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at Cambridge, though it is not yet air thereby bringing them under tribute nounced,) called yesterday and sub- and dragging them into disgraceful scribed for two copies of the Com mercial, one for himself and one for the Sultan. These, we admit, are aur first subscribers in the East; but the professor tells us the prospect is good, particularly if we are attentive ,to making up our ship news. Deaths and marriages are .also very interes ting to the Turks; Abraham Jacobs, the great Jew Bookseller near St. So phia’s has lately got 920 subscribers for the.,American Quarterly; and a complete set of Dr. McHenry’s nov els and plays is now republishing by the same enterprising bookseller.— r-Tbey are much admired in Turkey. JV*. Y. Spectator. CHARACTER OF THE GREKS. There is perhaps no people on earth; excepting the Jews and Chi nese, who retain so much of the spir it and as many of the distinguishing eharacteristk's of their remote ances tors as the modern Greeks. With the Jew and the Chinese, this uniformity of character is accounted for by the circumstances in which they have been placed; their laws and religion have been the same, and their condi tion in many respects has been almost the same in every period-of their his tory- But what is remarkable in the Greek is, that amidst all the revolu tions and changes of religion, laws and government through which they have passed, they exhibit those distinguish ing traits of character, which identi fy them with the celebrated stock from which they sprung. How unlike the modern Italians are the Greeks in •this respect. “The character of the modern Greeks”—says Dr. Howe in his sketch of the Greek Revolution—' is different in the different parts of the country, and in this difference we inay altVays sae the effect of the remote ness or proximity of their province, tn the immediate influence of the ty ranny of the different masters of the country. Tiie mountain Greek is brave—often to heroism;—he is har dy, active, lively,’ a lover of adventure and of gaiety; he is hospitable, gene rous, fickle; the Albanian Greek is enterprising, persevering, unsociable, inhospitable, cruel; the Moriote is cringing, greedy of gain, hypocritical and timid; but he is industrious, tem perate, kind hearted, and hospitable; the Greek merchant is shrewd, enter prising, indefatigable; but cunning, trickish, supple, and deceitful. Were there wanting any more con vincing proof of the genuineness of the decent sf the Modern Greeks from their illustrious ancestors, than that they speak the same, lan guage, which has undergone fewer .corruptions than almost any other; that they employ precisely the same char acters in writing; that they call (daces by the same names; that they inhabit the same spots; that they retain ma ny of the prejudices, the manners and customs, that are recorded of the old Greeks, we say, if more proof should be thought wanting, it will be found in the physical aspect, and in.the char acter of the people. The same natu ral quickness of intellect, love of learn ing, attachment to country, vivacity, the same fickleness, the same deceit, are stamped in the character of the Greeks of to-day, as they were in the minds of the Groeks of the older times. We have observed that though the general appearance of the Greek na tion at the commencement of the 19th ®entury, was that of a people plung ed in ignorance and superstition; yet there were several points in which the removal of the immediate pressure of the hand of tyranny, had given a ehance for the amelioration of the con dition of the people; and it is certain proof of the elasticity of the Greek oharacter, that in every one of those jjlaces, there was an immediate au l jrapid advance iu civilization and re finement. ’ DECLARATION OF WAR. The following preamble and resolu- 'fcions, which are beautiful in more re spects than one, we copy from the I- tliiea Chronicle. They were adopt ed by the Ludlowville Artillery, at a company parade on the 1st instant: Whereas we view with serious a- larm the wide-spread evil of intemper ance—assuming ps it does the charac ter of a merciless and desolating EN EMY—destroying not only the prop erty, physicalftrength, and life, but slavery and ruin And vvherea.., on occasions like the present, this enemy has, by his foul stratagems, lulled into security, and then shorn the locks bf many of our citizen soldiers—so that, with all their imposing military appearance, when they have said, “We will go out, as at other times,” to battle, they have found that their strength was de parted: And whereas, in view of the prog ress of this enemy, and the manner in which he has intrenched himself throughout our country, we are of o- piuion that he is more dangerous to our free republican institutions, and liberties, than any foreign foe, there fore, Resolved, Being mustered for mili tary improvement and discipline, that we hereby wage a war of extermina tion against this common enemy, in temperance. Resolved, As the Holy Scriptures are eminently calculated to promote the best interests of any people, and as, upon the Bible, rest the safety and prosperity of our republican govern ment; that the amount, which a per nicious custom has almost compelled us to pay, on occasions like this, for ardent spirits, shall be given to the “Female Bible Society of the town of Lansing and lust, that this is fixed, that vola tile; love grows, lust wastes by enjoy ment. And the reason is, that one springs from an union of sense. They have divers originals, and so have different families; thit inward and deep, this superficial; that tran sient, this permanent. They that marry for monty cannot have the true satisfaction of narriage; the requisite means being winting. Men are generally more tareful of the breed of their horses and their dogs, than of their children. Those must be of the best sort, for shape, strength, courage, and good conditions; but as /or these their own posterity money shall answer all things. With such, it makes the crooked strait,sets squint eyes right, cures madness, covers folly, changes ill conditions, mends the skin, gives a sweet breath, repairs honors, makes young, worki wonders. O how soxlid is man grown! Man, the noblest creature in the world!— As a God on earth, and the image of Him Unit made it: thus to mistake earth for heaven, and worship gold for God. At one of the recent public meet ings in Ireland, orator O’Connel thus stigmatized Cobbett: “I do not like to see the time of the Association wasted man eulogium upon William Cobbett. He is cer tainly a man of powerful intellect, but totally inconsistent with himself; and so depraved and debased, that it is discreditable to praise him. He is certainly of uss, and so is the pioneer in the army. As the one is useful in making conveniences for the soldiers, so is the other as a scavenger and scourier in politics; but to be spoken of as a writer capable of governing the public mind!—it is ridiculous to think that he can govern others, who knows not how to govern himself.— The man that is the object of his n- buse to day, may to-morrow be de graded by the infliction of his praise— and his abuse and his praise are of equal value. To be associated with Cobbett in England is disgraceful, and I am sure there is no less good taste in Ireland than in that country. Cob bett is certainly most powerful in vi tuperation, and I invite the full exer cise of it against me; but as to answer ing him! I would not consume my time in so doing. I never can sit si lent when I hear an eulogium pronounc ed upon Cobbett, or see. our time wast ed upon The Morning Post when Rent is coming in,[hear!}” Calculation on Human Life.—A wri ter in the New York American gives the following for the benefit of the curious in such matters:—“In the year 1794, the Tontine Coffee House was erected, and the number of nom inees limited to two hundred and three. Of this number, seventy six were de ceased pn the first of May, 1827— leaving 127—during the year ending the 1st of May, 1828, there were five deaths—one lost at sea—leaving 1.22 nominees. The property is now, as it has been for a number of years, at a high rent, and is to be divided when the list is dwindled down to six nom- jln extraordinary Woman—There now resides in Montgomery county in this state, a lady in the 55th year of her age, who weighs 510 pounds. Her stature is rather low; she is the mother of ten children, nine of whom are living, and she says none of her relations are above the ordinary size. At 20 years of age she weighed 135 pounds, commenced becoming corpu lent at the age of about 30; her gen oral health is gsod, but from her un- wieldly size she can walk but a few steps.— Whig Banner. Sentiments of the famous Mr. Penn ■cith regard to Marriage.—Never mar ry but for love, but see that thou lov ost what is lovely. Iflovebenot thy chiefest motive, thou wilt soon grow weary of a married state, and 6tray from thy promise, to search out thy pleasures in forbidden places. Let not enjoyment lesson, but nug ment affliction; it being the basest of | passions to like, when we have not also the moral worth and reputation of 1 what we slight when, we possess. ■watqycf opr. *t, Ife&m valuable citizens; 1 U is. thc> difference- hetwixt Jove Distance fif the fixed Stars.—Dr. Brinkley (the Bishop of Cloyne) has found that the star <x Lyras has a par allax of 1 min. 1 sec.; or what is the same thing, that the ladius of the earth’s annual orbit would seen if from that star, subtend an angle of 1 min. 1 sec. hence it follows, that its dis tance is 20,159,685,000,000 miles.— Sir William Herschel, from repeated measurements, consider! the diame ter of this star as three-tenths of second; and consequently, its diame ter must be three thousand times greater than that of the sun, 2,059,- 000,000 miles, or three-fourths of the size of the whole solar system, as cir cumscribed by the orbit of Jthe Geor gia tn Sidus.— Quarterly Review. Charles Carroll of Carrollton.—This (the 20th inst.) is the biith day of this enerable man, on whi?h he enters his ninety-second year He still enjoys a health and vivacity truly remarka- )le at bis age. This “sound mind in a sound body,” is the fruit of long hab its of temperance and moderation, and of the serenity which belongs to a life of integrity and virtue. Every year adds to the interest of this con- tempory and survivor of men truly il lustrious as any in story. To honor them is the sacred duty of posterity From the Memoirs of General Miller. THE PAMPAS OF SOUTH A MERICA. One hundred years ago, when the Pampas of South America were cov ered with cattle, travellers were ac custoraed to send horsemen before them to clear the road. The Span iards, finding the trade in hides ex tremely lucrative, employed troops of horsemen for the purpose of slaugh tering the capital. These men had each separate tasks assigned them some, well mounted, attacked a herd of oxen, and with a crescent-shape knife fixed at the end of a long hand le, hamstrung the cattle as they fled others were thrown down by means of the lasso, whilst a third party brought up and drew a knife across the throat of the prostrate animals. Other were employed in stripping off the hides, and in conveying them to an ap pointed place; in fixing them to the ground with pegs, and carrying away the tongues and fat. The flesh, which would ha^e sufficed to feed a nutner ous army in Europe, was left on the plain to bu devoured.by tigers, wild dogs, and givens. In an expedition of this sort, vffiich generally lasted sev oral weeks, the person at whose ex peuse it waspndertaken obtained sev eral thousand hides, each of which when dried, was worth four times as a live bullock,Nn consequence of the expense necessarily incurred in killing the oxen, and the labour of drying the hides in the sun. This custom of bun ting and slaughtering cattle having been continued for a whole century, almost exhausted tlx plains of unown ed cattle. The herds now seen are the property of individuals. Ostriches impart a lively interest to a ride in the Pampas. They are seen sometimes in convoys of twenty or thirty, gliding elegantly along the gentle undulations of the plain, at. half pistol shot distance from each other, like skirmishers. The young are ea sily domesticated, and soon become attached to those tvho caress them; hut they are troublesolfte inmates, for/ stalking about the house k they will, 'when full grown, swallow coin, shirt pins, and every small article ot inetal within reach. Their usual food, in a wild state, is seeds, herb age, and insects; the flesh is a reddish brown, and, if young, not of bad flavor. A great many eggs are laid in the same nest., which is lined with dry grass. Some accounts are given which exonerates the ostrich from the charge of being the most stupid bird in the creation. For example the hen counts her eggs every day. This has been proved by the experiment of ta king an egg away or by (jutting one in addition. In either case she destroys the whole by smashing them with her feet. Although she does not attend to se crecy in selecting a situation for her nest, site will forsake it if the eggs have been handled. It is also said that she rolls a few eggs thirty yards distant from the nest, and cracks the shells, which by the time her young come forth, being filled w r ith maggots, and covered with insects, form the first repast of her infant brood. The male bird is said to take upon him- elf the rearing of the young, and to ttaeh more importance to paternal authority than to the favours of his mate. If two cock birds meet, each with a family, they light for the su premacy over both; for which reason an ostrich has sometimes under his tu telage broods of different ages. . tie fiction will come thronging baefir ipon thy memory, and knocking dole* fully at thy soul—then h^ iure that thou lie down sorrowing mid repent* ant on the grave, and utter the un* heard groan, and pout the unavailing tear, mo e hitter, because unheard and unavailing. Mr. Monroe and the Post Office.— So much has been said respecting Mr. Monroe in connection with this subject, that a friend of his has assum ed the responsibility of violating a private letter to express his senti ments on this occasion— “As to my accepting the appoint ment, it is impossible, not on account of the grade of the office, for I have accepted that of Magistrate in this County, and acted in some instances; nor would I refuse to accept any trmt in Which I could render any essential service to the country. But I act up-- on the consideration that 1 could ac cept it only with a view to emolu ment. If the nation is willing that an individual who has served them tie 5 long, and in the offices I have held, should be reduced to want, and I can not escape that fate by my own means, I ain willing to rneef it, rather than- take any oflice to prevent it. I feel much gratified, however, at the feel ing manifested towards tne by my fel low citizens of New-York.—Mere. Mv. Periodicals in Boston.—Fifty-nine periodical publications are enumerat ed in Boston, by the Evening Bulletin. Six of them are daily newspapers, one tri weekly, four semi weekly, twenty weekly, besides eight weekly semi- ( weekly and tri weekly, connected with the daily papers. , There arc three, journals published monthly one every two months, six quarterly, one semi-annually, and three annually. The Tower of Babel, says a recent traveller in the east now presents the appearance of a large mound or hill, with a castle on the top, in mounting to which, the traveller now and then discovers, through the light sandy 6oih that he is treading on a vast heap of bricks. The total circumference of the ruin is 2,283 feet, tho’ the build ing itself was only 2000, allowing 500 to the stnndia, which Herodotus as signs as the side of its square. The ele vation of the west side is 198 feet. What seems to be a castle at a dis tance, when examined, proves to he a solid mass of kiln burnt bricks, 37 feet high and 28 broad.—Mirror, THE GRAVE. By Washington Irving. Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error; covers everj»defect; ex tinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and recollection; who can look down on the grave even of an en emy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that ever he should have war- red with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him? But the grave of those he lotted—what a place for meditation! Then it is we call up in long review the whole his tory of virtue and gentleness, and the thousand endearments lavished upon us almost unheeded in the daily inter course of intimacy—then it is we dwell upon the tenderness, the solemn and awful tenderness of the parting- scene; the bed of death, with all the stifled grief; its noiseless attendance, its mute watchful assiduities! the last testimonies of expiring love; the fee ble fluttering. Oh! how thrilling is the pressure of the hand, the fond look of the glancing eye; turning upon us even from the threshold of exist ence; the faint faltering accents strug gling in death to give one more assur ance of affection. Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience of every past endearment unregarded of that departed being who never—neyor —can return to be soothed by contri tion! If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul or a furrow to the silver brow of an affec tionate parent—if thou art a husband, and bast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms tojloubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth—if thou art a friend, and hast ever wronged in tho’t, or word, or deed, the spirit that gen erously confided in thee—if thou art a lover, & hast ever given one unmer ited pang to the true heart that now r lays cold and still beneath thy feet— then be sure that every unkind look. Industry of Learned Men.—C w.dcn was ten years in preparing his Britarv nica for the (tress; lie published the first edition in the 33d year of his age, and four more duri -r bis life. * r. M’Knight employd thirty years in pre paring his Versions of the Epistles and Notes; he spent eleven hours a ■ day in composing it, and he usually walked three hours a day for exer cise. Dr. - Campbell was engaged forty years on his translation of t.h& Gospels with the Notes. Dr. WhiN by’s learned Commentary was the re sult of fifteen years study. Dr. Good spent eight years upon his Translation of Lucretius and Notes, “and it was composed,” says Dr. 0. Gregory, his excellennt biographer, “in the streets of London during tlie translator’s ex tensive w alks to visit his numerous pa tients.” 'Steamer Sunk.—The steamboat Missouri, in descending the Upper Mississippi from Galena to St. Louis, struck a snag, and sunk immediately, in twelve or fourteen feet water, on the 29th ult. ninety miles above St. Louis. Her freight w r as principally lead. She was a new boat, havi g commenced in running in March Inst and was owned in St. Louis. The Passengers were safe. In Amherst and some of I he neigh boring counties of Virginia, the drought has been so extensive, that forest trees of t he largest growth have died. The oldest inhabitants do not recol lect a season of simi'a severity. To all my friends, and Cherokee citi zens generally. 1 would hereby give notice that I intend, by leave of Prevalence, to open a board* ing house about the first of November not, near the Mission School in Ihistnwn, where I will supply children under twelve rears of age, with hoard and washing for one dollar per week, and youth over twelve years of age with board exclusive of wash ing, for the same price. But should any youth over twelve or thirteen years of age wish to enter the. boarding house, they will please to produce satisfactory testimonials with regard to their moral character. For the satisfaction of all who may wish to support their children at School, I*would state that Messrs. William Hicks, Alexans- dev M’Coy and Elias Boudioott have had the kindness to accept the appointment of Committee to visit and examine the School once in three months viz. on the first Tncst day of January. March, June and Septcirt her, when they will report through the met (liiirn ofthe Cherokee Phcvnix the state and improvement of the School. MARY IIOWE for Imr fathejs RICHARD ROWE. High Tower, Oct. 15, ISSd. pocketHookTost. A BOM the middle of July last w^ stolen out of my Pocket atViy hm^e a large Washed Leather Pocket-P,™*’ containing one note on the State Bank of Georgia for £10, one note of hand, on Eli jah Hicks for £85, payable s-.Retime"in October next; a receipt ofHe Jfy Mecyrof tbe State ot New York, for fwo notes on John Byers of the said fjtate, and some other papers not recolle W. To any pee- son getting & deliver! jr said Book, pavers and money to me; I will give ten dollars, and five for the av,j> re } irnfi ; on 0 f |(,e rrgus, I do hereby Warn all persons fromW ding for said. no(e ?f Ehjaii Hicks. And .also lorvarn Elijah Ilicks from pr.yinjy said nr,ff> to anyperson evreptinr mv«elf GEORGE IIA RUN • , 1 Coosewaytee Cherokee Katiotiv every ungracious word, every uij^eu- V-13. I829^M-tK. ***