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roi&rajr. A PASTORAL.—by a., l. barbacld. Gtoilfl pilgrim, tell me why DmI thou tbli) thine arms and sigh, A H wistful cast thin* eves around?— Whither, pilgrim, art thou bound? ‘'The road to Zion's fates I seek; If thou const inform me, speak." K>ep yon right hancl path with care, Though crag* obstruct, &, brambles tear; You just discern a narrow track— Enter there, and turn not back. “Say, where that pleasant pathway leads, Winding down through flowery ,Heads? Hong or dance the way beguiles, Every face is dresl in smiles.” Shun with care that flowery wav; 'Twill lead thee, pilgrim, far astray. “Guide or counsel do I need?" Pilgrim, he who runs may read. “Jr this the way that I must keen. Crossed by waters wide and deep1" Did it lead through flood or fire, Thou mult not stop—thou must not tire, “Till my journey I have past, Tell me will the daylight last? Will the sky be bright and clear Till the evening shades appear 7" Though the sun now rides so high, Clouds may veil the evening sky; Fast sinks the sun, fast wears the day, Thou must not stop—thou must not stay: God speed thee, pilgrim, on thy way! From the Remember Me. IDLE WORDS. I fcave a high sense of the virtue and dig nity of the female character; and would not, by any means, be thought to attribute to the ladies emphatically, the fault here Spoken of. But I have remarked it in some of ray friends, who were among the loveliest of their sex. In such the blemish is more distinct and striking, because so strongly contrasted with the superior deli cacy and loveliness of their natures. “Mv God!” the beauty oft exclaimed, With deep impassioned tone— But not in humble prayer she named The High and Holy One! •Twas not upon the bended knee, With soul upraised to heaven, Pleading with heartfelt agony, That she might be forgiven. ’Twas not in heavenly strains to raise To the great source of good, Her daily offering of praise, Her song of gratitude. But in the gay and thoughtless crowd, And in the Wttive hall, *M> 1st scenes of mirth 8c mockery proud, She named the Lord of All! She called upon that awful name, When laughter loudest rang— Or when the flush of triumph came,— • Or disappointment’s pang!' The idlest thing that flattery knew, The most unmeaning jest, From those sweet lips profanely drew Names of the Holiest! I thought how sweet that voice would be, Breathing a prayer to heaven— **My God! I worship onlv thee, Oh be my sins forgiven!” MISCELLANEOUS. SKETCHES OF MR. BERRIEN AND MR. VAN BUREN. There is a very brief, but, we think, correct sketch of the character of the present Attorney General, Mr. Ber rien, in a work published in this city about a year ago, which we hsve ex tracted. ■ It is Senator Berrien, of Georgia, whom you will perhaps have an op portunity of hearing before the ses sion closes. His person, you per ceive, is remarkably line, his count enance mild and prepossessing, and his whole department courtly and dig nified. As an orator he stands deserv edly high in the body to which he be- ongs. His manner is graceful and elegant—handling his subject with the skill of a logician, and strewing his course with the choicest flowers of rhetoric. He seldom employs the shafts of satire against his antagonist; a id when he does, he wreathes around |hem so many roses that the wound is seldom felt, and never rankles. His address is so bland and gentlemanly that we may apply to him with pro priety, the Dulce ridenteme—dulce loquentem, of Horace. His voice is fullof melo dy and.sweetness, and every motion of his body is influenced by a natural land irresistible grace. His reason ing is subtle and ingenious; but wants condensation. He gives to what he s ivs m peculiar charm, not only by his manners, but by the sweetness and b trmony of bis style, and the fine cur rent of thought he pours out. He does not indeed throw ofl* any striking c* pplendiij (©ages, or present any highly colored and beautiful pictures of imagination to the hearei; but he contrives to keep the mind delightful ly employed, by an agreeable succes sion of ideas, and a' pleasing exhibi tion of practical logic, the anima Itgis of Coke.” We take also the author’s sketch of Mr. Van Buren. “Mr. Van Buren tock a seat on the sofa between Marion and myself, and entered into conversation with a great deal of freedom and ease. He was small in stature, had light colored hair, and a fair complexion. There was great neatness in his person, and briskness in his motion. “This gentleman,” said Marion, “is a pleasing and graceful speaker. His urbanity in debate is unequalled; he opposes with reJuctnncef and always with the most perfect apparent good nature; laboriug to please and concili ate his antagonist, while he endeavors to overthrow his arguments. He is ingenious, and sometimes forcible in. attack, and subtle and acute in de fence; never detracting from the mer it of his opponent, and always com bating his positions with the most per fect courtesy and politeness. His elocution possesses ease and graceful ness, and his style neatness and some times elegance. There are few that excel him in fluency, or that surpass him in the power of persuasion, 6r in politeness of address. But his mind wants vigor; it possesses more beauty than energy—more neatness than strength. As a politician, he main tains an elevated standing; fertile in expedients, deep in his designs, and persevering and vigilant in their exe cution. Nature seems to have in tended him for a sphere in which the passions and prejudices of party pre vail, and endowed him with a power, like a master spirit, to call them into action, or to put them in play, by the subilty and energy he employs.” Washington Chron. Translated from a work published in 1815. EARTHQUAKES. The terrible phenomenon of earth quakes most frequently occurs in the latter part of Spring, and the begin ning of summer. If it happens at any other period of the year, it is gener ally in Autumn. Earthquakes usual ly take place in the night, two or three hours after sunset, or about day break. Their couise is from North to South, in the Directien of the An des. Fatal experience has shown, that the most violent concessions re turn at intervals ofhalf a century each, within the space which lies between the equator and the tropic of Capri corn, and that they follow each other with a kind of regularity from the tropic to the equator. This remark is confirmed by the subsequent table of the earthquakes which have been felt in Quito, Arequipa, and Lima, since the conquest of the country: Arequipa. Lima. Quito. 1582 1586 1587 1604 1630 1745 1687 1686 1698 1715 1746 1757 1784 1806 1797 On the return of the disastrous pe riod about the close of the last centu ry, the city of Arequipa, and the prov inces of Quito were ruined. Lima has hitherto escaped. How shall we obtain from Heaven exemption from this dire calamity? The gloomy re flection that we must found the Cap ital anew every fifty years, and that it may be reduced to a heap of rub bish, just at the moment when a finish ing hand has been put to its greatness and splendor, fills us with terror and dismay. Elderly and pious persons affirm,that earthquakes nave been less common and violent in Lima, since it:» churches have resounded with the sa- sacred hymn to the Trinity. Surely, a religious people ought to enkindle their faith, and to nourish the senti ments of adoration in their hearts; since he alone, to whom this sublime hymn is consecrated, has power to shake to its centre, to uphold it in repose. • Variable days are most exposed tq earthquakes; and hence they occur be tween Spring and Summer, and du ring the Indian Summer of Autumn.— They are preceded by copious rains, which moisten the earth, and pene trate and fill Up its cavities. The hot weather following these rfclfis, forms a mass of subterraneous vapor,, which, finding no outlet, are I lamb be exploded by the electric spat# volcanic fire. About the time of An earthquake, dark exhalations often cover the Heavens, ana give melan choly aspect to the stars. Vegetation is apt to suffer much at these fatal periods. The earthquake of 1687 rendered our lands unfit for the cultivation of wheat. The stalks grew luxuriantly until the ear appear* ed; but the grain was totally blasted and the harvest lost. Twenty years afterwards, the soil began to resume its former fertility; but a mortal blow had been inflicted upon our agricul ture. D.-rin^ the scarcity, resort Was had to Chili for supplies; and this country, to which our ancestors ex ported bread stuffs, has beooaie our granary; and the most valuable branch of agriculture has been ruined for want of consumers. On the 1st of December, 1806, a greater earthquake occurred at Lima than has been known since the de structive earthquake ofl746. It be gan at six in the evening, and shook the city terribly for a minute and a half. At 8 o’clock the tide rose 18 feet in the port of Callao, at half past nine it was still higher; but, by ten o’ clock the sea became tranquil. The course of this earthquake was from North to South; and its motion was perceptibly undulatory and exceeding- py rapid. 1 consider it as an accom plishment of the semi-centurial peri od of earthquakes in Peru.. THE PROFESSION OF ARMS An 8vo. vol. of 286 pages is pub lished in London, entiled, “An Apolo gy for withdrawing from the Profes sion of Arms.” It contains a letter addressed to the King, and a series of letters to a friend, on the causes, e- vils, and unlawfulness of war. No author’s name appears in the title- page, but the letters bear the signa ture of ‘Thomas Thrush;’ and that ad dressed to his Majesty, we find, has passed through four editions. There is nothing; fictitious in these epistles. They evince, in every part, the sin cerity of the writer, who, convinced of the evils of war, and its inconsist ency with the Christian character, re nounces the profession of arms, re signs his commission, and openly a- vows his conviction before the world. The London Imperial Magazine for January, 1829, thus remarks on this work: “The letter addressed to his Ma jesty is couched in plain, expressive, but respectful language; and no man who reads it with attention can doubt that the writer has been actuated by pure aud conscientious motives. The tide of public opinion may very nat urally be expected to set in strongly against his sentiment, but those by whom he may be calumniated and ridiculed, will find it much easier to pionounce a sentence of condemna tion on the man, than to refute what he has advanced. War, he considers to have originat ed in the pride and wickedness of the human heart, and while iniquity pre dominates, his hopes are not very san guine of finding many advocates to embrace, or even to defend, his en deavors to drive the monster from the bosoms and practices of mankind. We have perused these letters with a more than common, interest, anting from the nature of the subject, and the obloquy which has been pour ed on the writer inmost of our pub lic journals, in which they have been noticed, and fear not to participate in the common censure awarded t6 all those, who assert that war is incon sistent with genuine Christianity.— On the enthusiasm and madness at tributed to the author, we have kept a steady eye, but have discovered .nothing to sanction the reproach.— For the moral and political condition of the world, he seems to have been born a few ages too soon, unless we admit, what warriors will hardly con cede, that the world is unfortunately a few ages behind what it ought to have been Let this question, how ever, be decided as it mar, it will not alter the truth of the following lines, with which we shall conclude: “What are ye, monarchy laurelled he roes, say, But j&tnts of the suffering world ye < sway? Sweet nature, stripped of her embroid ered robe, Deplores the wasted regions of hsr globe: > Ana stands a witness at truth’s awful bar, To prove you there, destroyer* as ye are.” [CowVta. From the Philadelphia Souvenir. THE FATE OF GFNTUS. Hoiper was a beggar; Plautus turn ed a mill. Teroxeewadaslave; fife tiiius died in a jail; Paul Borgheee bad fourteen trades, and yet starved with them all; Tasso was often distressed for a few shillings; Bentivoglio was refused admittance into an hospital he had himself erected; Cervantes died of hunger; Commas, the cele brated writer of the Lusiad ended his days, it is said, in an almshouse; and at any rate, was supported by a faith ful black servant, who begged in the streets of Lisbon for the only man in Portugal on whom God had bestowed those talents whiclihave a tendency to erect the spirit of downward age; and Vangelasleft his body to the surgeons, to' pay his debts as far as it would go. In England, Bacon lived a life of mean ness and distress; Sir Walter Raleigh died on a scaffold; Spencer—the charming Spencer, died forsaken and in want; the death of Collins came through neglect, first causing mental derangement: ^ Each lovely scene shall thee restore, For thee the tear be duly shed, Beloved till life can' charm no more, And mourned though pity’s self be dead. Milton sold his copy right of Paradise lost for fifteen pounds, at threff pay ments, and finished his life in obscuri ty; Dryden lived in poverty and died in distress; Otway died prematurely, and through hunger: Lee died in the street; Steel lived a life of perfect warfare with the bailiffs. Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield was sold for a tri fle, to save him from the gripe of the law; the same is reported of John son’s Rasselas: Fielding lies in the bury ground of the English factory at Lisbon, without a stone to mark the spot; Savage died in prison at Bristol, where he was confined for a debt of eight pounds; Butler, the author of Hudibras, lived in penury, and died poor; Chatterton, the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself! “TAi Bottomless Pit of Specie.”— The Salem Courier says that “the East Indies is a bottomless pit for spe cie,” and that “all that goes there, goes never to return.” There may indeed be an inconven ience in this. A reasonable supply of the precious metals, as the accredited representation of other property, and for purpose of manufacture, is doubt less needful. But they are neither food nor raiment. In the absence of these, they would be useless. And their presence, beyond a certain a- mount, would add nothing in reality, either to wealth or happiness. Our imports from India and China consist, in general, of articles which add to our comfort, and though some articles may be classed with luxuries, they are not the direct means of moral ru in; which is more than can be said in favor of some branches ot our com merce. If the Courier wishes to point out a t: a bottomless pit for specie,” for all that specie represents, and for treasures which were n$ver purchased by silver or gold, let it turn its attention from the trade in nankins, silks, crapes, porcelain, and the beverage of the cups “that cheer, but not inebriate,” to the trade in Jamaica Rum, Cogniac Brandy, and Holland Gin. Let it take a peep at the distilleries. Here may be seen .“the bottomless pit,” not merely of specie, but of houses and lands, and food and raiment. The bot tomless pit of domestic happiness and national prosperity, of individual worth and of public freedom.—-National Phi lanthropist and Investigator. GRAFTING AND INOCULATION It is not unreasonable to suppose the benefits to be derived from engraft ing and inoculation of fruit trees, are far from being * fuliy re alized. Aside from the neglect of improving orchards, where there is nothing to prevent but the disposition to procrastinate and delay—so preva lent with all—we believe that the process is of much more extensive ap plication than is generally known, and that it may be the means of introduc ing the cultivation of fruits, now im ported from abroad at a great expense. It has been ascertained that the shag- bark walnut may be successfully en grafted, and that the engrafted trees are much the surest bearers. Where this is not the case, the difference in the quality of these nuts would make it an object to engraft most of the walnut frees. Some have a very thin shell, and a thick large meat—while others have a thick shell and but lit. rfieat: It is probable that the hicko. ry, or shag-bark, would do well, en_ -€ I . > - . ’i l grafted on the ffig-nuL If it should, the quantity raised might be greatly increased, aud the quality ffipcli im proved. The madeira nut, which >a usually sold at the shops under the name of the English walnut, at 12 1-2 to 16 cents per pound, may be culti vated here without difficulty," and in very productive. In the vidjuity of New-York, there is a tree wKich has produced, in a single year, as many as sold in the market for txeo hundred dollars. We have no doubt that it .might be engrafted on the butter-nut, or the walnut with perfect success. It is a tree of the Same genus, and in it? character bears & nearer resemblance to the butter-nut than many other trees do to those on which they ate success fully engraftedi The experiment is worth trying, and* if successful, it would soon mrnish us, at a cheap rate, with a good supply of that excellent nut without waiting the. more tardy process of reariug the tree.—Jlfa*s+ Spy. —•— The Pleasures of Dissipation.—“I wish” says one of the sons of pleasure as he rose late iff the morning, after • season of revelry—“I wish I coul£ exchange* my feelings for those I for*’ merly enjoyed.”—“As for my part,’ r says one of his companions, “I never felt so much like committing suicide.” These remarks were made at a public house during the late special seasotf of gambling and dissipation in this cily ; and tvere overheard by a person of' strict veracity, who lodged in an ad joining apartment. Comment is un necessary.—pAarfesfon Observer. On the day of Lord Eldon’s resign nation of the Great Seal,, a certain little lawyer, after expatiating, at a dinner party, on the public merits of that Noble and Learned Person, pro ceeded to speak of his kindness and condescension towards the barristers of his Court. “To me,” added he, “the loss is irreparable, for Lord El* don always behaved to me quite like a father.” “Yes,’ said Brougham, who was one of the company, “I un derstand that he always treated you quite like a child.”—Literary G!<► 4 • ■ —— SIR WILLIAM GOUCH. ' Nothing is unworthy of nnhlicatioft which may convey a useful lesson to mankind.—When Sir Wiliam Gouch was governor of Virginia, being iff conversation with a. gentleman in n street in the city of WUliamsburgh, he returned the salute of a poor negro* who was passing by about his ronf- ter’s business. “SiV,” said the gen tleman, “does your honor descend se far as to salute a slave?” “Why, yes,” replied the Governor,“I cannot suffer a man of his enndition to exceed me in good manners.'* , CHEROKEE PHCENIX, find Indians' Advocate. T HE SUBSCRIBER commenced the duties of his station, as editor of this paper, with a trembling hand and s reluct ant heart. He had no experience to aid him, and but limited information to recom mend him to the public. He has however progressed so far, generally, to the satisfac tion of his leaders, for which he is thankful. As the first volume of the Phoenix is on the e» - of closing, the edffor.has thought best to apprize the public tbgt a new' volume will be commenced next month, and that the great object of its founders, the benefit of the Cherokee*, will still he assid uously pursued. It is unnecessary to re peat and particularize the principles under which.the future nun^ers of the Phoenix will be conduc’—*h* orinciples will her similar to those wnlvL a« : r vented, the past numbers. The paper is sacred to the cause of Indians, ana the editor will feel himself especially hound as far as his time, talents and information will permit, to ren der it as instructive and entertaining as possible to his brethren, and endeavor ter enlist the friendly feelings and sympathies of his subscribers abroad, in favor of thw aborigines. . As the present poliev of the Generaf Government, the removal of all the Indian#' beyond the limits of organized States or' Territories, is assuming an important a**’ pect, the editor will feel himself boijjnd to ,' lay before his readers all that may be said on this subject, particularly the objection* against this measure of the QovernffienjL • Particular attention will be given to ju dicious miscellany. Choice pieces'on re ligion and morals, domestic economy &e* will find a ready admittance in the Phoenix*' The original part of the paper will be, rendered as interesting as the mentis of the editor will allow. Owing to the w'aht of an assistant, it is impossible to devote a largo portionof the paper to the Cherokee l&iW guage, as the whole must he Original—The editor will however 1 do what he ean. The friends of Indians aye particularly^ called upon to assist in this undertaking by their subscriptions. Thus fair, the Phccniff 1 has been a dead expense' to the proprie ! tors. It is highly desirable that tnereT should be sufficient patronage to seteurt if from the like pecuniary embarrassment g# future ELIAS ftOWDlNOT» v