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FOR THE JEFFERSON'IAN REPUBLICAN.
Lines on Genesis xvi. 13.
The watchful eye of God,
Descries my secret soul,
Marking the paths I've trod,
E'en to life's uncertain goal.
The eye that never sleeps,
Heaven, earth, and hell beholds,
The ocean's wave and boundless deep,
And nights dark gloom unfolds.
That eye with mildness beams
On every child of grace,
And guides to blissful scenes, ,
Where faith and hope shall cease.
Where age and death are not :
Where trial cannot come ;
Where griefs are all forgot, v
And joys are ever young.
That eye with scorching ray,
On every sinner looks,
And points him to the day
Of wither'd, blasted hopes.
When justice sent abroad,
By an almighty hand,
Arrests the rebel on his road, ,,. ;
Of every clime, and land.
When fear the heart shall fill.
When God himself shall mock,
While wrath and soier ill - '
The rebel's soul shall shock.
0, may I bend the knee
Before that sleepless eye,
"Thou God" ;hat "seest me,"
Be thou forever nigh.
Siroudbburg, 1845. J. R.
From the Saturday Courier.
Planting Corn
Messrs. Editors. Through the columns of
jour valuable paper, 1 hope to make Known an ex
periment which I adopted last season, in the cul
lure of corn. In the first place, I ridged my land
fin tho leaf f r flij-m T trrr ntvn KflcVlol ff ItmP.
t lot J l ATiaTtlJCi A kUVa Ullb w A
one ol plaster, one of salt, and one ot asnes, ana
nixed them all well together then I dug the hole
for the hill, and in each place I put as much of
the composition as you could hold in one hand ;
then 1 nut tlin r itxA eYizTMraA ?t lirrhtlv
with earth. The effect produced was astonishing,
It is also a preventive against the grub, and all
other insects which inhabit the corn-field.
1 would recommend to those who should hap-
Ien to try the above process that if they could not
pend time sufficient to put it into the hill, to place
it on the surface as soon as the corn begins to
show itsei; and if the land is in a tolerable con
dition, I will warrant them an extra crop.
In planting the corn, in which I tried the exper
"nent, I slipped now and then a hill in which 1
"eplected to put the composition; and it was per
rptible as far as you could see over the .field. I
rt'tr.k there was not a hill .missing. in the whole
new where I put the composition but where neg
ii was uesiroyea uy ine gruu, jh a. gica
measure
This composition .draws, from the atmosphere
r:tbonic acid which is one of the most essential
i... ! V - -'V - -
l'luporues ol matter in the growtn ol,ali vegetauie
i .VUUV.HUHS. it aiso aosorySjJJii au aci.o,
unit's iic 4 n
tpn a dry sandy-&Oil,iljyill prevent, in a great
Measure, the effects of the-drought which we are
object to in the months o( July and August
u'hen moisture is very necessary for the seulng of
H'e tar.
The Cherokee Alphabet.
In the winter of 1828, a delegation of the Cher
okees visited the city of Washington, in order to
make a treaty with the United States, and among
them was See-quah-yah,the inventor of the Cher
okee alphabet. His "English name was George
Guess; he was a half-blood; but had never, from
his own account, spoken a single word' of English
up to the time of his invention, nor since.
Prompted by my own curiosity, and urged by se
veral literary friends, I applied to See-quah-yah,
through the medium of two interpreters, one a half
blood, Capt. Rogers, and the other a full-blood
chief, whose assumed English name was John
Maw, to relate to me, as minutely as possible, the
mental operations and all the facts in his discove
ry. He cheerfully complied with my request, and
gave very deliberate and satisfactory answers to
every question; and was at the same time careful
to know from the interpreters if 1 distinctly under
derstood his answers. No stoick could have been
more grave in his demeanour than was See-quah-yah;
he pondered, according to the Indian custom,
for a considerable time after each qustion was
put, before he made his reply, and often took a
whiff of his calumet, while reflecting on an an
swer. The details of the examination are too
long for the closing paragraph of this lecture; but
the substance of it was this, that he (See-quah-yah)
was now about sixty-five years old, but could
not precisely say ; that in early life he was gay
and talkative; and although he never attempted to
speak in Council but once, yet was often, from
the strength of his memory, his easy colloquial
powers, and ready command of his vernaculai,
story-teller of the convivial party. His reputation
for talents gave him some distinction when he
was quite young, so long ago asfSt. Clair's defeat.
In this campaign, or some one that soon followed
it, a letter was found on the person of a prisoner,
which was wrongly read by him to the Indians.
In some of their deliberations on this subject, the
question arose among them, whether this myste
rious power of the talking leaf was the gift of the
Great Spirit to the white man, or a discovery of
the white man himself. Most of his companions
weie of the former opinion, while he as strenu
ously maintained the latter. This frequently be
came a subject of contemplation with him after
wards, as well as many other things which he
knew, or had heard, that the while man could do;
but he never sat down seriously to reflect on the
subject, until a swelling on his knee confined him
to his cabin, and which at length made him a crip
ple for life, by shortening the diseased leg. De
prived of the excitements of war, and the pleas
ures of the chase, in the long nights of his con
finement, his mind was again directed to the mys
tery of the power of speaking by letters the very
name of which, of course, was not to be found in
lis language. From the cries of wild beasts, from
the talents of the mocking-bird, from the voices of
his children and his companions, he knew that
feelings and passions were conveyed by different
sounds, from one intelligent being to ttnother.
The. thought struck him to try to ascertain all the
sounds in the Cherokee language. His own ear
was not remarkably discriminating, and he called
to 'his aid the more acute ears of his wife and
children. He found great assistance from them.
When he thought that he had distinguished all the
different sounds in their language, he attempted
to use pictorial signs, images of birds and beasts,
to convey these sounds to others, or to mark them
in his own mind. He soon dropped this method,
as difficult or impossible, and tried arbitrary signs,
without any regard to -appearances, except such
as .might assist him in recollecting them, 'and dis
tinguishing them from each other. At first, these
signs were very numerous; and when he got so
far as 'to think his invention was nearly accom
plished, he had about two hundred characters in
his alphabet. I3y the aid of-his daughter, who
seemed to enter in the genius of his labours, he
reduced them, at least to eighty-six, the number
he now uses. He then set to work to make these
characters more comely, to the eye, and succeeded.
As yet he had not the kpowledge of the pen as an
instrument, but made his characters on a piece of
bark, with a knife or nail. At this, time he sent
to the Indian agent, or some trader in tho nation,
for paper and pen. His ink was easily juade from
some of the bark of the forest tree?, whose color
fng properties he had,previotisly known; and after
seeing the construction of the pen he. soon learnt
to make one; but at first ho made it without a slit;
this inconvenience yyp.s, however, quickly removed
by his sagacity "His next, difficulty was to make
his invention known tc-liis countrymen; for by this,
time he. wad become so abstracted from his tribe
and uieir usual pursuits, that he was viewed with
IT:,, v..-. nnmnoninn!!
an .eyo oi suspicion, axiq iuiuwi ...j...........
passed his wigwam wjthput entering it, and men
tiotsed his name as one who was practising improper
spells, for notoriety or.mischievous purposes; and
he seems to think that he should have been hardly
dealt with, if his docile and unambitious disposi
tion had not been so generally acknowledged by hi
tribe. At length he summoned some of the most dis
tinguished of his nation, in order to make his com
munication to them and after giving the best ex
planation of his discovery that he could, stripping it
of all supernatural influence, he proceeded to de
monstrate to them,in good earnest, that hehad made
a dis covery. His daughter, who was his only pupil,
was orderod to go out of hearing, while he requsted
his friends to name a word or sentiment which he
put down, and then she was called in and read it
to them ; then the father retired, and the daughter
wrote ; the Indians were wonder struck, but not
entirely satisfied. See-quah-yah then proposed
that the tribe should select several youths from
among their biightest young men, that he might
communicate the mystery to them. This was at
length agreed to, although there was some lurking
suspicion of" necromancy in the whole business.
John Maw, (his Indian name I have forgotten) a
full-blood, with several others, were selected for
this purpose. The tribes watched the youths for
several months with anxiety ; and when they of
fered themselves for examination, the feelings of
all were wrought up to the highest pitch. The
youths were separated from their master, and from
each other, and watched, with great care. The
uninitiated diiected what the master and pupil
should write to each other, and these tests were
varied in such a manner, as not only to destroy
their infidelity, but most firmly to fix their faith.
The Indians, on .this, ordered a great feast, and
made Sec quah-yah conspicuous at it. How near
ly is man alike in every age! Pythagoras did the
same on the discovery of an important principle in
geometry. See-quah-yah became at once school
master, professor, philosopher, and a chief. His
countrymen were proud of his talents, and held
him in reverence as one favoured by the Great
Spirit. The inventions of early times were shroud
ed in mystery. See-quah-yah disdained all quack
ery. He did not stop here, but carried his dis
coveries to numbers. He of course knew nothing
of the Arabic digits, nor of the power of Roman
letters in the science. The Cherokees had men
tal numerals to one hundred, and had words for
all numbers up to that ; but they hail no signs or
characters to assist them in enumerating, adding,
substractmg, "multiplying, or divining, lie re
flected upon this until lie had created their ele
mental)' principle in his mind; but he was at. first
obliged to make words to oxpress his meaning,
and then signs to explain it. By this process he
soon had a clear conception of numbers up to a
million. His groat difficulty was at the threshold,
to fix the powers of his signs according to their
places.- When this was overcome, his next step
was in adding up his different numbers in order
to put- down the fraction of the decimal, and give
the whole number to his next place. But when I
knew him, he had overcome all these difficulties,
and was quite a ready arithmetician in the funda
mental rules. This was the result of my inter
view ; and I can safely say, that I have seldom
met a man of more shrewdness than See-quah-yah.
He adhered to all the customs of his coun
try ; and when his associate chiefs on the mission
assumed our costume, ho was dressed in all re
spects like an Indian. See-quah-yah is a man of
diversified talents ; he passes from metaphysical
and philosophical investigation to mechanical oc
cupations, with the greatest ease. The only prac
tical mechanics he was acquainted with, were a
few bungling blacksmiths, who could malic a tough
tomahawk, or tinker the lock of a rifle ; vet he
became a white and silver smith, without any in
struction, and made spurs and silver spoons with
neatness and skill, to .the great admiration of peo
ple of the Cherokee nation. See-quah-yah has
also a great taste for pointing. He mixes his
colours with skill ; taking ail the art and science
of his tribe upon the subjoct, he added to it many
chemical experiments of his oivn, and some ol
them were very successful, and would be worth
being known, to cur painteis. For his drawings
he had no moticl but what nature furnished, and
he oftc:i copied them with astonishing faithfulness.
His1 rcsonblanco of the human form, it is true, arc
coarse, but often spirited nnd correct ; and ho gave
action, and sometimes grace, to his representations
of animals. He had never seen a camel hair pen
cil, when he made use of the hair of wild animals
for his brushes. Some of his productions discov
er a considerable practical knowledge of pcrspec
tive ; but he could not have formed rules for this.
The painters in the early ages were many years
coming to a knowledge of this part of the art ;
and even now they are more successful in the art,
than perfect in the rulc3 of it. The manners of
1 " . ...
the American Cadmus are the moat easy, and ins
habits those of the most assiduous scholar and
his disposition is more lively than that of any In
dian 1 ever saw. He understood and felt the ad
vantages the wnite man had long enjoyed, of har-
in"- the accumulations of every branch olknowl
ede, from generation to generation, by means o
a written language, while the red man could only
commit his thoughts to uncertain tradition. He
riasuied correctly, when he urged this to his
friends as the cause why the red man had made so i
few advances in knowledge in comparison with us ;
and to remedy this was one of his great aims, and
one which he ha3 accomplished beyond that of
any other man living, or perhaps any other who
ever existed in a rude state of nature.
It perhaps may not be known that the Govern
ment of the United States had a fount of types
cast for his alphabet ; and that a newspaper, print
ed partly in the Cherokee language, and partly in
the English has been established at New Echota,
and is characterized by decency and good sense ;
and thus many of the Cherokees are able to read
both languages. After putting these remarks to
paper, I had the pleasure of seeing the head chief
of the Cherokees, who confirmed the statement of
See-quah-yah, and added, that he was an Indian
of the strictest veracity and sobriety. The west
ern wilderness is not only to " blossom like the
rose," but there man has started up, and proved
that he has not degenerated since the primitive
days of Cecrops, and the romantic ages of won
deiful effort and god-like renown. Knapp's Lectures.
A 3ancroj:s Man.
There is a terrible fellow somewhere 4 down
east' who ought not to be permitted to run at large.
He threatens to play the 'old Harry and break
things,' all in consequence of his faithless gal.
If he should happen to put his threat in execution,
the Lord have mercy upon us 1 His first threat is,
I'll grasp the loud thunder,
With lightnings I'll play,
I'll rend the earth asunder,
And kick it away.
That's attempting considerable for one man
however, if he has a mind to take the responsibil
itv, and pav damages, let him smasn away we
are not afear'd. He next says
The rainbow I'll straddle
And ride to the moon,
Or in the ocean I'll paddle
In ihe bowl of a spoon.
That won't hurt any body. ( Jo-ahead, old chap,
we like to encourage a laudable spirit of adven
ture.
I'll set fire to the, fountain,
And swallow up the rill,
I'll eat up the mountain,
And be hungry still.
Goodness gracious! is there no way to appease
his wrath, and stay his stomach Must we suf
fer all this because ho and his girl haven't any
thin" to say to each other at present Jso, never!
Down with him!
The rain shall fall upwards,
The smoke tumble down,
I'll dye the grass purple
And paint the sky brown.
Hear thatl a pretty world this would be, truly, with
the rain falling up, the smoke tumbling down, the
grass dyed purple, and the sky painted brown !
We might as well live in an old boot with a dirty
ole for earth beneath, and brown upper leather
for the heavens above.
The sun I'll put out,
With the whirlwinds play,
Turn day into night
And sleep it away.
There is no doubt if he cuts that caper, the sun
will feel as much .put out about it, as we shall.
We leave it to the whirlwinds to say whether they
will be trifled with or not; and as for his. turning
day into night, and sleeping it away, we would
just as lief he would as not it he can do it.
I'll flog the young earthquake,
The weather I'll physic;
Volcanoes I'll strangle,
Or choke with the phthisic.
Oh, ho! he dare not clinch with an old he earth
quake, and so he threatens to flog a ."yoimgun"
of the neuter gender! Coward! why don't you
take one of your size 1
The moon I'll smother " 5
With nightmare and'wo ;
For sport at each other," f '
The stars I will throw. '' '
Servo them exactly right they havemobusi
nes8 to bo out when they ought to be a-bcd,.;
The rocks shall be preachers,
The trees do the singing,
The clouds shall be teachers,
And the comets go sprueing.
That's all well enough, excepting gotting the
comets on a spree. We don't like that.
I'll tie up the winds
In a bundle together,
And tickle their ribs
With an ostrich feather.
Oh- crackeo!' now ho does it! We didn't think
it lay in the gizzard of mortal to half as much;
: Really, we think such a desperate andidanger-
pus individual ought to bo caught, cast into; a spi-
der'a wob, and sately guarded uy one nea, two
musquitoos, and a vigilant wood-louse. There is
no know in- what the chap may do-
From the National Intelligencer.
. Tooth Extracted without p:ii:i
while the Patient was in the Ifles
nseric State.
The subject, Miss Throop, about fourteen years
of age, daughter of a celebrated engraver of this
city, was thrown into a mesmeric sleep by Profes
sor De Bonneville last evening about nine o'clock,
before a large audience of both sexes, among
whom no doubt were many disbelievers in mes
merism.
The Professor placed the patient in a mesmeric
sleep as she sat on the bench with the audience,
and then, by the magnetic influence, caused her
to rise and walk around and upon the stage, an
elevation of about three feet from the floor. After
she had ascended the stage and was seated in the
chair, she was requested by the Professor to un
tie her bonnet, which she did. The patient now,
with eyes closed, aud a calm expression of coun
tenance common to sleep, was asked by the Pro
fessor whether or not she wished her tooth ex
tracted ? She replied, in an audible manner, yes.
The audience feeling much interest in this amia
ble and pretty patient, and to ascertain her true
condition, that there should be no collusion or
humbug in the operation, made a demand upon Mu
Professor that some medical gentleman should bo
requested to go upon the stage and examine the
patient and the tooth to be extracted. But before
this call was made upon the Professor he had ex
pressed a wish that some medical gentleman
would, if present, please come forward and exam
ine the patient to see that there was no deception.
in the matter. Dr. J H. Relfe, a Representative
in Congress from Missouri, and Dr. J. M. Gibson,
from Louisiana, were called upon by the audience?
to examine the subject and tooth to be extracted;
The subject was examined by these gentlemen
upon the stage whilst in a mesmeric state, and
here follows their certificate :
We, the undersigned, were present at Profes
sor De Bonneville's lecture last evening, and be
ing called upon by the audience to examino into
the truthfulness of the patient's condition, both as
respected her mesmeric state and the tooth to be
extracted, made all necessary examination, and.
found the tooth to be the first molar of the upper
jaw, (jaw tooth,') very little decayed, and firmly
imbedded in the gum. Being satisfied with tho
examination as to the condition of the patient and
the tooth to be operated upon, she was placed in
the hands of Dr. R. F. Hunt, an eminent surgeon
dentist of this city, who manifested great skill and
adroitness in tho operation. The tooth was ex
tracted without any thing untoward occurring. A
considerable flow of blood followed the extraction,
but which ceased in a few minutes.
The patient sat perfectly easy and quiet during
the operation, apparently unconscious of pain.
There was some little action of the muscles of tho
eyelids while Dr Hunt was incising the gum
around the tooth, but the rest of her face was as
calm and tranquil as a healthy subject in a sweet
sleep, and her whole body was as tranquil as her
countenance.
After the haemorrhage had ceased, she stated,
in reply to questions by the Professor, being still
in the mesmeric state and having her eyes closed,
that she was conscious of having lost her tooth,
but that she felt no pain. The Professor, then,
having caused her to rise to her feet, awakened
her by throwing off the magnetic influence sudden
ly and she opened her eyes in astonishment at
finding herself there. Much contused, she retirod
to her seat among the audience, and when she
had become somewhat composed, Professor De
Bonneville asked her if she had not a tooth which
she wished extracted ! To which she answered,
as before, yes. The Professor then asked, which
one ! She put her finger up to point out the tooth,
but found to her surprise that it was gone.
We must, in closing, express ourselves perfect
ly satisfied and convinced by this experiment, con
ducted immediately undor our own eyes, that teeth
can be extracted, and probably other painful sur
gical operations performed, on patients in a mes
meric state without pain.
The foregoing publication is made at the unani
mous request of the audience.
J. M..LrlBSLJN,.M. 1).
JAMES H. RELFE, M.'d.
Washington, February 21, 1845.
Won't Wed. -The Kentucky Giantess, who is
6 feet and 11 inches in height has refused to wed
,a 7 foot Vermonter on account of his small stature.
She wants man, she Bays.
An Answer. A lady' wrote upon a window
some vorses, intimating her design" of never
marrying. A gentleman wrote tho following
Hnes underneath:
The lady who this resoluiion took:
Wrote it on glass to show it could bo broke.
Poetical. Falling in Jove with a pretty
irl, whoso moral character is wemh $50,000 '