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the best authenticated account upon
record of a man’s hair turning grey
from fright.—Macclesfield Courier.
REMARKABLE RIVERS.
The Amazon in South America is
the largest river on the globe. It is
formed by a great number of sources,
which rise in the Andes, and receives
in its progress the waters of upwards
of 200 rivers, some of which are as
large as the Danube. The length of its
Course, including its windings, is up
wards of 4,000 miles; its width, at
its mouth, about 180 mileB; and the
tide flows up to the distance of 600
miles.
The La Plata, the second great
river of South America, is about
.3,000 mt-feTm length. It is 150 miles
wide at its mouth, and at Buenos
Ayres; 200 miles above, the breadth is
80 miles.
The Mississippi and Missouri are
the two largest rivers belonging to
the United States. The length of the
Mississippi, from its source to the
Gulf of Mexico, is about 3000 miles.
The Missouri is much larger than
the Mississippi, at the point where
they unite. Its length, from its source
in the Rocky mountains to its junction
with the Mississippi, is upwards of
3.000 miles; and its whole length,
from its source to the Gulf of Mexico,
including its windings, is about 4,400
miles.
The St. Lawrence is remarkable
for being the outlet by which the wa
ters of the great lakes, Superior, Hu
ron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario, are
conveyed to the ocean. The river, af
ter a course of upwards of2,000 miles,
flows into the gulf of St. Lawrence,
by a mouth, about 100 miles in
- breadth. The breaking up of the ice
on this river in the spring, is described
as one of the most stupendous opera
tions of nature, and at times said to
rival in grandeur the cataract of Ni
agara.
The Wolga, in Russia, has Ihe long
est course, and with the exception of
the Danube, the largest volume of
water of any river in Europe. After
a course of about, 2,500 miles, inclu
ding its windings, it flows into the Cas
pian sea, by seven mouths.
The Ganges, in Hindoostan, is one
of the noblest rivers in Asia. It rises
Sn the Himmaleh mountains, and after
a course of about 2000 miles, flows in
to the bay of Bengal, by numerous
mouths. It is regarded by the Hin
doos as a sacred river, and at certain
seasons vast multitudes assemble to
bathe in its waters, and many volunta
rily drown themselves.
' The Nile, in Africa, though by no
means the largest, is the ifiost famous
river on the globe. It has been cele
brated from the earliest ages, and by
its annual inundations, causes all that
fertility for which Egypt is distinguish
ed. After a course of upwards of
2.000 miles, it flows into the Medite-
iranean by two principal mouths.
J. E. Worcester.
, It is said that “Nathaniel Macon of
North Carolina, has been in Congress
37 years. He is now mThfe Senate.
The cut, fashion, and manner of his
dress are the same now as they were
in 179f, and some of his present ap
parel has been worn ever since that
year.” ——
Gitshee Waabeyhaas (or big Martin)
a Chippeway Chief, after making a speech
to Commissioners Lewis Cass and Thomas
L. McKenney, at the treaty of Fond du
lac, was answered in the following authori
tative style.
“We are well satisfied with what
you have said; but before we smoke
your pipe, we will say one thing;” (a
British medal was suspended from his
neck) “we presume you brought this
here as ari ornament. If we thought
you displayed It as a mark of authori
ty, we would take it from your breast,
throw it in the 'dust, and trample it
under our feet. As we do not suppose
you wear it as an evidence of any au
thority, but simply as an ornament,
we will smoke your pipe.” (He took
the medal off and laid it on the table.)
,*‘Here are silver ornaments, with
which we pay you for your Britsli sil
ver. We will now present you a
modal as (lie proper mark of your au
thority.”
A letter appears in the Waterford
Mirror, addressed by Mr. Joseph
Williams, of Ross, (who fortunately
yfas saved in the Venus,) to a friend
in Waterfotd. The following forms
w a postscript. The subject is above all
eulogy—it will be read with admira
tion by all: “Henry Snow, Esq. of
Larkfield, county Kilkenny, near
Waterford. The saving of this gen
tleman reflects singular credit upon
one of the crew, whose name we much
regret that we have not learned. Af
ter being some hours uponthetop ofone
of the ma9ts, Mr. Snow, exhausted &
benumbed, was bidding farewell to
this world, and preparing for the fate
that seemed inevitable, when the sail
or cried out, from the top of the other
mast—‘Avast, not 90 fast, ray hearty—
I’ll be with you presently.’ Scarce
ly sooner said than done. Jack swam
over to him. Jack’s heart, he said,
was quite warm, and Jack spoke truth.
‘Hold on,’ said he, ‘with one hand,
and thrust the other into my bosom;
I’ll warrant you it will soon warm.’
—And so it was. He then made
Mr. Snow shift hands, and kept him
alternately holding on with one hand,
and warming the other until the arri
val of the long-delayed relief. With
the ancients so warm a heart, such he
roic humanity, might be rewarded
with a statue; with the moderns such
conduct should not go unrequited.”
[English paper.
Rochester, May 13.
Intrepidity.—An instance of heroism
has been mentioned to us which de
serves to be made public. On Sun
day last, a child fell through the old
bridge in this village, a few rods south
of the Falls of the Gennessee. Its
cries attracted the attention of a per
son named Peter Kexjser, who immedi
ately plunged into the river—followed
the child, rapidly drifting towards the
falls—and at the imminent risk of his
own life preserved the object of his
pursuit! The high water, the rapidi
ty of the stream, and the proximity of
a Fall 97 feet perpendicular, will en
able those acquainted with the locali
ty to form a pretty accurate idea of
the noble daring of the intrepid man.
A more perilous act can scarcely be
conceived.
The following is from the Letters
of Professor Carter, which exhibits
the condition of the female sex in Eu
rope in a different light to what we
.have been accustomed to view it.
In our rambles through this town,
(San Remo in Italy,) we witnessed
one of those pictures which are but
too common in this country. A com
pany of perhaps fifteen females were
employed in carrying baskets of sand
upon their heads, to mend the road,
while a large party of men, consisting
probably of their husbands and broth
ers, were engaged in playing ball near
by, and a group of fat priests and fri
ars were looking on! In every part of
the continent of Europe we have yet
visited, woman is made the drudgd of
life, on whom all its servile offices
devolve, reminding one of the abori
ginal state of society in our country.
By the indolence or tyranny of the o-
ther sex she is driven from her little
sphere of domestic cares, & compell
ed to undergo toils fit only for beasts
of burden. /Even in France, polished,
gallant France, the boasted land of
chivalry and love, ten thousand instan
ces of the degradation and slavery of
females strike the mind of the travel
ler with indignation.
From the Vermont Chronicle.
IT’S MY FATHER.
Mr. Editor,—The following is a
true story of a scene which was wit
nessed in one of our villages, March
6, 1828.
It was 4 o’clock in the afternoon,
when there came along an ox sled, as
if returning home after having dis
charged its load. The sled was
drawn by a pair«of feeble oxen, and
driven by two little boys apparently of
the ages of eight and ten. On the
sled a little transversely lay at full
length, what seemed a man—and on
closer view, a man dead drunk.—
“What have you there?” I said to
one of the little boys. “It’s my fa
ther.” ‘Your father!’ said I, ‘who is
he?’ He spoke his name. ‘Why,
what’s the matter with him?’ I in
quired further. ‘He drinks too much,’
he replied, grief and shame conflict
ing in his countenance, while he strove
to hide his embarrassment by urging
on at a quicker pace the unconscious
team with their less conscious load.
Reader, pau&e a moment and pon
der on a fact like this. A father takes
his little sons to market—gets drunk
in their presence—is placed, a public
spectacle, on an ox sled—and by
them, even his own sons, driven to his
own family! How shocking! How
mournful! The charnel-house is not
more revolting, thq funeral procession
i9 not more affecting.
INDIANS OF THE U. STATES.
The following piece is from a series of
numbers published some time since in the
Boston Recorder and Telegraph.
Account of what the U. S. Government
have done for their benefit.
Mr. Jefferson during his administra
tion felt a deep interest in the subject
of civilization, and since his time Con
gress have adopted various measures
calculated as was- supposed to pro
mote it. They established an agen
cy for the purpose of trading with the
Indians, and of protecting them against
the cheating tricks of dishonest whites;
but this not answering the desired ob
ject was in 1823 abandoned. They
have granted money to the several
charitable societies, who have estab
lished schools and education families
among the Indians, to assist them in
carrying their benevolent designs into
effect. By an Act of March 3, 1819,
a fund for the promotion of Indian civ
ilization was placed at the disposal of]
the President which yields somewhat
more than $11,000 annually, Govern
ment have purchased lands of the In
dians and paid them in money partly
down, and partly in annual payments;
and they have often made them pre
sents of various necessary articles,
and supplied them with instruments of
agriculture, Mills, &c. A statement
of the annuities payable lor lands is as
follows:
Limited Annuities,
which expire
in 1823
$1,000
in 1832
$3,300
“ >26
25.000
«£ >34
2,000
“ >28
20,000
Total
74,250
“ >29
12,000
Cap’l. 1
537,500
“ >30
800
Permanent Annuities.
$80,325
Capital, 1,333,150
Total an. 154,575
Total cap. 2,870,250
There are also granted to different
tribes of Indians annually 20 bushels
of salt, valued at Fort Wayne, where
it is delivered, at $2, 50 cents per
bushel, making an addition;! annual
expense of $525. The grants recent
ly made to the Creeks for the Georgia
lands are not included in this state
ment.
Besides these payments, Congress
have frequently made gratuitous grants
to those tribes who have missionary
stations within their limits to assist
them in carrying forward their plans
of improvement. To the Chickasaw's
at the station near Chickasaw Agency
they granted $5000 for buildings, to
the Great Osages at the Harmony
station $1000 for the same purpose.
Out of the fund mentioned above, the
following annual remittances have
been made, viz.
To the Cornwall School, Conn. $1,438
Senecas and Onondagas, Buffalo
New York,
Tuscaroras, Lewistown, N. Y.
Miamies, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Chcrokees, Spring Place,
do. Brainerd,
do. Valley Towns,
Choctaws Eliot,
Indians at the Great Crossings, Ken. 400
350
350
417
250
1,000
500
1,000
Total, 5,855
The exact sum paid by the Treasu
ry of the United States for the pro
motion of Indian civilization in 1823
was $11,135, 32.
At first view it may appear very
generous in our government to do so
much for the Indians; but it should
be remembered that Government has
always purchased their lands at its
own price, and sold them again to its
own citizens for 2 dollars per acre.
Up to 1820 the United States had
purchased of the Indians 191,778,536
acres of land, for payment of which
Congress appropriated $2,542,916.—
Previously to Oct. 1819, Government
had sold 18,500,000 acres for.$44,-
000,000. Should the remainder of
these lands be disposed of at the same
advantageous rate, there will be plac
ed in the U. S. Treasury after having
paid the Indians all they are ever to
receive a net gain of $500,000,000.
This statement reaches only to 1820,
but Government has bought large
tracts of land since, at about the same
rate.
Now making all reasonable deduc
tion for waste lands, failure of public
creditors, expenses of surveying &c.
there must still remaip an immense
pecuniary profit to our Government
from its trade with the Indians, be
sides the political importance of the
country acquired, and the va&t acces
sion of national strength, prising from
its being settled by our own citizens.
Cannot government afford then to do
something for the Indians?
Katahwn.
Literary Bill of Mortality.—Of a
bout one thousand books published an
nually in Great Britain, 600 are ac
companied with commercial loss;—
on two hundred there is no gain; on one
hundred the gain is trifling, and only
one hundred yield any considerable
profit, six hundred & fifty are forgotten
within the year; another huudred in
two years; another hundred and fifty in
three years; not more than fifty survive
seven years, and scarcely ten are
thought of after twenty yearsr. Of
the 50,000 books published in the
seventeenth century, not more than 50
are now in estimation, and of the 80,-
000books published in the eighteenth
century, not more than 300 are con
sidered worth reprinting, and not more
than 500 are sought after at the pres
ent time. Since the first commence
ment of writing-r-lhat is, in thirty two
centuries, only about five hundred
works of writers of all nations have
sustained themselves against the de
vouring influence of time.
WHO ARE THE HOGS?
A correspondent^ the Newburyport
Herald, after mentioning that he had
just been appointed a hog reeve, ex
plains to his constituents his views of
his office and its duties, in the follow
ing style.
“But who are the hogs; and how
far am I to consider the duties of my
office as extending? I* wish to be
candid, and give fair warning. I shall
consider every selfish, snarling, quar
relling, dirty creature, that defiles
our town, as falling under my jurisdic
tion, whether he happens to walk on
two legs or four. If I happen to see
a contrary spirit, always running in
the teeth of every body he meets,
whom it is impossible to lead, and
still more impossible to drive, ain I
to suffer such an one to run at large
merely because he has no bristles on
his back? Or suppose I meet a
poor selfish wretch who gets his living
by rooting, wliose sole maxim is, take
care of number one., must I permit him
to go loose, seeking whom he may de
vour, because he has a snout a little
shorter than the rest of them? No,
Sir, I will not; I know my duty bet
ter. By virtue of my high office, and
in conformity to the laws of my coun
try, I do now order all such creatures
to be kept close.
“Thefe is one kind of sty which I es
pecially forbid. I hereby order all
those shops to be removed, where
that liquor is sold which only one ani
mal in creation will drink. Of all the
beasts of the field, fowls of the air,
fishes of the sea, I have never heard
or read of hut one, that will’get drunk;
& that is the animal that falls this year
under my jurisdiction. And I shall be
ashamed to drive the four-legged drun
kard to pound, while the drunkard
with two legs, (and legs too on which
lie can’t walk) is permitted to go free.
In the name then of that common
wealth, wliose dignity I bear, and
whose officer I am, I command that all
places be closed where those hogs are
fattened, whose peculiar characteris
tic it is, that they consume a great
deal of swill .and yield no pork.”
The Grand Council ofthe Valais, in
Switzerland, has published a decree
abolishing the punishment of death.
John Kane was tried in the City of
New York, convicted, and sentenced
to the Penitentiary for six months, at
hard labour, for unmercifully beating
his horse. He is gray headed man—
63 years old.
Printing for the Blind.—Mr.
Gall, of Edinburgh, has invented a
mode of printing, by which blind per
sons, by means of the touch, may be
enabled to read. A committee ofthe
Professors of the University of Edin
burgh examined the books, and the
manner of using them, and found that
blind boys, who had had only a few
weeks’ practice, were able to read
with their flhgers “ as quickly or near
ly so, as they could suppose boys to
do, with their sight, in similar cir
cumstances,” though it was not. sup
posed that the same ratio could be
expected in the more advanced stages
of their reading. Mr. Gall proposes
to print the gospel of St. John in this
method, and the committee recora-
inendlit to the patronage ofthe public,
for gratuitous distributions among the
blind.
FIGURE OF. SPEECH.
A member of the Massachusetts
house of representatives, some time
since, closed his speech on the Militia
bill with the following conclusive ar
gument; “Mr. Speaker, if this hill ft
postponed, I shall be as crazy as a bid
bug.” -
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The following arc Candidates Ibr the
General Council ofthe Cherokee Nation to
represent the District of Coosewatee.
For. the Committee.
WALTER ADAIR,
JOHN RIDGE,
For the Council.
MAJOR RIDGE,
• TE-SA-DASICI,
JAMES FOSTER.
JOHN FIELDS, Jr.
The following arc Candidates for Ihe ety-
suing Legislature of the Cherokee Nation/
to represent the District of Chattooga.
For the Committee.
IUCHAP.D FIELDS,
THOMAS WILSON,
DANIEL GRIFFIN, JrV
LITTLE TURTLE,
EDWARD GUNTEll,
ANDREW ROSS.
For the Councii*.
BARK,
AHCH1LLA SMITH,
HEAD THROWER,
JOHN RATCLIFF,
LAUGH AT MUSH,
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL;
SAH-KE-AH,
SCRAPER.
The following are Candidates for the em
suing General Council of the Cherokep
Nation, to represent the District of Chick-
arnauga.
For the Committee.
DANIEL McCOY,
RICHARD TAYLOR,
JOHN F. BALDRIDGE?
* For the Council;
NATHAN HICKS,
CHARLES REECE,
OUN-NE-QUOH-YO-GE,
SLEEPING RABBIT,
Thomas manon,
TSU-NU-GE.
The following are Candidates for the Gcw
neral Council ofthe Cherokee Nation to
present the District of Ahmoe.
THOMAS FOREMAN,
GEO. FIELDS,
JOHN MILLER,
YOUNG WOLF,
JOHN WATTS,
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DE-SQUAH-NE,
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a BAY HORSE, with a small white on hi
forehead, about six years old, and .five fee
and tw6 inches high, and without an
brand. J. VANN.
April 30th,lS38, U-9.