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vantage: and the voice of the emperor was heard, encouraging his soldiers to achieve, by a last effort the deliver ance of their country. In that fatal moment, the Janizaries arose, fresh, vigorous and invincible. The Sultan himself on horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator ' and judge of their valor; he was sur rounded by ten thousand of his domes tic troops, whom he reserved for the decisive occasions; and the tide of bat tle was directed and impelled by his Voice and eye. His numerous minis ters of justice, were posted behind the line, to urge, and restrain and punish: and if danger and death were in front, shame and inevitable death was in the rear of the fugitives. The cries of fear and pain were drowned in the martial music of drums, trumpets, and atabate; and experience has proved, that the mechanical operation of sounds, by quickning the circulation of blood and spirits, will act on the hu man machine more forcibly than all the eloquence of reason and honor.-— From the lines, the galleys' and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thunder ed on all sides; and the camp, and the eity, the Greeks and the Turks, were Involved in a kind ef smoke, which could only be dispelled by the deliver ance or destruction of the Roman em pire. The defence began to slacken, when the attack was pressed with re doubled vigor. The number of the Ottomans was fifty or a hundred times •superior to that of the Christians; the double walls were reduced by the can non to a heap of ruins; in a circuit of several miles some places must be found more easy of access, or more feebly guarded; and if the besiegers could penetrate in a single point, the whole city was irrecoverably lost.— The first who deserved the Sultan’s reward, was Hassan, the janizary, of gigantic stature and strength. With his cymetar in ono hand and buckler in the other, he ascended the outward fortification; of the thirty janizaries who ascended the wall, eighteen per ished in the adventure. Hassan and his twelve companions had reached the summit; the giant was precipitat ed from the rampart; he rose on one .knee, and was again oppressed by a shower of stones and darts. But his success had proved that the achieve ment was,possible; the walls and tow ers were instantly covered with a swarm of Turks; and the Greeks, now •driven from the vantage ground were overwhelmed by increasing multi tudes. Amidst these multitudes the Emperor, who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier, was long seen and hnally lost- The nobles who fought round his person, sustain ed to their last breath the names of Palajlogus and Cantaeuzene; his ex clamation was heard, 'Cannot there be found a Christian to cut off my Jicad?’ and his last fear was that of falling alive into the hands of the in fidels. The prudent despair of Con stantine cast away the purple; amidst the tumult he fell by an unknown hand, and his corpse was buried under a mountain of slain. After his death re sistance and order were no more.: the Greeks fled towards the city, and many were pressed and stifled in this narrow pass of the gale of St. Roman- us. The victors rushed through the breaches in the inner wall: and as they Advanced into the street they were •soon joined by their brethren, who had forced the gate Phenar on the side of the harbor. In the first heat of their pursuits, about two thousand Christ ians were put to the sword; but ava rice soon prevailed over cruelty; and the victors acknowledged that they should immediately have given quar- ter, if the valor of the Emperor and his chosen bands had not prepared them for similar opposition in every part of the capital. < It was thus, after a siege of fifty- three days, that Constantinople, which bad defied the power ofChosroes, the Chagan, and the Cnlphs, was irretriev ably subdued by the hands of Mahomet the Second. Her Empire only had been subverted by the Latins; her re- hgiort was trampleddn the dust by the Moslem conquerors,” Cherokee Lands.—Gen. R. M. Saun ders, who we a few weeks since men tioned, had repaired, under a commis sion from the Governor of this state, to Haywood county, to enter into con tracts with divers Cherokee Indians, for a relinquishment of their claims to certain reservations of lands, some of which have been sold by the state, re turned last week to his residence io this town. .We learn the General ills been successful in contracting for the extinguishment, at moderate prices, of the Indian claims to 4vventy-six of these reservations; and entered into conditional contracts for the purchase of fifteen more—comprising all the reservations to which the Indians were enabled to establish valid claims.— These contracts are to be submitted to the Generally Assembly, for their ratification, before they can become binding on the stale. But, from the favourable terms upon which they have been entered into, we presume the Legislature will not hesitate to ratify them.— Western Carolinian 12th Aug. Creek Indians.—We have under stood that, in consequence of the dis satisfaction expressed by many of the Creek Indians who had subscribed their names and agreed to form a part of the emigrating party, a disturbance has taken place among them, and ren dered it necessary for the Government to take some precautionary measures.. Capt. Wager’s Company of the 4th Regiment has been ordered to repair immediately to the scene of disturb ance, and will leave here in a few days. It is supposed the disturbance has been created by Indians opposed to emigration, and some white persons who have influence in the nation. Pensacola Argus, 29tli ult. From the People’s Friend. Confessions of a Rum Drinker. No one who has not experienced the effects of habit, when appearing un der the form of vice, can judge of its absolute power, nor of the insidious advance it makes, from the moment when we first become acquainted with it, to that when we have become slaves to its power, and completely subjugated to a tyrant, whose influ ence increases the longer we are gov erned by him. We do not at once be come vicious. We are led on gradu ally from one step to another: we go deeper and deeper, until we are in volved too seriously oftentimes to be extricated. I pass by the history of my former life. Suffice it to say at the present time, that at the age of 25-1 was the lather of a iarniiy, and in circumstances of prosperity. Fortune had, indeed, denied me wealth, and I was compell ed to be dependant upon my own la bour for a livelihood:—yet that would have afforded me enough to live easy, had I properly improved the privileges in my power. But, alas, how keen is the agony 1 feel, when! think of the past! lis horrors and realities are be fore me; and I see myself again (as I was then,) a loathed and hated wretch, for whom affection had lost all feel ing—for whom life had no joy. I was then a slave to intemperance. I contracted the habit as thousands have done, and os thousands do now. I began by little, but repeated indul gence matte way for new efforts to a- rouse the dormant and paralyzed ener gies of my frame. One s'tep made way for another. The oftener I rais ed the accursed cup to my polluted lips, the oftener I burned for it again. Did I think then 1 would be the hated, s.nful wretch i soon became? No.— Though I saw housands around me who were sunk by the same destroy ing spirit into the most abject misery, yet I only pitied them, and did not fear that such would be my fate, lor I trusted in my own prudence, my own sense of moral rectitude, little dream ing that 1 was going on imperceptibly to the same grade of depravity, and that habit was every day throwing a- round me allurements which, in a lit tle while human power could scarce ly destroy. Yet so it was, and it was infatuation that hid from my view the precipice 1 stood on. Oh what an awful fall is such a one! But let me finish my history. I was at this time in the bloom of life. Every thing might have been beauty and happiness around me, for God had blessed me infinitely more than I deserved—infinitely more than even now, a redeemed man, I dare to ask- My eircumstauces ivere favor able. , My employment afforded e- nough to supply the wants of my fam ily, and I could even allow them to indulge in some of the luxuries of life. But, alas, how soon was I doomed to see these fair prospects wither. As it generally happens in cases like mine, the companions with whom I associated were, like myself, fond of frequenting taverns—those great marts vice and immorality To such places ,1 often went* when my daily labor * was finished, and spent there many a thoughtless hour in riot and debauch ery. Yet I was not so far gone in ini- q nity as not to feel now & then, when 1 reflected upon my life, a secret sting Of conscience. Unfortunately, however, it had but little feffect upon me. Reason c.eascd to exercise her wonted power. Every day found me involved more and more, and it was not long before the taverns and intem perate companions had more attrac tion than my innOcent and suffering family. The consequence ivas, my business was neglected, my credit was lost, and poverty and distress soon fol lowed after. In this way I went on, 6tep after step, until at length I became a con firmed toper. I made myself an object of scorn and derision. The finger of slijpnie was pointed at me as I walked the streets. But need I add any thing more to the picture? Every one knows whaj a wretched, loathsome object a drunkard is. lie has made himself worie than a brute—sunken in depravity, lost, lost to all sense of mor al feeling. And need I say, too, that all the shame and disgrace heaped up on me by the world, failed to bring a- bout a change of habits, when the tears and entreaties of a beloved wife, and the misery and want of ray inno cent children, had no redeeming influ ence over my hetfrt? Oh what a state of cold, adamantine insensibility! I had been the possessor of feeling, hut every fibre of iny heart was palsied. Vice had set up his throne there, and it was ail desolate and drear. I pass by the five loag years of my moral death. I do not love to dwell upon the subject. Let me only say, that during that period I was tin out cast from society. My wife and chil dren were taken from me, and gene rously supported by a relative. Eve ry thing I owned was seized upon by my creditors, and my property was lost forever. I am now an altered man. It has cost me many a struggle to break oil’ from the pernicious habit; but, by the blessing of God, I am redeemed, and restored once more to myself and to the world. Let him remember, who puts the glass to his-lips, that vice steals im perceptibly upon its victims; that se curity consists, not in meeting, but in avoiding temptation; and that no one who is in the habit of drinking, be it ever so little, can safely say, lie will not be, in a few years, what i was. M. HORRIBLE ADVENTURE. At the period when Murat was a- bout to invade Sicily, the Chevalier R——, paymaster general of the Ne apolitan forces, was travelling through Calabria fof the purpose of joining the army, having been to Naples to make arrangements for the transmission of a quantity of specie. He had sent on his servant before him, to prepare his quarters at the town of , expect ing to arrive there by night fall; but the day being very sultry, lie had loit ered on the road, and at nine o’clock <n the evening, found that he was still at a considerable distance from the proposed end of his journey. He was so much harrassed and fatigued that he determined to put up for the night at the first convenient house. He at length entered an old romantic build ing on the road side, inhabited by a man and his wife, the former a stout muscular figure, with a swarthy coun tenance almost wholly shrouded in a mass of bushy whiskers and mustachi- os. The traveller was received with civility; and, after partaking of a hearty supper, was conducted up a crazy old staircase, to his apartment for the night. Not much fancying the appearance of the place, and finding no lock on his door, he fixed a chair against it; and after priming his pistols put them carefully under his pillow. He had not been long in bed before be heard a noise below, and of persons entering the house; and some time af terwards was alarmed by the sound of a man's foot step on the stair case.— He tjien perceived a light through the crevice^pf the door,* against which the man gently pressed for admittance, but finding some resistance he thrust it open sufficiently to admit his hand, and with extreme caution removed the chair and entered the apartment. The Chevalier then saw his host, with a lamp in one hand arid a knife ja the other, approaching the bed on tiptoe. The Chivalier cocked his pistols be neath the bed clothes, that’the noise of tho spring might not be heard.— When tlie'maq reached the side of his bed he held the light to the Cheva lier’s face, who pretended to be in a profound sleep, hut contrived never theless to steal an occasional glance at his fearful host. The man soon turned from him, and after hanging the lamp on the bed post, went to the oth er end of the room, and brought to the bed side a chair, on which he imme diately mounted with the tremendous knife still in his hand. At the very moment that the Chevilier was about to start up from the bed and shoot him, the man, in a hurried manner, cut sev eral enormous slices from a piece of bacon that was hanging over his bed stead, though it had wholly been un noticed before by the agitated travel ler. The host then passed the light before his eyes again and left the ruorri in the same cautious way in which he had entered it, and unconscious of the danger he had escaped, returned to a crowd of new and hungry guests be low, who were of course not very sor ry to perceive that he had saved his bacon. Jllelancholy Accident.—A young un married lady f>y the name of Sampson, was hurried in Greene, on Saturday last, whose death was caused as fol lows: Miss Sampson, in company with another female, as we are in formed, had retired at a distance from their dwelling to escape danger from the blasting of rocks near the house. As they were seated appa rently in a safe retreat, a fragment of the blasted rock, weighing about 12 oz descending from a considerable height, factored her skull, and caused her death in less than twelve days.— Ale. Baptist Herald. The following is an extract from the prospectus of the Southern Radical, a new paper about to he published in Cheravv, S. Carolina, by a young man who is a candidate for the Legislature, and who has lately made a famous speech in the Colleton spirit. The appropriate marks of admiration are given by a writer in the Charleston Courier. “Although the Radical will be al most exclusively a political publication, yet the fields of literature and science, shall not go uncultivated and untrod den. We will delight occasionally from the sickening stench of politics, to breath the pure and invigorating and healthful atmosphere of Belles Lettres —(!) to return from the noisy strife— to exchange the l "pulvis strapatusque Romcc,” for the sweet music of the Arcadian groves--(!!!!!) to quit the bustle of the capital, and worship in the Temple of the muses—(!!) to yield up the ranting tirades of fac tious Syllus, for the soft swelling pas torals of Tibullus (!!!)—We will go forth in the fairy fields of fancy, and cull the choicest and sweetest flowers from the tree of poesy—(!!!!) weave fresh garlands and coronal wreaths for the brow of genius—(!!!!!) bend its budding osier twigs around the knotted oak of wisdom—(!!!!!!) breath into it the soul of inspiration—(!!!!!!!) sprinkle it with the pure and livingwaters of Cas- talia—(!!!!) and then, with heartfelt joy, ivatcli it verging aloft and shoot ing above, until itslainhent branches twine their graceful folds, "high on Parnassian hills.”(!!!!!!!!) London Post Office.—In a recent conversation with an English gentle man, who is no stranger to London, we are assured of a fact which had been stated to us before, viz. that no mail is transported either into or out of that ci ty on the Sabbath; neither is the post-of- Jice opened, even for an hour. How will this fact be reconciled with the plea of necessity, which is urged by those who advocate the transportation of the mail on the Sabbath in the Uni ted States, and the opening of the post- offices in cities and towns, which in comparison with London, are mere villages?-—N. Y. Observer. We witnessed, on Tuesday last, a circumstance which we believe is rather a'singular one in the history of, the animal world. A rgt was thrown into a box containing one hundred rat tlesnakes, for the purpose of showing the manner of attack by these reptiles. When first thrown into the box lie ev idently excited considerable displeas ure amongst the serpents at the sight of such an intruder. They, however, made no immediate attack upon him, but put their heads rather boldly a- round him, apparently for the purpose ol examining his make and quality.— The rat taking this impertinence in high dudgeon, soon began to play hitf part among his new comrades by a* dopting their own mode of warfare* and biting every one that presumed to come within his reach. His usual aim would be at the head and neck of the snakes, where he would fasten his teeth so /irmly that they would fre quently drag him the whole length of the box, before he would let go his hold. In this way he booh became master of the field and by merely turning bis bead towards them, the snakes would retreat to the nack ground for safety, liowever, to close the scene, after the rat had been in the box four or live hours, one young snake, of more courage than his companions, placed himself in a pos ture of attack, and by one effectual blow, put a period to the conquests of the warrior rat.— Wafertoim, Jefficrson County, Register. From the N. Y. Observer. INTERESTING TO DRUNKARDS. In the latter part of July, Sumul Wager, about 70 years of age, was- louiid dead at Chester; N. J. sitting with his back against a fence,—in a state of putrefaction, and covered with worms,—having in one hand a rum bot tle, and in the other a cork!! Tie was an old veteran in the service, and had destroyed vast quantities of intoxica ting liquor—that cruel enemy of man. lie was not without his reward; for he,reached the highest honors to ayhieh the drunkard seems to aspire, viz. the poor-house, and to die drunk, unlamen ted and alone, in the open field, expos ed to the ravages of vermin.—a sight too appalling for human nature!!— What encouragement is this to the thousands who are following in the same steps! True Pith..—The force of lan* gunge is apt to be much injured by the multitude of u ords. A respectable farmer, not forty miles from Ibis place, has the singular happy talent of not saying a word too much. A young man wishing to ob tain his consent to marry his daughter, called upon him one day as he was ploughing with his oxen. It Avas, past all doubt, a fearful matter for a diffi dent man to breach, and the hesitating lover, after running, a parrallel with the furroAY" several times round the field, and essaying trith all his court age to utter the important question, at last stammered out—’I—I—I've been thinking, Mr.- that—that—as Iioav I—I—I—should be gl—gl—glad to—to—m—m—marry—marry your daughter. Farmer.—“Take her and use her Avell, Avlioa, haw, Buck.”—Berkshire American. JCT’TheRpv. William McKf.ndrt, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church "’ill preach at Creek path on the iirst Sun day in October, and on the second at Ootli- gelogy. The Methodist Campmeeting which was to haA'e been held at Rock Spring meeting house in the neighborhood of McNairs on the first Aveek in October is altered and will commence on the last Thursday in Septem ber. POCKET BOOK LOST. A BOUT the middle of July last was. stolen out of my Pocket at my house, a large Washed Leather Pcket-Book, containing one note on the State Bank of Georgia for $10, one note of hand on Eli jah Hicks for $85, payable sometime in October next; a receipt of Henry Megyrof 'the State of Npyv York, for two notes on John Byers of the said State, and some other papers not recollected. To any per son getting &. delivering said Book, papers and money to me; I will give ten dollars, and five for the apprehension of the rogue, I do hereby forwarn all persons-from tra ding for said note of Elijah Hicks. And I also forAY-arn Elijah Hicks from paying said note to anyperson excepting mA’sclf. GEORGE HARLIN- CoosewaY'tee Cherokee Nation, August 13. 182S.—24-tf. 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 res. newed after the first Monday of October, next. No indulgence will be 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, \ Treas. ofthe Cb. NSfc New Ecljota, July S3, 1828.