About Cherokee phoenix. (New Echota [Ga.]) 1828-1829 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1828)
VOL. 1. EDITED BY ELIAS BOUDINOTT. - e PRINTED WEEKLY BY | ISAAC H, HARRIS, | FOR THE CHEROKEE NATION. ' At $2 50 if paid in advance, $8 in six | mhonths, or $3 50'if paid at the end of the | year. | To subscribers who can read only the | Cherokee language the price will be $2,00 |, in advance, or $2,50 to be paid within the | | year. ] Every subscription will be considered as | continued unless subscribers give notice to | ' the contrary before the commencement ofa | | new year. ‘ Any person procuring six subscribers, | | and becoming responsible for the payment, | | shall receive a seventhgratis. ‘ Advertisements will be inserted at seven- ; ty-five cents per square for the first inser- | tion, and thirty-seven and a half cents for |- each continuance; longer ones in propor- | tion. s All letters addressed to the Editor, | post paid, will receive due attention. 5 k-0 | AGENTS FOR THE CHEROKEE || PHENIX. | " The following perions are authorized to receive subscriptions and payments for the | | Cherokee Pheenix. Hexry Hivw, Esq. Treasurer of the At B. C. F. M. Boston, Mass. | Georce M. Tracy, Agent of the A. B. €. F. M. New York. _ Rev. A. D. Eppvy, Canandaigua, N. Y. Ay;[‘,&pygs HasTinGs, Fittcna NX oo i 4 WiLLiay @Ufl'nm Reip, Charleston, Y ‘ : 4 Col. GrorcE SyitH, Statesville, W. T, Wirriam M. Comss, Nashville Ten. Rev. Benver Roserrs—Powal Me. Mr. Tuos. R. Gorp, (anitinerant Gen tleman.) = MOURNING. ¢« Black is the sign of mourning,” says Rabelais, ‘*because it is the color of darkness, which is melancholy, and the opposite to white, which 1s the color of light, of joy, and of happi ness.”’ "I'he early poets asserted that souls, _after death, went into a dark and gloomy empire. Probably it is in consonance with this idea that they | imagined black was the most congen ial color for mourning. = The Chinese and the Siamese choose white, con _ ceiving that the dead become benefi cent genii. In Turkey, mourning is composed of blue or violet; in Ethiopia, of gray; and at the time of the invasion of Pe ru by the Spaniards, the inhabitants _of that country wore it of mouse co lor. Amongst the Japanese, white is the sign of mourning and black of re joicing. In Castile, mourning vest ments were formerly of white serge. The Persians clothed themselves in brown, and they, their whole family, and all their animals, were shaved.— In Lycia, the men wore female habili ments during the wholé time of their mourning. " At Argos people dressed themselves in white, and prepared large feasts and *entertainments.. At Delos th&}' cut off their hair, which was deposit ed upon'the sepulchre of the dead.— The Egyptians tore their bosoms, and covered their faces with mud, wear ing clothes of the color of yellow, or of dead leaves. ; Amongst the Romans, the wives were obliged to weep the death of their hushands, and children that of their father, during a whole year.—— - Husbands did not mourn for their wives, nor fathers for their children , wiless they were upwards of three years old. The full mourning of the Jews con- tinues for a year, and takes place up on the death of parents. The chil dren do not put on black, but are obliged to wear, during the whole year, the clothes which they had on at the death of their father, without being allowed to change them, let them be ever so tattered. They fast on the anniversary of his death, every year. Second mourning lasts a month, and takes place on the demise of chil dren, vncles, aunts. During that pe riod they dare neither wash them selves, shave, nor perfume thcm selves, nor even cut their nails. They do not eat in common in the family, and the husband and wife live sepa rately. Slight mourning continues on ‘ly fora week, and is worn on the de ' cease of a husband or of a wife. On t returning from the funeral obsequies, the husband, wearing his mourning habits, washes his hands, uncovers his feet, and seats himself on the ground, remains in the same posture, and con tinues to groan and weep, without pay ing attention to any occupation, until the seventh day. / " The Chinese, when they are in mourning, wear coarse white cloth, and weep three years for the loss of the departed. The magistrate no long er exercises his functions, the coun sellor suspends bis suits, and husbands "and wives, as with the Jews, live a part from each other. Young people live in seclusion, and cannot marry till the end of the three years. The mourning of the Caribbees con sists in cutting off their hair, and in fasting rigorously until the body putri fy; after which they indulge in de bauches, to drive all sadness away from their minds. » ! Among certain nations in America, the nature of the mourning depended death of children, the relations were inconsolable; while scarcely agtear was given to the aged. Mourning for children, in addition to its longer du ration, was common, and they were: regretted by the whole town in which _they drew their first breath. On the _ l day of their demise, persons dared not ' approach their parents, who made a frightful noise in their house, yielded to the most violent fits of despair, howled like demons, tore their hair, bit themselves, and scratched them selves over the whole body. The fol lowing day they threw themselves up on a bed, which they watered with ‘ their tears. The third day they com- | menced their groaning for the loss of | their child; this lasted a whole year, t during which neither father nor moth- | er ever washed themselves. The rest of the inhabitants of the place, in or der to evince their sympathy for the affliction of the parents, wept three times a day until the body was borne to the grave. : ; i RICHARD BAXTER. | The following striking interposition of Providence, is said to have taken place duriffig Mr. Baxter’s residence in Coventry. Several ministers e jected by the act of uniformity, who resided in that city, united with Mr. Baxter in establishing a lecture in a private house on a neighboring com mon. The time of worship was gen erally a very early hour. ~Mr. Bax ter left Coventry in the evening, in tending to preach the lecture the fol lowing morning. The night being dark, he lost his way, and wandering about a considerable time, he came to a gentleman’s house, where he asked for direction. The-gentleman think ing it would be unsafe for such a per son to be wandering on the common at so late an hour, requested the ser vant to invite bhim in. Mr. Baxter readily accepted the kind propesal, and met with a very hospiiable recep tion. His conversation was such as to give his host an exalted idea of his good sense and extensive information. | The gentleman wishing to know the | quality of his guest, said after supper, ¢“As most porsons have some employ ment or profession in life, Ibave no NEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6, 1828. doubt, sir, that you have yours.”— | uYes’ sir, |am a man catcher.’ A ‘'man catcher, (said the gentleman, are you? lam glad to hear, you say sO, for you are the very person I want. I am a justice of the peace in this district, and am commissioned %eize the person of Dick Baxter, who is expected to preach ata conventicle in this neighborhood early to-morrow morning; you shall go with me, and I doubt not we shall "easily apprehend the rogue.” Mr. B. agreed E ac company him. Accordingly, the next morning, the gentleman took Mr. Bax ter in his carriage to the pl\ac%&lere the meeting was to be held. = When they arrived at the spot, they saw a considerable number of people’f;\over ing about, for seeing the carriage of the justice, and suspecting his. inten tions, they were afraid to enter the ‘house. 'The justice obserying bis, said, to Mr. Baxter, ‘W&i they have obtained information of my design; Baxter has probably heen ap prised of it, and will not fulfil his engagements; for you see the people will not enter into the house. I think if we extend our ride a little farther, our departure may encourage them to assemble, and on our rgm we may fulfil our commission.”” When they returned, they found their efforts useless, for the people still appeared unwilling to assemble. The magis trate, thinking he should be disappoint ed of the object he had in view, ob served to his companion—¢That as the people were very much disaffected to government, he would be much o bliged to him to address thexg“on the subject of good behaviour.” = Mr. Baxter replied ‘‘that perhaps this would not be deemed sufficient; for as the religious service was the object for which they met together, they that nature, but if the magistrate would begin with prayer, he would then endeavor to say something to them.” 'The gentleman replied, put ting his hand into his pocket, ‘lndeed, sir, I have not got my prayer book with me, or I would readily comply with your proposal. However, lam persuaded that a person of your ap pearance and respectability, would be able to pray with them, as well as to talk to them. I beg, therefore,{ that you will be so good as to hegin, with prayer.”” This being agreed to, | they alighted from the carriage and entered the house, & the people, hes itating no longer, followed them. Mr. Baxter then commenced the service by prayer, and prayed with that se riousness and fervor for which he was eminent. The magistrate standing by, was soon melted into tears. The good divine then preached in his ac customed, lively, and zealous manner. When he had concluded he turned to the magistrate, and said, ‘I am the very Dick Baxter of whom you are in pursuit—l am entirely at your dispo sal.” The justice, however, had felt so much during the service, and saw things in so different a light, that he laid aside entirely all his enmity to ' the non-conformists,& ever afterwards became their sincere friend and advo cate, and it is believed also a decided Christian.* EARTHQUAKE. At twenty-one minutes past eight of the morning of the twenty-third of February last, the shock of an earth quake was felt simultaneously at Liege, Maestrecht, and Tongres, in the Netherlands; which lasted about ten seconds at those places. The previous night and the earlier part of the morning portended, from the ap pearance of the sky, a high wind from the south-west; but the weather became suddenly calm a few moments before the earthquake was felt.— What renders this visitation the more remarkable, is its having been appa rently confined to the low countries, which have been peculiarly exempted from such occurrences; and none has been remarked since that of 1755, when Lisbon was destroyed, and near ly the whole of Europe experienced, in some degree, the earth’s commo tion. 'The cities we have alluded to above, were those where the shock was the severest. Liege being under mined in its whole extent by coal pits, its inhabitants were greatly as justly terrified. At Maestrecht, a catholic priest was in the act of performing the burial service in the public ceme tery, placed, as it would seem, on the very line the earthquake most forcibly evinced itself. Alarmed at the unac countable phenomenon, he, with the - mourners, most unceremoniously left ‘the dead to bury the dead,’ and took to his heels, none of the party pausing to take breath until they had attained the town. At Tongres, the mass for the dead was saying in the ancient and remarkable church of that oldest of the cities of the Netherlands; and the ! corpse of a young woman was lying before ’%')‘eféltar‘, when the cofiin vvas observed to move upon the tressels that supported It, and a strange moau ing sound was heard to fill the church: unprepared for these unusual events, fear got the better of devotion. With out the ‘let us start fair’ formality of the Cornish Curate, the Priest headed his flock in the attempt to escape from the church, but the doors opening in ward, were at once closed by the rush of the affrighted congregation; and long and fearful was the struggle, and the cries and shrieks of the .candidates for Catholic Emancipation most alarm ing, ere a sortic could be effected. FLOOD AT ST. PETERSBURGH. The following account of the flood of St. Petersburgh, in 1824, is given by Mr. Wilson in his <“Travels in Russia,”&c:—On the night of the 24th of November the signal lamps were hung round the top of the stee ple, in consequence of a strong west £t wind Tmpedivg the- vapft ‘Eufrent - from Ladago, and thereby causing a tremendous swell in the Feva and all the canals. By 12 o’clock the follow ing day, nearly the whole city was laid under water, and a scene of hor ror ensued that absolutely baffles de scription; for sentry boxes, timber, furniture, and all kinds of provision 'might be seen floating in enormous masses along the streets, while dark rolling clouds added to the frightful spectacle, and the water dashed over the roofs of the highest housez. In one quarter of the town, that is called the Smolensley, the very mansions of the dead were invaded, graves torn o pen, and the coffins every where float ed about. The water was now 7 feet above the pavement in all parts of the city. Many persons never sup- | posing it would attain such a height, had left their houses to witness the increase of the Neva; but alas! on at tempting to return to them, per-' ished in the flood. All the bridges | were swept away, and the broken barges, rafts of woed, galliots, and vessels of various descriptions carried along with them tfge lamp-posts, ‘ smashed the windows, where hurling ‘ to and fro, and some of the streets | weve choked up by them. Inanother 1 quarter, thz Vissilli Ostov, where most of the houses are of wood, the destruction was tremendous; for these buildings were torn up. from their very foundations, and entirely swept: | away, with the dead bodies of their in | mates. Amidst these scenes of hor ror, many instances truly wonderful, and almost providential rescue from destruction occurred, among which the following deserves to be noticed: In one house that was surrounded with '| water: there were several children, who as the flood increased, first had .recourse to a chair, and when it reach | ed top of that, they mounted a tabldd | In this situation, perilous as it was, | they fell asleep, and on awaking, | found that their floated couch nearly | touched the ceiling; by this means, | however, they were miraculously | | saved. The second instance is that | of a cradle being carried away by the , | flood with a male child in it, who like - | another Moses, was wonderfully pre NO. 23. served. A wooden bouse having been lifted from its foundation, was afloat and washed into the Admiralty yard, and on searching this, it was found to contain much property. On the wa ter subsiding, the dead body of a fe male was found kneeling, in the act of supplicating to the image of a saint af fixed to the wall. ‘Throughout the city all was tervour, despair and dis may; for the terrified inhabitants im agined a general deluge was about to take place.” Fromthke N. Y. Journal of Cocmmerce. Some things can be done as well as others.—On Friday last, at half past’ 4 P. M. agreeable to appointment, a hair-brained fellow in Patterson, whose name we do not recollect, leaped fromr the Passiac Falls lust to gratify an idle whim of his own. This is the third time he has done it—the first time he did it peivatelyby way of ex periment—he then gave out that he would do it publicly for the gratifica tion of any who pleased to attend.— The autlorities in Patterson were justly alarmed, & put him under keep ing till they supposed he had abandon-’ ed the purpose, but he watched the opportunity after he was freed from restraint, and when a number of per sons were present, in a favourable po sition, he carried it into execution.~— Since that time the authorities have allowed him to consult for his own safety, and he I&aps from a pretipice of a hundred feet whenever it takes his fancy. It does not appear that he receives or expects any compensation for performing this daring feat. He says he ‘“merely wants io show that some things can te done as well as others.”— "T'he position from which he leaped cn Friday is a few rods below the bridge on the side towards the village, and, if the falls are 70 feet (as commonly ‘estimated,) about 85 or 90 above the. water. The giddy precipices around the chasm were covered with a pro miscuous multitude of both sexes, whose curiosity had brought them to gether to %ge this singular feat of te merity. The universal anxiety of the multitude was manifest in their coun tenance, and still more perfectly in the silence that prevailed. When the man made his appearance a dark cloud had come over the spot, adding to the sublimity of the cataract that of awr approaching storm. -As hewalk ed deliberately forward to his position you might have heard the beating of their hearts had it not been' for the mingled thunders, from the chasm be neath and the clouds ahove. When he had divested himself of his coat, vest and shoes, and laid them careful ly by, as if debating the question whether he should want them again, he commenced a short speech to the spectators which but few of course could hear. He then stepped for ward to the edge of the rock and look ed'down, and the spectators on that side supposing that he was going off, came forward as their curiosity or their fears moved them, and seemed to those opposite as if all were about to make the fatal leap; indeed there was great danger of a whole line of those in front being crowded off. Af ter he had looked down a moment, he stepped back a few feet, ran forward, and leaped into the abyss. He went down with his feet foremost, though drawn up somewhat. For this reason, or some other past comprehension, he did but just go under the water, for he was immediately seen swimming off as quietly as if he had done nothing, and nothing had befallen him. The maniac, (for what else can he be call ed?) was greeted with a shout from the spectators when they saw that he was still safe; and when he had reach ed the shore, he marched round to his clothes with a look of composure and satisfaction, and they. to their homes, some admiring his courage, but more pitying his temerity. CHEROKEE CONSTITUTION, - Printed in both languages in perallsl columns, for'sale at this Office. ᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ ᎯᎠ ᏂᎦᎥᏧᎬᏩᎶᏗ. 1 ᏑᏭᎾᎪᏓᏆᏍᏗ ᎢᎪᎯᏛ ᏌᏉ ᏧᏂᎴᏴᎪᏘ ᎨᏎᏍᏗ. 1. ᏴᏫᏁᎬ ᏗᏂᏬᏂᏘᏍᎩ ᏦᎢᏁ ᎠᏰᏢ ᎤᎧᎫᏴᏗ ᎨᏎᏍᏗ, ᎢᏳᏃ ᎢᎬᏪᏅᏛ ᎠᎾᎫᏱᏍᎨᏍᏗ. 1. ᎢᏳᏨᏃ ᏑᏓᏢ ᎢᏯᏅᎪ.ᎢᏴ ᎠᎾᎫᏱᏍᎨᏍᏗ, ᏦᎢ ᎠᎮᎸ ᎤᎾᎫᏴᏗ ᎨᏎᏍᏗ. ᎠᏕᏗᏱᏍᎬᏃ ᎢᏴ ᎩᎳ 1, ᎠᎾᎫᏱᏍᎨᏍᏗ, ᏅᎩᏁᎢ ᎠᏰᏢ ᎤᎾᎫᏴᏗ ᎨᏎᏍᏗ. 1; “ ᏣᎳᎩᏃ ᎤᏩᏒ ᏗᏂᏬᏂᏗᏍᎩ, ᏔᎵᏉ ᎠᏕᎸ 11 ᏫᎧᎾᎫᏴᏗ ᏌᏎᏍᏗ ᏑᏕᏘᏴᏛ; ᎢᏳᏃ ᎢᎬᏪᏅᏛ ᎠᎧ” 1, ᎫᏧᏱᏍᎨᏢᏍᏗ.. ᏦᎢᏁᏃ ᎠᏰᏢ ᎩᎳ ᎣᏂ ᎤᏕᏘᏴᎯ” 1. ᏌᏗᏒ ᎠᎾᎫᏱᏍᎨᏍᏗ. : !
