But a handful (less than forty) of that once powerful tribe now remain. Like the leaves of autumn they have fallen and been scattered. A few short years, and the name of Lenni Lelappe will be forgotten for ever.

genious contrivance in each cell, prevents the possi- | thickness, three inches wide at the top, two inches bility of conversation, preserves the purity of the at- at the handle, and cut out in the middle to the thickmosphere of the cells, and dispenses with the other-ness of one inch, and it is about two feet long. On wise unavoidable necessity of leaving the apart- both sides from the top, until about one third the way ment, except when the regulations permit; flues down, it is regularly carved; no doubt the record of conduct heated air from large cockle stoves to the his chieftain authority. The pipes found with him, cells. Light is admitted by a large circular glass in are cut out of solid stone, (soapstone,) and has also the crown of the arch, which is raking, and in the a rude engraving on its surface. The skeleton itself highest part sixteen feet and six inches above the was again decently interred in a wild and secluded floor, which is of wood, overlaying a solid founda- spot, by Col. Morgan, there to remain until the last tion of stone. The walls are plastered and neatly trump shall "wake it with its warning." white-washed; the cells are eleven feet nine inches long, and seven feet six inches wide; at the extremity of the cell, opposite to the apertures for inspection, previously mentioned, is the door-way, containing two doors; one of lattice-work, or grating, to admit the air and secure the prisoner; the other composed Four years since, a chief whose head had numof planks to exclude the air, if required; this door bered seventy winters, was sent by his tribe, from leads to a yard eighteen feet by eight, the walls of the shores of lake Michigan, to claim from the state which are eleven and a half feet in height, attached of New Jersey, an extinguishment of their last resto each cell. The number of the latter in the preservation, the fisheries on the Delaware river. And ent plan is only two hundred and sixty-six, but it may be increased to eight hundred and eighteen, without resorting to the addition of second stories. This peniteniary is the only edifice in this country, which is calculated to convey to our citizens the external appearance of those magnificent and picturesque castles of the middle ages, which contribute so eminently to embellish the scenery of Europe. Mr. John Haviland was the architect.

was this aged chief met with sneers and scoffs, and sent away because he was an Indian? No-bis demand was heard, the claim of his tribe admitted, and paid from the state treasury. "The last link was broken," which bound him to his native soil, and he left us for ever.

Curious Discovery at Pompeii.-A letter from Naples of the twenty-third of October, published in the Paris National, says: Professor Zahn has this moment returned to town with the intelligence of a most curious discovery that has just been made at Pompeii. A complete table-service in silver has been found. It consists of forty-four plates, a large dish, three small vessels, two spoons, and four forks. The workmanship is admirable, and the articles are all in the highest state of preservation.

Indian Skeleton.-In New Brunswick, N. J., between South Amboy and Cheesequakes, immediately along the shore of the Raritan bay, are several beds of potter's clay, which are chiefly used for making Tail of a Gigantick Lizard.-The tail of a githe kind of pottery called stone ware, although some gantick lizard or crocodile, completely converted into of the finest of it is used in the manufacture of stone of the hardest texture, has been found about porcelain and delft ware: from its being so beauti-twenty yards below the surface of the earth, in the fully variegated with red, green, and other colours, it is called peach-blossom clay. Immediately upon the upper surface of the clay, there is a layer of sand, ranging from five inches to twenty feet in thickness. In removing this sand, there have been found at different times, vegetable relicks, such as wood completely carbonized, and in a state of lignite, and some nearly pure charcoal. Amber is found here, which the workmen call rosum. It is also found washed up on the beach after an easterly

storm.

shaft of a coalpit which has been recently opened near Chesterfield, in Derbyshire. In about three years time, when other shafts shall have been formed, it is probable there will be discovered the cast of some extraordinary animal of large dimensions, in solid stone, equal to the present fragment, which is so singularly perfect, that it shows every wrinkle and indent of the external muscles and texture of th skin. The head of an immense animal was found a few days since, in a bed of chalk, at the back of Kemp town. It measures three feet one and a half inches in length, and one foot nine inches thick.

A few years since, while the workmen were engaged in removing a portion of this sand, they discovered several feet below the surface, the bones of Discovery of Marble. In the island of Tree, the feet of a man, and upon examination, they found on the west coast of Scotland, an engineer has lately a whole skeleton of an Indian chief. He had been discovered some beautiful blocks of white marble, and buried in a sitting posture, with his face toward the an inexhaustible strata of variegated granite, undula east, and by his side were found, in a perfect state ting streaks of red, white, and black. At the Ross, of preservation, a war-club, three pipes, several in the island of Mull, comparatively pure red and heads of arrows made of hornstone, some stone white granite occurs in vast abundance. This is by hatchets, and other articles-plainly showing that far the most beautiful variety in the country, or per at one time he was a powerful chief of the Del- haps in the world. One of the many blocks forming awares, a tribe of Indians that once owned New the debris of an adjoining mountain, was found to Jersey The articles found with him have carefully measure twelve cubick feet to the tun-no less than been preserved. The war-club is about one inch in one hundred and four square tuns of workable granite

THIS institution was established in 1820, and gilding ripples are burnished by the silvery effulgence the building erected in 1824. It is constructed of the midnight moon, its course is still mightyof granite; the front is ninety-six feet, and the fearful-resistless; and we think of its fair lonely width is sixty-three feet. The legislature of journeying, and the scenes it has witnessed, and we Pennsylvania granted eight thousand dollars to look upon its placid surface shadowed by the for the funds of the institution, and to which were ests of its banks, and it seems to us in all its majes added donations from some liberal individuals. tick magnificence only as the giant slumbering from The state made provision also for the mainte- his labour. nance of fifty indigent pupils, for several years. But when the beautiful spring time is over and the Maryland and New Jersey gave support to the balmy moonlit evening of summer is past, and Auinstitution; the former by an appropriation of tumn's shadowy glory is no more; when winter thirty-five hundred dollars for a number of years, broods over desolated nature, then it is that the "terri to support indigent deaf and dumb children of ble Mississippi," assumes all its fearfulness of aspect, that state; and the latter, by maintaining twelve and we realize that we are gazing upon the mighti pupils, for an indefinite period. The children est stream, with but a single exception that flows are taught industrious habits, and their minds so upon our globe. All then is unmingled grandeurcultivated by their skilful teachers, that they sublimity-magnificence. acquire much useful information. The pupils continue in the asylum from four to six years. The system pursued in the institution is agreeable to the theory of the Abbe Sicard; and substantially conformable to that adopted in the American asylum at Hartford.

THE MISSISSIPPI.

WE have never viewed a grander spectacle than that which the mighty stream, rolling its vast floods along our city to the deep, now presents. The Mississippi even in its mildest mood is terrible. When it pours among its dark waters beneath the gentle gleamings of a midsummer's sunset; or when its

Turn your eye even now, reader, over its troubled surface, and what a spectacle does that mighty mass of volumed water present! The opposite shore is desolate, bleak and cheerless: the naked banks rise steep from the rushing stream mantled with icethe trees are leafless and drear-at intervals through their bare, weather-beaten trunks you catch a glimpse of an ancient mound upon the smooth prairie, while far away in the blue distance, standing out against the dim eastern horizon, is perceived the long line of white cliffs or the summits of the bluffs, sweeping away from the view. Bloody Island in the midst of the rushing stream stretches out its barren, sandy shores, sad and gloomy as a graveyard! ah! a graveyard; and when the associations connected with its dark history are permitted to throng the mind, the appellation is no misnomer. A graveyard!-let it bear the title; whatever our view respecting the scenes it be witnessed, the name is appropriate.

THE new hall of this institution, represented in the cut, is the fruit of the munificence of the city council of Lexington. Early in 1839, a vote was passed granting forty-five thousand dollars for the erection of a new edifice, and the enlargement of the library, apparatus and museum; and three thousand dollars were added to that sum by several citizens, to purchase a suitable lot of ground. On the 4th of July, 1839, the corner-stone was laid, with the usual masonic ceremonies, and the house was covered in November. The whole will be completed by the first of September next, and will present the most capacious, well arranged and perfect establishment of the kind in America.

ed and so provided for, as to make it equal, at least, to any other in this country, in every respect.

Of the appropriation by the city council, fifteen thousand dollars were set apart, especially for the library, museum and apparatus; to expend which in the best practicable way, Professors Peter and Bush visited the eastern cities of America, and Europe, in the last spring and summer. The greater part of their purchases has been received, and the residue is expected early in the coming season. They embrace the finest, rarest, and most valuable wax and other artificial preparations in Europe, almost without number; the most splendid articles of chemical and philosophical apparatus; forty-one magnificent pictures, more than two by three feet each, of the most important medicinal plants, drawn from living vegetables, in the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, by Chazel; the rarest, as well as the most modern medical works that could be found in London and Paris, sufficient to swell the Medical Library to at least seven thousand volumes.

Dimensions of the hall, including the portico in front, are 63 by 160 feet, three stories high. In addition to three very spacious lecture rooms, there is a very large library room, a large museum room, a pri- The graduates of this school are about twelve hunvate room for each professor, 5 dissecting rooms, jani- dred, scattered throughout the great valley, some of tor's apartments, &c. &c. The whole establishment them occupying the station of professors in kindred will be lighted, warmed and ventilated, in the most establishments. The class of 1839-40 numbered two advantageous manner, and will embody every desira- hundred and fifty-six, being larger than for the last ble convenience for such an institution. The ana- five years.

tomical department, public and private, is so arrang

The number of surgical operations performed by

The examination of candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, commences on the first day of March, and the degrees are conferred about the fifteenth of the same month. The graduation fee is twenty dollars. The faculty now consists of Professors Dudley, Anatomy and Surgery; Bush, (adjunct) Anatomy and Surgery; Cross, Institutes and Medical Jurisprudence; Smith, Theory and Practice of Medicine; Richardson, Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; Mitchell, Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Peter, Chemistry and Pharmacy.

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Professor Dudley, in Lexington, is immense. More until the spring of '76, when he returned to the than one hundred and fifty times, he has successfully Holston for his family, and commenced with them cut for stone, and he is constantly solicited to operate a settlement not far from the spot where the town of Harrodsburgh now stands-long known as Logan's on persons from all parts of the west. This fact, toFort. During the ensuing summer, however, the gether with the well known quiet and moral charac-assaults of the savages were so fierce and incessant, ter of the city, the hospitality of the people, and the that he was forced to send his family to Harrodsstanding of the medical faculty, has given the school burgh for safety, while he remained at the settlement its high prominence in the valley. The course of to cultivate his farm. The next spring, a few set lectures regularly opens on the first Monday of No- tlers having joined him, Logan again removed his vember, and closes on the last day of February. The family to the Fort, resolved to sustain himself cost of all the Professors' tickets is one hundred and against the assaults of the savages. This removal had hardly been effected, when, early one morning, five dollars, in the notes of good and solvent banks, the 20th of May, as the women were employed in of the states whence the pupils respectively come. milking the cows at the entrance to the garrison, The dissecting ticket (which is optional) is ten dol- with several of the men attending them, a body of lars, and the matriculation ticket, five dollars. Good Indians suddenly made their appearance, and, before boarding and lodging (fuel and light included) may a retreat could be effected, fired on the settlers, killbe had at from three to four dollars per week. ing two men and wounding a third. The party at once rushed into the fort and secured the poster before the savages could avail themselves of the sur prise. But Harrison, the man who had been wound ed, was still lying upon the spot where he fell, in full view of the garrison and exposed to the foe, who, doubtless, forebore to dispatch him at once, in expectation that a sally from the fort would be made to save him. Such a rescue appeared little less than madness certain death to several of the party seem ed inevitable should the attempt be made, and the whole force now consisted of but a dozen mennumber far too few for an effectual defence. The wife and children of the wounded man were within the fort, and their lamentations may be conceived better than described. At this distressing crisis, Logan declared himself ready to sally forth and bring in the wounded man, if any one would accom pany him. At length, one of the settlers, named Martin, consented to the proposition, and the gate AMONG the earliest and most respectable of the being opened the pair rushed forth. No sooner did emigrants to Kentucky-says an interesting writer they make their appearance, than Harrison exerted -was BENJAMIN LOGAN. His father immigrated to himself vigorously to rise: seeing this, Martin sup this country from Ireland early in the last century, posed him able to effect his escape without assis and settled in the state of Pennsylvania, whence he tance, and instantly retreated into the fort. But the soon after removed to Virginia, where he died. To wounded man fell back again almost lifeless from his eldest son, the subject of the present sketch, exhaustion, and Logan sprang forward to his relief. descended, by the laws of the state, all the real pro- A shower of rifle-balls instantly poured upon perty of the father, as he had deceased intestate: devoted man from every tree, and bush, and thicket. but to this disposition, Logan would not consent; Regardless of danger, he seized his companion in and, as the farm was too small to divide, he caused his arms and bore him triumphantly into the garn it to be sold, and the proceeds appropriated to the son, though the fire of the foe continued without benefit of his younger brother and sisters. By their intermission. Wonderful to relate, Logan received united assistance, he purchased a farm on a fork of not a solitary wound, though his clothes, and hat the James River, which was secured to his mother and the gate of the fort were completely riddled with for life. Logan was at this time but fourteen years rifle-balls! Such an exploit would have added glory of age. Seven years afterwards he accompanied to the most illustrious name on the page of history Col. Beauquette in an expedition against the north- or romance! The garrison was now more vige ern Indians, as sergeant of the company, and conducted himself with a bravery prophetic of his future On his return he married, and removing west of the Alleghanies, bought a farm and commenced a settlement on the banks of the Holston, a river which rises in the mountains of Virginia, and, flowing south-west, unites with the Clinch to form

career.

From the Louisville Literary News-Letter.

the Tennessee.

LOGAN.

[1841.]

In '74, Logan accompanied Lewis and Dunmore in the Scioto expedition, and distinguished himself at the memorable battle of the Kenhawa. The next year he removed to Kentucky, where he remained

the

rously assailed than ever by the savages, and every
individual within its walls-men, women, and chil
dren-were engaged to the extent of their several
ability, in the defence.
But so obstinate and pro-
tracted was the siege, that the scarcity of ammuni
tion soon became alarming in the fort, and so closely
was it blockaded, that any attempt to obtain relief
from Holston-the nearest place of supply-seemed
utterly impracticable. In this desperate situation,
Logan resolved to undertake the hazardous office of
courier, and charging his friends to sustain themselves
until his return, he left the fort one dark night, and,

crawling through the Indian encampment unperceiv-| such a manoeuvre, if seconded by Bowman, would, ed, he took up his march for Holston. Avoiding doubtless, have been most signal; and its effect upon the travelled route, he pursued his lonely way all the other Indian tribes would have been highly through a wilderness never before trodden by the favourable to the peace of the settlers; but, just as foot of civilized man, and, after incredible privation the movement was resolved on, a messenger from and suffering, reached his place of destination in the commander of the expedition brought orders to safety. He immediately obtained a supply of am- Logan to retreat. Most reluctantly was he forced munition, and returning to the fort by the route he to obey; and now commenced a scene most tumulcame, found his friends reduced to the last extremity tuous and distressing. Every individual sought his of suffering. The defence was now conducted with own safety at his own discretion and in his own such energy, that, in a few days, the arrival of an way; and the Indians, though surprised at such a hundred men under Col. Bowman induced the In- causeless flight, sallied forth from their fortification, dians to retreat. and poured on the fugitives a shower of balls. They During the whole of the years '77 and 78, the soon fell in with Bowman's party, which, panicsavages, especially the Shawnee tribe, were so ex-struck, to Logan's astonishment, were standing on ceedingly annoying, that in the summer of '79 an the identical spot, from which he had parted with expedition was resolved on against Chillicothe, their them on the preceding night. By great exertion on principal village, in which Logan was chosen second the part of Logan, assisted by Harrod, Bedinger, in command, Col. Bowman commanding in chief. Bulger and some other gallant spirits, order was, at The expedition, embracing one hundred and sixty length, to some degree, restored; but the savages volunteers well versed in Indian warfare, left Har- poured in from all sides a heavy, and somewhat rodsburgh in July, and arrived within a mile of the fatal, fire. Forming his men into a hollow square, village in the night, without being discovered. Spics Logan soon repelled the foe; but rallying again, were now sent on, as usual, to learn the situation of they made a simultaneous attack on his front, rear, the foe, and they returned with a report so favourable and both flanks. The square was again formedthat an attack was resolved on immediately, and the the Indians were again repelled-the retreat was redetachment was put in motion. The mode of as- commenced, when again the same deadly fire opened sault upon the town was arranged thus:-Logan upon the harrassed fugitives from every tree and was to advance in silence to the left side of the vil- thicket. Disheartened by these repeated attacks, lage, with half of the force-Bowman to make a the men began to waver, and a panic seemed once similar movement to the right with the other half, more about to seize them, when Logan, by an act and then, having encircled it, at a concerted signal, a of decisive, desperate bravery, dispersed the savages, simultaneous attack was to commence. Logan con- slew their chief, and led off his men without further ducted his troops successfully to the post appointed loss:-this exploit was to take the boldest of his him, and, with solicitude awaited the arrival of Bow-men, and dashing on horseback into the coverts of man. Hour after hour stole away until the dawn the enemy, cut them down without distinction or debegan to break, and nothing had yet been seen of lay. The loss in this retreat was nine killed and the commander. Logan now directed his men to several wounded, while but two Indian scalps were Se conceal themselves as well as they could in the borne off. Yet though the expedition was, on the grass, still anxiously expecting the signal for attack. whole, a signal failure, Logan returned to Kentucky These movements before long aroused one of the with a brilliant reputation for gallantry and generalvillage dogs from his slumbers, and forthwith the ship. animal began to bark most furiously, and rushed out From this period for several years Logan pursued in the direction of the ambush. The noise awoke the peaceful calling of a farmer. In the summer of one of the savages, who advanced towards the party '88 he was called on to conduct an expedition against very cautiously for the purpose of reconnoitering. the north-western Indians, but nothing of any great He had nearly fallen into the midst of the detach-moment transpired in the enterprise, except the ment, when a gun on the opposite side of the village destruction of a few villages and cornfields. On his from one of Bowman's party broke the stillness, and return, Logan devoted himself to the civil affairs of the Indian, with a shrill war-whoop, fled to the the state, which then began to demand all the talent council-house. Logan now saw that all concealment and energy within her borders. In course of his rewas at an end, and gave an order for instant onset, sidence in Kentucky, Logan became a magistrate, a in full expectation of a gallant support from the other legislator, a captain, a colonel, and was finally detachment. The whole village was now roused, honoured with the rank and title of general. His and the Indians rushed in one mass to the council- education in early life was very inconsiderable, house in the centre; Logan advanced and took pos- though his talents, had they been cultivated, would session of the deserted cabins, and at length planted undoubtedly have distinguished him in the cabinet, himself within rifle-shot of the foe, anxiously expect- as much as his valour distinguished him in the field. ing every moment the signal for a general assault He was calm, contemplative, and taciturn in his from his commander. But no signal was given, and manners; athletic, handsome, and dignified in persoon the savages having recovered from their panic, son, and in character irreproachable. His descencommenced a heavy fire, and indicated a disposition dants have just cause to be proud of their ancestry. to surround the detachment and cut off its retreat. The novel proposition was now suggested by the gallant Logan, to contrive a portable breastwork of the puncheons forming the floor of the cabins, and, under its defence, rush upon the garrison of the savages and carry it by assault. The success of

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