account of the wrongs and injustice of the white man, as on account of their inordinate laziness, their love of rum, and their general nntractibleness and imperviousness to the in fluences of civilization. They may be described generally as a water-proof race ; the gentle droppings of mercy, the fructifying showers of education, antl the refreshing waters of springs and wells, could never finds access to their arid natures. Nothing that the white man brought with him but whisky was ever absorbed by a red-skin.