The Seneca language has been somewhat cultivated. Mr. Wright, the missionary, who has mastered the language, has printed a spelling book of 112 pages, also a periodical tract for reading, called the “Mental Elevator.” Both valuable philological data. The Senecas of this reservation are on the move for Cattaraugus and Alleghany, having sold out, finally, to the Ogden company. They leave their old homes and cemetery, however, with “longing, lingering looks.” Here lie the bones of Red Jacket and Mary Jemison. Curious and interesting reminiscences the Senecas have. Jot down their traditions of all sorts. Can’t separate fiction from fact. They must go together; for often, if the fiction or allegory be pulled up, the fact has no roots to sustain itself. KAH-KWAHS, ERIES, ALLEGHANS,—who were they? Mr. Wright showed me an ancient triturating stone of the Indians, in the circular depressions of which they reduced the siliceous material of their ancient pottery. The Seneca language has a masculine, feminine and neuter gender. It has also an animate and inanimate gender, making five genders. It has a general and dual plural. It abounds in compound descriptive and derivative terms, like the Algonquin. They count by the decimal mode. There are names for the digits to ten. Twenty is a compound of two and ten, and thirty of three and ten, &c. The comparison of adjectives is effected by prefixes, not by inflections, or by changes of the words, as in English. Nouns have adjective inflections as in the Algonquin. Thus _o-a-deh_ is a road, _o-a-i-yu_ a good road. The inflection, in this last word, is from _wi-yu_, good. IRVING, CATTARAUGUS CREEK. It is a maxim with the Iroquois, that a chief’s skin should be thicker than that of the thorn locust, that it may not be penetrated by the thorns. Indian speakers never impugn each other’s _motives_ when speaking in public council. In this, they offer an example. Mr. Strong says, Silversmith of Onondaga, has the tradition of the war with the Eries. INDIANS IN CANADA. It is observed by a report of the Canadian Parliament, that the number of Indians now in Canada is 12,000. Of these, 3,301 are residing in Lower Canada, and the remainder 8,862, in Canada West. The number of Indians is stated to be on the increase, partly from the access of births over the deaths, and partly from a numerous immigration of tribes from the United States. This report must be taken with allowances. It is, at best, but an estimate, and in this respect, the Canadians, like ourselves, are apt to over estimate. The Indian is a man who has certainly some fine points of character; one would think a man of genius could turn him to account. Why then are Indian tales and poems failures? They fail in exciting deep sympathy. We do not feel that he has a heart.