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effect, and that on his saying this, a soldier leveled his gun at his breast, and ordered him to march. The poor Cherokees are not only exposed to temporal evils, but also to every species of moral desolation. The other day a gentleman informed me that he saw six soldiers about two Cherokee women. The women stood by a tree, and the soldiers with a bottle of liquor were endeavouring to entice them to drink, though the women, as yet were risting -lined out resisting them. He made this known to the commanding officer but we presume no notice was taken of it, as it was reported that those soldiers had those women with them the whole night afterward. A young married woman, a member of the Methodist society, was at the camps with her friends, though her husband was not there at the time. The soldiers, it is said, caught her, dragged her about, and at length, either through fear or otherwise, induced her to drink; and then seduced her away, so that she is now an out cast even among her own relatives. How many of the poor captive women are thus debauched, through terror and seduction, that eye which never sleeps, alone can determine. Does it not seem evident that the United States have now ascended almost to the top of the climax? In the first place the poor Cherokees were rendered lawless, and it was made a penitentiary offence for any of their rulers to execute, or attempt to execute, any of their own laws. Thus all the wise enactments of the council with regard to gambling, drinking etc. etc. were at