AN INDIAN COUNCIL.
A THRILLING SCENE.
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The subjoined stirring sketch is from a
new work by Judge Hale, entitled "The
Wilderness and the War PATH" and is de-
scriptive of the GOODNESS and presence Of
mind of Col. George Roger Clark, at a
council at North Bend:


An Indian council is one Of the most i'm
posing spectacles in savage life. 1t is one
Of the few occasions in which the warrior
exercises his right of suffrage, his influence
and his talents, in civil capacity, and the
meeting is conducted with all gravity, and
all the ceremonious ostentation, with which
it is possible 10 invest it. The matter to
be considered, as well as the details, are
well dgested beforehand, SO that the Ut
most decorum must prevail, and the deci-
sion be unanimous The chiefs and sages
the leaders and orators occupy the most
conspicuous seats; behind them are arrang-
ed the young braves, and still farther in the
rear appear the women and the youth, as
spectators. All are equally attentive. A
dead silence reigns throughout the assem-
blage. The great pipe gaudily adorned with
paint and feathers, is lighted, and passed
from mouth to mouth, commencing with
the chief highest in rank, and proceeding by
regular graduation to the inferior order Of
braves If two or three nations be repre-
sented, the pipe is passed from one party
TO the other, and saluiations are courteously
exchanged before the business of the coun.
Gil is opened by the respective speakers
Whatever jealousy or party spirit may ex.
ist in the tribe it is carefully excluded from
this diguified assemblage, whose orderly