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act any business with the nation, he should have been officially announced as such, to the proper authorities of the Nation; yet it is somewhat strange, that this has not been done, until cir cumstances brought you to the dis closure, more than half a year after his arrival in this country. All that the council knew respecting this in dividual was, that he was once a citizen of this nation, and had under the exercise of his own free-will emi grated to Arkansas, and was there ap pointed United States Interpreter, but never knew, or ever heard of his pro motion as an agent of the United States Government, either in the civil or military department. It lids ever been the desire of the authority of this nation to treat the agents of the Government with due respect, and we cannot believe that the Government is disposed to sustain, or protect the improper private acts of any of her agents, and that the sanction of the Government .will be ex tended to the justification of unwar rantable trespasses upon the rights and privileges of our citizens, by any of her agents, when in a state of intoxi- cation. You further remark, “I wish I could say that no dishonorable steps had or would be taken to prevent the Cherokees from enrolling.” If you are prepared to state that any has been or would be takon on the part of the National authorities, l wish you plain ly to particularize and state them, for I am entirely ignorant of any. You also remark that, “the Chero kees arc freemen, they have the right of locomotion, and ought to be permit ted to exercise their own judgment. This is perfectly in accordance with my opinion, and I would add as Iree- men they should also be permitted to exercise their own, judgment to con tinue on their own lands, without be ing annoyed by other Cherokees who have already exercised their own choice and emigrated. You further stale that you have been repeatedly told by Cherokees that they would enroll but they were afraid of the big men at New Town of per sonal abuse &c. and ‘those who have or may enrol for emigration are also entitled to the protection of the Unit ed States, and inil receive it.’ Truth and justice require I should say those fears are groundless, and should not be believed; and I would request to be informed who those Cherokees. are, that have repeatedly acquainted you with their fears, and through whose interpretation they were ctiininunicat- ed, as the U. States’ Interpreter has disavowed ever having beard from any Cherokee such a statement.'! hope you are not disposed to give credit to every frivolous tale that may be told you by designing men, prejudicial to the Na tion. From the latter part of the a- bovc remark, 1 would i.ifei that you consider the protection emended to emigrants greater than to others, and would be more rigidly observed.— Wliat additional (if any) instructions you may have received from the Gov ernment on this subject, I am unable to say, but I hope and trust that the protection provided for us by Treaty will be so far observed by the Agcuts of the Government, as to render us the justice contemplated hy the Unit ed States, and which 1 have ever con sidered equal to that of emigrants. I am sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed) JOHN ROSS. Gol. Hugh Montgomery. Cherokee Agency, December 24, 1828. Sir, I have just received your let ter, and there appears to be no part •f it to which you require an answer, except the part which relats to the fears expressed by individuals about onrolling, & to that part I will only say that I have been repeatedly so told both verbally & in writing, and shall be glad if your letter w ill justify me in saying these fears are groundless. All I claim for either the officers of the Government, or the emigrants, is oommon protection with other citi- f sums. . Respectfully, ’ H MONTGOMERY. Mr. John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. The following are translations of the above. J&. 81 t» i<»y4>, 1828. swyo ma—dh o*®h-ip sscqvv o 3 - ztf Tysjtda (PWiHwtKa, icrgjjjpBir 5 tk.i ■WW©; O.VtJW/ldry, Dtf Q&W db d*vus- i)if wpyiti(see5j»PBtf«>. ejty *»» swy wavo*a- T" erz $p tjw ..rsuhA-’ br Givy iioviez, c«y tpztf oy/iT-e. 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U.r.V’ 0m'P ®EX«5- •ArebtU PRT. F.yzyxpotyii bUotSTib g- /IX DhriSSt® TKJ D^1.9 IpSiID, O^A^Gf^- btyu SCJUR DP Ai®F EU F.yZjtPT. Iid)- ^<xyn o : Aj)cf GruFttSiiop, D4'V‘ , 4 M> 4>q©- oin/iop. »}p?ba-q.i^ Do-C5./.«y ips.id, ;c- biyu CFG TST Wrot'C-qil^lprS. CPZP DB. Mr. Editor,—In your last num ber I noticed a few errors iti the piece over my signature, which 1 have taken the liberty to correct, in the fifth line from the top, for the word stone read stones. In line 9 for Hier atic read literati'. in line 13 for dates read data. In line 15 for Tuod erat demonstration read Quod erat demon strandum. In line 41 for most read must. And in the next line the word one should be inserted after Iron. In line 48 for Vulcano read Vulcan.— In line 52 for Vulcano read Volcano.— In line 62 for discourged read discharg ed. In line 6-! for conut vies read coun tries. In line 78 for mackel read nick- e/, and in the next line for sclcx read *»7t.r. Inline 91 for than read in.— ! n line 100 after tends the word it should be inserted, in line 112 to read in. Yours &c. PEGASUS. The proceedings ol ihe French for ces under General Muison in the Morea, will afiordgreat gratification to all persons who feel interested in the emancipation of Greece from Tur kish thraldom. Having obtained pos session of the fortresses in the Pelo-" ooiiessus. w ith a large number of can non, and abundant supplies of provis ions, the government and inhabitiints will lie relieved from the immediate evils under which they have so long laboured, and will be at liberty to pursue the great objects for which they have fought, and suffered, and persevered. 'The conduct of the Tur kish officers in surrending their posts without firing a shot, strongly corro borates the report that lias for some time past been in circulation, that the Grand Signior has yielded to the me diation of Great Britian and France, under the treaty of July Gth, and in tends to give his assent to the inde pendence of Greece. If this is not the fact, it is difficult to account for the quiet surrender of ail the posts, w hen the Egyptian forces were so stronir, a id the fortresses were so well sup plied with artillery and provisions. Having evacuated the territory, ii will not be an easy matter for the Sultan to regain possession of it, or of the fortified places whilst combined fleets command the water, and the French troops the land. The way would therefore seen to be clear for the Greeks, in conjunction with their al lies. to go on in the organization and establishment of their government and institutions, the cultivation of their soil and all the measures necessary to their security, comfort, and prosperi ty. as an independent people. If it be so, that the Grand Seignor has consented to the propositions of the allied powers, it furnishes strong evidence that he wants all his force to oppose the Russians, and that he means to direct his whole attention to that single objeet. We have no doubt lie has acted wisely in coming to this determination ; for unless a peace is brought about between these bellig erent s, before the opening of spring, there is little reason to doubt that the war in the ensuing season will be of a very serious description. The checks and delays that the Russians have experienced thus far, must ex cite the Emperor Nicholas to make every possible effort to retrieve his haracter, and obtain his object. For this purpose, he is recruiting his army, and taking every measure which the exigencies of the ease require, to re- ‘ew’ hostilities with greater vigour, and a determination to push their Way to the w'alls of Constantinople. New-York Jldv. Railway in Germany.—It is stated n the Leedp (England) Mercury, that he Empcrour of Austria has recently made a special contract with the Chevalier Gerstner, a, gentleman whose energy and enterprise are well known to some ®f the most respecta- ble v characters in tweeds, to convey bait along a railway, 4 of winch the Chevalier has executed and complet ed upwards of forty miles, (the whole extent being eighty English miles, and which will connect the Moldau with ihe Danube. The contract is fur U years; and the Chevalier states the quantity of this article transported hy wagons in the last 6 years, to have been 4,773,-lUO ewt. or 800,000 per year, lie is to have about Is 2d per ewt. for conveying the salt along the whole line. The weight of other mer chandize passing along the same route, it is said, will amount to about 2u,- 000 tons per annum. The laborers on the line are principally females, whose employment consists in excavating the soil, &e. and whose wages are Gd per day. They are about two thousand in number, and perform their work with great industry arid skill. “From Au gust, 1825, to December, 1827,” the Chevalier says, “we have in 40 1-2 English miles, cut 69G,4G4 cubic yards, and made 807,944 cubic yards of enbankments, besides laying the way with malleable rails &c. we have also erected 73 bridges from three to eighteen yards each with 133 culverts, anil made 236 wagons—the whole cost, up to Nov. last, amounting to 75,212/5s.” TURKISH MODE OF SALUTA TION. Towards each other, the Turks are very polite and affable. When (hey meet, they bow and repeat from the Koran, “ God give peace to your sic/.” To Clu istinns or inf dels they only say, “//tope to meet you in heac- e».” They affect to ridicule and despisc our custom of takingofl'llie hat, w hen we salute each other, and they even say that it is offensive to God, on ac count of its indecency. To judge from the following anecdote one would infer, that a man’s bare nead is a great curiosity among them. Happening one day, when visiting in the country,' to make a peasant’s house in company with my interpreter—in widen there was a number of persons; out of com pliment to them, I did not lake my hat off when I saluted them. VY hiie mere, the women and children inquired ot my interpreter, “if 1 were a Christian; and if so, why-1 did not uncover rny head, as they were totit Christians did?” And they begged him, if i w ere a Christian, to give them ihe pleas ure of seeing my head. When lie told me this, I took my hat oil, and bowed with great deal ot loimulily, ami affected politeness—upon which they began to leap aoout, and laugh, and to exhibit the most extravagant joy. One of the boys leaped on my shoulders, (there are a so rogues lu re as well as in our t ountryj and snatch ing my hat away, passeu it round to his companinions, until lie e.ame to the old peasant, w r ho looking into it, threw it from him with disgust, “exclaim ing that 1 was a blasphemous rascal, to wear the image ol my prophet so near my head.” 1 could not under stand tv hat he meant by this, until he pointed to a print of our King, in his royal costume, at the bottom of my hat. 1 told him through my interpret er, that it was not my prophet, but my king, and put there as the sign of the hat maker, whose title was “king’s hatter.” This answer made another laugh, and the old man joined very heartily in it.' This, by the way, was the first time I bad seen a Turk laugh.—Letter from Turkey. Indian Shreiedness.—“I recollect very well an Indian named Bravo, who was accused at Pomasque of having stolen the mule which he had brought from the vallies from the Eastward of Quito, laden with fruit. At the moment tiie accusation was laid be fore the Alcade, the Indian threw his pouehe or mantle over the head of the mule and then desired the challenger to say of which eye the mule was blind? He answered the left. Then said the Indian taking off the Pouehe. this mule cannot be your’s, because ii is blind of neither.” DIED at thr Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn. on the 2‘2d of December last, Mrs. RACHEL JAtIKSON, wife of Genera! Andrew Jackson, President elect of th< United States. W HEREAS my wife Elizabeth has without any cause whatever, absent ed herself front my lodgings, all persm are hereby cautioned against harboring an< protecting her, or forming anv bargains < contracts with h«r; as the subscriber is dr - lermined not to be responsible for them. JAMES PETIT. Consuwiqja* C. N. J&«> 43 & To the Undertakers is keep t* gssd i<i pair the Federal Roud. W HEREAS, a resolution was passed by the National Committee and Council,on the 25ih ofOctobei, lb24, that the mail (rojf Chattahoochy to Ma, V.feny, on HighwassPe river, anti also the onr to Blythe’s ferry on Tennessee river anti the one to Walker’s ferry on ilighwassee river, should be let out to the lowest bidder, for the term of live years commencing on (lie 1st of December, 1824, on the following conditions, to wit: The road to be cut tw'entv four ffet wi< «, dear of trees, and the causw a ••mg to lie covered with dirt, together with the digging of mountains an : hills, to be lourteen feet wide, clear of rocks, roots anil grube. I hereby rneke known to (lie undertakers of the different shares of saiil mad that, there 'will a commissioner appointed to re view said read by the 2oth of March next, and if said road, or any part thereof, be lound not to be in the order as prescribed by law, I shall proceed to institute su.t a» gainst all undertakers failing to have their shares in the order required'by law. J. M. LYNCH, N'. Marshal. Dec. Z9, 1828. 42 1„ TIIE WASHINGTON CITY CITRON ICLE. A WEEKLY NE1VSPAPEB, Published in the City of Washington By Rothwell fyZJstick. T HIS Paper has be^n established at the Seat ot the General Government, utw dor auspices which the Publishers think fa*, vornble to the encouragement of a Periodi cal devoted, ns it is, to the diffusion ofLito- 'arv, Scientific, and useful niiscellanerus information. Its object has been, as it will continue to lie, to promote the cause of Let* ters, and to spread, within its range, a knowledge of all that may be new, interest*-’ ing, and valuable, in Science, Literature, and the Arts, together with the latest For eign and Domestic Intelligence. More party disputations are and shall be sedulous* ly avoided, and nothing will lie admitted hut what may tend to enlarge and interest the mind, and improve and benefit the heart. (CP 3 A Svmmary of the Proceedings of Congress will, during the Sessions, be rra> ularly given. 5CP The Chronicle is published every Saturday; and is printed in the best mniv ner, on a large sheet, (imperial size.)— Price £3 per annum, or $2 50 if paid in advance. sCiP Editors who exchange Xvith tills' Chronicle are requested to give the above a few insertions, and the favor will be re ciprocated . TO HOUSE BUILDERS. SEALED proposes will be received, a my office, in CooseWaytre, until the lirrt day o( February, for the building of a COURT HOt SE at New Ecliota, of the following description, I he House to he framed, twenty four feet by twenty in dimensions, two stories high, lower story ten fret, and the upper story nine feet high, shingled roof of yellow poplar shingles, one stair case, one door on each side ol the house with plain batten shutters, two fifteen light windows in each side of the house above and below, also two windows in the end, in the lower story, where tlie Judge’s bench is tolie erected.— I he weather hoarding of the house is to be rough, but jointed; the floois are like wise to be rough. The lower floor to be of square joint, but the upper floor fongued and grooved. The plaltbrm for the Judge’s bench is to be three feet high, eight feet long, and three feet wide, and banistered* steps at each end, with a seat the whole length ol the platform. There are also to be half a dozen dressed pine benches often or twelve leet long. The foundation of the house is to be of good rock or brick, and raised two feet above tiie ground. The person or persons contracting fotf the above mentioned building are required to furnish lumber, nails, glass, hinges, locks and other necessary articles. The lowest bidder is to have the cont ract, who will be required to give bond and good security tor the laithlul 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 Nat iorf. Nov. 20, 1828. 38 (4. 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 carrvingon the business of HOUSE BUILDING AND CABINET MAK ING in a manner superior to any that has been done, & 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 ol the Country. He will work as cheap as any workman, and in a better manner than can be done. He has got Mir. hogany and materials of the best quality. N. B. He will take apprentices in the above business. Any native who will ome with good recommendation, and of -toady habits will he received and taught n the above business. Persons wishing to build can be supplied citha plan and elevation of any house that iay be wanting. For further information please apply •* Messrs. David Vann and John Ridge, Nov. 12, 1828. ’ s7 lf LAWS of the Cherokee Nation, fo<* ’e years 182G, 1827, 1828, printed -ml iei jale at thia Off co.