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Tivs, a\iWP<®y 9»w®i. TT 9RA-, 17 RhZ.I< 1823. ♦It^iy D.pp abOKhEwy, IiMGT I)^B HhAG'd’lAJl TiMlft h«y G«»y 3BrfO“(^ ^0B' 4)PA^» JIiSvVZ YLhAI J A-yL04" 1P-4oBU IDIi’ h^PoBJ I)hS9W®lT Urf U-3P D0BO“BioByr&, WPa*T* TDhvPP-riBa dhbdbT U0B4>PA^.— hsacrz hABGP-hdbir 9 (PhAPA'«l^ JJibvB B' hVVSJT qESGTRdiyh D^P UJAAU.j, GB BhtVSi (Ph^il-BoBa >“4oia. DPJiy, Gh JSoBJ®. OZoF B.3. R. rs^, vlAiMFdBy ©0«dT. Tw®, aAdupoty sswsi. * A CHRISTIAN JEW. “Travelling lately through the wes tern part ol' Virginia, 1 was much in terested in hearing an aged and highly respectable clergyman give the loi- lowing account ol'a Jew, with whom lie had recently become acquainted. “He was preaching to a large and interesting audience, when his atten tion was arrested by seeing a man en ter the house, the lineaments of whose countenance had every oppearance ol a Jew. The stranger was well dress ed—his countenance was noble, the’ its expression seemed to indicate that his heart had lately been the habita tion of deep sorrow. He took his seat, and was absorbed in attention to the sermon, while tears stole uncon sciously down his cheek. After the service was over, the clergyman was too much interested in the stranger to refrain from speaking to him. Fix ing his eyes steadily upon him, he said, “Sir, am I not correct in supposing that lam addressing one of the chil dren ofAbraham?’ > ‘ You are,” was the reply. “But how is it that I meet a Jew in a’Christian assembly?” The substance of his narrative was as fol lows:—He was a very respectable man, of superior education, and hand some fortune, who with his books, his riches, and an only child, a daughter in her seventeenth year, had found a ‘ beautiful retreat on the fertile banks of the Ohio. He had buried the companion of his bosom before he left Europe, and he now knew little pleas ure except in the society of his be loved child. She was indeed worthy of a parent’s love. Her person was beautiful; but her cultivated mind, and amiable disposition, threw around her a charm superior to any of the tin selled decorations of the body. No pains had been spared in her education. She could speak with fluency, several different languages; and her proficien cy in other departments of literature was proportionate, while the ease and gracefulness of her manners captiva ted all who beheld her. No wonder then, that a tender father, whose head was now sprinkled with grey hairs, should place his whole affections on this only child of love; especially as he knew of no source of happiness be yond this world. Being himself a strict Jew, lie educated her in the strictest principles of his religion, and he thought lie had presented that re ligion with an ornament. “It was but a little while ago that this beloved daughter was taken ill:— the rose faded from her cheek; her eye lost its fire—her strength decay ed, and, it soon became apparent, that an incurable & fatal disease was preying upon her constitution. The father hung over the bed of his child with a heart fraught with the keenest anguish. He often attempted to con verse with her, but could seldom speak, except by the language of tears. He spared no trouble or ex pense in procuring medical assistance; but no human skill could avert or ar rest the arrow of death, “He had retired into a small grove not far from his house, where he was pensively walking, wetting his steps with tears, when he was sent for by his dying daughter. He immediately obeyed the summons, and with a heavy heart, entered the door of her chamber; soon alas! he feared, to he the chamber of death. The parting hour was at hand, when he was to take a last farewell of his endeared child; and his religious views gave him but a feeble hope of meeting her hereafter. She clasped the hand of her parent in her own, now cold with the approach of death, and summoning all the energy which her expiring strength would admit of, she thus ad dressed him: “My father, do you love me?” “My child, you know that I love you —that you are now more dear to ine than all the world beside!” “But, father, do you love me?” “Oh, why mv child, will you eive me pain so ex quisite? H ive I then never given vou any proo r s of my love?” “But, mv dearest father, do you love me?” The afflicted father was unable to make anv reply, ?nd the daughter eontin- ued.” “ I know my dear father, you . This he read dilligently Spirit froh above, is now numbered among thejneek and humble followers of the once despised Jesus.—JST. Y. Observer. INMAN DANCE. The follcving account of a dance per formed by tb Chippevvay Indians, is taken from a work ktely published by Thomas L. McKenney if the Indian department, en titled, “ Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes,” &c A copy of this work has been sent to fie Cherokees, by the author, as a token of his friendship. We have it now in our possession, and will endeavor in future to roike some other extracts. Soon after the inspection, and while seated in my room, I heard a yelling and shouting among the Indians. One of the bands had landed from the isl and, about forty strong. Ben caine in and told me the Indians were danc ing. I went out to witness the cere mony. They came up from the land ing in double tile, or two a-breast, with their drums in the lead, dancing, or rather jumping in short jumps, to the time kept by the drummers.— The drums, as I have before stated, are like tamborines, and have rattles to them. Those who beat, or thump ed the drums, sang also; but the song was a jumble of sounds; a kind of “a- ha; a-ha, eh, eh’—the “eh” aspirat ed with great force; and at short in tervals the whole would yell and shout, and multiply the sounds by clapping their hands on their mouths. On reaching the ground opposite the door of our quarters, the line was formed by this jumping motion into a circle, out of which those who beat the drums kept their stations. Round and round, they went, with a kind of double short step, first with one foot, and then with the other; but the mo tion throughout was up and down.— When they had gone twice or thrice round the circle, the drums would give the signal, when they would scream and whoop, and clap their mouths with their hands—then stand. I could see from their breathing—for they were all naked (except the auze- mto,) and painted,—that their dancing was a severe exercise. Some were painted black, others one half red, and the other black, and the colours were separated by a nicely dividing line down the spine of the back, and in front; the colours dividing below thfc body, and one thigh and leg being black and the other red, they might have been taken for the halves of tw o bo dies of diffeyent colours. Their heads were omaj|ented with feathers, and ♦heir hair plaited, with little bells and other trinkets suspended from the plaits. From the waist string of some, hung small looking glasses, and thetr knives, and the si ins of birds * whilst their ankles were hound round with pieces of fur, and from the heels of some, would trail out a fox's tail. Some few wore leeeins, and a few’ others moccasins. The faces of all wore painted after nil manner of de vices; with red, green, yellow, and black; in lines, circles, and stars, or points, or all these together, /l liai nothing in this group or mediy, shoulu be wanting to make the scene a finish ed grotesque, a little boy, not ovei live years old, w r as in the midst, paint ed black, keeping time to the drum, with an enormous head-dress of feath ers, and who went through the wdiole ceremony with them, which consisted wholly in the “a-/ia-a-o-c/i,” and mut tering kinds of interludes; of the mo notonous, though regular thump ol' the drum, the jumping of the group in time to the sounds, in a circular move ment, and at intervals the yelling and whooping of the whole together. In the pauses a warrior would tell his exploits; and these w r ould be shouted to vociferously. This was a pipe dance, a dance of ceremony, or rather, as it ought to be called, a begging dance. Their ob ject was to get presents; and it would have been deemed most ungracious not to have given them. VV'e put out a mocock filled with tobacco, and some whiskey, (the chief object of their visit) w r ell diluted with water. They drank each a wine-glass of this beverage—except those who have children with them. These were brought along to multiply the glasses; for the child, being entitled to his glass in common with the rest, re ceives it, but never tastes it. He hands it directly to his father, who never fails to discharge the last drop into his mouth; and to feel grateful, no doubt, that he has a child present, thus to increase his bliss. Some fell heir to as many as three glasses; and if they had chanced to have had thirty children, the thirty glasses would have been all handed by these dutiful chil dren to their whiskey-loving parents. These presents were distributed by one of the band, who is called JWa- chinewa; a kind of attendant, on whom devolves this duty. Almost every chief has one of these, who always re ceives presents, and distributes them to the members of the family. There is no appeal from his mode of making the division. On receiving these presents they discharged a gun, shouted, formed in to double file, and went off elling, and singing and dancing to the Captain’s quarters, to get an additional supply All this, my dear friend; impressed me deeply. It was a scene of inter est, it is true, but filled with incidents which demonstrate the superior excel lence of civilized, and polished an Christian society, over that of the savage. Tell me not of the happi ness of the Indians—of their freedom from restraint—of their independence —it is all fable, at least as the condi tion of these unfortunates now stands. I believe it was different with them once. Such a sight presents a wide field for moral reflections; and fur nishes a dark foreground to the picture I have just sketi hed, of the repose, of the peace of the Sabbath! No one can witness such a scene, and look upon bodies of the finest mould, for they are all such, and one espe cially the most perfect I ever beheld, and would in Italy be worth its thou sands for a model, without feeling anx ious for the arrival of the time (but how slow have been its advances!) when all these unmeaning and barba rous customs shall give place to the refinements of civilized life, and the sensual object which led to this, be changed to the nobler one of which their faculties are so manifestly capa ble. . I look to a speedy interference of our government in this work of mercy. It is not possible for it to be longer delayed. Public opinion, that seciet, but operative and powerful principle, is strong against a further delay. It is too late to tell us that Indians can not be civilized, aye, and christianiz ed too. The time was when this doubt formed the harrier to exertion; b it that has been broken down. The way is open. 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It is said that w 7 hen two persons throw dirt a- gaint each other, both cannot be clean; and let it be observed that in the con» elusion of his exposition, “ Marshal” has applied to me the epithet of a calumniator, w’hen at the same time the course he has taken is big with Ihe same consequence. Not having ever witnessed a similar spirit of high re sentment in support of a question in collision with another, ‘the conclu sion is irresistible, that he has not a little strained the faculties of his mind. In this hasty effort of establish ing some of his questions, have or* ginated some of his preposterous alle gations.- In the support due my position I hold it to be an immutable principle, which it will test all the scrutiny of Philosophy to overthrow, that when a set of men imbibe certain special principles, formally, which it is agreed should be governing principles twelve months afterwards, they are bound from the time such principles are de cided to de fit for the happiness of a people, so far as virtue and ability ar® hand in htmd, and accompanied by a strict regard to consistency, from eve ry consideration to have adhered to them as near as the nature of the case w r ould admit without awaiting th© given time. The appointment of th® different officers by the Council, (ex cepting the Treasurer,) was conform ing as near as could be done, to, th®. principles in the new Constitution; but the appointment of a treasurer, who w r as then holding three offices under the nation, is as much as to say, that altbo’ w r e have proclaimed some important principles to govern us tti-' morrow, in preference to our oldo nes, let us with all our industry gratify,^ ourselves in the enjoyment of our old unfit principles to-day. If the com parison which T have drnwm he a ror- •rect one. then if there has been no a- baudonmeut of principle,yet a great in*