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INTERCOURSE OF lNDIANs.-On b recent occa- sion we learned one very remarkable fact in rela- tlou to the tribes in Maine which is, that the Pe- nobscots and PassamaQuoddys still pay an annual tribute to the Mohawks, who now live in Canada. The Mohawks, it is well known, were the most fe- rocous and warlike of all the Northern tribes They extended their sway from the Atlantic to the Lakes and acquired the title of tine Romans of the Vest In the old French war, the Mohawks espoused the side ofthe Englisl while the Sarrantnes or Penob- scots and Passamaquoddy Indians were in the French interest, and at that time they suffered from the depredatlons of the Mohawks and strange to say, the Mohawks, although now utterly powerIess, have kept their sway over these more cowardlv tribes. The Indians of Maine trembe at the very name of a Mohawk and the the Indian mother stills the cries of her child, by uttering the dreadful name of their ancient conquerors. Every year large sum o money raised from the different iIi- dividuals of the tribes, and dcputation is sent to Canada to carry the tribute to the Mohawks. This present fall, a party of several hundred Mohawks came into tue State of N[aine near Houton, as was said for the purpose of collecting their tribute, and were met by dcpntations from the Penobscots and Passamaquoddy tribes. Some apprehensions were tHIt by the people in the lower part of the State. We travelled in the stage for some miles with quite an intelligent Indian woman. We asked her what the mohawks had come into Maine for? She re- plled, % they not come to do any harm, your peo- ple scared and think they cont to fight like Indian way off t"ere,' pointing towards the south, they only come to sec the land."

 It is an interesting, and we believe an establish cd fact, that comm''nicaton is kept up among all the Indians west of the Mississippi at any rate dep utatons from all the northern tribes annually meet at Montreal, and it is said that from Montreal an in- tercouse is preserved even with the Indians of the South Of course no danger can now be apme hended from such an intercourse. But the fact is interesting, as seems to give consequence to cur insignificant InGt,ns by connecting them with the still powerful tribes of their race.-DoH5mouM Jour.