thing. The company were incredulons ; but the matter had long been te subject of his reflcctions, aud he had come to the con- clusion that letters represented words or idcas, and being always uniform, would always convey the same meaning. His first plan was to invent signs for words; but upon trial he was speedily satisied that this would be too cnmbrous and laborious, and he soon contrived the plan of an alphabet wlhich should represent sounds, cach clharacter standing for a sylable. He persevered in earrying out is intentiou, and attained his object by forming eighty-six eharacters.

While thus employed he incurred the ridicule of his neighbors, and was entreated to desist by his friends. The invention, luow ever, was completely successful, and the Clherokce dialcct is now a written langunge; a result entirely duc to the cxtraordinary genius of Sequoyah. After tencling many to read and write, he left the Cherokee nation in 1822 on a visit to Arkansas, and in- troduced the art among the Cherokces who had emigrated to that country; and, after his return home, a correspondence was opened in thc Cherokce language between the two branches of the nation. In the autn of 1823 the Gcneral Council bestow ed upon him a silver medal in honor of his genius, and as an ex- pression of gratitude for his eminent public services."-North American Reciew.

We may remark, with reference to the above, that as each let ter of this alplhabel represents one of eighty-six sounds, of which in various transpositions the language is conposed, a Cherokee can read as soon as le has learned his alphabet. It is said that a clever boy may thus be taught to read in a single clay."-The Saturday Magazine, London, April, 1842.

"In the wars between France and England and their colonies, their Indian allies were entitled to a preininn for every sealp of an enemy. In the war preceding 1708 the Government of Maseachusetts gave twelve pounds for every Indian scalp. in 1722 it was augmented to one hundred nounds-a sum suffcient to purchase a considerable extent of American land. On the 25th of February, 1745, au act was passed by the American colonial legislature, entitled "An Act for giving a reward for