The Trinity journal., 1856-12-20

To, TNE Poor INDIAN "A day or two
ISince while standing in our door, couple
of Indian girls moved along in the middle
I of the street. Neither of them could have
passed the age of sixteen and were of the
same height They had fine figures pleas
/ ant, regular features. long jet black hair,
and could with some little attention to the
rules of civilized life, be made to look beau
tiful, 1t had rained hard the night before
We saw them, and the street through which
they passed, alone and barcfooted, was filed
with mud and water But there they
moved The poor creatures had somewhere
in their travels through oar city, seen little
#girls walk along with their tiny arms locked
about each others neck, and Mey-thc In
d ian girls cndeavorcd to initiate them -
When we saw them, they had their arms
gracefully entwined about each others neck
1t was a scene of mingled sadness and beau
ty, Then those girls had pride. You could
see it III the neat and tasteful manner in
which they had fitted the rags about their
persons, in the care they took of their flow
Fng heads Of hair, in their cleanIy washed
faces and nccks. Though without shoes in
The mud, without head covering in the rain
and almost without whole dress, for the
approaching storms, these poor girls had
evidently on the occasion we write of, ex-
haustcd their taste, and ingenuity, and emp
tied their wardrobe, in order to appear, like
others Of their age and sex, well in the
street
They turned the corner and we saw
them no more 1t may be that we will new
er see them again. Yet did our mind dwell
upon the sad spectacle. They were fair and
most promising We thought of the tor
rent of rain of the night before, and of the
| mud, which in spite of their efforts, had
|clung to their dresses They had tried to
appear neat and tidy, but the more they
labored to rub the mud from their clothes,
the palmer was the fact presented that they
had slept on the cold ground AS they
passed us the day was wearing away-dark
heavy clouds were settling over our city
young ladies were hurrying to their comfort
able parlors, to escape the approaching storm
some went in fine carriages, others crowd
ed into omnibusses-yct amid all this pleas
ant excitement, few there were who gave u
thought to the poor Indian girls who at that
very hour were wandering barc-footcd, bare
headed, and thinly-clad, though in the en-
brace of sisters, in search Of dry spot of
ground whereon to lay their heads A kind
word-which costs you nothing have
warmed the hearts OF those girls. A friend
Iy hand might have lifted them from the
damp ground and made them live to bless
You. A little charity might have taken
them from the mud, given them shelter,
placed shoes on their feet, bonnets on their
heads, clothes on their backs, and pushed
them forward in the civilized, Christian
walks of life They might be sared. But
there they roam, frendIess alone, and in
misery. The world looks on, pites, and
permits them to pass as something beyond
redemption. Weak as it may seem in us,
we confess we would be pleased to see such
Farc flowers properly cared for aud made to
bloom III the spring-time of life, and not
tread upon. and crushed to the earth, And.
reader did it never occur TO YOU that even
with all all your Christian comforts, and
privileges, you would occasionally like to
exchange places, for moment, with the
poor Indian girl,
Whose untutOred mind,
Sees God in the clouds and hears him in the wind /
RI MrysUiHe Inquirer.
BIC BoATs-1he following are the dimen-
'sloDs of some Of the largest steamers in the
world The Great Western, 235 feet long,
rs broad Great Britain, 1872 feet long, So
broad Himalaya, $50 feet long, 43 broad
Pers'a, 800 feet long As broad Adriatic,
|354 feet long, 40 broad Vanderbilt, 1886
feet. long, 40 broad The Great Eastern, |
how bein0 huilt nnder the direction of Mr.