The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-25


 copies in British museum and congress sional Library" A second edition was published in London, in the year iilli a third edition in the year TIA, and fourth in the same city in ITS. Copies Tn the Boston Atheneum Harvard and Massa- chusetts Historical society. At the Erin ley sale Of rare books a splendid copy brought s250
 Also published in complete form in Ham burg in the year TIP; copies in congress and Harvard libraries.
 An exact copy published in Raleigh N. C.. by strother < Marcum, ae tner book and job office. in the year ls6o' copy in Congressional Library.
 A volume by Casuglioni of voyage fmeans travels) through the United States of America in the year 17S5, l1s6 and llo.' published in Milan, Italy in the year liSo' contains vocabulary of the ChoctaW and Cherokee languages.
 An interesting eataog was published in the year 1850, containing list of IF Indian portraits, representing IS different tribes. accompanied by few remarks on the character etc. of most of them.
 "A list of prominent persons belonging 10 various American tribes. whose DOT traits were painted by King of Wash ington and copied by Inman: the names of most of them are given with the En- elish signifcation among the tribes rep resented Is the CherolKee.' A copy or this catalog is in the library of the Wis eonsin Historical society.
 "In the Cherokee Phoenix, volume 1. No. ', was begun the printing of the Gospel of Matthew, in Cherokee eharac- ters (he alphabet of Seauoyah) and in the numbers following until July 29. 1929. Concerning the translators MT John F. Wheeler. in his "'Reeolections of a Life of Fifty Years Among the Cherokees, makes the following statement: Tn the first number of the Cherokee Phoenix was published translation of the book of Matthew. by Maj. George Lowery, afterwards second chief under John Ross, aided by his son-in-law. David Brown. the brother of the celebrated Catharine Brown. Mir Worcester, who was good Greek scholar, and Mr. Boudinpt, revised it. and one or two chapters were pub lished each week"
 Miss Catharine Brown was woman of rare intelligence and exalted character; the details of her work among the In- dians of whom she was one, in the spir- itual betterment of their condition; her pleadings for a sweeter and more tram gull home life, for less warfare and more peacefulness her gentle power over the rudest men in the tribe and her constant pleadings with the chief and his council to accept the situation as the will of God, would fill a volume. She carried on an extensive correspondence with prominent societies and individuals in Boston and Philadelphia, as well as the secretary of foreign missions in London, who were interested in mission work among the southern Indians The officials In Wash ington treated her with the most pro- found respect Tn a purely educational sense she regarded her people as mere children dwelling in the forest and real ized that time, labor and patience were needed to elevate them to the standard of the white race praying fervently for Di- vine guidance in all things. Over hill and valley she went among the helpless and suffering, an angel ministrant; stern warriors who would not attend church, asked her to kneel down by their side and pray for them, and rising from their pended knees promised to come to relig- ious service. When the Sabbath morning bell rang out It's sweet invitation, those hardened sinners were the first to arrive. Her brother, David Brown, after a course of study in college, had consecrafed his life to the cause of religious work nmong his tribe. By birth and breeding they ranked among the aristocracy of their race and owned large bodies of rich lands; in a worldly sense it was not nec- essary for them to endure toll and priva- tion; but they preferred to take up the cross and follow Him. She moved about so noiselessly the Indians called her "the lily that floats on the water" Had David Brown been man of political ambition he might possibly have reached the posi- ton of first or second chief of the mighty nation of Cherokees. His father-in-law stood high in the estimation of the gov ernment at Washington. After all he chose the better part.
 The strenuous life led by Catharine Brown proved too severe tax upon her strength and her health failing she sought relief in rest and spent while with her friends in Browns valley. coming down the Tennessee river by boat from Rosss Landing (now Chattanooga to Gunter's Landing. With a party of her friends she came to Blount Springs and found comfortable quarters in two-room house built of rock and plastered inside, locat- ed upon the spot where the former resi- dence of Col. J. F. B. Jackson now stands, adjoining the Mountain House. This rock house was built by MT. George Golf, then the owner of the springs. A huge chimney in the center furnished a fire place for each room, and a grove of magnificent oak and beech trees surround ed the place. O naccount of her fame and high social position she received
 
 as she never failed to do everywhere she went, and met for the first time in her life representative men and women from the highest circles of southern wealth and culture who, coming from New Orleans, Mobile, Natchez and Vicksburg, were a charm and a revelation to her; but not more than the surprise they confessed in discovering a spirit so deeply religious and manners so modest and graceful in one whose environment was the wilder ness and whose literature had been. among her ancestral race, that of the Armament, the sigh of the wind and the roar of the storm; the gold of the sun by day on hill and plain and river, the moon by night making marble the earth. the wandering stars and the Great Spirit over all. One whose race had made war a mere pastime, the type of their saints. clasping in her hand the beloved Bible, and reading in a low, soft voice of the journey from the manager at Bethlehem to the Cross at Calvary.
 She attended service at the pioneer church near the cold spring, in the vale of Ravens Graz, and among the congre- gation were many Indians who had jour- neyed a long distance to meet her, and the best class of whites, some from a distance of % miles, were there The sermon was forceful and eloquent; the singing of the good old-fashioned hymns in which her clear. sweet voice was heard. deeply touched all, and especially the city-bred strangers unaocustomed to such display of feeling. While waiting for the afternoon meeting Catherine Brown rested under the shade of tree immediately in front of the waterfall. Adown the creek nature was as wild as