New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-06-17
SOL. ~. no. 81.
satisfied and all claims of lhcir sons and heirs

Under the present Government, tie sale OF
Ardent Sprirs has almos: entirely disappeared
except upon the State lines, where the Offenders
arc able to protect themselves by refuge in,o
the sanctuary Of the State or Arkansas; and a
thing which speaks as highly for the morale Q,
the People as any other, is the fact that to this
day there are no means provided, either by dis.
;rcss or otherwise, 10 enforce the collection Of
dob's-individual honor and thc force Of public
opinion having been found amply sufficient a
powerful agent of the Government, and an item
OF no small pride to the Cherokecs, is their Print
ing-PIess, whence cmanatc Weekly Paper in
their own character aid all the Books necessary
for the public instruction
The Cherokces have good and well establish.
ed system OF education, thc schools generally be-
ing kept by natives and harb!oods.) which is so
popular that Il is rare - find an adult who has
grown up since The invention OF their alphabet
who is unable to read, at least in his own tongue
character. The old religious systcra which &C.
sembled that Of the Guebres has ROW passed away,
and they have attached themselves 10 one or the
other OF the so.styled evangelical denominations.
The writer OF this sketch has witnessed one.half
OF the nation collected at a field. preaching. and
found them at the least as devout and attentive
as an equal number CT whites would be. Nor
are they dependent upon the white man for
their preachers, but have eloquent ministers OF
their own, able to address them in pure English
and to utter in their own vocal and musical
tongue such sentences and ideas rs the Indian
only uttcrs and thinks And an exhibition which
could not but have touched the most caous, was
when after the execution OF Boudinot and The
Ridges during the excitement which pervaded not
only the Chcrokees and the tribes OF Indians III
their vicinity but the noighoorlng States, and the
United States Military Posts stre~n along the
line, was that OF the council OF the nation, the phi
l.ary asseThlegc of all able TO bear arms in the
country, previous 10 their deIlbcration, and after
their close on each day addressing themselves to
that God adored b. Indian and European, alike.
Persons who were III the Cherokee country at
that time, OF every shade of opinion as to the just
ness Of the claims OF either OF the parties which
divided the people, all agree in the sentiment thai
whites of any degree Of intelligence had never set
lied as difficult and dsagrceabIe question with
as great maintenance Of good temper and sound
judgment.
The section Of country they occuy, though
containing much valuable and fertile land as
whole is les productive than most Of the tracts
which surround it. Yet have they been able 10
open large farms sometimes consisting Of more
than thousand acres, winch arc well cultivated.
The prevailing crops are corn and oats, for which
they find Il ready market al the military posts in
their country, which arc generally garrlsoned by
III H., ,bnr- of
cattle and horses are employed by the Quarter
Masters Department. Besides this, they RAISE
sufiicicncv ui cotton and tobacco for their own
use, and especially those who have been ong IN
the countrv, have around their houses large or.
chards OF the peach, which thrives in their coiin-
try better than anywhere else on the continent,
and other fruits. Their houses are comfortable,
with all the convcnienccs of life around them,
with one feature winch is extremely grateful and
different from what is usual in America. They
are not stuck down in the bare prairie without
shade, or if built in the forest, with nothing but
the misshapen trunks and stumps To SPEAK of the
gorcs winch once adorned the land they occu-
py, but are generally shaded by Oaks or Linn
wood carefully trimmed up so as to enable the
owner to 81. in his own door and overlook ms
fields from one extremity to the other. a Cher
exec woman is now rarely seen occupied IN out
door labor she SITS 1t home, weavcs ana spins, ar
seems TO her husband TO discharge her duties
If she is cheerful ard attentive 10 her h0usg-
wiiery. Polygamy has entirely disappeared from
among them, so far at least as the rlsng genera
ton is concerned, and when the old men shall
have died away in that respect they Will not differ
from the whites. Many vi them have slaves
whose condition docs not differ from that o. the
slaves of the Patrarcs of old. They generally
associate with their masters on terms OF perfect
equality sleeping in the same rooms and eating
al the same table. The laws agains, cohabta-
ton Of the Indian and Negro, however, arc Sc.
we're, and rigidly enforced. Their negroes are
much more intelligent than those owned by the
whites. Why this is so, it is not here the place to
discuss.
All the mechanic arts are exercised by natives
or half blouds who have learned their trades ut
the shops which the Government long maintain
cd among them or at the mission schools. vi
these, the one near i'ekc-tok-a or the Double
Spring, called Prospect Hill and formerly tho seat
OF the national press, Is in most thriving con.
dition and in a spot as beautiful and as highly
improved as any in the West, Such at least was
the case some years since.
Suchi the general condition Of the Cherokees.
To some of their national habits and peculiar
customs reference may hereafter be made.
E"A Discourse delivered in Boston before
the Pastoral Association Of Congregational Minis
tiers in Massachusetts, May 2Sth, 1914, by EDWARD
A. PARK, Bartlett Professor in Andover Theological
Seminary" has been sent us by NJ. H. New
man, 1879 Broadway. l, is a very able and learned
Anti.Puseyi,e sermon.
u The CLAY WING is the title Of new and
spirited Weekly issued at Taunton, Mass. by
John w. D. Hail.
To the Editor nj The Tribune
VIII you inform three ircnds of the Tariff through your
paper who from Philadelphia tbs Spring whether they
are entitled for Pcsden; TINS State November
Two voted for M Van Buren, 1870 the other has been
the army for five years We Mechanics and can't
Polk and Free Tade For Cny the TarN the MECHANICS