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Mr. Eaton, in his letter we published
lately, very cxullingly referred to the con
dition ol'tlie S'-ureas, to prove the utter
impossibility of civilizing the Indians.
IV probably htfl seen the wretched por
tion of the tribe, for that the northern In
dians are not so degraded as he would rep
resent them, wc believe is evident from t lie
publican times, liavc abandoned this
good sort of discipline, it all passes ofi
here, by the power of custom, with
the utmost gravity, and produces ap
parently a very quickening and saluta
ry effect. The prerogatives of this
functionary also extend to the keeping
of order out of doors during the inter
mission of public worship, and while
the congregation are assembling and
their hearts and all their treasures,
and nothing would be. waiiUug to ad-
vaiue and consummate so benevolent
a design. With what expressions ol
good lecling and gratitude do limy
crowd forward, old and young, male
and female, without any formality ot
introduction, to shake hands with a
stranger, whom they believe to he
following very satisfactory account c
visit to tho Stoekbridgc Indians on the 1 retiring, so that no boy cr youth dares
G. and Kaw-kaw-iin . It is contained in offend in his presence. And I am told
the nini’tnumber of a series of “let
tors froin the west,” addressed to the edi
tors of the Now Yo,k Observer.
Yesterday was the Sabbath; and a
blessed day it was. I had never ex
pected to be obliged to come into this
wilderness so called, among savages
sj esteemed, to enjoy a Christian Sab
bath, without witnessing a single im-j
proniety among a whole people—to.
see the congregation, the parents with
the children, and the Stranger within
their gales, going up to the house of:
God in company, seating themselves ;
with a reverence and decorum, that j
mi g it shame a civilized people; listen-
in; with fixed and unrelaxed attention
to nil the public services, in any of
them demonstrating a !borough rcligi-
oi", abstraction ami absorption, and
when t mil' consciences and hearts
v.' -re app aled to in 1 ho application of
diseouI*®.- showing a depth and quick-
y'., joeling which agitated their
T: •:ji ■. an ! forced i'.s passage through
the water,' * hr.nnels of the eye. And
then to aU'-nd the Sabbath school, rc-
dn-ed to all the order of discipline,
man's veracity and w r as intended hy
Knapp to bo mode public. He wish
ed to make oath to it, but several
magistrates who were called upon,
declined the office of administrating it.
It is also said there are few persons
who place credit in this statement.
Knapp nlsb gave to the Kfcv. Dr.
Flint some sealed papers, relating to
kind towards them. And never did a | the conspiracy and murder, with the
hart-c t e r 5:
there is no partiality shown by this
officer, even to his father or mother;
and that a stranger must take care he
does not ofiec.d. Certain it is. I dis
covered no disp sit ion to levity among
the children and youth either within
or without the house. Hut all was
decency rnd gravity, comporting with
the solemnities cf the day. The oth
er peculiarity which 1 noticed was,
that after the benediction was' Pro
nounced, the congregation resit meu
their seats, not for the purpose of a 1
short and silent prayer, as is the cus
tom with some sects, but to give op
portunity for those nearest the door
! to retire! gradually, without crowding
■ and bustle, the moral effect cf which
: is very pleasant.
In the evening a prayer-meeting
j was held at the mission house, at
which I had the pleasure of hearing
j two Indians pray in their native tongue.
‘ with fluency and with great apparent
fervor and importunity. There were
about fifty present. All kneeled
; down in prayer. At the request of
the missionaries, 1 had addressed the
Indians in I lie day on the cothmon to
pics of religion. In the evening I
spoke to them again, and advised
them of Iheir own interests as a poo-
injunction that they should not be o
pened ’till after the trial of the other
persons accused! A third paper, but
of what pm port we do not know,
Knapp committed to the care of Mr
Rantoul, Jr.
Knapp said nothing while tlpon thr
scaffold, and his calmness and forti
tude never forsook him for a moment
Me was detained blit ten or fiflooi
minutes. Ilis deportment thougl
composed was devoid of levity or cl
frontery. The moment before the
cap w as drawn over his face, he liftn
up liis eyes and took oie wide, rapi i
and last v : etv of sky, earth and waters
Between four nn;l five thousand per
sons were present tl csamateurs;” and
among them, we arc sorry to say
ware many females. The body o
Knapp w ! as given to his friends; and it
[was interred at seven o’clock, last
Christian people che. isli their pastor
with kinder affections and offices,
than these do their missionaries.
From the Boston Paladimn.
EXECUTION OF JOHN FRAN
CIS KNAPP.
The dread sentence of the law was
executed upon this individual between
the hours of S and 10 yesterday morn
ing. Wc mentioned in our last that
the two brothers, J. F and J. J.
Knapp, had an interview on Saturday
evening. The Salem Gazette states
that “lliey' both requested it of the
gaoler, and were {niJ^Ued.— ( ' on "
ducted Joseph from his cell (in the
third story of the prison) to the con
deirined cell of Frank on the lower
floor. They spent some time togeth
er. It was the first time they had
met since thev were carried into, . . „ ,, , „ . ,, ,
Court together to he arraiuned about j ™ ,n S' 111 t ! ,e 1Jra,K “ T Bm Gr ™ nd ;
His grave is near the centre of Inal
especially to defend themselves
their people from the evils of in-
the best schools of
1 s sort in our v Cite settle mauls; svi-
j riutended, in tend by the missiona-
i:.’s, but employing as many as w ere
necccssttry cf the adult natives for in
structors, who engaged in their tv a I'M
with a ready aptitude and with ap
parent satisfaction. This, loo, was a
scene unexpected andgrateiul beyond
my power to express. And all done
in ilie English language, so pure, that; called upon anjntcrprolcr.
if my eyes had been sluil.ii I could have
(imp err nee: They were very atten
tive. And to my surprise 1 , one of the
principal men rose to reply, apologia*
ilia for not speaking it. E.H.sh, and j poignaiK . y to pain and sharpness to a-
Ho thank-< f . nv n
two months ago. Frank was calm
and firm; Joseph is wasted anu feeble
in body, and appears miser, ble ad
broken dow n in body and spirit i hav
ing little appetite for food, enjoy mg
little rest, and with difficulty utl«■ring
articulate words. To the question
from Joseph, win ther Frank was real
ly as well as lie appeared to be
Frank replied, “Yes, I can sleep as
sound now on the soft side of a plank
as ever I could.” On Monday they
weie indulged with another sad inter
view—tlicir last in this world/ They
hade each other a last Farewell, under
Sttch circumstances, as must
ret to uric lift rr r j j I < (<U-roi
locals, <o it viler this rise, lit sit g
ti e n inth will, urmi.iil, vrtn iiwr
each epnatien, n.d Lilli w teeth will
scam ly lc n oie liable to ache than
if they were som.il. Every person
who has a defective tcoth, and dec s
not wish to feel the turkey, should
follow these or similar directions.
It wiil generally prevent, ar.d often,
cure the pain tv he* present.
These directions arc based upon ex
perience. I have extracted some
teeth in my day, and, when first re
moved from tho jaw, have found at
least nine-tenths of such as were ex-
racled on account of their being pain
ful, filled or partly filled wiih foreign
matter. Very often small seeds,
rowded to the very bottom of the ca
vity, so deep as to elude any common
ootb-pieking operation, have been
bund and removed after extraction,
i lie putrid oder of the breath, caused
iy decayed teeth, is a subject of
oinmon observation. This odor is
•I from the tooth itself’, or from tho
.puns, unless they be diseased, hot it
s from tho contents of the cavities of
he teeth, and from these only. It w
even surprising in how short a time
the putrefying process takes place in-
the contents of hollow teeth.
Deputes.
.handsome cemetry, and the side of
I his mother, Mrs. Abigal 1*. Knapp.
! who died about three years ago.
, The grave of Capt. White, the vic
tim of liis cruel cupidity, is only a
lew rods distant from his.— Ed. Fal
la di um.
give
lisll, ill:
3: 111 ltancc.
s■ * ms iii'i
they sing
neons ntm
ed God that I had eo.-ne so far to vi
sit th Mn, and for all the good words I
had spoken to them that day and even
i.g. He thanked all the wf
wishers and benefactors to the Indians
is among the while people, lie reflect
ed, with great feeling, upon the
goodness of God in having sent them
the Gospel at so early a period, and
in turning the hearts of Christian
white people to their spiritual wel
fare so long time. The depravity ol
man was v^ry great, and they (the In
dians) had abused their privileges, and
yet Gml had not taken them away.
He said liis heart- was penetrated,
when l spoke to them of ihe dangers
of inleiiHmrnnoe, ami declared they
were ready (0 do all in Iheir power to
1 prevent its prevalence and progress,
j and concluded by saving, “I have no
more to say.” I do not pretend to
arc perfectly familiar with j Rive his address, but have only incli- • . ...
■ cated some of its principal opics. I b* 011 and died instantI}.
found myself unexpectedly listening to
an eloquent impromptu of an Indian, | <*onf«’ssion.
formally and most respectfully ad
dressed to myself—a thing I had nev
er anticipated—and with a manner
and tones of voice; which spoke di
rectly from the heart. All that I
had ever heard or imagined of Indian
speeches, instantaneously rushed up
on my mind, and 1 saw the living rea
lity before me, without detracting in
the leas! from the vividness of the ro-
i mnntic ideal. The deference and re-
f sped which the Indian pays to others,
when put upon the interchange of
for Indians, wlien ! cood feeling is unrivalled. No art of
to avoid a siiwulla-1 eivilivod life ran pretend io keep
company with his politeness. The
white man feels his littleness and
bows in silence to suclrmora! great
ness .
On tlie whole, flu Sabbath I have
spent at the Grand Kawkawlin is o.;e I
can never forget. While listening to
the songs of Zion, so sweetly attuned
e children of the forest last eve-
(•coiiipanied with all its associa
tions, I found myself repeat! ily and
involuntarily exclaiming within my
self, Have 1 lived so long and enjoyed
so many priviliges, to come here,
where it is supposed no such privileges
are had, to be raised in feeling nearer
to heaven than I ever found myself
before? M nv times did I (hink, in
the midst of the scenes brought before
me yesterday, could the whole Chris
tian world see and hear this, they
would for. et all else they were doing,
and run and come bending, like the
angels of heaven who delight in errands
of merry, over these guileless chil-
Ten of f!ie wilderness, and neve
!> -iro them till thev were all con
verted to Christ.- It would open
forgot ton where I was, my ears would
h ;\e assure! me, that 1 was at home,
and listening to the common exorcises
of a Sabbath school among the whites.
!u tIns afternoon tiio preachiu
done through an interpreter, as a
small part of the people cannot readi
ly mu! 'island English. I had always
■been told, that the Indians are good
singe-s.. Ii is an exer. iso fur which
they have great fondness. But the
h. ii iiad not been told me. They
seem ;,'l of them to be singers: and
til.: mellowness and sweet.-.ees ol their
vur. i s, 1 'ether with the accuracy of
t'leu car and their honor ol discord,
ensure the sweetest harmonies in
their chorus. This tribe have been
so long practised in the art of sacred
music, and their taste is so good in
the selection of times and set pieces,
that they
the m si extensive range of English
Christian I’salmody. 1 heaid about
3 of them last eveninu- male and fe
rn after the conclusion of a prayer
m ;mg, sing an hour and .1 half with
out atei 1 uprion, passing from one
tune m l ii 111 one set piece to another,
without repetition—all done without
a .100k 'o gowil style of performance,
o :d in j >.v English, except occasion*
a win 1 •• pieslcd’ in their own
to e. t’! have many psalms and !
Ii n io- “- I into the same mo-j
t v . s i t i,it a part often use the
iv> Sish, . : 1 part their own tongue,
•. without confusion. It
able
her
out—a fault so common
TOOTHACHE.
From the Connecticut. Advertiser.
Much has been said and written n-
bout toothache, and a great many re
medies proposed as certain cures,
8 0n .V
The Transcript of Inst evening
gives the following particulars relating
| i to I lie execution, derived from an aged
] and respectable citizen w ho left Sa
lem yesterday forenoon:—
‘ Hu was present in the jail w hen
the Pi issuer was brought out from
his cell, a*:d w itnessed the execution.
Ho informed’ us that Knapp came
out, leaning upoii the arm of Bishop
: Griswold—that lie was pinioned in the
entry—walked with n fimt step anil
ascended the fallows with great
| firmness—He left Ihe jail at half;
j past 8 o’clock, and was launched info
i eternity in ten minutes afterwards —
There was no apparent signal made
bv the prisoner; his elbows were pi*
j ninned to his sides, so ?.s to permit
| him to 1 each his neckcloth w ith Ids
hands—Ihe drop fell—he grasped bis
cravat with a strong convulsive mo-
and incurable among the whites.
This, I think, must ho o.ving to a na
tural superiority in the nicety and
cj-.ti ’knoss of iheir musical perceptions.
I noticed yesterday two interesting
ieotur^s appertaining to the order of
tlicir public worship; 011c was the
’.,T and office of the tithing man of by tli
ning,
s
t o olden times of New-England,
which doubtless came d wn from that
source. The staff of office in the
present instance is a long switch, a-
bout eight feet, which the funtionarv
cuts from the woods ag he comes to
-church—and wo to the boy that plays,
or. the man or woman that sleeps.
The former is switched over the ears
with a smartness which, I think, from
the sound of its whizzing, must make
t om tingle. When a man or wo-
vvan dozes the big end of the switch
makes the stove pipe over head ring
again, accompanied with the startling
cry, in Indian, “IFake up there."
An I this i.i flip midst of the sermon.
N w although t|)’*s may ex-’iie a mi’<
.among the whiles, who, in these ie-
“It is not known that he made any
He was asked by the
Bishop if lie wished to address the
spt ctators, and lie answered “that lie
w’as afraid lie should not have suffi
cient firmness. Our ’iilormant adds
that not a muscle of his face changed
even for a moment; that Ins counte
nance appeared as fresh ns if lie had
been imprisoned only for one day.
He breakfasted with much compo
sure. Last evening he ale In., s , »• 1
per as usual, and about II o’clock ,tt j
night told one of the uiulev !;cev .s ‘
that he was hungry,
fond-, it W 15 orouglit him, lie ate it
wit It a good appetite, & foil asleep in
about 15 minutes afterwards. He woke
this morning at half past four o’clock,
hut evinced no signs of extraordinary
distress, nor displayed any conscious
ness ol Ins perilous circumstances.
Prnycis wort cffeied in liis cell be-
bofore leaving it, and no exertions
were spared by the worthy Bishop to
bring him to a sense of liis situation.
“Our informant is fast verging up
on his eightieth year, I)ut says that in
the whole course of his life, during
which time he had been called upon to
witness innumerable executions, he
never saw a prisoner, who during the
whole scene displayed so much cool
ness, self possession, and firmness.
'Alter lie left the jail lie was not heard
to utter a syllable to any person near
him.”
[In addition to the above particu
lars, we will state, that Knapp, on
(lie evening previous to liis execution,
signed, in the presence of witnesses,
a statement which lie had drawn up
relating to the testimony given, on liis
.rial, by the Rev. Mr. Coleman.
Tlic statement impugns Mr? Cole-
wit bout proceeding to the dernier re
sort, cold iron'. ’ F>ut maurre all tlicir
pretended merits, the frequent re
course had to the last mentioned pain
ful operation. attests but too strongly
the falibilily of all the rest.
Some considerable experience on
this subject, both in my own person
and in others, enables me to suggest
a feu r hints which may he useful to
such as have unsound teeth.
'I eclh rarely arlie unless they arc
carious or defective; hut when defec
tive they arc very liable to ache,
though not invariably. Any who will
take the trouble to inquire for them
selves, may readily find dozens of de
fective teeth which never hare ached.
while others, very slightly defective,
will become extremely painful.—
There must then he a cause for the
aching, aside from tho circumstance
of their being carious. What isilr
In nine eases out of ton, af least, 1 be
lieve the cause to be some foreign
substance lodged in the carious caviii
of the tooth. A part of a morsel of
meal, or perhaps a seed or two cf
some berry, or .a portion of almost a-
ny substance which a person custom
arily eats, allowed to remain in the
hollow of a tooth, for any eonsidrrabh
lime, putrefies speedily, and is ven
sure to cause severe und continued
pain in ^ defective tooth. Remow
the foreign substance, and in many
very many, cases, the pain will cease
I believe it always will do so. if re
moved immediately or ns soon as the
pan) conhnyftues. ..To do this is not sc
diiucuK hs it often is to persuade pco-
m, 1 T V f r '' |de that they have not already done it
nR,;c ‘ l r,,r But what a remedy foy a dentist to
bicseribc. lie might easier persuade
a gentleman to have half the teeth ie
his head pulled out by the roots, than
convince him that such a simple di
rection will benefit him; besides, lie
will be most suiely met by the knock
down argument of “I always keep my
teeth iluun, sir,” accompanied by a
look which seems to ask, “do you
think me a sloven?” as if the operation
lor cleansing telli while sound were all
sufficient. Here lies the mistake.
The blushing, and even (bo passing
of a tooth-pick between the different
teeth, no more reumves the offensive
matter from a decayed tooth, Ilian
sweeping the platform is the clearing
out of a foul well. The cavity of the
tooth must be thoroughly explored
with a tooth-pick; one of silver an
swers very well, and does not injure
the teeth.
and goosequill, arc too limber, or
soon become so, on being inuistcncd
with saliva. Search carefully every
nook and cranny of Ihe defective spot,
& poke out every thing therein which
is not actually a part of the tooth it
self; repeat this operation dirct fly af
ter each meal,, and even should .you
After Prince Polignac was arrested
lie asked for paper and pen and ink,
to write a letter to the Minister of the
Interior. He began his litter in Use
eld way, “Jlicnscigucur." Being told
that this title was abolished, lie arr.s-
ed the word, and wrote “M. Ie minis
ter.” On his examination he said
that he never wished to deviate from
the Charter, that he had resisted the
Ordinances, tliat he bad only yielded
to superior authority, and that the pa
pers left in his office would prove
what he stated.—Paris paper.
.1 grammatical pupil.—A country
school master in the ne.ghburhood of
Oui'ilney, the other day, alter giving
one ol liis pupils a sound drubbing for
speaking bad grammar, sent him to
the other end of the room to inform
another hoy that he wished to speak
to him, and at the same time pioniis-
ed to repeat the dose if he spoko i-o-
liim ungrammatically. The boy be
ing satisfied with what he got, deter
mined to he exact, and thus address
ed his pupil: “There is a common
substantive-, oi the masvvliiiSgcr.dcr; sin
gular number, nominative case, and in
angry mood, end sits perched upon
'he eminence at the other end of the
ocm, wishes- to articulate a few saw
traces to you in the present tense."
From the
American
!,
presses Id-?.-,
358 papers daily issue; and taking the
.-.mount of population (hat can read at
en million ue have! ere fur every 70-
perso'.s, cud over, daily.
Pennsylvania owes more money than
'hire thousand men can lift — $ IS*,000,-
’00—weight in silvei S IS tons; the '
mterest of wei .lit is £,71 an hour, aiui
1 17 for every minute. One team
could not transport it from PhiladcU
phtn to Harrisburg in four years. It.
would require f-di) from every taxa*--
• de inhabitant of the state to pay it.
j^TOLi'.N from the subscribers stable on*
die Might oubenday tkc ictl imantf
,l Boricigcldu.g, about five teet ldi>li,
nine j™ >*' ars old, with a flax mane
ai.Utaii. he paces, cantei-a and trots prel-
'•> well, and ban 011 v ,|„. n s t 0 ] cn p-«od-
Mioes bciore, but h a( | lost the shoe of liis
i.glit lmiu lout, lie has several small sears,
occasioned by the hliw of mu , PS one of .
ivb.eli is on bis ri Blll hind leg a little above'
ihe letter lock jo; nl . The , s , licf Inay cut
bis ,a.i am. ioa dl his main, in order to
disguito turn. He al , 0 took a Sadd]
(neai i^ non ) wit,, common Stirup Irons, a
Brio e, Jtfartinga s an( , a npw cr0 ' fis barl ’ 1(f
blanket. Any j, mon securing the horse
and Had, so that U)C Iatlcr can ^ 0 br0l , lt
to justice sha.l IC ceivethe above reward;
or i en Doliar s p or t ) ie H ( , rKe alone, with
icasonahic exjicnses, if ilelivereil to (lie
subscriber iosi d ‘ n ,g ncar ( | ie rcat | i oai !;„ g
ficm \V asliingt on (o Augusta, seven miles
Ruo\ c iiaysYiii Cv
N . B. 1 lie thief is Fiinposed to lie a man
ab(.ii( .) led s or jo nicfies liigh, fallow
complexion, thin visage, about SO w S5
years of age; and wore a quaker hat, old
Whalebone, tortoise f.liell, ! I't>i| ed round-about, light coloured | anta-
loons, rig-lit and left shoes,and ribbed 1 ccke,
blue mixed.
S A ARIEL BROOKS
Ifashinglon Geo. August 19, IH.iO.
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MR. IRT’S OPINIONS
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