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Cherokee .NatsoR, Dec. 24th, 1881.

 sr'o . tse Eltsates.s sf the Democrat

 Gent}emca-Permit me to make a few remarks in regard to a voyage that one of helate emigrants took, from the Cherokee Nation of Indians East of the Mississippi, tothe Cherokee Nation of Indians West of the master river Mississippi. Some time in the winter of 1850, he A. Thompson) enrolled, under the late treaty made between the United States and the Cherokee Ma tion of Indians West of the Mississippi. He was native of the Cherokee Ma tion lying within the limits claimed by the State of Alabama, and took leave of his native land, the gift handed down to him by the Great Father above, on the 25th day of February, 1880. He descended the Tennessee river with it's gentle current. Nature induced him ito study and bring to mind the great journey that he had before his eyes, and the many difficulties that would attend him on the solemn occasion. When he reached the Muscle Shoals, the great obstruction placed amid the Tennessee river, he was compelled 10 have a pilot to guide and direct his boat along its main channel. After he had passed through the Shoals-he continued his voyage and turned deaf ear 10 the mu- sic of nature-he viewed the little vil- lages situated on the river with wist- ful eye-but they welcomed him not.-- When he entered the beautiful Ohio, there he beheld the gentle current pass ing silently by--he heard the sound and echo of human voices on both sides, sav-faithful friend, you have left the land of your Fathers, the inheritance of your ancestors. Why did you not stay and ningle your remains amongst the dust and ashes of your forefathers. He continued to descend, reached the confluence of the rivers Ohio and Mis- sissippi, thence he drifted with the cur rent of the master river of the west ; passed the many towns and villages bor- dering on the same, but all could not comfort his mind, because he had stray ed from his native people-becausc he had violated the laws of his country because he had acted contrary to his own wishes, to gratify the wishes of the General Government. At length he reached Montgomery's point, about the 4th or 9th of April, 1880, and remain ed on the bank of the Mississippi, sur rounded by the waters of the western rivers, and had not more than fifty yards in width and four hundred and forty four yards in length: of dry land-so the time and days appeared to him as though it was months and years. He 5 took leave of Montgomery's point on the 18th or 18th of tho same month, on board the steamboat Industry, for his new honght home in the country of Ar. kansas, where ne expected to be iniiia- ted into the family of his Cherokee brethern, with peace, equity and equal ity; and on the lst day of May, landed at the Canadian river in the environs of the Cherokee Nation, where he antici- pated he would be received with open arms and shouting joys. But hence it was to the reverse of his long expected hopes. It was much ado that he would he received in that country as citizen. So'he sought himself a new home in that country, and settled there for eigh-| teen or nineteen months, when he was

 