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mmm i the best authenticated account upon record of a man’s hair turning grey from fright.—Macclesfield Courier. REMARKABLE RIVERS. The Amazon in South America is the largest river on the globe. It is formed by a great number of sources, which rise in the Andes, and receives in its progress the waters of upwards of 200 rivers, some of which are as large as the Danube. The length of its Course, including its windings, is up wards of 4,000 miles; its width, at its mouth, about 180 mileB; and the tide flows up to the distance of 600 miles. The La Plata, the second great river of South America, is about .3,000 mt-feTm length. It is 150 miles wide at its mouth, and at Buenos Ayres; 200 miles above, the breadth is 80 miles. The Mississippi and Missouri are the two largest rivers belonging to the United States. The length of the Mississippi, from its source to the Gulf of Mexico, is about 3000 miles. The Missouri is much larger than the Mississippi, at the point where they unite. Its length, from its source in the Rocky mountains to its junction with the Mississippi, is upwards of 3.000 miles; and its whole length, from its source to the Gulf of Mexico, including its windings, is about 4,400 miles. The St. Lawrence is remarkable for being the outlet by which the wa ters of the great lakes, Superior, Hu ron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario, are conveyed to the ocean. The river, af ter a course of upwards of2,000 miles, flows into the gulf of St. Lawrence, by a mouth, about 100 miles in - breadth. The breaking up of the ice on this river in the spring, is described as one of the most stupendous opera tions of nature, and at times said to rival in grandeur the cataract of Ni agara. The Wolga, in Russia, has Ihe long est course, and with the exception of the Danube, the largest volume of water of any river in Europe. After a course of about, 2,500 miles, inclu ding its windings, it flows into the Cas pian sea, by seven mouths. The Ganges, in Hindoostan, is one of the noblest rivers in Asia. It rises Sn the Himmaleh mountains, and after a course of about 2000 miles, flows in to the bay of Bengal, by numerous mouths. It is regarded by the Hin doos as a sacred river, and at certain seasons vast multitudes assemble to bathe in its waters, and many volunta rily drown themselves. ' The Nile, in Africa, though by no means the largest, is the ifiost famous river on the globe. It has been cele brated from the earliest ages, and by its annual inundations, causes all that fertility for which Egypt is distinguish ed. After a course of upwards of 2.000 miles, it flows into the Medite- iranean by two principal mouths. J. E. Worcester. , It is said that “Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina, has been in Congress 37 years. He is now mThfe Senate. The cut, fashion, and manner of his dress are the same now as they were in 179f, and some of his present ap parel has been worn ever since that year.” —— Gitshee Waabeyhaas (or big Martin) a Chippeway Chief, after making a speech to Commissioners Lewis Cass and Thomas L. McKenney, at the treaty of Fond du lac, was answered in the following authori tative style. “We are well satisfied with what you have said; but before we smoke your pipe, we will say one thing;” (a British medal was suspended from his neck) “we presume you brought this here as ari ornament. If we thought you displayed It as a mark of authori ty, we would take it from your breast, throw it in the 'dust, and trample it under our feet. As we do not suppose you wear it as an evidence of any au thority, but simply as an ornament, we will smoke your pipe.” (He took the medal off and laid it on the table.) ,*‘Here are silver ornaments, with which we pay you for your Britsli sil ver. We will now present you a modal as (lie proper mark of your au thority.” A letter appears in the Waterford Mirror, addressed by Mr. Joseph Williams, of Ross, (who fortunately yfas saved in the Venus,) to a friend in Waterfotd. The following forms w a postscript. The subject is above all eulogy—it will be read with admira tion by all: “Henry Snow, Esq. of Larkfield, county Kilkenny, near Waterford. The saving of this gen tleman reflects singular credit upon one of the crew, whose name we much regret that we have not learned. Af ter being some hours uponthetop ofone of the ma9ts, Mr. Snow, exhausted & benumbed, was bidding farewell to this world, and preparing for the fate that seemed inevitable, when the sail or cried out, from the top of the other mast—‘Avast, not 90 fast, ray hearty— I’ll be with you presently.’ Scarce ly sooner said than done. Jack swam over to him. Jack’s heart, he said, was quite warm, and Jack spoke truth. ‘Hold on,’ said he, ‘with one hand, and thrust the other into my bosom; I’ll warrant you it will soon warm.’ —And so it was. He then made Mr. Snow shift hands, and kept him alternately holding on with one hand, and warming the other until the arri val of the long-delayed relief. With the ancients so warm a heart, such he roic humanity, might be rewarded with a statue; with the moderns such conduct should not go unrequited.” [English paper. Rochester, May 13. Intrepidity.—An instance of heroism has been mentioned to us which de serves to be made public. On Sun day last, a child fell through the old bridge in this village, a few rods south of the Falls of the Gennessee. Its cries attracted the attention of a per son named Peter Kexjser, who immedi ately plunged into the river—followed the child, rapidly drifting towards the falls—and at the imminent risk of his own life preserved the object of his pursuit! The high water, the rapidi ty of the stream, and the proximity of a Fall 97 feet perpendicular, will en able those acquainted with the locali ty to form a pretty accurate idea of the noble daring of the intrepid man. A more perilous act can scarcely be conceived. The following is from the Letters of Professor Carter, which exhibits the condition of the female sex in Eu rope in a different light to what we .have been accustomed to view it. In our rambles through this town, (San Remo in Italy,) we witnessed one of those pictures which are but too common in this country. A com pany of perhaps fifteen females were employed in carrying baskets of sand upon their heads, to mend the road, while a large party of men, consisting probably of their husbands and broth ers, were engaged in playing ball near by, and a group of fat priests and fri ars were looking on! In every part of the continent of Europe we have yet visited, woman is made the drudgd of life, on whom all its servile offices devolve, reminding one of the abori ginal state of society in our country. By the indolence or tyranny of the o- ther sex she is driven from her little sphere of domestic cares, & compell ed to undergo toils fit only for beasts of burden. /Even in France, polished, gallant France, the boasted land of chivalry and love, ten thousand instan ces of the degradation and slavery of females strike the mind of the travel ler with indignation. From the Vermont Chronicle. IT’S MY FATHER. Mr. Editor,—The following is a true story of a scene which was wit nessed in one of our villages, March 6, 1828. It was 4 o’clock in the afternoon, when there came along an ox sled, as if returning home after having dis charged its load. The sled was drawn by a pair«of feeble oxen, and driven by two little boys apparently of the ages of eight and ten. On the sled a little transversely lay at full length, what seemed a man—and on closer view, a man dead drunk.— “What have you there?” I said to one of the little boys. “It’s my fa ther.” ‘Your father!’ said I, ‘who is he?’ He spoke his name. ‘Why, what’s the matter with him?’ I in quired further. ‘He drinks too much,’ he replied, grief and shame conflict ing in his countenance, while he strove to hide his embarrassment by urging on at a quicker pace the unconscious team with their less conscious load. Reader, pau&e a moment and pon der on a fact like this. A father takes his little sons to market—gets drunk in their presence—is placed, a public spectacle, on an ox sled—and by them, even his own sons, driven to his own family! How shocking! How mournful! The charnel-house is not more revolting, thq funeral procession i9 not more affecting. INDIANS OF THE U. STATES. The following piece is from a series of numbers published some time since in the Boston Recorder and Telegraph. Account of what the U. S. Government have done for their benefit. Mr. Jefferson during his administra tion felt a deep interest in the subject of civilization, and since his time Con gress have adopted various measures calculated as was- supposed to pro mote it. They established an agen cy for the purpose of trading with the Indians, and of protecting them against the cheating tricks of dishonest whites; but this not answering the desired ob ject was in 1823 abandoned. They have granted money to the several charitable societies, who have estab lished schools and education families among the Indians, to assist them in carrying their benevolent designs into effect. By an Act of March 3, 1819, a fund for the promotion of Indian civ ilization was placed at the disposal of] the President which yields somewhat more than $11,000 annually, Govern ment have purchased lands of the In dians and paid them in money partly down, and partly in annual payments; and they have often made them pre sents of various necessary articles, and supplied them with instruments of agriculture, Mills, &c. A statement of the annuities payable lor lands is as follows: Limited Annuities, which expire in 1823 $1,000 in 1832 $3,300 “ >26 25.000 «£ >34 2,000 “ >28 20,000 Total 74,250 “ >29 12,000 Cap’l. 1 537,500 “ >30 800 Permanent Annuities. $80,325 Capital, 1,333,150 Total an. 154,575 Total cap. 2,870,250 There are also granted to different tribes of Indians annually 20 bushels of salt, valued at Fort Wayne, where it is delivered, at $2, 50 cents per bushel, making an addition;! annual expense of $525. The grants recent ly made to the Creeks for the Georgia lands are not included in this state ment. Besides these payments, Congress have frequently made gratuitous grants to those tribes who have missionary stations within their limits to assist them in carrying forward their plans of improvement. To the Chickasaw's at the station near Chickasaw Agency they granted $5000 for buildings, to the Great Osages at the Harmony station $1000 for the same purpose. Out of the fund mentioned above, the following annual remittances have been made, viz. To the Cornwall School, Conn. $1,438 Senecas and Onondagas, Buffalo New York, Tuscaroras, Lewistown, N. Y. Miamies, Fort Wayne, Ind. Chcrokees, Spring Place, do. Brainerd, do. Valley Towns, Choctaws Eliot, Indians at the Great Crossings, Ken. 400 350 350 417 250 1,000 500 1,000 Total, 5,855 The exact sum paid by the Treasu ry of the United States for the pro motion of Indian civilization in 1823 was $11,135, 32. At first view it may appear very generous in our government to do so much for the Indians; but it should be remembered that Government has always purchased their lands at its own price, and sold them again to its own citizens for 2 dollars per acre. Up to 1820 the United States had purchased of the Indians 191,778,536 acres of land, for payment of which Congress appropriated $2,542,916.— Previously to Oct. 1819, Government had sold 18,500,000 acres for.$44,- 000,000. Should the remainder of these lands be disposed of at the same advantageous rate, there will be plac ed in the U. S. Treasury after having paid the Indians all they are ever to receive a net gain of $500,000,000. This statement reaches only to 1820, but Government has bought large tracts of land since, at about the same rate. Now making all reasonable deduc tion for waste lands, failure of public creditors, expenses of surveying &c. there must still remaip an immense pecuniary profit to our Government from its trade with the Indians, be sides the political importance of the country acquired, and the va&t acces sion of national strength, prising from its being settled by our own citizens. Cannot government afford then to do something for the Indians? Katahwn. Literary Bill of Mortality.—Of a bout one thousand books published an nually in Great Britain, 600 are ac companied with commercial loss;— on two hundred there is no gain; on one hundred the gain is trifling, and only one hundred yield any considerable profit, six hundred & fifty are forgotten within the year; another huudred in two years; another hundred and fifty in three years; not more than fifty survive seven years, and scarcely ten are thought of after twenty yearsr. Of the 50,000 books published in the seventeenth century, not more than 50 are now in estimation, and of the 80,- 000books published in the eighteenth century, not more than 300 are con sidered worth reprinting, and not more than 500 are sought after at the pres ent time. Since the first commence ment of writing-r-lhat is, in thirty two centuries, only about five hundred works of writers of all nations have sustained themselves against the de vouring influence of time. WHO ARE THE HOGS? A correspondent^ the Newburyport Herald, after mentioning that he had just been appointed a hog reeve, ex plains to his constituents his views of his office and its duties, in the follow ing style. “But who are the hogs; and how far am I to consider the duties of my office as extending? I* wish to be candid, and give fair warning. I shall consider every selfish, snarling, quar relling, dirty creature, that defiles our town, as falling under my jurisdic tion, whether he happens to walk on two legs or four. If I happen to see a contrary spirit, always running in the teeth of every body he meets, whom it is impossible to lead, and still more impossible to drive, ain I to suffer such an one to run at large merely because he has no bristles on his back? Or suppose I meet a poor selfish wretch who gets his living by rooting, wliose sole maxim is, take care of number one., must I permit him to go loose, seeking whom he may de vour, because he has a snout a little shorter than the rest of them? No, Sir, I will not; I know my duty bet ter. By virtue of my high office, and in conformity to the laws of my coun try, I do now order all such creatures to be kept close. “Thefe is one kind of sty which I es pecially forbid. I hereby order all those shops to be removed, where that liquor is sold which only one ani mal in creation will drink. Of all the beasts of the field, fowls of the air, fishes of the sea, I have never heard or read of hut one, that will’get drunk; & that is the animal that falls this year under my jurisdiction. And I shall be ashamed to drive the four-legged drun kard to pound, while the drunkard with two legs, (and legs too on which lie can’t walk) is permitted to go free. In the name then of that common wealth, wliose dignity I bear, and whose officer I am, I command that all places be closed where those hogs are fattened, whose peculiar characteris tic it is, that they consume a great deal of swill .and yield no pork.” The Grand Council ofthe Valais, in Switzerland, has published a decree abolishing the punishment of death. John Kane was tried in the City of New York, convicted, and sentenced to the Penitentiary for six months, at hard labour, for unmercifully beating his horse. He is gray headed man— 63 years old. Printing for the Blind.—Mr. Gall, of Edinburgh, has invented a mode of printing, by which blind per sons, by means of the touch, may be enabled to read. A committee ofthe Professors of the University of Edin burgh examined the books, and the manner of using them, and found that blind boys, who had had only a few weeks’ practice, were able to read with their flhgers “ as quickly or near ly so, as they could suppose boys to do, with their sight, in similar cir cumstances,” though it was not. sup posed that the same ratio could be expected in the more advanced stages of their reading. Mr. Gall proposes to print the gospel of St. John in this method, and the committee recora- inendlit to the patronage ofthe public, for gratuitous distributions among the blind. FIGURE OF. SPEECH. 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BARK, AHCH1LLA SMITH, HEAD THROWER, JOHN RATCLIFF, LAUGH AT MUSH, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL; SAH-KE-AH, SCRAPER. The following are Candidates for the em suing General Council of the Cherokep Nation, to represent the District of Chick- arnauga. For the Committee. DANIEL McCOY, RICHARD TAYLOR, JOHN F. BALDRIDGE? * For the Council; NATHAN HICKS, CHARLES REECE, OUN-NE-QUOH-YO-GE, SLEEPING RABBIT, Thomas manon, TSU-NU-GE. The following are Candidates for the Gcw neral Council ofthe Cherokee Nation to present the District of Ahmoe. THOMAS FOREMAN, GEO. FIELDS, JOHN MILLER, YOUNG WOLF, JOHN WATTS, CRAWLING SNAKE, DE-SQUAH-NE, DEER IN THE WATER. jfjt'.'i-s SS.L BhiAeiT’atSty jjo oFsn.ip AJ5W S0AIT. SFKS DhB^.4.—GIi ASPGoty <V.IZ E- t,R (FPdeiia. aiiwsyz.—sc-LLy, auj^y, icn?- £h, jzByz. Gsyz DOLAeiT.isty. SPK? DI t B^.4.— CPS-FO”, 3Jit, tFtMvT, H- pjy, Aj. juo-zji nA, vAXirz. .ihweyz.—OoPiiy, DirW, o-’<s:a J?y, Dm)X/WX, veaf t)$GaiJeiy, UyD, .I^A'- oty, Dtvjrz. h-susz DObAe-ruBEi*. 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