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“All is hurry and confusion here,to get off from litis neglected region, & out of the reach of the devastation^ ru in vvhieh is anticipated from the hostile Indians on the withdrawal of lhe troops “So ne of the unfriendly Indians have recently stolen a number of horses, and it is believed that two ol the friendly Indians haVe fallen vic tims to their t 'inahavvks. This cre ates considerable excitement among our eitizens, who look upon it as only a prelude to what will follow the abandonment of the post at Canton ment Tows >n, unless they also re move, and seek new homes else where. The giving up of the fairest portion of this section ot the Territo ry to the Choctaw Indians, certainly cannot justify the government in sac rificing the lives and property of those of her citizens who are still left on the frontier. They are entitled to the paternal care of their rulers, and I ardently hope they will not al ways be neglected.” The following information we think proper to correct. In tend ot the “Chero- kecs,” the Editor of the Gazette ought per haps to have said, Creeks, for to our knowledge 600 Cherokees have not emi grated, and *;hose who emigrated, wore not fantastically attired. Alexandria, Ly. May 16. Cherokees.—An emigrating party, oisisling about 600 Cherokee In dians, who until recently have been dispersed over the country east of the Mississippi, are now on the way to join their red brethren on the Arkan sas. They will probably reach this place to-morrow, or the following day at farthest. So large a number of these untutored sons of the forest, with their fantastic attire, will be a novel sight to most of us.— Gazette. Exemplary tribe of Indians.—In the York Advocate (Upper Canada) we find the evidence ot a Rev. Mr. Ry- ersou before the parliament of that province, on the subject of an In dian petition, which is curious for the account it gives of the Misissngua In- ou...j on a tract oi lunu Credit, probably on the Mississagua or Mississaque. Their number is n- bout two hundred and thirty, settled in a little village, and increasing by the addition of savages from the woods, who are attracted by the ob vious comfort and quiet of their con dition to share their mode of life. They reside on a tract of land situa ted on the river, three miles and a half in length and two miles wide. They live in cottages divided into two apartments with a garret, and some times with the addition of a kitchen. In them are chairs, tables, bedsteads, beds with curtains, and the kitchen lit tonsils common among t lie whites. There is a garden of halt an acre al lotted to each house, in some instan ces they have private enclosures of from two to four acres, and the vil lage cultivates a field of sixty acres in common. They raise corn, pota toes, some wheat, and abundance of garden vegetables. According to the report of Mr. Ryerson, they live to gether in great sociality and harmony, are kinder to each other than whites, and civil and hospitable to strangers. They are sober too—ardent spirits by a solemn agreement are not permit ted to be drunk in the village; and lie who offends against this rule is look ed upon as having violated the agree ment, and is expelled from the vil lage. There are two schools, one for males and the other f.>r the fe males, with fifty children in each. They are taught reading, writing and arithmetic, and out of school the chil dren instruct the adults to read.— Thus they are daily improving in civ ilization. The object of the petition is to secure them from the intrusion i of the whites, who fish in their streams, and endeavor to teach the young Indians to swear, drink whis key. profane the Lord’s Day, and similar accomplishments. JY. Y. Post. CHEROKEE TR \ D1TION. Mr. Doudinott,—By such inqui ries as my opportunities allow I can hut just pick up here and there a scrap of information respecting those former customs of your people, which are fast fading from memory. This fact but illy accords with a remark of the North American Review, of which you have taken notice, respect ing the tenacity with which the Abo rigines hold their former superstitions and practices, so far as that remark applies t a this nation. Since my last communication 1 have been informed by a respectable citizen, that, when he was young, the aged men used to caution the young against eating a part oi any aiiinud, which appears to correspond with “the sinew tha shrank” of the Jews. ‘Much of the agility of a young man,’ said they, ‘depends upon the strength of that part of the thigh. If you eat this, you will become weak where you most need strength, and unfit for hunting. As for us, who are old, it is no harm for us to eat it, for we are worth nothing at any rate’. W. SfSsW BSiiEgPljLS Wednesday, july ir>, is2o. The eagerness which is manifested in Geo. to obtain the lands of the Cherokees lias frequently led the journals of that state to deceive the people, by stating, that we are ‘‘making extensive preparations to re move to the west.” So desirable it is to get rid of these troublesome Cherokees, that every flying report is grasped at as an un doubted fact, & spread abroad to the re joicing of thousands. The late statement of the Georgia Journal, to which wc have already referred, is a very good example. No sooner does this statement makes it ap pearance, before we had time to take breath, 3* certainly before we had the opportunity of contradicting it, it is copied into many papcis, and now there is hardly a paper with which we have the honor of exchang ing, but what has informed its readers that “the Cherokees are making extensive pre parations to remove.” We lianpen to know this to be an assertion without the lea-t foundation. \\ e hope the same pa pers will say on what they may consider “good authority,” that the Cherokees are not making any prepaiations to remove,but on tlm contrary, that they continue to make improvements as heretofore W e see houses erecting wherever we go—they are enlarging their farms—the progress of edu cation is encouraging, and the improvement in morals lias never been so flattering.— These are facts on which the public may oe] end, until we shall inform them other wise, We know not what course the Cherokees may finally determine to pur- hll**5 l)l\t D liu» L iiw 1. ..Uwttnn in (Holinor the above as being most correct in regard to them at present. We do not undertake to say that they will remain here at all hazards, for “persecution—what will it not accomplish?” as the Journal of Commerce remarks. We know, however, the feel ings of many individuals—in regard to them, we speak with confidence when we say, coercion alone will remove them to the western country allotted for the Indians. When we published the. short article which has given rise to the communication of One of the Hickses, and the letter of William Hicks in our last, wc knew that it was incorrect but thought proper to leave the matter to the persons implicated. It was our opinion that a denial from one ofthe family would be more to the purpose, than for us to conti adict the statement. We hope the public will now he satisfied that implicit reliance is not to be placed on the statements of Georgia Editors on the sub ject of the rcmoYal of t he Cherokees. M c are acquainted with One of the Ilickcs, who is a single man. He is the only one of the family who has manifested a willingness to pa-s the Mississippi. W ith W. Hicks we ore also acqua nted. In regard to him, we lecl prepared to say that if the Cherokees are not to remove un til he emigrates, the United States will have to employ far more powerful means to effect their purpose than are now in progress. Mr. Editor,—The following is an extract of an article inserted in a late number of your paper: “All the Hicks .family are going to the west of the Mississippi, and we think the example will he extensively follow ed.” I feel it to be my duty, not only to satisfy (he public, but to do away the censure il may produce, and to state what probably! gave rise to the re port. 'A wise man will listen to good counsel, but a fool will have his own way.’ Having no claim to the form er by affinity or consanguinity, but to the latter, knowing that 1 was no ben efit or injury to my country, and hav ing no one to steer my course down Che stream cf life, and seeing the em barrassed state of the Country, and the difficulties I apprehended would soon overtake it if not providentially saved, I avowed myself an Arkansas emigrant under the treaty which gave rise to emigration. I did not do this to injure my country or my relations, nor did 1 intend toi an example lor others lu loliow, hut merely to satis fy my own selfish notions. This is ] probably, what gave rise to the re- ; port, so confidently spread abroad in 1 the Georgia prints. Perhaps 1 have j a better chance lo know the preten- j sious of the Hiekes, and 1 know they i are ojfcsed to emigration, i pre sume public will not give any credit lo tha light reports that are so frequently and industriously spread abroad. Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event would produce sensa tions of a more unpleasant nature in my mind, than to see all the Hickses driven in a horde to the western wilds, hitherto uncultivated and un frequented, while nature, who shines every where else in her youth, ap pears to be in a stale of doereptitude, and where, instead ol a nourishing verdure is to he seen an encumbered waste, possessing no inducements to a people striving after civilization. As for myself, whenever my life & liberty are at slake, 1 am always de termined lo pursue a course tha. the dictates ol' common sense prescribes. 1 had maturely considered what I was about to do, not thinking that it would involve my connexions in an unfounded censure, when 1 avow ed myself an Arkansas emigrant, know ing at the same time that all contracts must be faithfully fulfilled before they can he binding; and unless the Government do faithfully fulfil the provisions of the treaty which gave rise to emigration, l will hold to my country until driven from it by the bayonet, and enjoy iny birthright priv ileges; but if otherwise, 1 will take my (light to the w estern w ilds, to seek retreat in a country, said to be “more congenial to Indian habits” a retreat where the voice ofthe civilized man gives place to yells of savage man and ferocious beasts, there to hide my self in the bosom of some lonely for est, to spend my days in obscurity, and to look back on my injured coun try, and mourn the fate ot “Alkmon- ac's” noble but unfortunate race. One ok the Hickses. From the Ncw-Yovk Journal ol Commerce. «!...• <S i .e Rusian Campaign.— A French Ministerial journal stales unu the new campaign of the Rusiuns is expected to open by attacks on lour different points:—-1st, On the Danube, to compcll the surrender of the for tresses whii h still hold out for the Porte; 2d, in Servia, by Orsova, Wid- din, and Nissa; 3d, in Bulgaria, by Varna and Bazardjiek; and 4th, on the coasts of the Black Sea, by Bourgas and Sizepoli, to cut oil'the communi cation with Adrianople. In such a plan of operations the head quarters would remain in Wallaehia till the expected surrender ol the fortresses on the Danube permitted a free communication in all points from Bucharest lo Varna. Headquarters would then be transferred to the lat ter eily, and the principal operations would he diro.ted towards the Balkan Shumla, either with the object of attacking the Turkish army in front, or turning its position by a movement towards Bourgas. If this line of Turk ish operations were forced, the tacti cian of the ministerial journal then calculates that the lliisians would spread themselves into the province south of the Balkan, and occupy a triangular theatre of combat, includ ing no other fortresses but those of Tartar Bazardjiek, Adrianople, and the empire. This theory records, in the general, with what is known of the Rusian army since the campaign commenced. They have already taken possession of Missevria and Sizepoli, in the neigh bourhood of Bourgas, say 100 miles to the North of Constatinople, and it ap pears from the subjoined letter re ceived at Boston, that they are erect ing fortifications at both places, which proves that they intend to maintain their position. The posses sion of the Black Sea, and the co operation ofthe Marine with the land forces, will give them immense ad vantages over the Turks, and will probably defeat all the efforts of the latter to regain the places they have lost. All accounts agree respecting the warlike preparations on both sides as ofthe most formidable character, and it cannot he doubted that great events are at hand, the result of which will be waited for with intense inter est. Extract of a letter dated. Sm> iina, April 4th. “The Russians have taken poscssion of Missevria lo the north ol Bourgas, and biziboli to the south, and are for tifying both places. A desperate struggle is at hand, and we cannot conceive how the Sultan will oppose with success the immense force which will be brought against him.” THE SLAVE TRADE. Captain Jackson, of the revenue cutter Marion, arrived at Savannah from Key West, states, upon unques tionable authority, the fact of many Spanish vessels sailing from the Ha vana for the coast of Africa, with only two or three weeks’ provisions on board, depending entirely for further supplies upon the different vessels they may fall in with, and from whom they can rob. The vessels are gener ally armed, and engaged in the slave trade, and are ow r ned and lilted out at the Havana. DOMESTIC. From the N. V. Commercial Advertiser. Jl JS'cw Invention.—The follow ing extract of a letter from a highly intel ligent correspondent, who cannot be deceived as to the merits of the inven tion of w hich he speaks, informs us of a discovery w hich is likely to produce veiy extensive elici ts—more indeed than can he at once anticipated, should it be found fully lo answer the descrip tion given of it. Some of these our correspondent has adverted to; but it is obvious that the machine will be in troduced into private and public offi ces, and w'ill supply the place of mani fold writers, &c. The principle of ils construction, and the manner of us ing it are of course not explained, as a patent must be taken out. Wc arc really at a loss lo comply with our correspondent s request lo furnish a name. An American invention, brought forth in the woods of Michigan, should not, we think, he Known by any long- winded and crabbed Greek appellation. We shall endeavor lo lmd something appropriate. In the mean time, if any of ihe literati can supply one, we will transmit it to the inventor. Oakland, May 16, 1829. “In this age of invention and im provement, a citizen of Michigan will idaiin the praise of having invented one of ihe most useful and pleasing things of the day. It is a simple, cheap, and pretty machine for prnoting letters, the., and is intended for ilie use of families, offices, Sic. Il oc cupies about the fourth part of the space of a common forte piano, and a young lady, seated at it, ami employed in printing a letter or card of invita tion, would appear in the same atti tude as in playing upon her forte piano. It will require a few hours practice, to enable one to print with the same rapidity as he can write; but it may be so conti ived as to print two or three copies at once. A child of five years of age, if il can spell, can take a copy of any thing placed before it; and those who write an awkward hand—aged persons—those who wish to have their letters, compositions, &o. appear in a neat manner, and “in print;” in fine, all who ever write letters or any thing else, will fall in love with this inven tion. The inventor is Win. A. Burt, Esq. formerly a member of our legis lative council, and a neighbour of mine —i. e. his residence is only three miles off. I have examined the invention, and from my knowledge of the print ing business, feel myself competent to decide upon it. Mr. Burt explained to me the manner in which he propos ed to make his machine, and I stated to him all the objections w hich occur red to me; the whole of which he has obviated. Tbe machine can he made of ma hogany, ebony, or other suitable wood, or of brass or other metal, and will he a most elegant piece of house hold furniture. The type used may he selected according to the taste.— The whole apparatus can be moved from one part ofthe house to another by tbe most delicate female and may be made of various sizes. Mr. Burt lias applied to me to find a name for his invention; hut I am at a loss—and unless you write me im mediately, and furnish me with one, we will have to chiisten it with tlie homely appellation of “Burt’s Family Letter Dress.” Will not “The Ty pographer” answer? I like the latter name best; but it is important to hit upon a good one; for, only consider how many thousand times the word will in future he used. Letters in stead of beginning the old way—“1 have taken up my pen,” &c. will com mence thus—“I have sal down at my Typographer to inform you,” &c.— and desponding lovers may yet print— “My tears obliterate the ifnpressmn of my Typographer.” &o. Montreal, June 9. Wonderful Sagacity of the JJog.—\ few days back as the child of Mr. John Rot, merchant of this city was leaning over the bannister of the stairs in the upper part of the house, he lost his balance, tumbled over, and in the act of falling down a consider able height, was fortunate enough to lay hold of a rail, by means of w hich lie was upheld, suspended in a manner in the air. A dog belonging to the same gentleman, seeing the danger the child was in, sprang in stantaneously to his relief, & extend ing himself over the bannister, from the stairs above, laid hold of him ir this dangerous and alarming situation, and raising up, drew him back, over the bannister, depositing him on the stairs in safety. Instances of the wisdom and benevolence of this ex cellent animal in preserving human life are numerous; and, to the credit of the species, are frequently record ed. We witnessed an instance our selves of a child preserved in a sim ilar way, from drowning in the river Liffey; the infant sprang out of the nurse’s arms oil’tbe parapet, & would have perished, hut for the dog of a gen tleman accidentally passing, which plunging in saved him. The father of the child, a wealthy merchant, of fered 300/. for the animal, but could not prevail on the owner to part with him.—Irish Vi ndi cat or. Highway Robbery.—On Sunday e- vening last, half past 10 o’clock, as Mr. Jos. Nelson was passing through Broad street at a rapid pace on ac count of the rain, he suddenly came upon two persons, who appeared from their accent to he Irishmen, who said, “Now you Bunker Hill b r, we’ve got you,” and immediately knocked him down. Mr. N. cried “murder,” but nobody came to his assistance for a considerable time; during which the Ruffians covered his mouth, emp tied his pockets, and felt for his watch, a valuable one, which lie had the presence of mind to conceal in the scufile. One of the men said “He has got n& watch,” and they then withdrew. The skin upon Mr. N’s forehead was broken by the blow, and he bled profusely. Ilis clothes were mudded and torn, and he w as compelled to keep lus bed most of the day yesterday. Mr. Nelson is a ferry man, and plies to South Boston. He had received a considerable quantity of money in change during ihc afternoon, and Ihe robbers emp tied all his pockets, taking even a small while penknife. The epithet bestowed upon him had reference to a bodily infirmity, occasioned by an accident in his youth, which caused a protuberance upon his back and chest.— Boston Patriot. THE LINE SHIP PENNSYLVANIA. A writer in the Charleston Courier, in correcting some misstatements con cerning this new ship, which have lately gone the rounds in the papers, states the following:-—The Pennsyl vania is a first class line of battle ship, what seamen call a three decker.— She will carry 120 guns on her three gun decks, and about 20 or 24 carron- ades up.on her spar deck; leaving her gang W'ays and poop unencumbered.— As nearly as I could ascertain the di mensions of this ship—for no measur ing was allowed when I visited her, but her length and breadth could be nearly come at from those of the house under w hich she is built—she is about 280 feet upon deck, and 59 or 60 feet upon the beam, and will measure probably about 4000 tons, register ton nage. She will certainly carry long 42 pounders oil her lower deck, but it is to he hoped that nothing heavier than long 32’s will he thought of for the middle and main decks. On the spare deck, 42 pound carronadcs will he placed. Economical news from JMichigan.—In a letter from Mr. Wells, of Detroit, to Samuel L. Mitchell, of New-York, it is stated that a valuable oil has been procured from maize or Indian Corn. The discovery was made by accident, in preparing the mush for distillation. The person who made it, refuses to make known, as yet, his fortunate discovery. The specimen of oil looks very fine and inviting. It is reported to he equal to Castoi