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A friend of ours, who has had extensive dealings with the Indians of Mississippi, relates the following characteristic aneedote, which he says, is undoubtedly the truth. А chief, by the name of Glover, in some gush of passion, happened to slay another Indian. The invariable penalty for killing, among these primitive beings is death, and that punishment is, by their custom, to be inflicted by the nearest friends of the deceased. These had met together, with the prisoner in their charge, to execute the last sentence on poor Glover. He asked one favour of the judges, before he died, and, as generous enemies, he hoped they would grant it, as it was the