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1 a ntl took "my watch. The \knighty softened his heart. He gave orders, and my taate was brought down, and threatened with death, if he did not tell. He corroberated my statement. I was sent back to my prison, and told f had half an hour to consider between life and death. About three the next morning I was Ushered in the presence of the wretch, who asked me for the key of my sex tant, and told rtie he had released my crew; my long-boat was longside; that he had lost my other boats; and that I might think myself well off, for his determination was to have destroyed Us, ship and all. In going forward between rows of 'armed men who struck me with their cutlasses for looking about me, I -got into my boat with some difficulty, sore with bruises. & weak with the manner confinement, and got on board, it then blowing very strong. My heart Was almost broke when I saw the hov- *c that was made with the cargo: broken eases, cools. bottles, about the deck, every thing in the greatest confusion. Tarpaulins cut to pieces, hatchets broke to pieces, running rig ging, sails, cordage, provisions, guns, muskets, e it lasses, powder, shot the whole of my wearing apparel and of my own private venture, all nautical instruments, &c gone, cabin stores in fact, completely gutted of every thing, not even a knife and fork or spoon, tea or sugar, or a second shirt to my back left. They even cut the beam in the cabin to get the cabin bell and pulls away, and broke open my desk and bureau, destroyed and took away books, papers several let ters, my account books, most of my receipts, a great many letters strewed about different parts of the ship, some wet, and in pieces; all or most of those parcels sent down to,Deal, with several others, broken or destroyed— things that couhj be of no manner of use to him, but mere wantonness — While ouboaid ofliim, I observed a bucket, on which, although much fad ed, I distinctly saw “Cumberland” painted in black letters on a white o- val. This bucket had been painted green with black hopes, judge what my feeling must have been then, and when my life was threatened, it pre cluded hope, for it-struck me imme diately of the fate of poor Cur ns.— There was also an English binnacle, mahogany, with brass revolving top, standing abaft, that lie must have rob bed from some ship. The brig was entirely black, no ••hannels, same as Clorinda when she was bought; American built,, appear ed to have been originally a schooner, was ahout 200 tons, very sharp, sailed fast, had a deal of overhang abaft, a billet head; her topsail-yards nearly ns square as her lower-yards; and rov- nl-yards rigged abaft; had a !o:ig 18 or 24 pounder on a pivot on the forecas tle; with four long guns, apparently 12 pounders, on the main deck, &,t vo In the hold dismounted: the captain seemed to me to be a Nevv-Orleans, French or American, spoke rather broken English, but very grammatic ally, and I think a well educated man; his crew chiefly Spanish, but some English and Americans among the*; ■at times a good deal of English was •sgokcn. Effects of Intemperance in the body.— We have never seen this branch of the general subject better handled, than in Dr. Mussey’s Address before theN. H. Medical Society. The fol lowing short extract is a specimen — Let the drunkard read it—and sbud der! as every sober man must. N. Hampshire Obs What is .the secret of this witchery Which strong drink exerts over the whole man? I will try to tell you.— After being received into the stomach it is sucked up by absorbant vessels, is carried into the blood, and circu lates through the alimentary organs, through the lungs, muscles, and brain, ■and donbllesS through every organ of the bodyi Not a blood vessel howev er minute, not a thread of nerve in the whole' animal machine, escapes its influence? It disturbs the funetjons ef life; it increases for a time, the ac tion of Jiving organs, but lessens the power of that action; hence the dee;) depression and collapse which follow preternatural excitement, by habit ual use, it renders the living fibre less and less susceptible to the healthv operation of unstimulating food and drink, its influences soon become in corporated witlvall the living actions of the body, & the diurnal sensations of banger, thirst, and exhaustion, are strbngly associated with the recollec tion of its exliiliralirig effects, and thus bring along with them; the resistless desire for its repetition. Is evidence required of its being ab sorbed, and pervading tbe different or gans of the body? Approach within a few feet of the rum or brandy drink er, and the odour of his breath will quickly demonstrate, nil the lungs, loaded with the foul liquor, are dis charging it with all the energy in their power. When taken by the nursing mother, it enters into the delicate food prepar ed by nature for the nourishment and growth of helpless infancy and in this way, as may most rationally be sup posed, produces a relish.for an article naturally disgusting, and lays thus ear ly, in some instances, a foundation for intemperance in after life. What physician has not known a nursing mother give a fretful child a good night’s sleep, by taking herself a dose of lvandy at bed time? 0 her organs than those destined for the formation of inilk. manifest the presence of this article when it is com' i ed with peculiar odours; those organs especially which are set as waste gate's, to the system, soon show how foreign it is, and ill adapted to the real wants ot the animal economy,, by seperating it from the blood, and taking it out of the general circula tion as fast as possible. The brain, that most delicate and wonderful organ, which forms the mysterious link between the other forms of matter and mind, the healthy functions of which are essential to vi gorous intellectual operation, is capa ble of imbibing%lkohol, and having all its actions suddenly arrested. In point, is the case of a man who was puked up dead i.i London, soon after having drank a quart of gin upon a wa ger. He was carried into the West minster Hospital and there dissected. • In the ,veatu les of the brain was found a considerable quantity of lim pid fluid, distinctly impregnated with gin, both to the sense of smell, ami taste, and even to the test-of inflam mability. The liquid appeared, to the senses of the examining students, as strong as one third gin to two thirds water.” We know that alkoliol, even when diluted, by long contact after, death hardens the brain, as well as the other soft textures of the body which contain albumen; and although the vital prin ciple. may enable the brain to resist in great measure, and for a long time this effect ofalkahol, when brought into it from the stomach by the general cir culation, the fact, as alleged by many and as I am strongly induced to be lieve from the limited means I have had of Qbserving, viz. that the brains drunkards are literally harder at death, than those of the temperate, may be considered in strict accordance with the effects of intemperance up on the intellectual functions. If this organ be any degree hardened by the circulation of diluted alkohol through its minute and most delicately organ ized parts, it might well be supposed to be less susceptible of those exquis itely balanced actions, which we can hardly help believing, do exist in the impressions made by external objects, nn:l in the variety of combinations of them, produced by the more abstract and retired operations of the mind.— That a large proportion of tipplers early discover an unnatural obtuseness ofintelleot. and that frequently a minfl originally quick and vigorous, be comes sluggish and imbecile, need not be told to an assembly of physicians who have had the common opportuni ties of observing the effects of intem perance. AWFUL EFFECTS OF INTEM PERANCE. Extract of a letter to the Editor, firm the Rev. A. W. Gay dated Wilkesborough, September 12, 1828. 1 have thought it might not be amiss to send you the following account of the fatal effects of ardent spirits, of which you can make whatever use you think proper. At the fall term of‘the Superior. Court of this county, held this week, a man named Barlow, was tried for the murder of his wife. During the trial, the following facts were proved. Barlow had been a dutiful son, a good neighbor, and an affectionate husband, until habitual drunkenness induced in sanity. In a fit of Insanity, 'he mur dered an a’fectionate and a pious, wife, vho had borne him five children, the youngest about two weeks old. The manner in which the atrocious deed was committed, is almost heyond cre dibility. Barlow confessed that he beat his wife until he thought she waB dead—that he left her,—that she rose and attempted to make her escape— and that he then pursued her, and beat her brains out with a rock! It is said that they had previously lived in perfect harmony, and that her charac ter was irreproachably good.—BarloW was acquitted on the plea of insanity. At the same time, Jacob Miller of the! same county was convicted of murder, and sentenced to be hanged. P. S.—Perhaps it ought not to be disguised that the last spirits which Barlow was known to have usfed be fore the murder of his wife; was a few gallons, procured from a Preacher of the Gospel, icho liepl Distillery. This was procured * very few weeks be fore the murder, and was the immedi ate cause of that particular fit of insan ity. The previous habits of Barlow were well known lb that Minister. [If a preacher of the gospel will in this way become accessary to murder and to the death of the soul for the sake of filthy lucre—let it be known to the public;—let no disguise be thrown arround liis character—the sooner such preachers are known, and their characters duly estimated, the better it will be for the interests of religion. Who can read the above postscript without feeling indignation- without a thrill of horror at the tho’t that a minister of Jesus Oh.iist instead of saving, should by this traffic, de stroy the souls of men!!!]—Visitor and Telegraph. Jlaother Calamity.—Our heretofore favored land, it would appear, has been doomed to curses, not with 1 ‘war famine, and pestilence,” (for we are at peace with ail nations, and unpre- eedently healthy,) but with worms. The worm had scarcely ceased Us devastation on the crops before we heard of the maggot in cattle. The description of fly that deposits the eggs from which these maggots are generated we understand is partly covered with hair, and is above the size of the ordinary green fly. They deposit them in the nostrils, wherev er there is blood on the animal, or an abrasion of sikn, as from slight injuries, and not, as with the common fly, where there is a taint.' The egg, shortly after it is deposited, assumes the shape of a worm, varying in length from a quarter to one inch. They affect horned cattle, horses, hogs, dogs, &e. Among the former we be lieve they are more general. Blood is constantly trickling or oozing from the place where they are deposited, and is the first indication of their pres ence. It is really revolting to human ity to see the victims of these vora cious insects. The experience of persons in this neighborhood, in the use of applications to destroy them is limited; but we understand that.if they are early dis covered, washing the part affected with spirits of turpentine will kill them. If they have been at work several days, the part should be laid open with the knife, washed with spir its of turpentine, and sprinkled with calomel. These are agents, and used for exterminating these insects, as we learn are generally successful. Selma (Ala.) Cour. Sept. 11. From Ward's Mexico.—“I cannot conclude this sketch of the population of Mexico, without remarking upon one great advantage which New Spain enjoys over her. neighbors, both to the north and south, in the almost total absence of a pure African population. The importation of slaves into Mexico was always inconsiderable, and their number in 1793 did not exceed six thousand. Of these many have died, many have been manumitted, and the rest quitted their masters in 1810, and sought freedom in the ranks of the In dependent army—so that I am I be lieve justified in stating, that there is now hardly a single slave in the cen tral portion of the republic. In Tex as, (on the northern frontier,) a fete have been introduced by the North American settlers; but all further importations are prohibited by law, and provision has been made for securing the free dom of the Offspring of the slaves now' in existence. -—- In Boston there was formerly a sign, ‘ c Dr. Trott,”—which was-ultimately succeeded by one with the name of— “Dr. Gallup.” An Irishman observ ing the change, said he was plas’d with the Doctor’s success—that he 1 had got from a Trot into a Gallop,. The other morning a young chimney sweeper was sealed upon an alehouse Delicti, alia in one uuud ins Crush, anu in lire oilier a hoi buttered roll.— vVhhe exercising his mastica tors, with a pel severance thal evinc ed tire Highest gratification, he observ ed a dog lying on,tire'ground jiear him." The repetition of "Poor fellow, poor lello.v,” in a good-natured tone, brought tbe quadruped from bis rest ing place- tie wagged his tail, look ed up with an eye of humblc-entrealy, an d in that universal language which ad nations understand, asked fo a morsel of bread. The sooty tyrant held his remnant of roll tow ards him but on the dog gently offering to take it, struck him with Ins brush so vio lent a blow' across the nose as nearly broke the bone. A gentleman who had been, unperceived, a witness . to the whole transaction, put a sixpence between his linger and thumb, and beckoned the chimney-sweeper to an opposite door. The boy grinned at the silver, but on stretching out his hand to receive it, the teacher of hu manity gave him such a rap upon his nuckles with a cane, as made him sing. His hand tingling with pain, and tears starting from his eyes, he asked what that was for? “To make you feci” was the reply. “How do you like a blow and a disappointment? The dog en dured both!” This was a good prac tical lesson, the record of which no doubt will have better effect than a volume of ethics.—N. Y. E. Post. surviving member of the first Arime* can Congress, that ol 1774. Charles Carroll, of Maryland is the only one remaining of the Congress of 1776 f that adopted the Declaration of Inde pendence. James Madison, of Vir« ginin, is, it is believed, the only sur viving member of the National Conven tion of 1787, which formed the Con stitution of the United States. Major William Jackson, a revolutionary of ficer, who signed and certified the Constitution as Secretary of the Con vention is still alive, and resides in Philadelphia.— Vermont JUcss. Splendid Church in Russia.—Ex tract of a letter from a gentleman to his friend in Northampton!. “At Sa lem, a young man just arrived from Petersburg!], Russia, gave me a piece of rock with which the Emperor Nich olas is now building a church which be intends shall be the largest ever built. 1 here, will he 42 stone eoluins, .each 54 feet high.'carh weighing 120 tors, each 7 feet in diameter, and each of one solid piece of rock.” The follow ing anecdote of Godfrey' de Bulloign, as Fairfax calls him, is curious and w'e believe is not general ly knew'—When this great champion of the crusaders was inaugurated King of Jerusalem, he was offered a„ crown, which he meekly declined, saying, that he never would wear a crown ef gold in the place where his Saviour had worn a crown of thorns. Tecumseh.—This hero of the scalp ing knife, is in the way (as we per ceive by (he New Monthly Magazine) of being immortalized. in Great Brit ain, through the medium of “a Poem in four Cantos, by an English Officer,” hearing the romantic iitle of “Tecum seh', or the Warrior of the West.”— No extracts are given; but w r e take it for granted, that the inspiration of the subject, has elevated the military bard into something very like Homer—or Milton, at least* The editor of the New Monthly puts forth a deal of in teresting pathos in his notice of the work. “It is a tribute to the memo ry of a great and noble character in savage life, that was distinguished as an ally of the British in Canada, du ring the late war there, and fell in battle. The Kentuckians after wards skinned the fallen warrior, to make razor strops of his hide—a proof of Kentuckian civilization, which the Americans of other states refer to in proof of their charges against that, of being a seini-barbarous province.”— “He seems to have been one of those dignified and noble characters which occasionally burst forth from the shackles of savage and untutored na ture to command and direct the mean er spirits around him, and to obtain unqualified admiration from civilized nations.” “Not only the British, but the Americans (not Kentuckians,) have paid the tribute of admiration to the *tried virtues of Tecumseh.” “He was a brave and honorable savage, whose name should not die in Eng land.” But enough of this rigmarole. It is a pity that officers of the army will dabble in mock heroics and sage critics become ridiculous; but it seems to be the fate of almost every English writer in regard to this coun try, to be guilty of the sin of ignorance, ill-nature, or absurdity.—N. Y. States man. Remarkable election.—At thie late election in the first congressional dis trict in Iudiana, the two candidates, Mr. Blake and Mr. Boon, in all the counties but one, had 7,217 votes each. The remaining county was ex pected to decide the contest by a ma jority of 20 to 30, Maternal Intrepidity.—A gentleman informs us that some time last week the wife of Mr. Lemuel Alexander, of Smithfield, in this state, w r ent to the well to draw water, with a young child in her arms. While in the act, from some cause the child slipped or sprung from her, and plunged into the well, which was about SO feet deep. The mother immediately seized the well pole with which she descended a part of the distance, and then jump ed down to the relief of the child, which was raised from the water and held in that position until'the cries of Mrs. A. brought Mr. Joshua Arnold to her relief. Both the mother and child were taken from the well, without having received material injury. Prov. Jour. John Jay, ef New-York* is the only “An ingenious plan for increasing* the power of the voice has been car ried into execution at Attercliffe church, Sheffield, by erecting a con cave sounding board, to act as a re flector behind tbe reading desk and pulpit, with the speaker's voice near the focus of the concave. The effect of this reflector, it is said increases the power of the voice five times be yond its ordinary volume, so that it can be heard in the most distant cor ners of the church. We should re commend the adoption of this ingen ious plan in numerous parish church es in which the duties are discharged with indiflerence or incapacity.” Bristol Mirror, Journal of Commerce.—It is stated in the N. York Commercial Adv. that Mr. Lewis Tappan, late of Boston, has become proprietor of the Journal of Commerce. Mr. Maxivell has re tired from the editorial department. Mr. Hale continues in the establish ment. / Rffed Gum.—Two Guns. Thomas and James, w ere knocked down md rifled of their money by some ruffians in Savannah. MARRIED—On Thursday last, W the Rev. Mr. Behan, Mr. Davit Vann, Esq. ofH[gh Tower District, to Miss jitha youngest daughter of Capt. David M’Nair of Arhohee District. • zens generally. 1 would hereby give notice that I intent by leave of Providence, to open a boart ing bouse about the first of November nex near the Mission School in this town, whei I will supply children under twelve yea of age, with board and washing for or dollar per week, and youth over tweh years of age with board exclusive of was] lf.g, for the same price. But should ar youth over twelve or thirteen years of a< wish to enter the boarding house, they wi please to produce satisfactory testimonial with regard to their moral character. For the satisfaction of all who mav wii to support their children at School, I wou state that Messrs. William Hicks, Alexai der M’Coy and Elias Boudinott have ha the kindness to accept the appointment Committee to visit and examine the Sr ho once in three months viz. on the first Tue day of January, March, June and Septen her, when they will report through the m< dium ofthe Cherokee Phoenix the state ar improvement of the School. MARY ROWE for her fath< v*. , RICHARD ROWE.. High Tower, Oct. 15,1823. POCKET BOOK LOST. A BOUT the middle of July last wi X*- stolen out of my Pocket at my hous a large Washed Leather Pocket-Booi containing one note on the State Bank < Georgia for £10, one note of hand on El jah Hicks for £85, payable sometime j October next; a receipt of Henry Meevr the State of New York, for two notes c John Byers of the said State, and son other papers not recollected. To any ne son getting & delivering said Book, paiie and money to me; I will give ten dollar and five for the apprehension ofthe rogn I do hereby forwarn all persons fromtr ding for said note of Elijah Hicks Ar 1 also forwarn Elijah Hicks from payir said note to anyperson excepting mvsell GEORGE HARLIN Coosewaytee Chorofree Nation, A own 113. 1828*—24-tf. ' b