Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1844-02-17

make an appropriation to cover his extra expe~-
ses. Their judges receive IS per day ..hfe on
duty; their committee and council men w 50 n
day while in session, which j. ""out three weeks;
and their sheriff receives 900 annually. During
the session Of thei, council, public table is kept
! at the expepso Of the nation at large. There are
eleven common schools under the superintendent
Of the Rev. Stephen Foreman, a native Cherokee
| in which are taught rendnS, writing, arithmetic,
book keeping, English grammar. geography, and
| history. Nine of the teachers white men, of
whom one is an adopted citizen by marriage. and
the other two teachers are native Ch6rokees.-
The expenses of these schools are defraved from
the national school fund. There is allowed to
each teacher $685., including the purchase of
books also, 5000 for the support of orphan child
rem while attending school; and from five to ten
orphans are annually supported and educated at
each of these schools. The number educated for
this year was about five hundred scholars.
! Besides the public schools thus noticed, thel Q
| are several missionary establishments connected
with schools and churches. or the, "the Ameri-
can board Of commissioners for foreign missions
among the Cherokees'' have four stations
Dwight, Fairfield, Park Hill, and Mount Zion ;
and also a native preacher stationed at Honey
Creek. The DvigM mission. under the super
intendence of the Rev. Jacob Hitchcock, has n
school of fifty five girls; for'y-ve regular bon rd-
ing scholars; two teachers regularly employed.
(Mr. and Mrs. Dodgo.) The Fairfield mission,
under the care of DR.. E. Butler, has school for
girls and boys, averaging twenty five; Sunday
school of thirty members. The church consists
of sevsnty-fve members, nearly all Cherokees.-
Park Hill is in tho charge of the Rev. Samuel A.
Worcester. The whole number Of scholars has
been forty-sevon; the average is about twenty all
Cherokees except five. AT Mount Zion, under
the caro- Of tho Rev. Daniel S. Butrick, there has
kna 81 h.,.b ~,
Der about fifteen. The whole number Of church
members of this mission, who natives, is one
hundred and ninety-one, The Methodist society
have employed in the nation twenty seven preach
crs, of whom fifteen are local; of the twelve that
have been sent by the society TO labor as circuit
preachers, four are natives. There are fourteen
hundred commandments. There also Sunday
schools in ny of the societies, in which instruc-
ton is given both in the English and native
tongues, reported to be in prosperous and in
creasng condition. The missionaries of the
Limited Brethren's' church have under their care
nbou, eighty members, Cherokees, nd two schools
IN charge OF Messrs. G. Bishop and Il. Ruede.
numbering from ten to fifteen scholars. The
Baptist association have seven hundred and fifty
COMMITMENTS. two ordained preachers. who are
also natives, and five licensed preachers. who are
also natives; their names are Lewis, Downing.
Peter Iu-ne-no~lu. Potts, and i. Soowotsciku.-
The Cherokee Baptist mission formed themselves
into an auxiliary missionary society the Their
board in Boston, and have two schools supported
by their JOINT efforts; one is entirely school for
females, and is taught by Miss Hibbard; the other
is under the charge of Miss Moss, and is for the
instruction of both boys and girls. Both of these
are competent teachers and accomplished la les.
The first has thirty-ive and the other forty.fye
pupils. They have large brick school house,
ht he The no nkea nd nj bor hn
are answering the most sanguinc expectations of
their friends
There is one temperance society. consisting Of
seventeen hundred and ffty.two Numbers. of
WHICH fifteen hundred and sixty Chorokees.
They enter Eto all engagements with caution. but
observe them with good faith; and, in making the
pledge to the temperance society, they do so with
n full knowledge of its obligation. The following
is their pledge: 1--WE hereby solemnly pledge our
selves, That we will never use, nor buy, nor sell,
nor gVe' nor receive, as a drink, any whiskey.
brandy, rum, gin, wine, fermented cider, strong
oeer' or any kind of intoxicating liquor" The
ehc'osed reports may be referred to, if necessary,
10, i me correctness of the foregoing ssatemen.-
lne Cherokees have printing press, which has
recently gone into operation. 1t will no doubt
have decided influence on the inteIlioence and
aracter of the nation, as it will serve to dissemi
nate knowledge and useful Information. PubIica.
.,ons coh 10 The native and English tongue are is
sued from 1t. Their own language is written and
printed by means of an alpha bet invented bv
George Guess, a native Cherokee. This remark.
able man is destined, by his invention, not only
to be identified with the literature of his race bu,
may be the means, by his.love of knowledge and
patriotic devotion to The interests of his country
Of eevating one of the aboriginal races into his.
torcal importance and moral dignity. Asa peo
pie, the Cherokees generally cvincesan increasing
interest in tho importance Of education. Some o
!, them have decided taste for general literature
and may be said to have reached respectable at
tainmenrs in it. A few have full and well select
ed Libraries. Thousands Of them can speak and
; write the English language with iuency and com
J paratve accuracy; and many hundreds car
draw up written contracts, deeds, and other nstru
ments, for the transfer Of property. In the ordi
, nary transactions of life esnecnlu in .,,al.;..