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gw y Jcr.auo«a CHEROKEE PHOENIX, AND INDIANS’ A© CATS. PRINTED UNDER THE PATRONAGE, AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHEROKEE NATION, AND DEVOTED TO THE CAl'&E OF INDIANS. =3* E. BOUDOfOTT, Editor. STEW ECflOTA, WEDNESDAY MARCH £5,18i9. \ OL; IS.—aO. *2 PRINTED WEEKLY BY JNO. F. WHE3LER, At $2 50 if paid in advance, $S in six months, or $S 50 if paid at the end of the year. To subscribers who can read only the Cherokee language the ptice will be $2,00 in advance, or $2,50 to be paid within the year. Every subscription will"be considered as continued unless subscribers give notice to the contrary before the commencement of a new year, and all arrearages paid. Any person procuring six subscribers, iind becoming responsible for the payment, shall receive a seventh gratis. Advertisements will be inserted at seven ty-five cents per square for the first inser tion, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each continuance; longer ones in propor tion. |C7*\11 letters addressed to the Editor, ■post paid, will receive due attention. ®Wy Jd'JMJO-.A AD h*l JF.Oi.SJ, pe.tvcAa taait’ uw 4 jiurBAd * JISAF. aiiWI»a<»y KTA D^P 0*OJB«.I F-4&.1, Tcrz TEJOO-r* ne.i«5<»i-<a.l. TGTZ ft>P ToBOA TB D» KT Dta O’eJBJ l-4<».I. DYJAoi'F.Z TR yiV DOJ^KeBJl, 0*yAT D,<!P (P0JB^ F4c%a. ftivyz tPtVIJ Jht?TiU(»y, Wf-'tV* Dt-T ©jeiBJt i*4o«a raaiiir 8 , tctz TF.Jso-f’ ne _ KTJ1Z DJP G(»y*V VJE DGJrSMiP'otl-l. ^ m — i •AGENTS FOR 1HE CHEROKEE PHCENIX. The following persons anp authorized to receive subscriptions and payments for the Cherokee Phoenix. Messrs. Peirce 8t Williams, No. 20 Market St. Boston, Mass. George M. Tracy, Agent ofthe A. B. C. F. M. New York. Rev. A. D. Eddy, Canandaigua, N. Y. Thomas Hastings, Utica, N. Y. Pollard &. Converse, Richmond, Va. R»v. James Campbell, Beaufort, S. C William Moultrie Reid, Charleston, 9 C. Coi. George Smith, Statesville, W. T. William M, Combs, Nashville Ten. Rev. Bennet Roberts—Fowal Me. Mr. Thos. R. Gold, (an itinerant Gen- tJeinan.) Jeremiah Austil, Mobile Ala. RELIGIOUS. labor to supply ourselves with food and raiment. The Christian religion, like manna in the desert, complieth with every trade and occupation. Art thou call ed to be a husbandman, and to till the earth? She will help thee to fill thy barns and granaries. Dost thou fol low merchandize? She will travel with thee; and, like “(lie merchants* ships,” she “will bring thee food from afar.” It is a part of our religion to pray for our bread, & it is a part of oar religion to make it ours by labors. JFarindon. 200 66 36 32 SO PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY. Religion is not confined to the ear; nor is it a prisioner to so narrow a compass 9s to be shut up in a temple. The husbandman, whilst he holds his plough, may cliauut for a hallelujah. They that work with their hands may sing the songs of Zion, and ease their labors and rouse up their spirits with this heavenly noise, as the mariners do when they draw up the anchor.— Religion will sit with the King on his throne, and with the Judge on the bench; it will accompany the Preach er in his study, and in the pulpit; and will accompany the tradesman both in hs shop and in the church. It is a dangerous error to think that when we sweat at our trade and calling we do not serve our God; and that we are not holy except in the church. Nothing can defile the inward man but an unho ly life and conversation. As Satan selects his disciples when they are idle, so our Saviour chose his when they were busy at their trades—ei ther mending their nets or casting them into the sea. Nay, he himseli stooped to a trade, and was a carpen ter; or, as Justin Martyr tells us, a plough-wright and yokes “ploughs and yokes.” When the Heathen laid it as an imputation on the Christians, that they were idle, and unprofitable to the commonwealth, Tertullian re- plie’d, that it was an injurious and forg ed accusation. “Look,” saith he, “into your prisons: you see no Chris tian there, the fact that could be laid against him could be only this—that lie was a Christian. We have our market-places; we have our shambles; we have our shops, we have our fairs. We sail with you; we traffic with you; we goto wnr with you. If we do not frequent your postly and supersti tious ceremonies, yet even then are we men. Nor are we. lets Christians because we worlf for our bread, and THE MORAL CONDITION OF LONDON. To show how London stands in re gard to religion and morality, we lay before our readers the subjoined statement, derived from an authentic squrce, and one of very recent date. Columbian Star. “There is great difficulty in obtain ing an accurate return of the various places of worship in this vast city, yet the following statement will*, I bc.liete. approach very near the truth. Episcopal Churches and Chapels Independent Chapels Wesleyan Methodist Do. Baptist do. Ca!vani«tic M»*thedit Do. Presbyterian (Seoteh St Unitarian) Do. 16 Roman Catholic, Do. 14 Quakers’ Meetings 6 400 “If we calculate that the average attcudenco at each place is 500 persons, which is certainly the great est extent we can allow, and add 250 more for the fluctuating hearers at the several services of each Sabbath, it will give a result of 300,000 per sons. Now, the population of this wide-spread metropolis is estimated, by tiie last census, at 1,274,800 souls; from which subtract the feeble minor ity above, and we find nine hundred and seventy four thousand eight hundred persons neglecting the p ihlie worship of God! And though considerable de ductions are to be made for young children, sick persons, and flic aged and infirm, yet, after all, the multi tude without even the forms of reli gion around us, is most appalling.— The following statement will illus trate the occupations of the Sabbath: ’It appears, that ofthe papers at pres ent published in London on the Sun day, there are. circulated, on the low est estimate 45.000 copies, ai)d that, upon the most moderate computation, between 200,000 and 300,000 read ers of these papers are to lie found in the metropolis alone, while the great number of pressmen, distributers, master-venders, hawkers, and subor dinate agents, of both sexes and of all ages, who are necessarily employed on the Sabbath, all tend to the most flagrant breach of the day of rest.’ “In such a state we cannot wonder at the report of Mr. Wontner, the ex cellent governor of Newgate, by which it appears that during the year 1826 there were committed to that goal, Males under 21 years of ago 1227 Females ditto, ditto. Male- above 21 Females ditto. 442 1082 166 2927 Being an increse of 547 commit ments in the past year!” *N AWFUL WARNING TO SABBATH BREAKERS. [The following communication is from a gentleman of high respectabili ty who resides in the vicinity of the place where the fatal occurrence wns witnessed. It is dated Feb. 25th, 1829. The names of individuals and of places are giving in the commuica- lion, but for obvious reasons we omit them. Let him who readeth. see the hand of providence and understand.] Fis. Sf Tel To the editor of the Visitor and Teleeraph Sir,—On Sunday the 15th inst. a young man by the name of , liv ing in the county of B—— at expressed his intention of skating up on the ice; but was restrained by his parents. Resolved to gratify his incli nation, he went to the lower mill-pond, and there fell in with an associate who remonstrated against his going upon the iee, on the grounds of dan ger, every proof and assurance was offered by his friend that the case ad mitted of; rocks were cast upon the i e, to show its weakness and insuf ficiency, to answer the designed pur pose; but all to no effect. Finally it was proposed to goto- , where upon the unfortunate subject of this memoir, said in positive terms he was determined to lie there that day, and <*n he went. Pursuing his object a few minutes, in attempting to turn, the ice broke in deep water, and he sunk up to his arms, which being extended prevent ed his sinking any further for the present;—the alarm was given, end in a short time the neighbors gathered to his relief;—he was so near the hank that a pole was handed him, hut as tonishing to tell, lie could not be pre vailed npon to take, hold of it, at length he sunk and drowned! The above is from information upon which I rely, and is designed solely as a warning to the living. “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” “Honor thy father and mother, that thy Jays- may he long upon the land which the Lord thy God givejh thee.”—Jl time for all things From the Boston Rccoidcr. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF TEMPER ANCE. The anniversary of this Society was held on Thursday eviimig last at Han over Church in this city. The meet ing w. • opened with prayer, by ttie Picsmcnt, the Rev. Dr. Wood- ”1 lie General Agent, Rev. Mr. Hewitt, lead portions of the Report of the Executive Committee,omitting cn-1 lively the pecuniary accounts, and tiie details 01 his own travels and la- j bois. The lust icsolution was ofler-, ed by the lion. Mark Doolittle, ot I Belchertovvn, and seconded by the 1 Itcv. Dr. Wisner. The second was presented by jon than kittredge,Esq. j of Lyme, N. H. and seconded by the . Rev. Dr. Fay. The third was offer ed by the Rev. D. O. Morion, of Shoreham, \ t. Agent of the Vermont , Temperance Society, and seconued by the lion. Mr. Barnard, of fcltti- j field. Addresses'were made by the three gentlemen who presented the le- J solutions. Mr. Doolittle noticed sev eral objections which are sometimes brought against the Associations lor this object,.which he pleasantly and ingeniously refuted. Dr. Kitiredge incited professing Christians to tar more vigorous efforts in this enter- prize, and shamed them for ih.-ir a- patliy and continued participation in the guilt of distilling, importing, vend ing or moderately using ardent spir its. This address had all the good qualities of that by the same gentle man which has been so extensively circulated and so signally blessed lor the promotion of Temperance* and w r e doubt noj. it will follow its prede cessor in the same career. Mr. Mor ton considered the utility of the Tem perance reformation, in reference to all the other beneficent operations of the age, which con never flourish in a rum-drinking community. The ad dresses were requested for publica tion by vote of Society, and are ex pected to appear with the Report. The following were the resolutions passed. Resolved, That the Report jus* read be accepted, and submitted to the disposal of the Executive Com mittee. Resolved, That it is the duty of all Christians, to exert their influence to do away iu tne community me use of distilled liquors. Resolved. That the success which lias followed the efforts ol the friends of Temperance, and the approbation bestowed on the measures of this so ciety. by wise and benevolent men in every section of the country, call for the adoption of a more extended sys tem of operations than has hitherto been pursued. We do no justice to the Report.— It embraced a summary of intelligence from all parts of the country, pro cured by the Agent in his intercourse and correspondence, or in other ways. Much of it had been published; hut here it was arranged and condensed, with important additions, and inters persed with useful practical remarks. The Committee report 3 State Socie ties; and 222 smaller ones, (in coun ties or towns,) whose existence had been officially made known to tbem.- A very extensive spirit of inquiry and reflection is excited; the principle of entire abstinence commends itself to general acceptance; retailers in nu merous instances abandon the traffic; distilleries are stopped in some cases by the power of principle and con science, in otheis by want of custom or deference to public opinion; eccle siastical bodies almost without num ber express their approbation, and de clare the moderate use of spirits un suitable tor Christians: rnedioat soci eties. county bars of lawyers, and oth er associations of professional men vote down the ancient practices; the consumption of lion"™ most sensibly unci through the country at large, though very much remains to be done, there is evidently a great ac- \ cession of strength to the side of Tern- ( peraii’eand Sobriety. The opinion was expressed, and might he made evident if time permitted, that the consumption of spirits has diminished one half iu New-England, New-York and New-Jersey, and one third in the other parts of the Union. The Com mittee stated their firm belief, that even the recovery ofthe drunkard is not so hopeles as lias been commonly supposed. Let him he surrounded by a temperate community, his facili ties and temptations to sin be remov ed, and Christian efforts to reclaim him he attempted, and he may yet he saved. This also a is matter of expe rience. Inst ances ol'reformat ion ap parently permanent are mentioned al most every place, where ellorts have been made; and it is believed that not leas thankee hundred men within two years, have thus been extricated from ruin. The following return, received af ter the Report was prepared, has been obligingly furnished by the Agent. The Woburn Association for the pro motion of Temperance and Suppress ion of Intemperance, was organized March 28, 1828. Owing to some particular reasons, few only joined it; and at the annual meeting held Jan. 19, 1829, the number of persons who had signed the constitution was fifty two. Now, in one week s time, the number has bee-me one hundred and eighty, with the prospect of further increase. This addition took place a few days after a visit and a public sermon by the Agent ofthe Parent So ciety. At the annual meeting of the Society it was voted, that they ’••cordial ly approved the motives & the objects of the American Temperance Socie ty, and would most willingly < 0 ope rate with them in their glorious un dertaking.” A miser’s heart is like a compost heap, full of filth and stench. Counsel to give etlifet, should he in season. Of all forms, reform is thebesf. An evil mind,, is naturally suspi cious. Anger restrained, is conquest gain ed. A day well spent secures repose. An'avurivious man is never rich. From the Monthly Review. t'2 view of the Jjmerican Indians. I.y Israel (Vortley. London, lc»28. Me shall probably surprise most of our readers when wc stale tne object ol this lillle volume, which is noil-.ug less than to show that (he Indians of America are, in all prob; biiiJy, the de scendants of the lost Ten Tribes ol Is rael. This is an idea which has, it seems, of late years occupied some attention on the oilier side of the At lantic, the Rev. Dr. Elias Boudmot having published a work in support of it in 1816, entitled Star in IheH'est, which was followed, in 1825, by a- nother written by a Mr. Smith pastor of a church in Poultney. The object of the present w riter is chiefly to con dense and arrange the facts and rea sonings that have been advanced by his predescessors; and ;o add such ad ditional matter in support ofthe views which they have advocated, as he has been aide to collect m- the course of his own reading. V\e extract a few sentences from his concluding chapter, in which he gives a snrnmnry of his argument.— After contending that the tribes in quest ion must have an existence some where, and remarkim 1, that mth*. tumlr of Fsili--. ♦» j *"« mentioned as hav ing journeyed to a land inhere no man dwelt, lie proceeds in reference to tiie Indians as follow s: ‘•They are living in Gibes—they liavr uU -i fnmily likeness, though , or- ering I nous,mbs 01 leaguco of laud; anil have a tradition prevailing universally, that limy came into that country at the north-west corner—they are very te? ligioos people, and yet have e,;in :y escaped the idolatry ofthe old world —they acknowledge Oi:e®Goil. the Great Spirit, who created all things seen and unseen—the name to whom this being is known to them all. the old Hebrew name of Gob; he is also called yehouuh, sometimes yah, rad also abba—for this Great Being they profess a high revetpnee, calling ! ni the head of their community, nid themselves his favorite pe»j»i*> -itiey believe that he iv«a more favorable to them in old times than he is now, that their fathers were in covenant with him. that he talked with them gave them lawv-thev are distinctly heard to sing with their religious dances, halle.Uvjah and praise to jalt: other e- markable sounds go out of their mouths, as shillu-yo, skillu-ht, ftlc-^o, lie-ieah. yohewah, but they profess not to know the meaning of these words; only that they loarned to use them up on sacred occasions—they aekurvl- edge the government of a Provide co overruling all things, and express a willing submission to whatever take* place—they keep annual feasts which resemble those of the Mosaic ritual; a feast of first fruits, which they ho not permit themselves to taste until they have made an offering of them to God; also an evening festival, in which no bone of the animal that is eaten may be broken; & if one family be not large enough to consume the whole of it, neighboring family is cailx ed in to assist: the whole of it is con sumed, and the relics are burned be fore the rising of the next day s s un there is one part of the annimal w hich they never eat,the hollow part 01 Ike thigh; they eat bitter vegetables & ubr ser\e severe fasts for the purpis. of c’e.ansing themselves from sinjtheyh. vo •dso a feast of harvest, when their fruits are gathered iu, a daily sacri fice, and a feast of love—their fore fathers practised the rite of circ.in cision; but not knowing why so strain q :i practice was continued, and nqt . proving of it, they gave it up—-t 1 n is a sort of jubilee kept by sonic ef • hem—they have citie| of refuge tq which a guilty man and even a murt lerer may fly and be safe.’’ pp. 181 182. Another account, w» observe