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 THE RIDER O'ER THE BORDENSEE.

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��his return; was frequently employed by Gov. Carleton in the public service, and discharged the duties of his trusts with skill anil ability.

He opposed the confederation of the Indians which led to the necessity of employing Gen. Wayne and his army in Ohio, and then exerted himself to preserve peace with the United States, and was successful in his efforts. He did much to improve the condition of his people by introducing among them the learned, arts, and the moral and industrious habits incident to a civil- ized life.

We would here remark, as before suggested, Sir Guv Johnson was the son-in-law of William; but Sir John Johnson was the son of Sir William, and was also o:ie of his heirs, and succeeded as manager of his father's large estate, and held many of the high official stations in Canada, both civil and mili- tary. The memory of Col. Brandt is still held in great veneration, especially in Canada West. And the late Col. Stone, of the city of New York, has contributed much to perpetuate it by his biography. The Charity School of Pres. Wheelock was sustained by both private and public benefactions from individuals and churches, both in

��this country and England and Scotland prior to the Revolutionary war, but after the war of the Revolution com- menced, they ceased at once. In 1770 Pies. Wheelock removed his Indian school to Dartmouth College and made provision for the education of the In- dian youth there. Before its re- moval. Pres. Wheelock allowed it toas- sume the name of Moor's Charity School in consequence of the large dona- tion of Joshua Moor, of Mansfield, Conn. Previous to the Revolutionary war Pres. Wheelock had educated nearly seventy Indians. Brandt and Sampson Occum were the two scholars that filled the trump of fame. No others arrived at much distinction. Pres. Wheelock, in a letter to a friend, says, he was often rebuked for having instructed Brandt at his school. "My uniform answer was that I did not teach a military school, and that Brandt must have taught his hands to war, and his fingers to fight at home. I do not hold myself responsible for his fighting ability." No doubt Brandt's hosti'iiy to the American cause had much influence in turning the public mind against the education of the In- dians. At least such was the effect during the war of the Revolution.

��THE RIDER O'ER THE BORDENSEE.

��FROM THE GERMAN OF SCHWAB.

[An incident paid to have occurred in 1695. The Bordonsee, or Lake of Constance, on the borders of Germany and Switzerland, is very rarely frozen over. J

The rider sped through a valley fair;

On snow-fields shimmered 1 1 1 «» sunlight there ;

Fast flew his horse, with flanks all wet.

To reach the lake ere the nin had set;

For then the boatman, with flying speed.

Should land him safe, and his tired steed.

��Where the way is rough, over stone and thorn, The eager rider i» swiftly borne; From ihe mountain-side lie sees the land Spread out with its snow, like a plain of sand;

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