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NBW ECHrtTAt
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1828.
We publish to clay Professor It’s letter
and two series of questions on the language
and history of the Tsalagi Nation. Those
On the language can be easily answered,
and we hope to receive satisfactory commu
nication on the subject from some one of
bur correspondents. In regard to trudi-
tionSj we feel doubtful whether any can be
collected which will shed any new light on
our dark history, particularly as far back
as 1000 years. Traditions are becoming
unpopular, and there are now but few aged
persons amongst us who regard them as our
forefathers did. W^e have been desirous of
obtaining them for the columns of our pa-
. per—if they do not affoi’d any new light,
they may afford some amusement. We
will be thankful to oqr correspondents if
they will send us any for insertion. Direct
answers to Pro. R’s questions on the histo
ry of the Tsalagi Nation will be thankfully
Received. -
It has been extremely wafm of late, and
.the crops which a few days ago appeared so
very promising, are now suffering for
want of rain.
We are happy td learn that there is eve
ry prospect of punctual and general at
tendance at each of the precincts in this
District, on our election day, which is to
be next Monday. Preparatory meet
ings have been held in Doosewaytee, Pine-
log, and other places. This augurs well
for the “ success of our new Constitution,”
There appears to be a want of public
spirit in some of our leading an'd wealthy
citizens. Though they possess the means
of doing much good, by encouraging edu
cation, and the general improvement of the
Nation they seem to stand aloof. This is
our failing as a people, and we arc sorry to
5Ay that some of the offices of our govern
ment have been and are filled by persons of
this description. From such leaders, who
pay more regard to the acquisition of wealth
than the good and interest of their country,
we have no reason to expect any solid and
permanent advantage. Is not our remark
correct when it is considered that many
(and some who were members of the Legis
lative body which established the press)
possessing all requisite means, uJill not sub
scribe for the Cherokee Phoenix, which
c osts only two dollars and fifty cents a year;
Who Will encourage and uphold us, when
our own citizens ami patrons (they ill de
serve the name) will not give us a helping
hand?
While we complain of the coldness and
inactive patriotism of some, we take pleas
ure in rendering, to a larger portion of our
leading men, their proper and well merit
ed due. Under the direction of such men,
education will flourish, our civy Jtfa-
vcka will not be permitted to languish
and our infant institutions will be protect
ed. Through their exertions we hope to
see established in this place, a National
School, where our youths will enjoy great
er advantages than in the common Schools
—where our future chiefs—our judges,
and the guardians of our religious, moral
and political interests will be reared.—
Such an institution is greatly needed, and
were it not that the public funds of the
Nation are so small, necessary buildings
would ere this have been commenced. We
invite the attention of our citizens to this
important subject. Now is the time when
judicious efforts for the improvement of the
Cherokees cannot go unrewarded, and pass
away without any desirable effects.
The condition in which the nations of
Europe stand in relation to each other
at the present time, may be a subject
of interesting speculation, especially
to him who is disposed to pry into fu
turity. The real power of Europe is
in but few hands. Russia, Austria,
France, and Prussia, as long as they
hold onto the Holy Alliance, can com
mand the Continent, and Great Britain
possess the supreme controul upon
the water. The smaller powers
are Sweden, Denmark, Holland,
Spain, Portugal, the Swiss Republics,
Savoy, Piedmont, Naples, and the I-
talian States. These nations are
weak, & so distributed, that they are
in great measure unable to help each
other, in case of necessity, and at the
same time are exposed to lie subdued,
and annexed to the more powerful
states, whenever the latter may
choose to dispose of them. So pre
dominant are the ruling powers, that
is the members of the Holy Alliance,
that we scarcely hear the others named
except when some trading vessel
arrives from a port from one of them.
Should Russia, Austria and Prussia,
think it expedient to overrun Sweden,
Denmark, and Holland, on the one
side, or Turkey, Naples, the rest of
Italy, and Switzerland on the other,
the task would be im easy one, and
tbev might portion their weaker neigh
bours among themselves with as much
ease, and probably more, than they
formerly divided Poland. Russia has
extended her conquests far to the east
ward. What shall prevent her, at
some future day, from turning her
course in an opposite direction, and ta
king possession of the countries bord
ering upon the Baltic, & commanding
the passage into the northern sea?
Austria was for a long period the
deadly foe of the Swiss Republics,
and she has for many years cast a
wishful eye upon the coast of Italy,
and the Gulph of Venice. By obtain
ing the command of the Adriatic Sea,
and the neighbouring regions of Naples
and Italy, she would at once become a
maritime nation, and in process of
time might prove to be strong upon
the ocean, as well as powerful upon
the land. France has always kept
her eye upon Spain, and maintained an
important influence in all her concerns:
and she might be equally influential
in Portugal, if the connection between
that nation and Great Britain should
be dissolved—an event, apparently,
not very improbable. Prussia lies in
the immediate neighbourhood of Hol
land, and with a little friendly assist
ance from Austria and Russia, might
easily seize upon the Netherlands, and
annex them to her own dominions, and
in that way make herself also a mari
time power, ff to these we add, the
conquest of Turkey by the Russians,
and the removal of all the obstructions
Iroin the Black Sea to the Mediterra
nean, we should complete a new geo
graphical division of Europe, and di
vide the whole of the territory of that
quarter of the globe under four gigan
tic sovereignties, uncontrolled and un
controllable by any ottier earihly pow
er, so long as they should keep up
their union, and abide by the princi
ples of their Holy Confederation.
This is certainly fanciful, and per
haps extravagant. We are not sta
ting what is probable, but what is
{ tossible. Formerly, before the po-
itical systems of Europe were
changed, and it was essential to the
safety of the larger powers to uphold
the smaller, the ideas we have sug
gested would have been wild and im
practicable. But it is a subject of
serious consideration, that such a dis-1
tribution of the small nations might be
made, if the large ones should deem
it expedient. The large states are
now bound together by a league, from
which the small are fully excluded.—
Who can foretel what may hereafter
take place under such a combination?
•Afbio York Jldvertiser.
Serious disturbance with the In
dians.—We are sorry to learn, by sev
eral gentlemen from the Pest of Ar
kansas, that a serious disturbance has
recently arisen between some of the
citizens of that place and a party of
Indians, who were encamped in that
vicinity, which unfortunately resulted
in the death of two Choctaws, who
were of the parly. The particulars,
as related to us, are briefly these:
The Indians had procured a quantity
of Whiskey, which they carried to
a camp, on the South side of the Ark
ansas, opposite the town, where they
became exceedingly drunk, and were
very troublesome to a Frenchman,
near whom they had encamped. In
consequence of some threats which
they made, he became alarmed, and
went over to the Post, for assistance.
A number of the citizens voluntarily
returned with him for the purpose of
affording him protection; and soon af
ter they reached there, from some
cause not known to us, two Choctaw
Indians made an attack on Mr. Rich
mond Peeler, with their knives. One
of them was shot down by him, and
killed on the spot, and the other
was knocked down and secured by Mr,
Maxwell. These two were the only
Choctaw r s who were of the party of
thirty or forty w r arriors of that nation
encamped within about twenty miles
of the spot, the surviving Indian was
confined and placed under the guard
of two men -Peeler and a Frenchman
named Francis Lafargue—with a view
of preventing him from communica
ting the news of the death of his com
panion to the main party, before the
people could have time collect in suf
ficient numbers to protect themselves
from any retaliation that might be at
tempted by them. This Indian was car
ried across the river in the course of
the night, & next morning was found
dead—with his hands tied; and his
head shockingly cut with an axe or
hatchet—to all appearance most inhu
manly murdered. The perpetrators
of the deed are not known, though it
is suspected that several were con
cerned in it. Peeler and Lafargue
were arrested and committed by Eli
J. Lewis, Esq. ; but were subsequent
ly brought before Judge Hall, on a
writ of .habeas corpus and admitted to
bail, for their appearance at the next
Superior Court, to answer such charge
as might be exhibited against them at
that term.
Serious apprehensions, w r e under
stand, are entertained by the citizens
of that place, that the Choctaw s will
attempt to avenge the death of the
two.Indians; and guards have been
kept out every night for some time
past, to give the alarm on the least
approach of danger.*
This disturbance, we hope, will
have the effect of causing the remov
al of all the numerous strolling parties
of Indians, who are constantly prowling
through the Territory, killing up the
game, and committing petty depreda
tions on the property of our citizens.
It ought also to have the effect of
bringing to punishment those who, for
a little paltry lucre, are in the constant
habit of selling spiritous liquors to the
Indians, and thereby jeopardizing their
own and their neighbor’s lives. They
are the principal instigators of these
disturbances; and our grand jurors and
all good citizens, ought to take every
lawful means to cause the laws pro
hibiting illicit trade with the Indians
to be rigidly enforced against them.
A few examples would have a good
effect in correcting this glaring and
growing eviK—Gaz.
* The postrider on the route to Monroe
C. H. informs us that he met a gentleman,
a lew days ago, who was direct from the
Choctaw village on the Bayou Bartholo
mew, and was informed by him* that the
Choctaws were all removing from thence’
to Red River, and that they had no inten
tion of avengihg the death of their two
brethren.
From the Newburg Index. •
STEAMBOAT TRAVELLING.
On Tuesday of last week, two gen
tlemen of Newburg, having business
in New York and Albany, left here a-
bout 8 o’clock in the evening, and
were in New-York in the morning.—
After attending to their business un
til five in the afternoon, they went on
board the New Philadelphia, and ar
rived at Albany by 6 o’clock next
morning. They (here attended to
their business until 5 in the afternoon,
when they took passage on board the
same boat and arrived at the village
at 12 o’clock at night, having ibeeu
absent 54 hours, and in that time
spent a day in New York, a day in
Albany, and travelled 800 miles.—
The travelling expenses of each in
dividual amounted to £3 25; a per
formance for cheapness and expedi
tion, we believe, altogether uupar-
rallelcd in the history of travelling.
Jl Tumour.—Doctor W. F. Coop
er, of Sempronius, N. Y. has lately
taken from the back of Joshua Vanau-
kin, ol that town, a tumour, measur
ing in circumference thirty-nine inch
es, and weighing nineteen pounds and
four ounces. The operation was per
formed in three and a half minutes.—
This protuberance was situated be
tween the hip and shoulder blade,
bordering on the right side—it was
first discovered twenty-seven 3'ears
ago, then very small, since which
time it has been constantly increasing;
at first very gradually, but lately with
great rapidity, increasing one half in
tour years. It is said the wound is
now doing well, and the patient is in a
fair way to recover.-—Koch. Jilbum.
Solar Microscope.—Wc visited Mr.
Nolen’s exhibition of the Solar Micro
scope, at the corner of Seventh and
Chesnut-streets, on Friday afternoon;
and found him honored with a large
company of young ladies, to whom lie
Avas unfolding the wonders of nature
to their great admiration—especially
when they saw a piece of very fine
lace assume the appearance of grat
ings, with bars four or live inches in
diameter.
A very fine cambric needle, appear
ed something like an awning post; and
the dust from a fig, assumed life and
animation, that were truly astonishing.
The forms that this dust took, were
very like the five banded armadillo of
South America, from 10 to 15 inches
in length; and they showed their
strength and agility in a sharp contest
for the chief seat on the point of a
cambric needle, for which they con
tended with a most edifying earnest
ness.
A few drops of vinegar contained an
eel of a most magnificent size—enough
to serve a moderate eater through
lent.
The erystalization of salts, was the
most beautiful part of the exhibition
—and of these, the Sal-Amoniac and
the Muriate of Barytes, were most at
tractive. This part of the exhibition
is particularly worthy the attention of
the citizens, and cannot fail of being
both instructive and amusing.
Philad. Gaz.
Lmsus Natural—A Royal George
peach tree, cultivated in the garden
of the Rev. Mr. Howrnan, of Beccles
produced, last season, rather a large
fruit, three parts of Avhich were peach
and one part nectarine, quite distinct
in appearance as well as in flavour.
Gardeners Mag.
The folloAving are Candidates ,for the
General Council of the Cherokee Nation to
represent the District of CooseAvaiec.
Foil the Committee.
WALTER ADAIR,
JOHN RIDGE.
ELIJAH HICKS.
JOSEPH VANN,
RISING FAWN,
GEO. SANDERS, '
John banders.
For the Council.,
major ridge,
TF.-SA-DASKI,
JAMES FOSTER,
JOHN FIELDS, Jr.
WATJE.
GOO-LAH-TSE,
DAH-VE-SKE,
NF.-GAH-WE.
KA-E-TEF.-HEE.
*'■' The following are Candidates for the en
suing Legislature of the Cherokee Nation,
to represent tire District of Chattooga.
For the Committee.
RICHARD FIELDS,
THOMAS WILSON.
DANIEL GRIFFIN,Jr,
L1T1LE TURTLE,
EDWARD GUNTER*
ANDREW ROSS.
• • - For the Council.
BARK,
AHCHJLLA SMITH,
HEAD THROWER,
JOHN RATCLIFF,
LAUGH AT MUSH,
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL.
SAH-KE-AH,
SCRAPER.
The following are (Candidates for the eri-
sning General Council of the Cherokee
Nation, to represent the District of Chick-
amauga.
For the Committee.
DANIEL McCOY,
RICHARD TAYLOR,
JOHN F. BALDRIDGE
For the Council.
NATHAN HICKS,
CHARLES REECE,
C U N-N E-Q.U O H-YO-G Fv,
SLEEPING RABBIT,
THOMAS MANON,
TSU-NU-GE.
The following are Candidates for the Gej
neral Council of the Cherokee Nation to rc^
present the District of Ahinoe,
For Committee.
THOMAS FOREMAN.
HAIR CONRAD.
For Council.
JAMES BIG BEY,
THOMAS FIELDS,
YOUNG WOLF,
JOHN WATTS,
CRAWLING SNAKE,
DE-SQUAH-NE,
DEER IN THE WATER.
The following are Candidates for tht*
General Council of the Cherokee Nation
to represent the District ol'HickUry Log
For Committee.
JOHN DUNCAN,
JAMES DANIEL,
GEORGE WATERS;
SAMUEL DOWNING,
GEORGE STILL,
RACCOON,
MOSES DOWNING,
EDMUND DUNCAN.
For Council.
MOSES PARRIS,
JOHN R. DANIEL,
JAMES DAUGHERTY,
SLIM FELLOW,
CHEWEA,
RISING FAWN,
TUCKQUO,
GEORGE CARY,
WM. PROCTER,
YOUNG CHICKEN. .
We are authorised to announce”
David Vann, a Candidate for th6
Committee for High Tower District.
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o-av.
NOTICE.
I N accordance with the resolution of (lie
National Committee and Council, pass
ed October 24th, 1827, requiring the Treask
urer of the Cherokee Nation to call in all
the money loaned out under the provisions
of a previous act, oh or before the first Mon
day of October next, I hereby give notice
to all such as are indebted to the Treasury,
to come and redeem their bonds by paying
principal and interest, on the day that they*
become due, as such bonds cannot be re-*
newed after the first Monday of October
next. No indulgence will be given, and
those who do not comply with the above re
quisition must expect to find their bonds in
the hands of Officers.
JOHN MARTIN,
Treas. of the Ch. Nat,
New Echota, July 23, 1823.
iC? 0 The Examination of the School at
Creek Path, under the superintendence of
the Rev. William Potter, will take place
on the Friday preceding the second Sab
bath in August.
NOTICE.
T AKEN up on Tarripin Creek, by
Zacharian Simmons, on the 19th inst,
a BAY HORSE, with a small white on his
forehead, about six years old, and five feet
and two inches high, and without any
brand. J. VANN.
April SQlhjl888. Tl-d.