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, peri-ds, which are too minutely detailed to
be repeated. The Great Spirit als > directs
them ali to bathe at certain periods, to wash
away their sins, upon the observance <>f
¦which regulations, they are to be pardoned
four times for the same offence ; such as
«fcaiing, getting drunk, orthe like ; but the
lift it time, says the Great Spirit, ' you shall
surely die."]
Y iur wise men [or conjurors] have bad
medicine in their bags. They must thrnw
away their medicine bags, and when the
vat i, a .s in blossom, collect it fresh and
pure. You must make no feasts to the evil
spirits of the earth ; but only to the good
spirits of the air. You are no more to dance
the Wabano, nor the Poigan dance. I
did not put y m on the earth to dance those
., but are to dance naked, with your
painted, and - ith the Piogamangum
(wai club) in your hands. You mu^t ail
iiave this weapon and never leave it behind
you. When you dance thus, I shall always
look on with pleasure. You are to make
yourselves Paka touanacs, for crosses) vhich
you must always carry with you, and amuse
yourselves often with that game. (A kind
of. J bat ball common among the savages,
which requires great agility.) Your wo-
men must have also handsome passa qu;i-
iiaks § that they may play also ; for I made
you t i amuse yourselves, and I am delight-
ed when I see you happy. You are, how-
ever, never t» go to war against each other,
but to cultivate peace between your differ-
ent tribes, that they may become one great
peopole.
My Children—fto I ndiari must ever sell
mm to Indians, it makes him rich, but
when he dies he becomes very wretched.—
You bury him with his wealth and ornaments
about him, and as he goes along the path
of the dead, they fall from him ; he stops
to take them up, and they become'dust.—
He at last arrives almost at the place of rest,
and then crumbles into dust himself. But
those, who by their labor furnish them-
selves with necessaries only, when they die
are happy , and, when they arrive at the
land of the dead, will find their wigwam
furnished with every thing they have on
earth.
[Thus far the great Spirit.1]
Now, my children said the first created
man, listen what 1 am about to add. -The
great spirit then opened a door, shewing me
a bear and a deer, both very small, and ve-
ly lean, and said : look here, mysou! the---
itre the animals that are now on the e.uih ;
the red people have spoiled them by killing
them t..o young, and giving their meat to
the whites and also by greasing themselve:
with their fat, which is very wrong.
The
•Women, when they giease their bodies, or
their hair, should do a only with fat of the
smaller animals : of racoons, of otters, of
. snakes, &c. The great spirit then opened
another door, and shewed me a bear and
deef extremely fat, and of a very extraordi-
nary size, saying, " look here my son !
Those are the ..nimals I ^iced on the earth
-¦when I created you."
Now, my children listen to what I say,
and let it sink into*your ears—It is the or-
elcrsofthe great spirit.
My Children—You mast not speak of
this talk to the whites. It must be hidden
{rem them. I am now on the earth, sent
by the great spirit to instruct you. Each
i ¦village must send me two or more principal
•iliiefs to represent to you that you may be
taught. The bearer of this talk will point
out to you the path to my wigwam, I could
not come myself to Arbre Creche, because
the world is changed from what it was ; it is
broken, and leans down ; and as it de-
clines, the Chippewas and all beyond will
fail off and die ; therefore you must come to
ine and be instructed, in o;der to prevent it.
Those villages which do not listen to this
talk, and send me two deputies, will be
cut off from the lace of the earth.
* Vast quantities of Indian corn are raised
. by the Indians of Arbre Cardie, a village
ten miles in length, lying onLake Michigan,
i.t the distance of nine leagues from rUichil-
jmackinac. It is purchased by the traders,
& is the principal food of their men employ-
ed in the fur trade.
t Sugar is also made by them in great a-
fcundance. A single family makes from iO
to 30 mokoks (,as they call them) contain-
ing about Q5 each It is sold to the traders,
and is worth from iO to 12 cents a lb. It is
often superior in wniteness to the be^t Mus-
Cowiuo sugar.
\ The same game at which they were
,j laying when old Macana was taken lay stra-
tagem and destroyed.
§ Another game for the amusement of the
Indian women. Two little balls are tied to-
gether by a thong of six inches in length,
arid thrown wiiii a slick.
The Subscriber
Bespectfully informs his friends and the
public generally, that he continues to act as
lie >k.i'i- and Commission Ag.mt, and will
transact any business Committed to his cure,
¦with fidelity, punctuality and. dispatch.
i ii;; huvs and sells Stocks of all kinds, coun-
t ,-y Produce and Merchandize of every de-
scription, procures Freight &c. for ve*,sels, &
Inoaey for approved paper, on moderate terms.
FOR SALE,
Union ar.d Mechanic's Bank Stocks, Mary-
laud, Chesapeake, Marine and Union Insu-
SuranoC Stock
ALSO FOR SALE,
"Well secured Ground Rents.
' A. few Shares of Baltimore Water Stock.
WALTER HOE, iirok.r,
No. 46, South street.
August 5 .. - ________ dot eott_
literary and Commercial
Seminary.
y MR. KIND.lets thought proper publicly
t> in i.rnr parents and guarctrans, that there
¦Will be uu vacation in ine above instant ion.
'FfcDE'KAL GAZETTE.
THURSDAY, AlKtVST u\
Mr. Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury,
arrived in Philadelphia last Monday.
Mr- Erskiue, British minister, arrived
there on Tuesday.
For the Federal Gazette.
I observed a noti'ication in the different
newspapers, of a meeting to be held this
evening, of such persons, as are disposed
to use their influence for the amelioration of
the African race.
Tha author is unknown to me. but I
am ready and willing to enlist under his
banners ; and it is with pleasure I can say
that, a numerous and respectable portion of
my fellow-citizens, are in equal readiness to
join this humane company. Let then eve-
ry man amongst us, who is a friend to the
just'and equal rights of man, and who is an
enemy to tyranny, injustice and oppression,
be his religious opinions what they may, at-
tend at the place appointed, that we may
shew to the world the respectability of our
numbers. Here f» a wide liuld open for the
philanthropist ; one, in which the patriot
may obtain a crown of never lading laurels.
By assidious and united efforts we may in-
sure the adoption of such measures, as will
not only lessen the crimes of the present
age, and abridge the sufferings of many
amongst us ; but will provide the means of
happiness and security for generations yet
unborn. A, W.
from the Norfolk Ledger.
To the REQPfl of UNITED AMERICA.
No. II.
MY last was designed to shew to my
countrymen, that notwithstanding the conci-
liatory language now held by the British,
war was yet inevitable. In the present
number, I shall endeavor to bring before
you all the probable consequences which
will result to us from this war. These*
as you Will readily imagine, must be impor-
tant and painful lor a season, but you will
not be appalled by them. To obtain your
independence you have already sustained
much greater privations, more severe hard-
ships, and sustained them during a seven
years war. Surely then, to preserve this
invaluable blessing, you cannot murmur at
submitting now to lesser evils, and for a
shorter term. I will exhibit them faithfully
before you, that you may begin no.v to fa-
miliarize yourselves to their appearance, and
that your minds may be employed like mine
in examining the best means of mitigating
their rigor, and blunting their force.
The American people at the present mo-
ment have more property abroad than'they
ha^e ever before had. Their neutral posi-
tion during the conflict which has so long
disturbed the Eur pean world, has given to
them a trade which they never before en-
joyed. The course of this trade has re-
quired their numerous ships to be much em-
ployed in the transportation of cargoes from
one belligerent nation to another, without
returning to America ; and the freights
earned by this navigation remain deposited
in Europe, where the ships themselves still
are. If tlven this impending war comes
suddenly upon us, we shall be found greatly
exposed to injury in this quarter, and irom
the means and character of our foe, may
reasonably calculate upon sustaining the
loss of tar the greater part of our property
abroad. Our great merchants who have
been extensively engaged in the carrying
trade, will bear all this loss ; the merchants
who are engaged solely in the regular
business of importation and exportation
will not be affected by it, further than as the
whole mercantile community is always in
some degree influenced by the injuries sus-
tained in any one part of it. This shock
will be heavy and severe to all, ruinous to
many, and materially detrimental to the
community. It v. ill seem at first to fallim
mediately and exclusively upon the great sea-
port t">wns, but will now be found to ex-
tend induectly over the '-hole country.—
This is the first probable important couse-
quence which will result from an immedi-
ate war.
Tue farmer must not decive himself by
the Hope that in this convulsion his interests
will escape unhurt ; a free government like
ours cements its citizens so strongly and
closely together, that the distresses of one
must be communicated to all*around him ;
when the merchant bleeds the farmer will
have cause to groan, and when the farmer
suffers the merchant will iiave occasion to
sympathize. Our countrymen alt constitute
parts of a great boty, and whenever an
injury is done to any one of its members,
the wound may lie local, in the foot or the
hand, but the lever which it produces is
geneial, and influences tne whole system.
The tanner, besides this indirect and con-
sequential mischief, wul be directly and im-
mediately affected. The destruction of Our
shipping, and the possession of the seas by
our enemies, must soon destroy our com-
merce. There will not be foufid vessels to
t carry abroad the commodities destined for
exportation, and if there are, the almost
certain expectation of their capture will
prevent their owners from hazai ding their
property. The whole produce of the coun-
try beyond what is necessary for our own
consumption, must therefore remain unsold,
and perish upon the hands of those who
have made it. The golden harvest of the
husbandman will soon be converted into a
heap of manure.
To this may be added another conse-
quence. The supplies of national revenue
are at present derived almost exclusively
from the import and tonnage duties, paid at
I first by the merchant, but ultimately by the
' coii8tHneri The destruction o< the coinuttfivS
of the counhy necessarily must produce the
annihilation ...f these sources of reve'iur.
When war occurs, however, armies are to
be provided, ships must be equip!, and
this can only be done with revenue. Re-
venue must therefore be had through some
channels, and if the^e sources fail, ffom
whence it has,hitherto been so abundantly
drawn, others must be sought adequate to
..the supplies required. Direct taxes ext-ises,
and all the internal springs from which re-
venue can be obtained, must then be open-
ed, and the farmer, the manufacturer aiicf
mechanic, are those upon whom such sys-
tems of taxation can alone act. The manu-
facturing and mechanical interest of the
country, then, so far trom escaping the ca-
lamities of the impending war, is that interest
upon which it will most heavily fall. The
siiockto these, it is true, will nut be so sud-
ricnor so immediately severe as to the mer-
chant,but ^continuance, will be morelasting,
and its effects ultimately equally great.—
The slight andprecarious indemnities, more-
over, which insurance and privateering may
afford to the merchant in his distress, are
not held out to the other class—they must
prepare to bear all their burdens without
any other assistance than that to be derived
from their own manly fortitude, and con-
scious sense or rectitude.
To these great and general results which
will probably be produced by war, I ill
add others of lesser importance, because
they are partial and local in their operation
and effects. The immense na.al power
possessed by our foe gives to her the means
of annoying at will our sea-board—the dis-
position she has ever manifested, and man-
ner in which she has heretofore conducted
her past and present wars, induce a belief
that this power will be employed to its fullest
extent in working our distress. We must
therefore calculate upon the ravages of our
country along the sea-coast, the destruction
of som£ of our sea-port towns, and on great
personal and individual injury proceeding
from (hese causes.
To j ire vent, as far as practicable the perpetra-
tion of sucii outiagcs, we must prep..re to be
called into military service to submit Witt)
patience to the fatigue of long marches, to
bear with fortitude tne numerous privations
to which the soldiers life will subject us
and to expose ourselves to those dangers and
hazards which a soldier's honor exacts, and
our country's honor requires of us.
War is inevitable, and these are the ine
vital le consequences of .xh a war as we
shall have to encounter They are conse
quer.ces which every man must wi-h could
be prevented with honor to his country and
security to her rights ; but if this cannot
be done, and I see nothing to induce a ra-
tional hope that it can beexpiced these or
any Other consequences ftughl not, must not,
and will not deter you from s.eadily pursu
ing your comse The i'ndep¦•..denceof your
c u try is at stake, your f .retainers suffer-
ed all t"isa id much more to acq.me for you
this boon, and he mu t be a da tard. indeed.
who v: ,..!J n it preserve it inviolate at every
hazard - ' iw deans will du it, or perish m
the attempt.
Rouse hen, rr.y countrymen, from the
slumber of a twenty years peace; the enemv
is at your gate, his form is gigantic, his
visage horrific, but be ye not dismay ed
when but children vou have proved f> him
that he was not invincible ; put out the
strength of vour manhood and he will be
again vanquished. Prepare yourselves to
suffer, and to suffer much without a murmur
or a sigh ; it is necessary to the maintenance
of your honor, your independence, your
future safety itself. A s a fi lend, I have
drawn for yon the faithful representation of
your situation, that you might know and be
prepared f'r the wortf. I have concealed
nothing, because I am firm in the belief
that nothing will dishearten you for winch
you are prepared. A panic may put to flight
a host of heroes, surprise may shock the
firmest heart, but expected danger and diffi-
culty adds new vigor to courage. For
such reasons I have written these numbers,
to warn you of your approaching danger,
your threatened difficulties I have done my
duty as a centinel, from you your country
expects the firm, determined, yet modest,
demeanor of the truly brave. The alarm is
given, put yourselves in motion to repel the
foe. The proper means of doing this, and
the conduct necessary to be pursued by you
shall be the subject of my next.
MANLIUS.
AVERAGE PRICE OF STOCKS.
8 per c> nts,
6 do.
3 do.
Louisiana, do.
U. S. Bank Stock,
Mi ryland H;nk Stock,
Baltimore do.
Union Bank of Maryland do.
Mechanics' Bank,
Alexandria Bank do.
Farmers Bank do. -
Columbia do.
Potomac do
Baltimore Insurance Shares,
Maryland do. •
y- urine do. -
C-icsapeake do.
Union do.
Water Stock, •
101
95
62 1.2
none
118
350
- 352
56
1.5
190 a 195
par
par
90
no sale
ditto
260
50
5)
90
PORT OF BALTIMORE.
Cleared,
Ship Baltimore, Groom, Amsterdam
Rising Sun, West, do.
John H. Ileidelbach,
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