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shall be disappointed if his exile does prove be
perpetual by the universal reclamation of all sound demo-
crats We nothing else in his letter worthy of notice
sCHo0LCRAFps STATISTICS OF THE INDIAN
TRIBES-VOL. V.
The 9TH volume of this work has just been received at
the Indian Office from the publishers and will be delivered
TO Congress at early day after its meeting. The copy
before exhibits the exceency Of materials and
cbanica beauty that have marked the prior volumes and
its highyfnsed plates denote subjects which emf
nenty characteristic Of aboriginal and abnorsal
art Its illustrative plates than usually charao-
tersc and instructive 1t is dedicated in elcitous TERMS
to Mr. Marcy.
The volume consists almost exclusively of. generaza.
tons from the pen of the author which exhibit the
dian in his various aspects, mental and physical actual
aud prospective.
Its statistical matter is gathered from wide In
view OF the recent intelligence of Indian hoses in Ore
gon and Washington have turned the statistical ia
bes furnished by this volume. appears from full
of the tribes of the Pacific coast that there
men, with their families living that between the
Territory of Washington and the Russian possessions, in
the lattudes of deg and deg min These consist
of small tribes and bands recognised by the Hudson
Bay traders They have 1887 houses Fixed shelters.
are armed with 324o guns The whole number OF per-
sons, of all ages and sexes this coast is 636s5. All
these supported and influenced in feelings by the
Iludsons Bay Company. This does include interior
tribes between bands and the Rocky
The hardy hunters who along seshore and
nets support 1911 females and 80 1853 children They
also have $3.50 slaves male and female being persons who
have been reduced bondage by captivity. page 487
ynl;, IS to,
95, living in $50 lodges OF these tribes, o6s men,
and but o03 and children. Oregon has a total
population of but 6Oes, of whom 1900 be
viewed warriors it take the field at and he
time Nebraska set down at 9,76o fighting men. There
30393 Indians of all ages in Kansas $3.50 in Utah;
and the Indian colonies south of Kansas and
of Arkansas. There valuable data in the statistical
tables embracing the treaty obligations entered into in the
years and 1854 with the chief tribes of Kansas and
Nebraska tables of the expenses OF Indian wars compiled
from official Documents statistical estimates of the entire
of public domain yet occupied by the wild tribes
and other branches Of information The statistics of edu-
cation governments Christianity and Of the state Of in
dsy of the progressive tribes commend themselves to
all who interested in these topics 1t requires it
would SEEM but the and be applied to
other districts of the public domain render our knowl-
We only glance this publication are not pre-
pared to go into analysis of it. No work which has
been published here elsewhere believe ever pre-
tended present such record give full description of
the Indian It figures alone required to show
the condition of the Indian The drapery which
thrown around the statistics exhibits him so many lights
that the work truly ihesarus CHANGING over these
pages, it is perceived that the author does not con-
his n n few bu lets ino
arcanum Of his personal observations. 1t is not a.
cred SO inconsistent and vacating "e is
the OF impulses and not of reason He has not
particle of Induction, and evnces rambling mind
the imagination in dreams. His history is written on
buffalo skin in hierogyphcs (page 1861 and his poetry
blown through rude flute pibbsgwun, in unneasured
strains He sails strips of bark stretched over lathes
of wood or floats RATS united with whes (page 95
The socaed palaces of the southern ncas without
windows without roof and without arches page GAY The
tomb in which Peruvian buried his wife he buried
his dog (pagc 65S Graphic illustrations are given Who
peruses the article Of his Religion and Mythology
will perceive why heturns deaear the offer of Christian
y and the maxims Of labor and thrift and this impression
viii become ten times deeper by consulting the views
given of his demonology magic and witcbcra" Yet the
Indian has produced disciples Of the Christianity
shown under the head of biography His language the
curious problem of all aud here we perceive some
ninety pages employed n unfolding the conugation of
single verb The Indian, appears had three CEN
tures ago which he has long lost and forgotten the
arts of Europe having almost entirely suppaned those Of
the aboriginal Wonder is frequently excited now
a-days, by the digging up yestges Of those old Indian
and stare mounds and bitches in the West
which present little but of barbarous knowledge
Such learn from this volume OF the boosted
Indian antiquities The Indian Technology has not es
capped the authors attention The names the Indian has
bestowed upon and mountains are generally
both and significant and it fit that the
subject should receive it merits attention. All these
phases of the Indian mind aud character well bis
manners and history shown up, think with close
observation learning aud talent Not furnish these in
along with the statistics has evidently appeared
him inconsistent with the full of the call made him
by Congress- OF the present condition Of the tribes far
that is affected. by public policy respecting them
the article his "present condition and prospects, at
page 449 be read without profit II gives from
highest sources the opinions of learned and experienced
the subject thrown while discussing bills
of moment before that body. OF their future IL is pithy
said that they must either starve plumber, or labor