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              * — two dollars per annum in advance j inserted at 1 per square for the first l advert1361 h subsequent insertion court or ■ j25^sr^r1emhi^er 00r_r _ f ooi er cent will be made to those gffg ' i family picture bv judge longstreet , t inscribe a georgia family it is a . ■ specimen of georgia families gener 11 the heads of which are parents of jh sense pood morals and well improv " ind f sure here are in geor as many notions about parental gov *"' l nt as there are in any countrv and . nractice as various as the opinions — if ie parents exercise no government at ii others confine themselves exclusively ' the government of the tongue ; and oth role hy l'10 ro a'one '* ul by far the . r<rer class blend tbese several modes of vernment and prefer the one or the oth ■ according to times and circumstances rp0 this class belonged mr and mrs but ■ . the heads of the family which i am hoot to describe gilbert was the chris ui name of the husband and eliza of .:'. wife i was intimately acquainted tfith them both before their union : anfl fas ever afterwards admitted to their household with the freedom of one of its members — indeed i was a connection of one of them th v had been married about eight months when a dull november evening onversation turned upon raising chil ren by the way eliza said gilbert • jhave been thinking for some time past rchanging views with you upon this abject ; and there never can bn a better lime than now while abraham is with us whose opinions vve both respect and who will act as umpire between us well said eliza ' let me hear yours ' if we should ever be blessed with chil vn eliza blushed a little let it be a fundamental law between us that neither nf us ever interfere with the discipline ol ie oilier eiiher by look word or action in the presence of the children to that rule i most heartily subscribe 1 when a child is corrected by one of u let not the other extend to it the least condolence or sympathy in that also you have my hearty con currence • let us never correct a child in a pas sion the propriety of that rule 1 fully ad mit hui i fear that i shall not always be able to conform to its requisition 1 will however endeavor to do so well if you will do your best i shall be satisfied bet us as far as it is practicable in troduce among our children the univer sally admitted principles of good govern meni among men thnt is a very indefinite rule husband i know very little of the principles of good governmeni among men and much less of those which are universally admitted will 1 will be a little more specific 1 believe it isuniversally admitted thai laws should precede punishment : and thai none uld he punished who are incapable ol understanding the law in accordance with these principles 1 would never pun ish a child who is incapable of distin guishing between right and wrong nor until ho shall have been forewarned of lhe wrong and taught to avoid it these principles seem very reasonable tome said eliza but they can never be applied to children if you tlo not correct achild until it is old enough to learn from precept the dill rence between right and wrong there will be no living in the house with it i'or the first live or six years of its le.and no controlling it afterwards gilbert received these views ol his wife wh some alarm and entered upon a long argument to convince her that they were erronedus she maintained her own very well hut gilbert had certainly the advan tage of her in the argument all he could ay however did not in the least shake hei confidence in her opinion 1 was at length appealed to and i gave judgment in favor of gilbert well said she 1 never was better satisfied ot any thins in my life than i am liat you are both wrong but let us com promise ibis matter i'll agree to this f ever i correct a child before it is old enough to receive instruction from pre c(>pt and you do not approve of my con duct 1 will then promise vou never to do the lik0 again well said gilbert that is very fair 011(1 more i uie wiil settle the fundamen d and we may safely trust all others to tare adjustment let us never address d^r children in the nonsensical gibberish •' is so universally prevalent among pa v-ani particularly among mothers — is very silly in the fust place and ir pfeatly retards a child's improvement in • s c md — were it not for this 1 have n°uouh children would speak tlieir mo ter tongue as correctly at four yearsold asthey do a sixteen eliza smiled and observed that this a small matter that it had also tetter he left to future adjustment to lbi*s gilbert rather reluctantly assented about two months after this conversa wo gilbert was blessed with a line son jom he named john james gilbert after we two grandfathers and himself — a pro ju*ion of names which he had cause af tprwards to repent just fourteen months and six days there i jer he was blessed with a tine daughter eliza named ann francis eliza *"** the two grandmothers anil herself i atu-'ut " m"m'is thereafter he received . urd blessing like unto thc lirst ; which i " tiled george henry after his two bro tl ■ i months and nineteen days af jr uie birth of george a fourth blessing gilded upon gilbert in the form of a this took the name of william justus alter two brothers of his wife za now made a long rest of nineteei the carolina watchman bruner & james ) _, .. . _ > " keep a check utoh all your editors 4 proprietors v .. s . fe ., c new series rvleks } number 26 of volume ii salisbury n c october 25 1845 months four days and five hours i speak from the family record when by way of amend she presented her husband a pair of blessings as soon as his good fortune was made known to him gilbert express ed a regret that he had not reserved his own name until now in order that tbe twins might bear his own name and mine seeing this could not be be bestowed my name upon the lirst horn and gave me lhe privilege of naming tbe second as i consider ' a good name rather to be chosen than great riches i called the innominate after isaac the patriarch and a beloved uncle of mine in this very triumphant and laudable manner did mrs butler close tbe list ol hei sons she now turned her attention to daugh ters and in the short space of live years produced three that a queen might have been proud ot tlieir names in lhe order of their births were louisa rebecca and sarah it was one of mrs butler's max ims ' if yon have any thing to do do it at once and she seemed to be governed by this maxim in making up her family lor sarah completed the number of children john was about a year old when i was again a gilbert's for the evening lie was seated by the supper table with the child iu hisarms ad dressing some remarks to me when i called his attention to the child who was just in the act of putting ihis lingers into lhe blaze of the caudle — l jilbert jerked him away suddenly ; which iso incensed master john james gilbert h t li.it he screamed insufferably gilbert itossed him patted him ; but he could not bdislraet his attention from the candle — bile moved him out of sight of the lumi bminary but that only made matters worse bile now commenced his first lesson in the fl principles of good government he bbrought the child towards the candle and bthe nearer it approached the more paci blied it became the child extended its barm to catch the blaze and gilbert bore bit slowly towards the llame until the hand icamc nearly in contact with it when he bsnatched it away crying ' bunny linnies !' iwhich is by interpretation you'll burn lyour lingers !' eliza and i exchanged isuiiles but neither of us said any thing i the child construed this into wanton itenzing and became if possible more ob 1st re penn is than ever gilbert now resort led to another expedient he put his own lingers into the blaze withdrew them sud llenly blew them shook them aud give levery sign of acute agony this not onl iquictcd but delighted the child who sig iniiicd to him to do it again he instant ly perceived what was practically de imonstrated the minute afterwards thai he child was putting a most dangerou interpretation upon his last illustration | le determined therefore not to repeat it if he child not satisfied with the sport,de lermined to repeat it himself which the j fatliei opposing he began to reach and hsrv as before there was but one expe himcnt left ; and that was to let the child heel the flame a little this he resolved o try but how to conduct it properly was hiot so easily settled it would not do to lillow the infant to put his hand into the hilaze ; because it would burn too little or lim much he therefore resolved to direct hhe hand to a point so near the llame that hi he increasing heat would induce the child in withdraw his hand himself accord ingly he liroiight the extended arm slowly howards the flame the child becoming hmpnticnt with every moment's postpone h-icnt of its gratification until the hand h-ame within about an inch of tin wick hwhen he held the child stationary but hjohn would not let his hand remain sta htionary nor at the chosen point he kept hsnatching at the candle till finding all his hetibi-ts fruitless he threw himself violent |\ back gave his father a tremendous hthuinp on the nose with the back of bis hm-.mm and kicked and screamed most out h ' you little rascal said gilbert i've a hgood mind to give you a good spanking h give him to me said mrs butler h ' you'd belter not take him said gil hliert in an under tone ' while he is in such hi passion ' no danger she said ; ' hand him to | h '.' as she received him ' hush sir !' said isiie very sharply ; and lhe child hushed and was asleep in a few minutes m ' strange said mr butler how much the mother acquires control ovei la child than the father ■ ' not at all said mrs butler ' yon have controlled him as easily as i i'ml if you had given him the same lesson that i did he got in just such m uproar the other day and finding noth ing else would quiet him 1 spanked it out i him and i have had no more trouble quieting him since ' 1 begin to think butler said i ' that ll-'j.i/a was right in the only points of dif between you touching the man of children i observed that you the child just now in the gib llierish you so much condemned.before you a father : and though it seemed enough especially in you i ithink it would bave appeared still more if you had said to a child so - john mv son do not put your fin i_er.s into the llame of the candle it will ll.nm them and your expedient has you the absolute impossibility of governing children of very tender years i by prescribed rules i am half inclined to youropinion.'said i butler ' eliza's discipline has performed i several irood offices it has relieved us i of john's insufferable noise it has taught i him to control his temper at its first ap i pearance and it learned bim the meaning i ofa (* hush which will often supply the i place of correction and always forewarn i bim of desires unlawful long before tbe second son arrived at i the reasoning age gilbert abdicated un i reservedly in favor of his wife ; content 1 ing himself with the subordinate station i of her ministerial officer ; in which he ex 1 ecuted her orders in cases requiring more i physical strength than she possessed i passing over the intermediate period 1 1 i now introduce lhe reader to this family i after most of the children had reached the i age of reason iu contemplating thel i scene which i am about to sketch he \\ illl ibe pleased to turn his thought occasional i ily to gilbert's principles of good govern-^b i ment i sarah was about two years and a half^b lold when gilbert invited me to break fast m i with him one december morning near the i i christmas holidays it was lhe morning^b i ip|)ointed lor his second killing of hogsr^b i which as lhe southern reader knows is ib i sort of carnival in georgia i went null i found till the children at home and gil-^b i belt's mother added to the family circle i i john and anna reached tbe age whenh i they were permitted to take seats at ihe.h i first table ; though upon this occasion john^b b being engaged about the pork did not a-l b vail himself of this privilege ; the rest oil bthe children were taught to wait for theh b second table breakfast was announced band after the adults and anna had des-h fl patched their meal the children weresum-h bmotied as tbey were bidden and thcreh bwere some preparatory arrangements f<h bbe made they all gathered all around theh bfire clamorous with the events of theh i morning h i by jocky said william didn't thafl lold black hurrah weigh a heap !' i * look here young gentlemen said hih imother ' where did you tick up such lan-h iguage as that ! now let me ever heaih lyou hy-jochying or by-'\ng anything elsih ingain and i'll by jocky you with a wit-h iness i'll warrant you i * but the black barrah said georgeh ididn't weigh as much for his size as liul bbob-tail speckle though h i ' hush your disputing — this instant stop hit — you shall not contradict each other ifl hthat manner and let us hear no morel hof your hog-pen wonders — no body wants i hto hear them i i at this instant william snatched a pig-b ht;iil out of isaac's hand i i ' ma said isaac ' make bill gi me nwz i i ' you william give him his — thing — i baiki if i was near you i'd box your earsl ilm that snatching mr butler you real-l ily will have to take that fellow in hand i hl'lc's getting so that i can do nothing witbl i ' ma said bill he took my hatha 1 i ' dont 1 tell you to hush your disputing.l h ' well ma uncle york give it to me i h he didn't uncle monday give it to me.l h here the mother divided a pair of slapsl hequally between the two disputants which them for a few moments i h at this juncture miss rebecca criech hout with a burnt linger which she rei hceived in cooking another pig-tail thel llmrn was so slight that she forgot it a iher mother jerked her from the fire i h ' you little vixen said the mother i what possesses you to be fumbling about hthe lire ! mr butler i beseech you to ibr hbid the negroes giving these children any hmore of these poison pig-tails they are la source of endless torment and now gentlemen — one and all of you — the next one of you that brings one of hihose things into this house again i'll box ihis ears as long as i can find him now remember it — come along to your break ■ in a little time after some controversy itihoiit places which was arrested by the eye they were all seated ; john iwho had dropped in in thc mean time,tak lin_r his father's seat i ' is-s-sp !' said william sassidges that's 1 love ■ ' hoo ! said isaac ' sparc->ribs !' that's iwhat 1 love ■ - well cease vour gab and eat what's iset before vou without comments no cares what you love or what yot llou'i love ■ souse said abraham i don't love i wouldn't eat souse ta'nt titten for hi dog to eat get up sir right from the table and march out of the house until you learn better manners i'll be bound if i say you diall eat souse you eat it do you hear hue ■ abraham raked himself lazily out of his seat and moved slowly off casting a longing look at the many good things on the table which he thought ' fitten for a hprince to cat ' ma said he as he retired ' i wish you'd make bill quit laughing at me william i've as great a mind as i ever had to do any thing in my life to send you from the table and not let you eat one mouthful i despise that abomi nable disposition vou have of rejoicing at your brother's misfortunes remember sir what solomon says : ' he that is clad at calamities shall not be unpunished ' ma said abraham ' may'nt i come to my breakfast • yes if you think you can now behave yourself with decency abraham returned ; and they all broke forth at once ' ma may'nt i have some sassidge v — ' ma i want some spare-rib * ma i a'n't got no coffee ' ma if you please ma'am let me have some ham-gravy and some fried homony and some egg and ' and some of every thing on the table i suppose ! put down your plates — every one of you george what'll you have ' some sassidge and some fried pota toe ' john help your brother george what do you want william v ' i want some spare-rib and some fried homony chancy help william ' what do you want abraham ?' ' i reckon said john smiling ' he'd like a little souse now john behave yourself he has suffered tbe punishment of his fault and let it i here rest ' i'll have said abraham * some ham gravy and some egg and some homony ' help bim chaney ' what'll you have isaac v ' i'll have some ham-gravy and some homony and some sassidge and some spare-rib and some ' ' well you're not a going lo have everything on the table i assure you what do you want ? ' i want some ham-gravy and some homony ' john help i ' ' no i dont want no gravy i want some spare rib ' john give him ' ' no i dont want no spare-rib i want some sassidge ' well if you dont make up your mind pretty quick you'll want your breakfast i tell you — i'm not going to be tantalized all day long by your wants say what you want and have done with it ' i want some ham-gravy and some sassidge and some homony ' help him john ' john helped him to about a tea-spoonful fron each dish ' now ma jist look at bud john ! he han'n gi'ine only these three little bit o'bits i ' john if you cant keep from tantalizing the lehildren tell me so and i will not trouble you ito help them any more i confess that i ham at a loss to discover what pleasure one of hyour age can take in teazing your younger bro h'thers h ' rebecca what do you want ?' h ' i want my pig tail ma'am h bless my soul and bod hav'nt you forgot it hat pig-lail yet it's burnt up long ago i hope hl_ook boh and see if it is'nt give it to her i i wish in my heart there never was a pig-tail up on the face of the earth h bob produced the half charred pig-tail and hlaid it on miss rebecca's plate h thero continued her mother ' i hope now hyour heart's at ease a beautiful dish it is tru ll v for anv mortal to take a fancy to h ' ma i dont want this pig-tail i ' take it away — i knew you did'nt want it hyou little perverse brat i knew you did'nt want hit ; and i dont know what got into me to let you it but really i am so tormented out ol imv life that half the time i hardly know whelh icr i'm standing on my head or on my heels i mis'es said chaney aunt dorcas say hplease make miss louisa come out ofthe kitch i — say if you dont make her come out o the hfirc she'll git burnt up presently — say every liime she tell her to come out o the lire she linako mouth at her h ' why sure enough where is louisa go land tell her to come into her breakfast this in h ' i did tell her ma'am : and she say she wont till she gets done bakin her cake \\\\\\\\ mrs butler left the room and soon re-appear with louisa sobbing and crying aunt jerked me jist as hard as ever she coulc i did any thing tall to her m ' hold your tongue ! she served you righl : you'd no business in there you're la pretty thing to be making mouths at a person hold enough to be your grandmother if i'd htimimlit when i gave you that little lump ol that the whole plantation was to be turn led up side down about it i'd have let you do hv.ith.hlt m « miss louisa after a little sobbing and pout lin drew from her apron a small dirty ashey hi lack wrinkled burnt biscuit warm from the shovel which would have been just pre the proper accompaniment to miss re dish ; and upon this in preference to hto every thing on the table she commenced her repast • well lou said the mother with a laugh as ishc cast her eye upon the unsightly biscuit i you certainly have a strange taste !' h every body knows that the mother's laugh is ial ways responded to with a compound interest ih v all her children so was it in this instance ; hand good humor prevailed round the table \\\\\\\\\\ ' i'm sorry said abraham ' for louisia's ll>-i bis k-i-t kit biskit ' well really said mrs b ' you are a hand isome speller " is that the way you spell biscuit \\\\\____\\ ' i can spell it ma !' bawled out isaac h ' well spell it * r-i-s c (' well that's right h ' ah i well that 11 do you needn't go any farther ; missed it farther than your brother h ' spell it william william spelled it correctly ' ma said george what is biscuit derived^h from ?' ' i really do not know said mrs b ' fl yet i have somewhere read an explanation ot ''-| johti what is it derived from v \\\\\\\\\\ john frum the french : bis twice nnd .*._..'■ h william wbj ma yop don't bake biseuits^b abraham yes ma does sometimes ; don't^h you ma when company comes mother no i sometimes warm over c>ldh ones when i havn't time to make tresh ones.h but never bake them twice i bullrr thev were made to carry to sea h land they wore then baked twice over ; as i bc-l llieve sea biscuit still are i isaac ma what breakfast lived from ? h i mother spell it and you will see ? i isaac b-r-e-c-k breck f.u-s-t fust irca/.-^h | mother well ike yob an a grand spclicr.^h i break-fast is the word ; not breck-fust h i abraham i know what it comes from h i mother what ! i i abraham you know when you call us chil-^h i en to breakfast we all break oil and run as tf-v/^b las we can split fl i mother well that is a brilliant derivation i truly do vi u suppose there was no breakfist^m i before you children were born ? i abraham bui ma every body has chil'cn.^fl i mrs butler explained the term i isaac ma i know what sassidge comes i from i mother what h i isaac cause its got sass in it i well there there there i've got enough oil i vour derivations unless they were better — h i you'll learn all these lliing as you jrowolder.h i just here mis sarah who had been break-h i fasted at a side table was seized with a curo..ifl i ty to see what was on the breakfast table i accordingly she undertook to draw hersclfh i up to the convenient elevation by the table c|.>tli.h bller mother arrested her just in lime to save til bcup and pushed her aside with a gentle admo-^b bnition this did not abate miss sarah's c;iiifl bosity in the least and she recommenced her ix-fl bpeiiment her mother removed her a ii'm'i fl more emphatically this time these little infl bterruptiotis only fired miss sarah's zeal amh ishe was returning to the charge with redoubledh bencrgv when she ran her cheek against th.h bpalntof her mother's hand with a raliifi/i'/v/ib i force j i away she went io her grandmother cryinjm fl gramma ma whipp'd your precious darlin atih hgel baby m ' did she my darling ! then grandma's pre bcious darling angel must be a good chiid and i mother won't whin it anv more i « well i will be a dood chile i ' well then mother wont whip it any more i and this conference was kept up without vari h tion of a letter on either side until the grand - | mother deemed it expedient to remove misssa irah to an adjoining room lest the mother should linsist upon the immediate fulfilment ofherpro mises | ' ma just look at abe !' cried out william he saw mc going to take a biscuit and he snatched up the very one i was lookin at i ' abe said the mother i do wish i could makc you quit nicknaming each other and i iwi.-di more that i never set you the examph — pul down that biscuit sir and take anothor i abraham returned the biscuit and william htook it up with a sly but triumphant giggle at h abraham h ' ma said abraham ' bill said gud dimu h ' law what a story ! ma i declare i never h.-;iif no such thing h ' yes vnti did and chaney heard you h william's countenance immediately showed hthat his memory had been refreshed and he hdrawled out ' never none now with a tone and hcountenance that plainly imparted guilt to some hextent his mother suspected he was hinging hupon technics and she put the probing question h — ' well what did you say v h ' i said i be teto'tly w h and that's just as bad mr butler you pos hitively will have to take this boy in hand he a strong propensity lo profane swearing hwhinh if not corrected immediately will become governable ' whenever you can't manage him said as before just turn him over to me and hi reckon i can cure him w ' when did he say it v enquired the mother to abraham h ' you know thai time you sent all us ehil'en h he new-ground to pick peas !" ' why that's been three months ago at lea«t : hand you've just thought now of telling it oh hvou malicious load you where do you learn to hli ar malice so long i abhor that trait of cha h actor in a child ' ma said bill ' abe ha'n't said his prayers flt ihree abe and uill now exactly swapt places and h yes said thc mother and i suppose i flhouhl never have heard of tbat if abraham had him told of your profanity h ' i know better,5 dragged out abraham in to william abraham said the mother solemnly did hvou kneel down when you said your prayers last yes ma'am said abraham brightening a yes ma continued bill he kneels down html fore i say ' now i lay ine down to sleep hhc jumps up every night and bops in bed and hav he's done said his prayers and he ha'n't hhad time to say hall a prayer h during this narrative my namesake k^pt under the steadfast frown of bis moth her until he transformed himself into the perfect of idiocy ' how many prayers did you say last night '.'' pursued the mother in an awfully tone ' i said one and — ' here abraham paused ) ' one and what .' ' one and piece of t'other one i ' why ma he could'nt ha said it to save his hi ite for he had'nt time — ' m ' hush sir i dont ask your assistance * i did mutterred abraham i said t'other piece after i got in bed * abraham said his mother ' i declare i do not know what to say to you i am so mortified ; so shocked at this conduct lhat i am complete ly at a loss to know bow to express myself about it suppose you had died last night af ter trilling with your prayers as you did ; who can sav what would have become of you is it possible that yon cannot spend a few minutes in prayer to your heavenly father who feeds vou who clothes you and who gives you every i good thing you have in the world you poor i sinful child i could weep over you i poor abraham evinced such deep contrition i under this lecture for he sobbed as if his heart i would break that his mother deemed it prudent i to conclude with suasives ; which she did in the i happiest manner i having thus restored abraham's equanimity i in a measure with a greatly encouraging smile i she continued : i ' and now abraham tell your mother how i you came to say a art of the second prayer i i could'nt iii to sleep till 1 said it ma'am i ' well lhat i a g d ign at least and what i part wa it .' i • go i bless ay father an 1 m tfier i mrs butler felt quickly tor her handkerchief i it had fx.'\on from her lap and she was glad of i it she depressed her head below the table in i search of it — dismissed the children before she i raised it — and then r se wiih a countenance i suffused with smiles ar.d teat i ' poor babes _ aid she ' what an odd com i pound of good and bad tiny are .'" i the grandmother returned just at this time i atnl discovering si me uneasiness al mrs but i ler's tears the latter explained as she con i eluded — the lord bless lhe poor dear boy i exclaimed the venerable matron raising her i apron to her eyes tha shows he's got a good i heait no danger of the child tbat can't sleep fl til he prays for his father and mother fl ancient remains in tennessee i from a review in lie national intelligencer i of a volumn recently published c<uilaing i transactions of the american ethnological i society we take the following notice of an ar i tide furnished by dr gerard troosl — the dis i tingi ir-hed state geologist of tennessee — and i the equally distinguished professor of natural i philosophy dec in our university i " an account of some ancient remains in ttnncs \_\_\ see by gerard truest m lb i this is a highly interesting paper among i other information which it contains it appears i to set two mooted questions with respect to | western antiquities almost entirely at rest — i the lirst is that of the mummies which arc said i lo have been found in the caves of tennessee i dr t appears to prove that the bodies which i have been found are not properly muium'u s but | merely dried cadavers — exhibiting no marks of i embalming or artificial preparation he doubts i whether one of these which he examined was | even of remote antiquity the other question i is respecting the numerous graves found in the i western states some years ago and which h were said to contain the remains of an extinct i pigmy race of human beings dr troost sup i poses these graves to contain the collided bones h ofthe slain in battle the indian custom was i to carry their slain to thi ir own towns and i hang ihem up iti mats on trees at their gen i eral burying festivals thc b mes thus preserved h were collected and buried " and hence in my i opinion sav dr t those numerous small i graves which aie attributed but i believe er h roneously to pigmies i have opened num i hers of these small graves and bave found them i filled with a parcel of mouldered hones tiro oc h cipital hones : of course it was a mere mix i ture of bones belonging to more than one bo i dv these bones lay without any order — i the doctor then considers the circumstances h attending the extensive ancient bun ing ground i found in tennessee he mentions one near i nashville about a in he in length and of un h knoirii breadth in which is found tone coffins i so close to one another that each corpse is sep i arated from its neighbor by only a single stone i the side of one coffin forming one of the sides h ofthe next in a circie oi about len miles in i diameter there are six extensive burying i grounds these graves arc supposed to c.u h lain the remains of un extinct race from i conversations which he has held with the most i aged and best instructed of cherokee and h creek indians the doct learns that neither ken fl tuckv or tennessee was ever pcrmttnently in i habited by any existing or lately existing tribe ; hthcy visited them only in their hunting excur h-i-mi ; thev j,;id an abhorrence of kentucky i the land of dark and bloody ground thc bu i rving places ol the cberekees are few and not h extensive i'he shape of the skulls found in theso baii'-iciit burying grounds differs materially from that of all oth-r indian hulls in possession of fllir morion of philadelphia whose collection i is the most numerous of any in the united i states the extinct race is supposed to have bin-en less civilized than the indians who wcro tlonul here at the time of columbus this is inferred trom the irinkets and utensils bund in graves beim of a very rude construction i and all formed of some natural product none of bin-tab dr troost says that the examination of these trinket a:c has created in him an hi pinion that the people to whom they belonged laud in whose graves they are found came from troph-al country : and he adduces many b c.._;ent reasons for thinking so that they flu later and from th ir idols several of fl which are in the possession of dr t acquainted buith-.iuie ofthe idolatrous mysteries ofthe h egyptians and other eastern nations is very evi bijeni this would beem to indicate lhat the b earliest inhabitants of thi continent had an h eastern origin and is corroborative of theopin iimi of mr gallatin the custom house let ins thi xew herald says another pamphlet is forthcoming from rtkenzie containing still mom curious letters picked up in the custom house some of them written by h.mr van buren addressed to jess iloyt land others addressed to other distinguish h ed characters among the batch is said to be a consid i erable leaven of amatory correspondence h xvritten by ladies who wanted office on h any considi ration for their friends c b^v — the herald intimates that tbis cor i rcspondciice will j:ive an insight into a bticxv class of society and utterly astound hthe public xvith revelations tbat have ne i ver been dreamed of the pamphlet is i now ready as mackenzie himself declares h to his publishers but bo is only waiting h the disposition to be made next week by i the chancellor before he puts this new i brochure to press