He says: The chicf, who was wrapped in a buflalo-robe, is a uoble specimen of native dignity and philosophy. I conversed much with him, and from his diguificd manners, as well as from the soundness of his reasoning, I became fully convinced that he deserved to be the sachem of a more numerous and prosper ous tribe. IIe related to me with great coolness and frankness the poverty and distress of his nation-and with the method of philosopher predicted the certain and rapid extinction of lis tribe, which he had not the power to avert. Poor, noble clhief, equal to and worthy of a greater empire! who was He sat on the deck of the steamer, overlooking the little eluster of bis wigwams mingled among the trees, and, like Caius Marius weeping canting on the poverty of his ill-fated little community, which he told me had 'once been powerful and happy; that the buf faloes wich the Great Spirit had given them for food, and which formerly spread all over their green prairies, had all been killed or driven out by the approach of white men, who wanted their skins; that their country was now game, and even of roots for food, as it was one continuous prai rie; and that iis young men, penetrating the countries of their enemies for bufaloes, wlieh they to pieces and destroyed in great numbers. That his people had foolishly become fond of fire-water, and had given away every thing in their conntry for it; that it had destroyed many of his warriors, and would soon over the ruins of Carthage, shed tears as he was des- entirely destituto of were obliged to do, were cut destroy the rest; that his tribe was too small and his warriors too few to go to war with the tribes around them; that they wcre met and killed by the Sioux on the north, by the Pawnecs on the west, by the Osages and Konzas on the sonth, and still more alarmed from the constant advance of the pale faces-their enemies from the oast-with whiskey and small-pox, which already had destroyed four-fifths of his tribe, and would soon impoverish and at last destroy the remainder of them.' Iu this way did this shrewd philosopher