mora feeling which distinguishes the south from the north
and east is sufficient constitute distinct nation. 1t l.
admitted that poores; and ignorant class OF eastern
and northern people will, after their location IN the
Mississippi valley imbibG The peculiartie at their nelghborS
But educated persons by merely passing the Aesa's aie
discard the Kings English and the moral
abits which they have been instructed for the barlIo>
local and the debasng and corrupt habits and prac
cc, which the southern canae have introduced here The
baney about southern chivary and hospitality, which toad
eating tourists from the north have published the qudf
pre- qmo Of iorughts grauitous entertainment Will pass
for worth with those wholly long personal observ
probed the character of the great of southern
people the bottom. An Impotence of constitutional legal
aud moral restraint, whenever they interfere with the sriti
cation of predominant passions is characteristic ct the whole
south. the debates in Congress is sufficient
place this matter beyond dispute. While southern poti
clans hesitate display in the halls of Congress their
and ea ndces and false accusations against
every thing northern, fitting that northern should
understand the character of their assaants. Suspicion
is the governing principle with ignorance and the sins OF
handful OF fanatics visited upon the whole north and the
absurd notions OF northern character and motives cher
shed and persisted in with blindness aud penacy which
ignorance and malice alone produce Adcu for the pres
T.. Nj.
REVOLUTIONARY BArrLEs.-The following is thought 10