Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-05-01

away again directly and would therefore, recommend
OF safety In full reliance upon this reasoning,
nearly the whole band Immediately committed themselves TO
the ueacherous ce and they all persisted mseraby to The
number of eight and twenty"
AS they approach Fort Ellice they pass an insua-
ted hill, in the wide prairie, of which the following
singular domestic legend is related. II leaves en-
trely in eclipse the fidelity of the widow of Ephe-
sus 10 her first lord:
Many many summers ago. large party Of Assinboines,
bouncing on small band of Crees in the neghborhood OF
this knoll nearly destroyed them Among the vcors the
former wife of one of the vanqushed who in previous
oray had been carried off by her present husband from her
ancient lord and Whether was that her friend
was Younger than her old one that she conscious OF
having been willing accomplish in the elopement the lady,
rushing into the hickest of the fight directed every effort
against the life Of her first lover In spe however, of the
faithess amazons special attentions the Wolverine or such
was his nae effected his escape from the field OF carnage
while the conquerors gloang over the scaPs OF his
brethren in Creeping sealthiy along Tor the whole
day. under Of the woods he concealed himself at night
fall in hole on the top of the rising ground in question But
though he had thus eluded the vigilance OF his national
miles, vet there who, under the influence OF personal
hatred had lost sight or scent Of his trail and no
sooner had he sunk exhausted by hunger and fatigue into
sound seeP the answering and untrng bloodhound
sent an arrow into his brain with triumphant YELL Before
the morning dawne the yrago proudly presented to her AS
snbone husband the bleeding scalp Of his unfortunate rival
and the scene her desperate exploit thenceorwad
known as the Butte Carcajar, the Wolverine Knoll In
proof of the truth OF the story, the Indians assert that the
ghosts of the mueress and her victim often to be seen
from considerable distance struggling together on the very
summit of the height
We have, at page SO, another very striking story
of the desolation which Indian wars inlict, often
OH both sides:
"About twenty years ago, large encampment Of eros
Venes and Backeet had been formed in this neghborhood
for the purpose OF hunting during the summer Growing
tired however, of peaceful and ignobe occupation, the
younger warriors of the allied tribes determined to make
ncurson into the territories of the Assnboines. Having
gone through all the requisite enchanments they left behind
them only the old men with the and children. After
successful campaign they turned their steps homewad in
triumph loaded with scaps and other spols and reach
the top Of the ridge that overlooked the camp Of the
firm and deenceess Of their band they notified their approach
in the proudly swelling tones Of their song of victory Every
lodge, however, still and silent the grave and at
length singing loudly they advanced, in order to
cea their emotions, they found the full tale of the manged
copses of their parents and sisters Of their wives and chill
dren. In word, the Assinboines had been there to take
their revenge Such true picture of savage warfare and
perhaps too often of civilized warfare also calamity to both
Sides and advantage to neither On beholdng the dismal
the bereaved conqueros cast away their spo arms
and clothes and them putting robes of leather and
ing their heads with mud they betook themselves to the hills
for three days and nights to howl and mourn and cut Their
flesh This mode Of expressing grief bears very close r.
semblance to the corresponding custom among the Jews
almost every particular" H.. II.
The following instance of the benefits lent by ed
ucating an Indian, and then replacing him amidst his
savage tribe, is certainly not very encouraging:
We next crossed the river camp of about the
size the other sd where the oungng and the
women labong pretty much in the way those that
we had just left In tent sight presented itself which
equally novel and unnatural. Surrounded by crowd
Of spectators, party of fellows playing at cards, OBJ
tanned in the Snake country from American trapper
and more melancholy exemplfcaon of the influence of
civ he
apparently scientific eagerness with which these naked and
hungry savages humbed and turned the black and greasy
pasteboad Though the who sold the cards might have
taught the of them, yet could not help tracing the
wreched exhibition TO remote with
which myself in connected. In this
hell of the wilderness found Spokan Garry of
lads already mentioned having been TO Red river for
their education aud there little doubt that
with his superior knowledge he the if
the prmemover of the On his his country
men, he had, for time, endeavoed teach them read
and write but he had gradually abandoned the attempt
signing his reason, his preex that the others awed
him about it, He forthwith relapsed into his original bar
bas, taking TO himself many wives he could get and
he becoming gambler, he lost both all that he had oil his
and all that he could beg borrow from others He
evidently ashamed of his proceedings for he would
out OF the tent to shake hands with old friend
We can give no further passages OF what relates
TO our own terra .frnaa; but must pass to the ac-
count of the Sandwich Islands, which is long, skill
full and very agreeable. Among other things, we
have, at PIP. 253-4-5-6, a very pleasant history of
the food, laws of the table, and special gastronomic
delights of the Hawaiian:
Under the old heathenism of the islands, the law Of
ing was most complex and important affair To say no.
thing of occasional and temporary prohibitions reserved the
best OF every thing for the Chiefs distinguished from the
people, and for the maes distinguished from the females
and moreover extended the privileges Of its favote to the
very places where they OF the law question every
violation was capital crime II death for a
TO drink ava, or Tor woman to a IL
death for se to inrude the banquet of his lord for
wife to enter her husbands dining system which
thus prescribed females, in country where they
competent as males TO be chiefs in their right could
long withstand the light of civilization Accordingly,
after the discovery, the aboos in question began I've
and sighted families gradually presumed to take their meals
together and women pucked courage to nbbe at
nuts Still the law remained in free for Kamehameha could
not think of Deserving in his old age the gods who had
crowned his youth with victory and late 1872 the last
year of his reign actually put to death for in
vadng the sanciy Of her husbands eanghouse In the
very first year, however, after his DEATH the eating
were abolished chiefly through the nsrumentay might
have been expected, Of a female chief Kaahumnnu, the
conquerors ayore wife, having been left kind Of guar
dian or co-regent Of Lho Liho gave the young king
peace till he annued the religion of his fathers by publicly
eating with his queens; the ckety machines Of the national
idoatry falling 10 pieces the removal Of a single peg
Practically, however, the people did not find
that food was free for though superstition longer the
petex yet they still stned and starved before by
the tyranny Of their chiefs In process Of tme moreover
new taboo invented by the missionaries and that too
grounds almost absurd and untenabe those which the
old taboo had rested Laying down religious rules Of which
the inspired volume knew little knew Of the traditions
OF Catholicism which they delighted reve the earlier mis-
sonaes denounced coffee put stopper tobacco and
RED on holy war against cooking Sunday and against
all the aders and abeors Of the Such arbitrary doc