Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-18

be at peace with people who have many guns and make much powder. He will be taken to the Tower and the reviews, and will be softened by inoculation with the ways of ''socety'' in the drawing rooms of the amiable ladies who have constituted themselves his Envoys Extraordinary and Agents in Advance. Then, we presume, he is to go home better and a wiser man, and, profting by the lessons learned in his respectable lodging" ill the Putnam Road, resume his reign on reformed principles. But, in truth, it must be admitted that the experiment of impressing savages with the stamp of civilization, and then sending them back as missionaries of this Couture in six lessons" has been tried often, and often failed.
 Sir George Simpson tells us that he took Spokane Garry" a Columbia River Chief g son, educated him in England, and sent him home. But all that he preserved of his exotic civilization the art of playing cards and manufacturing them out of bits of cedar bark. Hole in-the- Day, the Sioux chief, was so civilized" that he lived in 8 brick house in St. Paul, drove trotting horse and was made citizen of Minnesota by special act of the Legislature. Yet HI. Day, Esq, as he was officially styled, proved the leader of the ! massaeres few years later, and one of the I most ruthless of the f1ends who desolated the frontier.
 The history of America is studded with the | story of such failures-from that of the Un \ iversity of Henrico for the instruction of "ye I savages,'' to the rosy-colored data in the latest report of the Commissioner of Indian ! Affairs. No doubt examples of an opposite ] character might be cited but history shows \ that the instances of failure are as numerous
 as they are conspicuous. In 1859, "Johr ! Beauchamp,' a Virginian tribesman, was ed ucated in England, but profted little by his | opportunities General Oglethorpe took an 1 other savage youth to London with him, ane | did not send him back to Georgia until h' ! had acquired all the polish and accomplish
 ments of the fine gentleman. Yet within | year the dandy vagabond had laid aside hi laced coat, his periwig. his clouded cane ant ! his jewelled snuff box, and returned to hi ! primitive habits and former life. Louis XIV ! took promising Indians to Versailles educa
 ted them, and then, after mating them witl ! we'll lowered ladies, sent them back As | rule they got intoxicated on the first night o \ their arrival, divided their finery among thei
 untravelled relatives, whipped their delude' ! brides, and then ran wild in the woods, "th
 noble savage" of reality, though not of TO \ nance.
 General Lafayette took a son of Corr \ Planter, an Oneida chief, with him to France
 trained him in the first schools and the mos | brilliant society and married him to beau | tiful woman But he had scarcely returne \ to his tribe before he abandoned his wife | who was found wandering through the flores in misery and hunger by Aaron Burr, durin ! his memorable journey from New York t ' Janada. A Brazilian Bolocada graduated i
 the University of Bahia, and practiced for
 time as physician. But in a few years
 deserted civilization and, bereft of clothes an ! culture, took to the jungle and roots again
 Admiral Fitzroy's Jemmy Button, who in Eng
 land had worn gloves and boots, reverted ! rerre del Fuego 8 year or two afterward to ! naked, unkempt, unwashed savage. Bungs \ ri. the Australian-and instances might ur \ fortunately be quoted almost without end ! took prizes at college and spoke Latin bette \ than the Governor himself. But he soon es } capped to the bush, declaring that edueatio
 had been of no use but to make him COT
 sc1ous of his misery. This, it is by n means unlikely, may be the only result ( ! Cetewayo's visit. Like Bungari, 'the Blac Fellow" and young Djammsl- Eddil Schamyrs son, who died of weariness, afte exchanging the gay society of St. Petersbu1 | for the rude life of Circassia he may disco ! CT wants he never knew, and return to Zul1 ) \ land or the Cape having learnt that swhel \ ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise"