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-fa C HEROKEE PHOENIX AttH INDIANS’ ADVOCATE. POETRY. INDIAN ELOQUENCE AND GRIEF Plow with deep’ning gloom, roll'd o'er age, and every bitter year Smote as with wintry frost some plant of . hope, Which the poor Indian cherish’d. Still he *, nurs’d, UnchillVij uncheck’d, amidst the tempest’s ir * His native eloquence. Like the wild flame Of some red meteor, o’er the howling , storm It flash’d, gilding the dark, skirts of the clottd Which curtain’d midnight. A tv fully it shone Into the soul of Logan, as he wept That of his race, cold Treachery had spar’d Hot one to mourn for him;-—its darting Flaw’d from the eye of Corn-Plant, as he spread The black’ning transcript ofhis nation’s wrongs Before great Washington.—“Thou, at whose name Our kindling warriors for the battle arm, Our women tremble, and our frighted babes Cling to their mothers, yet whose gener ous heart Btill kind and pitiful, has mov’d our tribes To call thee father, to thine ear once v itiore Our Chiefs appeal. “They come not in base fear, Who dread nor toil, nor danger; but they seek Feacc for their people, Corn-plant hath desired . To guard the tree of peace, and as he poured Fresh dew upon its roots, his arm hath striven With his own nation. For in wrath, they ask s Continually, ‘Tell us! where is that land On which our children, and our children’s babes Shall r&i in peace?—Why then do white << men come And take it from us ?’— “« What shall fcorfl-plant urge To this unhappy race? His little store He has imparted to those wretched men Whom yours have plundered, and unpi tying left Without a garment. All his wealth is , ' gone, Yet they remain unsatisfied. His heart Shudders to think, that when enraged they rise To vengeance, llieir unsparing hand will whelm Both Innocence and Guilt. The flowery Spring, And favoring Summer, while his bretren tilled The bounteous Earth, he spent in fruitless toil, Labouring for peace. The Autumn now is past, But ComVtMant hath no harvest. Sad he sees His famished wife, and hears the thrilling voice . Of his Vi young children, asking him for bread, When he has none to give. His soul is wrung With agony for them.— “ Yet there are wrongs Heaped on his nation,f which his strug gling soul •But ill can l>3ar. Our noblest blood is shed By menial bands. Our Chiefs and war riors fall- Fall provoked, and in their crimson beds Sleep unavenged. The haughty murder er stalks From his dark deed, unpunished parses on, And finds protection. From the earth, a voice Demands our vengence. That y6u have a Dooming the iflah, ^ho sheds his brother’s blood, We know. But arc we, Senecas, alone Cast out from justice? May the restless swords Of all malignant rovers drink our blood; And yet be blameless? Shall the murder er find A refujj^in your arms; when our Own Sanctions the swift avenger to pursue, And recompense the deed? Father!' to us, These are great things. That you are strong we know t That you are ttrwe,we hear; but we must wait Till you hive answered this, before we say That you arejust." When rising cities shone In wealth and splendour, the poor natives roved . Around their bounds, amazed. Fall’n Pride renrest The Words of admiration; but strange aWe/ Slavish degeneracy, and the dark frown Of banished men, sat heavier on their brow. Once, to the mart which favoring Com merce reared, < * * " On ftir Manhattan, their sad Chiefs re- t. jqra. nee. From a towering height They marked the goodly prospect. Ldf- ty spires, Vast domes, delightful villas, clustering root. . - tyfttis, where the countless thrortg in cessant poured,. As pleasure, pomp, or business moved their tide* In murmuring fluctuation; distant dales, Slumbering in verdure; the majestic flood, Crown,d with U11 masts, and white snow- Thoug^tful^they view’d. Unmov’d the , men of wealth, Who mark’d their own possessions, lightly ask’d, “Why are ye sad?” as once Chaldan’s hands Inquir’d of wasted Judah, where their mirth And songs had vanish’d, when their un strung harps .Hung on tne willows, and their exil’d feet Roam’d in captivity. ...To them replied The elder Chief: “We bear upon our minds Past times, and other days. This beautc- ous land Was tttifce our fathers’. Here, in peace they diVelt; For the Great Spirit gave it as a gift To them, and to their sons. But to this shore Once came.a vast car.oc, which white men steer’d Feebly, against the blast. “Driv’nhy rude storms, They (bright permission on our coast to land, k. And how could we refuse?' Their sick r they brought, And in tfur soft shades, fann’d by gentle gales, Laid then), and they reviv’d. But wintry winds Soon swept the waste, and humbly they besought Leave to erect a wigwam, while the frost And snows were raging. Could our hearts refuse The stranger shelter? to our Chiefs the^ said With solemn words that when the soft’ning spring Dissolved the wrath of winter, they would seek Their distant hoiiltcs, arid leave us to our selves; • And we were satisfied. With pityirtg eye Their wasted frames we saw, by Famine smit; We gave thch) corn, and fed them. When fair sipring , . Shone sweetly on the budding earth, tve claim’d Their promise tb depart. But they had rear’d Strange iroti ramparts, which at their command Breath'd flame and death; Pointing to these, they said “We will not!” and indignately they glanc’d Defiance on us. Other bands arriv’d Strength’ning their purpose. Mad, enti cing draughts Deceitfully they gave us, till the cup Reft us of reason. Then they forc’d us w back From fiield to field, from forest, and from flood. Where our subsistence lay: And you, their sons, Still drive us ontvard. You enjoy the land Of luxury; while vte, wasted and scorn’d, Herd in the wilderness. But ye will cease Ere long to press us, for our fading race Will cease to be. Think ye, that wc can view These beauteous shores, and yon proud swelling flood, And not remember that they once were ours? And thus rcmemb’ring, need yc wond’ring . ask Why sorrow clothes pur brow r” Full many a strain Of native eloquence, simple irid wild, Has ris’n in our dark forests, which the winds Unheeded, swept away. Yct,‘ had it broke From hold Demosthenes, when Athens fear’d The distant step of Philip, had it burst From the impetuous Hannibal, whfen Rome Muster’d at Zama—it had been enroll’d In History’s choicest annalj the pure eye Of taste had trickled o’er it, and the lip Of the yoriflg student, had been proud tb pour Its treasur’d pathos. But thy slighted words, Untutor’d Red Min!—Ah! how few will trace Their chronicle obscure, "and fewer still Accord tbe meed of just applause, uni mix’d With scorn upon thy nation. Lofty, firm, And high soul’d honour, mocking at the pain Which wastes the body, once thy sires could boast, Such as in Rome,' dtnid her better days, Had been exalted.-* Traits or Aborioirss or America MISCELLANEOUS. CONQUEST OF CONSTANTI NOPLE BY THE TURKS. Muhammed distributed at tbe breach his worst troops, the refuse of the host. Constrained by the janiza ries, these poor Wretches were forced to place laddfirs and mount the first to the assault. Not one of t‘hetn reached the walls; they were destroy ed, or beaten down, and their dead bodies served to fill the ditcheB. Tbe S&njaks then led on the troops of Aiiffflhd of Europe, who fought with the energy ol despair, impelled by the more & more redoubtable threats of their fieroe leader. To those whom he saw furious, he promised golden mountains; to the cowardly, he denounced instant death; ahd execu tioners were at hand to enforce his vengeance. For two hours and more the Christians withstood every effort of the enemy, and the Voice of the Emperor was heard ericouragmg to achieve, by a last effort, the deliver ance of their city. Adopting the ex ample pf his race, toialigue and wear out his foes, at this fearful instant, Muhammed wielded his mace, and commanding his drums and warlike instruments to sound, impelled on ward, by act and gesture, his janiza- ries, fresh, vigorous, and invincible. Similar to lions in chase of their prey the Turkish writers describe their en trance into the storm of arrows, stone balls, and musket bullets, showered on them. Tljfe dust of tbe combat darkened the heavens, and as a heavy veil filled the azure sky, the cannon thundered on the walls, and the fall of the queen of nations evidently drew on. The immediate loss of Constan tinople, however, as Gibbon judi ciously states may be ascribed to tbe bullet, or arrow, which pierced tbe gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of this blood, and his exquisite pain, appalled the courage of the chief, whose arms and councils were the firmest rampart of the city. As he withdrew from his station in search of a surgeon, Ins flight was perceived and stopped by the indefatigable Em peror; “Your wound;” exclaimed Palffiologus; “is slight! tbe danger is pressing! your presence is necessary! and whither will you retire? “I will retire;” said tile trembling Genoeses, “by the same road which God has opened for the Turks;” and at these words hd hastily passed throdgh one of the breaches of the inner wall. By this pusillanious act, he stained the hohors of a military llfp; and the few dhys which he survived at Chios, were embittered by his own and the public reproach. His example was followed by rhbst of the auxiliaries— the defence slackened, and the assault was pressed with ten fold vigor; the adverse balance vibrated so strongly, if the besiegers could penetrate by a single spot, tbe city was irretrievably lost. That fatal spot, at length, was the very palace of Constanjtine. While the Emperor guarded the breach, thus left exposed by the" re treat of Justiniani, the Turks per ceiving a door of the palace opfen, by which the Greeks made their sal lies with security, (it being under ground,) fifty janizaries rushed in, and mounting the w'alls, cut those who defended them to pieces; after which the enemy found no difficulty. Hasson, a janizary of huge stature, was the first who ascended the walls amid the confusion of this fatal event; he was followed by all the assailants; and the Greeks Hfcre driven from them, or burled under overwhelming multitudes. Acflid these multitudes, the Emperor, who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldidr; standing in the breach with his sw ord and buckler in his hand; was heard td utter these mournful words;—“Is there no Christian, left alive, td strike off ray head?” To prevent lus fall ing alive into the hands of hitr ene mies, he laid aside his gilded arms, and fell amid tbe tumult, unknown and unnoticed, his body being buried under a mountain of the slab). Dr; Walsh, when view mg the Spot, ob serves; “the breaches which remain in the wall for a considerable extent, near this gate, and which the Turks have never yet repaired, attest the vigorous resistance irtade, and the ut ter hopelessness of any further effort to stop the torrent of barbaritfrfs that poured in through them.” The bo dy of Constantine was found in one of them, where he had placed himself as the last but ineffectual barrier; and I magfiificient tree (the Cyprus; turpentine) is now' growing out of it, to mark, as Clarke says, “the sa cred spot where the last of tire Paltc- ologifcll.”—(Ipham's History. The newspaper of England, 1 believe, are about 3(K). In the United States the first published was in 1604. They for some years increased very slowly. 9 in J765, 37 in 1760, 358in 1810. Being free from duty, they are by no means expensive; the week ly ono from #1 50 or 6s. 9d. per an num to 11s. 3d.; daily papers frotr $6 to $8, or 26s. to 36s. per anne. • They are written, as may be suppose in various styles; on one subject only ; Ore they alike, and that one is ,nation al vanity,’ and full enough they are of it. Whcu riding this great horse, they are not over scrupulous about truth. Some are exceedingly vulgar, and most abusive and violent, as par ty tools There being no stamp duty, advertisements are very cheap, which it may be supposed induces every body to advertise from a “handsome negro for sale,” to a “few dozens of Day and Martin’s Blacking.'” One luxury is plentyful Infer!!,' and in' all (tie large towns and on board of steam boats; ice of the purest kind, as clear as crystal, and given by the platefuls. Surely ihere can be no necessity for the expense incurred in England for this luxury. The attendance of ser vants is not good, particularly on Sun days, when the greater part are al lowed to absent themselves. The paucity of chambermaids is remarka ble; however none of the servants ex pect remuneration except “Boots,” unless, as is some times the case, one of them attaches himself in a manner to you. There is generally, next the barrooms, a washing sink, a great, lux ury in summer; but the towels in common, and a comb ami ban-brush hanging by string or chains from the wall, are repugnant to English ideas. Individuality is by no means studied, and there is no improbability in the story, that a person w ho w as prevent ed using a gentleman’s toolh-bru&h in a steam boat should exclaim, “well, 1 guess, 1 calculated it belonged to the boat.” Tho bed rooms are gener ally very small and very naked of fur niture; the beds, in proportion tb the rooms little larger than ship births, and rarely burthened with curtains to them or the windows; this, however, is well enough in a country where, life had departed—his face was under water, and he bad ceased ito breathe l Numerous instances have occurred, of the 1 best swimmers being drowned, and it is usually attributed to tbe' cramp. J^fay it not be apbplexy, or < vertigo, occasioned by tbe temperate use of spirit previous to going into ,thri wate«, thus propelling to blooditothA. brain? If your medical readers will explain the cause, it may save valua ble lives, and will oblige your cansfant/ reader. J. T. > * THE WAY TO WEALTH: The property acquired by the late. Mr. Coutis, the rich banker, was the produce of a. long life of honest iudus-^ try, and strict attention to business; in (his, perhaps, he had few equals. On one occasion, when a gentleman, who had been one of his school-fellows, came to town Miv Courts invited him to dinner; and a large, party was as-. sembled to do him honour. The next day the gentleman had some buxines#,, to tfahsacf at Mr. Coutts’s bankin/" noticed by our contemporari following paragraphs arc faithfully written. • ' ■ * “The newspaper system of Ameri ca has been alluded to; in the state of New York there jire 161 published, arid in the United Statqs 857; of w hich one it Indian, of thfe Cherokee nation with windows open and a thorough draft, the thermometer will remain at 80 during the night. Living iu public, by which 1 mean either at ho tels or boarding houses, is so much the custom, that the best situations arc occupied by these cstabllsmcnts, and it is easy to find society of any na tion you wish for; this mode of living is by uo means confined to gentle men.” If the writer had extended his ob servations to the taveins of the inte rior, he would havo found less atten tion paid to individuality. Not on ly the towel, but the chambers, and not unfrequently the beds, are in common. Half a dozen beds in a room, and two in a bed—a soft feath er bed, during the intense heal of the summer, is a common occurrence. This is usually augmented and kept up almost to tbe boiling point by tbe absence of all means of ventila tion. There has, however, been a vast improvement in the art of tavern keeping within the last ten years. But to this time, seperate rooms, hair mattresses, linen sheets and washing materials in the chamber, are luxuries not often to be met with. [Philadelphia Aurora* From tbe Journal of Humanity. AN INQUIRY. Mr. Editor:—A curious fact was stated to me, recently, and I wish to make inquiry of medical men respect ing it, for a solution of the cause. Men who drink very moderately of ardent spirit, before bathing in cold water, arc often drOtvned; and the cause has not been understood. Is it because tbe blood rushes to the head in plunging into a cold bath, and apo plexy is produced? The following fact was related to me by an eye-witness. A stout, healthy, sober man, who was un ex cellent swimmer, recently went into tho water; but to prevent injury, as he thought, he took a glass of brandy “Notes of an English Traveller in the United States,” in the course of an d water, before he plunged. At publication at Montreal, have been (W i, e 8 , V ain with great vigorj.but ries. The sJon liis (ace dipped; lie theq lifted it and proceeded,’ but soon liis face in clined again. My informant with oth ers who were near, sfeeing him Mo tionless upon the water, obtained, after a little delay, a boat;and on reaching him, found bis limbs extend ed, in' tbe attitude of swimming, but bouse, when tlierfe was a penny in change due to Mr. Courts. ‘Well,*^, said the gentleman, ‘I shall not giy^ you that,* ‘I must have it,’ said Mrj Courts. ‘Why,’ said his astonished friend, ‘how singular is this!’ yester day you gave me a dinner which must have cost 1001; and to-day you will not give me a penny!’ ‘True,’ re plied Mr. Courts; ‘and it is my being rigidly correct w ith matters of busi ness, that enabled me to grte you a dinner.’ Her late Majesty, Queer. Charlotte, who kept cash with Mr. Courts, sent notice that she should withdraw it in three days. Mr. Courts sent an answer, presenting his Injmble duty, and assuring her majesty ‘that to withdraw half a million of money from the house of Thomas Courts,, and Co.’ three hours notice was ajj tha( was necessary.’ It is almost, superfluous to add, her Majesty, atyer 1 this communication from the priaii;- pal, did not withdraw her confidence. London Sun, ORTHOGRAPHY. We have seen many f specimens of the ludicrous produced by rui*-spell- ing, but the following genuine an nouncement of lost sheep exceeds any thing of the kind we ever read:— “Lost soposed to be astrayefi out of & fild near Crossy y Cylog of. William Morgan 19 ships in which was t$> rams and one blaclj you also a very remark- nil you that hould her bed a one side as if her nek was disjoint shoty tails all but to or three a slit in the left yearot urn all.” ORIGIN OF SEALS. The seals of deeds, thosd import's out etiquettes which give validity and effect to the parchment, wbre in the beginning ciphers, cut for the use of those who could not write their names, or badges of cognizance to j identify the unlettered individual, th^ proto- types of coats of arms whjybhi were but hieroglyhics, standing in the placo of ciphers, such as the North Ameri can savages still employ for the same purpose. The plaoing both seal apd signature to a deed is ihc consequence of that tendency to surpfaspgp which* is the besetting sin of lawyert. t— ■. 4* % A schoolmaster, while Surrounded by bis scholars at a night school, was one evening engaged in writing a copy, listening at the same timo to songe young men, apprentices, reciting «. lesson in the testament, and was fa voured by one of them with the follow*- ing reading of Matt. 23, 24:—“Yo blind guides which strain at a gale,. apd swallow a sawmill.? “What’s that!” cried the astonished teacher, “hoW do you spell gats?”, “,G-u-a-t, ✓ sir.” . “Admirable! well now, sir* if you please, spell saw-milt for us.”— “ C-a, saw m-e-1, mill, siuc-mill.^ FEMALE SOCIETY. He who speaks lightly of female', society is a numskull or a knave! the former not having senSe enough to dis-, corn its benefits, and the latter hating the restraint it lays on his vices. Modem Writer. ; „ TIME TO MAURY.; . Let a younc man wjio wishes to live long and happy, get married at twenty, to a young lady of eighteen., At these ages both sexes are most ca pable of lasting attachment. ..... CftkkOKEE CONSTITUTION printed, in parallel columns for salt at this Office.