American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-02-27

face of the renowned Professor Hermann, an
enhanced value, | remain, with sentiments OF
perfect esteem, your devoted
BARON Won WASHINGTON,
ROYAL Bavarian Chamberlain. Lieutenant Ge-
neral and Aid-de-Camp to his Majesty the
King, Commander of the Order Of Civil Me-
rit Of the Bavarian Crown, of the Greek Or
der of the Saviour, of the British Military
Order of the Bath, Knight of the Royal
French Order of the Legion of Honor, and
Lord of Nothing.
To DR.. j. G.. FIuzei,
Consul of the U. S. of N. America in LEIPZIG.
INTERESTING SKETCH OF Iowa AND WIS
coNsIN We learn from the Providence jour
nal that an instructive lecture upon these new
States was delivered in that city on the 5th
INST, by DIR. J. V. G. Smith of Bostor.-a lee
ture repete with information derived from a
tour through those countries during the past
summer. The Journal gives an abstract OF
the discourse from which we CLEAN the follow
ing:
The Territory of Wisconsin is 600 miles
long, and on an average $50 miles broad, and
larger than the whole of New England. Iowa
broad-one third larger than New England
The resources of the country are immense
you NAV ride day after day over plain of un-
bounded fertility, and hardly meet a human
being. The sun rises out of the green grass,
courses through the Heavens, and sets i'll green
grass again. This country would support
300, 900, 900 of human beings. There is sue
cesson of praries rising one above the other
like flight of steps. This has been caused
by a succession of upheaves from below. The
Mississippi, now quite narrow stream, was
formerly 10 or 20 miles wide, and has been
reduced to its present bed by these upheavals
of the earth.
The mounds found here prove this to have
been a very old country. There is series of
these structures reaching from western New
York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Wheel
ing, Va, to the base of the Rocky Mountains.
These mounds are often 100 feet in height,
and 500 feet upon 4 side at the base. Their
construction must have cost much time and
labor. The water is pumped up from the Mis-
sissippi to the top of one of these mounds and
thus carried into the city of st. Louis. The
elevation of the mound is sufficient to carry the
water into the third story of every house in
the city. Some of the mounds are sepuchral
and contain immense quantities of human
| bones.
Some of the mounds are Notifications, eX-
tremely well constructed. Upon these mounds
trees have grown upon their ruins. There Is
upon one of them a tree with four hundred
concentric circles, showing it 10 have been at
least four hundred years old, and this standing
upon the ruins of another tree, probably as
old when it fell into decay. There can be nc
doubt that this country was formerly inhabit-
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lively civilized people, who were exterminated
by the .rruption of the Indians, Tartar tribe
which is quite recent event.
Biologists admit that this continent is Older
than Europe, and this continent was formerly
the bed of the ocean, The proofs of this are
numerous and conclusive. 1t is lime country
and lime is product of the ocean. The inn
mense masses Of stone around the falls Of St.
Anthony are composed of sea shells. This
country has been thrown up from the bottom
of the ocean by series of upheavals, the last
of which was the Rocky Mountains, dividing
the great ocean into the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans.
Here are to be series of States Of immense
extent, and more fertile than any other part Of
the country. 1t is the best part ofthe country
for a man to settle in. He can 90 there and
select a farm and not be called upon to pay q
cent for it for perhaps three generations, and
when the land is eventually brought into mar
ket, he can be sure to have it at the minimum
price of Sl.25 per acre. A man who should
overbid squatter could not safely remain in
the country.
The American Fur Company commands
universal respect among the Indians. They
are punctual in fulfilling alltheir engagements
and they never sell any liquor. The Indian:
have no fear for the United States government
They think the Great Father at Washington
is a man of huge proportions, but they have nc
definite conception of power But tell them
that if they behave i'll they will get ball, or il
they behave well, blanket, and they know
well what is meant. In the boats of the Fu
Company one can travel with perfect safety.
Except in the hunting season the Indian!
lounge about their wigwams, and keep drum
when they can get whskey, and gorge them
n selves with food when they can get that. Wher
A the hunting season arrives, they purchase Blan
kets and traps of the Fur Company, and star
on their expedition. The sqnaws do all thu
labor, dress the skins, sc. This gives rise to {
strange kind of polygamy. An Indian want
three or four squaws to do his work, and look
round for the strongest he can find. He lay
a trap at the door of her fathers wigwam il
the night-in the morning the old Indian see
the trap and knows that some one wishes Il
purchase his daughter 1.-The does not chose t.
J accept the offer he does not touch the trap
The next night another trap is left at the door
and so on till sufficient number is offered whel
they are taken in, and the owner comes for
} ward and claims his squaw.
They leave their dead upon some lofty ridg
es and let the flesh waste away, and then col
; lcct and bury their bones. An Indian woma,
who has been most shamefully abused by he
husband during his life, will 60 every day AM
lament most bitterly over his dead body, an,
will finally collect his bones and carry then
about with her, and when it becomes impossi
BILE to preserve them any longer, will bury then
with the utmost care in the bottom of her wig
wan. Ifany body has any reason to be thank