New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-27

have been productive are barren; springs
gushed from the ground which at present
istence Every thing indie ates that this region
are rivers of sand and the ella at its best after
gathering the continent streams, San Pedro and
j mot So large u volume a an The own
Builders from the extreme North, perhaps origi-
nally from Kamtchatka, and that the adobe houses
founded by the monarch who bears the proudest
name in Indian history. There no Pueblos north
the race began long before the ' Spanish in
yasion. =, 1t will be remembered that the
ran without history more tIan 500 years ago
The Pueblos must have been mighty nation in the
prime of their strength, and legends of their ancient
glory before they passed under the hated Spanish
yoke are cherished among the different tribes. Re
duced as they were in numbers and power their
They were finally brought into subsection, even TO
the Moquis who lived pcrched in tiny houses on
lures fires are burnt out, in barren country. arid
and inhosptabe, absolutely worthless TO white men.
HOME OF DEsoLATE RACE.
Never was life so lonely and cherries as in the
desolate hoyels of the Moqus. Their land is
not tender solitude. but forbdding DESC
lation of escarped cliffs, over looking wastes of
sand where the winds wage on the small shrubs
and ventnesome grasses leaving TO the drouth such
as they cannot uproot few scrubby trees, spottng
the edge of the plain as if they had looked across
the wateress waste and crouched in fear, furnish
little brushwood for the fires of the Moquis who
fighting out the battle for existence that is hardly
worth the struggle. Fixed habitaton anywhere
implies some sort of civilization The finty hills
are terraced, and by careful irrigation they manage
to raise corn enough to keep body and soul together
The seven villages within circuit of ten miles have
been isolated from the rest of the world through
centuries, yet they have little intercourse with
each other that their tribal languages everywhere
subject to swift mutations, entirely unlike.
Dlminutive, low-set men wrapped in blankets
in the sun, are the CHASTITY propnetors of a rcserva-
ton once the scene of busy activities. They num-
per only 1000 souls; shreds of tribes almost ex-
uonably OF great antiquity. The sad heirship of
fallen greatness is written in the emptiness of their
barren estates. Fragments of pottery are profusely
scattered about and deeply-worn foot-paths lead
ing from village to village, down the river bank
and winding up to the plain, mark the ancient
utterly deserted.
How the Indians were enslaved and driven to the
is a matter of familiar history. They alb
Ject and heartbroken people after the Conquest and
their decline still goes steadily Whole tribes
are extinct Others have united with each other
tor safety and within the memory Of citizens of
santa re the feeble remnant of the tribe at Pecos
joined that at Jemez. which speaks the same Ian
guage.
After ALL the question is not so much whence they
come as whittier they go. The human family is
never ut rest its condition is of change. From
goneHvanshed. where who knows Who caresf
They moved forward in the resistless march, served
the end for which they created, died and were
forgotten. 1hcy come like shadows depart.
Across these desolate Rocky Mountain ranges a
turbulent stream of humanity once ebbed and
Moved IN perpetual unrest. Then there were tribes
cbaslng tribes fleeing, nation rising up against ma
hon scattering, absorbing, driving each other into
annihlation aInl the hills echoed the tri mphant
music of the scalp dances over the graves of slain
thousands The history of those mighty tumoils
and revolutions must remain forever unwritten.
abOTlQuPS n M
what they were in the long ago, when mountain
princes from the South were supreme rulers in a
realm OF con1ederacles, whose boundaries cannot be
measured.
CAUSES OF THE DECLINE THE PUEBLos.
The civilization of the Town Builders is not so
much overthrow as il is out. Their bows are
broken. their fires burn low; and the sluggish
stold of Montezuma creep at a petty pace
" along the way to dusty DEATH" The inroads of
warning bands are not fatal their own system of
communism. A closely-kept people must become
eiiete; and marriage within the forbidden degrees
for ages on ages. produces diminutive, emascuate
growth. In the tribes most isolated where race
distinctions are sharply drawn, this blood
degeneration is most apparent. Very many
are, scrotulous,. and albmos with pink eyes
frequent among the Tunis and Moqnis
Physicians tell that it is species of American
eposy, consequent on the poverty of blood through
The weakening of this most interesting nationality
resembles the quiet decline OF stricken in years.
As In the empire in the individual according to
the predetermined doom it cannot hast another must
have It's place. peculiar people. utterly lacking
In self-aSscrtion through whole decades living I'm
Servitudc under an enforced religion, they have run
their race worked out their destiny and in the de-
crepiude of extreme old age, ruins and tribes the
dead and the dying are crumbling away together
Mrs LEW. WALLACE.
Charlottesville, Ind. July 10, 1851
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