, 1865-09-20
George Cat]in, tic Indian Painter.
M NJ n Cnrwnr rri:nE Ttnrr f1st sntf II

George Cat]in, tic Indian Painter.
Mr.. NJ. D. Conway wfi;cs from Ostcnd 10
tue Round Table;
"But By far the most interesting person
here TO nc is the American traveller, Georgc
Catlin. He has for several years resided herr,
living almost tie life Of Il hermit, in order to
accomplish the speciai work to which his lifc
hus been devoted. As some Of my readers
NAV not Bu1nw ns mich nbont Catl1n as they
will when he ia dead, let me say that this re-
markable man WINS born between atxty and
seventy years ago, IN Wlkesbarre, Wyoming,
Pa., educated vol In Connecticut, and
That early In life he took passion for the
iudians Being IN accomplished painter, {his
life up to 1852 being given to portrait paint-
inr il Philadelphia, ha went among the lndt-
ms Of Western Missouri to make sketches,
md being we'll received By them, and learn
resided with every important tribe Of both
North and South America. There are, it will
10 remembered, over 1--WE hundred Indian
tribes In North and South America. Mr.. Cat
lin lived with them, without touching civlli
xation, the best fourteen years Of his Life, yls-
fling Venezuela, Guiana, the Amazon, tho
Andes, Peru, California, Bolivia, Colombia,
dian characters, scenes, dances, md 50 forth,
making Some thousand pictures, contes...toe
,,,r, .Aonzan.1.. "s; ..E acs, Inese arc 81
ipers liz Utmost t4ttanee, especially considering
how many Of Tia tribes IN. ..:e.: .: e:.s.na aFe
DYING. out. NJ Catlln, after his sojousn
anors The Indians, went with par
ty of them TO yl5it,, Europe, md
they were exhibited IN the chief CITIES
and towns Of TIC world; Ill ,Hc published ne,
IN. account of bis travels in North and
South America, and also deeply Interesting
account in two volumes Of Els journeyinrggs
with Tic Indian parry through Europe. No
other accounts Of Indian life Will compare
with his for interest, for lie Wiel1a as brilliant
come here 10 put into complete shape his
thousand large pictures, which be hopes to
complete before his death, and. to leave the
world the only sInlian Gal1ery'' which 1t
will l=lrc. Humboldt thought that his ser
yices were Invaluable, and was bis intimate
some Of his sketches at the Louvre, which he
| did bis GOO pictures exhibited there, and also
at the Egyptian Muscum In London, excited
much attention among cthnologists; Lately
ho published n: English and French ~, :
deeply Interesting ns1la "3Fk ps Tor }sa c1a- H.
dies" with twenty -four engraFinss. He
| has also found time to write the very remark
abIe pamphlet which produced SO much sen
| satlon among medical men, declaring the con-
| uecti0n between health and keeping the
mouth closed. Esen Thomas Carlyle de-
world Of chaos. o." Catlin declares that he
learned the secret Of keeping the mouth
cloeed among the Indians, who never sleep,
or let their children sleep, with open mouths
for fear evil spirits will enter theta, and that
| be has cnred himself Of consumption By the
plan. Gt is worthy Of remark that Kent, the
consumption by The same mcthod). Dr..
Smith, physician OF the leading hcspita1 ol
! London, has endorsed this pamphlet; aud,
| indeed, the approval Of go many medical u,en
| has led him to prepare second enlarged cdl-