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healthful to the family. He then threw what he held in the palm of his hand into the fire, and gave each member of the mansion a grain of what was on his fingers - birth? this they rubbed their breasts and then all partook of the new fruit.

                           From a physician who resided among the North Carolina Cherokee, -- that part of the nation the least influenced by civilisation, -- we have learned the "maimed rites" with which the Green Corn Festival was celebrated there within the last ten or twelve years. His account is as follows:
                           This greatest of Cherokee festivals takes place annually, commencing after the corn has ripened, and continuing, at different places, throughout the main part of the autumnal months. Each point designated for holding it, is sought by an immense  multitude.
                          There appears to be no standing rule in regard to the number of days to be devoted to the observance, throughout the nation, or at a single place. A green corn dance sometimes continues three days and at others from four to seven. The first day is generally spent in lounging about the Town Council House and its immediate vicinity; -- in conversation, and,