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enacted by the council la protect and lo regulate the conduct of the people. There is a National Academy n contemplation Some Cherokee gentlemen have already sub-cribed one thousand dollars to aid in erecting the necessary buildings. There will also be a National Library at New Town, the Metropolis of the nation. In different parts of the nation numerous Cher okees have embraced the Christian reli gion. I usually preach in the sweet lan guage of Cherokee. I lately passed through Creek Path, and visited the grave of my fond sister Catha who is now I hope in the peacefnl kingdom of Christ. I shall remaio a considerable time at Creek Path, where I shall expect to receive a letter from you. The Lord our Saviour remain and abide with you forever. Yours very respectfully* DAVID BROWN. From the Western Luminary. LETTER FROM A FEMALE MISSION ARY. The following unaffected letter from Miss Fan ny GoodriJge, formerly of Lexington, Ky. will be read with interest by the friends of iijissions. She is a missionary teacher, at a station in the North West, among the American Indians, under tbe care ofthe Baptist Church.—Zion’s Herald. “Carey. St. Josephs. Jan 19, 1 32j Dear Brother and Sister —When 1 last wrote to you, the good work of God had just commenced io our mission family. I am rejoiced to tell you that it still contin ues. Never did I see the power of God so conspicuously displayed in any former revi val of religion, as it has been of late in this family. To hear the Indian children re late (he exercise* of a true penitent, (some of whom could oot speak English at all, acd others but very imperfectly) to bear them tell what bad hearts they had, what great sinners they had been—that they were afraid to shut their eyes in sleep, lest they should awake in the had place; and then hear them say they bad lost their borden of sin and guilt—to hear them tell how pre cious Christ appeared to them, that they j hoped he had pardoned their sins, has been j truly affecting and comforting. The small; children are seriously concerned. Some we hope have experienced a change of’ heart, who have not yet been baptized. ; Ten were baptized in six days, viz. the j Black Smith, an old man, German who as j sjgM in the work of the kitchen—(he has! been brought up as ignorantly as the poor’ Indians, who roam the forests; he gave a , very great and satisfactory evidence of a work of grace)—B of the Indian children, I the eldest 20years old, the youngest II I think it would be pleasing to you to bear the exercises of one or more of the children io their own words. The following is a lit ernl specimen. “When you baptize Mr. French, then I think I was very barf too—l thought i wool.) qnit every thing that is baj, and sometimes 1 forget it. Then ibe very sorry, then I think I will be good, and I come lo where the boys play, and ay something bad, and I do bad too. Sometimes it seems like some body speaks to me, and say, never mind, you need not be good now, it will do by and by. Sometimes t feel sorry, and I try to j pray ; and can’t pray ; and I get down on i knees to pray, and then I feel ashamed, j and can’t pray; my heart seem very bad, Dd I thought nobody so bad as me; and it seem like i see all my wickedness, and it all come upon me, and I feel like I was sinking down to the bad place. Last Fri day I vvas in the kitchen; I feel bad, and I go out in the night and stand by myself a long time, and 1 feel so sorry for my sins, and it seem like they all cooie on me; there l try tops ay; and can’t pray ; then just say in my heart, Lord take pity on me, aod it seem like he did not hear me, and would oot forgive me. I stay there a long time and crv. Then- after that, while I stand there, the heavy was all gone and 1 feel light. Then Igo in the school-house to prayer, and when they sing, it seems like i never heard that before ; my heart feel f very glad. I don’t feel happy all the time ; Sometimes all seem dark. To day I feel very well. “Do you love God my son?” “ I don't know, 1 ought to love him, but I am so wicked ! cannot love him as I want to.” Have you thoughts about Jesus Christ ? “ Yes sir.” What did he come in to the world for? “To keep ns from going to hell—to save us poor lost sinners.” The above account is written as neatly in hi own words and style as possible. The children, instead of spending their ■evenings in play, read the Scriptures, sing and pray. Some of the neighbouring In dians are serious. O that the good work might spread among the poor Indians ; that this wilderness in a spiritual sense might bnd and blossom like the rose. Surely the set time o favour Zion is come ! Never did I realize so sensibly the blessings of a revi val. May we be enabled to praise the Lord for his goodness and his wonderful Works to the children of men! LETTER FROM THE EAST. A letter from the Rev. Mr. Goodell, writ ten from Bey rout at the foot of Mooot Le hanon, on the 25th of last August, is pub lished in (he Boston Recorder and Tele graph. Mr G. had established a school at that place, consisting of 38 scholars ; and the number was incresing. A prutestant miniver instructing a large school among the Turks and Cutholicks in Palestine! Mr. Goodell says, “ Me-srs. Fi-k and King spem six weeks with as (himself an 4 Mr. Bird) in the spring.—They are now gone down to Damascus —from there will go to Allep pc,—will ibeo return here and pepare for another winter’s campaign at Jerusalem. If yon hear (hat we are in prison you must not be troubled ; but pray the more for u, and send out additional lahbrera. Twenty ■four - •Spanish prieSts, ■with tixty thousand Spanish dollars , have just come to oppose tuJ It poor Spain can and” all this to increase darkness, how much ooght America to do to diffuse the light!” He says God has dealt with them in mercy since they left America. He has led them in a way that they knew not, but it has been a good way. Their privation** and frarj ari* forgotten when they think of the patriarchs and primitive Christiana, and especially of the Son ot God and the son of roan, who had not where to tv his head in this region. Their suffer ings are far less than those of the French and Italian families, who go there for the sake of lucre, and endure all without a re pining word, and it is to be feared too with out the consolations of religion. How cheerfully then ought they to suffer re proach and temporal privations lor thp honour of their Master’s name and the sal vation of men ! They had received oo in’ telligence from America for more than six megdhs.— Earn. J'isiler. CAPTAIN STOCKTON AND KING PETER. It is well known, that the first colony ot I free black* which was planted by the Amer ican Colonization Society on the coast ot : Africa, was badly located, and that there ’ was danger for some time that this circum stance would occasion an abandonment of the whole enterprise, when, at length. Cap tain Stockton was sent out with full powers from the Government and the Society, to make new arrangements. Capt. S. learned at a European settlement, that Cape Mont erado had long been considered by Euro pean* as a desirable place for a colony, but that the superstition ofthe natives in that vicinity, who held it sacred to the Great Spirit, had prevented any settlement there. It was supposed, therefore, that all attempts to pnichase it would be in vain Capt. S resolved notwithstanding, to make the ex periment. He anchored off the Gape in 1821, having previously procured an Eng lish mulatto by the name of Mil!*, to act as his interpreter. Peter Gourlay, the prin cipal king in the*e parts, was notified of hi* ; arrival, and came down from his strong j town, 20 miles in the interiour, presuming : that the vessel had come to trade for slave*. . Capt. S. hoiveve r, sooo informed him of the real object of his visit. The king appear j ed to listen with great attention to the prop I osilion* of Capt. S. postponing the palaver | from day to day, as if he was seriously de liberating upon the subject, but always lak ing care to require more rum and more to bacr.o, till at length having got all that he thought he could, he suddenly retired with hi* interpreters and attendants leaving the treaty uuratified. This conduct was calcu lated to excite the indignation of Capt. S. and he determined that the treaty which • he considered as already virtually made, should be formally ratified by king Peter - [AVdO Fort Observer. “ He inquired,” says a writer io the Bos ton Centinel, “of Mills, his interpreter, if he knew the wv to his town li was not possible to reach it without a guide through the intricacies of the forest, pur posely perplexed, and made difficult of ac cess, for the sake of security against the man-stealers who visited him occasionally for the purpose of trading. “Capt. Stockton took the resolution to follow king Peter to his capital, unarmed and unattended, except by Mr. Ayres, (the Society’s new agent,) and his interpreter. After pnrsning the beach for a few miles, Ihey struck cffinto the woods, and with no lilile difficulty, threaded the mazes of a deep and tangled forest from daylight till about 11 o’clock, when they entered the town, to the great surprise of the inhabi tants who crowded around them by thou sands. After some time, king Peter ap peared in slate. A guard, with a blunder buss, preceded him ; an umhrella was held over his head by another; and a third held up his long train. He was covered splen didly with a variety of trappings, and be hind bim was a guard of twenty or thirty men, armed with mukets, and the whole male population seemed possessed of the same weapon. A seat somewhat raised was furnished with a bench : the king took the right; Capt. Stockton sat near ; next to him the interpreter; and Mr Ayres at the other extremity. On their taking their eat the people sat down in successive cir cles arnnnd them. “ The king’s interpreter was friendly to Capt. Stockton, but Mills was treacherous. Capt. Stockton told king Peter that he had come to know why he had left him without fulfilling his promise. And he had come without arms and men to protect him. for the Great Spirit was his protection. And king Peter Gourley having in the name of the Great Spirit, agreed to the treaty, and having received rum and tobacco, must ful til the contract. This conversation occu pied almost half an hour; wheii after a talk of some length between Peter and Mills, Captain Stockton perceived from their nods, winks, and altered countenances, that some thing was going wrong, and soon after, as if hy signal, the whole population sprung on their feet aod uttered tremendous yells The friendly interpreter cried out to Capt. Stockton, * tis the war cry.’ Immediately, sensible of his danger, he drew a concealed pistol from his belt, and as the king was ri sing put it to his head. With the other hand he pointed another at the head of Mills, and bade him sit still. Then, while the weapon in his right still threatened his trembling Majesty, he raised his left hand and his eyes to heaven. Overawed, the whole populace stink upon the ground again, and the king to his throne. All was silent. Sternly reproaching Mills for his treachery, (for a moment more and they would have murdered him,) Stockton bade him neither ri*e nor speak, upon penalty, if he did ei ther, of being iostantly shot. Then beck oning to the friendly interpreter, he said to king Peter, with bis characteristick decis ! ion, that it was Base and dishonourable in a king to forfeit his promise; and that if he dared to think of making war with him, the Great Spirit would take vengeance on him and all his town; that his people in the ship would come and avenge rAet'r king;, and finally, that unless he and all his kings came down to the shore and finished the treaty, the Great Spirit would make him the iu strument of his punishment. King Peter was too much surprised at this intrepidity tn doubt the high comnifision under which Capt. Stockton had acted, and he according ly promised to ratify the treaty oo the mor row, with all his great men. “ Early in the afternoon, and before the horde conld change their minds, Capt. S. ordered Mills to proceed rapidly towards the ship and without speaking, or deviating from the path, on peril of his life. At eve ning he reached the ves?et. “The excitement of mind, arising from such au exigency of self-command, is per haps more exhausting when the cause is past, than can he conceived; aggravated 100, ns in this instance, by so long a march. And Stockton, when he threw himself into his cot, felt that he. had completed the most extraordinary t}ay oi his life. The exer tions of battle in defending his country on shore, and the successful pursuit of pirates bo the deep, however glorious and trying of those qualities which characterize the pro fession of arms, were nothing in excitement Compared to those few moments of coog scions danger and intense decision, in which, by means of a sublime presence of mind, and the rare courige of an appeal to the protection of the Great Spirit, he control led a surrounding crowd of savage foes. With this additional glory to his iiamp, he thus aecured on terms of fair purchase, the ooly spot, perhaps on the coast of Alrica, that would have keen favourable to the sue cess of the benevplent purpose of the Colo uizatioo Society. AFRICA. The Luminary contains the following letter, addressed to Mr William Crane, o| Richmond, (Va.) from the Rev. Lott Carey, who was sent out to Liberia, under the pat ronage of the Baptist General Convention. Monrovia, (Africa,) Jan. 16, 1825. Dear Brother. I am glad that an opportunity is afforded to hand you a few lines, which leave roe and mine in good health, and I hope may find you enjoying health and blessings ot a favourable Providence. 1 have not much, but still something, 1 think worth communi eating. Since I wrote you last, the Lord has in mercy visited the settlement, and I have had the happiness to baptize nine hopeful converts; besides a number have joined the Methodists. The natives are more and more friendly ; their confidence begins to awaken. They see that it is our wish to do them good, and hostilities have ceased with them. 1 have (tarty applications to receive their children. 1 however have ventured to take three small boys, to find clolbes, and pay for their schooling, to at tend the day school—two from Grand Cape Mount, and one from Little Bassa ; the two former are very promising, but the othpr is slow to learn,yet a fine boy. Two of them 1 was obliged tosendhome ten days ago, in consequence of sores which they had, but will return as soon as they are cured; and, in order to establish my confidence in their returning, they refused to take their clothes with them. Our Sunday School still goes on, with some hopes that the Lord will ultimately bless it to the good of nom bers of the untutored tribes. The natives attend our Lord’i day worship, middling re gularly. We hßve commenced bringing out our timbers for the building of our meeting house, end have got all the large timbers on the ground ; but we shall want boards, shingles, nails, window glass, &c of which you will please to collect what you can. and send out. Pleasp make my respects to the Board, and accept of the same for yourself and family. 1 am yours, very dearly, Lott Carev. THE SLAVE TRADE. A letter from an officer of the British fri gate Maidstone states,that since that vessel had been on the African coast, nearly 2000 poor wretched slaves had been released. One vessel, of 120 tons, bad 336 men and boys, and 141 women and girls ; the men’s room was only about 20 feet square, and three feet two inches high; the women had a place, nine feet aft, eighteen feet forward, and four feet high ; thus, 336 men and boys were crammed into a space of 20 feet square. When the ship was boarded, the women were on their knees crying for mercy ; and SO of the men in silence await ing their final doom, (for so the Portuguese traders had assured them;) but when, by means of an interpreter, they were assured of protection of their lives, and of intended location in a spot where they would be free, the transition from despair to joy was over whelming; they knelt down, they wept, they kissed the feet, the hands, and the dress, of every by slander; the scene was touching and overpowering. The Hamburgh papers announce the ra-! tifir.ation of the treaty between England and Sweden, for the suppression of the stave trade. From the Latter Day Luminary for April. Extract of a letter from the Rev. Isaac ; M'Coy, dated , Care v, March 1, 1825. The Lord is still blessing us. Twenty i have been baptized as the fruit of this hies J sed revival: eight of them white men in our employ, one old Putawatomie woman, and eleven of our Indian scholars. An old chief, Roungee, who has been received by the Church, is now gone to his hunting grounds to inform his party, aod invite them hither to hear the Gospel, expecting to re- j turn and be baptised in about eight days. I RELIGIOUS aWdOTE. j 1 In May 1818 th* R< v J Booth, one of I the Wesleyan mission Irom England 6’ Low er f anada, had occasion to visit St. Davids, I a small town two and a halt mile* west ot I Queenstown in Upper Canada. He landed ! ( at Queenstown on Saturday, and forwarded ; I a notice lhai he would preach at St. Da j< vide on Sabbath. A ball room, tbe only I convenient room in the place, was obtained I for him, and an extensive congregation as I -eroMed at an early hour. He addressed i them in a most pathetick manner for the I space of an hour,—during which he look I occasion to show the entire depravity of our . nature, the dangers to which we are expos I * and thereby, and ‘he consequences which, i of course, inn-t follow in eternity, if we are . onrestored; and he concluded the discus sion of his subject by pointing to the Sav iour as the only meanj of restoration. Hi* audience were fascinated by his pathos and eloquence; but no change of countenance, I or aoy thing indicative ot reform, a* yet > appeared. But presently he drew toward the conclusion of his address, in the lollow ing words; “My fellow travellers to eter nity anti the bar of God, I have crossed tbe wide Atlantick to preach salvation to a dy ing world through a Redeemer. I have crossed Lake Ontario to address you on the ’ all important subject of religion. A few moment* will close our intercourse in this world. This evening I shall return to I Klhgston, without any thoughts of ever re visiting this place. These considerations make the preseut a serious, an interesting moment to me. I have addressed you in the name ol my Saviour. 1 have endeav oured to woo you to him. I have entreat ed your acceptance ol Salvation. In a tew minutes I shall bid you an affectionate fare well till the day of judgement; aod shall j retire to my closet to give an account to Him who is iuvisible, of my day’s labour. “What account shall I give of yon, my hearers? Shall I be compelled to say, Lord, I have called, but they would not hear; —1 have invited, but they would not come to thee ; I hve importuned them to meet me at thy right hand, but they have counted me as one that mocked. How many individu als of this large audience, (for I cannot sup pose that any of you, will altogether give up the thought of ever being Christians) — will now set the resolution to serve God through the aid of Grace and seek salva tion through a Redeemer.” There appear ed a universal moving among the peoplp, and several, among whom was the writer of this, set the resolution to be for God, and none other, and to pot on tbe habiliments of religion. Eternity will unfold the rest. Alay the reader experience the same hen pfi>* a* did the hearer*, and eternity shall rewound the praise to a gracious Saviour. Ameu. • H. B Note.—lt richly deserves mention, that among those who were so beneficially et fer.ted hy the closing remark* of Mr. Booth, the writer of the above letter i* himsell one. He lives in fbis vicinily now, and re cently lived in our town Hi* brethren generally know him, a* a zealou* and evan gelical preacher of the Gospel, in the Methodist Society.— Western Luminary. VALUE OF THE SOUL. In a Sermon, preached by the Rev Dr T. C. Henry , before the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, the object of which is to plead the claims of the American Aborigines, we meet with the following paragraph : “Look at this miserable horde of suffer ers! It is not that they are homeless; It is not that the bread of the day is uncertain lo its end: It is not that the miserable blan ket apologize* for the wretchedness of the wearer: it i* not that their wo is for a mo ment forgotten in the brutalizing cup nf in toxication : It is n<>t , but I will not en umerate. These things speak to the hu’ mane alone. But it is not because they all exist that we address you now.’ No : It is because of the piercing shriek of the im mortal soul. “We go down to the grave in darkness and terror; a host of fearful doubts shroud our eternity ; tbe light that cheers the Christian reaches us not: help or we perish forever !’ 1 turn from this ap palling scene to ponder its meaning. I scrutinize the character of an undying spir it: its capacities; its dignity. 1 examine the price of redemption. I see heaven im poveri*hed to accomplish it.* 1 behold an gels wrapt in wonder. What is my confu sion ? Were there but one immortal soul, the great of the earth might muster their forces; kingdoms exhaust their treasures; scieuce and talent plan and devise, for it* salvation ; and when all is done, the means were little compared lo the end. 1 “It is this brethren, —this infinite gain of good, to which we invite you. Thanks be to God, it is practicable to save, not one, but with his blessing, hundreds. And the sacrifice to accomplish such an end is not that you ‘sell all’—that you render the of sering of the primitiv e dicip!rs, in capacity and toil, in ignominy, persecution and death.” From the ( London ) Christian Observer. RECEIPTS OF CHARITABLE SOCI ETIES. We close our volume with the following interesting and appropriate document ; namely, an alphabetical list of the receipts! ofthe chief charitable societies, according! to their last annual reports. In two instan ces, the contributions include government i grants: the Society for the Propagation of j the Gospel, thus received 9,212/. aud the j ! Irish Education Society, 8,999/. I African Institution, £9lB i American Bible, . 9,543! American Board of Missions, 12,557 j American Episcopal Missionary, 852, American Jews, 1,800 American Methodist Missionary, 2,009 American United Foreign Missionary, 3,259 | Anti-Slavery, 3,519 I Baptist Missionary, 12,153 Baptist (General) Missionary, Mg?’ British n<) Foreign Bible, 07-718 British and Foreign Schdol, 1,920 Christian Knowledge, 54,891 Church Missionary, 39 272 Church of England Tract, 634 Continental, 2.014 Gospel-Propagation, 16,012 Hibernian, 7,398 Irish Sunday School, 1,803 Irish Education, 12.611 irish Tract and Book, 3,275 Irish and British Lndiea, 401 Irish Socielv of London, 300 Jews’ Society of London, 12,426 London Missionary, 33.p07 Merchant Seamen’s Bible, 853 National Education, 1,996 > Naval and Military Bible, 2,277 Newfoundland Education, 1,140 Port-of London Seamen’s, 439 Prayer bo-.k ami Homily, 1,703 Religions Tract, II 068 Scottish Missionary, 7.331 Sunday School Unioo, 2,40!) United Brethren, 9,644 Wesleyan Missionary, 34,650’ The total (including fractions, who re omitted in our list,) amounts to no less than 406,426/. a munificent and unprecedented sum; yet, alas! little compared with the moral and spiritual wonts of a fainting and perishing world; and little compared with the wasteful expenditure of vice, luxury, and folly !• A REPRESENTATIVE’S RESPONSN BILITY. Politicians have not yet been able to decide the long agiialed question, wheth er a Representative is hound to give his vote in accordance with the opinion of his i constituents; or is at liberty to consult and follow the dictates of his own judgement. The celebrated Edmund Burke, in his ad dress to the citizens of Bristol, on being by them elected to the British House of Com mons, expressed his opinion, on this sub- • ject, in the following terms : “Certainly, gentlemen, it opght to be the happineoS Dd glory of a Representa tive, to live in the strictest union, the clo sest correspondence, and the roost unre served communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have groat weight with him; their opinion high ; thejr business unremilted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their inter est to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his muture judgement, his enlightened con science, he ought not to sacrifice to yon, to any msn, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your plea sure; no, nor from the law end the consti tution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply an svvprable. Yor.r Representative owes you not his industry only, but his jn Igemeh.t: aod he betray. instead of “erving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. “My worthy colleague says, his will ought to he subservient toyours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. It govern ment were a matter of will upon any side, yours without question ought to be soperi our. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgement, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? “To deliver an opinion i* the right of all meo; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a represen tative ought always to rejoice to hear ; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions; mandates issued which the member is hoimd blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and : to argue for, though contrary to the clear-* eat conviction of his judgement and con science; these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, aod which arise, from a fundamental mistake of she whole order and tenor of our Constitution. “ Parliament is not a Congress of Ambas sadors from different and hostile States; whose interests each must maintain as am agpnt and advocate against others; hut it is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest, that of the whole; where not lo cal purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, hut the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament. If the local constituent should have an in terest, or should form a hasty opinion", evi dently opposite to the peal good of the rest of the community, the member for that place ought to be as far as any other from an endeavour to giv” it effect.” gen Washington. A correspondent of the National Journal received the following anecdote from an old and respectable citizen, now no more, who was intimately acquainted with the General and the fact: Maoy years ago, and some time before the revolution, Col. Washington and his la dy were in the habit of visiting a watering ! place in Virginia, and at which place there was a great resort of company, among whom there always were poor, sick, and lame people, who came to seek the bene jSt of the waters, with very slender means. I An acquaintance with the situation of these 1 people, was the constant but secret care of j Col. Washington. It was observed by the relator of this anecdote, that they drew fresh bread every day, without money; Curiosity led him to inquire vs the baker how he expected to get paid ; he hesitated, and said he was enjoined not to tell ; that the very people that eat the bread did not know who paid for it. This but fir