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but with great difficulty, for it seemed
•a if some ponderous body at the ex
tremity resisted our efforts.
At length the profound stillness
that had hitherto prevailed among us,
was broken by the captain; who look
ed down into the water, and exclaim
ed, ‘Gracious heavens! what have we
here?*
We followed with our eyes the mo
tion of his hand, and saw a large ob-
wrote beneath the
waves, and appearing like a gigantic
corse, wrapped in a white doth, and
bound with cords.
•Now may heaven shield us!* said
the seaman, in a husky voice, ‘it is
the shrouded demon of the sea!*
As he spoke, he drew his knife from
his belt, and in an instant severed
the line. The body turned its white
sides flashing through the dark wa
ters, and, with the rapidity of light
ring, dissrtpneared from our view!
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RTAHR K.V TON, JUNK 28. 1828.
‘l ire govtinimnt nl the U. States
have recently entered into u treaty
with the Western ChrrokeCs. The
eighth artide. is peculiarly interesting
to Georgia— it is as follows :
“The Cherokee Nation, West of
the Mississippi having, by this agree
ment, freed themselves from the ha
rasing and ruinous ••fleets consequent
upon a location, amidst a white popu
lation, and secured to themselves and
their posterity, under the solemn sanc
tion of the guarantee of the U. Stales,
as contained in this agreement, a
large extent of unembarrassed conn
try ; and that their Brothers yet re
maining in the states may be induced
to join them and enjoy the repose and
blessings of such a state in the future,
it is further agreed, on the part of
the U. States, that to each Head of a
Cherokee family now residing within
the Chartered limits of Georgia, or of
either of the States East of the Mis
sissippi, who may desire to remove
\V est, shall be given, on enrolling
himself for emigration, n good Idle, a
Blanket, and Kettle, and five pounds
of Tobacco; (and to each member of
his family one Blanket,) also, a just
compensation for the property he nun
abandon, to he assessed by persons to
b* appointed by the President of the
United States, The cost of the cm
igration of all such shall also be borne
by the United States, and good and
suitable wins opened, and provisions
procured for their comfort, arcoimno
elation, and support, by the way, and
provisions for twelve months after
their arrival at the Agency; and to
each person, or head of a family, if
lie take along with him four persons,
shall he paid immediately on arriving
at the Agency, and reporting himself
and his family, or followers, ns emi
grants ami permanent settlers, in ad
diduii to the above, provided he uml
they shall have emigrated J'rom with- i
in the Chartered limits of the state of
Georgia the sum of Fifty Dollars, and
this sum in proportion to any greater
or less number that may accompany {
him from within the aforesaid Char
tered limits of the State of Georgia.**
RUSSIAN DECLARATION of It Alt.
Tho long-threatened crisis has at
length arrived. The die is 1 ast : and
the Muscovite advances upon the Ot
toman. The Russian declaration of
War is received. Wittgenstein’s ar
my’ crossed the Prutli on the 26th or
27ihof April, and is in full march
towards Constantinople. While the
largo naval armament of Sebastopol
Co-operates on the side of Varna, the
c r ci.-nor .l Puakaviteh. flushed
with its recent triumphs in Persia, is
to advance through the Snutheron
frontier of Turkey. But this is not
the only important operation with
which the war is expected to com
mence. The Russians, it is said, w ill
rro*** the Danube, about the same
time, into Bulgaria, ami push forward
as rapidly as possible, supporting’
their mam army bj a landing near
the Gulf of Verona.
COMMUNICATED.
The first number of The Olive
Branch was issued At Mliedgeville,
on the 17tli inst. The motto of the
paper is
The Dove and Olive Branch, to man
Good tiding-, brought, of Peace on Karth...
So shall these columns bear abroad,
The words of Peace , and reason too.
If the “Poltical signs’* and Edi
torial articles, contained inj'he num
ber before us, are a fair sample of the
manner in which the Inter part of
the motto is to be verified; such Pence
dors not savor of the harmlessness of
the Dove—ami such rrastn is but very
slightly tinctured with the wisdom
of the serpent.
‘l'lie •‘Political signs” contained in
the Extract of a letter from Woods
town, (N. J.) were evidently not
manufactured for this market. The
letter writer says, ‘The vacilating
course persued, by the friends of Gen.
Jackson in Congress on the subject of
the protection of (lime industry, lias,
more than any other cause awakened
the people to a sense of the danger of
his election to the Presidency.—We
are not prepared to be the ‘hewers of
wood and drawers of water, for the
slave holding States.’
We shall continue [says an Editorial
article] to give this kind of iifonna
lion [‘Political signs’] in every paper
we publish, that, at least some of tin
people, in the states of Alabama.
Georgia and South-Carolina, where
I'lie Olive Branch is circulated,
may see that they have been kept in
the dark, on the subject of the Pres
••lnitial question, and that not all their
fellow citizens, arc willing, tbit Gen
oral Jackson should be elevated to
the Prcsidental chair”
“Dark’* indeed must he that intel
lect which cannot, at once, discern
the force of the “reason” furnished
by the “Political Signs” from the
Ncw’-Jersey letter writer, why tin
good folks of Alabama, Georgia and
South-Carolina should not at once
abandon General Jackson.
For the CABINET.
ORTHOEPY , No. 11.
Much improvement has been made
in pronunciation within a few years
past. Since the publication of Web
ster’s Spelling Book and Walker’s
Dictionary, a prosodial error has be^
• ome as grating to the ear, as a syn
taeliral one, in writing, is offensive to
the eye of the acute grammarian.
The pronunciation of many words in
our language is, however, far from be
ing uniform and settled, even among
the best writers on the subject. It is
only those gross departures from ana
logy, and from propriety and long
established usage, that I shall make
the subject of my animadversion,
i Where a word is subject to two or
1 more pronunciations in our standard)
works, and when tlieie seems to boa
difficulty in settling its sound, a spea
ker or reader i* pardonable in adopt
ing either of those pronunciations.
There is an affected, if not pedan
tic, pronunciation of the word guard.
1 In the octavo edition of Mr. Walkers
Dictionary we are furnished with a
beautiful illustration of the true sound
of this word. lie tells us that *a
guard * may he pronounced nearly
like egg yard. The words card am!
cart are sometimes subject to the same
qtiai kisli fate that the above word is
frequently doomed to meet. These
words may, we humbly conceive, he
very properly pronounced kt ard and
ke-art. These remarks may apply,
not only to these words, but to ail
their numerous kindred.
The letter e before r. when it has
its short sound, is often improperly
sounded liken. Thus, the word mer
cy is frequently pronounced mur-cy.
This, though very near, is not the
true sound of the letter ; for the first
syllable of mercy should be sounded
precisely like the first syllable of mer - {
ry, The word vermin is also subject
to a like erronious pronunciation. It
is almost universally pronounced vur
mint by those who have never made
the sound of letters their study. It is
quite clear, agreeable to anology and
the best usage, that tho first syllable
in this word should sound like the first
in very, giving the t its legitimate
sound, and rhyming it with merry,
perry, wherry, Ate. The words error,
and earth are awkwardly pronounced
by many, thus with and ur ror. It
may he remarked that the letter e
coming before r in all such words as
the above, lias generally its only pure
sound.
The letter i succeeded by r, Ac anoth
er consonant not in a final syllabic,lias
tho sound of c short, in such words as
virtue , virgin , pronounced ver-tuc.
ver jin , Acc.—But when it comes be
fore r followed by another consonant
in a final sellable, it takes the sound
of u exactly, as in bird, dirt , shirt, Acc.
The only exceptions to this rule arc
mirth, birth, gird, shirt, girl, wliu l.
and firm ; which are pronounced
inert!), berth and ferm, Acc.
The celebrated David Garrick had
acquired the hahid of pronouncing tl*
word virtue , r ur ine; of which Di
Hill complained in a pamphlet pub
lished against that great actor, whi* h
pamphlet he called a petition from tie
letters i and u, complaining of gr£
grievances. Garrick replied in th>
following laconick lines,
*
If it is, as you say, that I‘ve injured a letter,;’
l‘ll change my note soon, and I hope for tin
belter :
May the light use of letter?, as well as of men,
Hereafter befix‘d by the tongue and the pen.
Most devoutly 1 wish they may both have theii
due,
And that I may be never mistaken for U.
There is another remark which I
wish to make, and tin n I close. It is
respecting the sound affectedly po!it<
people give the letters u and ew
Thus we hear duty pronounced doo-ty;
and verily, we hear of noo affars of
honour; that is. of noo doo-els fought
about BOOTIFC&E YOUNG WO
MEN. Now I have but little objec
tion to the murdering of young noo
dles, but 1 dislike to here of the lelte;
n being butchered, when it seeirts i
lias done nothing worthy of death, bui
is still a useful and respectable cili
zen, though it has been so often spo
ken of in such bad terms.
PHILOLOGUS.
P. S. It is hoped that these remarks
will not he deemed unnccessaiy and
•inapplicable. Let it he remembered,
that although we have an abun
dance of means by which we might
easily obtain a knowledge of these
things, yet the Newspaper has cor
rected errors in orthoepy, as well as
in politicks; and that it is in many in
stances, the most efficient agent in
fashioning the maimers, morals and
customs of human life, P.
For the CABINET.
f THE VESPER, JV o. 11.
THE WEDDING.
But happy they, the happiest of their kind
Whom gentle stars unite, and in one fate,
Their hearts, their fortunes and their being3 blend.
I was sitting in the calm seclusion
of my counting room, on a fine evens
ing in the month of April, enjoying,
in puff grammatic , a fragrant Cygar,
while pondering over the last JTaver
hj, ‘then I was agreeably interrupted
by the entrance of tny friend Edward
N . During the seeson of leisure,
we had frequently beguiled many hap
py hours in mutual relation of events
of by past times, and in recounting
many of the early events of our
youthful and innocent enjoyments,
now alas \ like the distant scenes
where these circumstances occurred,
almost faded from the memory. As
ardent, as sincere, in bis feelings, Ed
ward had ever been an early devotee
to the fair sex; and many pranks had
Cupid played upon bis heart, yet
without rendering it callous to tender
impressions—for the reader will soon
perceive he is to be led a willing cap
tive to the liyuieniai Altar.
On the evening alluded to, I did not
recognize tho quick step and tlirico
repeated knock, as that of Edward.
Expecting it be to a stranger, with
great nonchalence, I bid the visitor
walk in. When the door was opened,
I inet the quick beaming eye of my
friend, darting “ furtive glan cs of
deep meaning,” an unusually animat
ing smile lighted his countenance, at
once betraying he had something
more than ordinary to communicate.
He sat down, rose, walked across the
room; sat and rose again two or three
times, without a word. Seeing his
agitation was that of pleasure, I de
termined not to interrupt it, and
guessing the cause, awaited his own
time. At length he said, I shall be
pleased to 9ee you at on Tuesday
evening. I bow’d essent and he de
parted. I had long been aware that
there was an engagement existing be
tween my friend and Louisa 1.
but to suit some distant business en
gagements of Edward, the time of
consummation had been postponed to
a distant day—apprehensive, however,
that some unfortunate circumstances
otigh occur to delay their nuptials
longer than was first intended, they
had hastily concluded, while Edward
was on the eve of d< part lire, to imme
diately marry and have Louisa ac
company him.
I had long know n Louisa. She was
m orphan and had been educated un
der the superintendence of a maternal
uncle, w ho spared no necessary pains
or expense to give her -such an cduca
ion as is usually bestowed on females
m this section of the count ry—she hud
amply repaid his care. Her disposi
tion was all life,animation and gaiety,
nd in her gentle bosom there was no
guile, nor had nature refused her
share of persona! charms—a mild blue
eye, a cheek on which the rose of
health bloomed in unrivalled splen
dor, a small finely formed mouth,
whose portals shone in coral tints, be
tween which you sometimes might
sec a set of regular teeth, fair and
polished as ivory.
Edward was a native of the lain! of
steady habits, llis father, an indus
trious farmer, one of the earliest set
tlers 0/ she country, had amassed a
considerable property. Appreciating,
very properly, the advantages of a
good education, spared no necessuhy
expense in the education of his son.
At an early age, he placed him at a
celebrated academy, in one of the
eastern states, where he continued
until the period of his fourteenth year,
when he was placed under the can*
of a wealthy and respectable mer
chant of a neighboring village. By
his industrious and active business
habits, he soon acquired the full con
fidence of liis patron; who, in reward
for his faithful services, at the attain
ment of his twenty fust year, inter
ested him in his business and sent him
out to take sole charge of an exten
sive establishment he was about lorat
jing at the south, i became acquaint
ed with Edward, soon after his locat
ing here, and in a few months wa
‘were sincere and ardent friends. His
amiable disposition and manly cha
racter soon drew around him a circle
of fond friends, among whom w-as
Mr. Miilford, the uncle of Louisa,
through whose friendship he became
acquainted with her, and finally
sought, from her gentle bosom, a con
fession of mutual love. I have never
known two dispositions more conge
nial, and if, as *tis said, there ever
were two hearts formed for each,
then fate seems thus to have united
this happy pair.
The auspicious evening, at length
came, which was to unite my friend
and the fair Louisa in the holy bond
of matrimony. As soon as the shade of
Ixvilight grey spread its mantle over
the village, 1 called for a fair friend,
whom, in the spirit of true gallantry,
I conducted to the Wedding. We were
ushered by our host, the uncle of Lou
isa, in person, into a splendid draw
ing room, festooned with vines of ev
ergreen and brilliantly lighted with