Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-04-09
Red Jackets NIonumeut.

George CONWAY, at the close of his lecture in Buff
falo Tuesday last, called the attention of the
dience to the subject of erecting monument to the
remains of Red Jacket.
When he had closed, says the Express. DR.. Will
son, noble specimen of the native American race,
and with tears starting from his eyes, his stall
wart form shaking like aspen leaf under the
tending emotions that struggled in his bosom. ad-
dressed the meeting in the following strain of i'm
pulsive eloquence:
'GENTLEMEN AND LADIEs:-1 wish to detain you
moment. I of the descendants of Red Jack
ct, speak for them: We have been removed from
Red jacket ok though not prophet or son
of prophet, predicted that the pale face would
drive them from the grave Of their fathers and his
bones would rot there. But let no pale face touch
them. He forbid, in his last moments the face to
follow his remains when his spirit should leave them
to unite with the Great Spirit. So let the white
man not touch them. We, the few broken remnants
of the Senecas, will bear them away with
He wants no monument from the hands of the
white man. He would not have it. AS he forbid
the pale faces to follow him to his resting place,
he would forbid them to desecrate his bones with
their touch. Let not the white man bestow his un-
thankful benevolence there. Let not the philan-
thropst go there. Red Jacket wants no monument.
No monument would preserve his name His name
will not perish, though he has no monument. He
lives lie lives IN these hearts of and will live
long one heart beats in the breast of the red
man.
The white man has done something for him. He
has surrounded his remains with paling. He has
placed a marble slab them. Where is it now
Piece by piece the curious visitor has carried away,
till scarcely one is left. Should the pale face
build him monument as high they propose to
build to Washington at their Capitol it would crum-
BILE away as that has that those people of Buffalo
have placed over him. and no stone would be found
upon another. No Red Jacket forbid the pale fa-
ces to follow him to lis grave. Red Jacket would
not have them desecrate his bones resting there.
! g His predictions that the pale face emigration
would roll over these plains and sweep away his
tribe is fulfilled and relative of his descendants
a few remain, yonder, say to you white men and wo-
men. touch not bone of him After few days we
will bear away in our hands from his resting place,
what remains of him. But let not white man touch
| him. | am donen
CONWAY then stated that he not aware of the
presence of relative friend of Red Jacket of
the state of feeling existing among the remnant of
his tribe he should have adverted to this SUBJ
ject at this time, and in this manner.
A PRINCESS CoNvENT.-The Princess Naraki,
great niece of the Emperor of Russia has recently
paid visit to the Hospci Generate of the order of
St. Vincent de Paul, at Valenciennes. The Impe-
rial der Naed says:
e The pious princess desires to occupy cell in
thUfr sambe asylum 1t is said that having descend
ed voluntarily from the CHEST steps of the impe-
rial throne. to which her rank and birth called her.
she has abjured the Greek religion to adopt that of
the Roman Catholic church, and to take the veil
among the humblest sisters of charity. She resolv-
made to Paris after the death of her father on see
ing the exemplary life of the sisters of the congrega
ton of st. Vincent de Paul In order to end he1
life amongst them, far from worldly greatness she
!, hesitated at sacrifce-neither the loss of hel
property which confscated. nor exile, nor thu
most complete abnegation of her existence She pos
sesses perfect EDUCATION, solid and varied informa
, ton, to which she unites modesty which adds an
other flower to her almost angelic crown"
; Coal LAND.-TLe Pottsville (Pa) Mining Regis
ter abiding to the cheapness of land in that quartz
a few years ago. says of coal land i
worth $4,000
Many set down higher figure. In the South Ba
{ SIM that is, from the Sharp Mountain to the Mu
r Hill,) where we have all the veins, viz thirteen
including red and white ash, the whole thickness O
the coal is ninety feet thick Allowing one half o
this for fault and waste in mining have As fee
or Is yards in thickness of merchantable coal Their
being $4,000 square yards to the acre. we have b,
$ multiplying this number by the thickness 72,O0l
square yards or tons of coal per acre, which, at
rent of % cents per ton, brings $4,000 This is
fair estimate of the real value of an acre of our Goa
land, without exaggeraton or establishment. 1t i
not strange therefore, that our lands have and ar
still increasing SO largely in value In England Goa
lands. not possessing the intrinsic value of
sell at from one to two thousands pounds sterling
9: FugitIve Slaves In Pennsylvania.