Letters from Florida indicate the war with the Seminoles to be lingering, without reasonable expectation of bringing it soon to a close.

He had been authorized to offer $1,300; but the Chippewas managed badlythey knew nothing of thousands, or how the annuity would divide among so many, and were, in fact, cowed down by the braggadocia of the flattered Pillager war chief, Hole-in-the-Day.

That war seems to have been brooded over many years: it had been the subject of innumerable war messages to the various tribes, a large number of whom had favored his views.

That war seems to have been brooded over many years: it had been the subject of innumerable war messages to the various tribes, a large number of whom had favored his views.

His errors were the result of ignorance, and none of the cruelties of the war were directly chargeable to him.

If, looking beyond our borders, we turn our eyes to the north, we behold within striking distance of the United States frontier on the north-west, an indigenous Indian population of 150,000, and on their western frontier 46,000; in all between 2 and 300,000 Indians within the jurisdiction of the United Statesagainst whom, were they to combine, they could at any moment direct a war force of 60,000 men.

I called on Mr. Poinsett, the Secretary of War, and received from him the permission which I had yesterday solicited.

The Secretary of War confirms my leave of absence, to visit Europe, and extends it beyond the contingencies of a re-appointment, on the 4th of March next.

free There shook they the war lance, and sported the plume, Ere Europe had cast o'er this country a gloom; Nor thought they that kingdoms more happy could be, White lords of a land so resplendent and free.

Muk-kud-da Ka-niew (or the Black War Eagle), chief of the coasts of Arenac, brought me an antique pipe of peculiar construction, disinterred at Thunder Bay.

The Burlington Gazette (Iowa) says, "that a Sac and Fox war party recently returned from the Missouri, bringing eight scalps, and a number of female prisoners, and horses.

He turned out to be the youngest son of a noted war chief, called the White FisherWa-bo-jeeg.

He had, however, never been on the war path, but addressed himself early to the art of hunting, in which he excelled, and furnished his family with a plentiful supply of food and clothing.

Left to the repose of himself, mentally and physically, without being placed in the crucible of war, without being made the tool of selfishness, or driven to a state of half idiocy by the use of liquor, the Indian is a man of naturally good feelings and affections, and of a sense of justice, and, although destitute of an inductive mind, is led to appreciate truth and virtue as he apprehends them.

The reason for this exemption from harm was this: In those times the Indians made use of the Pazhikewash, or buffalo-weed, which is still used by some of them to this day, especially on war excursions.

The following appear to be turning points in Iroquois history: Father de Moyn discovers the Onondaga country 1653 Erie war closes 1655 New Amsterdam surrenders to the Duke of York 1664 First treaty of the Iroquois with the French 1667

A canon of Le Puy in Auvergne, much distressed by the desertion of the sanctuary of Notre Dame de Puy, which rivals that of Roc-Amadour in antiquity, formed the design of instituting a confraternity to wage war against the routiers and destroy them.

A much stronger instance is his more recent order to his troops touching the war in Northern France.

The man who really cannot see that he is contradicting himself has a great advantage in controversy; though the advantage breaks down when he tries to reduce it to simple addition, to chess, or to the game called war.

No one could have been more English than Fox, yet he denounced the war with Napoleon.

Those of us who, like the present writer, repudiated the South African war from its beginnings, had yet a divided heart in the matter, and felt certain aspects of it as glorious as well as infamous.

War is a terrible business in any case; and to some intellectual temperaments this is the most terrible part of it.

That war takes the young; that war sunders the lovers; that all over Europe brides and bridegrooms are parting at the church door: all that is only a commonplace to commonplace people.

That war takes the young; that war sunders the lovers; that all over Europe brides and bridegrooms are parting at the church door: all that is only a commonplace to commonplace people.

It is for you to weigh the chance that their very failures in the arts of peace will drive them back upon the arts of war.