From he National IatelligeReef..


 .uessrs Eiitors.-I noticed a day or two since, an article in a city paper, taken from the New York Evening Post. of which the following is an extract, and is going the rounds of the newspapers:

 At a meeting of the Indian Board lil this city. last evening, Governor Houston was present, and furnished some interesting information relative to the Indian tribes in the southwestern parts of the United States. Accord Ing to hls statements, as we are inform ed, the Indians west of the Mississippi are in better condition, both in a moral and physical point of view, than those within the limits of the States.- lie considers the immediate neighbor- sioosii o;i white men as most pernicious to the Indian, imparting to him the vices of civilization, without communicating any ef is virtues tues. 4s.1,ar,t:aytx. fth, southwestern tribes on this side of the Mississippi, with whom he was leno and well acquainted, were, in. the 5nass brutallsed in the extreme, poor. sIiping wretehedly, i'll clothed, and pracfisins 2 the noss degrading vices. These tribes sead iorth numbers of mendicants. who travel the country, and are sometimes found begging as far as Pittsburg.''

 The tribes here spoken of are fhe Che. rokees, Creeks, Choctaws. and chieka. saws. The first of these are farther ac. vanced ia civilized improvement than any otaer tribe within the limits of the united States. It has however beer s'le aa'pfsuaate lot of this nation to be Dieaaea wtfn all others, wherever oc. s'il'ioh E taken to flerogate from the acts ol any soutaern Tribe, CT paint in fan ss''a' eo1ofs fneir distress. The Chero- kces are known tothe public from others. Only when particularized; but in inc sweeping remarks above they are eyi-