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tofluence envoys have exercised iii daffi
stroymg ?my of the cabmits of Ea
rope? He desired to know what facts
could be disciored as to this man,
who was now elevated to the dignity
of being made a subject of grave dis
cussion in this House. What legisla
tion could grow out of this enquiry?
Was it intended to legislate the chief
into office again? Now that he has
been unmade, do we propose to remake
him? or to cast any censure on the
President for the act of the agent?
Hare the Speaker announced that
the hour appropriated to resolutions
had expired, and suspended the dis
cussion. The bill was afterwards ta
ken up and adopted.
IfEWllCHOTA: ~
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1823.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
“ A Friend” has been received, and will
tie inserted in our next.
A MISTAKE CORRECTED.
We notice the following in the N. Y.
Advertiser. “J1 second Indian newspaper,
is stated in the Philadelphia Democratic
Press, to be published under the patronage
of the Cherokee Nation. It is to be printed
iat Columbus, on the Chafahouchee river in
Georgia, under the title of the “Columbus
iEnquirer.”
The above is altogether a mistake, which
^probably originated from the establishment
of the Cherokee Phoenix, the only Indian
paper, we believe, in existence.—At pres
ent, Georgia would be quite an unfavorable
Jplace for publishing an Indian paper.
From what has taken place between the
Cherokees and the State of Georgia, and
the freqnent hostile feelings expressed by
th" leading men of the latter, it cannot oth
erwise be expected but that there should
be considerable prejudice and animosity of
feeling existing on both sides. It is even
thought by some of our Citizens that a
Georgian must necessarily be an enemy to
Indians. This is a great mistake, which it
Is our w''sh to do away. It is true that the
proceedings of the Legislature of the State
towards us, have been far from being Chris
tian and friendly, yet this does by no means
Shew, that all the private citizens will deal
Svith us in a similar manner. There are
Jmany who are real friends to the Indians;
Jttianv whose friendship we greatly prize.—
Among this nuiftbcr we include the writer
of a letter, (with whom we have no person
al acquaintance) of which the following is
on extract.
“I pray God that your laudable exertions
tmay be blessed by civilizing and evangeliz
ing all such of your tribe as are yet in a
state of ignorance, and that the influence
of your paper may reach every tribe on
^his Continent. I hope ere long; to see the
Redeemer’s standard hoisted and planted
an the heart of every tribe and kindred in
America—-when all commotions and angry-
feeling shall be buried in oblivion, and all
become the family of God, and enjoy the
'blessed communion of our Great Redeemer,
'Without any distinction of name or sect,”
Wc add our hearty amen to the above,
Among the frequent notices of the fatal
effects of intemperance, we have had occ;>«
Vion to lay before our headers two instance;
t)f murder in the neighborhood of Sumach.
We have the mortification ofincreasing our
list with two others. One not far from Su
mach, another in Pine Log, The trial of
tone of them was to take place on the
H2thinst. and the other was shot the day
fcfter the murder. We do not remember
tover to have noticed so many instances of
Anurder within so short a time. Such fre.
quent cases speak a language, not to be
inisunderstood, to the dealers of ardent
’spirits* -—
FOR tHS CHEROKEE FHCENIX.
Mr. Boudinott:—permit me,
through the medium of your paper to
Suggest a plan for the edification of
Cherokee congregations at mission
Stations, when no minister of the Gos
pel is present, or no interpreter. It is
this. Let the best reader of Chero
kee be selected, & let him be request
ed, by the conducter of the meeting,
to. make himself familiar beforehand
with the chapter of the Bible, which
is published in the number of the
Bhoenix last received, and with the
remarks which accompany it, and in
meeting read them to the congrega
tion.’ I make this suggestion on the
supposition that you may continue, as
you have begun, to publish one chap
ter in each of your numbers.
A MISSIONARY.
REMARKS ON MATTHEW
CHAP. III.
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SENECA MISSION.
Extract of a letter from tier. T. S.
Ha) 'ris, superintendant f the Seneca
Mission, to the publisher of the Roch
ester Obscrrer, dated
Seneca Village, Feb. 25,1828.
You are already apprized that
within the year past we e.ijoyed a lit
tle season of revival at the Seneca
and Calaraugus stations:—the fruits
of which are precious and still remain.
It is, dear Brother, a consoling truth
of the Bible that “with God,-all things
are possible.” He is able to renew
and purify the most degraded—and
for the honor of the gospel and the
glory of his own great name, he has
sometimes done it to the no small joy
of his servants, and to the confusio;
and vast annoyance of infidel objectors.
The church at ?Seneea has increas
ed from fourteen to thirty native
members. A church has been form
ed at Cataraugus within the year
consisting of nineteen adult native
members, princyaally the fruits of this
season of refreshing from the presence
of God. A number more at both sta
tions, of both sexes and of all ages, arc
still inquiring “what must w& do to be
saved.”
The moral influence of the Gospel
on tile hearts and habits of this people
since its entrance amongst them, is in
many respects most cheering. It
has taught them to respect them
selves, one another—the commands
and institutions of God's word. It
has promoted the peace of families:—
cleanliness ot person—an almost uni
versal regard for the Sabbath, except
where they are led astray by the re
mains of paganism, or the still more
pernicious example of some of the
whites, who are seen frequently com
ing from on this most sacred
day-either for the purpose of collect
ing accounts, making bargains in lum
ber, cattle, swine, or some other in
consistent or less laudable object of
pursuit.— This same moral influence
has done away an almost incalculable
amount ol wretchedness in the deser
tion ot wives, children and parents.
It it has not killed that Hydra—intem
perance, it has given him many a
wound, which I humbly and fervently
pray will prove incurable. A few of
the most influential chiefs of the
Tribe, who have long been thought
incurable drunkards, have refrained
astonishingly for some time, and ap
pear to be applying to the only effect
ual remedy, the help that comes from
God only.
The people at this station have re
cently resolved on erecting by private
subscription among themselves a neat
little Chapel, to be finished the ensu
ing summer; which shall cost them
when completed, $1700. One chief
headed the subscription with $100 in
cash. $1000 in cash was pledged;
the rest they agree to pay partly in
lumber in one of the saw mills, and
partly in cash from a few individuals
who are expected generously to as
sist them in Canandaigua and vicinity.
The house is to be 50 feet by 40—
well seated, painted—with tower,
dome, bell, &e. &e.
There is at present a very interest
ing state of feel in;.; s amongst ihe Aiie-
ganics, a branch of Uk Seneca family
on the Allegany river below Clean.
Four of their number were received
into the church at Seneca on their
own application, better than a )eur
since. These have been very useful
in'drawinsjthc attention of a number ot
their countrymen to the concerns oi
their souls, & have in fact been their
only spiritual guides. About a week
since, in company with a delegation
from the church at Seneca, i paid
them another visit, and to our joy,—
we found quite a number on their
knees imploring the infinite Redeemer
to enlighten their darkness and save
their souls. About 3U appeared to
be enquiring for Christ with tears.
About 20 of both sexes confessed
their sins in public conference, with
such solemnity of manner and delica
cy of sentiment, and tenderness of
feeling, as must have penetrated the
most obdurate. To see the trickling
tear glisten on the cheek of the sil
very headed warrior, who has long
since buried the hatchet beneath the
“tree of peace” as .lie, sal reclining
his head upon his staff, listening to the
statements oi his former companions
in arms, or to the still more affecting
language of the beloved youth of his
tribe—w'as to me one ol' the most in
teresting scenes I could desire to see
on tliis side heaven. May it prove
the indication of the godly sorrow
which worketh repentance unto life.
Eight were baptized on the ?Sab-
bath, who have some time been con
sidered pious, and will be received
into full communion with the church
in Seneca, in the spring, if they con
tinue to be stedfast.
A goodly number of the people
love songs of Zion, and it is one of
our most delightful exercises on Sab
bath evening, after the more public
ezercises of the day, to sit down sur
rounded by a group of these interes
ting children of nature—sometimes
engaged w ith them in singing, and oc
casionally listening in tearful silence
to their expressions of deep-toned af
fection and penitence.”
SUFFERINGS OF THE GREEKS.
Sophia Condulimc was the wife of
an officer of distinction, who fell du-
• ing the siege of Missolonghi. When
■ be Turks entered the town, she was
among the crowd which sought to es-
ape the fury of the enemy by quit-
t ng the w alls, accompanied by her
son and daughter. They had not pro
ceeded far when the mother perceiv
ed a party of Turks coming towards
them: horrified at the fate which was
about to befal her daughter, a beaut i-
lul girl of sixteen, she turned to th»
sou, who was aimed* and told him to
shoot Ins Bister, .lest she should h«*
v ine a victim of Mussulman biutcii-
y! The youth immediately obeyed
the dreadlui mandate* drew a pis.oi
from his girdle, and lodged its contcr ■'$
■ our large sli gs, in his Sister s head,
when she fell to the ground, apparent
ly a lifeless corpse. Thus relieved
liom a charge which the mother could
not preserve, herself and son endea
voured to take refuge in a cavern.—
Just as they were entering it a grape
shot struck the boy in the leg, and he
also fell. Scarcely had the mother
succeeded in dragging him in after he >
than a quiet of Turkish cavalry came
up; one of the party drawing forth a
pistol, pointed it at the temple of poor
Sophia, who suddenly rising up, look
ed sternly at the Turk and exclaimed*
“ Barbarian, do you not see that I am
a woman?” This had the desired ef
fect, and both the mother and her son
were spared to be conducted intn
slavery. The most extraordinary part
of the story remains to he told.-r— Ber
ing among the two hundred ransomed
by the Continental Greek Commits*
tees, they were sent over to this is*-
land and placed with the others -
Judge of the mother's astonishment oil
finding that her imaginary murdered
daughter was among the number! Tfr
he brief, on perceivi ;g she was a fe
male, the Turks carried her back 1A
Missolonghi, bound up her wounds*
which had all the appearance of hei ig
mortal, but she recovered, and her sto
ry having attracted the attention of
the ransomed agents, the interesting
Cressula was res ued from bondage,
and, what : s more, thus singularly desk
tined to be once more restored to tho
arms of her disconsolate parent.—Let- 1
tersfrom Greece.
Cause, of embalming the Egyptians.—*
A French chemist, M. Julia Fon-
tenellc, in a dis -nurse pronounced on
occasion of the opening of api E yp-
tian mummy i.i the amphitheatre of
the .Sorbune, at paris has tlelivered
an opinion respecting the cavjse of em
balming in Egypt, that the Egyptians'
were led to it from physicaj necessity;
During four months of every year*
the inundations of the Niks cover al
most entirely the whole ofithe surface*
01 ^gypl which is under cultivation.
Under the reign of SesoHtris, for .an
extent of territory of /about 2,250
square leagues according to D’An-
ville, there would be a p^omilation of
6 222 persons per squat-leagues*
which would present 350 Oino dc- 8
per annum. The corpses musvt be got
rid of either by burning or by i tear
ment: if the latter, they must bfv bu
ried around the inhabited snots, or in
those which are inundated by t'ne>
Nile, and then the decomposition of
these bodies w ould have been a source*
of destruction; and for burning there
was an insufficiency of wood. But
the soil of Egypt abounds in springs of
latrou, (subearbonate of soda,) and
as this substance is a perfect antisep
tic,,, the inhabitants were natural
ly led to preserve with it the corpses
of the dead. In support of the oj>in—
ion that sanitary views alone w-ere tho
cause of embalmment down to the
third century before the Christian era*
when the practice w r as abandoned. M.
Fontenelle observes, that during tha*
whole of that period the plague was?
unknown in Egypt, where it is now-
endemic.—Ch. Obs.
Matrimonial Quarrels.—The wife
of a frame work knitter, in Oxford^
street, Leicester, made her appear*
ance before the Mayor, and stated
that she wanted to be parted from
her husband. The Mayor: My good'
woman, w r e do not sit hereto unmarry
people; what is your complaint?—t.
Woman: My husband has sold all the»
furniture out of the house, and gonb
to live at lodgings, and he will nob
maintain me. The husband said hiar
wife was in the habit of starting off, &?
leaving his house for days together?
that on her going this time, which
was for five days, he had sold all the
furniture, and gone to lodgings. He?
was willing to allow her so much a
week, but live with her he neve?
w r oiild. 'Pile Mayor: What is the
reason that you leave your husband
for five days together?—Woman; Be
cause he cuts all the crust off the loaf!—-
This last sentence made the Bench
smile, and the parties were advised
to go to an attorney to draw up a-
deed of separation.
An Indian Chief of the Nova Scotia
Tribe, has. in person, presented a pe
tition to the Legislature ofN. S. pray
ing that the selling of Rum. to Ike In
dians miffh* be prohibited.—//auyi-
fi/uVa Saaltnci-.