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CHZaOEEE TREATY. ARTICLES OF A TREATY A-.rocd up tin at tiic City of Washington, March J Ifh, 1833, between J. F.Sebtrmorhoru,on the pari of the United Stall's, anil a Delegation of Fori* oibso»'*i,nif be "he'.! !.y the- the Cherokee tribe of.Indians, which, by the jjotshould the United States aha President of the United States undirected, to he submitted to the Cherokee Nation of Indians, for their consideration and approbation. WtiEREAS, several persons of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, east of tho Mississippi.rivet, lcive visited the city of Washington. as delegates o the Chcrokeo nation i l * >■ : i>. 1*> :Im* I'.«-i- <1 i-iit of the I . S. according to ttie provisions of the act of May 28, 1 Soft- It is however.unders tood and agreed that the Union Missionary Sta tion shall be held by the American Hoard for Fo reign .Missions, and the .rli'itnry Rescrvitfon at Unhid Slates, idon said nn.i. and have no further use for ihe same, it shall re vert to tho Cherokee Nation. The I S. -hall always have the right to make and establish such post and military roads, and forts, in any part of the Cherokee country .as they may <le, ra proper | for the interest cud protection af the same, and j the free use of ns much land, timber, fuel and materials of all kinds for the c< ustruction ami support of ihe same os tuny he necessary ; pro vided that if the private rights of individuals ar.- iirterfercd with, a just compensation therefor shall from that pan of their nation in Tavor of emigra tion, with a hope and desire of making some nr- . rangement which might be acceptable to the go- vjrnmont of tlte United States and to their Na- ibn generally, nud thereby ttnuisaURg the diffi culties which they have experienced during ft »e- •sidenco within the settled portion of the liuitud hilates, under the jurisdiction and laws of the State Governments, and with a view of re-unit ing tboir people in one body, and securing tojtion.; aud if, at any time herenftc themselves aud their descendants the country se lected by their forefathers, and suflicieut for all thoir wants, and wlicrcou they can establish and perpetuate such a state of society a* maybe most consonant with their habits and views, nud as may tend to their individual comfort and tboir advancement i.i civilization t Mississippi. Tin Mis iouart csinblishmcu.ssbHi: be taken from or added to (as the case may be.) t ever they did would Le utterly void, unless sub- rilsc In- valued and -pproised in like nun mr. A the funds to be vested forthe benefit of the Cher- j milted to ami approved by you. ti e amount ol than paid cm In he United okee nation, according to the relative amounts, The whole subject has been taken into constd- Stat-s to the tri-asurt is of tljercpeeiiv, Mission- I intended to he invested for each specific fund, by I eratiou, and an arrangement has been made, nrv societies by n iutin il ey have been ostnlillshejl this treaty, but the sum of two hundred and four ami unproved, in order to eualdc them n - rect; teen'thousand dollars commutes for their perma stit It buildings, and uiaki su-h impi <>•. m ms, a- ncut annuity, and their present school fund, alrea- mmjg the Cherokee* west of the Mi-sU. . pi, a> d\ invested, and shall not be considered as any they may deem necessary for th< ir benefit. Such J part of the above four millions five hundred thou- ti-.'rhcrs ..t present among the Cherokee* as their : sand Hollars, the fall amount agreed tobe paid by Council shell select ami designate, -hall be reit«o- : the United States for all claims and demands a- v.ed west of the Mississippi with the Chcokce i gainst the same, and for the cession of their lands; .... Nation. and on tin- game terms allowed them.— ’ and in no case shall the amount agreed to he paid might consider just, and promised to recommend It is, however, understood, that from the valua- ! and invested in the aforesaid articles of this trea- J and support the same in your general couucii. tion of the Missionary establishment- shall be de- ty exceed that sum. which ought to be, and I trust will be, entirely sa tisfactory to von. The Senate of the United tetates have given their opinion" of the value of your possessions; and the value is ensured to you in the arrangement that has been prepared. Mr. John Ross, & the party who were with him, expressed their determination to accept, so far as they wero concerned, such a sum as the Senate dueled the pro rata amount advanced and e xpen ded for the sin ;- hv tin- United States. Art II. The President id the United Stale- shall invest in some *nfe and most productive he made. With regard to (be Union Missionary public stocks of I he country, for the benefit of the Reservation, it is understood that the American | whole 'Cherokee nation, who have removed or Board of Foreign Missions, will continue to occu py tho same, for tho benefit of the Cherokee n:i- thev shall a- shall remove to the lands assigned by this treatv lo-the Cherokee nation west of the Missi-sipm', the following sums, as » permanent fund, for the baodou the seme, upon payment for their 1in pro- purpose hereinafter specified, and pay over the vements by tho U. S. it shall revert to the Chero- J nett income ofjhe same annually, to such person keo nation. I or persons as shall be authorized r>r appointed by Art. 5. Tho United States also stipulate and | the Cherokee nation to" receive the same, and agree to extinguish, for tho beuefitof the Chero- < their recoin shall l>e a full discharge for the n- kees, the title to tlte reservations -within their j mount paid to them, viz: The sum of four hnti- country, made in tho Osage treaty of 1625. to > dred thousand dollars, to constitute a general certain half breeds, ami for this pitrp sc they j fund, the interest of which shall he applied them a permanent establishment; and being will bag ns far as his constitutional power extends, to use all his efforts lo accomplish these-objects, has yielded to the wishes thus expressed to him in be half wf the Cherokces, aud has authorised John F. Schcrmerhora to meet tho said members of tho Cherokee Natiou, anil to arraugc with them such terms as may be. just and proper, between the p,nics: , • And whereas, tho said Joint F- Schcrmerhorn and tlto said Delegation of tho Cherokee Nation Aud whereas, tho President of tile United Sta to*, animated with a>iuccro desire to reliovethein '• hereby agree to pay to the persnus to whom tlte | uu.illy by the council of the natiou t<> such pttrpo- , aud to provide for j snine belong or have been assiguCd. or to 'heir sen ns they miyilrsni best for the general interest agents or guardians, whenever they shall cxe- : of their people. The sum of fifty thousand doj- cutc. after the raliGealion of this treaty, a satis- | bars, to ronstimte -an Orphans’ fund, the annual factory conveyance for tho same to the United | inC<Ud« of which shall be expended towards tite States, the sum of $’15000, according to a sehed- ] support and education of such orphan children as ulo accompanying this treaty, of the relative va- j are destitnte'of the means of subsistence. The lue of the several reservations. f sunt ol one faith dred-und sixty thousand dollars, to Art. 6. TherUiiircd Stntcs hereby covenant aud constitute a permnneut school fumf. tiie interest agree, that' the hinds coded to the Cherokee un-! of which shall be applied annually by tbe.Coon- iion us tho foregoing article, shall, in no future cil of the Nation for the support of common lime, without their consent, he included within : schools; apdsuch a literary institution of a higher the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any Sfa’e ! order ns may her established in ihcTm'inn roun- of Indians have met together and have taken the or terri’ory ; but they shnll secure to the Chero- | try.-aud in order to secure, as far as possible, the wit"''' matter into consideration,nud have agreed keo Nation the right, by their National Councils, true and beneficial application of tlu: orphans’ &. upon certain articles, which are to be considered j to make and carry into effect .all, such laws as ' school fund, the eoauoi! of the Cherokee Notion. merely as proportions to bo tna-.lc to tlto Chero-| they may deem necessary for the government and when required by the President of the United kon pdoplon behalf of the United States, ami j protection of tho persons and property within States, shall make a report of the application of to ha utterly invalid until approved by them; it their own country, belonging to their people, or those funds ; nud tie shall mall times have the being distinctly understood that the said Chero- such persons.as have connected themselves with right, if the fuuds have been misapplied, to cor- koc peoplo are uot in the slightest manner com mitted by tho formation of this provisional ar rangement— • . Nop therefore in consideration of the prcmts-| cs, and with a view to tite final adjustment of affairs; undnlso, that they shall not hi- consider- j tion, withdraw their funds, by and with the con SCHEDULE. For Removal Subsisteuee Improvements and ferries Claims and spoliations Domestic animals National debts Public buildings Printing press, &c. * Blankets Rifles Kettle* Per rapitn allowance G'nieri! fund School fund Orphan’s fund Additional territory $5,000,000 00 School fund already invested 48,251 76 Commutation of perpetual an’ty 214,000 00 them: Provided always. That they shall not be revt any abuses of- them, and to direct the man- inconsistent with the constitution of the United net-of their application, for ihc purposes for which States, and such acts of Congress as have been • they were intended. The Couucii of the Nation or majrbe passed for the regulation of Indian j may, by giving two years - tjo’.ice of their iiitcu- afiairs; undnlso, that they shnll not Id-consider-j tion, withdraw their funds, by and with the con- nil claims, aud demands of every kind, of the j cd ns extending to such citizens nnd army of the ; sent of the President- and Senate ctf the United Cherokces east-of the Mississippi river, upon the U. S. as may travel or reside in the Indian conir j States, and invest them in sneh manner ns they United States, it is agreed as follows : | try, according to the laws and regulations dstab- may deem most proper for their interest. - The Article I. This Treaty shall ho submitted to j lfthcd by the government of the same. j United States also agree and -stipulate to pay to the People of tho Cherokeo Nation, for that pur- Art. 7. Perpetual peace and friendship shall J the < 'Jferokee Council Fast.'sixty thousand dol- poso to he assembled at New Echotn. after due exist between the citizens of the United States J lars. and to expend thirty thousand dollars in the notico being given of the time of meeting by tir* and tho Cherokee Indians. Tire U. S. agree to Commissioner appointed by tho President of the protect the Cherokee nation Irom domestic strife Uuiled Srntes, whoso duly it shall bo fully to ex- and foreign enemies, and against intestine wars plain all its contents to them, and tho views of j belweeu the several tribes. They shall endea- tha govermnont in regard to jt, for their concnrr i vor to preservo anil maintain the peace of the reset and adoption; and if it shall appear,'after country, and not make war upon their neighbors; a fnir, free and fuli expression of their sentiments | nud should hostilities continence by ono-or moto that a majority of the people are iu favor of the j tribes, upon another, tho Cherokee Council of treaty, it shall bo considered as approved ami j tho Nation, when Tailed itpoij by the authority confirmed by the Nation;~and their whole conn- cf tho President of the U, S-shnll aid tho INS. try shall he deemed to ho ceded, and their claim with as many warriors as may be deemed iicces- antl title to it to come. But it is always under- saty to protect and restore peace in tire Indian stood, that the treaty stipulations in former trea- : country; and while jn service they shnll be enti ties, that have uot been annulled or superseded > Red to the pay and rations of the army of the U. by this, shall continue in full force. I Si They shall also bo protected against all io- A,-t.2. Tho Cherokeo Natiou of Indians, for tcrriiptiou and intrusion from citizens of the l'. an 1 in consideration of tho additional quantity of land guarantied and secured to them in the third article of.tfcis treaty, and of the fulfilment of the covenants and stipulations hereinafter mention ed. and also of tho sum of four millions five hun dred thousand dollars, to be expended paid ami S. who may attempt .to settle in the rouniry; add all such persons ?hajl 1>< removed from the same by order of the President of the U.-Sr 0 tit this is not intended to proven* ?he residence an’ ong them of useful farmers, mechanics «.od tea chers, for the instruction of the Indians, accord- 111 vested ns agreed iu the following articles, do . jog to the treaty stipulation*, and the regulations hereby cede, relinquish and convoy to the Uui- u f th 0 Government of tho United States, toil States, all their right aud title to all the lands j Art. 8. Tho Cherokee Nation, having alrpndy owned, claimed and possessed by them, includ- j made rwcat progress iu civilization, and deeming ing tho lands reserved by them for a school fund, j ft important that every proper and laudable in*- Oast of the Mississippi river. erection of such mills, council and school liouscs in thoir country west of the Mississippi as tlieir council shall designate. The sum often tfrnus hud dollar.* shall be expended for the introduc tion of improve*.! breeds of the different domestic auisnalsv ay horses, begs, cattle, and sheep.-wljirh shall be placed under the direction of the Agent of the tribe: and who.- hy-nnd with the advice of the Council, shall distribute them to the best ad vantage for tbe general bi nefii of the whole peiK pie. They *ha’l ako pay to the Council five thousand dollars towards procuring materials for I n printing prr .*s to enable them to print a-public newspaper, and books in tfie Cherokeo language For gratuitous distribution. Art 12. The sum of two hundred and fifty ihoits tud dollars is hereby sctapnrt to satisfy and liquidate all claims ofeverykim! and nature what ever of the Cherokces. upon the United R’a'cs, and such claims nf. the citizens of the United States against tho Cherokces as come within the ;;yovisjons of the intercourse act of 1802,. and ns oxistc<rin r. : lh Rr °f tho States of Georgia. Alaba ma. North Carolina, anti Tennessee, prior 10 the extension rtf the laws of either such States over them. All claims of the Indians shall first be examined bv the Council of the Nation, am! then $5,262,251 76 Art. 19 This treaty, when it shall have been approved nnd signed by a majority of the chiefs, bend-ineu, and warriors, of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, aud by the President, by aud with the advice and consent of the Senate cf the United States, shall be binding on the contracting party. In testimony whereof the said Johu F. Scher- merhorn, authorized as aforesaid, and the said Cherokee Delegation, have set their hands'& seals theday year& above written. The stipulations contained in this instrument arc designed to afford due protection to private rights, $255,000 00 } to make adequate provision for the poorer class 400,000 00 | of your people, to provide for the removal of all, 1,000.000 00 j and today the foundation of such social and poli- 250,000 00 } tieal establishments in your now country as w ill 10,000 00 | render you a happy and prosperous people. W hy, 60.000 00 I then; should auy honest man among you object 30.000 00 i to removal ? The United States have assigned 5,000 00 ; to you a fertile and extensive country, w ith a ve- 36,000 00 | ry Cue climate adapted to your habits, and with 37.000 00 : all the other natuial advantages which you ought 7.000 00 j to desire or expect. 1,800.000 00 ; 1 shall, iu the course of a short time, appoint 400.000 00 | commissioners for the purpose of meeting the 160.000 00 whole body of yout people in council. They 50,000 00 will explain to you, more full}’, my views, and the 500.000 00 , nature of the stipulations which are offered to — ——...— ; you. These stipulations provide: 1st. For an addition to the country already as signed to yon west of the Mississippi, and forthe conveyance of the whole of it, by pa tent, in fee simple. And also for the secu rity.of tho necessary political rights, and for T E LEG RAP [ j MACON, Ga. THURSDAY APRIL 9, iai5. The Season. day morning. There was a smart F rest yester Cherokee Treaty. We republish from the fl obe, the new Cherokee Treaty at length. bo seen it is to have no effect until it is approve! of by a majority of the Cherokee Nation; but from its very liberal provisions we have fiiju doubt of its being accepted by that people. cordially hope it may he carried into effect, j i thus forever put at rest our Cherokee controver- sies. Savannah and Macon Rail Road. W'e are r e . joiced to learn that tho citizens of Savaon«hare determined to persevere in the prosecution ofth- - . - . - . great work. Tho corporation of that ci'v preventing white persons from trespassing , , ^ n ' subscribed lor live Thousand shares. John F. Schermerhorn, fSeal.l John Ridge, [Seal-.l Archilla Smith, [Seal.] Elias Boudinot, [Seal.] S. W. Bell, [Seal.] John West, [Seal.] Wm. A. Davis, [Seal.] F-zekiel West, [Seal.] ducemcnt should be offered to-the people to im- reported, to "the commissioner appointed to udjn Art. 3. \\ herons by the treaty of May 6lh, j prove their condition, as well as togmml and sc dicate the same ; and the claims of the United 18-8, and tho supplementary treaty thereto, of j cure, in the most effectual manner, the right* States shall 6rsl.be examined by the Age r and l - eb. 14th, 1833, with the Cherokces west of the | guarantied to them in this trcaty^aml with a view j Council of the Nation, aud then referred to the A1 i*s:ssippi, tlto United Stator, guarantied nnd sc- to illustrate the liberal anti enlarged policy of tire j commissioner, who shall finally decide upon them; < nr'-tl, '<> be conveyed by p’rteni. to the Cherokee (,’ overomeut of the U. S r,. -a ir.l* tlte (niii "i-. in nod ot> hi- eertifi. ate of |l <• imoui ' due in favor Nation of Indians, the following tract of country: i thoir removal beyond the territorial limits of the ,»f the several claimants they shall he paid. If ‘•Beginning at a pniut on tho old western territo-1 States, it is s’ipidnted that they shall be entitled ] the above claims do not amount -Jo th-- sum of to a delegate in tho House of Representative*, of [ two hundred and fift tho U. S. whenever Congress shall make provis ion for tho same Art. 9, The U. S. also agree and stipulate to remove the Cherokces to tlieir ,.ew homes, and point rial-Into of Arkansas Territory, being 25 miles north from the point where tho territorial line crosses tho Arkansas river; thence running from said north point south on the said territorial lino to tho place where the said territoriariiue crosses \ erdegris river ; thence down said Verdcgris riv- to subsist them one year after their arrival there. cr to the Arkansas river; thence down said Ar- aud that a sufliciont number of steamboats and kins,is to a point where a stone is placod. oppo- baggage wagons shall be site to the cast or lower hank of Grind river, at : them comfortably, nnd so as not to endanger its junction with the Arkansas ; thontfe running ; tlieir health ; and that a physician, well sOppli- soutb 44 d. crest, one mile; llicnco in a straight 1 j»d with medicines,shall accompany each detach- line ton point four miles northerly from the month j merit of emigrants removed by the Government, of the Canadian; theuco down the Canadian to They shall also lie furnished with blanket.*, kef- tbo Vrkansas ; theuco dawn the Arkansas to that ; i| cs and rifles, as stipulated in the treaty of 1628. point on the Arkansas whore tlte eastern Choc- I The blankets shall l>c delivered before their re- taw boundary strikes said river, aud running j moval. nnd the kettlcsand rifle* after tlieirremo- tlieucc with the western line of Arkansas territo- j val in tlu-ir new country. Such persons and fa- ry as now defined to the southwest corner of I milies as, iit the opinion of the emigrating Agtfutv Missouri; thonC" alcfag the western Missouri .line are capable of subsisting and removing tbem- lo the Imd assignee* the Senecas ; thence on the ; selves, shall bcpermiltcd to do so: and they shall south line of thi SouePA* to Grand river ; thence ' ho allowed in full for all claims' for the same. $25 up said Grand river as ("w as the south line ol the . for each member of tlieir family, slaves txccpt- Osag'- reservation, oxlcntb.'I if necessary; thence j c ,], for whom (those now owned in the nation.) tip aud between said south O'.' ,:i o 0 ii |lc ’ extended they shall be allowed $18 each : and in lieu of west if nccossarv, and a line ftvU'VD due west their one year’s rations, they shall hr. paid the from the point o‘f beginning to a cis*tn‘ ,a distance j sum of $33,33 if they preferJt. And in order to wen. at which a line runoiug north sni ( souih encourage immediate removal, and with it view front said Clsiir-i line to s mfdue west "’ill to benefiting the poorer class of their people, the make-seven millions of acres within tho v’holc j U. b^agrec and promise to pay each ®i other of thousand dollars, the n- luount unexpended shall be added to the orphans’ nnd school funds. Art 13. The Cherokee Nation of Indians, be lieving ir will he for the interest of their people to have all thoirfnndit and annuities under thoir own direction and future disposition, hereby agree to described boundaries, lo addition to the 7 m,. 1 '' ions of acres of laud tints provided for aud hound ed. the U. States further guaranty to the Chero kee Nation a perpetual outlet west, and a free rod unmolested u*e of all tho country lyin' the Cherokeo Nation $150 on bis removal, at tho Cherokeo Agency West, provided thrv enrol remove within one year from the ratification of I, ds treaty ; and $100 to each person that rp- moves within two years ; and after this no p<- hottld tcv within two years ; and after this no rf ih? western boundary of said 7 millions of a- 1 capita alio wan te whatever will be mado;-Jlutl t eras- ai far west as tho sovereignty of the United m expr ssly OndcfBtodd, .that the whole nation states nnd thoir right of soil extend i .Provided I shnll remove lijo Tears ftom tlierotifica- totr.'ver, That if the saline <ir salt plain on the . tion cf tho treaty. here shall also he paid! to vestern prairie .shall fall within sai* 1 limits pres-: each emigrant lisccP oac 1833. $150, according tribed for raid outlet, the right is reseryed to the to the assurances given .'hem by the Secretary • f iniled States to jiermit other red men to get salt ■ war, that they should be *°‘ l " v"' ailynn ■n said pltiio in common with tins Cherokces; and tngrs and provisions of the Jrpaty ■which etlcrs patent shall be issued by the U. S. os soon ■ be finally concluded with their’ Nation. ‘ rt .practicable, for tlie land hereby guarantied.” shall also he paid for the improveiJ ,l ' lts ‘ < • Atiil whereas it i* apprclionded by the ('hero- I ing to their appraised va hie before , hey ren.oy- ees.thatin the abtivo cession.thoreis not enntai- ed. where fraud has uot already been shown ni ad a sufli' ient quautity of land for the accom- j the valuation. edatiop of the w hole nation, on tlieir removal ' Surli Cherokces also as reside at present jest of the Mississippi, <lie U. f 5 - therefore here-! of (lie Nation, and shnll remove with them, in < c>\ nairt and agree to convey to the said In- ' years, west of the Mississippi, shall he entitled to tans, and their descendants, by patent in fee per capita allowance, removal and *iih*:*i m e. triple, the following additional tract of country, as above provided. mated between the west line of the .Stale of j Art. Ift. The 1 nitnl States agree to appoin suitable agents, who shall make a jnst and fair issouri and the Osage reservation, beginning the southwest corner of the saute, and running _ mil along the east line of tho Osage lands fifty jlilcs, to the northeast corner thereof ; sad rbeucc to (h • west line of die Slate of Missouri ; ( ;ertro with said line south fifty miles ; thenceri. e, the pk" - o oi beginning: estimated to contain ijJM'l ar'eiir! hi-rl : but ft is expressly under- F.i'ii. tint tf ; aj cf the lands assigned the Qua ,ws shall fall withitj the aforesaid bounds, the me shall bo reserved :ru<J excepted out of the ( nls above granted 4. Tho U. S. also agree that the hinds a- valumion of all such improvements now in dn possession of the Cherokces, as add any value to the lands; nnd, also, erf the ferries owned bv till m according to tlieir nett income ; and such im provemenis &. ferries from which they linvo hccii dispossessed in ft law less manner, or under any existing law* of the ,‘*'tate where such mav he sit uated. Tiie just debts of the Indians shall he paid out of any moneys due them for ibr irin. provemenis aud clniins ; and tbr\ shall also ' < furnished to remove j commute their permanent annuity of ten thous and dollar* for the sum of two hundred and four teen thousand dollar*, the sai. o to lie invested by the President of the Unirrd 6tnte*. a« a part of the general fund oTthe nation ; and their present school fund amounting to forty eight thousand two hundred and fiftv one dollars and seventygis cents. *hnll heinvested in the same manner as the school fund provided in this treaty, and Constitute a part of the same ; and both of them to he sub ject to the same,disposal asi Ire other part of these funds by tlieir National Council. - Art. 14. Those individuals a* d families of the Cherokee nation that are averse to a removal to the Cherokee country west cf the M i--'s*ipi>i. nredcsirousto hccomeeitizensofth-: states where they reside, and such as. in the opinion of the A- e’ent. arc qualified to take rare of themselves and their property, shall he entitled to lvreivc their due portieo of all the pofxonsl benefits ■accruing under this treaty, for then claims, improvements, ferries, retnoval, and subsistence, hut they shall ■art be entitled to any share or pot tion of the funds va sted or to be expended for the common benefit of the Nation; Art. 15: I: is also agreed nil the part, of ihoU- uited State*, hat such warriors of the Qberiikec lia.tion as were engaged on (he stdr of the United State* in the late war with Great Britnia and the southern tribes of Indians, and who were woun ded in such service, shall hr- entitled to such pen sions as shall lie allowed them hv the" Con* re s of :hc States to commence from *1 o period of their disabilit',-. Art. 16. The United Plates hereby agree to protect and defend the Cherokee* in their pos- *< * : ous and property, by all legal and proper I me ns. after their enrolment or the ratification | of' iliis treaty, until the :imc fixed upon for tlieir j removal; and if they are left unprotcrtrdl .he out j IItiited State* shill pay the tIherokee* for the fos se* aud damages. sustained by them in conse quence thereof. rt. 17. The expenditures, pasnieuts. and in- vesim*- , ”‘ i "Ktqfil to be made by 8ie United States in the for* 2<l ' n K articles of this treaiy, it is un •lerstood. art» to he paid out of the suun of four rr.illiou* five hiti.’ <!r< ‘ ,! 'bou*an<l dollars agreed to be'given to the 'Ct.' I ' T> * <e ‘' , ' on ^ or ihp cession of Their lamb, and in » r «»H of Jill tht-irolaims, of ev- i rr kind, now existing •c :, ' n *' the 1 uiled tStairs. 'Ait 18. The annexed schedule contan s the < tiuir i, for carry :eg vri*> » tin.A the several peril mer.'t" contained in sums affix err for any *p. liiftfT sfinii! '.Mfious and : i r r< * thi- tn :-ty : »1'a\ m ' the Mims \ I rilic ol jr cl shall I ie in rc* or S ; to carry the >nme inro * t - ' ss than ^ requisite ihe exic-i) J>t -itch i'uruishod. at the discretion of the President, wiih j estimate shnil tie applied to make up th. deht'if a suflicieut sum to enable then to obtain the uc ded by the treaty of Feb. 14. 1633, inelu- eessary means to remove tin mselvcs to tlieir new ! >!i |a outlet and those ceded by this tiyaty. . homes, n«)d the halanrc of tlieir dues shall be u\ ey. if.any occur for th-- otb, ! objects of exp>','' lire ; and if. iii the aggregate, iheps ynwiits ^.' \p< _ diiure* s|r:i!l exectsi or fa’! short of the * » nchided in one patent, to he executed ! paid them nt the Cherokee Agency west of the ’ trai suths appro)■;inicrt for them, tlfc same s’ui.ll Witnesses present: Alex. Macomb, Maj. Gen. U. S. A. Geo..Gibson, Com. Gen. William Allen, Hudson M. Garland, Sherman Page, • John Garland, Maj. U. S. A. Ben. F. Currey, Sup. Cher, rernov. &c. A. VanBureu, U. S. A, •Dyer Castor. To the Cherokee Tribe of Indians East of the Mississippi river. My Friends : I have long viewed your condition with great interest. For many years ^ I have been acquainted with your people, and itiiucr all variety of circumstances, in peace and in war. Yout fathers were well known to me, -nnd the regard which I clterished for them has caused me to feel great solicitude for your situa tion. To these feelings, growing out of former recollections, have been added the sanction of official duty, and the relation in which, hy the constitution aud laws, I am placed towards you. Listen to me. therefore, as your fathers have lis tened, while I communicate to you my senti ments on the critical state of your affairs. You are now’placed iu the midst of a white population. Your peculiar customs, which reg ulated your intercourse with one another, have been abrogated by the great political community among which you live; and you arc now sub ject to the same laws which govern the other j citizens of Georgia and Alabama. You are li able to prosecutions for offences, and to civil ac tions for a breach of any of your contracts.— ■Mostof your people are uneducated, andarelia- hle to be brought into collision at all times with their whito neighbors. Your young men are ac quiring habits ofintoxicatiou. With strong pas- sious, and without those habits of restraint, which our laws inculcate and rendet necessary, they are frequently driven to excesses which must e- veutually terminate in their ruin. The game has disappeared among yon, nnd you must depend upon agriculture and the mechanic arts for sup- prrt And. yet. a large portion of your people Have acquired little or uo property in the soil it self or ir. any article of personal property which can be useful to them. Ilow. under these cir cumstances can you live in th6 country you now occupy? Your condition must become worse & worse, and you will ultimately disappear, as so many tribes have done before you. Of all this I warned your people, when I met them in council eighteen years ago. I then ad vise.) tbom to sell out their possessions Ensr of the Mississippi nnd to remove to the country west of ihat river. This advice I have continu ed to give you at various times from that period down to the present day, and can you now look back and doubt the wisdom of this couucii ?— Had j-ou then removed, you would have gone itlr all >he means necessary to establish your selves in ;r fertile country, sufficiently extensive for your subsistence, and beyond the reach of the moral evils which are hastening your destruction. Instead ofbeing a divided people as you imw.are, (irrnyed into parties bitterly opposed to calm other, son would have been a prosperous and a united, community. Your farms would have been open ind cultivated, comfortable houses would have been erected, the menus of subsistence abundant and you would havo been governed by your own customs nud law'B. and removed from the effects of a white population- Where you now are. you arc encompassed by evils, moral nnd physical, & these are fearfully increasing. I.ook even at the experience of the last few years. What have you gained by adhering to the pernicious counsels which have led you to reject ’.he liberal offets made for your removal? They promised you an improvement in your condition. I5ut instead of that, every year has brought in creasing difficulties. How, then, can you place confidence in the advice of men who are mislea ding you for their own purposes, nnd whose as surances have proved, ftom the experience of ev ery year, to be utterly unfounded ? 1 have no motive, my friends, to deceive you. I am sjncerely desirous to promote vour welfare. Listen to me, therefore, while 1 tell you that you cannot remain where you now are. Circuniptan- ces that cannot be controlled, and which are be yond the reach of human laws, render it impossi ble that you can flourish iu the midst of a civiliz ed community. You have but one remedy with in your reach- And that is. to remove to the west and join your countrymen, who are already esla 1 dished there. And the sooner yon dir this, the soone- you can commence your career of im provement and prosperity. A number of your brethren, who have been de legated by that portion of your people favorable to emigration, have repared to this place, in the hope of being able to make some arrangement, which would be acceptable to tho government of the l uiled State*, and v hich would meet your upprub 'lion. They do not claim the right of ma- ki's h v arrangement which would be binding( 2d, For the payment of.the full value to each individual, of his possession in Georgia, Ala bama, North Carolina and Tennessee. 3d. For the removal, at the expense of the U nited States, of your whole people; for tlieir subsistence for a year after their arrival in their new country, and for a gratuity of one hundred and fifty dollars to each person, 4th. For tho usual supply of rifles, blankets, and kettles. 5th. For the investment of the sum of four hun dred thousand dollars, in order to secure a permanent annuity. Gth. For adequate provision for schools, agri cultural instruments, domestic animals, mis sionary establishments, the support of or phans, See. 7th. For the payment of claims. 8th. For granting pensions to such of your peo ple as have been disabled id the service of tho United States. These are the general provisions contained in the arrangement. But there are many other de Jails favorable to you which f do not stop here to enumerate, as they will be placed before you in the arrangement itself. Their total amount is four millions five hundred thousand dollars, which added to the sum of five hundred thousand dol lars, estimated as the value of the additional land granted you, makes five millions of dollars. A sum, which if equally divided among all your people cflar of the Mississippi, estimating them at ten thousand, which I believe is their full num ber. would give five hundred dollars lo every man. woman, and child in your nation. -There are few separate communities, whose property, if di vided, would give to the persons composing them, such an amount. It is enough to establish you all in the most comfortable manner: audit is to lie observed, that besides this, there are thir teen millions of acre* conyeyed to the w estern Cherokces and yourselves by former treaties, nnd which arc destined for vour and tlieir permanent residence. So that your whole country, west ol the Mississippi, will contain not less than thirteen millions eight hundred thousand acres. The choice now is before you. May the Great Spirit teach you how to choose. The fate of your women and children, the fate of your people t" the remotest generations; depend upon the issue. Deceive yourtclves uo longer. Do not cherish the belief that you cab ever resume your former, political situation, while you continue in your present residence. As certain as the suit shines to guide you in your path, so certain i* it that you cannotdri.ve hack the laws of Georgia from among you. Every year will increase your difficulties. Look at the condition of tho Greeks. See the collisions which arc taking place with them. 6ee how their young men are commit ting depreda tions upon the properly of our citizens, ami are shedding their blood. This cannot and will not be allowed. Puuishment will follow, aud all who are engaged in these offences must suffer. Your young men will commit the same acts, and the same consequences must ensue. Think then of all these things: Shut your ears to badconsels. I.ook at your condition as it now is, aud then consider what it will be if you follow the advice I give you. Your friend. Signed, ANDREW JACKSON. ■Washington. March 16th, 1835. nave Though the city of Macon in its corporate capacity has declined all participation in the glorious under taking, we trust the citizens themselves?as well n.<citizens of contiguous and neighboring com- tics, will see the vast importance of the work nud subscribe liberally towards its erection. The I'rench Question. The New Orleans pa- pers state, that .Mr Livingston, in a letter to one of his friends in that city, gives the gr -atest hopes of a speedy adjustment of the question of the 25 millions, and says that a large number of the members of the Chamber of Deputies arc laror- able to the appropriation, aud that the whole of the French nation wish it to be made. Post Master General. Tiie National lulelli- gencersays: “It is runioro-. in this city—amlihe. rumor has reached u* through such a channel at. to induce us to attach some credit to it—that Air Post Master General Rarry is-about tobe re warded for his services in that Department, by being appointed Minis er Plenipotentiary to ihe Court of Spain ; and that Mr Amos Kendal)is to succeed Mr Barry as Post Mas'cr General.’ 1 A Long Tail! It is stated by the Almanack makers, that Halley’s famous Cornet of 1305 iriil make its appearance about the n id<ib of Octob er,'with a tail eight millions o*' miles ia lerjM 1 The influence of such a tremendou.> tail, uufnM d so near the ne'ehbarbood of our little p! - supposed to Recount for many of tT things that have Happened upon it of late—as rve'l as for many still stranger ones that " I going to happen. T-nnesscc. The New Constitution of Tennes see has been accepted, by a vote of 20 000 cut of the 30,000 ballots given. Pennsylvania. A bill is now before the Legs? latere of that State to remove the seat of Govern ment to Philadelphia. Roberts, tiisMajesty’s coachman, died at Lon don, after a short illuess. The deceased was formerly coachman to his late Majesty when Prince of Wales, and is supposed to have amas sed a considerable fortune by the Royal patron age'. On the marriage of one of his daughters he gate her a portion cf£5000. The Ncw-York Star,, says: “Tho only two Israelites in the Chamber ot Deputies, ..Messrs, j Agent states that the Small Pox prevails in xrttrj Maese and h ouirl, have recorded their names as ! of the counties iti Virginia, and expresses a IT speakers in favor of coufinniug the American j that it may extend into other sections. Inrtnedi' I maty. Our confidence in the final settlement me and general Vaccination is recommended. Massarhusitts. Another effort is making to reduce the enormous representation in the I^fi lature. A bill to provide for such au amendment of tiie Constitution as will reduce the number of members more than 20(1, has passed the Hotstd Representatives by a vote of 392 to 37. Andretr Dunlap Esq hasin consequence oft *’ state ofhis health, resigned the office of Attorbej of the United Plates for the District of Boston. Blood Horses. The Hon. Mr- Wilkins, Mins’ ter to Russia, has purchased in England 8fir f blood Horse,s. which it is his intention to fonvmd to the care of a distinguished sporting gentlenB* in Virginia. Nehemiah R. Knight, formerly Govrrem " Rhode Island, end subsequently 12 sears it'd’ Senate of the United State® has been nominatrl as the Whig candidate for Governor again, at lb? coming election. Small Pot in Uirerinia. Dr. Scott. A acci: rutty of this claim, lias been ail along strengthened, from the fact, that the Rothschilds are zealou to have the claim settled.” Supply of Water for New York■—We nnib r stand that the report of the engineer employe by the corporation at Ncw-York, to ascertain I the practicability of supply iug that city u>lh pure frctih water, will soon be published. The plan I is, ns we leant, to tiring the ivater from the Crot on river, forty one miles distant from tho city. J through a tunnel, not of cylindrical shape, but containing an average diameter of five feet. The height ol tho Croton is 156 feet above tide watt r at Ncw-York. and with this fall ft is expected that 35 millions of gallons of water can he deliv ered iu a day. The water takiug its rise in the Highlands, is of the purest quality, and when this improvement shall have been "effected, our sister city will he as well off as Philadelphia", iu this important particular. The expense is es timated at near five millions of dollars, the in terest of which, at five per cent, amounting to a quarter of a million of dollars, will be saved lour times over, in the diminished extent of con flagration alone. Let tiny one compare the rava ges of the fires that take place here, with tl lose tiurt take plate in New-York, and they will sen that we are not wrong in this conjecture. A fire in New-York most generally consumes more than one building, and frequently a large number. In Philadelphia it rarely extends lie-.ond one itouse. The whole Schuylkill is soon brought to bear upon it by means of hose and engines, that it really has no phincc of making head way, even if our firemen were not -o active and skilful as they are Tiie oouteinid.ued work, ii is The Small Pox prevails also in some of •«* Western States. JUDGE- WHITE. The Knoxville (Ten- Register furnishes the following mftnoratah O' the early, history of this eminent individual '• “ Hugh L. White was horn Oct. 50th. Iredell county. N. C. (their Rowan couniytl"^ l l1 about 7r.r 8 years old, his f.ither moved to * N pie creek, Wythe county. V • and lived a few years, from ,hence he moved to the nets borhood of Knoxville Ten. When a mere ^ Hugh I,. White was engaged iu most of ecuCj campaigns against the Cherokee Indians 2°^ was distinguished for his bravery. l:ari!ih , ' 0< ' “ ' ' llmlpr IM bod ft' bad | sagacity in that partizan warfare, j influence of Col. Charles M> (Bung, who rotuly coin’' from Pennsylvania, anil wb ^ j man icil his sister, and observed dccidid eviofo of talent in young It hitc. his ft her was i"" 1 "^ to <S( nd him to Pennsylvania lo finish hi® " 1,1 j tion and study the profession of law. fj e pit ted bisoducatioii at *ome institution iu dolphin, where Congress was then in session.' where be then utt acted the notio-■ dud the friendship of that distinguished repoo" ' ^ Nath a nie!' Macon, of N. C. After totepk* , education in Philadelphia, hr went to Penn, and studied the profession of Mr Hopkins, then o eminent place.” '""."s'.'u'.ui tv"".u wuui" oc "lulling v thought, could be completed iu foil,' jjjion you; bn; bavo expressly stated, that what- { Philadelphia Gazette.