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NEW ENGLAND FA R M E R 



JAN. 3»- 183R. 



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From '• Constance Lalimer, or the Blind Girl," 



BV MRS F.MBUIIT. 



rSuppoBed to be sung hy a blind girl, who refers all 

 her icleiis ..f the beauty of earth and sUy to the sweet 

 rural sounds she h.'ars.] 



Earth speaks in many voices : from the roar 



Of tlie wild cataract, whose ceaseless din 



Shakes the far forest and resounding shore, 



To the meek rivulet which seems to win 



Its modesl way amid spring's pleasant bowers 



Singing its quiet song to charm earth's painted flowers 



P.arlh speaks in many voices: from the song 



Of the TrcP bird wh ch soars to Heaven'" high porch, 



As if on joy's fuli iids it swept along, 



To the low hum that wakens when the torch 



Summons the in sett myriads of the night 



To sport their little hour and pensh in its light. 



Earth speaUs in many voices : music breathes 



In the Kvveet murmur of the summer breeie, 



That pays amid tlie honeysuckle's wreaths, 



Or swells its diapason 'mid the trees 



When eye's cold shadow steals o'er lawn and lea, 



And day's glad sounds give place to holier minstrelsy. 



Earth sjieaks in many voices : and to me 



Her every tone wilh melody is fraught ; 



Her harmony of tints I may not see, ■ 



But every breath awakes some pleasant thought ; 



■While to mine ear such blissful sounds are given, 



My spirit dwells in light, and dreams of yonder Heaven 



Kiom Ihe New York Evenhig Star, 



DESTRUCTION OF THE MANDANS, AND 

 OTHER TRIBES 15Y SMALL POX. 



Stdyvesant Institute, ? 



New "i'ork, Jan. 3, 1838. ) 



Dear Sir Your note of the 2i1 itist. was du- 

 ly received, and to your enquiry " whether the, re- 

 port of the melancholy fate of tli9 Mnndans be 

 true " I am sorry to reply that th-, ^'account you 

 gave of them a few days since was lite-ally cor- 

 rect. 



Several letters have just been received from 

 the U|)pcr .Missouri, written by gentlemen of un- 

 questionable veracity (agents of the American 

 Fur Company to their principals in this city, giv- 

 in" a most melancholy acconnl of the ravages of 

 the small pox among several of the Upper Mis- 

 souri tribes of Indians. !{y the latest accounts 

 from them, it seems that the disease w.->s raging 

 with the most desolating eftecis amongst the As- 

 sineboins, the Blackleet, and' other tribes in that 

 vicinity. Several thousands had already been de- 

 stroyed, and of the intcrestine;, friendh/, imil gen- 

 tlemanly MandaiiR, nothing remains but a few 

 straggling individuals, who must, from necessity 

 mid the custom of the coiinlry, merge into the 

 ranks of their surrounding enemies, where they 

 will be used as slaves. So terminates the exist- 

 ence of Indian tribe.s, who, (roin want of num- 

 liers bcu'ome unable to stand against the assanlts 

 of their enemies. Such is iincpiestianably there- 

 suit to which the Matnlan nation has arrived, uml 

 tlieir race (with their interesting, peculiar cus- 

 toms — their religion and social liappiiies"*) may be 



said to be extinct. Poor noble, and crallani lel- 

 lows! there are hut few of the civilized world 

 besides inyseTf who know their virtues, and we 

 alone well know how to extend our sympathies to 



them. 



The Mandnns, when I was in their country, 

 lived all in two villages, in sight of each other, on 

 the west bank of the Missor.ri, 1, 800 miles above 

 St Louis —'1 hey formerly lived further down the 

 riJer, and then, in eight or ten villages, the marks 

 of which I saw, and closely examined, while de- 

 sceiuling the Missouri fiver. They had suflered 

 immense losses from the hostilities of the Sioux 

 during the last forty years, and theirnumbers and 

 strength wore very much reduceil. 



The American Fur Com|.a!iy, not many years 

 since, erected a formidable fort by the side ol 

 their principal village on the bank »( the river, 

 and prol-.-.'dv had been the means of preserving 

 them thus far from t!.e destroying han^ds of the 

 Sioux, as their village and the plains about it were 

 on.ler the complete protection of the guns of the 

 fort They have fallen victims, however, to an 

 enemy that was ruthless and irresistible and it is 

 probable that little el.se of them is leit for the 

 world's instrnctibu, than the memorials which 1 

 made and collected of them whilst living with 



them. , , . ., 1 T 



I became more charmed with this tribe than I 

 did with any other, and, consequently, took more 

 pains to ponrtray their customs and peculiarities 

 of character. 1 have views of their villages, («s 

 those will attest «ho have visited my rooms,) 

 their lodges, their festivals, their games, their re- 

 li<,ious cercmm.ies, together with a great number 

 of portraits of their principal men and women 

 and also a full collection of their costumes and 

 other manufactures. 



It is a source of great satisfaction to me (and 

 should be so to the world also) that I was lucky 

 enou-h to snatch such memorials ol these unlor- 

 tnnate people from oblivion at the time that 1 <!id : 

 ni-d their melancholy fate is one more sudden 

 fulfilment of the prophecies which I have been 

 making to the world— that these noble fellows arc 

 soon to be swept, nation after nation, from the 

 face of the earth. . 



You ask me " how this disease was carried 

 among then." I cannot tell. There is no 

 donbt, however, that its germ was, in some way 

 or other, communicated from the civilized bor- 

 ders ; for, although the small pox has been the 

 greatest destroyer of the Indian race, it is a fact 

 that it never had its origin amongst them. Al- 

 most every tribe of Indians that now exist, or 

 ever have existed east of these poor fellows, who 

 are now ta'^ing their turn with it, and as far east 

 as the Atlantic coast,* have successively suffered 

 nn.ler the desolating ravages of this civilized 

 scourge. But a few years since the Pawnees 

 lost one half of their nation ; the Puncahs lost 

 two thirds;, the Omahas and Otoes, Missourias 

 and Kanzas lost one half at least of their num- 

 bers by it. Only one year and a half ago 1 was 

 at Prairie du Chieu, on the Upper Mississippi, 



wlfeie I wilnesseil its frighlful eHecls amongst 



the Winnebagoes and Sion.x — every other man 



amongst them was slain by it ; and O-wa-pe- 



shaw, the greatest man of tlie Siou.x, with half ol 



his band, flied under the corners of fences, \i 



little {horrid) groups, to which kindred ties heic 



them in ghastly death, with their bodies swollen 



and covered with pustules — their eyes blinded— 



hhleously howling their death song in utter des 



pair — aft'ectionalely clinging to each other' 



necks with one hand, and grasping bottles urn 



tin pans of whiskey in the other ! But let m 



stop. The actual ravages of this deadly diseus 



(which, like other causes that liave led to th 



rapid demolition of the numerous tribes ol th 



West, and of which I shall give smiie more def 



nite accounts ere long,) have heretofore bee 



little known to tlie civilized world, and for tli 



reason solely that these benighted people ha\ 



had no proper vehicle of knowledge or iiifc.rnii 



lion that could reach beyond the oral legends c 



their wigwam firesides — they have had no new 



papers. Yours, &c. 



GKORGE CATLIN. 



C.iTAt.OGUB 



of Forest Seeds and Trees, furnished by HWiam Ma; 

 I Bangor, Mc. 



White Pine, Black spruce, Hemlock spruce, silver t 

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 sii^ar .Maple, Arbor Vila;, American Larch, Iloriibei 

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Orders may be addressed to WM MANN, BaMg(,r, Ma 

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Nov. 15, 1837. 



PRTJIT TREES, ORNAMENTALiTREBS, itlOR 

 MUl^TICAULIS, ETC 



For sale by the subscriber. The trees nf ihe Plums 

 Pears were never before so fine, the assortment so compi 



Apples Peaches, Cherries, Grape vines, a superioras! 

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25 000 Morus Muhicaulis, or true Chinese Mulberry t 

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PRtNlNU PUUIT AND FOREST TREES 



Orape Vines, and dressing Green house Plants, Shrubs 

 E SaYek^ be"8 leave lo inform the citizens of Bosloi 

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"dcc. 27, 1837. ^__ 



* Note. Our readers will recollect the tradi- 

 tion among the Indians, spoken of by the Pnri- 

 taiis on their first settlement of New EngUin... 

 These white emigrants were told that whole 

 nations had been swept ofT before this country 

 was visited, and the Puritans deemed it a^^provi- 

 deutiul circumstance. 



CLOVER SEED. 



Just received at the New England Agricultural Ware 

 and Seed Store, It tons prime Northern Cloter. 

 Nov. 1. 



CORN SHELLBRS. 



Just received at the New England Agricult.n-al Ware 

 Harrison's Patent Corn Sheller. This maclune w.l 

 75 to SO bushels of corn per day, and is one of the mos 

 Tpft insuliinee lor the purpose ever introduced, 

 feet mauimes loi I h h JOSEPH BRECK .{•( 



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n SCUOOl. STRELT 150STON. 



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