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, “THE VISION.” Thousands i‘ .years beneath thy sway !ia ■ c .;rGaacd, Uuw a ieJ Death! how many more shall bear T i burden of the hoarse, no human tongue Cat. tel), ior they are chronicled in heaven; Though oftitnes numbered by a guilty m , When thunders, like dread oracles, awake The w ti!. Yet, come it will, howeVei late, T!iat glorious day, when Death himsell hall lie! Woenth' far sounds of bursting tombs will awe The 'uling earth—when with an angel shout .. The Mess’d will spring into a second birth. And vet, though life enchant, and Death appal H - w gently do the weaning years unclose The many links that chain us to the w»lu! Tim passions which in spirit youthful hearts, And spread a beauty o’er the spring of life, A d hid the hopes of young ambition bQUiid, D i / and cool, as further down the vale O darkling years we wen.l, until, at length, The time-worn spirit muses on the tomb Wth "levating sadness, ami the shades Of l»ath dissolve amid those cheering rays Which revelation sheds from heaven. How pure T’i<* g-ace, t!m gentleness of virtuous age! Th uigh sol",mi, not austere; though dea l To ission, and the wildering dreams of hope, N <t unalive to tenderness and truth— The good old man is honored and revered, And breathes upon the young limb’d race around, Th» gi- and venerable charm of years. N n--glory to the power that tunes the h»art tT it»the spirit of the tune—are all The fancy and the Hush of youth forgot: The meditative walk by wood or mead, The lull of streams, the language of the Hea-d in’the heart alone—the bosom life Call that beautified or graced h s youth, If still to be enjoyed, and hallow’d with The feelings flowing from a better world. I sing of Death; yet soon, perchance, may be A 'wilier in the tomb. But twenty years Hav • withered since my pilgrimage bc- And I look back upon my boyish days W<th mournful joy; as musing wand’rcrs /Jq With eye reverted, from some lofty hill, U mn the bright and peaceful vale below. O ,' let me live until the fires that feed M ■ sou , have work’d themselves away, and then p.t-rnal Spirit, take me to thy home! F„r when a child, I shaped inspiring dreams, . A 1 nourish’d aspirations that awoke R -xutiful feelings from the face 0 Mure- from a child I learn’d to reap A harvest of sweet thoughts for future years. How oft—be witnesg, Guardian of our 1 ,ms\>f young delight, while o’er the •Humming like bees, my happy play-mates roam’d, « I hived on high anddioary crag to muse. An I round the landscape with delighted T'i- sky besprinkled o’er with rainbow i'angelic wings had wanton’d there; T , > distant citv capo’ with hazy towers, Th river, shyly roaming by its banks O repose—t• ^ether With the pl&y 0 elfin music on the fresh winged air - Entranc’d with these, how often have l glow’d W th 1 houghts that panted to be eloquent, Yet only ventured forth in tears. And now; Though haply mellow’d by correcting 1 thaivi'thec, Heaven! that the bereaving Hath mt diminished the subliming hopes O. youth, in manhoo ds more imposing ca res. .. , Nor titled pomp, nor princely mansions The c'oud of envy o’er mv heart; for there One oft delusive, though adored. But Tin* spirit speaks—or beauty from the sWv D semi 1> into mv being—when I hear Th- storm hymns of the mighty ocean roll, On thunder sound—the champion of the Storm— . Then I feel envy for immortal words, • The ruih of living thought; oh! then 1 To AasKmv feelings into deathless verse, That inav a lminister to unborn time, And t"U some loftv soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee! • Montgomery. CHEROKEE HYMNS. cjiijt I and did my Siviour bleedP 1. D.y^a^of-y ivivcrx yro o“TWT#, o-Poex^kT. 2. 1rr»»eAfr l-RT f-t* 0»f»UlT, -qhL ljyoi»l-o«6>T, 3. ®^T O'otA'ttTT t,w° o»p<*x»<i; B® (FliofiSOCSjA SDJ/ioiJl-T. 4. t,*V" St»0-'l>>rt)AT tH" 9»so-s, oth-SAP 0 MT or 9RAT. 3. o»r uy^RT ivi Grtyw O'CvRA.Gf TEXT* Via. Mt&o&utukxtss its. WOMAN. Gov. Metcalfe, of Kentucky, in his late Message to the Mate Legis lature, recommends that public pro vision should be made in that Slate for the education of females. “In every age, and in every clime, ^lie remarks) man in the exercise of ins dominion over his ompanion, has untde it eftremely difficult for her to rise with hiiuseif in the scale of intel ligence. Among the barbarous & un civilized, how cheerless is her condi tion! How degraded by the decree of the Mussulman! In every quarter oi the world, how hopeless are her prospects, except it be under the au spices, and in the bosom of a Chris- iiun community! It may, to bis hon or, be said of the Chnsiian, that he iias done much for the improvement ami amelioration of her condition — And m doing so, he has contributed but liltli? less to his own, than to ker happiness. It is true that she acts her part in the shade of domestic re tirement. She is not often an active agent in the perils of war. Her voice is not heard in our Senates.— But this detracts nothing from the im portance of her station, her place is one of high, if not awful, responsibili ty. We are indebted to her for our lirst, and frequently for our best im pressions. In susceptible childhood, wuiie we are looking up to her as the most pure and the most perfect, as sue is sure to be the most beloved of created beings, she imparts to us our liisi lessons of morality and religion. The wild and irregular passions of fantastic infancy are subjected to her soft and endearing control. In riper years she exercises no small degree of influence over us; and m the dreary winter of our days, she sustains us by her fortitude, whilst from her kind ness and lidelity vve draw the last and greatest of all our consolations.— Surely her mind should be cultivated and adorned by the instruction and the grace of systematic education. Will Hot the Legislature of Kentucky con fer upon their State the honor of hav ing taken the jh'st step for the promo tion of this desirable object? The act lam persuaded, will be hailed’with delight by the present and succeeding generations.” GOLDEN RULES, To render Men Honest, Respectable, and Happy. BY SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS. Wealth, ambition, learning, are phanioms of the mind, similar, as to actual contact, to the will-o'-the-wisp, or the rainbow of nature. The avari cious are never rich enough—the am bitious desire to rise higher and high er—and the cyclopaedia is too bulky for the grasp of one life. Neverthe less, all are energies of healthy minds if temperately exerted, and it is ex cess, like that in wine, which consti tutes their vice and disease. As prac tical rules, a man ought to be con tent, who, from indigence, has secur ed comfortable independence for his old age, or who has doubled his patri mony; who has advanced two or three social steps over Ins former equals; and who is wise enough to guard him self against superstition and impos ture; able to discover and assert truth; and competent to till up Ins hours of leisure by reading the best authors, with good intelligence and discrimin ation. In society, character is the first, the second, and the ultimate quality. A man is never ruined who has not lost his character, while he who has lost his character, whatever be his portion, is ruined, as to all moral and iseful purposes. Envy and calumny will follow a man's success like his shadow, but they will be powerless if he is true to himself, and relies on Sis native energies to beat or live hem down. Virtues may be mis ep- * resented, but they are virtues still; and in vain will an industrious ntan oc caiiou an iiuer; a scusroio man, a loci; a p rue out man, a spendthrift; a persevering man, a changeling; or an iiuuest man, a knave. Tile qual ities are inherent, and cannot be re moved by word except a mau s own consent. At tbc same time, ail cal umniators thrice detected, ought to be banished, as criminals, tin worthy of the benenis of the society, of w'bich, however powerless, they endeavor to be the post and bane. Do no act which you feel any rep- gunauce to have seen or known by others; for me necessity ol being secret implies some vice in the act, or some error in me reasoning which leaus to its self-justification. To live and let live, applies to all social and physical relatiun: for the w orld is the common property of all the beings wuo have been evolved by the progress of creative power, and all are necessary pai ls of a great and huiinonious scheme, to which it is our duty to submit; while the happiness of all ought, as far as possible, to be rendered accordant with our own. Advertisement Extraordinary .—The following is a verbatim copy of an advertisement, which is to be iounu in a new paper entitled -‘The Indian Juuii Bull,’ published at Calcutta, ior the edification of many millions ol idolaters, who are subject to the Crown of Great Britain. ‘I, Ac hen, Chinaman, native of Pekin, returns his thunks to Ue relig tons and most worships in Bengal, since his first begin business, lie now have to acquaint de worshippers ol idols, that Ins son, Aloo Ac hen, have arrive after his study oi sculp ture in llaiy and London. He had brought nid him many blocks of that beautiful stellated granite, from Kel- kerny; he have also brought out a Mr. Baron s Tentagraph, by which we am now able to reduce to de smallest size any lavoiite idol, ior domestic worship and in portable compass (ex actly resembling de original,) lor re ligious travellers by sea or land. VYc have one blocks of disunperishable marble weig ing three tons, bea^i- luily veriegated; dis I propose as de basis ol a durable idol, to supersede tbc perishable wooden figure of Jug- gernauth; i with my son have neany completed de idol, we have leit one opening behind in de body, to contain lac dust oi ihe lust inventor, and tie bones ol Ue carver in wood; we have, at ue lower extremity ol de body, leaved room to introduce ^iiom luo oval reservoirs oi mercuryy tubes up to ue corner of each eye, dose to de nose, cklsely idled wut water; tie mercury below, pressed by ue warm nanus oi de priest, will cause d< itloi to shed Lems at any time, uTinany vesuval, like Peter de Great s Vir gin on uood Friday. W'e have leu a cavity in tie mouth, between de tt eth, ior pliospboi uus light, also in each eye oi de idol, to .illuminate the enamel and glass pupils m lront. We mane figures oi incarnations;—bulls lor Lgyptiau worship, of ue same beauti ful Irish marble; boars, tortoses, hawks, shpynx, lions. Any pious per son inclined to employ me and sou, will by sending a plan or likeness of de favourite deity, bt* certain of having exactly executed according to order. (should de wood, cark, or clay of any favorite family idol be ra pidly in decay, vve engage to restore de deity to Ins original form, in imper ishable materials (and if required) improved ,n de most graceful and na tural propotion. Ordtns directed to Adieu and Son, sculptors, Penang, will be thankfully recetv d and prompt ly attended to.” > Lion Anecdote.—Deidcric and his brother Christian, generally hunt in company, and have (between them; killed upwards of thirty lions 1'hey have not achieved this, how ever, without many hair-breadth es capes, and have more than once saved each other’s lives. On one of these accasions, a lion sprang suddenly upon Deidcric, from behind a stenc, bore man anJ horse to the ground, and was proceeding to finish hisccareer, when Christian gallopped up and shot the savage through the heart. In this en counter Deideric was so roughly handled, that he lost his hearing in one ear, the lion having dug his talons deeply into it. The Buchanan Chief, old Tcysho conversing with me, while in Cape Town, about the wild animals in Afri ca made some remarks on the lion, which perfectly correspond with the accounts I have obtained from the jl>oois and lioUeutois. ifie non, he said seldom attacks man il unpi evoked but lie will uequenlly approach with in a lew paces, and survey him steadi ly, and sometimes fie wni utlefupt to get beliiud In in, as it he could not stand his took; hut was yet desirous oi springing upon him unawares. It a person m such circumstances, at tempts either to tight or liy, he in curs the most eminent peril; but if he has suthcieul picsence ot mind cooky to confront him, tne animal vuli, in almost every instance, alter a little space, retire. But, he added, when a lion has once conquered man, he be comes ten times more fierce and v du bious than he was before, and wilt even come into the kraals in search ol him in preference to other prey. This epicurean partiality to human liesh in these knowing lions, dues not, in Tey- sho’s opinion, spring either from ne cessity or appetite, so much as from the native wickedness ol their heart. Travels in jijrica. SPOTS ON THE SUN, &c. An ingenious individual in Provid ence has very lecently succeeded, by means of a seven feet telescope, cen- stiucted by himself, on a new princi ple, in bringing the entire image ol the sun into a darkened room, upon . w liile screen, to the size of eight teet in diameter. Pie writes us that his astonishment was great when he pe - reived that every spot now upon the face of the sun, nine in number, rvus distinctly 11ansfened to the screen, and was so plain that he could see ev ery movement of them in their various ami sudden changes. He says he c ould plainly discover those spots weir im mense bodies of smoke, apparently is suing from volcanoes; and as they seem occasionally lore vd up iroin the orators, non forming dense clouds and now dispersing, he considers these phenomena as accounting for the rap id changes of these spots. The es cape o! such a vast quantity of gas from the interior oi the body of tne sun, would, he observes, as n sur rounds (jiat luminary, produce that bright and dazzling appearance, w iiich is the atmosphere oi the sun. 'tins theory may not accoid vvi h the o- pinions of others who have made ob servations on the subject; but the writer at any rate, entertains the strongest belief of its truth. \t ith the same instrument, which is just fiuisued, tie lias aiso examined lire moon, and states his conviction that that body is covered with perpet ual snow and ice, the dark spots uis- coverable on its surface being frozen seas, and the lighter spaces land cov ered with snow. Those circular places which have a rising cone in the centre, he thinks are extinguished vol canoes, as no clouds are perceptible over the moon s face, which, being covered with snow and ite, accounts, as he imagines, for its clear atmos phere, or for the absence of an-ultuos- phere. This vast accumulation olice and snow upon the moons surface may be explained, the writer conjec tures, by the nature of the moon’s revolutions. He offers to construct instruments of the above description, by which these phenomena may be observed, at prices from $30 to $100; and at the same rate to furnish solar microscopes, on a new principle, with a magnifying power at twelve leet distance of 5,184,000.—Boa bulleton. THE WHALE. The greatest supply of oil yielded by a single whale was the enormous quan tity of 117 butts, or about 43 tons; it was struck by a person of the name of Bash by, who was harpooner to the Fanny whaler of Hull; and as the blubber is supposed to weigh about one third of the whole, this animal did not weigh less than 129 tons. Such are the dimensions of the Greenland whale, that jaw bones of this animal have been seen measuring more than twenty feet in length. The tongue on a large whale weighs two tons, and yields 126 gallons of oil; and of so en ormous a size are its lips, and so much do they abound in blubber, that one alone has afforded sufficient of the latter to yield two tons of pure oil. The substance constituting the sur face of, and surrounding the cavity which encloses the crystalline humour in the eye of this animal, is so corn pact and strong, that it is difficult to cut it with the sharpest knife. Bu ; for this solidity it would he unable 0 sustain the enormous pressure to wbicl l it is subjected at great depths iu the ocean. Supposing the part ofthe eye nail exposeu to me w aier to contain o square niches superficial, the pres sure upon it at tne ueptli ol Slut) feet ito which whales have been known to dive) is equal to twenty-three thousand one aunareapounds weight. MOTION OF ANIMALS. Animal motion is wonderlui, though from us perpetually meeting the eye t vve lake lillie account of it. 'ifie Thoias shell hsh) lias the power of perforating the hardest marble by means ol a tlesiiy substance, apparent ly no way suited to so laborious an employment. It increases its cell as it increases in size; and constitutes a period example ofthe first rudiments of animal motion. The only impulse an oyster possesses arises out ot its power of opening and shutting its shell. The muscle moves by means ol a muscular substance resembling a tongue. The crab moves sideways, and the water-fly swims upon its back. The serpent unuulates, and the lion- ant moves backwards, it has no power to make the smallest inclination forward. Marine birds can walk, run, lly, and swim, home animals can only w alk, others only run, and others only gallop; the horse performs all these motions. The liiger and the crocodile dart; the rein-deer runs, but never gallops; the armadillo walks swiftly, but can neither run nor leap; while the great ant-eater climbs much better than it can walk. The slot'll is a large animal, and yet can travel only filly paces in a day; andk will run a mile and a half in seven minutes; an antelope a mile in a minute; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that. Au eagle can fly 18 leagues in an hour; and a Canary fal con can even reach 253 leagues in the short space of 16 hours. Man lias the power of imitating almost every motion but that oi flight. To ell' ct these, lie has in maturity and health 6d bone§ iu his legs thighs, 02 in his arms and hands, 60 in his liead,and t>7 in his trunk. He lias also 434 muscles in the structure of his body, and his heart has 3.840 pulsations in an hour. hucke s Harmonies ej JSTaturc. LAPLAND. Lapland, a spa.e of 150,000 squaro miles, oi about the extent of France or Germany has a population perhaps the thinnest in the world—one to every lour square miles—Laj land lias at present thirteen principle and tea iilial churches. Three translations ol' the Bible have been printed. TI:o Swedish Bible Society of Stockholm has directed its attention to this des olate kingdom and twelve young men are constantly educated at the king's expense, for preachers among the Laplanders. The Russian Bible So cieties are also exerting themselves.! in this direction; and, so early as 1815, had distributed 7000 Bibles. Watchman«■ PERSEVERANCE. When Dr. Franklin walked into Philadelphia with a roll of bread.iri his hand, little did he think what a con trast his after life would exhibit, and yet, by perseverance and industry, he placed himself at the table of princes, and became the chief pillar in ihe councils of his country. The simple journeyman, eating his roll in the street, lived to become a great phi losopher and statesman, and to com mand the respect ,of his- country and mankind. What a lesson to youth. Worth in base minds, begets envy, in great souls, emulation. Envy shoots at others, and wounds herself. Vows made in sterms, are forgotten in calms. The noblest remedy of injuries ir oblivion. I S hereby given that sonic time in the lat ter part of October last a black man came to my house, who says his name is B'jANUEL, and that he belongs to a man on Duck riw. er, in Tennessee, by the. name ot Josepst M’Connel. This negro is, I should judge, between forty and fifty years old, and up wards of six feet high, square built. The owner is desired to prove his property, pay charges and take him away. ICT” The Editor ofthe Phrenix, and oth* er Editors in the adjoining states may con fer a favour on the owner by giving pub licity to the above advertisement. JOSEPH WAFFORD. Hightower, C. N. Jan. 6th. 47 4 CHEROKEE~ CONSTITUTION. Printed in both languages in parallel. columns, for sale at this GJIice.