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* j- .f owy CHEROKEE JcT^FO^. PHIENIX, VOL. I. NEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29, 1828. ]VO. 35. Edited by elias boudinott. PRINTED WEEKLY BY ISAAC H, IIAHRIS, FOR THE CHEROKEE NATION, At $2 50 if paid in advance, $3 in six months, 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 ’ll advance, or $2,50 to be paid within the .year. Every subscription will be considered as continued unless subscribers give notice to Ihe contrary before the commencement of a new year. Any person procuring six subscribers, -and becoming responsible for the payment, shall receive a seventh gratis. Advertisements will be inserted at seven- to-five cents per square for the first inser- flon, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each continuance; longer ones in propor tion. JCJ 1 * All letters addressed to the Editor, postpaid, will receive due attention. QWV AD hSi JE6,CX ^eAVXoDJI TAAJ* JhtfBAA I*4m>J. BSAE aiiC5IiJo®y KTA D^P O’e.lBA TCTZ TEiSJO v <T’ D0. T >5«'l v oi).I. TGTZ VIP TdSO-A TB K l' d?4 o»ejBa dua«iez tb yw l>e.i»s»si*<»a, o-yjiT d,?p p-4«u. ®vvyz o’&.r JLhVha<ay, -*v* d?-h (PtJBJI I-4<V9.*B(F, TGTZ TF.^O-lT’ DO" jAoaiv<»a. ktaz d^p yw *ii o^anA" SMR DOJ^oap-o^a. AGENTS FOR THE CHEROKEE PHCENIX. The following persons are authorized to -receive subscriptions and payments for the Cherokee Phoenix. Henrv Hill, Esq. Treasurer of the A. <8. C. F. M. Boston, Mass. George M. Tracy, Agent of the A. B. G. F. M. New York. Rev. A. D. Eddy, Canandaigua, N. Y. Thomas Hastings, Utica, N. Y. Pollard &, Converse, Richmond, Va. llev. James Campbell, Beaufort, S. C. William Moultrie Reid, Charleston, S. C. Col, George Smith, Statesville, W. T. William M. Combs, Nashville Ten. Rev. Bennet Roberts—Powal Me. Mr. Thos. R. Gold, (an itinerant Gen- -tleman.) Jeremiah Austil, Mobile Ala, THE DISCONTENTED PENDU LUM. An old clock that had stood for fif ty years in a farmer’s kitchen without giving its owner any cause of com plaint, early one summer s morning, before the family was stirring, sudden ly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate, (if we way credit the fable,) changed coun tenance with alarm; the bauds made an ineffectual effort to continue their bourse; the wheels remained motion less with surprise; the weights hung speechless; each member felt dispos ed to lay the blame on the others.— At length the dial instituted a foiinal inquiry as to the cause of the stagna tion; when hands, wheels, weights, ■with one voice, protested their inno cence. But now a faint tick was beard below, from the pendulum, who thus spoke:— “I confess myself to be the sole •ause of the present stoppage; and am willing, for the general satisfaction, to assign my reasons. The truth is, that I am tired of ticking.” Upon bearing this, the old dock became so enraged that it was on the point of striking. '•‘Lazy wire!” exclaimed the dial- plate, holding up its hands. “Very good!” replied the pendulum, <*it is vastly easy for you, Mistress Dial, who have always, as every body knows, set yourself up above me,—it is vastly easy for you, I say, to accuse other people of laziness! You, who have had nothing to do all the days of your life but to stare people iu the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on the kitchen! Think, I beseech you, how you would tike to be shut up for life in this dark closed and wag backwards, year af ter year, ns I do.” '“As tp that,” «ai4 tl\e dial, “is there not a window in your house on purpose for you to look through?” ‘ For all that,” resumed the pen dulum, ‘ it is very dark here: alttio there is a window, I dare nbl stop, e- ven fo an instant, to look out. Be sides, F am really weary of my way of life; and if you please, I’ll tell you how I took this disgust at my employ ment. This morning I happened to be calculating how many times I should have to tick in the course only of the next twenty-four hours: perhaps some of you, above there, can give me the exact sum.” The minute hand, being quick at figures, instantly replied, “eighty-six thousand four hundred time* ” “Exactly so,” replied the pendulum : “well, 1 appeal to you all, if the tho’t of this was not enough to fatigue one? and when I began to multiply the strokes of one d iy by those of months and years, really it is no wonder if I felt discouraged at the prospect: so af ter a great deal of reasoning and hes itation, thinks I to myself, 1 11 stop.” The dial could scarcely keep its countenance during this harangue; but resuming its gravity, thus replied: “Dear Mr. Pendulum, I am really astonished that such a useful, indus trious person as yourself should have been overcome by this sudden sugges tion. It is true you have done a great deal of work in your time. So we have all and are likely to do; and al though this may fatigue us to think of, the question is. whether it will fatigue us to do: would you, now, do me the favour to give about half a dozen strokes, to illustrate my argument?” The pendulum complied, and tick ed six times at its usual pace:— No.v,” resumed the dial, “may I be allowed to inquire, if that exertion was at all fatiguing or disagreeable to you? 4 ’ “Not in the least,” replied Hie pen dulum;—“it is not of six strokes that I eomjduin, nor of sixty, but of mil lions.” V “Very good,” repffed the dial: ‘ but recollect that although you may think of a million strokes in an instant, you are required to execute but one; and that however often you may here after have to swing, a moment will always be given you to swing in.” “That consideration staggers me, I confess,” said the pendulum. “Then l hope,” resumed the dial- plate, vve shall all immediately return to our duty; for the maids will lie in bed till noon if we stand idling thus.” Upon this, the weights, who had never .been accused of light conduct, used all their influence in urging him to proceed: when as with one consent, the wheels began to turn, the hands began to move* the pendulum began to wag, and to its credit, ticked as loud as ever; while a beam of the ri sing sun that streamed through a hole in the kitchen shutter, shining full up on the dial-plate, it brightened up as if nothing had been the matter. When the farmer came down to breakfast that morning, upon looking at the clock he declared that his watch had gained half an hour in the night. .Moral.—It is said by a celebrated modern writer, “take care of the min utes, and the hours will take care of themselves.” This is an admirable hint; and might be very seasonably re collected whom we begin to be “wea ry in well doing.” from the thought of having a great deal to do. The pres ent is all we have to manage; the past is irrecoverable; the future is uncer tain; nor is it fair to burden one mo ment with the weight of the next.— Sufficient, unto the moment is the troub le thereof. If we had to walk a hun dred miles, we still need set but one step at a time, and this process con tinued would infallibly bring us to our journey’s end. Fatigue geuerally be gins. and is always increased by cal culating in a minute the exertion of hours. Thus, in looking forward to future li fe, let us recollect that we have not to sustain all its toil, to endure all its sufferings, or encounter all its crosses at once. One moment comes laden with its own little burden, then flies, and is succeeded by another. Even in looking forward to a single day, the spirit may sometimes fqint from an anticipation of the duties, the labours, the trials to temper and pa tience that may be expected. Now this is unjustly laying the bidden of many thousand moments upon one.— Let any one resolve to do right now, leaving then to do as it can, and if he were to live to the age of Methuselah, he would never err. But the common en;or iB, to rasolve to act right to -7/i ur- j row, or next-time, but now, just this once, we must go on the sane as ev er. It seems easier to do right to-mor row than to do-day, merely because we forget that when to-morrow comes then will be now. Thus life passes, with many, in resolutions for ;he fu ture which the present never fulfills. It is not thus with those, who “by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory, honour, & mortality:”—day by day, minute by minute,they execute the appointed task to which the re quisite measure of time and strength is proportioned: and thus, having worked while it was called day, they at length rest from their labours, and their “works follow them.” Let us then, “whatever our hands find to do, do it with all our might, recollecting, that fiow is the proper and the accepted time.” Ji Greek Boat Builder.-—Whatev er illustrates the habits and character of the Greeks, is peculiarly interes ting at this time, and a single exam ple often conveys more information on this subject than a volume of general descriptions and remarks. I)r. Howe gives the following account of a Greek boat builder of the island ofScopelas, on the eastern coast of Thessaly, a- bout seventy or eighty miles north from Athens. Almost every Greek srfllor is capa ble ot being a snip builder, and it is surprising to see the skill and ingenu ity which they exhibit. I have been assured that some of their most beau tiful vessels, that are known to nil mariners as the finest specimens of graceful modelling and symmetrical construction, were built by men call ing themselves master workmen, but who did not know the common princi ples ol mathematics. I was once go ing along the beach in the little retir ed island of Scopelus, and my atten tion was attracted to a long and beau tifully shaped boat nearly finished. I approached and found only one man squatting behind her on his heels, eat ing biscuit and olives. I asked him whene the builders were; '•'-Ego ei- maireplied lie; he was building her alone. I looked around for his tools, but not seeing them, asked him where his scale and compasses were. The man started; I found he did not know Gunter’s scale from a gridiron, and resolved to wait and see him work. After he had finished his olives, wip ed his mustachios, and crossed himself three times, he got up, examined his little red cross and piece of garlic, which he had nailed on the bow of his boat to keep off the devil, and all oth er evil spirits, and finding all well he resumed his tools. He had a rude axe; a .block of wood with a handle drove into it for a mallet; another in strument which he called a saw, but which to me seemed wondrously like a notched iron hoop; and his dividers were formed by a piece ofioak wood, split half way up, with a wedge to push up and down, to open or shut the arms; one of the split ends he would dip into a composition of brick dust and spittle, to show mo how well it would describe a circle; but his principal instrument, and with which be could cut, plane and mortice, and which he wore in his girdle, was a long well-tempered knife. 1 went off thinking about. Daedalus and Archi medes; and as I turned round to look again at the gracefully modelled boat, which the old man had shaped out, I wondered where he got his idea of beauty and proportion, or if he had ever heard of Phidias or Praxiteles.” EXTRAORDINARY CABINET. In the musuem of the Petersburgh Academy of Sciences, there is a very extraordinary cabinet, which was pre sented to it by the Empress Catharine. On opening it in front, there appears a beautiful group of has reliefs in bronze, superbly varnished, which, by the slightest pressure on a spring, vanishes away, giving place to a mag nificent writing-flat inlaid with gems. The space above this flat is devoted to the keeping of valuable papers, or money. The bold hand that should dare to venture to this spot would im mediately be its own betrayer; for at the least touch of the table part, the most charming strains of soft and plain- live music instantly begin to play up on the ear; the organ from whence it proceeds occupying the lower part of the cabinet behind, Several small drawers for holding the materials for writing, likewise start forward, by tRe pressure of their springs, and shut up again as quickly, without leaving be hind a trace of their existence. If one would change the table part of the cabinet into a reading desk, from •the upper part a board springs forward from which, with incredible velocity, all the parts of a commodious and well contrived reading desk expand, and take their proper places. But the mechanism of this performance of art, as well as its outward appearance, should be seen, as nothing can he more difficult to describe. The in ventor offered this rare and astonishing piece to the Empress Catharine II. for twenty thousand rubles; but she generously thought that this sum was barely sufficient to pay for the work manship; she therefore recompensed his talents with a further present of five thousand rubles. His name was Roenten, and he belonged to the sect of Moravian brethren. GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHEROKEE NATION. NATIONAL COMMITEE. Tuesday Oct. 21. Mr. Joseph \ ann (of Ceoscwaytee) moved an amendment to the Jaw of the j 26th Oct. 1819, authorizing the issu- j big of permits for the employment of schoolmasters, and mechanics &c.— After discussion ihe following resolu tion was passed and submitted to the Council for concurrence. Resolved by the Committee and Council in General Council convened: That the law passed 26, Oct. 1819 regulating the issuing of permits &c. &c- is hereby so amended, as to re quire any citizen or citizens who shall obtain permit for any mechanic &c. agreeably to the above law, to pay a tax of live dollars for each and every permit so obtained for the term of one year, aud in proportion for a greater length of time. Be it further Resolved, That so much of said law, as requires the Committee and Council to issue permits, be re pealed; and in lieu thereof the pow er of issuing permits shall be vested in the Treasurer of the Chero kee Nation; and that it shall not be lawful for him to issue any permit of permits to any person or persons be fore the above tax shall have been paid: and that he shall keep a correct record of all permits issued. Be it further Resolved, That any per son or persons obtaining a permit or permits shall he required to give bond and security for the good behaviour of such person or persons so brought into the Nation, which shall be satisfacto ry to the Treasurer. Be it further Resolved, That the em ployer or employers shall be bound, under the penalty of twenty dollars, to notify the Sheriff of b» or their District of the expiration ol ihe terra specified in his or their permit or per* mits:—and it shall be the duty of the Sheriff to remove such person or per sons out of the Nation, unless his or their permit or permits shall be renew ed within the space of twenty days. Be it further Resolved, That the st- bove resolution shall go into effect, 60 soon as it shall have passed the Coun cil, and been approved by the Princi pal Chief. [Concurred.] The select Committee on the du ties of the National Marshal made re port. The following resolution was pass* cd— Resolved fyc. That the National Marshal shall enter into bond with sufficient securities in the penal sum of $5,000 for the faithful discharge of the duties that may be required of him. Sec. 2d. Be it further Resolved, That it shall be his duty to attend the Su preme Court annually during its ses sion, and to execute all the decisions which may be made, or have it done by the Sheriffs of the several districts and all other business in which the Cherokee Nation may become a par ty, within tire jurisdiction of the Na tion. Sec. 3d. Be it further Resolved, That he shall receive for his services a sal ary of $100, and shall also he allowed eight per cent, for [all] collections [which he shall make.] Messrs. Taylor, Sanders and Fore man were appointed a select Commit* tee to take into considerat ion so much of the Message of the Principal Chiefs as relates to loans due the National Treasury. The house adjourned till to-morrow at nine o’clock. Wednesday Oct. 29. The Committee on loans from the Treasury made a report which w-aS read. The following Resolution was pasfc> ed without a dissenting vote, and sent down for concurrence. Resolved by the Committee and Coun cil in General Council convened: That all officers appointed under the authority of this Nation, who ar0 required to give bond and sufficient security for the discharge of their du ties, and whose offices require a Com mission from the Principal Chief, shall be required to enter Into their bonds, with the Treasurer of the Cher okee Nation; and shall he required to produce certificates from the mana gers of the elections certifying that they have been legally elected; and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive their bonds, and issue a cer tificate to each officer so bound, which when presented to the Principal Chief, shall he sufficient evidence for his commission to be granted. A resolution was passed direct in®' the sending of an express to require the immediate attendance of the Prin cipal Chief, who was absent, or, in case of the impossibility of his attend ance, desiring commissions to be sent to Walter S. Adair, Andrew Ross and John Hubs, vvho had been duly elect ed Judges of the Supreme Court.—* [Concurred.] The Report of the Committee oh public loans was taken into considera tion, and after discussion, the follow ing resolution was passed without dis sent. Resolved by the Committee and Const* cil in General Council convened, That so much of the law passed 24th Oct. 1827, supplementary to the law pass ed 5th Nov. 1825, as requires tliV Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation to call ** a N monies loaned out of the Treasury on the first Monday in Octo ber 1828 be, and the same is hereby repealed. Be it further Resolved, That any person or persons who may be owing the National Treasury by bond for loaned money, shall be allowed one month from the passage of this Reso- lution for the ) *vewing of his or their bond or bonds in the Treasury, by.pajf-