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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 599, 30 April 1851, Page 4

accomplished by the leader of a faction. The same arts which make a singer’s popularity, may create the political capital of a president, or a secretary.”— American Paper. The English Wife of the Ojibbeway Indian. —On Garden Island, by Lake Superior, Toronto, there are three Indian settlements of. considerable extent, the entire island being an Indian reserve, at two of which extensive clearances have been made, where the natives cultivate the soil, but those of the other still indulge in their unsettled propensities. The Indians had collected from all; quarters to the number of 3000, whose lodges and wigwams thickly studded the shore, and were scattered around on the surrounding heights. Among the concourse thus brought together, was a broken-hearted English young lady, who, carried away by a romantic and sanguine disposition, about five years before, at the early age of seventeen, had become, the Wife of an Indian chief, who visited England, and had become the victim of a mistaken and confiding attachment. Her parents have partaken of the strange credulity of their unhappy child, as the father had sent to the Canadian wilds Brussels carpeting, a piano, and other articles of luxury, with which to decorate the rude dwelling or Indian wigwam, where anything would be out of keeping that was unsuited to the verdant carpeting of nature. The tribe to which her husband belongs are located in the interior of the island, and she had accompanied him to the place of rendezvous, probably to beguile the tedium of ' a wilderness life, little expecting to meet with a party composed for the most part of natives of her own ‘ distant isle of the ocean,’ to remind her of the endearments and associations of her own early home, and of the sacrifice she had made in exchanging the allurements and refinements of, civilised life for the society of those who, however, kindly they may treat her, are still unsophisticated, untutored savages, and uncultivated denizens of the forest. The sight of this evidently disappointed young creature was the only circumstance that cast a gloom over the enjoyment of the party during the tour. Here was an interesting female, of the early age of twenty-two, removed, by an act of excusable imprudence, from the abode of civilization—her home in the wilderness, surrounded by beings of uncongenial natures, and whose very enjoyments, derived from a cultivated mind, were tinctured with bitterness by their contrast with the mere animal propensities of those among whom she dwells. She employs her time, however, in keeping a school, and in ‘ teaching the young idea bow to shoot,* among the children of the Indian village.— New York Herald.