American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-08-11

lad lie retained the commission which he has iusi
resigned. The National Intelligencer thinks
that injustice is done to Com. Porter by the sup.
gestion that he was driven from the service of the
United States by the differences Of opinion, relative
to official matters, which have existed between him
and the late and present Executives of the United
States'--and that in accepting the offer of the
Mexican Government, he was influenced by that
desire OF active service and that thirst for renown
which cardinal virtues in soldier, and BY that
anxious desire TO provide for the future support OF
his young family which is natural and IaudabIe in an
afectionate husband and father"
kentucky again.--The National Intelligencer of
Wednesday says" Again we have from the West
melancholy tale. Welearn, from private source,
that, about two weeks ago, DR. T0ung, Represen.
a!ive in Congress from the State Of Kentucky shot
and killed, in the street of Elizabethtown, Mr.. Har
dla lawyer from Breckenridge county. or so
sggravang and atrocous character was the cause
of this act, as TO shield DIR. Y from prosecution,
and almost to Justify the act in the public opinion.
MIR. Hardin was one who opposed the election of
DR.. Y. and is supposed to have been partly led by
vindctiyc feelings to commit the outrage which
violation of the sanctuary of his domestic hopes and
happiness could have nstigated man of the anna
BILE character of DIR. Y. to this rash act.''
In May last, party of Seminole Indians visited
Washington City, for the purpose of obtaining an
extension of their lands in the Florida Territory
In the course Of reply to an address from the
Secretary Of War, the Head Chief made the fol
lowing remarks.
" Brother: You tell us that our Great Father
wishes to place school in our Nation, to teach our
children to read and write. We do not wish one
at all. We do not believe the Great Spirit intend
ed we should know how to read and write Tor if
he had intended this, he would have given us the
knowledge as early as he gave it to the white PEG
Pile. Now it is too late the white people have
gained an advantage we never recover, and it
is better Tor us to remain as we are, red men, and
live in our own way Brother, among our people
1t Is thought that at the time when there were but
two kinds OF people, the red and the white, on the
EARTH book was placed by the Great Spirit in the
hands OF an old man, blind, and with long beard
who told the red aud the white man tina, he who
killed the first deer should receive the book as his
reward, and be learn, to read It Both went out to
hunt, dHeren, ways. The white man, after going
a little way, found sheep, which beng not wild
as the deer, he easily killed. Hc took this sheep to
the blind man, and told him il was deer The
old man believed him, and gave him the book aud
learnt him how to. read it. The red man soon a.
ter brought in deer; bot he too a;e-the
white man had got the book. If this cheat had moi
been practised, the red man would have been now
as the white is, and he as the red man
Brother. if the Great Spirit had intended that the
red man should know how to read, he would not
have allowed the white man to take this advantage
of us.'