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the l,*v. i'en Tribes , has lately been
given in a German publication, which,
o.i highly probable grounds, makes at
ieai 4 a large portion 61'them to have
established themselves in the district
ol tlie great Plain of Central Asia,
'failed B icharia, where, it appears,
they amount even at this day to a third
pan of the population. The tradi
tions preserved among this remnant
of the chosen people might perhaps
assist in determining whether or no
the American Indians are descendants
of the same stock.
INDIAN PROWESS.
Of the active as well as the passive
fortitude of the Indian character, the
following is an instance related by A-
duir in his travels.
A party of tire Seneca Indians came
to war against the Ka-lah ba, or Cataw
ba, hitter enemies to each other. In
the woods the former discovered a
sprightly warrior belonging to the lat
ter, hunting in their usual light dress:
on his perceiving them, he sprang oil
for a uollow rook four or live miles dis
tant. as they intercepted him from
running homeward. He was so ex
tremely swift and skilful with the gun.
as to kill seven of them in the running
tight before they were able to surround
and take him. They carried him to
their country in sad triumph; but
though he had filled them with uncom
mon grief and shame for the loss
of so many of their kindred, yet the
Jove of martial virtue induced them to
treat him, during their long journey,
with a great deal more civility than
if lie had acted the part of a coward.
The women and children when they
met him at their several towns, beat
and whipped him in as severe manner
as the occasion required, according to
their law of justice, and at last he was
e . ' *'•' ’r.— 1 ed to die by the fie
ry torture. It might -.„ki v p e
imagined that what he had for some
time gone through, by being fed with
a scanty hand, a tedious march, lying
on the bare ground at night, exposed
to the changes of the wpatl.oi-, wiiti
his arms and legs extended in a pair of
rough stocks, and suffering such pun
ishments on entering their hostile
towns, as a prelude to those sharp tor
ments for which he was destined,
would so have impaired his health,
and effected his imagination as to have
sent him to his long sleep, out of the
way of more sufferings. Probably
this would have been the case with
the major part of white people under
similar circumstances; but I never
knew this with any of the Indians: and
this cool-headed, brave warrior did
not deviate from their rough lessons of
manint virtue but acted his part so
'Veil as to BUl'piizc and sorely vex
his numerous enemies: for when they
were taking him, unpinioned, id their
wild parade, to the place of torture,
which lay near to a river, he sudden
ly dashed down those who stood in his
way, sprung off and plunged into the
water, swimming underneath like an
oiler, only rising to.take breath, till
he reached the opposite shore. lie
now ascended the steep bank; but
though he had good reason'to be in a
hurry, as many of the enemy were in
the water, and others running, very
•like blood hounds, in pursuit of him,
and the bullets flying-around him from
the time be took the river,yethis heart
did not allow him to leave them ab
ruptly,without taking leave in a formal
manner, in return for the extraordina
ry favors they had done and intended
to do him; After his slapping apart
of his body in defiance to them, he put
up the shrill war-whoop’as his last sa
lute, till some more convenient oppor
tunity offered. & darted in the manner
of a beast broke loose from its tortur
ing enemies. He continued*his speed
so as to run by about midnight of the
same day as far as,his pursuers were
two day »in reaching. There he rest
ed, till he happily discovered five of
those Indians who pursued him: He
lay hid a little way off their camp, till
they were sound asleep. Every cir
cumstance of his situation occurred to
him and inspired him with heroism.
He was naked, torn and hungry, and
his enraged enemies were corne up
with him—hut there was every thing
to relieve his wants, and a.fair oppor
tunity to save his life, and get great
honor and sweet revenge by cutting
them off. Resolution, a convenient
spot, and sudden surprise, would ef
fect the main object of his wishes and
hopes. lie - accordingly creeped,
took one of their tomahawks, and kill
ed them aH on the spot—clothed him-
#elf, took j».cfcoice gun, and as much
ammunition and provisions as he could
neli carry in a running match, lie
set off afresh with a light heart, & did
not sleep for several processivo nights,
only when he reclined as usual, a lit
tle before day, with his hack to -a
tree. As it were by instinct, when
he found he was free from the pursu
ing enemy, he made directly to the
very place where he had killed seven
his enemies, and was taken for the
fiery torture. He digged them up,
burnt their bodies to ashes, and went
home in safety with singular triumph.
Other pursuing enemies came, on the
evening of the second day, to the
camp of their dead people, when
the sight gave them a greater shock
than they had ever known before.—
In their chilled war Council they con
cluded, that as he had done such sur
prising things in his defence before he
was captivated, and since in his naked
condition, and now was well armed, if
I hey continued the pursuit, he would
spoil thena all, for he surely was an
enemy wizard; and therefore they re
lumed home. QUIXOTE.
Cherol.ee Yation, 1 Ilk March, 1829.
NEW EC HOT A:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1829.
We consider it a very tyranical act indeed
(o force the white inhabitants of this nation
from their families and possessions, merely
for expressing their opinion on the question
of emigration—the crime of Mr. Stillman
is no other. If Col. Montgomery ha* receiv
ed the order inserted below, does it follow
that he is to proceed against these white
men without even a shadow ofinvestiga-
tion? Upon the present case he pro
ceeds merely on information given by an
emigrant. We had been taught to believe
that it was no crime to express one’s opin
ion in this land of liberty. Many of our
white citizens, among whom is Mr. Rtid-
••—**» i„„.f„iijr married—what then be
comes of the divine injunction, “what
therefore God hath joined together, let not
man put asunder.”
r ' r >EROKKE Agency.
lehruary ^ itu, ,q.,^
Thomas Stjdman,
Sir: Having received information
by Drury Jones and others ot your op
position to the views of the Govern
ment in relation to the Emigrating of
the Cherokees to the west; I have
thought best to enclose you an extract
from a late order which I have re
ceived from the War Department.
Your attention to it may save the
Government and yourself some fit
lure trouble.
Respectfully your obedt. servant.
H. MONTGOMERY.
“Extract. If there are any white
persons, Indian Countrymen, as they
are called, in the Nation, who are
known to you as opposing the Govern
ment policy, in anv way, you will
order them out of it.”
A Serious Address to the.friends of
humanity and goodness, in this Nation,
on the impropriety of Using and Re
tailing Ardent Spirits.
He who opposes popular vices and
declaims against long established hab
its, is very apt to incur the displea
sure of the licentious, and be esteem
ed as an innovator on the rights of a
free people. But he • who, fearing
the scoff's ol the multitude, remains
silent, when publick welfare and pri
vate happiness are endangered, can
not be a true friend to his country,
nor his God. Many have lost their
lives to save their nation from the vio
lence of invading enemies, and what
true patriot will not risk his reputa
tion, to rescue his country from the
domineering influence of pernicious
practices,which are more to be dread
ed than a tyrant’s frowns, or the de
structive thunder boks of embattled
armies? Much has been done to check
the inundating stream of intemper
ance, which bids fair to ingulf man
kind in the lake of perdition, but
there is a loud call for more united
and efficient exertions on this subject.
The writer, feeling an ardent desire
for the present and future well being
of this Natiou, would earnestly solicit
the attennon of the serious reader,
while he remonstrates a little against a
prevailing and fatal practice amongst
14s, that of using and retailing spirituous
liquors.
To attempt a laboured proof of the
criminality of drunkenness, would be
Iike«striving hard to prove tint which
no one denies. This.is a crime which
carries in its front the glaring evi
dences of its guilt; and which the
most abandoned drunkard in his sober
moments, will confess and deplore.
Drunkenness is the debasur ol Hu
mind, the destroyer of health, the
murderer of happiness, the waster oi
estates, the foe to virtue, the hus
band's disgrace, the wife’s lamenta
tion, and ihe children’s wretchedness.
The abominable train of evils that
drunkards email upon society and pos
terity, surpass the power of descrip
tion. The votaries of Bacchus have
made the world to groan beneath their
enormities, and filled many domestic
circles, once the delightful abodes of
peace and plenty, with desolation and
irretrievable misery. But while dis
tilled spirits make such a lucrative
article of traffick and speculation;
while they are temperately used by
many, & recommended as a good med
icine by not a few, any attempts to
prevent the brutalizing practice of
drunkenness, will be as ineffectual as
throwing chaff 1 against a storm to stop
its violence. Let us, then, begin
this magnanimous reformation at* the
root of the matter.
2. It is now an established point, by
the concurring testimony of the major
part of the most eminent physicians
in the world, that distilled spirits con
tain no medicinal virtue whatever,
but are, on the contrary, very poison
ous to the human constitution, an in
fallible cause of numberless diseases,
and death in the end. Even a moder
ate use of ardent spirits, stimulates
and raises the animal functions to
such a height, that the springs of life
move with too much rapidity, and,
meeting with a sudden cheek, when
the exciting quality of the spirit is
exhausted, the whole stupendous
machinery is retarded in its ordinary
operation, by the precipitate transi
tion from ueat to cold, from too great
excitement, to too much vapidity
Physicians and quacks, vyhethcr from
ignorance, or a love of their dram,
have done unspeakable injury to man
kind, by prescribing bitters, and other
medicines to be taken iu whiskey, bran
dy, or rum; for thereby they have
made and confirmed thousands ol
drunkards, whose blood will h* re-
tiicir hands! “But, say
many, a drum of bitters or otherwise
before breakfast and diuner, gives me
a good relish to* lu/ fowl.” If ilit-
stomach have lost its proper tone, and
ordinary iacliuatiou for the reception
of nutriment, take proper medicine to
remove the disease; and do not in
crease it, by taking into the stomach
an acknowledged poison, which has a
direct tendency to destroy its real
tone, and power of digestion. A mini
may so injure his stomach by his habi
tual dram drinking, that he must have
his daily poison to keep up the excita
bility; and thus, that which is taken
as a remedy, is perpetuating and con
firming that disease, which it, at first,
produced. “Bnt, says another, I am
often low spirited, and need a dram
occasionally as a stimulus.” A ve
ry fatal remedy, which always leaves
the spirits more dull and languid than
they were before. But many, to a-
void this, have kept up the wonderful
preventative, by repeating.it fre
quently.; which course is very apt to
terminate in liscene drunkenness.
There are so many safer and better
methods than drain drinking to remove
gloominess of mind, such as, exercise,
conversation, innocent amusements,
and above all, the benign influence of
devotion, that the man who chooses
the former remedy, makes an injudi
cious and fatal choice. Upon the
whole, I see no real benefit which
can be derived from a temperate use
of distilled spirits, ami good would it
be for mankind, if all intoxicating
liquors were exterminated from the
face of the earth. And even suppos
ing there he a little good derived from
spirits as a medicine, (which, how
ever, remains to he proved,) the
evil that it does, so far exceeds the
good that it ever has done, o,r can yet
do, that it is of itselfn sufficient reason,
why the use of it in any quantity,should
he whnlhy and for ever abandoned. 1
hope the wise will lay this considera
tion to heart.
3. I would now, in tlie voice of hu
manity, and in the name of reason,
j islwe, and religion, call aloud to the
citizens of this Nation, in particular,
to entirely abstain from this deadly
poison in future, and make it no long
er an article of traffick. Think not
this an unreasonable request, for it is
founded in justice and propriety. If
L to aggrandize my own estate, rob
others of their means of sustenance,
or which is more criminal, givo them
that which cannot sunport life, but
which acts as a destructive poison to*
both soui and body, ill exctlange for
iiuu winen is duraoie ami valuable to
diem, as being, perhaps, the only
means ol then support, am i not guil
ty Of at least, injustice? The law
of nature condemns me, if I, entirely
Horn 'personal views, dimmish . the
quantum of human happiness, or ava
riciously deduct from the general
stock ol provision. And it a man
does not iuR under this censure,..who
retails ardent spirits to his neigh
bours, 1 must confess that, in ttiis
case at least, I -have lost my judg
ment. For a moment look aromai you,
and see what indescribable mischief
has already been done, in this Nation,
by the introduction of spirituous li
quors. Shameful poverty, disgrace
ful theft, abominable debauchery and
| despicable murder are some of the
i resulting consequences of dealing out
j the poisonous draughts of inloxicat-
! ing liquor. The Counsellors of this
Nation have seen the desliuclive evil,
and, to their praise be it said, they
have endeavoured to suppress the
pernicious practice of whiskey specu
lation. But while citizens of the
Nation are so anxious to buy and re
tail their w hiskey, the whites ami they
will very readily find out measures
to evade the penalty of the law, and
carry on their lucrative com
merce, in a clandestine manner.'
Thus the rising of the prohibitory
law, alluded to, is almost w holly per
verted. But I apprehend, it would
be thought too despotic to extend the
restrictions of this law; I therefoie
entreat the lovers of their Nation, to
do voluntarily, what they would not
like to be compelled to do, by any
coercive measures. Plead no longer
the example oi the w hites, as a pre
text lor dealing in ardent spirits, ior
a bad example should not be follow ed,
although it be laid by a people pro
fessing civilization hud religion. I
hope the noble spirited patriots of this
Nation, will, in this case, lay a bene
volent example to their white neigh
bours, and thereby put their b< asted
superiority and civility to the blush.
Tins would be a step that would form
a strong rampart to the future per
manency and glory of this rising Na
tion. You may say, “you do not force
any person to buy, ’and much less, to
get drunk on your whiskey; and there
fore it cannot be a crime to you, but
the guilt rests on those who are the
free and voluntary recipients.” This
argument is defective; for you lay th
bait, set the trap, or hold out the al
lurement, by which your neighbours
are entangled, infatuated, and ruined!
And if you still plead exemption from
guilt, you must, on the same ground,
clear the old seip.ent of culpability
in deceiving our mother Eve in the
garden of Eden, lie used no coer
cion; he osly presented the tempta
tion; tlie woman acted freely in par
taking thereof; but the serpent is
censured as the chief aggressor .in this
tragical affair. “But'says one, if I
do not sell spirits, others will, and 1
might as well begetting part of the
gain, as any other person.” A criti
cal examination ot this argument,
would make you blush to own its cor
rectness; for it will apply with equai
propriety ,to any species of crime. And
the profit derived from poisoning'our
fellow creatures, is, at best,' but ill
gotten treasure, and will, I fear, “eat
our Hesli as it were fire!” Let a
man, engaged in this unholy troffick,
think of the bitter cries of innoeei
women and children, brought to ab
ject misery by this bane of life, and
resolve rather to live in honest pover
ty, than to acquire wealth a* so dear
a rate. I think a little serious re
flection on this subject will induce
many honest hearted people to be as
much opposed to keeping intoxicating
spirits about their houses, as they
would a pestilential distemper; and
administer them to their neighbours
with as much caution, as they w ould
arsenick. I submit my caus<f to the
judicious reader, hoping lie will give it
an impartial investigation, before lie
passes sentence against it.
PHILANTHROPIST.
March 12 th, 1829.
packet to tlie owners. A short time nU
ter, being again nearly ready to leave
he received the same packet, whichharf
not been opened during the interval,
and carried it to Wheeling, where he
delivered it as it was directed. Front
Wheeling it was sent to Pittsburgh*
and when opened found to contain noc*
thing but papers of no value, bf
whom the packet was broken opert
and the notes removed, has not yet
been ascertained, but no suspicion, in
the minds of, any of ihe parties con*
ccrned, attaches to Mr. Jqpes, whoso
character and circumstances were
such as to remove him entirely beyond
its reach. A few days since he was
informed of the fact, and assured at
the same time, that no doubt was en
tertained of his integrity. So great*
however, was his sensibility, that he
immediately became very much de
pressed, and continued so until the pe
riod of his death.— Sat. Eve. Post.
A Rencontre., which terminated fa
tally to one of the parties engaged in'
it, took place on Saturday the 14th
inst. at Church Hill, Montgomery
county, the circumstances of which
are as follows:—A differcnca of some
standing existed between Daniel
Brouning,innkeeper at that place, anil
a person by the name of Keen, owing
to some alleged misstatements which
the latter had made concerning the
former, for which he meditated eh as-*
lisement, when an opportunity ofiei 1 -*
ed. That opportunity occurred as a-
hove stated, and after a few word#
had passed between them they comw
menced lighting. They were shortly
separated, and Keen, after retiring m
short distance, expired! We bavrf
heard contradictory accounts of the*
cause ot his death—some allege (hat
it was occasioned by the breaking off
blood vessel from exertion in the con-<
flict, and others say it was produced
by a blow' from his antagonist. The
statements;,of Keen concerning Brow-'
ning are said to be of the most aggra-'
vating kind, involving his character and
reputation.
Browning has given bail for bis npv
pea ranee at the next term of the Mont3
gomery Circuit Court.
On Monday morning of this week,
Mr. Jones, a respectable merchant of
Missouri, committed suicide, at one of
the hotels in this city.
We have been informed that this
fatal act grew' out of the following
circumstance. When about to leave
St. Louis some time since, a packet
containing $4,000 in bank notes, was
intrusted to him by a rcspectalle house
in that town,' to be carried to Wheel
ing. Something happened to delay
Ilia departure, “and' he returned the
PUBLIC LANDS.
The quantity of land sold up b
30(h of June 1820, was 21,103,964
acres.
The amount of sales, up to 30t|
June, 1828, was $41,950,247 53.
There has been granted for suppor
of Schools and Colleges,7,937 acres.
There has been granted for Read
and Canals, 1,934,57 a( res.
There has been granted for Milita
ry Bounties and private claims, 18
285,111 acres.
Ihe quantity of land already sup
veyed and yet unsold is 2IO,273,30C
acres.
The quantity of land in the U. 3.
unceded, [and not embraced within the
limits ot States and Territories] ii
estimated at 150,000,000 acres.
u The National Inheritance,” as Mr.
Adams has styled the Public domains,
has cost, includiug every charge ot
purchase, surveying, and sale, $32,
911,813. . ? 9
There* are now 210,273,300 acres
of land already surveyed, and whifcla
if sold at the present prices, deducting
cost of salo, w'ould yield a net revenue
to the Treasury of$253.642,179,
The National Journal says—Withia
the boundaries of several states and
territories, the aggregate of public
lands is 314,325,120 acres, of which
the quantity purchased by the United
Slates, is 258,377,667 acres, and the
amount not yet ceded by the Indians is
about 55,947,452 acres.
Gen. 'Winfield Scott.—It wouh
appear that the rumor of this officer’i
intention to resign his commission ii
the army was. not unfounded. A cor
respondent of the Petersburg Intelli
gencer states advisedly, that he wouh
immediately return to Virginia, am
take up his residence in that neigh
bourhood; which circumstance has in
duced his friends to nominate him as s
candidate to the approaching Conven
tion, from the district in which 1 u
was horn and reared. He was expect
ed there about the middle of the pee*
sent month.—Sav. Geor.
Wilson's Improved flats.—Wc cl
not hesitate to call public attentio
to a new improvement in the articl
of Hats, made by Wilson 142 Broat
way. The Toledo hat equals in beat
♦y, and it is said in durability, the
dollar water proof hat, and is a fiorde
at the very reduced price of
The material is very fine, tho tuitr
