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PHIENIX,
VOL. I.
NEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29, 1828.
]VO. 35.
Edited by elias boudinott.
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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-
