Cherokee phoenix, and Indians' advocate. (New Echota [Ga.]) 1829-1834, December 01, 1832, Image 2

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Boe«s- ilrqu'l j • «■ it owned t« boat, 'a traffljii•» j I rut o*v*«p«nsa)ed for tho ag*Mios 'it the death-wwuen, tad tbo low of lifo! Bat bod that port of tbe future been revealed, wb*M th# place* of Wavhington, and Adam, and JeHur •on, and MadiooN,* • and Monroo, and tbe secern* Adam*, should bo filled by one 'Ah# ta uMer dicoga.d «f tbo laws, would erect the throne of the detpot, and decree that freemen. aod tbe sans of fre*w»n, and tht- miaisiei s of th« gos pel oi Christ should bo thru.t into a ' point***ie’rv for u« **arthly crime, to miuglo with felous, tbe joy of th* (ly ing patriot would have boon turned to terra* -an<l 'kov> vain is it, ’ hr. would bavt* sai.l with his expiring broath, far me thus io shed my blood, and yield up my lijt for my country and for free done ’ Happy, t'arioo happpy for man, is it thaua curtain separate* his view from Hie events of tho fulurn.. But vvo livo when that which might then have bann nnneuNCod by some prwMhet, has become a tad realty.— Will -on permit it* centiuunnca?— What say ye? you who revere the msoiory of your patriot fathers — *»bat say ye? you who lo«« liberty Bud taw-wbat say yo? you who are opportunity" ’ the holy eppdrlUrfiVjP which is of hand, to thrust from his •oat tUs author of all tbe wrongs that ' ar* leaped upon tho memories of nur fatli *rg~ond of tho dis race which hns b>«#* iatlictod oo our liberty end our j ll»*V Mill of tbe vrehnee which has 1 b*»en so wuthlessly exerted if.on onr ' broth*.«? ‘ N hear the indignant and! bcar‘.-sw Ding answer from thousands, i * no »•' itill «u-i.” Thru lei the response he heard in | tho midst of all who are free—in onr churches, ia the hamlets, and upon the mountain tops, let all come up with tho giurioNS purpose, to Mirusi the despot from his throne, and sore eur (touatry, our liberty, our share. Atld eur hopes. L • our iToteh word bo ’'detcntoilh the dupot; and liberation to the incarcer ated mimenaics ” THE MISS.HN -!t ES AND LOT- VERY tv (j EEL. »I g»vu« us pleKS.'it t« «tote that the ^n*( on ia a psi'jgroph from iht Sjvinoib G«argiau lespectiog th^ iia '»»ni*d missionaries mid tW'Lo* U»ry >■ <««! which has Loan extnu- sic,sly . ('pied hv news-paper ednor* in this p*rt vt tha country, is with out foundc.tiua. The following latter his bc*a aJ tjasssd to us by Messrs. WorcKSto > ’J Butler. -- Observer. Penitentiary Jlfilledgcvillc, O' i 29 1352 To the Editors a) the JSew.York Ob. sertcr. Gentleman—VV« notice in your paper of the iOtb inat. a statement i:n:ide on ih- authority uf the Savan nah Geu.giau, that we have been comfleiluJ to aid ia tho constriction of the lottery wheels t*y means of which th. Isui aad gal i minus of the Cberokees are distributed. While we • aorry that *nv editor should make such a supposed fact a mutter of exultation, we bare tho hsppinnss do assure you aud your readers, that the editor of the Georgian has been raisin ormed, and that we were not trailed upon fur auy assistance what ever in the construction of tbesr wheels. We would add, ingratitude te the principal keeper of the Peni tentiary, that, et some aacrif.ce of convenience, he studiously avoided catling upon us te assist in that work, from the apprehension that it would he a task ungrateful to our feelings Respectfully yours, S. A WORCESTER, ELIZUR BUTLER. CHOCTAW NATION. Major Acnutrong, tho agent for re- ineviug tho Choctaws, has arrived here from the nation, and informs us (bat about 2,300 Choctaws pie now on their way to this place, and will probably arrive on tbe first of Novem- b«r. Arrangements are tptde for tbeir immediate transportation across fifia Mississippi, and their final settle- meet ob the western frontier. It is enppesed that between seven and eight thousand * will remove (bis fall. We alao learn from Maj. Arm etrong, who passed by the Chicka- eaw Council of Treaty, that up te tbe 18th ultime, tbe day on which he loft, ill** Treaty had not finally been . Atified, but th* prospect was still fla.teriug Memphis Timet CHEROKEE PHOENIX. NEW EL’HOTA, NOV. 24, 1832. The following poetry we admit to our columns, we do it the more readily, ih or der tbut our readers may give it their in* lefpreiation. The transactions to which it has reference, is that of the United States troaps, who have been stationed since the early , art of this year, at the goid mines in the NatioB, within the lim its of Tennessee, who were ordered to tbe Nation by tbe President at the instance o| the Governor of North Carolina, to re move the gold diggers I'roai the limits of oftbeiatler State; and it would appear by off poetical genius, that they have commenced building on Cherokee land, &. as we understand him, from which it was thought intruders would fly it. A similar circumstance is known to have occurred in the Nation in the Georgia limits. The President stationed six companies of troops in 1830, at the gold mines, to remove in truders See. .The fu’ gav note was sound ed, and axes too, bui't houses also, but they Went further: they drove the Chero- kees from their mining operations, and Fsr the Cherokee Phoenix October S3. Mr. Editor, ' I found a queer sort of paper npon me table the other morning, and as I csnnoi make anv (hingofit mvself, take th* liberty to send it to you for vonr inter pretation ; although it seents plain to me it was not intended for either of us. It is suspected t ■ tiav- a reference, to the do ings of the Unit'd States military, in this vicinity. Waes me! w»es mol iliat I maun do it, A hopelesscau«e ( yet I mion suo it; O '-ea*.' your use to IV and hew it, 7'h' >r>de o’ai/.es; Each reckless wight, how can ye view it? His wild war wages. 0,lang th"so forests have held \heir quie ct. O, lang has freedom hero run riot, And when ye came—Yh/ why belie it? So sweet your life sang, Intrusion only, thought to fly il; Fu 1 gay its notes rang. But wo»*t for thin ye have conic here? Ye, blast e’en them the best o’lruils bear, Ye knell the hopes o’ev’ry new year Wi’ sound o’axes:* And greedy wrath, ’gainst them wi* fruits rare More eagsr waxes. Each vale wa • fu’ o’white face r.iggers, And joy’d war-l to see your triggers, But now the odds, J tis not in ligurcs How much 1 me it; A isaxan thou t > Pictish diggers, The time*do shew it. * Alludinp to tho destruction of forest in building, and also of the chesaut trees, by die :ucn after fruit. of justice, tvas foroorly UinoranL' beisg suuiiutDed, us p«i«at tiaaos, to aieot at auy plaec according t« th* «xigoncy of tho circ«tasi«n(-os, or the will of tbe regency iftMarch. Th* Lords uad Coiuoions Q-igtaally sat and deliberated, hod vot|J| in tho same apartment When U* Legislature became stationary ;uu|sBpkiatnd, tho former' occupied the buildings «d- jaNining to AV'ihstminis!er Hal), and th* taller the Chapter Mouse, until they reme^erl'to the place whom they n*nr aasotnble. 'i'hi* is the ancient dispel or, t>t Stephen, in Westminister, origino-lly erected by King Sloph*n in hoaot of Ihe marlyr of tha asm* natntj. ft was afterwords rebailt by Edtrird I. nnd being consmnad by fire, Eftvard III restored it to its former Ista'c, aad reudered it cellnginle. S^sn af ter ibis it was fittod up fur the feoep. tiou of tha knights, citizens mjd bur gesses, ami lias boon usually dtjmnsin- atad tho'House sf CommeHa’ St stpekthg tva» forbidden in Hussla tin der thojpenalty of having the ’ noxe cat p(T. . la V6d3 seats of tho iatut/ii- ants of th* Cauton of Apanztll 'ia Switzerland bega* to indulge in rbo habit of smoking. At first th* chil dren ra»aft*r the* in the streets — The Council likewise cito^ih*. smo- kot s before them * and puuisbad them —they also camotsaded tbe innkeep ers <o inform against all such«• should smdlc* in tbeir bnusos. Torturd* the middle of lit* snvmUeentk Ceulu ry. tbe police regulation of the Cao- taii ef Bertw wits mad* which wa: d'* idod sco-t tmg to (bo ten com nmndmonts. The piuUibitiou . smoke t•.banco was reuevvttd tourlui years mbsequeoily, aud a inbanu> particuMrlv instituted to pat h i. execution, tho ‘ Chambre dutabac which t\ns realinund outtl (bi niidd 1 * of the piehioortth Century.— In 1670 and the two idlowiug years smoking of tahaccw was punished .<• the Csnt*ii of Glams by gnawing of cam Notwithstanding all this formidable array uf church nnd slat* against tho us* ef tobacca —eo essential an article of Inxuty was it deemed towards the latter part of the eighteenth century, that chaste oratof*, er a forreot Biitoriaii an uncommon thing ia Auieiica. ] a pei'.UNinry Stephen’s bassinetexpnionerd many j pi,, fi) ,. eve| . y ,f #t# 0 rOnu alterations and repairs, and Urns of | Series rui i U169l).l\.pe 1 lo- late been rendered more cfife'rtn- ; MC „ nt XII. oxrommuotcated ell who , i should be guiltv of using suufl' or le- The Speaker of the House of Ftprestn-. k , rc# iu (1}V St Fotnt at tatires oj the United Stall. \ Romo. • In I7t4, bowuvor, lb* bub 1 bis olBour is elorled «t he com- ‘ • x ,.* Bi-l8 . iradou was revoked by menrrment ef every per^ Qmeieat Beaedi-M XIV., wbohlidbimsslfac- RWetfafevSry sessish *flo •!. Inkiqit sauflT. ^ In double the pay sf a mother *>f the hikfited entirely tbe culture ef tfliae- Uouie. Ofceur8t his hnspeasatiun e#( |>otn an apprehension that it would is 16 dollars per day; basun elegantly p rave j B j ttr j #ug by diminishing th* furnished reom in lire cspitol, set open for hi« reception. His slntion- ary is found during th« mBsion of Con- gross, and Iris flanking p irilcge con tinues throughout the y<ar. Me has also pwwcr to depute « member, by the rules of the Ha.isc to act as spea- j , f veBue derived from the article ker protorn. This deputing of a .f t.bncco a’.aue amounted in Lortu- tenaporai v speaker caonot be made )* si | g-,;,., Den**jrk«mi Praueo, to to^ continue longer tlmu a »»n«le Upwards ef ton millions of Rix dollars 1 The Vice Presideet of the U. States ! is t he presiding office ->f the Senate, tt is not to b« supposed, bswover, ond t»a« a vote only in the single in- that the use of tsbaceo had net its ol the Senate being cquilly divided, dsfeader*; its eu'ogy yvuf early pro- lie recnivee 5 000 dvll rs per onaum;. nounced by aon of very considerable Ins a ro> m assicired foi \iis rccoptian, emino?ic«- To the Hollaudor it was i nud has thr frsiikinj'mivtleee nndstu- roc.omeieuded as v corrective of the f i, * ... tiauary du< iug his cobftniance in ef- bad affects upt>» the body ef a dump I , r ^ ,n , ,® five. FJe succeedsHbc President innnd foggy «tm:*Bphcre—tu the m«l-| ^ 1 EMrERANt E. ■ case of his death »ifll ill* Speaker ef j unchnly as nn exciter «f the nerves i lumui uus esUuiaios luvo beta th* -H.iuse eucce'cds tithe Presidency to tbo sanguine as a preventive of l r ub ' ,4 “*d ol the cos. of intompsra-* in c*se of the death eftbe. Preeident. apcirloxy— to the asthmatic os a sofi ! ami “- . « utilt <is been proved uaaa- and Vice President *fU. S. , n*r of pi.legm-to the inhabitants of i ,wwra ^ "* 0 « J«“* -L- cold climate* as * warmer of the | anuu l al, > *b,ee TOBACCO. ] blood, and to the inhabitant of Imt, ‘ 0Ut f a of lbti et » U FP“‘“«5 It Is sometimes remarkvhJw that climates at * sure prevuuliv* «g»inst ; ^ pcuiteatuHus°^ilfs °*tat the use of tobtic,'* should 'ntvv bo- 1,1 contagious diners- * P cutlea a» us, jails, state jiiWt. ble to it—Ural tho ur»uey exposiiud fur liquors uuouulM or torty millions of dollars, to say nothing oi sudoling by sickness, bacnfi . o ui domesiU' Vsj-pt - uefts, ucd tiu» liun.bet lcss other evil* which Spring diroci.y or iodiro. tiy 4 V a-fW 4 V, . n a. . i •Correspondence of James Howell, Esq. 1048. . [J«ur, of Health.j *■ - I ** : ’ FRIENDSHIP. Wliat a stlange commodity ?. Hour »»ard t lp'p»rnhasc, yet IlOW prodigally wasted! How much the otfspring of caprice, yet how long in growth! lJ«w strong lidos interest 1 * * How weak when divided with many! Hew ^ardent young in heart! How coded by dis? taHce, and yet hew much more vivr* wi with some, when distance drives it ii'om the heart to the imagination, nnd memory kindles tbe embers that vere about expiring? How icy when interest calculates its degrees! How c. usuming when the pulses of a won* ..carl count tbe xiays aud even ears of its existence as mere mia- aits! Mow tbe soul sickens aod shrinki when it is misplaced! How tbc^sgri, uoouds and the blood courses, when a long lost, or estranged friend ie-ap-, pears, as if a spirit of. blessedaeeo irom a hrigbier world, or a recovei 1 -. ed jewel! restored to a, rifled casket/ FHeadship! lost we know,.not howj auU yet perhaps not moie ineVecablo than at first oblaiuedj-lost, wc knotty how, but marvel tehy, since they who. KumAt ^tiyvR‘mf«.JJtft^,iiosAAuu to their interests, luss vvorhty object* in the eeurt’a estimate, leas devoted, and less laiibfui in the matters which coiicern the calculations of the world, aud estranged themselves being judg« us. Friendship! which ueilbur lias nor cistance, uor laull, uor foible^ nor liailty, uoreveu crime cau dis solve. Friendship! that a whisper scatters—a word caaeets—a uiiuute iu.*ks» old. Frieudsliip/dead, buried, and forgotten. Friendship! lo-cruaK ed, uuw-risin, lastieg as life itsalf. Thou elixir of life lo those w ho t;sj#jr tlier., poisou ef peace te those who have lost thee—-vagabond! augeit. Via* cau (ell thy value? Who covets thee not, yet who appreciates? Who wilt auswar? From th>* Unitrii Statr* Gazclt -. THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, A Speaker i6 regularly elected cu (lie cnmmnnctiuent oferery new Par liament, or on the eternise or resigna- tinn of tbe member called to the chair; previously te which (he mace is placed under, not upea tbe table. Sir Thomas Ilun^erford in 1376, (51st ofEdwaid HI.) appears to have been ih * first who obtained this honor able distinction. Tho emelumeilts formorly diet not amount to 3000/. per annum, and iu •'.’onsequence ef this, same held dices at the svme time uudar the croton. But so sensible was (he House of tbe in adequacy of such a salary, uad to justly jealous of permitting any thing like dependence ou the executive branch of the geverument to exist ou the part of their ebrisliro, (hat a few rears since tbe sura was doub led At present, therefore, the allow ance is liberal, as it appears to con sist:—1. Of a bouse. 2. Of 2,000/. equipment uiouav.S. Of 2,000 eun cos of plate. 4. Of two hogsheads of Claret annually; together with an allowance of 100/. far stationary; and 5. Au income of 6,000/. per an num. The Speaker of the Meuse ef Corn mens takes rank next to the Posts sf Great, Britain and bas also h e precedence at the Couneil ta ble. This branch of the legislature is ia soma respects regulated by Ilia.—- During his absence, no basiuess can be dene, or any quustiou proposed, but that ef adjournment. The Paaliaiueut, like the ceurts Have he- oom« so gcHO'sl throughout every portion of tl*e civilized wji ld. Hod al so early a puried after li e plant be come known in Europe fsptH'ially when we recoiled that its use was at fiVsl denounced by TUots Empe rors and Councils, and forhiiidpK by tho bulls of two eti/fcessivo P.>p/?s Tho fii'.l uccognl ive Into .f Iho . Ertkin ,. t famnu( line , iu |)rnil0 0 r l.lmorh .. (bnl of R.maiim P«w, » „ e || Spanish Ml. wllnm ( olnmbo., ,.n ; w ra „ lc ,, „ « Brw „., hi. ..cohd dephrlur. from Am.r.c, „ r Mcsl , n „ bad lo't in that country, and who be- eases. li was declared to uo on »-x cellttut help to study by clearing: the . . brain, and like nine to ciilivvo tfiei^ 1 l /" u imagination ef the peel. In fuct, to : ^ eal ^ ,r *! r believe all that has been «*id of to bacco. its discovery was to bo view ed us ouc j)f the greatest blessing be stowed man. came acquainted with it in St. Do- r tiling*. This account was published in I486. It does not nppnar, howev er, that the ns* nf tobacco wot com menced in Europe nntil after tlie mid- 6upposed viitnee are thus summed up by 1I»»- -ell in his lMturs; # “If moderately, and sca8»iiably taken (as I find you always do) it is good for many things; it helps digestion taken awhile after meat; it makes one void rheum, nx- dleof the sixteen Ceotnry, when: wind> ftndkoepatll . bod Jeans N.cot, envoy from France at | a , caf or tfV0 heing gtee l 0Vftr tha ,ouit of 1 ortuga! transmulted j n ij»kt in n lit tie white wine, is a vnm- the soads ef the tobacco plant lo: u lhat mver f aih , in it„ operation: it Qnaou Catharine' da Medicis; frsm which circuustspce it lus obtained its botanical name of Niroliana in 1604, J:isu*s. tha first' of England en deavored bv nieaus of heavy imposts, to abolish the uss of, tnbacee in his domimens; very pr«pOriy consider. | ovorset ( , IC brain is a good companion to one that con versed) with dead men, for if one hath-boon poring long upon a book, or is toiled with Ihe pen, and slupi- fied with study, it qnickencth him. and dispels those clouds that usually . . , : . , „iOvorset the brain. The smoke of it mg .1 to he “s msst obnoxious weed.” \ . the wllo | esom#8t 8cenU lha| is . Aseaily at 1610, the smoking of , aK amst all contagious airs, for it ovor- bacce was known at Constantinople. L( as , <r8 u) , olb . r smo |i s . No w to lo render the custam r.drculoiu, a deiC . Bd f| . om (hc 8 „bstanc* of the Turk, who bad .been found •mek.eg,, gmok(1 t0 , ha it i# wcl , known was eouducled about the street with lh#t lho ni<tJic# , virtue , thereof a pip* passed through b.a nose. For | . bu( tl , ar# B# cownOB a long time after this the Turks par- Aat 7 , u .,„ lhfl J i lls , rti on of them cbnind tohaccq. aud of the worst j | * quality from tbe English. It was | long before they loaruad to cuhivat* tbe plant for .ibemselres. In 1619, King James the first of England wrote bis celebrated “mi sen a pun” against tha us* of (abacus, end erdeted tbat no planter in Virginia should cultiv ate mor* than ou# hundred pounds par nneum. /-Five •years subsequent ly, P- pe Urban VIII, published a bull of excommunication sgainil all who should take saufTiu church, be- caua** then already aem# Spauish *c- clesiaatics uie«J it even daring the celebration of the mass. In 1631 Such wng the esteem in which tl>6 virtues of tobacco wore once held by men of sense-whal then roust have been the estimate of them by the vulgar. Happy would it ba fer our countiyromi, who from the omnll- ost evon to the largest- from tbe humblest oven to the greatest, arc prone lo indulge iu the chewing or smokiug or suuifiing of tobacco—did the plant possess a tytbe ef the vir tues that lure ascribed lo if-disease er dullnesss they weald never hare dared to pronounce a good poet, a Ireltt this vie*. Tueae slateioeutg already prosent * sum total of pecun iary loss and of moral evil soificietitr it would sae.m, to arouse every fneodi of man and of Iiib country, and lo in* ducc them to unite, end by one sint- nltaneoes effort, j-ut n step to that oso of intoxienting liquors in our land. But alas for eur country- thin has net hnen the case, the insane drunkard is still seen daily in one si reels; sud- MndHr the sanction ef cue laws and public opinion man are sta- tisued at every corner, to administbr t4> lo bias the maddening draught, end ta tampt (be unwary into the fatal ronex. • The object of this comuumoatien, however, is not te dwell i^puu?,them particulars, but lo present seethe? and still more aad appalling evil 1 theft is new brought upon by us iuteupen-. once, aud is farevnr fixed upon ua, so long as iutemparance exists in eu(i land. The CHOLERA, which has far furtean years been sweopiug alT by milliaus tho opium and currie powder eaters, aud arrack driukers of India, and bas recently put dowi^ by thousands the poor victims a)' in-" temperance aud debauchery in Parib/ has new reached our abuses!” Its his tory since its arrival iu tLin couutry, bos been written in characters* so plain, that be who ruus may read.-— The intemperase are its first victims, and make;' tip thrte fourths of its sub-jnets—the mode rale .dnnker comes next, and occasionally »s a rare occurrence, sufficient te eglittn it to pait.wuiar m»tice. a temperate peraeu tv takcu* It is confi dently asserted, that no greMar num ber ef strictly terapnrat# persons Jie4 of tke cholera, in any place where