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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