New-York daily tribune., 1856-02-27

Btue attention from The reading pubbc as ipasrstve
material. Whatever etbnoIogists have dane, or
emitted TO do, Mr. LCngfeTow has viewed the matter
in another and more attractive hgtt After my Indian
,ore has kept s place the booksellers catalogues
for sixteen year. be has made it the groundwork Of
his poem Of Hiswatha, taking, with poetic Judgment
the Algonquin story and location, and with poetic
taste the IrOquois name.
II Mr.. J. Y. Clark, whose letter appears m your
paper Of the 10th ns supposes thai the myth was not
known 10 He till he began to make inquiries among the
Ouondsges, about lef5 that in tracing among tee
IrOquois what have long before traced among the
Western Indiaps / was without collaborstors and
correspondents, both among educated persons OF
Indian blood and other gentlemen in the several coun
ties,' be y probably alone In that OPINION. IL
he ever possessed any influence among the Indians,
or exened it, in my favor, during the taking
of the census of le45, or gave zoe any facts 10
aid me in that werk, this is the hrst time
ever heard Of il. / was favorably received by the
chief of all the Cantons and by none more 20 than the
venerable Chief Frost and by Abraham lie Fort, who
gave me every fact published respecting The Onon-
dsgas No objections were made by any OF the tribes
TO The agent authorized by the state to take the GEN.
sus bur their reluctance from the census PTiHe
De. and these objections were obvisted when they
found that was really their friend, and sought their
improvement and advance in all the best elements Of
civilization.
never heard Mr.. CLARK . name mentioned for good
or bad among them. One thing is certain, he never
collected for me- wrote out for me- tran smitted TO
me an traditions al all whatever he may have done
for local Lyceums, for others. The quotations made
By lin from letters the merest balderdasb, de-
signed to misead persons ignorant of the facts. Those
letters arose from inquiries made by me as Chairman
of Committee of the New-YOrk Historical Society
or Indian names, and the list he sent never used
chiefly from The hestancy felt by the Committee in
cevlng terms from person ignorant of the language
and these names not recorded uniform or approved
principles Of notation. Henry k. ScHooLcRAfT.
Hashington, Jan. p, 1856.
tn M one arI more indebted for transmitting traditions
spectus origin mythology and history Of the roquos than
TO Tomas Ma we'll esq Of Emirs Chemung County-a sen
ems the county, who has from youth devoted MS
ei.ure bours these subjecs Nor omit among those
os OF education Indian blood who perfectly versed
In loquo language and history Mr. W. Chew and the Rev.
Jas Cuc hs Iucsrorss Mr. Ely Parker Thomss strong
esq Mas Pearce Dr. Wilson and MIR Jones Of The Senecss
the Rev" Eleszer Williams Of the St. Regis Mr. Hill, Frost
lie Fort aid N Tyler Onondaga and the Chiefs young
kenaLdo ONEIDA ard schuyler OF the Onedas "Reminiscences
The tie Of Mr. Yates Nj L. MorgaD
Mr. T. Goodwin Hosmer Avery Mr. Bradford and others scs
between native valley the Tawzsentha and the Ma
who have furtDod much aboriginal infof
nhion probably vita moreceTany With less repeDtng
enikuam and gard f nyef and the lToquos history than
NJ. CLARK.