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%> justice to alt6a this Scor4. As to !crur
cbneipendent 6 , wo make it a ponrc never
to publish a ci nuauaicatiotf unless it i*
acoo.npanied with a responsible name.
We stop the press to inform our readers
that the Rev. John Thompson, missionary
of the American Board, stationed at High*
tower, has been arrested by a detachment
‘of the Georgia Guard.
To the Editor of the Cherokee Phoenix.
Creek Path, May I7tb, 18131.
Dear Sir,— l'ne present is with ns
a time of deep affliction. Death has
been here, & has borne away in his
icy aims, ^oue of our citizens. He
‘caine as a thief, and ere we were u-
ware, uad grasped nis treasure, and
Was departing with hurried step.—
Do you ask “who is his victim?’’ 1
answer, our amiable friend—Demp
sey Fields. Yes, he is gone. ‘■ Our
breach is great like the sea, who can
heal it?’* “The crown is fallen from
our heads. Woe onto us, that we
have sinned.” He was an Elder of
on > Church, and by his affectionate
disposition, his clear perception of
doctrinal truth, and his unfeigned pie
ty, was well qualified for the office.
When tie was in health, and we had
no fear'of losing him, Mr.——has of-
teu remarked, that there were lew El
ders in the Presbyterian Church, who
in paint of doctrinal knowledge, were
his superior. His opportunities for
acquiring an education at school
were limited; but he was fond of
reading and had stored his mind with
such a variety of useful knowledge,
as to render him an intelligent, and a-
jgreeahle companion. But at the in
teresting age of 26, his strength has
withered, and be is laid in the tomb.
He sleeps sweetly by the side of
Daviu Brown, and I doubt not their
souls are unitedly praising thai Savior
who Ims redeemed them frontal! evil.
You will wish to know bow he died.
There Was nothing triumphant in Ills
dealt! bed exercises. He rather ap
peared a■* a trembling penitent; ta
king bold optbe everlasting covenant,
but filled with deep solemnity at the
thought of appearing, a disembodied
spirit, befhre Holy Judge of the
Universe. We did not luily believe
his tease dangerous, unlit about 15
liou's ..etore lie died. He had how
ever 'Voiu itis first attack, (about ten
days before} serious apprehensions
that he should not recover.—
Wiiiie vet able to walk about, lie
said t>» me—“I sometimes think I
shall never recover from this dis
ease.” "Are you willing’ I said to
leave the world now? He answer
ed ••there is but one thins that makes
me wish to slay, i ain in debt. I
'fhuuid hale lo die in debt.” To sev
eral other friends he made the same
remark.
It may seem surprising that a
young mm of his character and occu
pation, should have been (bus involv
ed These debts were chiefly con
tracted either before lie commenced
business for himself, or iinun.diately
after. They were the result of
youthful indiscretion. No doubt, at
the time they were contracted, his
yivid imagination beiield in prospect
ive, dhe treasures of Earth freely
flowing into his hand, in such meas
ure as he should desire. But when
this illusion vanished, and he found
himself unable to satisfy ihe demauds
of his creditors, his tender heart was
filled with sorrow. Often has he
aid to min, “These debts depress
my spirits, and fill me with constant
pain. & anxiety Within the two last
years die had paid many of them; and
I doubt not had he lived two or three
^ears longer no man Mould have had
cod to say to him—“Pay me that
thou Qwest.”
But to return.—Two days before
his death, I said to him, has your
find been in* a comfortable state
ince you have been sick?*’ He re
lied, “Whdh I look upon invself l
ave no cQpofort.” ‘Do ’you not find
ornfort irt QhfUtJV “Yes. But
on niy heart wootl-purifying. It
ecm». strange that the rlbly Ghost can
well in such a place!” He* closed
iiis «ves for a moment, and then said
-“A sick bed is a poor place to
repare for death.” Then looking
jf. ^t his hand lie said, “how little do
fve realize when we are well that
these willhe decayed.” I pro
posed reading the Bible to him, and
ft'sked him vhat part I should read.”
flt answered “it is all good,but read
the hundred and nineteenth Psalm.”
•f began to read, but his headache,
nnd restlessness, were sot much in
creased by the attempt to fix his
mind, tint I soon closed the book.
Another member of the family about
the same period enquired if he had
any doubts respecting the safety of
his state? He replied “I have some
—at times.” ‘Is your hope for the
most part comfortable?’ “Yes.”
*Have you any fear or dread of death
itself, & the pains of death?’ “No —
my mind is mostly beyond the grave.”
In the morning of the day in which
he died, we thought him better, hut
at eleven o’clock, his disease took a
sudden and alarming turn. He seem
ed agitated. Mr. said, ‘arc you
alarmed Mr. Fields?’ He replied
with solemn emphasis—-“Yes—0
yes!” ‘Do you not know in whom
you have believed?’ “Yes.” ‘Can
you not trust him now?’ “Yes*”
Soon after, he raised both hands and
exclaimed—“How solemn I feel!
O you don’t know!” and extending
his hand to Ins mother-said “you have
often felt just as I do now.*’ In a
few moments he sunk into a profound
slumber, from which it was difficult
to a rouse him. He occasionally a-
wnkfe and complained of a severe
pain in his head. Once, ns he turned
upon Ins side, a delightful smile over
spread his features. I could not re
sist the belief, that this was an ex
pression of the tnurnph of his soul,
over all Its fears. .After this he
shewed sign of intelligence, except
once answering to the call of his
brother by an inarticulate sound.
His quivering lip hung luily down,
His pulse was faint and few;
Then speechless, with a doleful gras'.,
He bid the world adieu.
tffte news of the dissolution of
Parliament produced <j degiee of ex-,
citement in Manchester ‘riot equalled
in the memory of man.! A Manohes-
tea paper, speaking of.the joy of the
inhabitants at the eve»t, says, “the
people congratulated Aril shook hands
with each other as (if the enemy oi
mankind had been slain.**
Moral character of Jhe Friends.—It
is said Judge Mcllen, in his charge to
the Grand Jury, at tl/*J opening of the
present term of the Court, at Port-
His corpse was an interesting ob
ject. It was indisciibably placid.
I generally dread to look at a corpse,
and turning away from it with loath
ing; but 1 went again ami again to
look at his, and every time expert
enced a sensation 6f pleasure. It
seemed to say—“weep not for me.
I am sweetly at rest in my' Father’s
house.” So animated was the ex
pression—that I sometimes could
hardly resist the impression that he
was about to open his lips, and tell
of the glory into which he had enter
ed. f
Should you think best to insert this
letter in the columns of the Phoenix,
permit me, Sir, to address a few
words to the yuuthful reader.
Let the death of Dempsey Fields
speak loudly lo you. Have you a
strong constitution? So had he, hut
this was no security against the rav
ages of disease. Do you intend to de
lay repentance till assaulted by sick
ness? Remember his dying decla
ration, “a sick bed is a poor place to
prepare for death.”
Agai^T— beware of contracting
debts, whihh you may not be able to
pay. But for this error of his youth,
our dear friend might have died in
a clear shunshine of peace. lie
could leave his wife and two infant
children, his parents, his brothers
and sisters, the Church, and a large
circle of friends, with a cheerful
heart; but to leave his creditors un
paid, produced a pang which was per
haps not unfelt even in the hour of
death. Remember this, and let
“Dice no man any thing” he the mot
to, with which you begin and end
your career.
Youthful Christian—pause—and
think! Should you unexpectedly feel
the grasp of,death, would you not ex
claim— How nSuch my heart ueeds
purifying?” Would not the numer*-
on* sins of your heart and life, rush
upon you with an overwhelming
force?” Would it not be a solemn
hour? 0 then let it be the business
of every day to prep; fe to die;&lhen,
and then oniy will you be prepared to
live to the glory of God
land, Maine, silted that in a practice
of forty-five v<ars, in which he had
been intimatcy acquainted with tin*
proceedings »f the judicial Courts in
that part offhe '-ountry, he had never
known but one instance in which a
member of the Society of Friends
was airaigned at the bar as a crim
inal.
Death Visits the Ball Room.—The
Reading, (Pa.)Chronicle stales, that
at a ball given at Knrslztuwn, in that among us.
vicinity,‘a young woman, by the name
of Menglc, fell lifeless upon the floor
while dancing.
The New York Journal of Com
merce, states, that a young gentleman
of most respectable connexions, and
many personal accomplishments, died
a few days since, iu that city, Under
similar circumstances.
A man in Salem, Indiana, lately re
covered $600 of a dozen individuals
for tarring ami feathering him.
Judge While.—We are ssrry to
understand that he lias declined the
appoii (incut of Secretary of War.—
It is suid, that his letter to the Pres
ident reached Washington on Friday
last—and that he assigns, in the most
touching manirer, bis reasons for de
clining. The domestic afflictions oi
this worthy man have b.:eu severe,
almost beyond example. They have
preyed upon his spirits and stripped
public life of all its attraction, lie
ha: lost, iu rapid succession, n.m
children, and lately his beloved wife
His only remaining child (Mis. Ann.
strong) is now thienteried with the
same conplaiut which lias proved so
fatal to his family.—Every genorou
heart will sympathise in lps feel
ings—Rich Enq.
Teaas. -The New York advertiser
publishes the follow ing extract of a
letter, dated Anahuac, Galveston
Bay, Texas, 29th April, 1831:
“Col Langworthy has arrived here
from his mission to Geu Furran, and
says he was unable to make any ar
rangements with him concerning our
Company.
“Col.Bradburn has received orders
from Geu. Farran to order all the
Americans who have any concern with
the Galveston Bay nnd Texas Lund
Company to clear out immediately.
Mr. Sivift, our head agent, who came
deceased was by tradte it -fanner, r and 1 were applied to and the toother and
it ik supposed, bb several domestic children were thus relieved-
animals are laid to have died of hyd-: '<> Ruck Ob trver.
mphobia during the past winter, that
one of them, which had besmered its
own hair with saliva, had been skin
ned nnd its hide sent lo the tan-yard,
where the poison might have been in-
occulated into those who handled it.
We understand that :» tl><»
the profession, the poison applied to
the sound skin cannot excite the dis
ease; hut the deceased a lew weeks
since, had a burn on one of his fingers,
and Ihe sore yet had a scab on it at
the lime of his death.
Wo cannot readily find terms to ex
press our abhorrence at the conduct
oi an individual, who would sell the
hide of an animal that had uied ot lids
disease; and wc lake this occasion to
warn those \\ ho deal in hides, lo ou
serve the greater caution, m this mut
ter, at a lime when rabid animals aie
Drunkenness and Brutality! Tl
following occurrence took place in
tins village, and tire facts we have
from one oi our most rcspeciabi
citizens, who was an eye-witness to
u great part oi them.
Aliuul 2 o clock in one of the cold
esi inoruiugs nl the toie part ot last
aiurcii, our infortiianl, Mr. C. was
aroused irom sleep by lire cries ol
distress, proceeding fi um a house a
few rod} distant, winch led Inin to go
lo the door, and ou looking out round
lliey were those of a leina.e standing
on the trozen ground, with bare feet,
witn only ail olu mantle tin own over
her suuuiucis, in which she had
wrapped an mtaiil music cats old.
air. c. as soon as lie could put ou Ii is
unlies, went to tier rebel, auu found
that site and her three other children
nad been driven from their bed by a
nrulal drunken wretch whom ilie one |
called husband and the others father. j
I lie house presented a scene ol pov
erty and wretchedness truly distress
ing—not a stick of wood in this mis
erable dwelling—barely a coal ol fire
to light a candle procured by a neigh
bor—no andirons, shovel and longs.—
i’hcre was something that served ns
an .tpology lor n bed lor the man and
wife, and a nest of rags for the three
eldest children. They were shiver
ing and crying with cold, while the
mother was in the same pitiable con
dition clasping with maternal tender
ness her infant to her bosom to pro
tect it from the piercing air.
Mr. C after gaining admittance,
immediately went to his own wood-
house. and procuring wood, kindled
a fire, and with the assistance ol a
neighboring female who had also been
roused from sleep bv the cries of
It is lamentable to observe how
careless some parents are of their chil
dren, iu allowing them to run the
streets, unprotected and alone. We
saw, a low days since, a fine, promis
ing chap, ot live or six years or age,
nt'aliiug his way across Second sirrct,
to examine some Object which had
arrested his attention, who made as
narrow an escape bom death, by
being trodden upon by a horse, as any
on record. The little lei low did not
see his danger, but fortunately for him,
the gentleman on the horse was at
tentive, and checked his beast, just in
iime to prevent a calamity which the
p.rents of the boy would not'lo ve
speedily forgotten. The prat lic e of
■ llowing children to race the streets
alone, is one which often proves the
.source of irreparable evil. To say
nothing of the accidents and casualt
ies which so frequently occur, the
liberty tnus given children, invariably
destroys their morals and often lays
the foundation of a life of vice, im
morality and crime “Evil «om-
muni' iitious corrupt good manners,”
is a maxim \vu learned at si bool, the
truth of which each day’s experience
more fully authent icates m d enforces.
The minds ol children aue suscepti
ble alike of good or evil impressions,
—they generally improve' on whn», \ cr
SUMMAJlf
out in the Climax, will go back to this distressed family, made ltd-some
New York immediately, for the pur
pose of getting the views of the Com
pany respecting us.
“Col. Brudburn will permit us to
stay here as individuals, but not as
agents. All our emigrarts that are
foreigners, Col.Bradburn has orders
to receive and settle on Intid, when a
certificate is given him of'our releas
ing them from their agreements with cents
the Company.
“We shall stay here until we arc
driven out of the country, which I
think will be done in a very short
time.”
An earthquake has taken place
within 300 miles of Pekin; front 500,-
000 to one million of befngs are rep
resented!* to have perished; twelve
towns or cities are destroyed. **Tho
earthquake was accompanied by hail
storms and floods whieh lasted three
days.
Amongst the most singqlar of the
strange events of the day, is the fact,
that, while nearly all the crowned
heads of Europe are making exertions
to smother the flame of Liberty, the
Grand Turk is introducing many of
the reforms of civilization into his do
minions. Christians are turning
Turks,,and M»h?2itidQS ifd upcoming
Christians.
From the Cincinnati Chronicle.
HYDROPHOBIA.
We have made some enquiries con
cerning the reported fatal case of
hydraphobia, which is now the sub
ject of conversation and alarm in
this city, and have ascertained from
one of the attending physicians the
following facts. The unfortunate
young man, Jssiah Morehead jr. was
seized on Monday last with symptoms
of this malady. All the signs most
characteristic of iV wero present, and
on Tuesday evening he suddenly ex
pired. An examination of the body
was made on the succeeding day, and
the diseased appoarancM, which most
constantly characterize hydrophobia,
were present, and no oilers. The
case is therefore regarded )y the four
respectable medical gentbmen who
attended him, as nothing m>re nor less
than that vyhich is produced by the
bite of a mad-dog. Still tie patie.it
bad not oeen bitten by suchaj) a^'mal,
nor indeed had he ever be.«n bitten,
but ouco, adfl that was nine years
before, and the animal not. toad.
The only ogplnnation of this curious
and melancholy event, which has neen
sugested, is (ho following;. The
gruel and placed her in bed
The inquiry was then made, what
was the cause of this inhuman con
duct on the part of the husband ai’d
father The answer was at lenjt! 1
elicited, that the mother’s situatio
had, the afternoon before, exci'e-t
the commiseration of a neighbor'd
lady who had given her twenty-fivu
to purchase a little meal foi
herself and children. She was oblig
ed to employ her husband to make
the purchase, who, having (he money
in his hands, went to a grocf.rv, laid
it out for whiskey, returned with it
instead of the meal, and after it
had time to operate, began his abuse
to his family, and finally dragged
them from bed and drove them out of
doors.
After Mr. C. with the assistance of
the lady, before msntioned, had re
duced the family to a stale of quiet
and compariatve comfort, nnd had
obtained a promise from the husband,
that they should not ngairi be disturb
ed, they left this abode of misery and
returned home. But no soonftj; were
they gone than the same pinnae was
acted ©ver;-~thc mother- vmdiier in
fant were a second time dragged from
bed and driven* neai'.y naked out of
the house, and compelled to remain
there, until out informant again inter
fered and compelled this drunken
brute ag^in to open the door.
A complaint was the next day made
lo a magistrate, but the wife refused,
ns was supposed through fear, to
testify, and the wretch was still
permitted to go at large.
A few days afterward, however,
a repetition of similar treatment pro
duced a complaint which was
tailed by proof, and he was thrown
into jail. The overseer* of the poor j
example is put More them, am! par
ents cannot, cims'eq icnllv, he too rig
id in keeping them away from the in
fluence of pernicious examples.
Abolition of Masonry—The following
article was published in the Dutclu-sr
Gazette, from wince it has been
copied in other papers, with decided
marks of approbation. Tl e New
York American in commenti; g upon
Mr. Rush's letter, made a similar tug-
i gestion. The Masons would prubub*
I ly unhesitatingly accord with die pro
position. if they could ho assured thai
such a measure would satisfy tin- de
mands of the distii.clina in i.enty
&re , -toie pc:>< e to society S. ” Fost.
Abolition of Masonry.—$Yc i ii- r*
stand that tlier is a proposition now-
on foot for effecting lilt; entire aboli
tion of ma'sop.ry in this slate* l y dis
solving the Grand Chapter and L dge,
and by closing all the LoJgts and
burning their charters, without ie-
serve. This plan meets the ,q pro
bation of masons in this count i v. as
they consider that time, and the insti
tutions of our government have ren
dered masonry useless. We have,
as every body kn< tvs, no partiality tor
auti-uiasonry yet wo approve ot the
plan proposed, as tending to rt-iiiwv*
ali causes for the excitement, nut we
hope the presses throughout to»- tt.de
will give it llie : r attention.- Troy Sen.
Rail Roads.—The importance of
facilitating and expediting Iransporta--
lion by menus of rail roads, ami the
practicability of constructing them,
appear to be rapidly gaining converts
lathe west, as well as in tin-rider
and moie highly improved j# •.i.-- of
oar country. A plan is said to he in
contemplation (or connecting ili< Ten
nessee und .Mississippi rivers by ;t
rail road from the head o! (hr Muscle
.Shoals to Memphis. The Huntsvillo
Advocate asserts that “a single capi
talist, a gentleman of extensive in
formation oa this as well as on other
subjects, and liftv ; .og no interest iii
the Tennessee Valley, has professed
his uillingpcsa to take slo.l to thtf
amount of o,ne hundred thousand dol
lars” in r jtich a rail road. The pro-’
jeet is r t (nighty one and its execution
wo’jLj reflect credit on western en
terprise and public spirit. YVc should
like to see, however, n few plairt
turnpikes constructed in our most
populous neighborhoods and some re*
quisite facilities afforded for tho
transaction of our ordinary busi'nrss >
before we devote our minds to spec
ulation about rail roods to jun buU-
dreds of niles through,the wilderness'^
The latter might indeed vyiih £Vea<-
propriety be done but i»;e ougl.it oolf
to leave the other undo’nc,. JJ'at. F.arr^
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