The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-05-12

yah became at once school-master, p1ofes.
: sor, philosopher, and chief. His country
men were proud of his talents, and held him
/ in reverence as one favored by the Great
Spirit. The inventions of the early times
} were shrouded in mystery. See-quah-yah
disdained all quackery. He did not STOP
here, but carried his discoveries to numbers
| can safely say, that I have seldom met
a man of more shrewdness than -qnah-
yah. He is man of diversified talents
he passes from metaphysical and philosoph-
lcal investigator to mechanical occupation
with the greatest ease. The only practi-
cal mechanics he was acquainted with, were
a few bungling blacksmiths, who could
make rough tomahawk, or tinker the lock
Of re yet he 6ssa .IstI Ehie ha4 sl
sp,.rs- al .:l-e-- spoons with neatness and
i skill, to the great admiration OF the people
of the Cherokee nation. See-quah-yah has
also great taste for painting. He mixes
his colors with skill; taking all the art and
science of his tribe upon the subject, he adj.
ded to it many chemical experiments of his
own, and some of them were very success
full, and would be worth being known to
our paint ers. For his drawings he had no
model but what nature furnished, and he Of
ten copied them with astonishing faithful
ness. He had never seen a camel hair pen
Gil, when he made use of the hair of wild
animals for his brushes. The manners of
! the American Cadmus are the most easy,
and his habits those of the most assiduous
scholar, and his disposition is more lively
than that of any Indian ever saw. He I'M
derstood and felt the advantages the white
man had long enjoyed. of having the accu-
mutations of every branch of knowledge,
from generation to generation, by means of
a written language, while the red man could
only commit his thoughts to uncertain ira
dition. He reasoned correctly, when he
urged this to his friends as the cause why
the red man had made so few advances in
knowledge in comparison with us and to
remedy this was one of his great aims, and
one which he has accomplished beyond that
OF any other man living, or perhaps any 9TH
err who ever existed in rude state of ma
ture.-Knapp's Lectures.
| CHILLING POLITENEss. Without enter
ing into any disqulsition as to the rights Of
hospitality and the merits of social duties,
we shall briefly notice what we conceive
to be I" singularly cold civility"-the effects
of which are felt by the suffering party long
after their exposure TO it. Large rooms
reserved for the use of company, or invited
guests, are often shut up for many DAYS,
and even sometimes for weeks together, in
damp and cold weather. These are open
ed, and a fire made in them an hour or two
only before the arrival of the visitors, who
are allowed by this means to sit exposed, at
first to the chilling air Of the room, and sub
sequently to the moisture which evaporates
from the curtains, Competing and chair seats.
! The persons thus suffering are generally
clad in a lighter attire than is customary
with them, and ifthey do not actually shiver
under their reception, we must attribute it
to an uncommon effort of voition. But in
addition to these dispensations, common to
the whole group, there is not unfrequently
a current OF air rushing in with force enough
to turn small windmill, through the crew
ice, or opening of door, or window, which
strikes against the neck or back of some
tmld maiden, or awkward country youth,
who are fearful of being thought unDolte
by changing their places, and obtaining a
seat nearer the fire. Dinner is at length
served, and then by the doctrine of com
pensatlon, these two personS are allowed to
sit with theil backs to the fire during the
repast, to make room at more pleasant
part of the table, for their seniors, or those
t who have frankness enough TO say that they
cannot bear thesfire, that is, that they can
not bear TO he roasted-for politeness' sake.
Night arrives, and the hour for sleep finds
the favored guest in a bed, which has been
; for weeks he'd of state, and between sheets
which are so damp that they adhere to the
) skin. Perhaps the room had been washed
out in the morning, in order to be in nice
! trim, and as an evidence of still greater re-
! spect to the visitor, who, in addition to the
5 other evidences of chilling peliteness, re-
! ceives the cold damp air coming from the
floor and walls.
Colds, coughs, and consumptions, are OF.
! ten the effects of this kind of friendly at.
tention; which are succeeded by another
/ series, scarcely less distressing, and still
5 more fatal. These consist in the recon.
> mendation of sundry cough mixtures, pull.
, monte balsams, and the like. Hence a per.
: son has poor chance of escape, under the
kindness of those friends, of whom one class
bring on the disease, and the other kill,
: while promising to cure it.-Jour. Of Health
} An ARTICLE THAT CANNOT BE STOLEN The
, Marshal de Bassomptere asked one of his officers
, Sc how old he was ?" I" | cannot tell exactly.
said the captain, " but / am either thirty-eight
! or forty-eight." elbow is it," answered the
Marshal, "that you are so ignorant of a con
Germ that every person finds pleasure in know
ing ?" "Why," said the captain, &c keep al
: exact account of my rents, and what is owing
: to me, for fear of being cheated, but neye
trouble my head about my years, because, no
body can rob me of them"
TRANSFORMATIONS OF HUMAN HAIR. In
, communication to the Academy of Padua, DR.
[ Nardo has impaired some singular observation
in reference to the growth of The hair afte
death, nay, even after it mad been forcibly pluck
ed from the skin. Having torn up a hair b,
the roots from his own head, he inserted it in
|, pore he had opened with needle in his breast
axciied n triHinr inflammation nrnnnd il by rnh