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t ’ leave— iiixj tlmt gentleman txprcsspd but the'
sincere dictates of lii* heart in saying iic was *or
rv.
. -Then, sir." said Manuel -since I have gained
the esteem of an equally respected master, 1 '.'ill
i entnre to ash a slight favor.”
-Shim- it—-it -hall be yours." -
• It is. that \ o it will take into your service, in my j
ji’ace a destitute friend—one that has .-••- n better
<1;; but is now willing to accept of ..a humble
tie -- .ip..ti >:i forth “iko of a hvelihoo I."
‘•To grant so simple a request as you have
it uni !, "votild si .ii-idv lie eon feting •» favour—at
any rate but. a slight one.” i
-It is aM 1: sir,—all that I wish.
*- r t i. g-.an: <l.** said Mr. West. “Is there
n g> !> tint 1 can Jo lor you?”
■•Niching— 1 thar.lv vof:. You have beefi fo'
jfi? a hi. .Ha.-ter, and 1 shall ever rcmctubeV you,
se - , with gratitude.”
• \\ h at do you leave?” !
"To morrow evening at dusk.,*
"Wiiat is rlie name of your friend?”
"Thomas Clark.”
"Well-—send him as soon as you pleftse—and
it he only proves as faithful a servant as you have
b ‘el*, J shall have no reasoh to complain.”
Accordingly, the next morning Manuel brought
inffi the parlour, where fiis master whs sitting, a
stranger whotn he introduced bv the name o(
Clark.
“The person you were speaking,of,” said Mr.
West, laying aside the hook he had been read
ing.
••Yes, sir—the same.”
"He is welcome. Sit down, s.r.” turning so
Mamie], he said, "*o—-you are finally resolved to
leave us ?”
••Yes, sir,—fo night. But, you will find Mr.
< lark as capable for your service as 1 was.”—So
saving, he turned towards the door, and subse
(ju at !i> bidiiing lt’.j master and Clark (brewed,
ueut up stairs for his trunk, vYc.and lifft the lnan
sion. ~
A week passed and Clark acquitted himself very
plausibly iu’his iv-w situation. As Manuel had
predicted, he was every way capable. He had
i migrated to this country from England, he said
n answer to a question put to him by Mr. West,
v. ho was under the impression that lie had seen
him before. 1 1“ even thought ; lic face was fantil
i.»v, liut . ltii,,. fn jipici-!,••»» lie. eoiild not reedfei-i
Weeks went bv—months a year and
rriontliw altogether—which brings us ti]i to tile'
late of October, 1031—Clark still feihaiwd in
the service of Mr. West, and, like his predeces
sor Iqul mgnagcAto gain flic entire confidence of
the man hr served. The little Julia was still her!
father's j>et, —quick at nor lessons—lively-amia
ble—and !u*r beauty increased with her years.—
ML. West continued unheard of, and her bus
-1 and had resigned himself to the thought of never
beholding her again, thinking of her often to be
sure, but finding a source of consolation in the
daily augmentation of his daughters increasing at
-truition:-.
Cold weather ha 3 now set in, unusually early,
,and the inmates of the. mansion were mostly eon
,'dued to the shelter of its roof. The sun seldom
i 1 1:! tv cued the scene with his rays, while the chill |
northern winds,-as they sighed through the woods, J
s • itt -rcd over the ground the last yellow leave*
■ f autumn 1 , anil at intervals a momentary fall
' i now flitted by, whilst the blast that followed it
oef-iketied the sure approach of winter u r .d storm.
< hie intensely cold night, the stars iv'ztc shining,
b it no moon, and after twelve o'clock, the (mures
of two men were indistinctly visible, standing un
der the piazza, in front of Mv. West’s mansTqn—
' me of them was enveloped in a large throw-over
cloak and a cap of dark cloth was slouched over
s brows, eilectually concealing the features of
i.me. The other was bareheaded, with his
'■Had upon the latch of the door, apparently just
riacn from his bed, and evidently in a hurry to
get the visiter of.
“>o—he loves the child, does he ?” said the
first, in return to something the other had ad
v meed.
es—he doats upon it—and in liis fondness
for it has forgotten his grief for the mother.” re
el i< <1 the latter. “This must, not he, for while lie
If is he must he wretched! The child must he
t' ten from him, To which the one wrapped in
s h“ cloak answered that lie would willingly under
take to carry it off. ,
"No,” exclaimed his companion— u that will not
answer—it must die 1”
"Jlie!”
“Yes—-it must die!” he r p ated, in a posi
tive tone, whilst the glare of a demon shot from
bis eyes, silently, but forcibly betraying tile wor
king of the fiend within. "It must die—before
ils father's eyes it must;—-and you must procure
toe the poison. An ounce of arsenic will do
here’s the money to buy it. Bring it out to-mor
row night, and J will meet you here at the same
hour.”
“What shrill I have fordoing this?”
“Fitly dollars - ?
••Enough-good night.”
They parted-—the one went in, fastening the
door after Jiiin, whilst the other, slinging around
his shoulders the folds of his cloak, commenced
his way back to the city, a distance of four miles
from Mr. West's anam inn. “This is a dangerous
a fair,” he muttered to himself as he walked on—
“hut chance has already saved me from the rral
-1 tv,s—it mav do so again. But whether it does
or not, 'tis only chance in the end, anil a man can't
dr but once ! so sooner or later, what’s the odds.”
„At the same hour on the following n'urlit thev
«.n■: again. “Here’s the arsenic,” said the one
muftlst} 'hi his cloak, handing a small paper in
w bicTi fbc pc Ison was wrapped.
"And her.e's the fifty dollars,” rejoined the
other, receiving the drug, and at the same time
giving the speeded amount. . Butting the arsenic
into liis pocket, “I’ve a proposal to make,” he
continued.
“A proposal what J’ 1
“’Tis this. If you will now return to your na
tive land-.-neverto quit it— l will add four hundred
and fifty dollars more to the su m J have already
given you.—-What do you savl”
“Agreed!!,
“Alind! you solemnly swear, by your religion,
never so return ?”
.“By the Cross—never!”
•“ Vti-l you will start from the United States w ithin
•fru dnvs after this, date ?”
•/I will.”
“Then here’s the money—-and, besides, you
have uij tj;anks for the services you have ren
d red me. There—shake hands. Go not to the
gambling table, I charge yon, but hasten your de
parture for S in. Farewell.”
They separated, and, doubtless, the render has
already perceived that the dramatis personw of.
this interview, at well as of the night preceding,
Vj"¥* Thomas Ciarit a*v! his abetter Garcia. After
they separated, the former retired to bed and the
other hastened to the city—with a light heart and
five hundred dollars in his pocket—to gamble
with. . .... ......
It was Clark's intention to efiect his wicked
purpose immediately; and as early as the next
morning he watched for an opportunity to mix the
poison with the child’s breakfast-—hut one tiling
after another, repeatedly, for a whole month, con
spired to battle him. In the mean time, bis in
tended victim, blooming with health and beauty
laughed m the glee of her youthful spirits, and
danced to the jovotts tnusic of her exhilerating
hopes—little, little dreaming of the brink on which
she sported and the dark gulf yawning beneath.
“’1 here’s a person out doors wishes to sec you,”
were the words of a fellow servant, speaking to
Clark, one night kfter ten O’clock, as the house
hold were about retiring to rest. Clark was sur
prised at the circumstance, and putting on his hat
hurried to the place mentioned. Upon reaching
the spot, what was his astonishment to behold
Manuel again ' “What you here !” he angrily c\
claimed. "What do you want ?” he gvtmly con
tinued.
“Money!” was the equally gruff response.
“Money ! for what ? I gave you plenty—and Its
much as 1 owed you, and more.”
"Two hundred dollars is what I want,” said
Garcia doggedly.
Clark clenched his forth with rage, perceiving
at once, that the stun he had already given to the
Spaniard was Squandered, < !! *d that by the means
of intimidation lie expected to wrench more from
him. "Two hundred dollars! why I gave you
five hundred not more than a month agb. Hid 1
not ? and did you riot promise me then that you
would leave the country.”
"Poh! I want the money—and I hiust have
it?”
/Mt«t?”
“Ay—must! Take your choice—give me the
sum I ask or be exposed. One or the other
quick.” But before he could finish the sentence
lie was knocked down. Clark, who was a strong
man, and whose passions were excited, struck a
blow into his face, which tolled him to the earth.
The blood gushed profusely from liis nostrils,
and he was more or less stunned by the full, but
managed to recover his feet again—and, aware of
liis inferiority in strength to his opponent, he
slunk off—Mlitt'cfhjg between liis teeth. Hot loud,
but fearfully deep, “revenge.”
Clark, with a contemptuous faugh, gave a turn
upon his heel'aiul walked back to the mansion.
“ Yes—l will have ample vengeance,” mutttw c j
Garcia, wiping the blood from his face "Tath a
pocket handkerchief as he spoke. “i J e rrvck
me—like a dog—but he ‘shall pay for ' lt r»» he
walked on he Continued mutterie , r p,j s threats,
whilst his bosom was in tlanies a', p wclo fired w ith
indignation at the injury i»f., ctc d upon him and
the insult given.
This occurred on V ri j a y n^iJtv About noon
on the following d\y Mr. West’s If tile daughter
was suddenly ta' k(MI s j, k v anil before twelve hours
was a corps'..._d v j lt g violent convulsions—
poisoned. 7o he Concluded*
From thy London Court Journal..
M nkjng an, oiler, or, as it is vulgarly termed,
“popping the question,” is the most embarrass
ing at lair in the world to a novice; like almost
everything else, however it may be reduced to the
rules ofau art, and by those- who once master
the theory, practised with perfect facility.. Our
grandfathers, to be sure,, made great fuss abon,t
the matter; and it often puzzles quo to think
how the Sir Charles Grand.isons and Lord. Morti
mermanaged to keep up such tremendous scene,
w ith their lady loves. Just fancy a man of the
, present day in tlie act of pouring out. liis heart on
one knee during a morning call or being disturbed
by the servant entering the coal-scuttle, bringing
’ him up all standing, and petrifying liis half-utter
ed heroics in the midst, like the notes that were
frozen suddenly in Munchausen’s bugle. The
catastrophe is dreadful to think of; and yet it is
just as bad in the evening, whether at home or the
ball room. In the first locality what in the world
can one do in the way of getting up a scene in the
presence of the whqjc family ? And as. to the
second one is now so crowded, squeezed, and
pushed about in a ball room, that a sentimental
conversation is out of the question. You might,
to he sure, have a chance for a tete-a-tete now and
theij in a corner, anil if you do occasionally spntch
a moment’s “sweet converse” hy laying in wait
between the folding doors, the whole matter is
marred by the music being stationed in the same
place. If you whisper to Eliza in “Love’s own
tone,” AVeippart, and his coadjutors, will drown
your words, and if you raise your voice a key or
two higher, you pitch it right into the ear ot her
sister Alice, or some other spinster, who has sta
te -'cd herself exactly against that pillar to catch
every syllable you don’t mean her to hear. It is
manifestly absurd, therefore to attempt giving ei
ther the flourish and cel at to an offer with which
our ancestors ushered it into the world, or even
the air of demi-romance and drawing-room sen
timent that aur papas preserved in their affaires
dc cm. The tiling must be managed in a care
less, matter-of-course way, with a little adroitness,
but still with the coolness and unconcern of other
business operations.
Tin* golden rule oflife is not to bore. But to
I)ore a woman with attention, and above all, to
bore her with an offer—to throw your offer into
such a shape as to excite her concern for you, or
give her one moment’s serious annoyance, is an
outrage which, if exposed, would make you lose
caste forever.—There are no instances oti record,
however, of such things having occurred, w heth
er from the sang-froid of lovers, or the crcur-froid
of lovees, we are unable to say; but as there mav
be a few of the former in society whom passion
might lmrry r into extravagance, and one or two of
the latter w hose hearts would for five minutes be
rutiled thereby, it is well that in all cases tlje most
guarded conduct should he observed, and the
question should therefore be administered
'vjtli the same consideration for the possible ex
istence of -feeling as you allow for the ascertained
existence of a palate when drenching children
with medicine. To this end, as you conceal the
dose in sweetmeats, so you should wrap your
offer in some expression that may be swallowed
at a mouthful. One gulp, then, and all is over:
there may be a wry face or. two, on your own side,
possibly, after the draught, as if yoUjhad swallow
ed it yourself, but neither party must coquet with
the cup before it is placed to the lips. The sim
plest syrup makes the best vehicle for the unpal
atable drug in the one case, and the most trivial
incident most aptly introduces and hurries over
the awful moment in the other; and, to sum up
the matter hi one word, the offer direct, must nev
er be attempted if there be. any way of making
the offer /> / 'implication. In our next we shall
show how this may be managed.
T HE GEORGIA MIRROR.
3)0303X10*
From the Southern Recorder.
E x ecuti v e Hep a rtme kt,
jfd'llrdgctille, 30 th Jlfcj, 1038. _
Sir :—T enclose to you my answer to the Scc
retiry of War, upon the subject ot his proposals
to John Ross, and late instructions to Gen. Scott.
Ail here concur in the opinion that these pro
ceedings of the Government are a violation ot the
rights of the State, and calculated to produce the
host extensive evils to the Cherokee country. k
Permit me to request, that the delegation in
Congress from this State, will unite in ascertain
ijg from the President whether it is his intention
te continue the present delay in removing the
Cherokees by the troops under Gen. Seott, tor
tli? purpose of effecting that object by contracts
tobe made with the agents of Ross and his friends,
oi for any other purpose ? and whether it is liis
mention to maintain the Indians by force upon
the soil of Georgia, in opposition to the will of the
State and the rights of its citizens to whom the
lands have been granted ? And that you com
municate to me his determination.
Very respectfully, yours, Arc.
GEORGE It. GILMER.
To the Georgia Delegation.
Executive Detartmf.nt. ?
Milled Seville, l)*Jth May, 1830* $
To the lion. Win. C. Dawson :
Sir :—I send you a letter addressed to the own
ers of the land occupied bv the Indians in the
Cherokee Country, immediately before they had
acquired bv the law, the right to take possession.
1 confidently believe that the most of then* would
have pursued the course recommended. The ve
ry best feeling prevailed every where.—The a
l inus and distrust w hich had existed some tints 1
ago, had subsided. This has proceeded, in a £>-<?at
degree, from the incessant exertion vhh’ a
been used, to prevent any violation of T ue rights
oftlie Indians, and the assurar- - es given to tlee
people, that tlie Government vVyrnld remove tj.e
Indians as soon as possible, a; l(( | ; V (y ( ,nl every one
protection against violent*. I,> (Rimer aud Uu-.
ion counties, where th'’, India es are twice as »n
--merous as tlie white',, the people were,two weeks
ago, perfectly and travelling as safe as any
where. B»' [or a lingering expectation that Ross
vvou’.d he i,i,\o to retain their country for them, it
is Coi-Ydently believed that a great proportion of
W*'j Cherftkees would have been now preparing to
remove. - So confident were the people, that no
difficulty or violence would occur in the removal,
that they were indicating a dispositon to complain
against the Government for sending so many t roops
among them. No one has ever felt more satisfac
tion than 1 have done at the result of my labors
for the Inst six months. No violence ot any kind
had occurred between the Whites, and Indians
when Gen. Scott took command. I had suffered
great anxiety whilst the troops were in prepara
tion-. Difficulties, seemed to be over. No one
wjio has not labored as 1 have to save the-lives
and prqvent the suffering of a. whole community!
cau understand the deep, mortification I have felt,
in knowing that the happy results of all my exer-
tions must certainly be destroyed by the late pro
ceedings of the President’. Ourpcoplie have been
so hnrrassed for a long time by 1 ndiandisturbances,
alarms, and waits, that they wiH not bear it longer
than the troMy required them. To ask them to.J
suffer Hoss and bis.friends to remain among their,
for two years longer, with, the knowledge that! * v *
cry citksen of the Cherokee corihtry has thivf the
Indians would have been contented at thfj* ome
in line West long before tliis, but for exertions
of Ross and - his friends, iff utterly itlSk.. When I
proposed to the Secretary of War ar ~| John: Ross
two months ago, that Ross shoi'jj remove his
people voluntarily before the t hu“ arrived for their
rcinoval by the army, tjponi a large compensation
to be allowed him by the Government, I received
a direct refusal from Roes, and my letter to the
Secretary of War, was not honored with an an
swer. That the Secretary now, when the Gov
ernment lilts no power over the treaty, except to
. enforce it, should propose to reward Ross for de
nouncing the Government as dishonest at faith
less, by possession of the lands the peopl e gran
ted them byt he State, is indeed an act ofdislionostv
and faithlessness. The President will not be per
mitted to sell the rights of the people of Georgia,
to buy votes elsewhere. The people will see to
that if the public authorities do not.
If my health permits, arid the President deter
mines that lie will maintain the Indians in their
occupancy oftlie State, l shall proceed to the
Cherokee Country, and try whether the rights of
the State arc to-he trampled upon, or violated by
military force. We have two thousand men in
the field, under Gen. Floyd—not one of whom
will obey anv order to set at defiance the sovereign
ty of the State. If the United States troops shall
attempt to resist our laws, they will be required to
leave the State, and our troops be withdrawn from
tlie United States service. The requisition under
which they went into service was to remove the
Cherokees, not to maintain them upon our soil.
The Government may yet stop in its work of un
mixed mischief. The Indians can be removed
by the United States Government and the troops
now assembled, with more ease, and less suffering,
than by the State, and I shall continue to insist
upon its proceeding to remove them at once. If
the President refuses, the consequences must be
upon his head.
Far the purpose of giving you as-much inform
ation as I readily can, as to th» course taken by the
State and General Government, in removing the
Chcrokees, I forward you the enclosed copies of
papers.
The requisition of Gen. Scott for troops from
this State. My order for raising them, and the
special commissions given to the officers, show
the* troops arc only authorized to remove the
Indians and protect the ccople-
The letters to the owners of the lands occu
pied by the Indians, to Gen’s Scott and Floyd,
show the rights of the people, and at the same
time the exertions w hich have been made to pre
vent any collision between them and the Indians,
and the general state of peace, and the confi
dence that the Indians w uld, with prudence, be
removed without difficulty.
The proclamat ion of the Kith March,'will show
the anxiety with which I have protected the rights
of the Indians.
Ihe address of Gen. Scott to the Cherokecs,
shows what his original instructions were. He
says he has no right to grant them further delay,
and that within one month, every man, woman
and child, must he moving from the country.
My letters to the Secretary of War and Ross,
show that more than two months before the arri
val of the time for the removal of Indians, by force,
I proposed that Ross, should before that time,re
move them voluntarily. Ross’answer shows for
itself. None was received from Mr. Poinsett.
I send you the late instructions to Gen. Scott, \
which shew that the President is proceeding with
out the consent of the States or Congress, to stop
the removal oftlie Indians by the troops, and to
rely upon contracts with Ress’s friends; and the
intention oftlie President to make the owners of
the lauds in this State, depend upon General Scott
for possession.
In my letter oftlie 30th November, I reques
ted Air. Poinsett to put an end to his correspon
dence with Ross. In his reply of the 9th Decem
ber, he says it was continued with the hope ot
inducing Ross to aid in the peaceable removal of
the Indians; but when satisfied that this could
not be done, he would inform me of it. In liis
letter of the 16th December he writes, that in con
formity with that promise, liis correspondence
with Ross was at an end.
Several communications have been received
this morning from the Cherokee country.
A state of quiet prevails every where. I send
you an extract of Dr, Hamilton’s letter. I can
not but hope that the friends of humanity will in
duct the Government to retiacc its steps.
Very respectfully, yours, Arc.
GEORGE R, GILMER.
MiUcdgerille, June 2d, 1838.
To liis Excellency, G. It. GILMER :
Sir:—Haviug just arrived from the scene of
operations in the CherokFe country, 1 avail my
sldf of the honor of communicating to your Ex
cellency. the movements of my Chief,
wUhut the limits of Georgia. Upon the - 2Hh u!t.
he placed tile Volunteers under tlie eommae’d o!
Gem Floyd, in position ; and on the 25th eom
roeneedoperations, Gen. Floyd, in person, com
nuuidtni the first detachment that operated. The
j*T>;ri.ptnes.s and ability of his movement, gave to
the commanding General the highest e itisinction,
while it present and to the balance of the command,
the most salutary example.
*Flie number of prisoners on Tuesday last, was
about 3090; and by this time, 1 do not think
there is’a wandering Indian Luthe Cherokee coiin-
Trv, within the limits ot Georgia. '1 he captures
were made with the utmost kindness and Immun
ity,'and tree from every stain of violence.
The deportment of our Georgia citizens, resi
dent in the Cherokee counties, has been marked
bv a forbearance and kindness towards the In
dians. that must win lor them tlie admiration oi
every philanthropist. Penult me to conclude
with the congratulation of our rights being so
promptly and peacefully secured.
With the highest regard,
A. IT. KENAN.
Volunteer A id-de-camp to (Jen. f
cott.
A LETTER FROM JOHN F'
South L’.c, Berkshire Countv. M ~ , '
uissactmsetts..
My Frinkd—While 1- . May 7, £BB6.
I received vour kind lottw u 111 j p ". or "
. . * * 4 ol tlie &mi. iritiiHO ui
answer to mine, tor , r . . , ,
ed to you. It was .r | “ ch - crrutl - v ,
irigton, in order .r . J desire to have visited Wash
interview with- ' hav °, tl, . e l ,,easure a p^simal
the great lnd‘ - ,ou ’ antl also ' t9 s * e jfle result ot
in the i.-C' * lm novv * n a course of discussion
retirm r -lfc; *’ tu I^lC period I have set a part to
biv j.' J ,u y country fs the fust of June, and 1
■ "i, out a short time-to. spend, among my wife’s
, “ .uions.
I did not write as fidiy as the interesting subject of
the (’llerokeo removal, and the natureoftlie eoun
try demanded, as I then believeil l shoold von.
Now - you wilt allow rue to relate mv opinion of
ourco-untry iu the west,, and dje situalLon, of oui;
people..
I'ite - treaty is so liberar] in its provisions for tlie
! comfortable removal of the Cherokees, that I liave
j heard no complaints on: that heady but the highest
satisfaction. Those - w ho-went by. water i-n- steam
boats in the- spring «t tlie yeiur passed! with so
much despatch, that most of them plnntedl corn Jt
' raised-considerableerops-. Yom know that good
andexemplary Christian,. Mr. Charles Moore. He-
J said that be planted in die month .Juue,. anui
1 raised a greater crop of beans, pumpkins, audeoru - ,
than he ever did in Georgia under the most favor
able circumstances. He said that “the land tu
tlie AVcst was so rich that lie could “ compare-i t
to nothing else than a fattened hog, which
was so fat that he could not get up.” I have
travelled extensively in that country—once, from
my residence, near the corner of Missouri and
Arkansas, to Fort Smith, through Flint district,
where I had the pleasure of beholding fine springs
of water, excellent farms, and comfortable houses,
and mills, and mission schools, belonging t» the
Cherokees, and every evidence of prosperity and
happiness was to be seen among the Cherokees
as a people. I saw a number who had previously
arvived, and who arrived sinee I had, and I heard
but one sentiment—that they were happy and
contented in their new country. Indeed, the
soil is so exceedingly rich and well timbered, and
the navigation of the Arkansas river affords them
superior commercial advantages to what they
enjoyed in tlie East,. 1 joked with the people
and asked them if they would return to Georgia,
even if they could be reestablished in their ancient,
rights and location in that country ? They invari
ably said, no, by no means ! " Nothing would
induce them to return. But they sincerely
wished that the eyes of their countrymen might
be openad, and break from the delusions of John
Ross anil Ins political tools, and escape to this
good land. I think in (bis direction 1 travelled
over eightv-eight milesof the nation in a straight
line. After this, I visited the newly acquired
land, called neutral, which was added to our
country West by the treaty of Now Echofa I
rode over it about two days! and I there found
Mr. Joseph Rogers, our Cherokee friend from
the Chattahoochy, pleasantly situated in the finest
reg'on of country l cverbeheld on any land in die
United States. The streams here, of all sizes
from the river to the brooks, run swiftly over
clear stones and pebbles, and the water is clear as
crystal, in which excellent fish abound in vast
numbers. The soil is diversified, from the best
prairie lands to the best bottom lands in vast
tracts Never did l see a better location for
settlements, and better springs in the world. God
has thrown his favors here with a broad cast. In
this region are numerous mills, and it is of itself
capable of supporting a larger population than
the whole Cherokee nation. On niv return, I
travelled towards Fort Gibson, seventv-five miles
in another direction, and I found the richness of
the soil and natural advantages far superior to any
other country in my travels. In this trip, 1 visited
Parkhill mission, where the Rev. Mr. Worcester
and Air. Boudinot are located and are engaged in
the translation and publication of useful rel i gious
books in the Cherokee language, and also Choctaw
books prepared by the Choctaw missionaries.
But what pleased me more, and which was anew
thing here, in this country, those gentlemen had
published a C hristiaa Almanac in Cherokee
and English, calculated for the meridian of Port
Gibson! I fonud this extensively in circulation
among the Cherokees; and, in fact, 1 was pleased
to find religous tracts, in the Indian language, on
the shelves of fullhlooded Cherokees, and every
one knew and seemed to love the “ messenger,” as
they call Mr. Worcester. 1 very often met with
new emigrants from the Eastern nation, either
arriving, or s« tiling the country, or on their way
to Fort Gibson, to draw the balance of their dues
for their lands and improvements. These neid
comers were formcily of opposite parties in the
old natiou; there was no disposition to quarrel)
but every disposition manifested to rultivate
friendship, and rejoice together iu the possession
oi this country.
Iliad tlie pleasure of being introduced to
General Arbuckie, commanding at Fort Gibson,
and 1 found him to be an excellent man, of fine
personal appearance, and intelligence. He in
formed me tii.it the country next to the Osages,
on the Verdigris, was best in the country, and
was yet unsettled; so you perceive that l am
greatly pleased with our new country. Most all
the iutctiiiiei.t men of our nation, our supreme
judges, our slieri.i’s, our marshal, our legislators,
and our national treasurer, arc you are aware,
already removed; and all are engaged in the
building ofbouses and the opening of farms. Ma
ny oftlie Charm- - cos Lave turned their attention to
merchandising, and some have supplied them
selves with goods from New Orleans and New
York, besides other places more convenient to
the nation.
Many of the Christian Cherokees are engarudin
the organization of schools and temperance so*rie.
ties, and there is no danger, as some supposed, tl
thc Cherokees would indulge s > much ir ,;, t
chase as to reirogre.de from eivilizariop • the
1 have also »he pleasure of informing • -Aml
the utmost friendship and tranquility > 01 A that
tween the Indians and the citizens prevails be-
States, not only those who Itv ol the Unwed:
stations, but thereof your cif 5 Ja t the military
Missouri and Arkansas, ne? .zeiis win reside in
In th: best state of frier ‘ the Cherokee nation,
together ou both sidk .dshiy* they, visit and trade
advantage. In aJ ,sos the line, to their mutual
saline splint's,* -litiotjito tliis, we have excellent*
1 was told J ' • herejmlt is made by the Cherokees
to work ©* ndge ACutin was about to connnenee
health ." u °* rfiese-salines,, hi regard to the
siua r c * tho: country, 1 find dint it. isgood on tlie
w i watoucourses, and! it is only on the larger
atercowrses that the fiver mid, ague prevails,
among new settlers. But it issoaie wiiat singular,,
whenever a Cherokee ;«riv,es in, the eoiuilrv*
wlyuever tli.it iiudLii b(% lie cannot be induced t<y
change his location for a better. He will say that.
■ there is either no better, or that his placets as good
’ as he wants it (o be..
If the People oftlie United .States could only,
seeour condition in the West, they would no
longer assist John Ross to delude tlie poor, ignor
ant portion of aur people to remain in the East
while lie can speculate on their miseries.
The Cherokee Government in the West ik very
nmeli like it was in the old'nation before it was.
suppressed by the States. They have Executive,
Legislature, and a Judiciary, and trial by
junj..
Seaate entertain.such magnauimous views towards
fins well-being ofthe Indians in future. R(,mv
eilas they are from State jurk-dietion and conflict,
wdth the rich advantages of Christianity and civ.il
iratiV.n, the t hoctawsi Cherokees, Chickasaws.
Creek ~ and othcruations, are destined tn heroine
a. mighty an ! a happy people in the West., I
am truly plensed to find that one ueiglilmr, Sena
tor Sevier* stands by your side in t his grout under*,
taking. That was a happy thought of his in call
ing the Indian. Territory ".Y msho." It means,
in tlie Osage,.language the" Clear Waters .”
I. should, lie glad to receive the documents con
nected. wirii, that bill,, and ail.the important speech
es upon the-subject.
W LiJ« I was in Aew \ « iff, ] fottrdjtl at the ie!i
jgious: community were entirely bewildered by
;.rob»i Roes, imit the party slang of their papers.
, fnstcmf of iewing the hi to- treaty as a blessing
to the Cherokees* and as a mode of relief to the
( su tie ring t herokees, they considered it the source
i ofall their afflictions. I attempted to explain John
Ross’s position in the papers; and many of them
are convinced that the- treaty and its friends
arem the right : but agreat many are stiff bewil
dered. They heheve that John, Russ is the nation;
and, could he succeed to, break, the treaty, tho
whole of the Southern States would retire ‘ from
their j urisdic t i’onat charters.
I sometimes feel afraid that alt is not riabt in
these editors of newspapers. It would seem that
they would be wdling to have the Indians resist
and shed blood, and produce a Florida scene, i«
order to render their Government odious. They
seem to be pleased to have money expended ta
suppress Indian hostilities, and then blame the
Government for the expenses. They well know
that the Indians cannot exist in the’States; and
all they can possibly accomplish by their memo
rials is, to assist John Ross to effect a treaty, the
character of which is buried deep in his breast.
They all know that in tlie East the Cherokees
have had no Government, and have had no dec
lions for nine ycais past; and yet John Rossis, in
t heir est imation, a constitutional chief over alitho
( nei nkees ; and if the President refuses to recog
nise this preposterous claim, and determines to
see that all the Cherokees shall share alike from
the avails of their land, then they proclaim him
a monster, aud John Ross the Cherokee Chris
tian.
1 shall remain here to the Ist of June . and I
will be obliged to you for another letter before I
start for the West. lam your friend.
_ w ' JOHN RIDGE.
Gov-. Wilson Lumpkin.
The terms of seventeen United States Senators
expire on the fourth of March next, viz •—Messrs.
M Kean of Pensylvania, Webster of Massachu
setts, Swift of Vermont, Robbins of Rhode
Island, Southard of New Jersey, Bayard, of| Dela
ware, Merrick Maryland, Rives, of Virginia, Tall
i madge ofNcw York, Norvell of Michigan, Benton
,of Missouri, Tipton of Indiana, Shcply of Maine.
Niles of Connecticut, Trotter of Mississippi,
Grundy Tennessee, and Morris of Ohio-
AV lug, 6 ; Conservatives, 3 : Van Buren men, 9*
Large Snake. —A Rattle-Snake measuring e
leven feet, four inches in length, was a few days
ago killed on the farm of Col. B. Kirkland in Hen
ry county. We have been promised the skin of
this unusually large snake, which when received,
we shall hang up in the Herald Office for the ex
amination of our friends. With a few more such
contributions, who knows but that we may estab
lish a Musucm ?— lricinton Herald.