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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! “cabin ktT 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