posed to the cession, and force must be resorted to, to Governor Troup, of Georgia, has issued an order Col. John Crowell, agent for Indian affairs in the MIDDLETOWN, CON. June 29. Our readers will recollect, that, about a year ago, a marriage took place between an Indian chief, who had attended the Foreign Missionary school at Cornwall, and a white girl. Most of the papers spoke of it in terms of decided disapprobation. The agents of the school, at the head of whom is the rev. Dr. Beecher, of Litchfield, have published a report, under date of the 17th inst. in which they state, that a negotiation, for a marriage, has been carried on, for some time past, between Elias Boudinot, a young Cherokee, and Harriet R. Gold, of the village of Cornwall, and that there is now a settled engagement between the parties. The object of the publication is to declare their "unqualified disapprobation of such connections." And they regard the conduct of those who aided or assisted in this negotiation as highly "criminal." They say that additional restrictions have been adopted to protect the interests of the school, and of the community as connected with it. past, and, unless some of them have since deceased, all are still living. Their names and places of residence as definitely as known, are as follows: Jared Bunce, Philadelphia. James Goodrich, western states. William Hooker, Berlin, Conn.. Prosper Hosmer, Hudson, N. Y. Stephen Moulton, western states. Epaphras Jones, state of Vermont. Timothy Olmsted, Farmington, Conn. John Steele, Hartford, Conn. MOWING MACHINE. [New Haven Journal. pany with several gentlemen, the improved mowing editor of the Village Record), from viewing, in commachine of Messrs. Ezra Cope and Thomas Hoops, machine; as will appear by the fact, that it mowed jr. It is a simple, and highly efficacious labor-saving an acre of good grass in thirty minutes. It cuts a swarth of 54 feet, and lays the grass handsomely. When under full way it cuts of that width, 50 rods in length in 20 minutes. Ten acres a day may be mowed with it easily. It cannot fail-it ought not to fail, to recommend itself to the enlightened farmer, until it gets into general use. I have just returned, (says the hood is also valuable; it will rake an acre of smooth L. I. in May last, the following numbers of shad, or, [Why so much sensibility about an event of this sort? A gentleman who was thought fit, by many thousands of the people, for the office of president, openly and frankly recommended an incorporation of the Indian race with the citizens of the United States, by intermarriages,-and we could never see lowing account is copied from a London magazineTHE FIRST BATTLE NEAR NEW ORLEANS. The folany reason why, on account of that recommendation. It is probably true, in its leading characteristics. The his claims to the office should have been lessened. affair was about one of the roughest, for the amount The proudest man, perhaps, in America, and as great of the persons engaged, that, perhaps, has happened a stickler for dignity as can be met with, boasts of the in latter times. Indian blood in his veins. But the rev. doctor, who general Jackson, and, without disparagement to that is at the head of the school, rudely exposes the name chief, as brave a man as himself and one that possessA very distinguished officer under of the young lady who has found pleasure in the so-ed the entire confidence of the general, observed to ciety of an Indian youth, and makes the affair "criminal" It is a strange world. If the persons are free to act as they please-if they are not bound "not to commit matrimony or play at any other unlawful game," (as Mathews says he had it in charge by the celebrated John Wilkes, when apprenticed before him), we do not see why this fuss is made about them. Let the girl go, if she pleases, and teach the Indians to make butter and cheese-how to spin, make clothes, &c. and become the parent of children, taught by her to read and write, and think and reflect on things of deep interest to them and all the human family. the editor of the REGISTER, a year or two after the ed onward to the attack in the dead of night. Such ANCIENT BIBLE. A copy of the Antwerp Polygloth | Each officer, as he was able to collect twenty or thirbible, printed at different periods, from 156S to 1575, by Christopher Plantin, is now in the city of New York. It is supposed that there are not more than twelve perfect copies of this edition extant. REMARKABLE LONGEVITY. revolutionary army raised in this state, and commandTo the regiment of our ed by col Webb, was attached a band of music, which was organized at Hartford in the year 1777, and compost I of eight individuals. Intelligence has been Fecaived from all these eight, within a few months ty men round him, advancing into the middle of the enemy, when it was fought, hand to hand, bayonet to bayonet, and sword to sword, with the tumult and ferocity of one of Homer's combats. friend of mine, who chanced to accompany one of shall, (says the narrator), detail the adventures of a To give some idea of this extraordinary combat, I the first parties set out. Dashing through the bivouac, under a heavy discharge from, the vessel, his party reached the lake, which they forded, and advanced as far as the house where general Keane had fixed his head quarters. The moon had by this time made ed basement, the centre is continued, and embellishher way through the clouds, and, though only in her ed with six stone pilasters, coupled at the angles, and first quarter, gave light enough to permit their seeing, a proper entablature supporting an angular pediment; though not distinctly. Having gone far enough to the cornice only is continued the whole length of the the right, the party pushed on to the front, and enter- front, which is surmounted with a handsome balused a sloping field of stubble, at the upper end of which trade, and appropriate acroteria; the order, antique they could distinguish a dark line of men; but whe- Ionic. The entrance to the outer lobby is by three ther they were friends or foes it was impossible to easy steps from the pavement, from which a flight of determine. Unwilling to fire, lest he should kill six winding steps, at each end, lead you into the spaany of our own people, my friend led on the volun- cious corridor, surrounding the first tier of boxes. teers whom he had got around him, till they reached Over the outer lobby is an elegant saloon, or coffee-. some pile of reeds, about twenty yards from the ob- room, with an adjoining chamber; and over these, in jects of their notice. Here they are saluted by a the third story, are similar rooms. The auditory is sharp volley, and being now confident that they were divided into a pit and three tier of boxes-the gallery enemies, he commanded his men to fire. occupies 6-10ths of the third tier in front of the But a brother officer, who accompanied him, who stage; the boxes advance one seat in front of the was not so convinced, assuring him that they were columns; the second and third tier are brought forsoldiers of the 95th; upon which they agreed to divide ward on arches, springing from the capitals of pillars. the force; that he who doubted should remain with The ceiling over the pit is a panneled dome, highly one part where he was, while my friend with the rest enriched by the pencil of Mr. Graem, the scene should go around upon the flank of this line, and dis-painter. The fronts of the boxes and procenium, cover certainly to which army it belonged. Taking with him about fourteen men, he accordingly moved off to the right, when, falling in with some other stragglers, he attached them likewise to his party, and advanced. Springing a high rail fence, they came down upon the left of those of whom the doubt had existed, and found them to be, as my friend had supposed, Americans. Not a moment was lost in attacking, but having got unperceived within a foot of where they stood, they discharged their pieces and rushed on the charge. Some soldiers, having lost their bayonets, laid about them with the but-end of their fire locks; while many a sword, which, till to night, had not drank blood, became in a few minutes crimsoned enough. The English and Americans were so mingled, that they scarcely knew friends from foes; and more feats of individual gallantry were performed in the course of this night, than many campaigns might have afforded. We lost more than five hundred men, and the field of battle was dreadful. are in a corresponding style. The stage, including NEW MEXICO. From the Natchitoches Courier. A man belonging to an expedition fitted out for trading to Santa Fe, from St. Louis, in 1822, arrived here a few days since, by the way of Chewawway, (Chiuahua,) Durango, and Saltillo, across the Rio Grande del Norte, by St. Antonio, to Nacogdoches. He left Santa Fe in August last, and states that the trade of that country is lucrative, and the inhabitants friendly to the Americans. Wheat, he states, is raised in great abundance on the Rio del Norte, and transported on mules to Guaymis, and other ports on the east side of the Gulf of California, from whence it is shipped, in exchange for silk, tea, and sugar, to China and India. I have frequently beheld a great number of dead bodies in as small a compass, though these, indeed, were numerous enough; but wounds, more disfiguring or more horrible, I certainly never witnessed. A man, shot through the head or heart, lies as if he was in a deep slumber; insomuch, that when you gaze upon West of Santa Fe, a nation of Indians have sethim, you experience little else than pity. But, of these tled down into a state of civilization. They manufacmany had met their death from bayonet wounds, ture cloth, and various implements of husbandry and sabre cuts, or heavy blows from the but-ends of mus-war, for the supply of their neighbors. They were kets; and the consequence was, that not only were the not long since at war with the intendency of Santa wounds exceedingly frightful, but the very countenan-Fe, on account of the perfidy of the commander under ces of the dead exhibited the most savage and ghastly expressions. Friends and foes lay together in small groups, of four or six, nor was it difficult to tell almost the very hand by which some of them had fallen. Nay, such had been the deadly closeness of the strife, that in one or two places, an English and American soldier might be seen with the bayonet of each other fastened in the other's body. [London Mag. whom they served in an expedition against the royalists, near Durango. Fifteen of their chiefs had been murdered, and they abandoned the republican cause for a time. The new government has been completely established, and the condition of the country much improved. Taos is the first town met with on the route from St. Louis to Santa Fe, and contains 4 or 5,000 inhabiALBANY THEATRE-from the Argus. This structure, tants. It is 80 miles from Taos to Santa Fe, through which is one of the largest and most elegant in the a cultivated country. Santa Fe contains about 9,000 city, has been erected and completed within the inhabitants, has some trade, but no manufactures. short space of seven months. The site is a very eli- There is a silver mine in its vicinity. One hundred gible one in South Pearl-street, a short distance from miles further south, is Albuqurque, a town of some State-street. The building is something more than importance. The next place of note is the pass del 60 feet in front and rear, 116 feet in depth, and 40 Norte, 500 miles north of Chiuahua. Intermediately feet in height, extending from South Pearl to Wil-the country is inhabited and well cultivated. liam-street. The front, (says a correspondent), is divided into a basement, principal and attic story. The entrance to the boxes, is by three lofty arched openings; the piers and arches of freestone, beautifully rusticated, which occupy three-fifths of the front. The entrances to the pit and gallery are on each side, in plain brick-work. Above the rusticat Chiuahua is a large city, containing about 30,000 inhabitants, and situated about 400 miles north of Durango. To establish a military post at the mouth of Colombia river, the American government would find it much to their advantage to march their expedition by the way of Santa Fe, to the Pacific, and thence along the coast to their destination. Five hundred men, One thousand horses can be purchased at Natchi- FOREIGN NEWS. From London papers to the 25th May, inclusive. The holy alliance. The approaching congress at Milan was a general topic of conversation at Paris. Some said that the marquis Wellesley was to attend on the part of George IV.; others, Mr. Stratford Canning; and a third party, that the assistance of an English diplomatist would not be required-the object of the meeting being only to decide on the measures to be adopted in regard to South America and Greece. Great Britain and Ireland. Ministers have communicated three state papers to parliament, of considerable importance, from the foreign department. The first was a treaty with Russia, settling the disputed claims which existed, with regard to certain rights of trade and navigation in the Pacific. The second was a treaty between England and Sweden, providing, (by the establishment of the mutual right of search), for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade. The third, the official document of the treaty of amity and commerce, between England and the United States of La Plata. When Mr. Canning laid the last of those papers before the house, there were long and loud cheers from all sides of the house. The health of the king of England was considered to be in a very precarious state. [George is "no great things"-a very common man, but worth a dozen Fredericks-and we hope that he will live to a good old age.] The bill now before parliament on the subject of the customs, will repeal 465 acts of parliament! In the house of commons, on the 16th, a resolution passed to raise the salaries of the judges, instead of leaving them to a small fixed salary and other precarious sources. The salaries of the judges of the king's bench were raised from about 9,000 to 10,000l. the chief justices of common pleas to 8,000; master of the rolls 7,000; Ch. Baron of the exchequer to 7,000; vice chancellor from 5,000 to 6,000, and the puisne judges from 4,000 to 6,000. [What are the salaries of the judges and other officers of the United States, compared with these? And yet, perhaps, much the most severe duty is performed by our judges.] The church-running public of London have changed the object of their attentions-to hear the reverend Mr. Irving was the fashion; but the fashionables now gather at the church of another popularity-seeking priest, named Benson, and he will have his day. The habit and decorations of the order of the garter, which the duke of Northumberland is charged to deliver to the king of France upon his coronation, are now in the hands of embroiderers at Lyons, who are charged to place the diamonds. They are said to be worth 1,800,000 francs. The exports of Liverpool are greater than those of London, or any single port in the world. They last year amounted to 20,662,5871. France. The Dutchess of Northumberland, or the ambassadress, as she is called, was received by the dauphiness on the 15th May. Her dress is the subject of wonder and admiration in the Parisian papers. Her manteau was so superbly embroidered, that its weight was almost too much for two persons to sup port. Spain. A corvette of the royal navy has arrived at Cadiz from Peru; and so earnest was the desire of the Ferdinandish authorities to keep secret the intelligence of the annihilation of the armies of Cante rac and La Serna, that all communication with her had been prohibited. The commander was ordered to fire upon all boats that approached the corvette. There is a stupidity in this worthy of the king-he punish a man for saying it is day, when the sun is at would keep that secret which every body knows; and its meridiau. Italy. An article from Naples communicates a curious effort in favor of morality by the king of the that sovereign are to be discharged, if they do not Two Sicilies. The officers of the army and navy of marry the mothers of their natural children. says Sweden recognized the independence of the Sweden. Stockholm, April 29-A French paper South American states three years ago. It has done more, for it declared its intention of recognizing them in 1811, when the whole continent was governed by Napoleon, and Joseph was acknowledged king of the This is proved by the report made at the beginning of Indies by all the European powers, except England. 1812, by the crown prince to the king, on the administration of the government during his illness. gloomy. They speak of dissentions among the chiefs, Greece. Our accounts from Greece are rather and it is not certain that the Egyptians who landed in the Morea, have been defeated, as was reported. But we are so much used to the reception of confused or false news from this quarter, that we know not what may be relied on. A fleet of twenty-two Greek vessels, however, was at sea. soon expected to pass the Dardanelles. The Turkish fleet was Brazil. The negotiation between Portugal and BraThe emperor will retain the sovereignty of Brazil, zil, is stated, in the Paris papers, to be at an end. side at Rio Janeiro, even though the kingdom of Porduring the life of his father, and will continue to retugal should revert to him by the right of succession, given by Brazil, are not, as has been asserted, the which is to be preserved. The two millions sterling, Brazil, but an indemnity for the produce of the mines, purchase money of its independence, on the part of and other property belonging to king John VI. had raised troops in Banda Oriental, to the amount of Buenos Ayres, &c. It is stated that gen. Lavalija 2,000, and been joined by Frutes Rivero, who had deserted from the Brazilian army. Much consternation prevailed at Monte Video from the fear of an attack from this revolutionary party, who are not in any way connected with the government of Buenos Ayres. Mexico. Mexican papers, to the 12th of May, have The treaty between the Mexican unión and Great been received by the editor of the National Gazette. Britain was still under discussion in the senate, in which body it had encountered much opposition. One of the principal objections to it was, that it contained the republic. Later accounts say that the treaty no formal acknowledgment of the independence of has been accepted. twenty miles from Matanzas, revolted on the 16th of Lumley, has been called home, on account of his be- grants arrived at Quebec from the 15th to the 19th of Bunker's Hill Monument. We shall not fail to make due record of what was done, on the 17th ultimo, by the people of Boston and the neighboring towns, on laying the corner-stone of the monument to be erected on Bunker's Hill. The following, however, is so well fitted to precede an account of these doings, and is, besides, so valuable in itself, that we gladly make room for it. From the New York American. The following eloquent reflections, written in Paris, by an old associate and colleague in the chamber of deputies of Lafayette, M. Keratry, will be read with pleasure, and come most opportunely to hand. They were called forth by the knowledge that, on the 17th June, Lafayette was to lay the corner stone of the Bunker Hill monument, and feelingly appeal to our pride, our feelings and our recollections. We owe many thanks to the friend who kindly furnished them to us. [TRANSLATION] Upon the anniversary of the 17th June, 1775, and the laying of the corner stone, by general Lafayette, of the monument to be erected in Boston to the heroes of Bunker hill. NATIONS discharge a sacred debt, when they honor the memory of illustrious citizens. In so doing, they perform an act of self-preservation, since nothing can more strongly incite to generous devotion, than the certainty its author would acquire of escaping from oblivion. that holy conspiracy of Boston, so influential upon It was perhaps enough for the glory of this citizen Already our thoughts an illustrious defender of your liberty should aid you in fulfilling these pious duties. and our eyes had followed to the tomb of Washington the veteran identified with your national glory; and never, as I think, did Heaven smile upon a finer spectacle. Now our looks will again be turned to. There is, indeed, in the acclamations of public wards him, when, on the 17th of next month, he will, gratitude, something so inspiring, and so almost con- in your presence, inaugurate the monument that Bostagious, as to exalt man above himself, and the inte- ton is erecting to the heroes of Bunker Hill. Abunrest of common life. This is sacrificed, in order to dantly worthy to solemnize with you such a homage, It is vain he will doubtless think upon his own country, while secure a more brilliant and enduring one. to say that these honors will only be decreed to cold assisting to pay a debt of yours: he will put up aspiraand senseless ashes: we feel that we should revive and tions for us; and perhaps without envying the pros live again in this glorious hereafter; and thus, by a perity which you owe to the civil and military courage miracle of patriotism, the general welfare of a coun- of your citizens, he will respectfully ask of Protry is the result of all individual sacrifices and abne-vidence, wherefore the glorious days, of which the gations. aurora was seen but for a minute, are withdrawn from the French. But, no! In his religious sorrow he will be silent, lest the monumental stones, and the sacred relics that they protect, should utter too severe an answer for us, the inhabitants of old Europe, where liberty is aimed at without making sacrifices, and happiness is expected without virtue. People, capable of such sacrifices at the moment when they were sceking to shake off the yoke of oppression, whose inevitable effect it is to degrade our species, wheresoever they submit to it, were never without virtues. If, as we have the strongest conviction, GoD waits for men, and subjects them, one Happy nation! that counts in its annals no victo by one, to judgment, according to their deeds in the body, which constitutes the justice of the life to rics but those that established its independence, come, he passes, in mass, here below, upon nations, Wish not for others, unless indeed a noble feeling according to their collective merit, and in that way should impel you to take part in the cause of men op makes manifest the providential justice of our pre-pressed in either hemisphere-for you, too, were sent economy; as he has weighed them, they prosper or sink-thus hordes have become empires-thus empires have disappeared. Americans of the north, men of an enfranchised oppressed, and were succoured. Permit no one among your countrymen to render himself distinguished by a greatness that should be merely personal, and which might, by comparison, render all around him little-for a nation ought not to be a pedestal. Grant distinctions, among the living, only to those who have sought them without other ambition than that of doing you service-and to the dead, who can enjoy them without derogation from the merit that may be springing up around their ashes; for the hereditary transmission of honors. is the act of a people of madmen, who give away their hereafter, for the benefit of the unknown. A simple citizen of another country, I am very bold thus to address you across the ocean that separates us; but my soul yearned to converse with yours: and I believed that the counsels of a Frenchman, who rejoices in your fortune, would not fall on ears too proud or too disdainful, at the moment when a Frenchman is honored by your gratitude. Nevertheless, you do well to add to the renown of That man, one of those to whom it is granted to sea the supporters of your liberty, and to dedicate werthy monuments to those who died for it. The illus-themselves in the light that posterity will see them, trious citizen, who, in 1765, was one of the founders of is preparing to rebirn to his native land; for you know that his heart goes not about in search of the prosperous of the age, and that for him the just cause, triumphant or otherwise, will always be the good cause: may all the elements be propitious to him! Loaded with your gifts, after the antique manner-crowned with flowers by the hands of your modest daughters, and their virtuous mothers, may he soon revisit his fire-side! let him be restored to us! ah! seek no longer to detain him on your shores. You are rich enough in citizens. I will not say that among us, they may still be numbered, for it is not permitted even to speak ill of one's country; but when the feeble are shaken, the presence of the strong becomes but too necessary. Paris, 2d May, 1825. KERATRY, former deputy. Pure and Cool Water. FROM THE NATIONAL JOURNAL. We have lately seen the plan of an invention, made by Mr. Cunningham, of New-York, for purifying and refrigerating water in aqueducts, so as to distribute that useful fluid in any city where the plan is adopted, not only purified from all argillaceous substances, animal or vegetable impurities-but, by his process, so effectually cooled, that the use of ice for the refrigeration of water would become entirely superflu ous. As the ends, thus proposed by Mr. Cunningham, are interesting to every individual of any community, we have obtained from him an explanation of his system, which may give the readers of the Journal a correct | idea of the method he has adopted, which, to all who have examined it, appears easily practicable. We are to suppose the water possessing an elevation over the city or community which is to be supplied, either naturally, by means of pumps, or by making a dam across a stream, which may form the requisite head. At this height it is led into a reservoir, covering from one to ten acres, as the magnitude of the work may dictate. This reservoir is of a square form. At the lower basement a pit is dug of six or eight fect in depth, and ten or fifteen in width, perfectly tight at the bottom and sides. The pit is filled with round stones, pebbles, and silicicated sand, upon which the water flows from the grand reservoir. The pit is bounded on the lower side by a curb or barrier, formed by a frame of wood or iron, filled with round field stones, pebbles, charcoal, sand, broken crockery, chalk, and other substances favorable to filtration. That the passage of the water be not clogged, between each of these substances is distributed a layer of wool. As many of thesc curbs are presented to the passage of the water as may be thought necessary, each about six feet from the other. branch out into the quarters to be supplied, as the nature of the plan will allow. Here Mr. Cunningham proposes to dig a drain or cellar, of such length as the work may require-a mile, or more, if requisiteas deep in the earth as the elevation of the aqeduct will allow. He prefers that this drain be circular, and thinks twenty feet about the diameter required. This, however, can be adapted to the magnitude of the work. The foundation is to be solid, the sides perfectly tight, and formed of stone, brick or wood. The top may be either solid or moveable, as may seem best. this drain, the pipe of the aqueduct will pass, supWithin a few inches of the bottom of ported on solid props. This cavity, formed above and around the pipe, is to be filled with ice, to be completely secluded from the influence of the sun by the solidity of the top, and by a lining of non-conductors of caloric. Thus, having formed an ice-house, the next object and provisions are made to produce it on the spot, is to obtain ice. This is a part of the plan before us, and in any quantity. ice-house, he forms shallow vats of considerable extent. Into these, at any time when the mercury in Along each side of the drain or the thermometer stands at the freezing point, all the surplus water from the aqueduct can be turned, by summit of the drain, to which stop-cocks are attached. means of pipes, extending up from the aqueduct to the vats, broken up and deposited in the drain; and the The water thus drawn off will be congealed in the process can be renewed several times in each day during freezing weather. Or should this process be found too expensive, he proposes to open the top of the drain in freezing weather, and, by converting the tain in the drain large solid masses of ice. perpendicular pipes into fountains, or 'jets d'eau, ob distributing branches, he forms another ice-house of Below the drain, and at the very insertion of the a square form, through the middle of which the aqueduct passes. At the upper extremity of this icehouse, a transverse pipe intersects the main trunk at right angles, extending to the extremities of the icehouse on each side. Another transverse pipe, of the same size and length, crosses the aqueduct at the lower extremity of the ice-house. The arms of these cross-pipes are connected by small tubes, which are laid at the bottom of the ice-house, several feet below the level of the aqueduct. When a stop-cock, which is placed in the main aqueduct, a few inches below the first transverse pipe, is turned, the water rushes into the arms of that pipe, and passes through the tubes laid under the ice-house, into the second transverse pipe, through which it regains the main trunk. This latter refrigerator is considered only necessary in the warmest weather, and in the winter is closed. Having found its way through the curbs, the water encounters, at the entrance into the second fountain of the winter, in obtaining sufficient quantities of ice, Should any difficulty occur, from the temperature or reservoir, a strainer of coarse flannel, stretched to fill both the drain and the lower ice-house, Mr. C. upon an iron or wooden frame. This is so disposed, proposes to fill only the latter; then, by a pipe insertthat, should the impure substances, contained in the ed in the aqueduct, above the first transverse pipe, to water after passing the curbs, be sufficient to clog carry into one of the arms of the latter a certain porthe texture of the flannel, a new strainer may be tion of the water, sufficient for a supply for potaplaced before the old one, while it is removed and tion, which will pass through the tubes just mentioncleansed. Thus, it will be seen, the water will haveed, into the lower transverse pipe, and thence into a passed through innumerable filtrations before having reached the second reservoir, where the process ends; and it cannot be doubted that, at this point, it will be found pure, limped and potable, to the full wish. But the refrigeration claims more attention, and is a more ingenious section of his plan for obtaining good water. From the last reservoir, which is covered, so as to be perfectly defended against dust or any other impurity, springs the main trunk of the aqueduct, and Conveys the water as near the point where the pipes small pipe running along the trunk, and conveying become bighly beneficial in its operations. The union |