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ami with increasing satisfaction.— Last July the western district, com prising nearly half the population ol the nation, adopted in general council, and by an-unanimous voice, a similar regulation. Since that, the other dis trict has followed the same example. There cannot be a question that less ardent spirit is now used in the Choctaw nation, whether we consider the extent of territory or the amount of population, than in any other part of the United States. It is only when \ve go to the borders of the surround ing settlements, that w'e see Indians intoxicated. There, a few unprin cipled white men, equally regardless of the laws of God and of their coun try, continue, for filthy lucre’s sake, to sell the deadly poison to those In dians who resort thither. Advance in the Arts of Civilization. Other evidences of improvement we have in the increase of industry, and a consequent advance in dress, furniture, and all the comforts and conveniences-ol civilized lile. It has been remarked by many, that the fields of the Indians have never been kept in so good order, and man aged with so much industry, as the past year. At councils and other large meetings, the Indians, especially in the northern and western districts ap pear comfortably and decently and some of tl\ein richly clad. A great desire is manifested to obtain furni ture for their houses, and some are al ready supplied in a manner not inferior to that of new settlers in. our own count ry. The result of a census taken last year in the northeast district was as fol lows, viz. population, 5,627; neat cattle, 11,661, horses, 3,974; oxen, 112; hogs, 22,047; sheep 136; spin ning wheels, 530; looms, 124; ploughs, 360; wagons, 32; black-smith’s shops, 7; cooper’s shops, 2; carpenter’s shops, 2; white men with Choctaw and injurious customs. The erCCtijn of poles iu honor ol the dead; ctyilg at these poles morning, noon, a)d night, for weeks and months; larfe meetings for feasting, dancing intfcn- peraneo, when the poles are pulled down, have l&en fruitful sources of poverty and licentiousness TO the* Choctaws. These practices, inter woven as they were with the strongest prejudices and superstitions of the people, were last July abolished by an unanimous vote, in a general coun cil of the western district; and they are fast going out of practice, or be coming greatly modified, in the other parts of the nation. The killing of persons for w itchcraft, by which much innocent blood has been shed, is now hardly know'n. A very great desire for the educa tion of their children furnishes another proof of the advancement of the Choc taws. Petitions are frequently made requesting the establisment of new schools. Numbers more have ap plied for admission to the boarding school than could be received. Noth ing is now wanting bat suitable per sons and adequate means to extend the advantages of education into eve ry part of the Choctaw nation. Capt. W. thinks that they will emi grate en masse, and that they will nev er plant another crop in their present country. He further states, that the extension of jurisdiction over them has had a most salutary effect, and that previous to the arrival of Col. Crowell 1000 had enlisted. Thus we are in a fair way of speedily ac qulring the Indian country; the acqui sition ofitohich promises the greatest advantaps to Montgomery.—Alabama Journal. on by the latter for “reparation;” and, that being refused, after the ex- THE CREEKS. i The Indians appear to-be in trouble. Yesterday we gave an account of a Ut ter which had been addressed by tie Agent among the Cherokees, warning a white man to hold his peace, and tot dissuade them from emigration, or else he might incur the sentence-of expulsion from the nation. To day, we have to lay before our readers,the substance of an article in the Savin- nail Georgian, touching the Creeks.i ll appears that Capt. Walker, an officer of the United States,had brought bsck with him from the Arkansas, a Chief Memphis, T. J[Iay 2.— Choctaw fy Chickasaro Indiana.—The disposition, and anxiety, to obtain the lands of these people is becoming every day more manifest, and we should not be surprised if the Mississippi legisla turc were, ere long, to compel fhem to a removal, by extending their mu nicipal regulations over them. This measure has been repeatedly threat ened, and as often deferred under the expectation that the Indians would, by treaty with the General Govern ment, surrender their lands, and there by obviate the necessity of resorting to so arbitrary a measure. We are advocates for their removal upon two considerations. In the first place because w r e believe they cannot pos sibly subsist, for any considerable, length of time, where they now are; and, secondly, because the country^ to which it is proposed to remove them, appears to be well suited to iheir habits, wants, and well being. Adv. change of several notes, satisfation becoming a gentleman was demanded. They met, accordingly, at Battersea’ Fields, when Lord Wellington fired once without effect, the Duke ol Winchelsea discliared his pistol in the air, and then a memorandum was offered by his second, and accepted as satisfactory by the second of the Duke of Wellington. In the letter to Mr. Colridge above alluded to, the Duke of Winchelsea expresses a decided opinion that the principles of the King’s College will not be “truly religious, Scriptural, or permanently Protestant;” and this ap pears to have been the ground on which he resolved to make several charges against Lord Wellington, and aftenvards to fight him! NEW ECHOTA: WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1829. We have been obliged to suspend our paper longer than we' anticipated. We have finally with difficulty procured some ink. JOURNAL OF MR. HUSS. John Huss, the translation ofwhose Jour nal will be seen below, is a Cherokee ex- horter,under the direction of the A. B. C. F. M., and one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this nation. He has favored u» ; wj|h an account of his labors during the months of January and February. For want of time we could not translate it. A friend lias banded to us the translation which follows, and which we are glad to present to our English readers, Willstown, March, 1829. I resume my journal of my labors in preaching to the people the word of God. My Christian brethren, tvho receive the Cherokee Phoenix, will see an account of all my labors, in diffusing without molestation . the word of Jesus Christ, and seeking the conversion of sinners, during the pre sent month, if ray life and health are spared. I exert myself much that men may peteeive the sinfulness of our hearts; and I have great anxiety in my spirit, and, when 1 consider the sinfnlness of all oirr hearts, the wa- teis are ready to burst from my eyes-.- When, too, I reflect upon this subject, I think that, if we would do well, our* It was mentioned in our la§t,that Mr. David Brown would act as Agent in collecting subscribers for the Phoenix. On account of his ill health we have been de prived of his services. foreign. From the New-York Advertiser LATEST FROM ENGLAND. New'-York April 24. w. iu miii tivus wi ^ i By the packet ship George Can- of the Orange tribe, who was desired-! ning, Captain Allyn "• U ”' K Many of our subscribers still complain of the irregularity of our papers. We are sorry to hear of these complaints after we have been using our endeavors to perform our duty faithfully. The negligence must rest on some of the Post Masters. We shall do all in our power to serve our sub scribers. families, 22; schools, 5; scholars in course of instruction, about 150. In one clan, with a population of 3 13, who a year ago were almost entirely destitute of property, grossly intem perate, and roaming from place to place, there are now 188 horses, 511 cattle, 853 hogs, 7 looms, 68 spinning wheels, 35 ploughs, 6 oxen, 1 school, ’• 20 or 25 scholars. Some of their mechanics shops&many of their tools bear but a poor compari son with what we find in civilized lands, and would be considered of little use by those who have good ones: yet to these people they are of great value. And it must excite pity in every one who looks into their circumstances, to see them laboring to cultivate the soil, build houses, iqjnufactlire cloth, * and struggling to rise from their deep poverty, by the aid of such miserable tools as many of them arc obliged to use. The northeast district last year ap preprinted $1,500 of their annuity for the establishment and support of black smith’s shops. The present year they have appropriated their whole annuity to similar objects. As an evidence of industry and pub he spirit, I would mention that in one neighborhood the natives have built a shop, chopped wood for a large coal-pit, and carried it on their backs to the place of setting; have built a bouse for their black-smith, and clear ed for him a field of 12 acres, all with their own hands; they have purchased with their annuity a set of tools and iron and steel to the amount of two hundred dollars, and have engaged to pay their smith $3<J0 more annually, for three years. Similar provision is making for smith’s shops in other places. Another evidence of the progress of improvement among the Choctaws is the organization of civil government. In 1826 a general council was con vened, at which a constitution W’as a- dopted, and legislative power was delegated to’ a National Committee and Council, whose acts, when ap proved by the chiefs; become the su preme laws of the land. I have now before me in manuscript a code con taining 22 laws, which have been en acted by the constitu'.ed authorities, and so far as l know, carried into com plete execution. Among the subjects embraced h#4hese laws are theft, murder, infanticide, marriage, poly gamy. the making of wills and settling ' of estates, trespass, false testimony, what shall be considered lawful en closures around fields, lie. &c. to attend a Talk in the Creek Nation, relative to the proposition of the go vernment about the removal of the In dians to the West of the Mississippi - One of their Headmen, Opothle Yoholo, well known as the friend of Gen. Gaines during the progress of the Georgia controversy, upon being ask ed whether the Osage could be admit ted to the Conference, made this strik ing reply: which arrived yesterday morning from Liverpool, we have received our Liverpool pa pers to the 24th of March, London papers to the 23d. In the House of Commons, the Catholic Relief Bill passed a se cond reading on the 18th, sustained by an animated and interesting speech from Mr. Peel, although strongly op posed particularly by the Attor ney General. We copy bfclow the If he comes as a friend, desirous of most important parts ol the debate. ... . .. i • i 1 • l mi. _ Ihnl nA P!irth V 111- becoming acquainted with him and his people, he was welcome; but for the purpose of inducing the Creeks to emi grate, they wanted nothing to do with him; that a great man, Tecumseh, once came among them, and the Creeks ever since have been suspicious of strangers.” The Creek Chief had, however, an other experiment made upon his feel ings. Alabama has passed a law ex tending the jurisdiction of the btate over its Indian Territory. A law to the same effect, we believe, has been recently passed by the Legislature of Ge#gia. With a view of testing its efficacy, a w'rit was served upon 0- pothle Yoholo and other Chiefs—but, as they laughed at the process, he was subsequently arrested; and the She riff, not being able Jo prevail upon him to give bail or take him to Montgome ry, compromised with the Chief—-tak- in*n Vile tvrtnl that Via would attend the Our readers will recollect an order we published some time since, issued by Col. Montgomery to Mr, Stidman, requesting his removal out of the limits of the nation. We pronounced the proceeding to he cruel and highly tyrannical. It appears from very good authority, that the order from the War Department had reference only to straggling white men, and that it was not intended to apply to white citizens of this nation, among whom is Mr. Stidman. I * 7 ^ w | ^ ^ iri% his word that he would attend the Court. And here ends the first chap ter.—Rich. Compiler. Another evidence of improvement yre have in the abolishing of ancient The Creek Indians.—Colonel John Crowell, the late Agent in the Creek Nation, w'e are authorized to say, has been directed to remove his Agency west of the Mississippi to the country allotted to the emigrating Indians.— He is very lately returned from Washington City, and has, we under stand, a talk from the Executive "to the Creeks. The President tells them that an Agent will no longer bo retained in their present nation; that it is his wish they should remove, and his determination to have their lands surveyed; that inasmuch as the State* of Alabama has extended her jurisdic tion over them, they will be thrown without the protection of the Gefleral Government, and that the only course to be pursued is for them to remove. He also informs them, that such ad are disposed to remain, shnll have a strip of land set apart for them, h.ut that they will be subject to the juris diction of that State in which the land may lie; but that snch as remove will have continued to thorn the protec tion of the Government. Capt. Walk er, from whom we derive this inform ation, further informs us, that a meet ing of the Indians is to be held on the 28th April, for the purpose of. deci ding, on the President’s instructions. The latter said', that no earthly in ducement could make him draw up, or subscribe such a bill, calculated to subvert the constitution which his Majesty, in his coronation oath, had sworn to support. Mr. Peel repeated, what he and his associates on that side of the Bill have stated before, that the time had not arrived when it would be proper to communicate all the information the Ministry possessed in relation to the Catholic Question: but when it should e made known, his opponents would confess that he had no oth^r alterna tive, and had adopted the only course by which the power of the Catholics coi^d be diminished, and the Protest ant religion maintained. He lament ed, in feeling terms, the unavoidable loss of old friendship and public con fidence, which his new course ren dered inevitable, and remarked, that although, in case of a failure to ac complish the object proposed, he should be subject to all the blame of defeat; success would confer on him no honorable distinction aS an origina tor or early friend of the measures he was now advocating. That dis tinction, that honor belonged to some of his great predecessors—Fox, Grat tan, Plunkett,the gentleman opposite, and Canning whom he had steadily op posed. The Bill relating to the Elective Franchise was, on the 19th, passed to a second reading, after some debate, by a majority of 206. Lord Wellington and the Duke of Winchelsea have been engaged in a very foolish duel. Indeed the points of inconsistency with which it is some respects ridiculous, Lord H in chelsea, offended at the turn of affair, in relation to the Catholic Questions determined’ to w ithdraw his name as a subscriber to the new Episcopal Institution called King’s College, which some charge the Ministry with having got up at the time they did, to blind the public with a false idea of their devotion to the Church; and which the Duke of Winchelsea re gards as unsafe in hands which are resigning such power to the Catholics. He wrote a letter to Mr: Coleridge the secretary of the College, in which he reflected strongly on the Duke of Wellington, and for this wat called Our neighbors who regard no law, or pay no respect to the laws of humanity, are now reaping a plentiful harvest by the law of Georgia, which declares that n» Indian shall be a party in any court created by the laws or constitution of that state. 1 hese children would grow up beautifully. These are my thoughts while I labor for the conversion of men. But there are some Who say, “These labors are calculated to do us much evil.” When I think of these their remarks, and of the fatigues which I endure in traversing the mountains out of a de sire for their welfare, my heart aches. But perhaps they will some time perceive. On the first Sabbath in March we met at our place of assembly in Willstown. A few people only come as hearers. They did not know of my coming, and Mr. Chamberlin was not at home, on which account few caftie together. I however addressed them as I was able. At the close ! appointed a meeting at night at Mrs. Pack’s, where a considerable number of hearers came, and I spoke much to them, so that I became quite fa tigued. The next day we assembled at the mpeting-house for prayer, it being the frst Monday in the month. There 1 heard that I was called to a periop. who lay sick, at the point of dcftlh, about four miles distant, I went thinking that sb* would be already dead. She V/as, however, still liv ing, vvhftli I Srvired, but motionless, and only breathing. I rejoiced that neighbors come over the line, and take the auu umy creaming, l rejoiceu uiai cattle belonging to the Cherokees. The there was opportunity for me to pray ru i nupciiii nf thpir nrooertv. I tV.nf «ilw» mirrlit iPPPivA n1i»rr.tr. fill A Cherokees go in pursuit of their property but all that they can effect js, to see the : , r cattle snugly kept in the lots of these rob bers. We are an abused people. If we can receive no redress, we can feel deeply the injustice don.c- to our rights. We understand lhaLa party from Geor gia, who say ihey are acting under the au thority of Governor Forsyth, are now busy in running the line from Suawana old town to the Six’s, &c. The pretext is the very frivolous claim which has lately been brought to light. We are told the Agent met the surveyors and requested them to desist, hut they only laughed at him. CREEKS. If the statement copied from the Alabama Journal, in regard to the Creeks is true } our readers will easily infer what course of conduct which the present administration intends to pursue relative to Indian affairs We hope such a talk has not been sent by General Jackson. We pity the Creeks— they afford an example of the effects of the emigrating scheme*. CHOCTAWS. We rejoice sincerely to notice the pro gress of improvement so plainly exhibited by our brethren the Choctaws, h rom the interesting communication of the Rev. Mr. Kingsbury, copied in our first page from the Missionary Herald, our readers will perceive that they are rapidly following the Cherokees. We earnestly wish that their progress may be uninterrupted— that they may not have to encounter the dif ficulties under which we have been labour ing. Perhaps Mississippi will be more generous benevolent and just to the Choc taws and Chickasaws, than Georgia has been to us. If that should be the case, we may rest assured that the Choctaws will be come a civilized people. When the pros pects are so bright among so many of theln dian tribesjwhen we hearof the astonishing progress of improvement in morals and re ligion, not only among the Southern, but also among the Northern Indians, is it not mortifying to common-sense, that their re. moval should be so repeatedly urged on the ground of their civilization f 1 '•i H(13 VUIII1J IVI MIV *• V t.unt she might receive DlCrcjr. She was a professor of religion* an aged woman. A little after noon of the next day she died. So long she lived every moment apparently dying, as she was unable to move or to speak. She had been sick four days when she died: At her burial I addressed the people, who were very attentive, & a considerable number. After this I directed my course to Haweis, and spent the night at the house of Rising Fawn. There also the neighbors as sembled at evening, and I addressed them. On the second Sabbath in March I spoke in the meeting-house at Haw eis. There I providentially met with Mr. Chamberlin. He first preached without an interpreter, and I after wards addressed those who did not Understand the English Language. Very fetv people were collected. I thfcn went to the Fork, and spent the night at the house of Mr. John Ridge. In the evening Mr. Ridge interpreted to me the address of the people of Turkey Town' at their l^te assembly. It was a beautiful ad dress'. Evidently they were intelli gent. r Mr. Rhlge however, himself wrote the address, and therefore ! [not knowing who was the author] thought it must have been written by some person of talents and .intelli gence. •, The next flight I spent at Arcjiy Downing’s. There a few people werd providentially met w r hom I addressed. They did not know of my being there, but were visitors. They were, however, attentive to my discourse, and acquainted w'ith prayer, except two, a man and his wife, who were the last that came, who were not ac quainted with divine worship, and did not imitate - our example,* when we prayed. The next morning I set out fof' home. 1 w r as pursuing a small path* for, with the intention of conversing with an individual who was a proles-* sor of religion, but had been guilty of some misconduct,' F had left thfl