Litchfield enquirer., 1848-08-31
CHARITY OF CATLIN'S IN
 DIANS.

uNSs hAiS AoAuSA pautut CNtuuI- go there was no satisfactory way oi peeping into the amusements of tho streets [this was in Birmingham l but by going down the sta rs, which Jim and his ever curious friend the Doctor used daily and almost hour ly to do, and stand ng in the hal, see all they could that was amusing, until the crowd beca me such that 1t was necessary to recall them to their room. On one of these occasion they had espied miserable poor old woman, with her little child, both in rags, and begging for the means of existence. The pity of the kind old Doctor was touched, X he beckoned her to come to him, and held out some money; but fear was superior to want with her, and she refused to take the prize. The Doctor went for Daniel, who, at his requ st, prevai ed upon the poor wo man to come up to their room, by assuring her that they would not hurt her, and would give her much more than white people would. She come up with Daniel, and the In- dians, all seated on the floor, lit a pipe as if going into the most pro- found council and so they were, for with hearts sympathizing for the misery and poverty of this pit, abe looking o1lect, white woman and child starving to death amidst the thousands of white people all around her in their white houses and with all their wealth, they were anxious to ta k with her, and find out how # was that she should not be k,;ssfter ta- ken care of. Jeffrey Was called f, interpret and M :lso,ay Bobas sheela, 'Dah'el' anu y,elt, with two or three lle,l'S wh3s nappened to be with us d' ''lF/t me, We're spectators of the scene that ensued. T"e War chief told her not to be frightened nor to let her little child be so, for they we her friends; rnd the Doctor walked up to her, took his hand out from under hrs robe, put five shillings in,o hers, and stepped back. The poor woman curt.sed several times, and crossing her hands upon her breast, as she retrealed to the wall, { lauked 'h.s houor' for his kindness. 'Ihe Lard bt with your lionors for your lovng kindness, aud may the Lard ot Haven b ess you 10 al etarni- ty, for ee nIver tnaught af sich tt,eatment fram sch t'raightfu- -lukin g,ntleinln as ee was thakln ou to La.
 The War-chief hen said to her, Ahtre, you see. by the money we have been all of us giving out of nnr nurses. that we wish to make you happy with your little child, that You may have sometlting for It to eat you see now that we don't wish to hurt you, and We shall not i; but we want to talk with you little, and before we talk we a.ways make our presents, if we have any to give. We are here poor, a1d d great way from hone, where we also have our httle chl.d en to feed bat the Greal spirit has been kInd to us, and we haze enough to eat.' To this the Indians, wn) were passing the pipe a oAni, ali resp ,nded How! how how!'
 The old chef then proceeded to ask the poor woma, how she bee ,ne so poo, and why the white people did not take Care of h r and her child She replied that she had been in the workhouse, and her husband was there still ; she d,scri- bed also the manner in which she had left it, and how she became a beggar in the steets. She sad that when she and her husband w >re ta- ken n o the poo. house tey were not allowed t. live together, and that she wou d rather die lh ,n live in that way any longer, or rath r beg for for something to eat in the streets as she was now doing and as the cold weather was cenlng in, she expect eI her child and herself would be soon starved to death.
 The poor Indians, women and all, looked upon this miserable shi;ering object ot pity, in the midst of the wealth and luxuries of civilization, as mystery they could not ex- pound, and, giving way to impulses taat they could leel and appreciate, the women opened their trunks to search for presents for the little child, and by White Clouds order, filled her lap with cold meat and bread sufficient to last them for day or two. The good old Doctors po- iteness and sympathy led him to the bottom of the stairs with her.