Southern shield., 1852-01-24
From the National IntelGgencer. Interesting Hebrew Relic.

Interesting Hebrew Relic.
 ] By the poi,eness of Col. Lea, Commis- soner of Indian Affairs, we have been shown curiosity of great rarity and interest, left for few days only at the Bureau. It was brought from the Potawatame Reservation on the Kansas river, by Dr. Lykins, who has been residing there nearly twenty years ,f thirty E5 has spent on the frontier. It .oasist9 oE sonr small zaIls arStrina af e4,sah- p,ent, closely packed jn the small compart- ments of little box or locket of about an inch cubical contents On these parch- ments are witten, in style of unsurpassed excellence, and far more beautiful than print, portions of the Pentateuch, to be worn as frontlets, ,and intended as stimuants to the memory and moral sense.
 Dr. Lykins obtained it from Potawatamis, who got it from his grand mother, very old woman. It has been in this particular family about fifty years. They had origin ally two of them; but on one occasion as the party in possession were crossing a rapid in some river in the lake country of the North; the other was irrecoverably lost. The one lost was believed by the Indians to contain an account of the creation of the world.-
 That brought by Dr. Lykins has been kept for very long period in the medicine bag of the tribe, used as a charm, and never allowed to suffer an exposure, until by strong entreaty and the great influence he had with Topinepee, the principal Potta- watomie, chief, he was permitted to bring it on to Washington, but under firm pledge to restore it on his return. It has hitherto been kept from the rapacious vision ot the white man. Patewge had it in his possession many years before his curiosity prompted him to cut the stitches and disclose the con- tents. But this coming to the knowledge of old Billy Caldwell, chief of the Council Bluff branch of the tribe, he strenuously advised Patewge to shut it up and keep 1t close, and say nothing about having it. Dr. Lykns came 10 knowledge ot the cir cumstance of it's possession ot a halt breed 1 The wonder is how this singular article came into their possession. When asked Fhow long they can trace back its history, they reply they cannot tell the time when they had it not. The question occurs here does not this circumstance give some color to the idea, long and extensively entertained that the Indians of our continent are more or less Jewish in their origin?
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 CURE For CANcER.--The Franklin (Tenn) Review says that MT. George Ben net, of Williamson county, cured himself of cancer on the nose with which he had suffered intensly for years by the following simple process:
 He procured about peck of clean Red Oak bark, by first cutting off the rough out side, and put it into vessel containing about two gallons of water which he boiled over slow fire until the ooze became quite strong, when he strained 1t through cloth to remove all the particles of the bark Then he again put it into the clean vessel and simmered it over a slow fire until 1t came to the consistency of m0ldSSeS, when it is fit for use. It is then spread upon piece of silk or other soft rag, and applied to the diseased part. He used about two fresh plasterS every week, until the cancer was removed and the wound healed He says it is not painful, but he believes 1t an intallible remedy.
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 AN OLD GUN.-On Battery street, where the improvements are at present being made is an old brass gun, long eighteen poun- der, bearing the stamp of the Spanish arms, and the date of l628 When the present State of California was first taken by the American forces, that old gun was rernov- ed from the fort at the entrance of the har- Dor, and mounted on the hill beyond Clark's point What tale the old gun
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