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I to opjpose his entering their .territo- s, should he attempt it, I cannot termine.” “This territory is delightful, not- thstanding the degraded state of the uple; the climate tnild, the weath- never too hot nor too cold. The sat quantity of rain which we have half the year, is rather unpleasant be sure—the eathquakes are l bas- ite mal,' [sufficiently bad] as the aniards say. The finest fruits in ; world are constantly at our com ind, and at the lowest prices; all ids of provisions are nearly as cheap re as in the United States. There ght .be wheat enough raised in Chi- with very little trouble, to supply s whole of the coast, still Peru is pplied with bread-stuffs from the lited States. Shocking Piracy!!—We have been litely favored with the following tract from a letter, dated Havana, June 28. “We have here the account of Pi les having captured a Frenclr ship >m Vera Cruz bound to Bordeaux, d after having murdered the pas- ngers and crew, amounting to eigh- three souk and plundered the vessel of, is said. $200,000, they sunk her off ipe Antonio. They afterwards ptured an American schooner from igua bound to ftfew York, with sev- al young lads oiHmard, who were ing there for education, and t all their, thropis.—This latter ves- 3el having been found, a man was ap- | prehended in Mannanillo, who proved |j to have been the Pilot of the pirate, | and he has confessed the whole. This I is the story current here, and I am | much inclined to believe it is true.” Norfolk Beacon. Battle with the Indians.—Captain ; Nash of the schooner Superior, who | arrived last week from the Falkland f Islands, yesterday related to us the ; particulars of an affray with the In- t dians at the Hermit islands near cape Horn. These Indians are described i as a very thievish and savage people. Capt. Nash, however, had frequent ly been ashore at this place, and had been on friendly terms with them. At the time of the affray, Capt. Nash had landed his crew with the exception of three men, on the Island of Diego Ramires, for. the purpose of I taking seal, while he proceeded with t}ie vessel, to Hermit Islands, and an chored at night in Cape Harbour.— In the morning several Indians came | along side in canoes, four or five of : whom came on board, and soon began , to steal some trifling articles. On Seeing it, Captain Nash endeavoured by peaceable means, to induce them • to desist. Finding peaceable mea sures of no avail, he drove them from the vessel by force. The Indians then returned to the shore, at the same time threatening vengeance. In the course of an hour or two, seven ca noes, each containing eight Indians, armed with bows and arrows, spears, slings and stones, left the shore, and approached to within about thirty yards of the schooner, where they pla ced themselves in a fine, with a chief in the centre and on each wing, and prepared for battle. In the mean time, the people on board had armed themselves with muskets," and pre pared to defend the ship. After a silence of about five minutes, the chiefs gave the signal, and the attack was commenced, by throwing volies of stones on board. . As soon as the attack commenced, Captain Nash and his men began firing, and ten rounds were fired by each man, before the assailants were repulsed. Fortunate ly, no injury was sustained by the ves sel or crew, while Capt. Nash thinks he must, have killed twenty or thirty of the enemy. When the canoes lan ded,a large body of Indians made their appearance, who had been concealed near the shore. The whole now form ed themselves into two companies, and proceeded slowly up the hill from the water, without stopping to take care of their killed and wounded. Fear ing tha.t they might return with a Stronger force, Capt. Nash immedi ately weighed anchor and left the har bor.—Stonington Telegraph., Consumption of Tea.—A little more than a century ago, tea was hardly known as an article of commerce to the European Nations. The follow ing is probably a near approach to the present consumption of the different nations of the European race: tfireat Britain and Colonies 30,000,000lbs. North and South America 12,000,000 Continent of Europe 4,000,000 ...... 46,000,000 We take much pleasure in laying before' our' reader's the annexed com munication from the Hon. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky. The in- terest'ivvhich that Philanthropic gen tleman has manifested in the cause of Indian reform, will entitle him to the respect of good men every where-— His efforts have been as persevering as they were well directed, and the happy results are beginning to be re alized to an unexpected extent.—Col. Reg. From the Columbian Star. Choctaw Academy, Blue Spring, June 24, 1828. Dear Sir: It is already known to you that the Choctaw Nation has lo cated a school at this place under the name of the Choctaw Academy, un der superintendence of the government of the United States and the Baptist missionary society. The school con sists of one hundred students from the following tribes, the Choctaws, Creeks and Pottawattamies. The whole establishment is sup ported by their own funds according to the number of scholars from each tribe. Upon my return , home, about the first of June, I was very much grati fied that there existed a most extra ordinary revival of religion in this neighborhood; about two hundred and fifty new converts have already join ed the Crossing Baptist Church, about two miles from the school. I am not able to speak with precision as to the vast number who have joined the ad jacent churches. The most pleasing part is yet to be told, I mean the in fluence which this stir of religion has had upon the students of the Choctaw Academy. Before my return home, a number had been baptized and join ed the church at the Great Crossings, and the respectable Methodist Socie ty at Georgetown, about four miles distant. I had the satisfaction myself to see other students added to the Crossing Church, a few days since, at which time fifty were baptized.— The solemn ceremony was performed in the presence of several thousand admiring and deeply affected specta tors. The interest of the scene seem ed greatly to be increased by the fact . that the native sons of the forest com posed a part of the subjects for bap tism; thirteen or fourteen have joined the Baptist Society, and eight or ten are members of the Methodist socie ty in Georgetown. These converted students are composed indiscriminate ly of the young men and boys down to nine years of age. The son of the Creek chief Opo-tho-lo-hola, about nine years old, gave in an experience before he was received by the church, which astonished every beholder, and is the theme of conversation in every private circle, The experience of many others has not been less extra ordinary and interesting. The stu dents have their prayer meeting this night in my house, by invitation, and they have their regular weekly prayer meetings at their school rooms; and in their devotions they would not be disparaged in comparison with their white brethren for interesting and cor rect views on'the subject of religion. The greatest pleasure that I experi ence from a communication of these facts arises from the conviction of my own mind, that the change is real and of divine origin, judging from the change in their .conduct, in their tem per, and in their dispositions. Their humility and meekness would do hon or to any Christian community.— The Christian maty rejoice in the full confidence that God, in his pro vidence, has smiled upon this institu tion, and intends it for the useful and desirable purpose of civilizing and christianizing our red brethren with the United States. That the wilder ness may blossom as the rose, is the prayer of your sincere and devoted friend. R. M. JOHNSON. N. B. The following are the names of the Choctaw's who have become re ligious, viz: Robert Jones, Samuel Garland, Lyman Collins, Anderson Perry, James Brewer, Peter King, Levi Parsons, Win. Bryant, Samuel Worcester, Sylas D. Pitclilynn.-— Sampson Birch came to the school a Baptist, and joined the Crossing church. The following are the names of the Creeks who have become religious, viz: Stephen Grayson, Thomas H. Benton, Daniel Asbury, Jesse Brown, Samuel Browm, William Gray, Jacob Creath, Henry Clay, Thomas Henderson, Benjamin S. Chambers, Thos. Hicks, James Ber- ryhiil and Richgrd M. Johnson, son of Opo-tho-lo-hola, nine years of age.— Samuel M’Intosh came to the school s Methodist and joined the society in Georgetown. R. M. J.‘ From the Baptist Recorder. A CHALLENGE ACCEPTED-icellmatchfid. Robert Owen of New Harmony, has 'for several years, been endeavoring to make a noise about liis “Social System;” and every failure of his vi sionary schemes, has, by him, been at tributed to the religion of Christ.— lie wishes all religious expunged from the w'orld; and propbses to calm and regulate the turbulent passions of man, upon the same principles that he would tame a wild beast. . Mr. Owen, in his zeal for the de struction of Religion, and the preva lence of infidelity, has published a general “challenge” to the Ministers of the Gospel, to meet him, and pub licly defend the doctrines of the Bible, or admit them untenable. Bishop Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Ya. in answer to the challenge responds as follows: “ Now, be it known to Mr. Owen, and all whom it may concern, that I, relying on the Author, the reasonable ness, and the excellency of the Chris tian religion, will engage to meet Mr. Owen, at anytime within one year from this date, at any place equidis tant from New Harmony and Bethany,- such as Cincinnati, Ohio, or Lexing ton, Ky ; and will then and there un dertake to show that Mr. Owen is ut terly incompetent to prove the posi tions he has assumed, in a public de bate before all who may please to at tend; to be moderated or controlled by a proper tribunal, and to be con ducted in perfect good order from day to day, until the parties, or the mode rators, or the congregation, or a ma jority of them are satified, as may af terwards be agreed upon. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.” Bethany, Ya. April 25, 1828. Singular effect of Lightning.—The ship New-York to London, encounter ed a severe storm of thunder and lightning. There was a passenger on board, very old and very corpulent, whose legs were so paralyzed, that for three years he had not walked half a mile, and who, since his em barkation, had not been able ever to stand. After the discharge of the lightning, which passed close to the place where this poor cripple was lying, every body was astonished to see him rise, pace up and down the deck, and walk about for a long time, as if nothing had ever ailed him. At first his head was a little affected, but that soon went uff, while the ben efit which he had experienced in his limbs remained.—He continued to use them freely during the passage, and on the arrival of the ship in port, he walked with ease to the place of his residence.—Lon. Mechanics Mag. Mrs. Hannah More.—Mrs. Hannah More, at the age of 80, has been o- bliged to leave her residence at Bar ley Wood, near Bristol where she had lived for about thirty years, in conse quence of the ill conduct of her ser vants, many of whom had been in her service above twenty years. Mrs. More has taken up her abode at Clif ton, and nothing but her strong mind could bear up against such and unto ward occurrence. Mrs. More’s bank er first discovered the conduct of her servants. LORD RODEN. A writer in the Episcopal Watchman, in an account of the Anniversary of the British and Foreign Bible Society three or four years ago, gives the following sketch. It will be remembered that this is the same gentleman who afterwards declined visiting the Dublin Theatre, in company with the King; alleging that he could not do it con sistently with his principles. Lord Roden, a young Irish nobleman, seconded the motion of Lord H. One part ofhis speech produced a great effect. In stead of taking up the time of the meeting with general observations, he would relate an incident which it might not be unac ceptable to the audience to hear, aqd for 1 the truth of which he would vouch. “I knew a man, who—I will nofcisay how many years since—lived only to enjoy the pleasures of the world—was fond to excess of its admiration, and desired nothing be yond its applause. He mingled in the so ciety of men of pleasure—was seen at the dance and the revel, at the Theatre and the masquerade; and denied himself no thing which promised gratification and a- musement. At length, this man, in whose thoughts a sentiment of religion had scarce ly ever found a place, happened to be pass ing by a hall in Dublin, where an Auxilia ry Bible Society was then holding its annu al meeting. Impelled only by an idle cu- . riosity, and perhaps expecting to be amus ed—for his time sometimes hung heavy on his hands—he moved in at the door, and silently took a seat in a remote corner of the room, where he could mark their pro ceedings, as lie thought unobserved—for, to confess the truth, he dreaded the shame of being discovered in such society. Yet it so happened that, from his hiding place, he listened to the utterance of sentiments, which if true, made it evident to his mind that he was a condemned sinner—[strong emotion]—that when he had run his short career of pleasure, there would be nothing left for him hut to lie down in everlasting burnings. He hastened out of the hall in inexpressible agony of mind, and determin ed to examine for himself. He did so. On every page of the Divine Book, he seemed to find it inscribed, that to him and such as lie, God was a consuming fire. Still he read on. For the first time in his life, he knelt down and prayed, in bitterness of spi rit—he eagerly sought for some ray of con solation, in the midst of a distress which had become insupportable; and he found it. He found that, which in process of time, brought a peace to his distracted bosom which he had never before known. His eye rested on the reviving assurance, that God was in Christ reconciling the world un to himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; ind it calmed the tempest of his soul. [Here the emotion of the speaker became so string as to oblige him to pause, while half the audience were in tears.]— From that hour to the present, he has striv en, amidst much w eakness and infirmity, to live the life of a Christian, and to keep be fore his eves the solemn account he must one day give at the bar of God; and he desires to bear witness this day, before your Lordship and this assembly, to the pow r er of divine grace, in turning the heart of a diso bedient, blind, thoughtless, irreligious crea ture, to the wisdom of the just, and from the power of Satan unto God.” The effect of this was beyond any thing f ever witness ed. The speaker was no orator, in the common meaning of the term; hut he spoke from an overflowing heart, and carried the sympathies of every hearer along with him. His delivery was frequently interruptedjby the vehemence of his own feelings, and by the expression of those of the audience—his manner was ungraceful, hut there was an overflowing earnestness in it, which it was impossible to resist. I thought I never un derstood, or rather, nevcr/eR so strongly the force of that sublime mystery of godli ness, “that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,” “a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation.” Negroes.—M. Roger, in his ac count of Senegambia, says, that the handsomest Negroes are the Ghiolofa; and that they are Africans only in col our. The nose is regularly formed, and the hair is long. The facial an gle, and the other physiognomical signs, which have hitherto been con sidered as the measures of the intelli gence of the blacks, approach to those of Europeans. A FLAMING HINT. A rather novel, though alarming method of curing drunkenness was, the other day, practised with decided success on a warm-hearted devotee of the jolly deity. His friends having previously tried several experiments in order to estrange him from the cup and rouse him from a state of daily stupefaction without effect, a harum- scarum wag, who happened to he in company with him undertook, when ever he got drunk, effectually to cure him; and for that purpose hit upon the following fiery expedient, and suc ceeded: “A gill of whiskey was ordered in, and a lighted candle—the contents of the imperial was then poured upon the bacchanalian’s head, and the can dle quickly applied, when an instanta neous flame enveloped the fellow’s pericranium—he started, as if by ma gic, from his seat, vociferating in the most frantic and ludicrous manner, to the no small alarm of his now terrified companions. The ringlets suffered, but the bumps were safe, and he es caped with little other injury than nearly losing his wits by the joke—a flaming hint, that seems to have had its intended effect.”—London paper. Printer's Mistakes occasion much trouble.—The other day, the master of a brig who had recently arrived from New Orleans, was waited upon by a combmaker from Providence, who wanted to purchase his cargo of horns. “Horns!” exclaimed the aston ished captain, “according to descrip tion the devil has horns but I have none.” The mistake was traced to the Providence American, whose edi tor had turned matters end for end," and placed horns where hanis should have been, to the no small chagrin of the combmaker, who had come ten miles from his factory to buy stock. Bristol R. I. Star. EGGS, RAGS, AND RUM. A few days since, as I was journey ing back from the sea-board, I called at a store in , to bait my horse. While I was waiting for the wearied animar to take 1 its allowance, there! carne in a squallid looking woman, & passing to the counter, in a low voice inquired of the clerk—‘have you any rum?’ She was answered agreeably to her wish. ‘Give me a quart/ said she, handing him a jug, and at the same time beginning to lay out upon the counter from a covered basket, qicid pro quo. ‘There are nine of your eggs,’ said the clerk. ‘Here are some paper rags also,’ said she ofthebrowu jug. They are thrown into the scales, and raised twelve ounce weight.— ‘You have 3-4 of a pound,’ said the clerk. ‘Th3 eggs and the rags come to nine cents—the rum is ten.’ By this time fire in my hones began to burn. Rising from my seat, I said, ‘good woman, have you a family?’— ‘No,’ was her reply, and as if con science was beginning to do its office, she added, ‘I hav’nt got it for myself.’ The sequil I will not relate, only that I went on my way thinking on the power of appetite. This woman had been picking up a rag here, and a rag there—and had been anxiously watch ing her hen for nine successive days. And for what? For the means of gra^ tifying a raging and an unconquerabler appetite. These are thy triumphs, 0 rum! Should this little incident, Mr. Edi tor make the same impression on your mind as it did on mine, you will throw it into some corner of your useful pa per.—Nat. Philanthropist. LET EVERY MAN MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS. Of all things deliver me from the man who attends to his neighbour’s business, and leaves his own at loose ends. A meddling body is a torment to the neighbourhood, and not much comfort to himself; for, continually interfering in that which is none of his business, he subjects himself to the just reproof of those he would thrust his gratuit ous services upon. It matters not whether it he in religion or politics, or the common concerns of domestic life, let every man attend to his own busi ness, and then eve.iy man’s business will he attended to. Advise comes soon enough when asked, and no man likes to have his neighbour’s gratuit ously poked into his family concerns, his cut-of door business, or his manner of thinking upon any subject; all be lieve it is their privilege to do vvliat they think fit on their premises, and to do it in their own way. The man who interferes with the business of others, almost always neg lects his own, and while doing that which no one thanks him for, not un* frequently permits his family to come to want. No man who strictly attends to what interests him will have time or inclination to manage the concerns ofhis neighbours; he will pursue his own course, suffer others to do the same, and he will he generous enough to believe other folks know some thing as well as himself. It is in tolerable to he continually bored, in this way, in the most trivial, every day business of life. What is it to me, if my neighbor permits his cu cumber vines to run on the ground, instead of furnishing them with bushes as I do—or rubs his razor on an old book cover, instead of the metalic strap—or prunes his fruit trees with a corse or fine saw? What right have I to find fault with the dress or education ofhis family? with the col or ofhis hat, or the cut of his coat? And if he built a house, does it con cern me whether it front north or south—or whether if be large or small, convenient or inconvenient?— If it does not—if it be my neighbor’s right to consult liis own trfste in these malters, let us yield him the right. And when dipping our fingers in other people’s porrige-dishes, we chance to get them scalded, let it teach us to mind no body’s business hut our own. NOTICE. I N accordance with the resolution of the National Committee and Council, pass ed October 24th, 1827, requiring the Treas urer of the Cherokee Nation to call in all the money loaned out under the provisions of a previous act, on or before the first Mon day of October next, I hereby give notice to all such as are indebted to the Treasury, to come and redeem their bonds by paying principal and interest, on the day that they become due, as such bonds cannot be re newed after the first Monday of October next. No indulgence will he given, and those who do not comply with the above re quisition must expect to find their bonds in the hands of Officers. JOHN MARTIN, Trcas. of the Ch. Nat. New Echota, July 23, 1928.