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“The deaf and dumb youth, who
bad been conclemned to a year’s im
prisonment, has had bis punishment
commuted to only a month s confine-
pent, iu oonsequeoce of some pallia
tion circumstances, and the able de
fence of his lawyer. As soon as judg
ment was. pronounced, Mr. Fauluier,
one of the masters of the deaf and
dumb institution, addressed the crim
inal in the language of signs, and ex
plained to him that a superior justice
■ had rendered invalid the first judg
ment; but that chains, the galleys, and
sufferings, would be the consequence,
should he fall anew into error. No
thing could be more interesting *and
animated than this pantomime; par
ticularly when he raised his hand in
sign of taking an oath, it became - al-
: most affecting; for the young Hue, as
if electrified, followed immediately
the movement of his master; and in
the act of repentance, made a silent
promise, heard only by the Being to
whom it was addressed, but which the
magistrates accepted as an oath; and
perhaps it was one of the purest ever
offered; at least the countenance of
the offender brightened into a sublime
expression, as he internally uttered it,
as if conscious of the sacredness of the
act. The whole scene was a lesson
to those gifted with the use of speech,
w'lo so often call the Deity as witness
to words they never intend to keep.”
European Politics.—The Paris Con
stitutional, oi Sept. 5th, solves the
great problem of European politics by
the following summary process:—
“The Mediterranean consists of two
large lakes, the Black Sea, including
the sea of Asoph, and the Mediterra
nean, properly so called. The latter
is freely traversed by all nations, and
is the former to be forever a sort of
maritime culde sac., into which nobody
can penetrate 1 without the permission
of the Grand Turk? Russia will un
doubtedly make herself mistress pf
both the Asiatic and European shores
and open it to the commerce of all na
tions. It. is so absurd to expect that
it should remain a sort of lake, on
which fleets may exercise, without
ever coming out of it, that we cannot
be surprised that Russia should con
tinually use her efforts to alter it.—
The difficulty is, to place Constanti
nople in the hands of a neutral Power,
strong enough to make itself respect
ed, and European enough to guaran
tee of a free passage to all European
nations. The establishment of anoth
er Greek Empire seems to me im
practicable. In its present state
Greece cannot form a power indepen
dent of Russia and Austria, and capa
ble of resisting the Asiatic Moslems
Moreover, the passage of the Dardan
elles would no more be free than
present. Sooner or later Russia will
liave Constantinople, and when that is
the case, the passage will be guaran
teed; for she has so strong an interest
in this, that she will give bounties on
foreign trade to attract it to the Black
Sea. AH nations do whrit. they an to
induce a conflux of foreign vessels in
their own ports. Austria, if she wish
es to be popular in Europe, should
take off Turkey all she can; should
extend her narrow seaboard to Alba
nia from the Adriatic, and not trouble
herself with Italy. Austria may thus
keep Russia in check; shiv arid Ger
many cart raise a million of soldiers.
If Europe were threatened, they
would be its advanced guard, and ifit
came to blows, France, with her thir
ty millions of inhabitants, would sup
port them. In the midst of anarchy
she conquered the whole Europe with
a Constitutional Government which
she begins to comprehend ns she enjoys
its advantages. She has nothing to
fear. Henceforth, playing a noble
part, she will one day save that Eu
rope she desired to conquer.
Jour. Com.
it all his life, in order that he may be
reminded of the abject condition from
which he has been rescued, and of the
obligatioris he owes to the institution
which saved him from misery, and
gave him the means by which he was
enabled to avoid it in futhre.
From the Savannah Georgian.
THE CHEROKEES AND GEORGIA.
How terrible thy tenderest mercies are!
Not being able to endure that the
Cherokee Indians should live in peace
and independence upon their own lands/
within their own limits; and yet desir
ing to ^void the disgrace .which must
camped about ninety • miles off, near-
Lhe Blue Water River, dancing round
the scalps of their victims. The de
tachment rushed suddenly upon them,
a few only escaped through the thick
et. The governor has ordered two
detachments Ofinilitia to hold them
selves in readiness to co-operate with
the garrison at the Caatomuent in case
of necessity.
TRIAL OF INDIANS.
^Detroit^ Oct. 2$
At the late special "session, of the
Circuit Court for Crawford courity,
held at Prairie du Chien, pudge Doty
attend,their compulsory removal, it is ; presiding, the Winnebago n ia s,
now proposed to extend all the laws of ( Wan i-ga. (the Sun,) and Chic - long-
the Slate over them! to subject them to i s * c ’ Pef'f Bocuf,) were lie or
>f those. lams!! and to sc murder of Gagmer ahd Lipcapv at
that place, on the 240 ofjune, 1827.
the operation of those laws!! and to sc
cure to them immediately all civil
rights!!!
The following law of Georgia will
show the value of the civil rights to
which we are to be introduced, and
the benign spirit which actuates those
who are to extend them to us. The
document is brief, but very significant .
It presents another remarkable view
of this very remarkable and very inter
esting •'nse.
Royal Tyranny might advantageous
ly take a leaf out of the Repulican
code containing such a statute.
“«/2n act to prevent the testimony of
Indians being received in Courts of Jus
tice,
‘'Be it enacted, &c. That from and
after the passage of this Act, no In
dians, and no descendant of an Indian-
not understanding the English language,
shall be deemed a competent witness
in any Court of Justice created by the
Constitution or Laws of this State.
“ Assented to 26th December,
1826.— G. M. Troup” (Governor.)
I leave these things for the present,
without further comment, to the so
lemn reflections of every honest man
who feels an interest in the honor of
his country. OUTALLISSI.
WINNEBAGO INDIANS.
On Monday (in N. Y.j there was a
grand military parade, Gen. Morton
commanding, to give the Indian Chiefs
an opportunity to view a specimen of
the physical force of the country.—
They appeared to he gratified, espe
cially wjth the horsemen. An arrange
ment was made to have the cannon
discharged at the moment the Indians
were passing them in the rear without
their being apprised of the intention,
to|soe what effect it would produce;
and- strange as it may seem, they did
not move a muscle, or appear to re
gard it. At the conclusion of the pa
rade the Chiefs assembled at the Gov
ernor’s room in the City Hall, where
were present the Mayor and other
officers of the City Government. Af
ter partaking of a simple collation, the
Chief Nankaw, (or Wood) addressed
the Mayor in a short speech or talk.
We have been favored by Col. Kin-
gie with the substance of it, as fol
lows:—
•Father! the chiefs of my nation,
now before you, with myself, are very
glad to see you. We are glad also to
see your peace officers (Alderman,
&c.) and your war chiefs (the milita-
y officers) around you, and to hold
you fast by the hand. We thank the
Gretjt Spirit above for giving uS so
Icar a sky, to-day to meet you and
your young warriors—We thank you
for the milk (meaning cider, &c.) and
bread which you have helped us to,
and we shall keep in our breasts your
kindness to us to-dny. So good by.”
The Chiefs left the city yesterday
morning in the steam-boat for Phila
delphia, on their way to the Seat of
Government.—/. of Com..
They were found guil/y, and sentenced
to be hanged on the/26th of Decem
ber next. In the c/se of the Indians
imprisoned for the murder of Meth
ods and his family,/ near Lake Pepin,
in 1824, a nolle prosequi was entered,
and the prisoners discharged. Two
other Indians imprisoned for firing up
on the keel boats on the 30th June,
1827. were also discharged, no bills
having been found against them.
Indians in Upper Canada.—-A Meth
odist Missionary writes from Credit
iiiver, under dateof20tii September,
1828, as follows;
“The Indians here have now got
their tract of land surveyed* and div
ided into portions for each family, so
that we hope to see them improve
more in agriculture next season.
They have completed three eornfort-
able dwelling houses this year, &. have
four more building by individual exer
tion,without pecuniary aid|fi omany ope
although they are under the necessity
of continually exerting theinsewes to
obtain the means of subsistence from
day to day. Two of them hare raised
and harvested five or six acres each
of excellent wheat, which is the first
fruits of their labour in that kind of
grain; and their crops of corn and po
tatoes are abundant, according to the
quantity of ground cultivated.”
or infiiagifitude to the stln himself.—
So the comet which in the year 1652,
Revilius observed, did not seem less
than the moon, though it had not so
Wright a splendor” “According to some
of the Parisian astronomers, the comet
1833 will approach so near the earth,
(within 13,290 leagues) as to raise,
by its attraction, the tide of the ocean
above the highest mountains in Eu
rope. We think therd is the best
ground for believing that no such ca
lamity will occur, as the Divine pro-
misft stands—“I will establish my cov
enant with you, neither shall all flesh
be cut off any more by the waters of
a flood, neither shall there any more
be a flood to destroy the earth.”
A pretty smart repartee was given
the other day at a place in the Tron-
gate, Glasgow, where some repairs
were being made on the pavement,
and a very confined space was left for
the lieges to walk upon: A beautiful
young lady was met at this narrow
spot by two gentleman, (one of them
an exquisite Corinthian) ‘I protest'
said the dandy ‘this place is as nar
row as Balaam's passage’ (the name
of a narrow lane in Glasgow.) ‘Yes
said his companion, ‘and like Balaam,
my progress is arrested by an Angel'
- True,’said the lady, look.:ig him full
in the face, at the 6ame time gliding
neatly past him, ‘and I am stopt by the
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Malta.—Mr. Temple says it is es
timated, that not one in ten thousand
•fthe female population of thjs island
can read a syllable. Also, that about
one person in ten is a priest, or be
longs to some religious order.
The following custom is saidtopre
vail at Munich:—Every child found
Pegging in the streets is arrested and
oarried to a charitable establishment.
The moment he enters the hospital,
and before he is cleaned, and gets the
•new clothes intended for him, his por
trait is painted in his ragged dress
and precisely as he was found begging
When his education is finished in the
hospital, this portrait is given to him
and he promisee, by an oath, to keep
Indian Murder.—On the 3let of
August last, six soldiers of Cantonment
Towson, had permission to go to the
Kearrieche a fishing. Corporal
Thomas Gloyd and musician Glenn,
preceded the party thirty or forty
yards; when six miles from,their post,
thoSc in the rear heard the report of a
gun. followed by the exclamation “O
God 1 am killed!” The party know
ing that neither Gloyd nor Glenn had a
gun, concluded they were attacked by
enemies, & returned to the garrison*
After stating the facts, a detachment
of twenty men was ordered out by Ma
jor Burch, under L. Casy, who return
ed with the corpses of Gloyd and
Glenn, the former being marked with
a ball and many arrows, and the lat
ter with arrows only. The alarm was
given, and the garrison with citizens
and friendly Indians, amounting to a-
bout forty men, pursued the murder
ers, overtook them tb© fourth day en-
TI1E TUSCARORAS.
The Ttisearoras, it is well known to
most of your readers, live within
few miles of the great Niagara catar
act, and consist of obout forty families,
and probably one hundred and fifty
souls. They have had a missionary
station among them for better than
twenty years, being one of the first,
that engaged the attention of the New
York Missionary Society- The tribe
has ever been small since their emi
gration from North-Caroiina; and by
reason of the evils which have ever
befallen the Indian tribes in their cir
cumstances, are still, it is to be fear
ed, growing less and less.
Now, although the missionaries have
not been permitted at this station to
accomplish all their hearts’ desire a-
monz this little community of immor
tals. they have still been permitted to
rejoice over some souls which have
been converted from the error of their
ways. They have seen a few hum
ble follow ers of Christ for thefce seve
ral years adorning their profession;
and some they have seen die in the
faith, and calmly sleep in Jesus. If
they have not been able to banish in
temperance,that foul blot upon our own
national character, from their village,
they have been the instruments of re
claiming some from its power, and
keeping back others from its conse
quent disgrace and ruin, who, but for
their warning, would in all probability
have Sunken to the lowest pitch of
brutal sensuality. A little church of
sixteen members still remain, whose
orderly walk and conversation, in the
main, goes to show that the gospel
trumpet has not sounded in vain through
their mountain. The missionary
teacher, Mr. John Elliot, has an inter-
ing School of thirty'children, who have
learned to read the word of God in a
short time. A very neat and comfort
able (djapel has been recently finished
principally by the labours and contri
butions of the Indians themsplves which
is to be consecrated to the worship of
God in a veiy few days.— West. Rcc
To write a beautiful hand (says the
Village Record) is among the elegant
accomplishments: to write a plain le
gible hand is but decent and respect
ful to those who have to read the
writing. To scrawl pigeon tracks
pot-hook and trammel fashion, tortur
ing plain English into heathen Greek,
is detestable, and when it can be pre
vented, absolutely unpardonable.
Power of the Countenance.—One of
the Editors of the Youth’s Companion
states the following fact, which he re
cently witnessed while on a visit at
the Hartford Asylum for the Deaf and
Dumb:—“Mr. Gallaudct, the Princi
pal of the Asylum, remarked that he
would endeavor to communicate a dis
tinct idea by changes of the countenance,
without the use of the arms or fingers,
lie would not promise that he should
succeed; but he would make the trial.
Mr. G. signified to the pupils what, he
wished to do, which excited a smile
at his novelty. (He told us that the
idea was a description of the Judgment
of the great Day.) He then folded his
arms, stood erect, and, by a most sur
prising flexibility of muscles, was en
abled to communicate his meaning, so
that two of the pupils wrote the sen
tence, In the Day of Judgment, all
mankind will he assembled, and the
righteous and wicked will he separat
ed before Christ, the Son of God.’
Dimensions of Noah's Ark.—An aft-
cient record say9, the length of the
Ark was 104 miles, breadth 17 miles,
height 10 miles!—How much larger
was it than the top off Mount Arrarat
on which it rested ?
EDUCATION!!!
T he new echota academy"
has commenced and is expected to
continue. All those wishing to become
students during the winter session are re
quested to make application previous to the
25th inst. No pains will be spared, on the
part of the Instructor, for the advancement
of those placed under his care.
Board, lodging, .and washing may.be had
for $1 00 per. week.
WM. HORN.
Dec. 3, 1828. 40 1
TO HOUSE BUILDERS.
S EALED proposals will be received, a.
my office, in Coosewaytee, until th©
first day of February, for the buililing of a
COURT HOUSE at New Echota, of the
following description
The House to be framed, twenty fouf
feiethy twenty in dimensions, two stories
high, lower story ten feet, and the upper
story nine feet high, shingled roof of vellow
poplar, shingles, one stair case, one door on
each side of the house with plain batten
shutters, two fifteen light windows in each
side of the house above and below, also two
window's in the end, in the lower story,
where the Judge’s bench is to be erected.—
The weather boarding of the hovse iE
to be rough, but jointed; the floors are like
wise to he rough. The lower floor to he of
square joint, hut the upper floor tongued
and grooved. The platform for the Judge’s
bench is to he three feet high, eight feeff
long, and three feet wide, and bam6tered,
steps at each end, with a seat the whole
length of the platform. There are also to
be half a dozen dressed pine benches often
or twelve feet long. The foundation of the
house is to be of good rock or brick, and
raised two feet above the ground.
The person or persons contracting for
the above mentioned building are required
to furnish lumber, nails, glass, hinges, locks
and other necessary articles. THp lowest
bidder is to have the contract, who will be
required to give bond and good security
for the. faithful execution of the work, in a
workman-like manner, to be completed by
the second Monday in October 1829.
John martin,
Treasurer of the Cherokee Nntloif.
Nov. 26, 1328. S8 til.
Comets.—We know little or noth
ing about these extraordinary and ec
centric bodies. We are told they re
volve round the sun; but comets have
appeared which, if ancient knew any
thing of the matter, were as large as
the sun itself. We copy the follow
ing passage ffom Keil’s Astronomical
Lectures: “Tiie comet which ap
peared in the time of the Emperor Nc
ro, was y as Seneca relatas, not inleri
Columbian College.-It will be high
ly gratifying to the friends of learning,
and to all who wish to see our Dis
trict enjoy equal advantages for pub
lic education with the most favored
portions of the Union, to learn that
this Institution is now rapidly rising a-
bove its recent embarrassments, and
promising to resume the elevated rank
,t formerly sustained. The President,
the Rev. Dr. Chapin, having remov
cd with his family to the College, will
enter immediately ou the duties of his
office.—Nat. Int.
Inviolable Seal.—A letter closed
with the white of an egg, cannot be o
pened by the steam Of boiling water
like the common wafer, as the steam
only adds to its firmness.
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HOUSE BUILDER, AND CABI
NET MAKER.
J S. W. WHITE, from the city of
• New York, respectfully informs the
citizens of the Cherokee Nation, that he
intends rarryingon the husiniss of HOUSE
BUILDING AND CABINET MAK
ING in a manner superior to any that has
been done, St in the most fashionable man
ner, equal to that of N. York or Baltimore,
and Superior to any work of the kind in
this part of the Country. He will work as
cheap as any workman, and in a bettef
manner than can be done. He has got Ma!-
i hogany and materials of the best quality.
N. B. He will take apprentices in the
above business. Any native who will
come with good recommendation, and of
steady habits will be received and taught
in the above business.
Person's wishing to build can be supplied
with a plan and elevation of any house that
may be wanting.
For further information please apply
to Messrs. David Vann and John Ridge.
Nov, 12, 1828. 37 tf.
NOTICE.
I HEREBY forewarn all persons from
trading for a riote of hand, payable in
good property to R. C. Beasley, of the state
of Georgia, and signed by me. The note
is dated, August. 8th 1829, and was due
October 8th 1928.
I am determined not to redeem th" said
note, unless compelled by law, a« the ooitr
sideration for which it was given ha« faded.
tf.genee MURPHEY.
Nov. 19, 1828. 39 tf.
WANTED
A T THIS OFFICE, A JOURNEY
MAN, of industrious habits, who un
derstands his business; To such an one,
employment willV given for 12 m»'ths, i?
application is made between this date and
the first of January.
Nov. 26, 18£H\ m.