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THE MATfl TO THE GRAVE.
By Mrt. h. l\t. Budge.
'1 he beautiful have parsed
I’lieir light is on track;
this way,
Hat lo! ’lis ladiup from the sight,
ft gives glory back.
A mournfulness is resting here—
Oh, death, thy way is fii 1 of fear.
The powerful have departed hence,
The mighty and the brave;
An !Ahe dead echo of their fame,
Has perished in the grave.
Oh, fame! 1 tremble at thy breath,
'i hou art such pleasant food for death!
tvernau Point. Hero lived the pi-tn
cipul chief .called the Mutchekwis,
tvjto exercised more authority and
assumed more state, than would he
fcfPfttllblci with the present feelings
0fHfe hlCl’M...-
oniciul and not personal, aim .... ..
lice was hereditary in Che diicct male
He was supported by vnlunta-
w
line.
The young, the gay, the joyous one,
. Has left a song behind,
L’m all its tine and loivlvnc; tones
Must perish from the mind.
Oh cut'll oh beauty! power and feme!
What arc yc but a gilded name!
ry contributions, his Muskinewa, or
provider, making known from time
to time his necessities, by public pro
clamation. Whatever was required
! upon these occasions, whether food
! or clothing, was immediately fusnish-
I ed. He appears to have been the
| chief priest, ami could neither engage
; in war nor hunting,
j Iw the village where he resided,
j and near his cabin the eternal lire
vv. s kept burning. The. altar was a
B it there are still an humble few,
Ilow b!es>ed is their lot!—
They pass this dark ami lonely way,
But shall not be forgo*.;
For lo, all glowing from afar—
v Ik hold their bright, their morning star.
Be joyful, Oh ye ransomed ?ouls,
ur help is from the sky;
Arid seraphs guide your fearful path
To your bright hopes on high,
Oh oeaih, thou mlthc gat*’ <u heaven,
To those i'. Iio feel their sms loi giveu!
K tirftCTC.'Vr ACr -HAM
.■asis&A";Ur
SACRED FI HE OF THE INDIANS.
by Lewis Cuss.
Many of llie peculiar custom which
formerly existed among tin, Indian
tribes, are now preserved only in tra
dition, of these, one of the most sin
gular was an institution for the pre-
tevation of an eternal lire. Ail the
riles and duties oouuectcd with it are
yet ties It in 'he recollection of the
Indians; and it was extinguished after
fhe French arrived upon the great
lakes.
■•'i lie prevalence of a similar cus
tom among the nations of (he East,
Ire in a very early period, is well
known to all who have (raced the
history and progress of human super
stitions. And from them it found i(s
\vny to Greece and eventually to
lioine. It is rot, perhaps, suprisiug
that the elements of fire should be
selected as the object of worship, by
nations ignorant of the true religion,
and seeking safety in that sytem of
poly llie sm, which declared the man
ners and morals of the polished poo- land th
p’e. of antiguity. The affect inns seem •
to require something visible and tan-1
giblti for their support. And this j
mysterious agent was sufficiently '
powerful in its effects and sinking in !
its operation to appear a3 a direct;
emanation of tlio Dicty. But there j
was a uniformity if the mode of wor
ship, and in the'principles of its ob
servance, which leaves no doubt of!
the common origin oftlis belief.—
The sacred flame was unt only regard- j m like mannor sm Jkcd.’
cd as the object ol veneration, but j parsed to the children,
ils preservation wos indissolubly eon-
tii t ied with the existanecof the stale.
Il was the visible emblem of the pub
lic safety: guarded by his chosen min
ister, secured by dreadful impreca
tions and punishments, and made holy
by a solemn and imposing ritual. The
coincidence which will be found be
tween these observances and opinions,
and the ceremonies and belief of the
Indians, indicate with sufficient cer
tainly, that their notions upon this
subject were brought with them from
the Eastern Hemisphere, and were
derived from the fruitful Persian
stock.
I have not ascertained tho exis
tence of this custom among any of the
northwestern tribes, except the Chip-
pewas, although I have reason to be
lieve that the shawnees were devoted
to it, and the Chippnwns in fact ns
sert that they received their fiire from
the latter. But there is so much
similarity and even identity of man
ners and customs among the tribes
east of ibq Mississippi, that I have
but little . doubt the sa^ne institution
would be every where discovered,
if inquiries were prosecuted tinder
favourable qiteuinslances. It is cer
tain that tho Nutches were tire wor
shippers, and without giving full cred
it to all the marvellous tales related
of this tribe by the early French trav
ellers, wo may yot be satisfied from
tho many concurring accounts, that
they were believers in the efficacy of
an eternal (ire,.
The Chippdtva tribe formerly in'.
' nhited the regions around lake Su-
Vierlflf, j**>d its council bouse and seat
oi Urn eternal (ire west of the Kee-
ktnd of rude oven, over which no
building- was erected. Four guar
dians were selected by tho Mulchek-
ewis lo lake charge of the lire. Two
of lliese were men, and two woman.
They were all married, but llie wive*
of tho men employed in this service
wore required to cook and do the
necessary domestic work, while the
husbands of Hie women destined to
tho sacred duty, were always engag
ed in hunting, and providing whatev-
ever else was wanted. The four
persons devoted to the altar, were
thus Eft without any secular cares,
j to divert their attention from the
.holy trust committed to them. A
| perpetual succession ii;ns kept up
| in this priesthood, by a prerogative
i of (he Mutchekegis, and the principal
• head lYomarf, the former selecting a
j husband and .the latter a wiic for the
j survivor, • whenever either of these
eight persons died. The chain was
ithus always unbrakon, and the tra
ditionary rights transmitted unimpair-
it-d. Death was the penalty far any
i neglect of duty, an! it was inflicted
j without delay and without luwrcy.
The council fires were lighted
at tin* great (ir«, and carried where-
; ever the council ivas held. After the
termination of business a portion of
it was carefully returned and the
remainder extinguished. Whenever
a person became dangerously ill, if
near enough, he was taken lo the
house of the Mutcbekewis, where his
tire iv ;s extinguished, and a brand
was brought from the altar, and affine
kindled, at which a feast was prepar
ed. A groat dance was then held,
u viands (Pvnsumed. And it is
added that the patient seldom failed
to rcrover.
Once in eight years the whole
Chippewa tribe assembled at their
principal village, about the season of
the buds. Eaiiy in the morning the
great pipe was lighted at the sacred
lire, and delivered to the Muteheke-
wis. He lock one smoke, aim then
delivered it to tho women, and then
to the men, by all of whom it was
‘ li was then
This ceremo
ny consumed the dRy, and early the
next morning, a feast was held, at
which the men, and women, and chil
dren ate in separate groups, and with
out singing or dancing. In the eve
ning they departed for their different
villages.
easo^vris ifeit bitdn by
as was . first supposed,
lose who were i * present., He
our informant (at i. V time when
rrpu'lh and tongue \v re To much
swollen that he could scarcely ar-
iiuete&.t ,l ’f t ,nnk ‘ ! did not {l ° il
ej>M*»y that Mr. tf.'fia8'^J vel ? l Me ®‘
showing it to them, holding it rn his
left hand rather loosely, that by an
effort of the stake to draw his head
back, one of its fangs came in contact
with one of Mr. B’s fore lingers about
half an inch below the upper joint; he
dropped the snake but immediately
picked it up, put it in the cage hud
commenced sucking llie wound. A
physician was culled in nnd saw llie
deceased in three minutes after the
accident; his eye9 were then red—his
lips swollen and quivering—he said
he should die, and was in the act. of
falling, when ho was assisted to bed.
In ten minutes afterwards, every
muscle in the system appeared a flee-
This calculation must necessarily t his part, he must take care that t)
•i - t r iF.-." hr. tin t(/k Su noirl (ii*>( iu lii* prRinAl'ii *■
strike us. If tfie mortality bo so
great every year and every hour, is
it hot probable that ho who reflects
on it may hitnself be one of these soon
to swell the list of the dead? .
It te at least certain that it ought
to lead us to think seriously ond often
on this subject. Now at this moment,
oiiu ur ... Vnw,', ^.cuiures It going
out of the world and before another
hqur is past, uioro than three thou
sand soufs will have entered into an
eternal state. «
ted with a twiehing until he died
Vomiting* commenced in ton minutes
after the accident and continued for
an hour. No pulse was discovered
after thirty minutes from the time the
occurrence took place. lie appear
ed to be sensible of all that was pas
sing until about two boms before his
death, at which time his breathing
been mo more difficult, which contin
ued to increase until he breathed his
last. He died in six and a half hours
from the time the poisonous fang en
tered his flesh—a melancholy instance
ol human folly.
The deceased was a native of
Frankli.r County, by trade a tailor, n-
bout 28 years of age, without a farni*-
ly, and was much respected by the
community in which ho lived. His
last efforts at talking were spoat in
requesting these around him not to
slight the advice of friends as he had
done, to view the situation that he was
then in. and never handle a snake. - l i
No occurrence that vve ever wit
nessed wrought more powerfully «u
our feelings, the recollection of it even
; j at this time, strikes us with terror;
it is indeed n melancholy instance of
llie uncertainty of human existence.—
Spectator,
Milton,■■ (N. C.)Nov. 23
Melancholy Occurence.—Most of
our readers have doubtless seen the
account published in our paper of the
second inst - of a Hattie Snake in the
toeping of Mr. John Bobbitt, at per
son Court House. During the last
week the editor of this paper in com
pany with several respectable gentle
men attending Person Superior Court,
• isiled on Tuesday morning, the bouse
occupied by Mr. B. for the purpose
of seeing what was to us a natural
curiosity. Mr. Bobbitt, willing to
gratify us took the reptile out of the
cage with his hand and held- it by the
neck. On account of the approach
of cold weather, it had almost arriv
ed at its torpid state and appeared
quite docile, which to its keeper was
mistaken for tameness. After having
been cautioned by one of the company
of (he danger to which he Tv a a expos
ing himself, we left him. In the eve
ning standing not far from the shop
of Mr! Bobbitt, the editor was inform-
*
ed that the snake had bitten its keep
er; in a few minutes we wont’to Mr.
Bobbitt’s shop, and found him in great
agony; this was near sunset, beforo
midnight Mr. B was a corpse.
We are indebted to a kind friend
who was one of llie attending physi
cians fq^Hhc. MM, particulars of
iioly affair;
*
the unbeliever.
Still round him clung invisible a chain.
Which galled forever; filtering, through
,unse#n
And heavy, tho’ u clang’d not.
# Child Harold.
I pitty unbeliever —One who can
gaze upon Ihe grandeur, anil glory,
and beauty of the natural universe,
| and behoM not the tenches of his fin-
! ger, who is over and with and above
all—from my vary heart I da commis
erate his condition. The Unbeliev
er! one whose intellect is sealed to
the light of revelation; who can gaze
upon the sun, and moon, and stars,
and upon tho unfading and imperisha
ble sky, spread out so magnificently
above him, and say that all this is tho
work 9f chance. The heart of such a
being is a dreary oqd cheerless void.
In him, miiul—tlie'gdmikc gift of in
tellect, is debased-destroyed; all is
dark—a fearful and chaotic labyrinth
—rayless—cheerless—hopeles! No
gleam of light from heaven, penetrates
the blackness of the horrible delusion
—No voice from the . Eternal, bids
tlio dtHipondino- heart rejoice—No fan
cied tones from the harps of seraphim,
rousp the dull spirit from its lethar
gy, or allay the consuming fever of the
brain. Tho wreck of mind is utter-
remediless; reason is prostrate; and
passion, prejudic and superstition,
jiave reared their temple upon the ju-
ins of intellect.
I pity the Unbeliever. What to
him is the revelation from on high,
but a sealed book! Ho sees nothing
above, or around, or beneath him,
that evidences the existence of a God;
and he denies—yea, whilo standing
upon tho footstool of Omnipotence,
and gazing upon (ho dazzling t hr oik*
of Jehovah, he shuts his intellect to
lh« light of reason, and denis there is
a God\
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
OF K DRUNKARD.
Dr. Peter Schofield, in a late ad
dress delivered at the formation of a
Tainperance Society in the lowasbip
of Rustuid in the dflflPic..t of Johns
town, in the province «f Upper Can
ada, gives the following statement of
a CS c O of spontaneous combustion,
which occurred in kis practice:
“It is well aiukeiuicarkd, that
many habitual drinkers of ardent spir
its are brought to their end by what {
is called 'spontaneous combustion.’ [
Trotter mentions several such instan- I
whole is paid, that is his,concern, u
the landlord’s.
When the partnership 'dissolve
whether it lie at midday or at mjj
night, every partner is responsible 4
the debt
ship. I
Detracted ill the partn
he man breaks n glass,
is nothing to the landlord who bro
it; lie can charge iVtoJho opjrapnj
as well as its contcnfs, and must th
sattlo the Matter vn\ji thejmdividu
One man with montvjr ipignt' bring
dozen without, who, being strange
the landlord is deprived of his prop
ty and his remedy Ho can take j
of the company, and he whom
iuIces demand his shares from 1
rest. *
The defendant declared that
had never heard so much law amigo
sense in his life; and that the d«cis
and opinion put together, was woi
the money il cost him; he, would p
the bill, witli cqsts, and remember
for his fur thro government.
lie
■ lor
nine
ceg. One happened under my own
observation. It was llie case
young man, shout *4 years old.
hud beeu an habitual drinke
many years. I saw him about
o’clock in the evening on which it
happened. He was then as usual,
not drunk but full of liquor. About
eleven oh the game evening I was cal
led to see him.- I found him literally
roasted from th# crown of his head to
the sole of his feet. He was found
in a blacksmith’s shop just across the
way from where he had been. The
owner all of a sudden; discovered an
extensive light in his shop, as though
th* wholq building was in one general
flame. He ran with llie greatest
precipitancy, arid on flinging openth*
door discovered a man stnniling erect
in tlio midst of a widely extended sil
ver colarcd blaze, heating ns lie de
scribed it, exactly the appearance
of tho wick of a burning candle in the
wifist of its own flame. He seised
him by the shoulder, and jerked him (
to the door; upon ulucl^tatf lame |
was instantly exiingajijlMP There j
W«s no fire in the shop, 'neither
there nny possibility <»f fa ' nAv ;, lg
been coiHhiUnlos.icfl '| 0 him item any
external somco. It was purely a
case of spontaneous ignition. A gen
eral sloughing came on, and his flesh
THE TOMB OF COtWbl/S
Having, (Island of Cuba,) De
25th, 1*30.
i)mr Sir—My first pilgrimage h
of a been man,e td the Tomb of ColjimSu
It is generally supposed that tliis
earth is inhabited by one thousand
million of men, or thereabouts, and
that 23 years make a generation—-and
that therefore in 33 years die 1,000,-
000,000. Thus the number who die
on earth amounts to
E ich year 30 millions;
Each day 82 thousand;
Each hour 3,400;
Each minute GO;
Each second one;
the larger blood vessels standing.
The blood nevertheless, rallied round
the heart, and maintained tho vital
spark, until the thirteenth day, when
ho died, not only the most noisome,
ill featured and dreadful picture that-
was ever presented la human view,
but his 8hri*ks, his crits and lamen
tations were enough to renu a heart
of adamant. H* complained of no
pain of body, his flesh was gono. Ils
said be was snffaring (ho torments *f
bell; that he was just upon its thres,-
hold, and should sooneHtur its dismal
caverns; uml in tUG lYam* niind he
gave up Ilia ghost. 0 the death of a
drunkard! Well may it be said (o
beggar all description - . 1 have seen
other drunkards die, but never in a
manner so awful and affecting? T#»y
usually go off senceless and stupid, as
it regards a future state?”
I need not sny u ju» ‘he moat splend
I hoTe ever seen, for { v* v ®
seen any thing which, can be pujceci
comparison with it. It stands with
tbe walls and under one of the moi
splendid domes of the Cathedral; iti
form is that of a temple surronndsii
with pillars, standing on a msnivi
basement or pedestal, in front'
which there is a small portal botwe
four miniature columns, within whi<_^
the box containing bis remains is s;dij
to ht deposited—within the tempi
a statute of about three fellt in Light.
The material of the whole tetriple it
af the most beatUiful Italian marble;
and ii said, hy travellers who liavi
viaited Italy, that they have m*vor
seen so beautiful a piece of ictilpture
there or elsewhere—it was mad* en
tirely in Italy, and brought ready to
be set up hare. The morning I rp
tended mass, at the Cathedra!. t ke
temb of Columbus was
rub candlesticks. [ ,heu)d think neat
rce .J iq rr^Tif, of mensivo gold,
f»ntlA every thing n round ..correspond^
•d in siyle and richneei of erc%
Ulflllt. M*. j
I he Catliedrnf itsrlf far surpasss
any thing I had ever seen, or hsrdjj
imagined, in the beauty srid etfle
was consumed or removed in the dres- ‘its architectures—of its length
aiag, leaving the bones* and a few of) breadth, width or height^, fit ill ns
undertake to Iqrm erlist,.* wool4 crA
a correct opinion, for the ©ye
mind of the visitor is so deep!v iru
pressed with Ihe awe and solemnity
of such a scene, as to be wholly an
'prepared to moke estimates of mess
urement.
Interesting to Restaurateurs.-r-A caso
was decided at Pliiladelpliia last
week, by which one of a party tf four
persons, who had spent tho eveningjit*
a public house, was compelled to pay
the whole bill, bis companions having
neglected to “poney up” their piop#r-
tions of the expenses'. The case is
reported in the Bulletin. The defen
dant held, that as lie hud not drank the
whole, nor ate tbe whole that was
orderd, but only a fourth part thereof,
he was responsible for payment only
in that ratio.
Tbe Judge was of a different opin
ion. A company assembled at a pub
lic house, can bo considered by the
landlJi’d only as one person; they have
joined^ themselves together, mid ho
has no right to put them asunder- He
cannot say to one, as hu enters, “you.
may drink,” and to another, “you shall
not,” nor ask any one whether he has
money lo pay for his reckoning. One
maj treat another, for what ho knows,
or he may treat the wholo. It is a
partnership for that night, and what
right has the landlord..to inquire who
finds the capital? They aw equally
accountable to him for the* whole
debt. It is not enough that one pays
Its big!) ton*ring d#M«a
its massive N columns and arches^-it
beautiful statuary and paintings, pi
strike the eye with wonder, in whiel
tlio mind is last in thought. Add ti
this impressive solemnity ef the rite
and ceremonies, which wore constant
If going an at the shrines and coafes*
sionals, which were se distant, thi_
the Priests were out o! tke reach o
each other’s vticcs, you will net bt
surprised that I was impressed with
fellings beyond description.—Jlfucoa
Telegraph.
TCTROM tho subscriber on the night
the twenty first of last month a rt_
marc, about nine or ten years old—Ion
bushy tail—branded on the ahonlders'wit
these letters—C M. Also a two year oil
a narrow and Strail
out three inches long,
'filly—9orrel havu
mark on her back,!
commencing from her maine down—she
a natural trotter—having a short tail,
will give ten dollars-to any peison who*
will deliver to me at my house the aboi
mares—or five dollars for each.
STEPHEN GRAVES.
New Echota, C. N. Dec. 1st, 1831. *
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O N monday the 9th day of January
next will he sold to tho highest biddei
althc late resi 'enee of 'I'hos. Monroe de.
ceased, all ol the perishable property be
longing to the Estate of the gjid Decea*
ed Consisting of Horses cows and calves
Beds, chairs and oth-r property.
SIMEON VvnffE
No». isth, lasit*
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