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Say, we have for these 46 years treat
ed with you, in our treaty making
capacity, as granted us by the United
States Constitution, not as a nation,
but as subjects of Georgia. Sir, you
have not allowed Georgia in your con
stitutional am addressing the U. S.)
to declare war against the Cherokee
Nation. How then do you support the
doctrine she has a right to subject us
to her laws? By pomr. Is that your
answer while your obligations by oith
arc recorded on your statutes & known
in heaven? 1 am still here, I have
not yet heard.the sound of drums, and
trumpets, and cannon, to demolish and
lay waste my house or the lives of my
kindred; when I discover the exercise
of those powers, then it will be the
lime to hide my dear charge, from
the effects of that force, they had been
*aught to respect as their protection.
I am, Sir, respectfully,
WILLIAM HICKS, Sen.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
Seldom indeed has it become our
duty to record so distressing a calam
ity as that which has befallen the U-
hited States Steam Ship Robert Ful
ton, and used as a Receiving Vessel,
tinder the command of Captain J. T.
Newton. About a quarter past two
o’clock on Thursday aftirnoon, her
magazine took fire, containing 4000lbs.
of powder,* and she blew up with a
tremendous explosion, having been
made a complete wreck, with the
loss of 22 persons killed, and 19
wounded, three of whom have since
died, and among tAe number, we la
ment to state, is that promising and
meritorious young officer, Lieut. S. M.
BnF.CKENBltlDGE.
The particulars of this afflicting
disaster, as we have them frum sev
eral officers bejonging to the ship,
some of whom were on board when
the accident occurred and as corrob
orated (iii part) by the testimony giv
en before the Coroner’s Inquest, are
as follows:—A short time before the
explosion, Mr. Williams, the Gunner,
who had been appointed to that office
only a day or two previous, asked
permission of Lieut. Platt to go into
the Magazine. Lieut. P. ordered a
sentry to stand at the Magazine-scut
tle, and directed that no light be car
ried into the powder-room. This was
separated from the “light-room” by a
double partition, and it was in the
latter only that a light was permitted
to be carried. It is stated by a mid
shipman that immediately before the
Explosion, he perceived a smoke ris
ing from the gang-way leading to the
magazine, and bad just time to spook
of it to a shipmate, when the acci
dent occurred. From this it is in
ferred that there must have been
loose powder on the lloor of the light-
room, and that in some way, unknown
to any person now living, the fire was
communicated.
At the moment of the explosion, the
higher officers were at dinner, and
Mrs. Breckenbridge, the lady of
Lieut. B. was with them. Lieut.
Mull, who was of the number, and
who has strangely escaped almost un
hurt, states that he was thrown u-
bout ten feet. A midshipman who
Was sitting on the gun-deck, tells us
that a mizen mast was taken from Its
step and tossed quite into the air, af
ter which it fell upon whatever re
mained upon the poop-cabin and stern-
works. Not a mast remains standing;
not a foot of rigging; many of the guns
are overboard; and the main part of
the stern is entirely demolished.—
The interior, (for it is completely
laid open,) presents a picture of con
fusion which it is impossible to de
scribe. In short, the whole struct
ure is a complete wreck, and will
friever he worth repairing. Were it
at sea, instead of resting, ns it does,
lipon the ground, we doubt if it would
"keen afloat for five minutes.—Journal
Commerce.
From the N. Y. Evening Post.
Webster's Dictionary.—At a meet
ing of teachers and other literary gen
tlemen on the 18th inst. a committee
was appointed to examine Webster’s
Dictionary, and report their opinions
on the merits of the work. At a sub
sequent meeting their report was rpad
and accepted. In this report the
committee say, that the prefactory
and introductory remarks of the author
command their most unqualified ap
probation—that the etymological char
acter of this work gives it a claim of
preference, as in this particular all
former lexicographers aro very de
fective, and a knowledge of radical
,language is essential (op thorough ac-
•fc.:
qnnintance with the derivative #ords
—that the accuracy of definitions in
this work also gives it a superiority
over others, as we here lind not only
the original meaning of words, hut the
group of ideas which cluster around
it, a^d are delighted in tracing the
affinities and likeness between the pa
rent and the offspring—that a knowl
edge of etymology is essential to the
correct orthography of a derivative
language, and that, for want of this
knowledge, the orthography of words
is sometimes mistaken, and the words
made to express ideas different from
the true ones, and in some eases is
even absurd or ridiculous.—That in
accentuation the author has followed
the general principle, euphony, and
for the discrepancies from Walker,
reasons are assigned which iu general
are satisfactory to the committee—
that to reduce this fugitive attribute
ot our language to uniformity is a very
difficult task, hut that a general rule
ot classification, laid down by Dr.
Webster, as far as the information of
the committee extends, is judicious &.
analogous.
The committee consider the ex
cellence and value of this work to be
much enhanced by the addition of more
than 12 thousand words to the largest
list in any other work of the kind, and
among these are the technical terms
of modern sceience.
The committee remark that the
difficulties of which foreigners com
plain in acquiring a knowledge of the
English language, arising from the
varied sound of the vowels and some
of the consonants, call loudly for a
remedy; and they think one is found in
the use of the points introduced by
Dr. Webster, which are easily under
stood and applied, and that if, by these
means, all or even a part of these dif
ficulties shall be removed, incalcula
ble benelits will he the result. Prov
idence has permitted us to live in a
most eventful period of the world.
They observe that the moral and re
ligious enterprise of the present day—
the improvements in arts and sciencics
—the discovery of new inodes of ap
plying moral and physical force, pre
sent an aspect of no common interest,
and appear to designate the present
as the most suitable time for the adop
tion of some such w ork as the one
under consideration, as a standard of
the English language—a language
copious and scientific, and destined to
he a medium ot the greatest blessings
to the world.
thousand, a small part of which has
been satisfied by a levy upon real
'estate, the title of which is disputed.
The bank owes seven hundred and
eighty thousand dollars; and their
means for discharing it, consisting of
'real estate, Sic. amount only to* fifty
thousand dollars. The debts due the
baidc from Messrs, Hinsdale Dexter
and Ilolly, are about twelve hundred
thousand dollars.
Connecticut.—It appears from the
message of Gov. Tomlinson, that the
receipts of the state of Connecticut,
during the last fiscal year, have a-
moiinted to $62, 714 25. Expendi
tures $b7,OGO 75; besides $2,202 98
advanced to the w ardeh of the state-
prison, and $9,201 paid to the com
mittee for building a state-house at
New-Haven. The dividends declar
ed upon the school fund during the
year ending 31st March, for the sup
port of schools, amounted to $72,104
15; being 85 cents for every person
in the slate, between the ages of four
and sixteen years, as ascertained by
the last annual enumeration. The
state-prison (at Wetherfieldl lias rea
lised a nett gain, during the year end
ing 31st March, above all expenses,
of $3,229 41.
Another Steamboat lost.—The Steam
boat Montgomery, belonging as we
understand to t Mr. Benj. F. West of
New Orleans, ran upon a snag in the
Cumberland river a few miles above
the mouth, on Wednesday 10th inst.
and sunk intsantly. Her cargo des-*
tined for this place, and the boat her
self, are said to be both totally lost.
The boat was insured to the full a-
mount of her estimated value.
Nashville Banner.
SUMMARY.
Philadelphia Vaccine Institution.—
We observe by th« public prints,
that Doct. Win. C. Brewster and
D. C. Skerret, Vaccine Physicians of
the city, have established an Institu
tion for the distribution of Vaccine
matter. City practitioners are sup
plied gratuitously, agreeably to ait
ordinance of the Select and Common
Councils; to all others the charge is
three dollars. By arrangement, per
sons making npplicati n for virus,'
from any part of the United States,
will receive the same by return of
mail, a perfectly safe conveyance in
this case. Such an establishment
possesses obvious advantages, for
those residing in sections of country
infested with Small Pox, and other
places w'herb Vaccination is desired
as a preventive, as it should he every
where. The project lias been ap
proved of by Dr. Physjck, and the
most eminent of the medical faculty,
and the known character of the gen
tlemen connected with it, will secure
for it public confidence. As the ex
istence of this Institution may not
be known where its benefits are
needed, editors of the country papers
would confer a favor on the commu
nity by diffusing the intelligence.
Test of perfect Vaccination.—All
persons should insist on the family sur
geon’s using the test discovered by
Dr. Bryce, of Edinburgh. It consists
in vaccinating on the other arm, from
the first one vaccinated. If the first
has been perfect, both pustules will
ripen precisely at the same time; if
this does not take place, the consti f lU .
tion has not been properly afl> c f Q( |
and vaccination must he repeated —
This simple and easy security ought
never to be neglected.
Eagle Ba'ik in Connecticut.—It ap
pears Ir'om the report of the Eaglo
Bank, recently submitted to the Con
necticut Legislature, that the claims
of the bank against Normand Dexter
exceed in amount three hundred thou
sand dollars, for which the hank arc
without security. The claim against
VV. C. Holly is about six hundred
The Georgetown Columbian says
that one man was lately drubbed, and
another ducked in the Potomac, for
attempting to entice workmen from
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to
the Baltimore Rail-road.
Owen Atkins and J. VV. Boling, ran
a toot race in Pittsylvania county, Va.
on the 14th ult. lor $100—the dis
tance was ten miles. Atkins gained
the bet, having; ‘-as nearly as could
he ascertained ran it in about forty
minutes:”!!!
A writer in the Vermont Journal
recommends the use of soap-suds in
destroying caterpillars, and says it
will kill them as quick as the flumes
of gun-powder. Apply the suds when
they are in their web, which is gener
ally at sunrise, and at 1 o’clock, P.
M.
A hill has been passed in the legis
lature of Connecticut for repealing the
eighth section of the SabUatli law of
tli^t state, prohibiting labor and re
creation on days of public fasting and
thanksgiving, on penally of line.
Contradictions are no arguments,
nor ought such expressions as the fol
lowing ever he made use of, viz:—
“That 1 deny—there you are mista
ken— that is impossible.” Such blunt
assertions may promote irritation, but
they cannot tend to elucidate.
A correspondent of the Troy Budg
et, states, that Mr. Erastus Toby, of
Dutchess county, has taken one hun
dred and fifty rattle snakes alive, near
Westhrookville, in Sullivan county,
within a short period past. Mr. Toby
intends to take his snakes and set out
for Liverpool, England, and Irelcmd,
about the 10th of June.
It is said that in some parts of New
Hampshire, it is so rocky, the owners
of sheep are obliged to grind the noses
of these interesting animals, to enable
tucin to get at the straggling spears 0 f
grass, which now and then p^ C p up be
tween the crevices.
From the American pvesses 142,-
858 papers dady issue, and taking the
amount of population that can read at
ten tnill'.'on, vve |, avc ono f or cve ,.y 79
perse ns , and over, daily.
Newspapers.—The circulation of
these vehicles of information is truly
wonderful. More than a million pa
pers are sent throughout the country
weekly.
“She walks in Beauty.”—There
is now in the Hospital,near York, Fa.
a young woman aged about 16 years,
wlit) is something of a prodigy. She
weighs 365 lbs. is 4 ft. high and mcas
urcs 4 feet 6 inches round the waist.
A respectable journal in the state
of Indiana, apnouuccs the termination
of a “shocking suicide” in the town iu
which it is printed, iu the following
terms: “At the next cut he succeed
ed with tho blade of the raztr, which
he held with the grasp of a vice, in
severing the jugular vein &. the caro
tid artery of one side of the neck, and
expired, consequently, as soon as the
purple current of v itality could evac
uate the citadel of the system.”
Henry Fossctt lias recently been
tried at Baltimore on an indictment,
under an act of the state of Maryland
against gambling, lor Keeping a Rou
lette tabic; found guilty and sentenc
ed to one week’s imprisonment and to
pay a fine of 100U dollars.
A man lately died, in England, from
the effect of arsenic, which lie had
swallowed to kill loads in his stom
ach.
The President has announced, by
proclamation, that discriminating du
ties are suspended with respect to
Austrian vessels and their cargoes, ar
riving in the United States.
A Staunton, (Va.) paper of June 5th,
says—Myriads of Locusts now swarm
through this neighborhood. The woods
resound with their dolelul cry. Wo
were induced, a few days ago, to at
tempt a count of tiie number that had
risen in a small space round a tree,
from the quantity of their cauls we
saw—but had to give it up. It u'ould
have been a task for the crab-compu
ting powers of a Lewenlioeck.
We have received several numbers
of a newspaper published in Tennes
see, called the “Memphis Advocate,”
and edited by Messrs. Phoebus and
Carr—no doubt the same persons
entioned in the prophesy of bliak-
)eare—
“And Phoebus’ Car
Shall shine from alar.—Bos. Ev. Bui.
A Dilemma.—A inun the other day,
speaking of the backwardness of the
spring, said—“We shall never have
warm weather as long as the snow
continues on the mountains—and 1’in
certain the snow will never get.off the
mountains until it is warm weather.”
—Journal of the Times.
The Bunker llill Aurora states,
that Messis. Crassons and Boyd, of
one of the Havre packet lines, in New
York, have requested permission to
convey the hogshead of earth, taken
from the battleground, to Gen. Lay-
fayettee. It is expected that the
Massachusetts Mechanic Institution
will make the eask of oak grown in
Lexington and Concord.
There is a story passing tho rounds
of the newspapers, copied from the
Bunker Hill Aurora, staling that Gen.
Lafayette lias requested ilie Select
men of Charlestown to send him a
hogshead of earth from Bunker Hill to
cover his body after his decease.
We have good reasons for believing
that the General has made no such
request, and that if the earth is to he
sent, it will he the act of some indivi
dual without any authority from La
fayette himself.—N. V. Liaz.
Enormous Church.—A church is
now' building in Montreal of the fol
lowing dimensions: Length, 560
feet; breadth, 150; .height to the
eaves 100; surrounded by 24 towers,
the two front ones being 240 feet
high; the pulpit window is 60 feet by
34. The probable expense of this
immense structure is estimated at
$500,000!
Several Spanish families, emi
grants from Mexico, inconsequence of
the proscription pronounced by ll>t
government against those suspected
of being favourably disposed, towards
Ferdinand VII., have arrived at
Baton Rouge, with flic intention of
spending the sum.’nev, and perhaps of
establishing themselves there.
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NOTICE.
T HR annual examination of the School
at Creekpath, will take place on the
last Wednesday of this month. All whs
take an interest in the education of the
youth of this nation are respectfully invited
i.0 attend.
WILLIAM POTTER.
July 8, 1829. 14 4
NOTICE.
T HE annual examination of the School
at Brainord will take place on Wed*
nesday the filth dav of August. The at*„
tendance of all friends of education, and of
the rising youth of this eouniry, is respreti
fully ren^-sted bv
J. C. ELSWORTW, Teacher.
July 8, 1829. 14 5.
LETTERS
R emaining m the Post office a <
. New Echota, July 1, 1829.
Walter 9. Adair, Pleasant Combs, Attf
chibald R. S. Hunter, Esq. Richard Rush
S. A. WORCESTER, P. MV *
July 8, 1829; t4 9