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^ter the destruction of the Philadol-
7 of 44,guns, she was for a long
[e the only frigate on »the .station,
. being ably secorfted by. the small-
vessels witlr the gallant Decatur,
I more to humble the pride of the
Ibary states, than all Christendom
\r did before or since,
in short, such a variety of service
I perilous adventures has never
bn achieved.by any single vessel.—
jc soon after returned home, where
remained unemployed, or nearly
| till the commencement of the late
with Great Britain. This was
the 18th of June, 1812. On the
kh July she left the Chesapeake for
[w York, and on the 17th discover-
|and was chased by a British squad-
consisting of the Africa 04, and
|r frigates, for three days and three
flits. She escaped at last by skii-
inanagement, and arrived in Boston
irbour on the 26th of July. Tftis
s one of. the most brilliant exploits
the w r ar. After remaining a few
rs in port she sailed again, & on the
tli of Augus.t fell in with, and after
engagement of thirty minutes, cap-
red II. B. M. frigate Guerriere of
guns, and 362 men. After buni-
ilg her, Captain Hull returned again
tp Boston oil the 30th August, and
;*jongave up the command to Captain
,r illiam Bainbridge, who with the
hme crew shortly after sailed on a-
Otlier cruise to South America,
here on the 29th December of the
aine .year, after an engagement of a-
out two liotirs, she captured II. B. M
lip Java of forty-nine guns, and up-
ards of four hundred men. This
as one of the severest contests of
le wpr. The Java w r as likewise
urned, and the Constitution returned
gain to Boston. In.Tune, 1813, Cap
tain Charles Stewart was appointed
to her command, and on the 30th of
ecemher,'she proceeded to sea not-
ithstanding Boston was blockaded by
even ships of war. She returned on
die 4th of April, 1814, and was chased
n Marblehead by two of the enemy’s
icavy frigates, La Nymphe and Juno.
About the middle of December, 1814
lie proceeded on her second cruise
jnder Captain Stewart, on the 28tli
FFebruary, offMatleria, after an ac-
tityi of forty minutes, she captured
H. B. IVf. ships Cyane of 31; Levant
of 21 guns, and upwards of 300 men.
The Cyane arrived safe and now
forms a part of our navy; but the Lev
ant was recaptured. The Constitu
tion herself was chased by a squadron
under Sir George Collier, consisting
of the Leander and New Castle of 50
guns each, and the Acasta of 44.—
* Her usual good fortune however at
tended her, and she arrived safe in the
United States. Peace had now been
proclaimed, and she remained, unem
ployed again, we believe witll single
exception, until the cruise from which
she has just returned, after an absence
of more than 3 years, the details of
which have not yet transpired.
She is now to undergo all necessary
repairs, and on tile first emergency
will forthwith he ready to serve her
country. About seven years since she
was hove out and completely examined
at the Navy Yard in Charlestown,
when her timbers &c. were ill remark
able good order—a fact which after
twenty-live years wear and tear and
hard service, redounds not a little to
the credit of the old fashioned me
chanics of Boston.
In her actions with the Guerrier
and Java, the Constitution mounted 54
guns, and 53 when engaged with the
Cyane and Levant. Her loss in the
action with the Guerriere was, killed
and woyqided 14; with the Java, 34;
and with the Cyane and Levant, 15
more—total, 62. The Guerriere’s
loss, killed, wounded, and missing, was
103; the Java’s*! G1; the Cyanc’s 33;
the Levant’s 32—total, 341, or in
the proportion of live and a half to one.
The prisoners were nearly one tlious-
-aiid,
Turkish .firms.—We may, how
ever, consider it as a general
rule, that the Turks will maintain the
defence of a fortified place to the ve
ry last; and that the great strength of
their garrisons, and their actual luxu
ry in point of arms, will always render
an assault one of great Bloodshed and
danger. Every Turk, when properly
armed, carries with him, besides his
musket, at least one pair of pistols, a
sabre, and a long and somewhat curv
ed dagger or knife, (the imvard curve
having the sharp edge,) called a 7cm-
sckal, which he uses principally in cut
ting off heads. This weapon, which
is about two feol long, is not unlike
tfie Roman short Aword; and at the
brilliant tcra of the Ottomans, it may
have proved not less formidable in the
melee than was the latter, with which
the legions subdued the world. Hence,
it is very evident, that in scaling a rani-
part, the European soldier, with his
musket and fixed bayonet, is placed
under great disadvantage against an
enemy so well armed both for attack
and defence.— Valcnlini's Mil. Rejiec.
of Turkey.
From the National Intelligencer.
CHOCTAW ACADEMY.
This seat of instruction is so called
from having been chosen by the Choc
taws as the place of their preference,
for the education of a portion of their
children. It is situated at the Great
Crossings, in Kentucky; is under the
direction of the Baptist Board of Mis
sions, and the regulations of the De
partment of War. The Creeks, hear
ing of the success which attended their
brothers, the Choctaws, followed their
example, and appointed, like them, a
portion of their means for the benefit
of some of their children, as have al
so the Pottowattamies.
The labors of the institution increas
ing, it was deemed best by the Sec
retary of War to lessen them by the
introduction of the Lancasterian plan;
besides, it was believed that greater
facilities in learning would result to
the youths of the inferior classes. Mr.
Ould, who had been selected, and
sent'over from England by Lancaster,
himself, for the opening and organizing
the Lancasterian School in George
town, in this District, was sent to or
ganize the Choctaw Academy, and, for
the first time, to give the nations of
the forest the benefits of this new
mode of instruction.
The following is an extract of a let
ter from Mr Ould, to Col. McKenuey,
of the Indian Department, which is
published because it so abundantly
testifies to the advances of a portion
of our red brothers, which will appear
extraordinary to those who have
thought them incapable of making
them.
Many of these little foresters go
from their wilderness home, with
only their Indian names. To such
names are given, and they like best
the names of those whose names are
most familiar to them; or are pleased
in proportion as they are taught to be
lieve (should they never have heard of
them) that those after whom they are
called are great men. Hence, among
the Creek boys at the Choctaw Aead-
emy, we have Henry Clay, John C.
Calhoun, Richard Rush, Thomas II.
Benton, Richard M. Johnson* Andrew
Jackson, James Barbour, &c.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Ould to
Col. Me Kenney, dated Great Cross-
ings(Ky.)June 28, 1828.
“Deeming it not uninteresting, I
have taken up the pen to inform you
that I have arrived here, and am busi
ly employed in re-organizing the Choc
taw Academy.
“It consists of one hundred Choc
taw, Creek, Chickasaw, and other
Indians, some of whom have made
considerable progress, having ad
vanced so far in their studies as to be
well grounded in astronomy, moral
philosophy, surveying, geography, his
tory, use of the globes, &c—-removing
at once, and 1 hope forever, the mus
ty idea that our sons of the forest are
incapable of civilization. Moreover,
many have made an open profession of
religion—some Methodists, some Bap
tists; in short, I uever before witness-
! ed so interesting a spectacle, and
which a letter is too short to describe.
“The Lancasterian plan is joyfully
received, and will no doubt prove a
powerful auxiliary.”
MR. JEFFERSON’S DEBTS.
At the time of Mr. Jefferson's death,
his debts amounted to $107,000 —
This we know, says the National In
telligencer, from having seen a list ac
companied by unquestionable evidence
of its correctness. From the sales
of personal estate in January, 1827,
and the funds which came into his
hands, the executor has paid the sum
of $12,340 on account of the interest
accruing on that debt, and the sum of
$35,000 in part discharge of it. There
is, therefore, at this time, the sum of
$72,000, remaining unpaid, to pay
which, the lands of Mr. Jefferson are
now ollered for sale.
U. S. Troops.—\ detachment of
troops, 'numbering 160, arrived here
on the 10th ult. in canal boats, from
Green Bay, via Buffalo, and left for
New York in the aftefnoon, in the
steamboat Victory, Capt Thomas
Wiswall. Therr destination is the
northeastern frontier, in the State of
Maine. The frequent marchiug of
troops td that quarter, would seem to
indicate trouble. This detachment-
\yas accompanied by Inspector Gene
ral Croghan, who during the late war,
bravely and successfully defended a
fort in the Indian country, against a
much larger force of British and In
dians.—Jllbany D. Adv.
Newspapers.—There is hardly any
thing so much needed in a family as a
newspaper, and yet nothing, compara
tively speaking, is esteemed of so lit
tle value.- If a man undertakes tore-
trench his expenses, instead of lopping
off what is really useless and extrava
gant, the first tiling to he amputated
is the newspaper. He will not drink
a bottle of wine the less, nor chew the
less tobacco, nor divest himselt of a
single unseemly habit; but he sits
down and demonstrates to a certainty
that a paper neither feeds nor clothes
him, and therefore it is a great tax—
and then a note is despatched to the
printer, “Sir, I cannot afford to take
your paper any longer”—or “times are
hard, money is scarce—ergo you may
discontinue sending my paper”—or
with any other excuse that may come
uppermost.
Now we believe that every one who
will make a fair trial, and observe flic
influence of reading over his family,
will find at the end of the year that he
is not a cent the poorer for having
been a subscriber to a good newspa
per. He will have accumulated more
real intelligence of the every day con
cerns-of life and the movements of na
tions—we take it for granted that lie
has perused every number with avidi
ty—than he would have done in a se
ries of years deprived of the sight
thereof. Ilis wife will have picked
up much information relative to the
government of her children, many use
ful lessons of household economy, and
no small share of instruction suited to
her situation. The children will ac
quire a habit of reading and a degree
of intelligence worth the price of sub
scription ten times fold. In fact, a
good virtuous, well conducted news
paper in a family is the best econo
mist of time, and the aptest instructor
of the mind.
Governor Cass, and Colonel Me
nard, of Illinois, have been appointed
Commissioners to treat with the Sac,
Fox, Winnebago, Ottowa, Paltawa-
tamic, and Chippewa tribes of Indians,
for the extinction of their title to the
mining country upon Fever River, and
also to a tract of land south of St. Jo
sepli of Lake Michigan; and to anoth
er, to connect the settlements of Indi
ana. The season is so far advanced,
that we learn it will be impracticable
to hold the council this year for the
lead country—it will beheld next sea
son. Some of the other objects ,of the
commissioners will be effected this
year. Eel. Gaz.
The Mangled Limb.—One evening
last week as two men were walking
on the beach at Porte Loe, (St. Ma
ry’s Scilly,) their attention was pain
fully excited by the appearance of a
human arm—seemingly that of a fe
male—which the receding tide had
just deposited on the sand where it lay,
extended and bleaching, beneath the
silvery influence of the moonbeam.—
On examination, a iecent wound and
the vestiges of a stream of blood ap
peared perfectly visible near the
shoulder! The parties by whom it
was seen, hastily covered the lacera
ted member with some shore weed
and left it on the beach. A thousand
wild conjectures—not a little embel
lished by the influence of superstitiun-
werc soon afloat on the subject, and
the coming of the next day—for a
more minute investigation—was anx
iously expected. The day came, but
the tide had been before it and had re
conveyed “the mangled limb” to the
main! Singular to say on the follow
ing evening the arm was again wash
ed in near the same place; and on be
ing handled, proved to he part of the
figure head (beautifully carved and
painted) of some ship or vessel un
known! The appearance of blood,
&.c. was occasioned by the exudation
of rust from a large nail by which the
arm had been fastened to its original
trunk.—Eng. pap.
Hanging,—Two young ladies are
said to have divided a skein of yarn,
and hung themselves on the same tree,
near Palmyra, Portage co. Ohio.—
They were discovered, before the vi
tal spark lmd fled, and were restored.
How to write a letter.—Let the wri
ting he so plain that every body can
rend- it, and the meaning 1m; so plain
that every body can understand it. !
Admiral Collingwood, in a letter to 1
his daughter, says that “If pens are;
.bad, they ^should he mended,” and
mote time is lost in making the apol- \
ogyfor great haste, than would have i
beoi necessary to finish the letter in
good style. These remarks apply
witli equal force to almost every spe
cies of writing. •
The following witty and good na-
tu’red remarks are from the Address j
of the editor of the Augusta (Vt.) ;
Herald, announcing the discontinuance
of his piper.
“Wei- therefore, the proprietor, j
publish^', printer* and editor of the j
Augusta Herald, in cdboral cabinet
assembled, appealing to the public for
the coircetness of our course do, in
the na/he of empty pockets, unpaid 1
notes,and dunning creditors, publish !
and declare, that the Augusta Herald
is, aid of right ought to he,—Discon-
tinvfdP
GOOD BACON.
The following is the mode of cur-
j/ig bacon in Virginia, laid down by a
gentleman of the Isle of White county,
who lias had much experience in the
process.
“To have good bacon, the pork
must he fat; it may possibly he too fat .
though that is very rarely the case in
Virginia. Hogs about 18 months old,
which are raised poor, and afterwards
well fatted, in a short time, on corn,
are, 1 think, decidedly to be prefer
red. Before the pork he salted up
it should he thoroughly cold, a cir
cumstance indispensible to its lasting
preservation; and it is at least the
safest course, in our uncertain clim
ate, lo loose no time afterwards.—
To give bacon its most exquisite fla
vor, both molasses or sugar and salpe-
•tre should be used. I usually put a
table spoonful or two of molasses on
the flesh side of the ham, a little be
fore it is salted, and after the molass
es is rubbed over it, a heaping spoon
ful of finely pulverised saltpetre; the
ham supposed to weigh, when cured,
from 12 to 15 pounds. 1 put nearly
the same quantity on the middlings
and shoulders, and proportionally on
smaller pieces, believing that it essen
tially contributes not only towards im
proving the flavor and appearance,
but also to the preservation of bacon,
and is a preventative against the
worm, bug and skipper. In order to
insure perfectly sound bacon, the
pork must he salted at least twice.—
The second salting should take place
about the third day after the first, at
which lime I add about a third of the
quantity of saltpetre applied in the
first instance. If, however, the pork
should he frozen when salted in the
first instance, it should he re-salted
as soon as practicable after it thaws,
without which there is great danger
of injury. I use the Liverpool sack
salt, and prefer it on accoqnt of its
fineness. A bushel to the thousand
weight of pork has been supposed a
sufficient quantity. I think too little,
and would not by any means advise
that there should he any stint of salt.
Five pounds of saltpetre to the above
mentioned quantity of pork is perhaps
quite enough. Care should he taken
to let the brine draiu off from the
pork, whilst in salt, as ifs contact
with it tends to injure its flavor. If
salted in casks, there should he a hole
in the bottom after the second salting,
that the brine may escape. There
are different opinions as to the length
of time the pork should remain in salt.
I would recommend four weeks. If
saltpetre in sufficient quantities he
used, fat pork can scarcely be made
too nit. I have known prime excel
lent bacon to have remained in salt
more than three months. The last
operation in the curing of bacon rs the
smoking of it. This may he suffi
ciently well done perhaps with any
kind of wood, but strong solid green
wood, os hickory or oak, is the best.
Contrary to old opinions, the opera
tion is best carried on in the closest,
smoke house; a considerable degree
of heat, too, is not only perhaps in ju
rious, hut promotes ami best facili
tates, I believe, Aw operation. The
old idea of the fire tainted meat is
erroneous. The effect so called is
occasioned by the pork not being tho
roughly cured. Bacon should he
smoked until it is of a dark' reddish
brown color, ami it is best done in
clear dry weather. In hanging it tip,
it is most advantageous to put the
joints highest, for, as they are most
assailable by the skipper fly, they are
least likely thereby to have eggs de
posited in them. There is an opin
ion which lias long universally prevail
ed, iind which I think the experience
of the hist winter has belied. It is,
that if pork ho thoroughly cold before
salting, it may, with proper card he
saved. This, in ordinary winters, is
true. But in such a winter as the
last, when the thermometer ran, in 24
hours from between 30 and 40 to be
tween GO ami 70, and remained so for
four or live days, I do net think that
fat aad large pork can he saved by
any reasonable alien'.ion to it.”
We have heard the result of the cap
tious from all ll>e District . i he following
persons arc returned electee.
COOSEWAYTFF DISTRI CT
Fou mi; Committee.
JOSEPH VANN.
CEO. SAND KGS.
For tub Cou;;c:l.-
DATT-VE-SKE,
NIv-GA H-WE.
WHITE PATH.
A MO H EE DISTRICT
Foil the C.immtvt;.: .
LEWIS ROSS,
THOMAS FOREMAN.
Fon Tiir. C iv;.c:i„
GOING SNARE.
JAMES RICHEY.
DEER IN THE WATER.
CHICK AM AUf/A DISTR.tC'i,
Fan tiii; Committee.
RICHARD T AY KOI’.
JOHN F. IIALDRIDGE,
DANIEL McCOY. . '
Fou the Council.
CHARGES REECE
SLEEPING RABBIT,
SE GE DAD AYAH.
CHATTOOGA DISTRICT -
Foil the Com.mitti:; .
EDWARD CENTER,
DANIEL GRIFFIN.
Fon the Council.
BARK,
LAUGH AT MUSH,
ARCHIBALD CAMP BEL! •
HIGH TOWER DISTRICT
For tub Committee.
JOSEPH VANN,
DAVID VANN.
Fou tub Council,.
CHULEOWAH,
WALKING STICK,
00 LE NAH WAH.
HICKORY LOG DISTRICT
Fou the Committee.
JAMES DANIEL,
SAMUEL DOWNING
For the Council.
JOHN R. DANIEL,
SLIM FELtOW,
MOSES PARRIS.
AQUOHE.
For. the Committee
JOHN TIMSON,
SAMUEL WARD.
Fou the Council,
SiTUAGEE,
SWEETWATER,
ROBERT MUSKRAT.
TA QUOHEE.
Fon the Committee.
AI,EX ANDE11 M ’DON A LI..
WILLIAM BOLING.
Fon the Council.
METOY,
CRICKET,
BENCH LEG.
POCKET LOOK LOST.
A BOUT the middle of July put , lV a •
stolen out of my Pocket *t my lnnse,
a Urge Washed Leather Pocket-Book.
containing one note on the Stale Bank o '
Georgia I'or -810, one note of hand on Eli
jah Hicks for 885, payable sometime in
October next; a receipt of Hcnrv Meiryrc
the Stale of N"w York, fnr two notes o;
John Byers of the said Slate, and sonn-
other papers nol recollected. To an* poi
son getting &. delivering said Book, j cpc i
and money to me; I will give ten dollars
and five for tli" apprehension of the rogue
I do hereby fcnvai n all persons fiom tra
ding for said note of Elijah Hicks. Air
1 alsolonvnrn Elijah Hicks from paying
said note to nnvprrson excepting uivself.
‘ GEORGE HAllLl.V.
Coesewavtee Cherokee Nation, Align’I
13. 182S.—-24-t!'.
NOTICE.
] 'N accordance with tire resolution of the
- National Committee and Council, pas:
ed October 24th, 1827, requiring the Trra -
urerofthe Cherokee Nation to call in all
the money loaned out under the provision-;
ofa previous act, on or Isotope the first Mor
day of October next, I hereby give notice
to all such as are indebted to fwe Treason .
to come and redeem ihyir bonds hv pavitn
principal and interest, on the day that thc.i
become due, as such bonds cannot lie it-
lie wed after the first Monday of October
next. No indulgence will he given, ami
those who do not comply with the above re
quisition must expect to lind their bonds lu.
the bands of Office—-.
JOHN MARTIN,
Treas. ofthe Ch. \/
New Elliott), July 23, 1R2P.
