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Vol 111. i” ©anen €>a;ettc f I EDITED AND PUBLISHED IpA’S. F. GUAM DISOX. i , (ON THB BA.Y) IRaj per annum , payable in advance i ! (By particular request.) I & following very valuable article is I K 0 m the New-York Observer. The I ■ D m|)iler deserves the thanks of all i m e friends of Christian Missions. I MsfONAKY STATIONS THKOUGH- I W OUT THE WOULD. I Bsiary, a station of the Methodists ||Ki)g the Creeks. VVe have not been IS to learn its exact position. fSiooi, one of the larger Sandwich near the N. W. exttentity of Population 54,000. IBva, the seat of government of the ERman empire, and residence of the gSperor. It is on the Ah-ra wah-tee Hr, 554 miles above Rangoon. Dr. fKson, whois stationed here, hastrans jSdtheNew Testament into the Bir language. mKlatticolta, station of the Ameiican in Ceylon, 6 miles N. VY. of jßnapatam. Wethel, station of the American Board iMthe Choctaw country on the old road, about 60 miles S. E -of IMioi, and the same distance S. W. of IByhew. Rlq/roor or Bairoot, a seaport of Pa- Hine, and station of the American Bard, situated at the foot of Mount nation, in lat. 33 deg. 45 N. It con- Hs 5000 inhabitants. | miombay , the third of the Biitish ■veiling distance west of Calcutta.— ■mlation of the island about 200,000; ■he countries in which the Mahrat- Bartguage is spoken, about 12,000,000. He American Board commenced a Hsion herein 1813. There are at ’■sent three stations, viz. at Bombay, ■Jti/n and Tannah; four missionaries ■ a printer. The missionaries have Hslated the New Testament into the Mhratta language, and have printed Rrly the whole of it; haye translated Rtions of the Oid Testament, and Sited the book of Genesis; and they Hi be able to print the whole Bible Si, if funds are obtained. They have Sued many thousand books and tracts, Sch h ive been read, probably, by se- Hal hundred thousand natives. They Be under their caie 26 schools, con- Bing more than 1,200 pupils. In schools aie taught, in the Mah- Ba language, reading, writing, ar'u h- Bick, grammar, geography, some of Bmore simple parts of astronomy.Bcc. |B Scriptuies are a principal class- S. in all the schools. In various the missionaries are daily exlend lltlie circle ot their acquaintance and IHence. A Mission Chapel, 60 feet |SS, has been erected at Bombay.— |Bas dedicated in May, 1823, and is HKirst Protestant place of worship |B for the native population, on the |Sern side of India. ■Bombay, a large city on an island of §Bame name, and capital of the Pre- RBicy of Bombay. iSramerd, station within the charter pSmits of Tennessee, on the Chicka jljßgah creek, 2 miles N. of the line ||Beorgia, 7 miles S. E. of Tennessee HB; 250 miles N. W. of Augusta— Pjß S. E. of Nashville; and 11 D miles |BV. of Knoxville, f SurmaA, a powerful empire of soulh- [ € ® As ' a supposed to extend from long. Meg, to 102 deg. E. and from lat. 9 IS to 20 deg. N. It is about 1200 ■ s Aon# N. to S. but varies much in |Sdtli. Population estimated at 17,- gBOOO. In religion,the Burmansare |H followers of Boodh, and have nu- temples and idols. river , Upper Canada, which Ss into the Detroit, near Fort Mal §R; A part of the YVyandott tribe of ®an S reside on its banks. A revival |Smcnced among them in January, 18 4 , and a considerable number have converted. IBam/, station of the Baptist Board, IBhe river St. Joseph’s, 25 miles from Michigan, 100 N. W. of Fort Here is a school of 60 native formerly called Taloney , Bion of the American Board, among B Cherokees, go miles S. E. of'Brai- B d > within the chartered limits of B ol 'gi a on the Federal road. i^' utar augus, station of the U. F. M. iS le 'y near the shores of lake Erie, DAMIEN llllitf GAZETTE. Damien, (geokoia,) —€qualan& €jract Slusitice. — ruESDAY, mahch i, is~s. and about 36 miles from Buffalo. Here is a school oi 66 children. Ceylon , a large island in the Indian sea, separated from the coast of Cuio mandel by a channel called the Straits of Maoaar. Length -360 miles, breadth 200. Population 1,500.000. It con stitutes one of the B.itish governments in India, but is not under the control of the East India Company. The Ame rican Board commenced a mission here in 1816. There are five stations, viz. at Tiltipally t Butticoita, Oodooville, Pandileripo, and Manepy. The Board employ six missionaries, three native preachers and one native medijgal as sistant. The missionaries have procured, to be boarded and educated in their fami lies, and under their entire control, 1,69 heathen youths, who are supported, and to whom names have been given by individuals and societies in this coun try. They have also established 42 fi ee-schools, having a dailv attendance of more than 1,300 scholars, have ad mitted into their church 20 converted natives; and by means of their schools, and tracts and conversations, and preaching, are constantly exerting a powerful influence on a considerable population, most of which is composed of the higher casts. Nine young men, members of the church, are very use ful assistants, three of whom have been licensed to preach the Gospel. There has been a recent outpouring of the Spit it on several of the schools, but the results are not yet known in this coun try. A central School, pteparatory to a Native Mission College, has been es tablished at Bauicotta, and placed un der the care of Mr. Poor. Cherokees. —A’ tribe of Indians in habiting a tract of country included within the chartered limits of the states of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Population about 15,- 000. The American Board commenc ed a mission to this tribe in 1817. They have seven stations, viz. at Brainerd, Creek Path,Ca! me!. Hightower, Wills town, Hawtis, and at a place not yet named. The Board employ among this tribe four missionaries, eight teach-, ers, and four or five farmers and me chanics. Churches have been o gan ized at Brainei and, Creek-Path, Carmel, Hightower, and YVillstown. Mote than 50 Cherokees were united to these churches the last year. Schools for the youth of both sexes are maintained at all the stations. At the station last named the buildings have been but re cently erected. A residence has pro bably been commenced by this lime.— The Cherokees have made greatei pro gress in civilization, than any of the other tribes of Indians. Their agricul tural improvements are considerable. Their incipient jurisprudence appears to secure the respect of the people.— Their distribution of the legislative, judicial, and executive powers oT gov ernment, is made with considerable skill and judgment. Cherokees of the Arkansas , a por tion of the Cherokee tribe who have removed since the year 1804 from their territory, east of the Mississippi, to a tract of country of the north bank of Arkansas river, between 94 deg. and 95 deg. west longitude. . Population, about 5,000. The emigration took place chiefly between 1816 and 1820. Chickasaws, a tribe pf Indians, 4115 in number, inhabiting an extensive country included within the limits of Mississippi and Alabama. Chittagong, a town in Arracan, 230 miles east of Calcutta. Here is a church of 70 or 80 members, conducted by the English Baptists. This is the station vacated by the death of the lamented M r - Colman. It has not been since occupied by American Missionaries, but probrbly will be as soon as means will allow. Choctaws , a tribe of Indians, residing between the Tombigbeeand Mississip pi rivers, almost wholly within the chartered limits of Mississippi, with but a small part in Alabama. Popula tion about 20,000. The American Board commenced a mission to this ttibe in 1818. They have nine stations, viz. at Elliot, May hew; Bethel, Emma us,’ Goshen, and at four other places not yet named. All these stations are within the chartered limits of Missis sippi. Churches have been organized at Elliot, May hew, Bethe! and Goshen. Mr. Byingtou, •„ i-ik hon-nuh, Mr. Wight, at Oovhe ‘, Mr. Dyer, at Elliot, and Mr. WUitrms. •••• Bethel, have each j been paying su -ve < • less attention to; the Choctaw language. Mr. Dying- i ton’s particular object has been to re duce the Choctaw language to a sys tem, and to compose elementary books i for the schools. He has collected about 3000 words, which he has trans lated into English, for the use of learn ers. These words are classed, accord ing to to the subjects to which they be long. He has, also, illustrated, at con siderable length, the conjugation of verbs, the manner of using pronouns with verbs, and of suffixing, prefixing, and inserting particles; the declension of nouns, pronouns, adjecuves, &c.— He has, moreover, translated into Choc taw, twelve sermons and ten hymns.— Somewhat more than 200 native chil dren were in the schools, in September last. Creeks , a tribe of Indians, 16,000 in j number, inhabiting the western pans Jof Georgia, and the eastern parts of Alabama. The Baptists and Metho dists have stations among them. Creek path, station of the Ameiican Board in the Cherokee country, 100 miles S. W. of Brainerd, within the chartered limits ot Alabama. Dwightl station of the American Board among the Cherokees of the Ar kansas, on the west side of I llinoiscreek four miles North ol the Arkansas riv er 500 miles from the junction of the Aikansas with the Mississippi, follow ing the course of the river, and about 200 in a direct line from its mouth. — About 60 Indian youth of both sexes are instructed here. Elliot, station of the American Board, within the chartered limits of Missis sippi, in the western district of the Choctaw country, on the Yalo Busha creek; about forty miles above its junc tion with the Yazoo; 400 miles W. S. W. of Brainerd; 140 from the Walnut Hills, on the Mississippi river, and from Na chez, in a N. N. E. direction, about 250 miles. Emmaus, station of the American Board within the chartered ‘imits of Mississippi, in the southeast district of the Choctaw country, about 140 miles in a southeasterly direction from May hew, near the western line of Alabama. Fort Gratiot, on the west side of the river St. Clair, about one mile below the outlet of lake Huron. A mission at this place was commenced by the Northern Missionary Society in 1822, and transferred to the United Foreign Missionary Society in Sept. 1823. The mission was suspended last Spring with the view of a removal to a more eligi ble situation. Fort Wayne , in Indiana, at the junc tion of St. Mary’s river wltn the Mau mee, opposite the mouth of St Joseph’s. A mission was commenced here, by the Rev. Isaac M’Coy, in 1820; but he removed to Carey, this station is now vacant Dining his stay at Fort Waynfc he baptized several Indians. Goshen, station of the American Board in the southeast district of the Choctaw country, within the chartered limits of Mississippi, about 115 miles S. by W. from Mayhew, and about 25 from the southern limits of the nation. Grand river , a large stream in Up per Canada, which r uns into Lake Erie, neat its eastern extremity. The land for six miles on each side of this river, from its mouth to its source belongs to the Six nations of Indians. C'To be continued.) PIRACY.—Tire following narrative from a source entirely authentic, will afford to our readers a general idea of the horrors perpetrated in the West In dian Seas by the blood-thirsty buca niers who have lately infested them. “Ship ,Matanzas, January 8, 1825. “The object of this letter is to ac quaint you with one of the most horri ble and atrocious acts the pirates have ever committed, which has come to light. The person, who alone has made his escape, jtnd is able to tell the melancholy story, is now before me, and I feel it a duty to give you a detail ed account of the affair, as related by him, particularly as I know you are feelingly alive on this subject, and are in a situation to do much towards put ting a stop to those scenes of murder and rapine. The person saved, and who now gives me the following account, is Mr. Daniel Collins, of Wiscassett, state of NJaine. He was second officer of the vessel lost. He states that he left Wis cassett November 25th, in the btig Betsey, with Captain Elis Hilton, bound to this port, that, when twenty one days out ; about 4 A. M. the vessel struck on fcne oi the double headtd shot keys. In about ten minutes she went to pieces—the deck load and boat being swept through a passage whete the water was smoother, they all sue ceeded in getting into the boat, clay light, blowing veiy haul from the westward, they steered the boat all that day and night to the souihwatd —in the morning, made a low sandy key, and discovered two buildings upon it—lan ded, and found five men, whom they supposed to be fishermen. They were with them two days. There was at this place one vessel of about eleven tons, and two canoes, which they said belonged to them. There were two other boats there, which looked like yawls of merchant vessels, and which the fishermen said did not belong to them, but to some people that were absent, and who would soon be back. Captain H. made an agreement with the bead fisherman, to take them to! Matanzasfor forty one dollars, and was i to help them load their vessel w ith fish, which Captain H. and crew did, with great labor and fatigue, being obliged to wade off a considerable distance from the shoie, to put the fish on board. The vessel of eleven tons spoken, of, they had got loaded, and were getting under way, when a boat of about ten tons came in, and Hired several times at them with muskets snd blunderbus ses—then anchored and boarded them. Part of the piratical crew examined the fishingjVosselSc part went on shore to the huts. They gave one of the fishermen iwo doubloons; and look him and the others on board of their boat. There they drank and caroused about half an hour, making threatening menances towards Captain H. in the fishing boat. During the time, they sent a jug of liquor to Capt H. and crew, and made them drink some. Soon after, those who went to the huts joined the others, and along side of the fishing vessel, with two canoes, drawn by the fisher men—the piratical t tew accompaning, with swords and long knives, which they pointed at Captain H. and his men feeling of the edges of the knives, and making the most appalling signs to them. At length they took them and bound their arms behind them with cords, putting them in the greatest pos sible torment, then tflmbied Captain Hilton and Mr. Mfcrray, Ist officer, and two of the men, into one of the canoes, and Mr. Collins and the rest of the crew, two others, into the other canoe, and drew them round some distance into a cove. The fishermen, two at each canoe, drawing them, and the others wading beside with their knives and cutlases drawn, giving them to un derstand that they were soon to feel them, which, horrible to relate, was the case. Mr. Collins says that they first struck the Captain with a cutlass on the side of his neck, then put his head across the gunwhale of the boat, or canoe and chopped it off. He saw the heads of Mr. Merray and the rest in the canoe, cleaved upon and, the bodies stabbed and cut in the most horrible manner. The canoe that Mr. C. was in was nearest to the shore, and he sat in the middle between his two comrades—one of them an old man by the name of Russel, had his head entirely split open to his body, his blood flying over Mr. C. Mr. C. at tempted to spring from the canoe; at the same time he received a heavy blow on his head, which nearly stunned him. He however soon had his reason so as to perceive himself out of the ca noe, and under the water, and the lash’ ing on his arms either cut or broken, which be supposed was done by his great exertions made at the time of his springing from the canoe, or from a misdirected blow from one of their cutlasses. He instantly sprang upon his feet and made for the shore, with several of the pirates after him. One of them reached him, and in attempting to run him through with his sword, made a mistep and fell his lengh into the water, which gave him a conside r able start before the other could reco ver himself. His other comrade in the canoe, sprang from it the same in stant with himself. He however saw the pirates overtake and stab him be fore he reached the shore, so that he is confident that no one escaped but him self. He got into the bushes and man groves on the island, and run with all his might until night; two ol the mur derers in pursuit of him, he could hear them in search of him until sundown. It was about nine or ten in the morning when lie made his escape from the ca- noe. He secreted himself tha> night in a thick mangrove tree. In the morning started again. He came to the beach, and saw at 2or 3 miles dis tance another Key or Island, which he swam to, and then continued hisma>ch with all the speed that his exhausted nature would allow. After swimming and travelling from one island to anoth er for several days he reached the main Island of Cuba, and espied a plantation, where he stopped, and met with kind treatment, having been all the timo without any sustenence but some limes which he found. The name of the plantation where he stopped was St. Clare. As soon as he was able to travel be obtained a paspot t, and set out for Matanzas, and anived here yester day. His feet are now so swollen and blistered that heisscately able walk. He was before the Go l ernoi yesterday; I brought him on boaid to receive all i the paiticulars of the case ftom his j own mouth, to communicace to you, here, and I have but just finished as he j is sent *o go before the Governor again. | As if the measure of bis sufferings I bad not been sufficiently fined by the | murderous desperadoes of this Island, after he left St Clare, and had proceed ed on his journey about twenty miles, passing a shop, two men, a Spaniard and ] a negro came out, anti forced him into the shop; robbed him of all the clothes and one dollar in money, which he had been kindly furnished with at St. Clare by an English carpenter, and bea htm in the most shameful manner.”— Nat. Lit. GENERAL HULL. The memoiis of Gene al Hull have now been very generally distributed.- This veteran officer suffeied much from the results of his unfortunate cam paign in the early pan of out last war. Loss of reputation, and jeopardy of life were supposed to have been no mot e, than the decrees of justice—but time which sooner or later, sets most things right, has reversed the semem e pio nounced upon him by a court Martial and at that period confi’ med b> (be o pinions of his countt y. It has seldom fal len to the lot of any injured man to have so entirely outlived the stains upon his character as General Hull has. His defence issomanly,lemperie,and unan swerable, that hardly a shadow of doubt remains upon his fame. We are not prepared to say, precisely where ihe sin lies, but it is sufficient to state, that he has thrown it Irom his ow n shoulders and posterity, yea, the present genera tion will.fix it some where. Bvng fell a sacrifice to Ministerial safely; and Moor was left in an unhonoted grave, toex cuse a foolish expedition; hut the his torian will not be duped or b.ibed, and ample justice is in store for them. Gen. H. has been mote fortunate than either of those pat 1 iots, for he has lived to de fend himself. It would be wise and mag nanimous in our Government to re deem their error by bringing him again into notice. If he is too old for employ ment, at least, they can blot out the re cord of his ill fate, and restore him to the courtesies of the world. His mem oirs must have reached Mr. Madison, in his retirement and it is said this gen tleman’s disposition is not implacable; let him then come forward and speak plainly what he thinks now, and the powers that be, cannot do less than re store the General to the good opinions of his countrymen. It is remarkable that in so short a time truth shou'd have come to light, in such a satisfactory manner to all classes of men. Bravery deserves applause, but suffering virtue demands our sympathy Let the Os tracism vyhich excludes Gen. Hull from the pale of honor be condemned, and the veteran once more be restored to fame and favor—no matter where the fault lies—let that too be forgotten, if peace and national dignity require it; but suffer not justice to slumber until his grey hairs are gone down to the grave, and until those who shared the anguish of his wounded spirit are be yond the reach of consolation. It would give the heart of the NOBLE LA FAYETTE the purest pleasure to take his compatiiot once more by the hand and sav,’ we both have sufftred con tumely and reproach, but our characters are vindicated, let us forgive our en mies and die m Christian peace and lovt with all mankind .” SOLITUDE, Can well be fitted, and lit right, but uporu very few persons. They must have knowl edge enough of th world, to seethe follies of it; and virtue enough to despise all vanity. JV 0. 9.