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ejaculated the line of Horace.—“ Quo me liacche;” I was surprised to find that my stomach did not crave the accustomed stimulant. Nature could hold out no longer; disease had set in; my frame was debilitated, my flesh was as yellow as saffron, and it seemed that rivers of watci could not allay the internal burnings which gnawed my vitals. I was almost nak ed, an inclement winter had begun, I had now become completely wretch ed, no bed would receive me, no house would shelter me. 1 commenced my retreat, from this scene of ruin, and wandered with a slow and trembling pace, l knew not whither; until my limbs refused to sustain me, and I was received into a sleigh. My mind was no less debilitated than my body. When I entered Brockville, in the immediate vicinity of my former resi dence, I knew not where I was; and my most intimate friends, with whom I was soon surrounded, as strangers. I was immediately supplied with clothing; and, with the kind attend ance I received, my health recover ed. In the mean time a newspaper was established in the village, under the title of “The Brockville Record er,” and I was employed as its edi tor. I continued in this capacity for a few months, until intemperance un fitted me for business, and I left the Province almost as destitute as I en tered it. Such are some of the incidents which have attended my course,—ami these are but a few of the “wounds without cause,” and complicated woes, produced by my inordinate at tachment to spirituous liquor. This has been my ruling passion; has load ed my limbs with irons, confined me in guard rooms and dungeons; made me a hissing and a by-word, so that the very rabble have treated^pe with contumely, whom, in better days, “I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.” There have, in deed, been some lucid intervals of short continuance. Nature could nev er have held out thus long, under the consuming influence of one incessant stream of liquid fire. At these per iods, guilty and undeserving as l was, Heaven never failed to confer choice blessings, The wealthy and the edu cated befriended me. But these in tervals, either of partial or of total abstinence, were like the calm before a storm; and the prelude of a more daring movement in the road to hell. Here let me puase—my feelings recoil at the retrospect; I would glad ly obliterate the traces of the past from memory. But while they still live in the softened light of mental perspective, and I am enabled to say, “Such things were,” may not a salu tary lesson be derived from this shameful story? Perhaps a living ex ample may exhibit the fatal tendency of this prevalent vice in more vivid colours, than abstract moral precept. I have given this recital with a desire that others may avoid the breakers on which my barque was wrecked. This desire has overpowered the strong repugnance I felt, to detail, with my own pen, the story of my own shame. The time may come when my term of legal death shall expire, and I ex perience a kind of resurrection from the tomb, and again find this fatal liquid within my reach. But if my enlargement is to be the means of re commencing this destructive habit; if the animal functions, now restored to their proper tone, are again to be heated, maddened, infuriated; 1 would now, on bended knees invoke the Great God, that this prislh may rather be iny tomb; that I may never see these doors unbarred, nor again ex claim, “I am an American citizen.” I do not make this solemn appeal with out impressions of the deepest awe. I would not offend a Redeemer whom 1 love. I would not tempt a God whom I fear, and whose chastening hand lies heavily upon me. 1 indulge hope of better days; and I could not desire these hopes, fondly cherished, to be blighted in “the land of forgetful ness.” I could not leave this mortal tenement, willingly, for I cling to life. But there is something so ap palling in that which I have but just escaped; something so inexpressibly fearful in the idea of a confirmed drunknrd tottering on the verge of the eternal world, anil its fearful rever sions; that prisons, dungeons, falling rooks or mountains, would be compar ative ministers of tnercy. INDIANS. From the Savannah Mercury At a Council of the chiefs, head men and warriors of the Creek Nation, convened by authority, the Talk of the President was communicated by the Agent. After a profound silence of many minutes duration, Speckled Snake, a warrior, whose head has whitened with the frosts of more than a hundred winters, and who supported himself on the shoulders of two young men, it is supposed, arose, and spoke as fol lows:— Brothers! we have heard the Talk of our gre.it father; it is very kind; he says he loves his red children. Brothers! I have listened to ir.any talks from our gieat father. When he first came over tiic wide waters, he was but a little man, and wore a red coat. Our chiefs met him on the banks of the Savannah, and smoked with him the pipe of peace. He was then very little. His legs were cramped by sitting long in his big boat, and he begged for a little land to light his fire on. He said he had come o- ver the wide waters to teach hidians new things; and to make them happy. He said he loved his red brothers; he was very kind. The Musoogees gave the white man land, and kindled bun a fire, that he might warm himself, and when his enemies, the pale faces of the South, made war on him, their young men drew the tomahawk, and protected his head from the scalping knife.— But when the white man had warmed himself before the Indian’s fire, and filled himself with their hominy, he became very large. With a step he bestrode the mountains, and his feet covered the plains and the vallies.— His hands grasped the Eastern and the Western sea, and his head rested on the moon. Then he became our great father. He loves his red childrefi, and he said, “get a little farther, lest I tread on thee.” With one foot he pushed the red man over the Oconee, and with the other he trampled down the graves of his fathers, and the for ests where he had so long hunted the deer. But our great father still lov ed his red children; and he soon made to them another talk; he said “get a little farther, you are too near me.” But there were some bad men among the Muscogees, then, as there are now. They lingered around the graves of their ancestors, till they were crush ed beneath the heavy tread of our great father, their teeth pierced his feet, and made him angry. Yet be continued to love his red children, and when he found them too slow in mov ing, he sent his great guns before him to sweep his path. Brothers! 1 have listened to a great many talks from our great father.— But they always began and ended in this—“get a little further, you are too near me.” Brothers! Our great father »says, “where we now arc, our white broth ers have always claimed the land.” He speaks with a strait tongue, and can not lie. But when he first came over the wide waters, while he was yet small, and stood before the great chief at the council on Yamacraw blufffhe said—“give me a little land, which you can spare, and 1 will pay you for it.” Brothers! When our great father made us a talk, on a former occasion, and said—“get a little farther; go be yond the Oconee, the Ocmulgee, there is a pleasant country—he also uid, it shall be yours forever.” I havewsten- ed to his present talk; he says the land where you now live is not yours —go beyond the Mississippi; there is game, and you may remain while the grass grows oi the water runs. Broth ers, will not our great father come there also? he loves his red children. He speaks with a strait tongue, and will not lie. Brothers! Our great father says that our bad men have made his heart bleed, for the murder of one of his white children. Yet where are the red children he loves, once as numer ous as the leaves of the forest? how many have been murdered by his war riors; how many have been crushed beneath his own footsteps? Brothers! Our great father says we must go beyond the Mississippi. We shall there be under his care, and ex perience his kindness. Ffe is very good. We have felt it all before! Brothers! I have done. The President has appointed Caleb Atwater, of Ohio, with Cols. M’Neil and Menan, to treat with several In dian tfibes, on the Mississippi. The object is said to be the purchase of the right of sojl south of the Ouiscon- sin river, especially the lead region. ‘ FOREIGN. Arrivals at Ncw-York from Havre and Liverpool, furnish French and English papers to the 10th May.— The intelligence which they contain shows that Europe is in a very unset tled state, and convulsions of no ordin ary character are apprehended. Ri ots of an alarming nature have taken place both in France and England.— In the former, the most serious took place at Montrnorillion and at Nevers, when large mobs, of whom a large proportion were women, stopped the grain carts. The rioters were dis persed by an armed force and the^ leaders taken into custody. Other ri ots of a less serious nature had oc curred at St. Denis d’Orgucs, Coulans, Nogcnt de Rotrau, Saumaur, Con- courson, Oiron, St. Fargeou, Dieppe, Lide, Ratliel, Lupallisse, Lyon and Gisors. No farther advance is now apprehended in the price of grain by which these riots were occasioned. The Gazette de France says: "“The danger of our situation is immense; the symptoms hi-come so alarming that it has become a subject of inqui ry whether it would be prudent to prorogue the chamber until Septem ber, in order to remit the discussion of the budget afte* the harvest, and not 1o leave the factious such terrible means of exciting masses to opposition. The same Journal says that the chamber of deputies presented an af flicting spectacle at the silting on the 7th May; when three men, who had solicited from strangers in 1815 the expulsion of the Bourbons, had ap peared boldly applauding themselves for what they had done; the ministers remaining silent in their seats during the whole scene; while M. de La fayette was eulogising the Cortes and speaking abusively of a prince of the house of Bourbon. In England blood has been shed in the popular tumults, which are con fined to the manufacturing districts At Rochdale, the rioters destroyed the looms, and carried aw'oy the shut tles. Twenty three were appre hended by the magistrates and the military. The remainder collected before the prison, to liberate them.— The soldiers at first fired blank car tridges, which not intimidating the rioters, who rushed upon the soldiers, several rounds of ball w ere fired, by which 5 were killed and 25 wounded. There had been extensive riots and 57 persona had been apprehended at Manchester. Through the inter vention of the soldiery, it w r as a^gain pretty quiet on the 7th May. The Dragoons at Birmingham had been ordered to Leeds. There were hopes of compromise at Spitalfields. Turkey and Russia.—The note of preparation for the wat* between Russia and Turkey, was sounding louder and brisker. The Russians were congregating their forces on the Danube. It is thought that the Rus sians have acquired more know ledge, as well as advantage, in the last cam paign than the Turks. Varna is of vast importance, being halfway house to Constantinople, securing the ready advance of the Russians to the foot ol the Balkan. The Turks, however, will give them a very unwelcome re ception. While General Diebitsch is pre paring to strike a decisive blow on land, Admiral Hayden is endeavoring to detach the Pacha of Egypt from the service of the Porte in the Med iterranean. He has already captur ed two vessels' of war belonging to the Pacha, and hints that if he will abstain from helping the Turks, the ships will be restored by Russia. It is very dextrous policy in him to at tempt to weaken the ’Porte by caus ing the defection of Egypt, but it is ve ry doubtful whether he will succeed. A war between Russia and Persia was very likely to ensue in conse quence of the late murder of the Rus sian Minister. Other Russians are said to have fallen victims to the pop ular fury in Persia. The English Minister had threatened to leave the country, if the Persian Government did not put a stop to these acts of vi olence. He had taken several of the suit of the late Russian Ambassador under his protection. Letters received from Holland state, that a new and awful system of warfare is to be adopted by the Turks in the ensuing campaign. Orifers have been given to the Turkish com manders, on the approach of the Rus sians to any town, to dig up (he church-yards, and bring the dead bod ies into the houses. The inhabitants arc instantly to leave the towns,'— This is to be done, in the hbpe that, should the Russians take possession of these places, a pestilence will imme diately assail them. The Russians claim a victory over the Turks m Asia, & state that 1000 of the latter were killed and wounded, while the loss of the Russians was less than 200. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8,1829. a We have occasionally informed our rcad- ersofthe treatment the Cherokces have ex perienced from some of their white breth ren since the passage of the law in Geor gia, declaring the incompetency of Indians as witnesses. In stating cases of ill-treat ment, we did not intend to say it was a.gen eral thing on the whole line of the Georgia frontier, but on particular parts, especial ly in that section embraced by the line late ly run by Col. Wales. There the ill-treat ment has been a general thing, and though persons at a distance may doubt our asser tions, on account of too much confidence in the juottcc and Ultoralily of tlw* Stato of Georgia, they arc nevertheless true, &. it is equally true, that the authorities of the state have been indifferent spectators thus far, beholding in silence the progress of such flagrant injustice and oppression. We ve rily believe, the legislators who enacted the law above alluded to, designed that its ef fects should be as they have been, and as they promise to be. To Correspondents.— One of the Hickses is deferred until next week. FOR THE CHEROKEE PIHENIX. Mr. Editor—Forbearance is de sirable with me, could it exist with out doing violence to my feelings; but sir, so interwoven are my feelings with the welfare and general interest of my country, that 1 cannot remain si lent, when such glaring injustice is ap proaching it. Without the least regard to principle or humanily, which should always characterize a magnanimous people, the Georgians, right or wrong, by the authority of their Governor, without the consent of the General Government, have commenced the survey ol a line beginning al Suwanna old Town on tire Chattahoochy, along a supposed old trail to the Six’s on the Hightower. The pretence is, that it was once the bo'midary be tween the Cherokces and Creeks, hut it is without the least shadow 4 of sub stantial evidence. Of the existence of such a trail we have no knowledge, nor of the proofs that have been ad duced to establish it. The surveyors were five or six days in searc h of this much desired trail, and some of our oldest citizens were offered five dol lars per day to travel with them, and show them the trail, at which they laughed, and declared their ignoianee of its existence. Finally the survey was commenced, and sir, the persons employed were not wanting for old trails; if one did not do, they tried a- nolher, and thus they went on a line they are determined to have, trail or no trail. This, sir, is the conduct which now characterizes Georgia, who prides herself so much upon her virtue, honesty, and justice; if this w ill not make her blush, what can?— The pretext to this frivolous claim was never in existence unt&the late discovery of Wofford, one of the would be wisest politicians of his country, whose sagacity is so much celebrated by his constituents for such important discoveries. But after all this, our claims are just, our evidences will be to the point—let us have justice, and it is all we ask. Our friends at a distance in their sympathies for us, and defence of our rights, must not speak, without being calumniated.— In Indian affairs, Georgia claims all the wisdom and all the skill. The fol lowing affords a fine specimen of her .charity and liberality. “The line has never been in dispute between the Creeks and the Cher *kees, within the memory of the oldest inhabitants of the country white or red; nor has there ever been a compromise,”— She tells us, “the line has always been known to run as Georgia now icontends, from the Suwanna old tow r n on the Chattahoochy by the Hightow er old trail to Six’s, until the Oteek chief M’Intosh, having married a Cherokee wife, influenced his tribe to permit the Chcrokecs to run a lino further south; and that such is the notoriety of these facts that even the Cherokecs do not pretend to deny them.” We do deny them, and wo are unanimous in our voice m this subject. If they existed at all, it isoio where but in Georgia.— Wc are told further that w e are “sen sible of the rights of Georgia, so that we have not the faintest hope of ■ holding the land in question, and are quietly leaving them.” This I know to he notoriously false. Within the limits of this disputed land I live. Nev* er were citizens more attached to their country, and here we intend to remain at all hazards. True, a few have gone to the interior of the Na tion, and why? Because they have been forced from their homes, and their stocks driven from them by such oullawed wretches as have taken refuge in some of the bordering coun-* ties from the justice of the law.— When we apply to the laws of Geor gia for justice, we are gravely denied our oaths &any right of suffrage by an act of the last Legislature of the State. Such is the treatment with which wc meet, and such, sir, is the policy of Georgia, I presume, to cf feet our speedy removal to the coun try of Arkansas—but, sir, vve arc not Arkansas men. The chase we des pise—the kettle, gun, and steel-trap iii'o no induoomrints for ue—we delight in cultivating the soil, and we know it is finely adapted to our purpose. Of our rights and liberties we ask no further than they have been guarantied to us by our treaties, & thus far we in tend to maintain them. If destruc tion is inevitable, the sooner the bet ter, for our present state is a painful one. But, sir, we jire not to he a- larnied from our lands, to them we are firmly attached, our dwellings arc comfortable, our farms are fer tile, the climate healthy, our laws pretty good, with the prospect of bet tering them, and our condition cannot he bettered by a removal—resistance we never intend, but with our blood will vve water our land, and deposit our ashes with those of our ancestors. A CHILLAHCULLAHGEE. OoKILLOKEE, C. N. ) 2d. July, 1829. £ Mr. Boudinott, Sir,—The last number of the Cherokee Phoenix contains the fol lowing news to its readers taken from the “Georgia Journal”. “The Cherokces are making extensive ar rangements to go west of the Missis-' sippi. The whole of the. Ilicks family are going. Charles Hicks, it will be remembered, was, previous to his death, the Head Chief, or King of the Nation” &e. As a brother of the Head Chief, mentioned, and being one of the “whole of the Hicks family,” stated to he in readiness to depart from this Nation to the west, I pro nounce the above paragraph in re gard to me, my sons, George, Eli, Jay and William Hicks, to be a gross slander. My brother is mentioned in the Georgia papers, as having filled his situation as Chief, “with great dignity, and credit.” IIow was this assing compliment, which is given v Georgia Editors, after his death, earned and achieved, among his peo ple? It was by his firm adherence to his country, and in the exercise of indefatigable perseverance to in struct his people in civil polity, and to open their hearts to receive Chris tian principles. My Great Father above has en trusted to my charge a large family of children, who are the object of ray prayers, and whom it is iny wish to raise “in the nurture and admonition* of tK^ Lord.” Hitherto I have had encouragement to hope, that my labor 1 has not been in vain, and it would be now, the proof of folly to suppose me.' capable of deserting the cause of my Country, and its Christian and civil* lights for those of savage and Pagan habits, to which my younger children would be liable in the western wilds r It is true indeed I have seen with pain a new doctrine advanced by Maj. Eaton, now Secretary of War, that our right to Government, which we have always retained, is inadmissable, and that the U. States never guarantied thQ same to us in our treaties. But I know this also, that the executive of the United States, at this time, have not spoken os arbiters of justice a«- cording to law, but the language of Commissioners, in earnest negotiation for land. When treaties or compacts are concluded; it ist^ne by one sove reign with another. A Nation talks to a Nation. How inconsistent, tg