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THE REFLECTOR. MILLEDGEV1LLE, G. TUESDAY. SEP PEMiiiii'* ud. isia. NO. 4". 3UTHEIIN INDIANS. FROM Till I'll IRKLIN l(AT. IT I K. ■lourttnl written in tile Creek-nation ofIndian- itlians liavo but few ideas on ill f religion ; some of them have •> ndistiiiet notion of a future state, fever give themselves very littfi concern on that head. If you ask ality of Indians about their religioi tell you it is a thing they know n >- ut. An intelligent one will inform he believes there is a great spirit.;.- rules the sun and the moon, to those who behave in this world \\ arrives, he will, after death, givt abounding in game, but if they Ire old women they will go to one where o game, or land to plant corn.— ic whole of their theology, there Ihing as prayer, or worship, among “here is no prospect of their evei Christians—Christianity is tm religion for their comprehension samples of the whites is not calcu- ake a favourable impression : And anrholy fart that all the efforts ol naries merely implanted aiming jystitious feelings about what they uprehend, of wliirh wicked men a h have availed themselves, and uu me of perophets. orrasioned all the ,t have desolated their land, are white men to be found with the ihes, exhibiting the disgusting spee- a retrogade from civilization, men e abandoned their country and so. i- iralizrd themselves among the sav opted their manners and habits, anc generally more vicious and degraded Indians themselves. Hut 1 was in remark that this base degeneracy. ;h sometimes the effei t of choice, was ?quontly the offspring of crime or ne- of enlightened men, or the duties of civil ized life, as the Tiger of the desert. Na ture has endowed the blacks with intellect, denied to the Indian ; a negro can be taught ill the acts of civilized life, and they have frequently developed a capacity to attain and practise the higher branches of knowledge not so the Indian, with more courage, spirit and hardihood, lie has infinitely less pliability of mind. He delights in ignorance, Vs prejudice against civilization is invinci ble, and his attachment to a wild, imrc- trained, savage, barbarous manner of liv- ng. is not to bo overcome. He is a rough harron rock, unfit for the hammer of the mason, the chisel of the sculptor, or the hand of the cultivator. Extinction is the inevitable fate of this race of men. It appears destined by tiic God of nature, that they should yield to tire superior genius and intelligence of the whites ; and although it, cannot be denied, that they w -to the original holders of this continent, and we are intruders, who have gradually dispossessed them, yet that wrong has been done, it is in vain to think of re tracting ; and as Christians, as civilized men we can have no regret in perceiving a race of uu u become extinct, alter every effort has been-made in vain, to wean t lie in fmn their savage propensities, and make then, useful to God or society, and convert then from their barbarous paganism, who imv never developed a capacity for tire attain ment or exercise of any of the arts that a dorn human nature, and who, notwithstand ing their sagacity, and occasional display of superior acuteness, are in the means, eu tirely untameablc, savage, ferocious am. ignorant, and can, in comparison with tic population that take their places, he consid ered as but one: degree above the beasts m the forest. w* is no greater reproach, and nothing much dread, as the stigma of cow an Indian woman once railed her coward, Ire walked deliberately rleftof 100 feet high, jumped from it (into the river ; by some cxlraordina- I fortune he reached the shore; not I with this display of his intrepidity, |diately ascended a set ond time, junip- i from the cleft, fell into tire Alabama. I seen no more, natabaw, the famous Choctaw chief, beard that a white man had called (ward went to the factory, bought gun powder, carried it to the \ii- lie the man resided, lighted a lire Id seating hi.osclf upon the barrt pd his accuser to come 2nd scat him- and he would blow them both up- Inge was declined. [are physicians among the Indians. no contemptible skill in the cure Biot wounds, and tire bite of snakes, [hods of proceeding in these cases i secret. The Creeks have few mc- jdeas, they manufacture household Mid silver ornaments for tire nose but they are ill made, (inmscy. bit no indications of ingenuity ; in ket they are vastly interior to the fihahititig the north west part of bent. Attempts have been made by the lutes to civilize those prople, hut [proved abortive. Children have from among them, A every effort Ive them the advantages of eiluca- I they have returned to tire forest [ages than before, Proper pri sons [sent among them to teach the arts lure, and fanning utensils have jihed, hut they cannot he persuaded their fine lands. >V tI) y j, aV c kt mechanical ty rt o«j,Lut they re- |ir own country with a fixed de- never to exercise them. Tin ktes have been aerie-J of ptirsn- pistand fmicions policy towards in fact they have been treated (ini kindness—troops are station- ait intrusions upon them. Trail* (established to sell them goods at [-individuals prohibited from trad- Ir purchasing their lands ; an a jted to each tribe, to live among look after tltrir interest, and n eirs have ever been held by ilu ktes, that were not acquired by pr purchase. good traits in the character of lie is honest; theft is a crime common than with whites, and [they are remarkably punctual ii •debts. The persevering inter ayed in various wars, their hold kc independent spirit scorning t lational independence, much less ke the bla ks to personal slavery eristics deserving tire greates' ut they arc vindictive, crafty, kd ferocious as untanieable, an.i I ol‘ being moulded into the ways Banking. Niles* WcckU Itcghsler. EQUALIZATION OF EXCHANGE. Let every Shy lock leave his hole, and the open day boldly sharpen his knife, i take “ tire pound of flesh” nearest the hear' of his honest neighbor ! Whet away,‘•legi timate” descendants of those whom Heaven ly Purity lashed with < ords. and drove head long from tire temple of God, polluted by their infamous exchanges of money, for the day of your triumph is at Hand. It is no longer necessary to avoid the public indignu- ti >ii, that you should do business in se re!, and ask, passers-by, will ymi he shaved sir— you may unblushingly loll at your ease and rest assured of plenty of customers. You may cut deep instead of merely skinning as liere- tofoic—strike at the arteries of lire public body and get blood enough at once to swim in, being no longer contented with leeching it from tire veins of labor. Such is the de cree ofthc Hug-Barons—they have resolved to give extent and respectability to your pro fession ! Nothing is now wanting to tire perfection of the « paper system,” but tire consent of the people to stand still, and lei its manufacturers have their will of them ! if the people do stand still, and with arms folded like Russian slaves, patiently bear the application of your knives they will deserve to he cursed with all the chari ties of the “ Holy Inquisition,” and he—con demned “standing, silting, walking, lying, sleeping, and waking,V and even merit af ter death to lie buried in tire highways, with stakes driven through their carcases, as self- murderers for there is a point at which forbearance is most criminal, llfrc is the decree of the barons : (•IRCtLAR.) “ Bank' of the United Slates, August 08, 1818. Sir,— I am directed to inform you, that tire notes of tiiis bank, which arc made payable at its several offices of discount and deposit, w ill not be received at this bunk, after this except in payment of debts due the United States. Such notes, however, ofthc offices, as your bank may have received, du ring this day, will he received in exchange to-morrow morning. (Signed) JON'A. SMITH, cashier. , Ksq. cashier Bank of What was the great condition on which (lie bank of tire United States was incorporated : It was. that the exchange should be equaliz ed—that we should have what was called a •• national currency.” It was for tire sake of tiie.se things, so much to be desired, that the constitution was exceedingly strained; if not sensibly violated in the opinion of some who voted for chartering this bank : and What lias already happened ? In two short years the last vestige of a balance in favor of the people for the immense advantages bestowed to Very “ belzebubs in specula lion,” is wrested from them with a degree of impudence equalled only by its violation of every principle of common justice, if not of common honesty.* The whole course of lire monied tra*is a * tions of tire United States are changed in one day, without previous intimation of th ■ design, nr a moment of time being allowed to tire public to prepare fur it. Iain lost in astonishment when I contemplate this high handed measure. “ Alexander the deliv erer” or tire dev of Algiers, would have paused before being guilty of its folly ; and certainly would have issued their orders U their slaves in a less insolent style. Some have endeavored to soften tire pro cedure by saying, such was the practice oi the old bank of the United States. It was so, partially, and perhaps generally. Hut the condition of the establishment of the new bank was, that it should nut act as tire old bank did ; and the old usage is no more an excuse for the present rule, than it is for one man to commit burglary, because ano ther of the same name committed the same crime several years ago. It is not easy for me to guess the precis: intention of this act—and be it remembered, that banks no more than kings, arc bound to assign a reason fur their wishes or will! Perhaps, the bank, embarrassed by the dread - fill amount of its stock notes, has resolve:: upon it. as the only means of keeping up tin makers of them, for tlreir stock will noi pay tire amounts: that some have had accommodation on the faith of it:—.in'] il ; a cre forced into the market, would probably reduce the price to par, though now notniii- • ily quoted at 1 *2nf Perhaps, as the gov •rntnent of thr U nited Slates is about to re claim five millions of the people’s money, which tlie hank has long had a gratuitous esc of, it is its design to draw the whole oi Ibis sum directly from the state, banks, by denying to (hem tire credits heretofore is- reived by free deposits of the notes of what mist now Ire farcically called the “ national irMicy,” no matter where, payable.^— Perhaps as congress and the. state, legist fares are soon to lie in session, the bank in- 'ends to make the public misery an agent to stifle enquiry, or to demand something not el prepared for public view, Perhaps, it Is inly to convert lire bank into a vast sha '•- iig simp—in which grave men ussemb! round lire board, shall fix the Jew broker age to Ire exacted of the people, from tint time, and at all times, as they sec proper.• —Perhaps, lastly, the report may be true Hint there have not been any real sales of stock in England for a considerable time mil that John Hull’s talks, not liking the stork-note part of fire establishment, and deeming it a Yankee trick, have resolved to have nothing mure to do with it, until the stock is really paid for, as it was originally intended by congress, and expected by the people that it .should be.f Hut whatever may be the design of this procedure, or to whatever cause it maybe ascribed, this result is certain, that every man in lire United States, 50 or 100 persons excepted, will suffer by it j:—for it lias rem the chain of business from one end of the country to the other, and positively stopped the solvent local banks from affording their arcustemcd accommodations. It will give business to perhaps one thousand additional brokers in tire United States, and employ many additional millions in shaving w hi. n ought to be devoted to holiest purposes. Tor all the offices, it seems, are ordered to fol low tire lead of the mother in iniquity—notes even of lire mother bank were refused at the office iu Baltimore, without a moment’s pre vious public intimation that they would not lie received, and this was the case every wlrere.§ The facilities of remittance being tin at once destroyed, the discount hitherto p id on good bank bills must be advanced, and in my others that were at par, or nearly as good as at par, will be from two to five per nr. under it.^J Fur tire state banks must reject each other’s paper : and their custom of drawing upon one another must ire great ly diminished, if not altogether discontinu ed—unless they loudly appeal to tire pc i- ple and combine to support themselves against the bank of the United States. But tlreir appeal may be iu vain—too few of them have served even mercy at our hands. What then is to be done ? The people must themselves rise up and command what reason and justice have begged for. They must speak a language to their representa tives that will be heard, and felt to shake the foundation of the capital at Washington, at the seats of the governments of the several states. It is the opinion of many, and in- Iced, it seems a just one, that not oniy the spirit, but the letter of the charter ol tiie bank of tire United States was grossly viola ted on tire very day that tire books were first opened, and especially in the general evasion of lire payment of tire second and third iti- sulurents, by tire great stockholders—let <tie facts be severely enquired into. Let the public voice demand that every member of ' ongress who is a stockholder in this hank, or a shaver of notes, shall retire from ids seat when tire mat'er is discussed, under penalty of the public scorn, that the subject in ay he disinterestedly acted up in, as every subject oiurht to be—and the institution will no. reformed or be destroyed as right shall ap pear to demand of the representatives of an abused people. I wrote the word “destroy ed’' with perfect coolness and deliberation ; uni perhaps, it is well, 'that at a time of peace and when the government is unembar rassed, as to funds, the subject is presented fir consideration. TV institution is exceed ingly powerful. A prim ip.il stockholder and •tie of the directors of the mother hank, lias diserved that Ire •• trembled for the standing >t the government, and for the liberties of people, if this great engine, ever passed into the hands of tlreir enemies.” The pro bability is, that a majority ol'the stork which is really paid for, belongs to British subjects • Iready ; and if need requires, enough coin venieut tools may be found in tire United litotes to manage it as lord Castlereagli or even Mr. Canning, would direct them. A meeting of the republicans of Middletown, Con. lias been held—col. James i’luin, chair man, and Henry Wolcott, clerk, by whom the branch at that place has been publicly nounced as being directed contrary to tlreir w isius and expei tations. More of such sub jects hereafter. it would seem that the point of time which every reflecting man lias fearfully looked for several years, lias nearly arrived. That tire “ paper system” would blowup, has been .is coniidenlly exp.-, ted as that tire human body would die. And seeing that it must explode, tire sooner that it does explode tho better will it be for the p. ople. Thanks be .o God !—that they are yet able to bear an operation which, if postponed four or five years longer, by its increased force would destroy tens of thousands of them. Tire thing that lias happened was anticipated—wo are not surprized by it, except at the unjus tifiable suddenness of tire measure, and at what we must call, the impudence of its manner. No pretext is assigned—no reason given ; after tire manner ol tire ungrateful wrote!) who si’.s upon lire tkVnne of Spain, we are to’.d “ tire king wills it,” and obedi ence is expected as a thing of course. But, thougii the minds of many dealing men may be bvought to bow to this ordinance of tho mighty, the sturdy free-born laborers of tire , ... ,,,,,, United States, the agriculturalists, meehan- + I:uninformed that tins is probably the leading cause . 111 . 11111 r.with the itimiIiicI ive of the offensive procedure Lumbered with almost tens of ‘‘ h * l lU m-mul-(tuu I s, Wltl) lie piouiicme millions in stock notes, and the United States’ part of the i people til every class, will rally 1*0 and hie. But the dog grasping at the shadow in the water, lost tlie meat in Ins mouth. The bank may feel a momen tary-ease, but there will he a re-act ion ; and leputat.oli once lost is not easily regained. capital inactive, as to tiie production of money, the urea', resource of tlie bank has been tlie public deposits ; and a part of these being withdrawn, lias frightened them into what must beestcemed a suic.d.d act——lor it is impos sible that the people will bear with it. * The amount of our money which the government of the U. States is about to appropriate te, the. payment ot our debts, is stated to lie S3,1.176,850—being halt lie a* mount of the unredeemed Louisiana stock—of this, near ly 1,800,000 ts payable at London, and 2.500,000 at Am sterdam ; the rest is on the books of tf j several loan of fiecs tn the United States. J This brokerage has already taken place—2 1-2 per cent. I am told is required between Ikdtimore and Wash ington city—boili ways, l presume! t 1 bebeve tins iu very serious fact—and it is added, that attempts to pawn certain portions of tlie stock in London, have failed. Whether this intended p.wningwas tlie act of the bank, or of some of the huge speculators in its stock, lam not advised: nor is the difference very great, lie that as it may. And there is nut any thing do ing m tiie stock of the hank in the U. States. No body wants to buy. save tire liberties of tlreir country. As my soul lives—.as 1 humbly hope for happiness hereafter, l would rather be a subject ol lire Russian autocrat than a creature to live on the favor of a monied aristocracy. An mtli- \ ideal tyrant may have a sense of honor and feel shame—hut tlie “ council often,” ny li- viding an art of villainy, never had the funnel* nor felt tlie latter. To the polls then, my countrymen !—to tire polls !—Dismiss every rag-baron, great and small, from tlie general ami state legis latures ! Put yourselves on your defence, or be eaten up by them ! I calculate my own loss t,l Sl° 3 P er n.atfth, fo two months to come. A pretty specimen of wholesale swind ling! and 1 can't heip t—let.- •Tiie notice of tiie New-York branch was peremptory; and tne i kc was probably issued at every shop m tlie U. States. The suddenness of tfie measure is unpardonu- § The procedure may well be esteemed impudent—in fact, it smells strongly of dishonesty. The hank had se cretly determined that to-morrow it would not receive such and such notes—and, and therefore, to-day, it paid out nothing but such notes! If 1 vn re to give to one ot my workmen, in payment of his wages, a hank-h.il to-do which 1 privately knew would not be current to-morrow, and it remained on lits hands—lie would very nearly think •hat I w as a —speculator. I had written a word where the dasli is that probably would have been easier under- s-ood than th,.tot " speculatorbut it is uncourtly, and iiny meaning,will be discovered without it, U A B1N ET F U UN IT U RE. TTM1E subscribers have on hand some hand le some Mahogany Furniture, which they will dispose of on moderate tei ms. Persons wishing to purchase furniture will do well to call on us, as we intend keepingit constantly on hand. As soon as the boats can ascend the river we shall have a good assortment. Also a few dj,zen Fan cy Chairs. Any orders from this or the adjacent, counties will be punctually attended to. M \ It SHALL & SANDERS. .Mifledgct ilia-, September 4