FRANCE.

inhabitants were required to keep them in check. The writer of this sad narrative towards the end of his letter, describes the flames to have again burst out in more than one part of the city. To add to the horror of the scene, a storm raged at the same moment. It would seem that to arrest the progress of the calamity was beyond the power of man, and the letter concludes with the mournful declaration, that "Omnipotence alone can save us from utter destruction."

An individual, who came to Paris, as a rich man, and who died last year in a situation bordering on indigence, left a statement of his losses at play, and declared that persons, whom he named, had employed fraudulent means to play against him with the certainty of winning. These two persons, one of whom was formerly a dentist, were put on their trial; and the celebrated M. Comte was summoned as a witness, and gave an explanation of the art, or altered cards, by means of which their frauds had been committed. The court of appeal has confirmed the sentence, by which they are condemned to eigh-parations continued to be made at Algiers to receive the teen months' imprisonment, and a fine.

A great falling off in the orders to the silk manufacturers of Lyons has occurred this year. At the fair of Beaucair, all the merchandize, with the exception of paper hangings, sold at a reduced rate.

SPAIN.

ALGIERS.

Accounts from the Barbary coast state that great pre

French. The number of troops suminoned from the interior is estimated from 30,000 to 50,000 men. One of the French vessels, carried into Oran, turns out to be of great value; she was bound to Martinique.

A Swedish ship, laden with aminunition, in attempting to enter Algiers, has been captured by the French blockading squadron, and sent to Toulton."

BUENOS ATRES.

Rivadavia has resigned the presidency. The following is a copy of his resignation addressed to the constitutional congress of Buenos Ayres.

Numerous arrests had taken place in the capital, in conIt is announced that an Algerine corvette has been sequence of a vast conspiracy discovered by the minister of police, Recasho, the object of which was to create through-sunk by an English corvette, which it attempted to search, out Galicia and Estremadura the same insurrectionary taking it for a French ship. movements as in Catalonia.-Large sums destined to farther the explosion, and to maintain the insurgents had also been seized, and it is significantly intimated that the greater part of the coin bore the impress of a foreign power. It had already been openly surmised in the Spanish papers, that the attempts of the Carlists had been secretly encouraged by France, in order to afford her a pretence for continuing her military occupation of the most important fortresses of the country.

PORTUGAL

Upon being called to the first magistracy of the republie by the free suffrages of her representatives. I made a personal sacrifice which I trust I cannot be accused of exaggerating. If, in the career which the public have thus inarked out for me, I have not been uniformly successful in overcoming the difficulties which arose before me at every step, I have at least the satisfaction of reflecting that I have used my utmost endeavors to discharge the functions of my office in a manner agreeable to my duty; that, although beset on every side with obstacles, I have been instrumental in effecting measures which my country will ever reflect upon with pride; and that I have above all, in every instance sustained the dignity and honor of the nation. My zeal to devote myself to the service of my country remains unabated, but I have to lament that difficulties of a new description, and which could not have been anticipated, have arisen to convince The unsettled state of affairs is still attributed to theme that my services in future can be of no public utility, dismissal of Saldanah and the plots of the Camarilla.and that no sacrifice on my own part can henceforth reThe English troopsremain in Lisbon and its neighbor- dound to the interest of the nation. Under this impreshood.

Is still in a state of fermentation and the downfall of the constitution is predicted. The princess regent appears to have lost her spirits in her late sickness. It is also stated in the French journals, that, from the language of the ministers, it is to be inferred that the French government will espouse the cause of don Miguel, and co-operate in establishing him on the throne of Portugal, as his legitimate right. There is a rumor that Don Pedro, of Brazil, was expected to arrive at the capital of Portugal, in order to assist in restoring tranquillity.

GREECE AND TURKEY.

A constitutional charter has at length been adopted by the national assembly, see page 70.

Letters have been received at Napoli, stating that the Greeks who occupied the convent of Megaspileon, have beaten and repulsed 1,500 Arabs, whom Ibrahim Pacha had moved forward thus far; the loss of the barbarians amounts to 400 men, killed on the declivity of a hill, where the Greeks had prepared an ambush for them.

The emperor of Russia has ratified the treaty for the pacification of Greece, entered into by Russia, France and England.

At Constantinople the Reis Effendi is said to have deelared that the lives of the foreigners at Pera, particularly the English, would not be safe if a treaty had been entered into, which would oppose any obstacles to the operations of the Turkish fleet. "The porte would hardly, however," says the London Sun, "draw down the vengence of England by such an outrage."

sion I have no other duty than to resign the office with which I am invested. I therefore renounce the charge which I have heretofore mantained, and resign it into the hands of the national representatives from whom I had, the honor to receive it. I regret that I cannot add to my resignation a satisfactory exposition of the motives which lead me to this step, but comfort myself with the assurance that they will, nevertheless, be understood by the public. Possibly justice may not be done at this moment to the sincerity and disinterestedness of my sentiments, but Irest assured that posterity will duly appreciate them.

About to leave the high station to which the suf frages of the representatives of the nation elevated me, I feel that I owe them my most hearty thanks, not more for the distinguished honor thus conferred upon me, than for the constant and patriotic zeal which they have ever manifested in seconding my feeble efforts for the preservation of the honor and glory of our republic. I beg leave to recommend them to take speedy measures to fill the office which I now leave; they will by so doing acDreadful fire at Moldavia.-The Austrian Observer complish an object imperiously demanded by the state of of the 11th August, contains an afflicting account of a public affairs, and afford an additional motive of gratitude dreadful fire which has reduced Jasse, the capital of Mol-on my part towards a body of men to whom I have now davia, (one of the principalities for which Russia has been the honor to offer the assurances of my high consideration contending with the porte throughout the last half cen- and respect. BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA. tury,) to a heap of ruins. A melancholy interest attaches COLOMBIA AND PERU. to the details of this conflagration which has proved hardly less fatal to human life than destructive to property. Fifty dead bodies are stated to have been dug out of the ruins, and while the flames were yet raging, it was found necessary to set all the malefactors, who were confined in the prison, at liberty, as the building in which they were shut up was found to be on fire. These wretches appear to have made an ungrateful return for the merciful consideration which had thrown open the doors of their dungeons. They prepared to pillage that portion of the city which had essaped; the most active exertions of the magistrates and

Carthagena, Augt. 21. The Liberator sailed from Barranca the 13th, on board the steam boat Santander; and on the 24th he arrived at Mompox. On the 15th he proceeded to Ocana; where he was to arrive on the 18th. The troops which he ordered from this city to the interior remained at Mompox and Ocana; he taking with him ouly his guard of honor.

The executive signed at last, on the 6th, the decree of congress calling the convention for the 2d of March at Ocana; and the legislature was occupied in discussing the rules for the election of its members.

Santander, was holding the executive power until the] arrival of president Bolivar at the capital, which would take place about the 28th of August, provided he left Mompox on the 14th on his route from Carthageura to Bogota. The disturbances in Guayaquil are calmed. We have accounts from that quarter to the 18th of July, by the Panama post. Gen. Florez had crossed the river Daule, and was to enter Guayaquil.

lieve in Jesus Christ. 2. Those who, oppressed by the Ottoman yoke, and believing in Jesus Christ, are come, or shall come to Greece, to take up arms or to dwell there. 3. Those who are born abroad, of a Greek faThe congress of Perit was installed on the 14th of ther, or those natives and others, and their descendants, June. Mariscal Lamar was elected president of the re-naturalized before the publication of the present constitu public, Salazar Baquipano, vice president. There were several parties, but the strongest was said to be in favor of general Bolivar.

A Rio paper of the 19th of May, contains the address 9. Foreigners who come to inhabit Greece for a time, of the chamber of deputies and of the senate to the em- or forever, are equal to the Hellenians before the civil law. peror on the opening of the chambers. They supera- 10. The taxes shall be levied from all the inhabitants bound with professions of attachment to his imperial of the state, with justice, and in proportion to the formajesty and to the constitution. Their relations with tunes of individuals; but no tax can be levied without a foreign powers are stated to be on a friendly and favora-law being promulgated, and no law for levying taxes can ble footing. The address of the deputies is silent as to be published for more than one year. the situation of the affairs with Buenos Ayres, and the only reference to this subject in that of the senate, is contained in the following sentence:

"The senate appreciates, as it ought, the personal sacrifices to which his imperial majesty has submitted, to direct the public feeling to a resistance of the machi-tection of the laws. nations of the government of Bucuos Ayres, and of the proof which he has given of his love of country and of his desire to put an end to the evils of war."

We were quite amused with the laconic replies of his majesty to these addresses. To the former he said, "I am well aware of the manner of thinking of the chamber of deputies;" and to the latter, "I have perfectly understood you."

The marquis of Palma has been appointed minister counsellor of state, in the place of the marquis de Sahara, deceased.

28. The epithets illustrious, excellency, &c. shall not be given to any Hellenian within the limits of the state; only the governor shall bear the name of excellency, which shall cease with his functions.

29. No native, nor person naturalized and inhabiting Greece, and enjoying the rights of a citizen, can have re course to foreign protection; in case he does, he ceases to be a citizen of Greece.

CHAP. 4.-Of Naturalization.

30. The government shall naturalize foreigners, who bring certificates from Greek functionaries, attesting 1. That they have passed three whole years in the

country.

2. That during this time they have not been visited by any infamous punishment.

3. That they have acquired within the state landed property of the value of at least 100 dollars.

31. Great actions, and notorious services, during the need of the country, are sufficient claims to naturaliza

tion.

32. The government may also naturalize those foreigners who found in Greece remarkable establishments tending to the progress of the sciences, of arts, of commerce, and of industry. It may also abridge the time necessary for naturalization.

33. Those foreigners who have served, or who shall serve in a military capacity in Greece two years, and who have the necessary certificates of service, are by that

made Hellenic citizens.

34. A man when naturalized immediately enjoys all the rights of a citizen, but the right of representation shall be regulated by the law of elections which the senate will publish.

35. Every person naturalized shall take the Greek oath.

CHAP. 5.-Of the organization of the government. 36. The sovereign power of the nation is divided into three powers-the legislative, the executive, and the ju

dicial.

37. The legislative power makes laws. 38. The executive power sanctions them, agreeably to article 74, and carries them into execution.

39. The judicial power applies them.

40. The Legislative power belongs in particular to the body of representatives of the people, who will take the name of senate, (boule.)

41. The executive power belongs to one alone, who will take the name of governor, and who has under his orders different secretaries.

42. The judicial power belongs to the tribunals.
To be continued.]

COM. PORTER AT NEW ORLEANS.
This Mexican officer has certainly forgotten what he
is, or supposes that he has some certain imprescriptive
right to violate our laws with impunity; and his actions
do not appear either worthy of his former character or
present condition; and his interpretation of our laws is
an assumption that, in other cases, would have met with
instant reprobation; we cannot allow this to foreigners.
It is our own country that must settle such points. The
following reply to his exposition given in the REGISTER
of the 15th inst. is copied from the New Orleans Argus
of the 31st ult. It will be recollected that Mr. Smith is
the U. S. attorney for the district.

Commodore Porter in his remarks in the Louisana Advertiser, of the 20th instant, in vindication of the recruiting hand-bill, recently circulated in this city, under his name, and in reply to the notice of that document, which, as district attorney of the United States, I felt constrained to take, has fallen into some errors of fact, that, doubtless, it will afford him pleasure to see corrected-the more so, as they have led him to conclusions unjustly impeaching the motives, sentiments and conduct of all the officers of the government, who had contributed towards the arrest and commitment for trial of the sea men in question, and those who had engaged them for the Guerrero.

The following succinct narrative of facts, (that would have been sooner communicated but from circumstances of a domestic nature requiring my entire attention), will sufficiently exhibit the errors referred to, and the gratui

tous nature of the inferences that I must presume to
have sprung only from them:

Soon after the Mexican brig of war Guerrero had an-
chored off the N. E. pass, of the mouth of the river Mis-
sissippi, (now several weeks since), very strong rumour's
were afloat, of recruiting stations being opened in this
city, and of the engagement of seamen here for the ser-
vice of that armed vessel. But still no adequate proof
of such facts came to the knowledge of those whose du-
-Certainly there are no traces of their having resorted to
ty, in that event, would have required their interference:
or uncourteous suspicions, in order to detect and bring
any undue means, or indulged any unseasonable zeal,
length a certain ship-broker of this city descended to the
to punishment this rumoured evasion of the laws. At
Balize, and attempted to sound the inspector of the cus-
toms, regularly stationed there, as to whether he would
suffer about an hundred men (whom he described as for-
on board the Guerrero, to pass without interruption-in-
eigners) that had been engaged in New-Orleans to serve
sinuating that his complaisance in this respect might be
an unsatisfactory answer from the inspector, the broker
of one or two hundred dollars to his advantage. Getting
line), for the purpose of transporting the seamen in ques-
chartered, at the Balize, a small schooner, (the Caro-
tion, by one of the other passes of the river, from New
Orleans to the Guerrero; and accordingly, accompanied
inst. returned to the city, where she remained till the
by the schooner and her owner, on the 5th of August,
night of the next day.

About 9 o'clock on that night, (August 6th), the broker put on board the schooner about thirty-five seamen, (a boat load or two of them joined her a few miles below the city)-who all forthwith proceeded down the river, for the purpose of becoming part of the crew of the Guerrero. The inspector at the Balize, already apprizthe chartering of the schooner there, of the expedition ed, by the complimentary application to himself and by on foot, resolved to intercept it. With that view, with the revenue boat ordinarily under his charge, he ascended the schooner and her new passengers, about 30 leagues above all the passes of the river, and until he fell in with below the city, on their way to fulfil their engagement.

Having pursued and seized her, he immediately put her helm about, and on the 8th of August, inst. brought her passengers back to the city for examination. They were then, not "marched like convicts to the customhouse," as they appeared to the vivid imagination of the commodore, but under a guard, scarcely proportioned to their numbers, regularly brought up for examination before one of the judges of the city court of New Orleans. in the absence of the judge of the court of the United States for this district. There, on an investigation, (0) the oaths of credible witness, ) into facts then first brough to the knowledge of the prosecutor, two of the more conspicuous of the prisoners, (the ship-broker and a board ing house keeper for sailors,) were respectively bound is recognizances in five hundred dollars, with two suretie each, to appear at the next term of the court of the Unite States for this district, to answer on a charge of retainin seamen in this city, "to enter themselves" on board The seamen, except nine Colon foreign vessel of war, to cruize against a power at peac with the Unted States. bians, were at the same time committed to prison f want of bail, to answer at the same court, on a charge "" The nine Colombiar engaging in this city, to enter themselves "in the san vessel for the like purpose. from the intimate relations of Colombia and Mexico, at from their being engaged in a common cause, were wi consent of the prosecutor, viewed as on the footing of Me cans, and absolutely discharged. On a subsequent d the prisoners were brought up, on habeas corpus, befc the judge of the parish court of New Orleans, and on n tion of their counsel, not "of the district attorney" we as they were entitled to be, enlarged on bail. The amo of the bail, for each of these prisoners, (being all co mon seamen,) was with consent of the prosecutor, fi: at the sum of one hundred dollars. To have require from men of their condition and mer greater amount, and degree of misdemeanor, would, in effect, have b a refusal of bail in a case that was bailable. The rec nizances were taken by a respectable officer of experien

and of the utmost confidence and if it be necessary to test them, may prove to be more than "merely no ninal."*

The accuracy of the foregoing statement of occurrences at the Balize, is attested by the written memorandum of the inspector at that place, at the foot of his usual periodical report to the collector, and which was not received, or heard of by that officer, before the judicial investigation referred to. The residue appears from matter of record. It is trusted that it sufficiently establishes:

That the pending prosecutions, instead of having been begun in a spirit of persecution or cruelty, were in some sort, forced upon the now vituperated officers, by a rash and almost avowed disregard of the laws of neutrality, in the accused:

That far from having been since unworthily abandoned, under the imagined influence of an adverse "public opinion" (the murmurs of which have not been heard by them,) they will be followed up, especially against the more conspicous and intelligent offenders, in the spirit in which they were begun:

That, that spirit, whatever it may be, though unfortunately rebuked in tones sufficiently harsh, by certainly not the most disinterested of censors, will, with those who consider the obligation of the law as independent on "policy," or public opinion," deserve a blush at least for its severity; and that it acknowledges no prejudices that refuse a sympathy for the fortunes of the Mexican republic, and for even the personal achievements of him who now complains, and who, it is confessed with pleasure, is connected by some bright links with the glory of his native JOHN W. SMITH.

country.

New Orleans, August 28, 1827.

UNCERTAINTY OF THE LAW. From a London paper of August 5, 1827. The vice chancellor, on Thursday, in the interminable cause, De Beauvoir. Rhodes, gave the counsel in this case a tolerable strong hint of his opinion. After listening patienty to the alternate applications of counsel, his honor called on Mr. Heald to move something which might be beneficial to some parties." We are glad to find symptoms of reform perceptible in the conduct of all our three judges of the chancery court.

In his charge at Salisbury, judge Best said, "there is another part of the law which Mr. Peel has altered; the beuefit of clergy. As the law stood, a person who was found guilty of one offence, though charged with the commission of a dozen offences, could not be tried for more than one; but Mr. Peel's bill has altered so unwise a provision, and a separate indictment can be preferred on each, and the guilty person receive the sentence consequent on all. The benefit of clergy could only have been made use of onoe, and the person who had the advantage of it on one occasion, could not resort to it a second time. The appeal was defeated by putting in what was called a counter plea; but so unfrequent was that practice, that during the eleven years in which I have been a judge, I only recollect one occasion where it was made use of. According to the new law, the indictment is to state that the person was tried before, and a certificate from the clerk of the assizes is to be considered sufficient evidence of the fact. I therefore venture to recommend the magistrates of this county, whenever an oftender is brought before them, to enquire if he has been indicted before and to take care that a proper certificate of such indictment be forthcoming at his trial." were indicted for stealing two ducks, but as it came out At the present assizes for Worcester, certain parties in evidence that they killed the two ducks before they stole them, Mr. Justice Littledale charged the jury to find them not guilty, on the ground that in legal construction the words "two ducks" must he taken to mean "two live ducks;" whereas, it was proved that these ducks were dead: and the parties were found not guilty accordingly. Query: Is not a duck a duck? And if not, what is it? Query again: Would the thieves who stole the ducks have been not guilty of stealing the ducks, supposing they had only half killed the ducks before they stole them?

A notorious gang of robbers, on the Windsor road, escaped at the quarter sessions, because the drawing up of the indictment had described a gown and petticoat as the property of a woman instead of a man; this said woman happening to be married, the learned chairman held that it legally belonged to the husband, and on this plea the whole gang were acquitted, much to the annoyance of a worthy magistrate, who declared that he had heard of a On Wednesday the vice chancellor took the opportu- wife wearing the breeches, but never before of a husband nity of observing, generally, on the system of throwing wearing the petticoat. At the same sessions, an indiviobstacles in the way of the performance of the orders of dual, tried on an indictment for sheep-stealing, seemed in the court, for the mere purpose of inoreasing costs. He a fair way to escape, by his legal defender proving that the ensured the practice, and stated that, in all cases where animal was not legally a sheep, in consequence of not such conduct was pursued, he would throw the costs on being come of age, and the matter was put aside to be the party who unnecessarily caused the delay. He gravely argued at a future period. Nothing could exvould also convey his opinion to the chancellor, and re-ceed the astonishment of the master. The next sheep quest his lordship to give directions to the masters, when axing costs, to allow none for supplementary orders.

Had their transient imprisonment been marked by ircumstances of needless rigor? Two of them" the ommodore has been informed died by sickness brought n by their detention. What are their names? When? here? and of what sickness did they die? If the inrmation so published and therefore apparently believed y the commodore were sustained by the fact, it might be plored as a misfortune, but, in itself, could entail no reehension on the officers concerned, if these were proble cause for their detention, and if unaccompanied by uelty or neglect towards the prisoners. But the worthy eper of the prison exhibits no bill of mortality. The isoners committed to his charge were, without excepn enlarged, it would be hazarding nothing to say in as od condition as they were received in. A charge against it officer of cruelty or neglect of the health and comt of his prisoners, there are few bold enough to make 1 support it by a name. It would be contradicted by unanimous voice of this community as well as the anal recorded reports of the grand juries and legislative nmittees. But the inspector who arrested the prisonat first, (not without difficulty for the vessel attempted escape,) heard it indistinctly talked among the prison(the truth of which even he does not know,) that of them, whom he neither saw, nor, otherwise, heard had fallen overboard in the chase. Is the possible of these unarrested persons, the detention or its efto which the commodore's informant refers?

stolen from him, he vowed he would call a pig, and try what the effect of that would be.

"Who shall decide when doctors disagree?" Judge Best's charge in favor of pugilism, will be found under that head in another place. At the same point of time judge Garrow was making the following charge against it at Bedford. He said if a quarrel is treasured up, and time be taken to arrange the meeting, and one of the party falls, the offence amounts to murder, and principal, seconds, and by-standers were all guilty. He called on the grand jury to put a stop to the practice of prize fights, which, he regretted to say, had been patronised by men of rank, who sported their sovereigns on the life or death of a fellow creature.

Why are people to be put to £200 expense. for the commons' fees and charges alone, on the renewal of a bill that had been found to be useful. There are, afterwards, the lords' fees and charges; and all these are independent of lawyer, surveyor, and agents charges for bringing in and conducting such bills. So that even a trifling bill for the renewal of some local act, seldom costs less than £600 or £800, often £1,200. If those bills originated in a 'rage' for legislation, any means that would check the prevailing influenza on such subjects, would be a national benefit; but when there is too much reason to fear that the parliamentary privilege of charging enormous costs alongside such prodigal fees, and when even parliamentary clerks act as agents for conducting private bills through their own houses, or as solicitors to noblemen, &c. is it not to be apprehended that the said privifege of charging heavily, and almost endlessly, in realis

NILES' REGISTER-SEPT 29, 1827-THE CHEROKEES.

ty encourages jobbers, attorneys, and surveyors, to be
eternally looking out for pretexts to bring in new private
bills, or for the renewal of old ones?

73

was resolved, by the parties concerned, to make a third
endeavor, and test the strength of the machinery by the
severe struggle in which a weaker vessel would have
been disjointed and torn to pieces, the head strong cur-
greatest trial it could ever be expected to bear.
rent yielded to the giant power of steam, and the triumph
After a
of art over nature was effected.
greater, breathless anxiety, I scarcely ever witnessed.
Mechanical science achieved a victory over elementary
force, and overcame an obstacle heretofore deemed in
A few moments of
this manner altogether insurmountable. The courage
and perseverance of capt. B. were so conspicuous on this
occasion, that I can never forget the impressions made on
all present. We have since found it as easy to traverse
our sea board, navigate the Mississippi, and cross the
atlantic, as it was to find America after Columbus had
broken the egg.

Extract of a letter from the reverend Samuel A. Worces-
THE CHEROKEES.
ter, missionary to the Cherokees, dated Brainerd,
Cherokee nation, August 9, 1827.

As a proof of the way in which judicial forms deal with obvious things, we have an instance at one of the assizes, of a person being obliged to travel all the way from London to prove not only that 'the earl of Liverpool, earl Bathurst, Mr. Canning, Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Peel, were ministers of state,' but actually to produce the patents under which they had held their offices; and that in the case of a mere trumpery libel in which they happened to be named. Such things seem to be as absurd as if, because an indictment concludes with an averment that the offence charged in it is against the peace of our lord the king, his crown and dignity,' it would be necessary to prove his majesty to be king, or to carry down the crown from the tower, or some person who was present at his coronation. Or if a man be charged with drowning another by throwing him into the Thames, it may be equally necessary to prove the Thames is composed of water, and that water possesses the property of drowning. This may appear to be, and is, excessive absurdity; but we know of no better way of llustrating one absurdity than by opposing to it another. rokees have lately been engaged in the work of framing a John Maule, the prisoner tried at Salisbury, was indict-constitution for their government; the convention ap"You may have seen notices of the fact, that the Cheed for having, on the 18th of June last, killed one Tho-pointed for that purpose met on the fourth of July, and mas Strange, by upsetting a coach, on which the said T. have completed a constitution, which is to come in force Strange was a passenger. The second count described after the meeting of the next annual council in October. the coach as having been drawn by two geldings and two was at the place two or three times while they were One objection to the indictment, namely, that it in session, but heard very little about the constitution. did not state the accident to have occurred on the king's From the specimens which I did hear, I should prehighway, or in a public road, and all the precedents show-sume that the work would do much honor to a nation ed that such an averment was necessary, was over-ruled which has so recently begun to frame political instituby the chief justice, who observed, that he had little tions. It is written in English only, but it is to be transdoubt "the precedents would furnish instances of non-lated into Cherokee, and printed in both languages, whensense of all sorts." leged that the coach was drawn by two mares and two geld- within a short time. The printing house is finishing, and But it was then objected-it was al-ever their press is in operation, which will probably be ings, which allegation had not been supported by proof. the press, with Cherokee and English type, is probably This was a thumping objection-two mares and two geld- nearly ready for shipping at Boston. A printer is not ings stated in the indictment, and no one to prove the yet engaged, as far as I know, but ample provision is averment! The chief justice then said, "he feared that made for the purpose, and there is good reason to hope, the objections were fatal." that soon after the press arrives it will be in operation. The laws of the nation, as they were previously to the printed in that language also. last annual council, are in priut in English, and have been translated into Cherokee, for the purpose of being

mares.

TRIUMPH OF ART. [From the New York Times.] New-London, Nov. 24, 1825.-1 took passage on my journey eastward, the 23d inst. at N. York, in the steam boat Washington, capt. Bunker. In her com- paper was more extensively known to the public, than mander I recognised an old acquaintance, whom I recol- it appears to have been from a brief notice of it which 1 "I had supposed that the design of publishing a newslected with much pleasure. I remember the long agi- have recently seen in public prints. It is an object which tated question, whether steam boats could be made ca- they have had for some some in contemplation, and which pable of sea navigation, or so constructed as to traverse it is to be hoped they will not fail to carry into effect. If our sounds, bays, and coasts, in safety. This question so, the columns of the paper will be filled, doubtless, was put to rest by the enterprise and skill of capt. partly with English and partly with Cherokee print. The Banker. In the Fulton, constructed, I am told, with a missionaries, and at least the religious part of the people, view to cross the Atlantic, he undertook the navigation of are rejoicing in the anticipation of soon seeing portions Long Island Sound, an arm of the sea, in which the most of the word of God, hymns, &c. circulating among the severe tempests are often encountered. son of no extraordinary moderation, including the two and in a character which very many of them can already During a sea-people, printed in a language which they can understand, equinoctial gales, capt B. lost but a single trip. Another read. Hymns in the Cherokee language are much sung, doubt remained to be removed. It was supposed impos-and many will be glad to be saved the trouble of writing sible to pass the celebrated passage of Hellgate, against hymn books, by being able to procure them in print. the tide, at the strength of the current. served for capt. Bunker to remove, and I happened to tion, and the knowledge of This was rehe on board at the time of the novel and interesting ex- Some speak the Cherokee but imperfectly, the English "The English language is spoken by many in the na periment, returning southward from New Hampshire.being their common language, though they understand A number of respectable passengers witnessed the peris rapidly gaining ground. formance. It was in the boat Connecticut, built with all the strength to be obtained from the best materials, and most expert and careful workmanship. The machinist (McQueen) was accompanying his engine, to prove its powers, with careful and ingenious assistants, and some of the owners were on board also. pass the point of greatest pressure of the contracted The first attempt to stream was unsuccessful, and the boat was compelled to retreat into an eddy and increase her steam. novated power the effort was repeated, every man fixed With renmovable at his post, the passengers properly stationed in different parts of the boat, the engineers employing their utmost diligence to force the passage. They were again defeated by the supposed resistless stream, and again retreated, racked, strained, and shivering from the Contest. After a short pause and fresh preparation, it

the Cherokee when it is spoken. A few do not even un-
derstand it. With the body of the people, however, the
Cherokee is the only language understood. In their le-
gislative and judicial transactions, generally, though the
English language in some sense takes the lead, the laws
being written in English, yet what is spoken or read in
while that which is spoken in Cherokee ne.-is no inter-
English has to be interpreted into the Cherokee language,
preter.

took Cherokee wives without any marriage ceremony,
like the people with whom they united; and were permit-
"Formerly white men, coming into the nation, often
ted thus to reside in the nation, their children being ac-
ounted Cherokees. Cherokee men, also, though more
seldom, took white wives in the same manner, and their
children also inherited the name and privileges of Chero-
kves, though the original right of inheritance was on the

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