This little volume, which, in Bibliomanical language is very scarce, is probably the book which will longest preserve his name among readers. His hymns are characterized by great sweetness, and an easy flow appropriate to the character of the poetry; and, while never trivial and bombastical, preserve a certain beauty and fervor that I think will ever embalm them to the lovers of sacred poesey. Dr. Burney in his History of Music considered Sandys' paraphrase, superior to any other translation of the Psalms; and George Withers says "He excels in the variety and melody of his metre, and the simplicity and grace of his Language. Sandys' Psalms have gone through a considerable number of editions; the last was edited by Archdeacon Todd and published in London in 1839. An edition much admired was published in 1648:

In 1642 Sandys appeared with his last work, another Poetical Effusion-a thin Quarto of 32 pp. entitled "A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon, written by G. S. London printed for H. S. and W. L. 1642." This work is dedicated to "The Queen's Majesty." Considering the intimate connection which Sandys' name will ever have with the history of literature in the United States, it is surely a reasonable expectation that among the numerous Psalms and Hymns books in use among Christian congregations in this country some of them will some day give a place to one of his melodious hymns accompanied by the music to which it was set over 200 years ago. His Book of

Psalms was a constant companion and a great favorite with Charles the First, during his confinement in Carisbrooke Castle, and the King often mentioned Sandys and his book in the highest praise. He is said to have used it in his devotions, also that it soothed many a heavy hour of his captivity.

Sandys was a loveable man; he had troops of warm and attached friends, among them Lord Falkland (who fell early in the Civil war) Henry King (Bishop of Chichester) Michael Drayton, Sidney Godolphin, Thomas Carew, Dudley Digges, Francis Wyatt, Henry Rainsford, Edmund Waller, George Withers, Wintoure Grant, &c. &c. In addition to these I think we may with great plausibility add the name of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare and Southampton of Course were personal friends, for did they not stand to each other as Poet and Patron; and the transactions of the Virginia Company of London shew that Southampton had both an intimate acquaintance with Sir Edwin, the brother, and also with George himself. In this way, especially as the prominent feature in Sandys' character--gentleness--was so much akin to Shakspeare's-Sandys might have formed the acquaintance, and ultimately gained the friendship of his great contemporary. At any rate Sandys, enjoying the friendship of his literary brethren, lived and died a life of contentment. His works give one the impression that he was an amiable, scholarly, Christian gentleman, at peace with the world, loving sincerely and honestly his ill-fated sovereign, and beloved by friends on all sides.

Anthony a' Wood says "he was an accomplished gentleman, a good reader of several languages, of a fluent and ready discourse and excellent comportment. He had also naturally a poetical fancy and a zealous inclination to all human learning, which made his company desired and acceptable to the most virtuous men and scholars of his time."

He did not mingle in the stormy sea of politics which surrounded him, nor could he long enjoy his position at Court in these sad times. He retired to Boxley

Abbey in Kent, the seat of Governor Wyatt (of Virginia), who had married his niece, and there he died in March 1643, in the 66th year of his age. "He was buried in the Chancel of the parish church near the door on the south side, but hath no remembrance at all over his grave nor any thing at that place, only this which stands in the Common Register belonging to said Church." "Georgius Sandys Poetarum Anglorum sui sæculi facile princeps, sepultus fuit Martii 7 Stilo Anglie, An. Dom. 1643." Richard Baxter visited Boxley and he thus writes of his visit. "It did me good when Mrs. Wyatt invited me to see Boxley Abbey in Kent, to see upon the old stone wall in the garden, a summer house, with the inscription that 'In that place Mr.

sessed of a clear understanding and a large share of common sense. He did not appear to be much over fifty-five years of age. His hair was abundant, and of an iron gray color, and his face was very little furrowed by age. He seemed vigorous; but a year and a half later (at the close of July 1866,) he died at Washington City.

John Ross was a remarkable man, and he had done remarkable things for his people, of whose pure blood only about oneeighth flowed in his veins. He had all the appearance of a white man. He had acquired a good English education at an early age, and when very young, he had obtained great influence over his people by the strength of his intellect, his probity and patriotism. He always resisted every attempt of the government and people of Georgia to induce the Cherokees to leave their lands and emigrate to the wilderness west of the Mississippi. A liberal bribe was offered him so early as 1819, by William McIntosh, a Creek half-breed chief, for his acquiescence in a proposition for their removal. He spurned it with disdain, and had McIntosh publicly disgraced.

The action of the Legislature of Geor

gia in reference to the Cherokees, from 1828 to 1830, caused Ross, as the representative of the nation, to make an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. They were then an almost civilized and christianized people. They had a written constitution by which their civil polity was regulated; and they claimed, under treaty stipulations with the United States to be an Independent nation. In 1828, the State of Georgia assumed jurisdiction of every kind over them, and the actual exercise of that jurisdiction was the ground of the appeal, in which it was asked that Georgia might be enjoined in its assumption of power. The Court decided in favor of the Cherokees, but the State of Georgia planting itself on the foundation of State Sovereignty, refused to obey, and President Jackson sustained

it.

From that time the Cherokees suffered

annoyances at the hands of their white neighbors, who were determined to remove them from the State and possess their lands. Agents of the United States entered into the plans and, in 1835, a secret treaty was made at New Echota by two chiefs named Ridge, (father and son,) Elias Boudinot and about 600 men, women and children of the nation, by which they agreed to surrender their lands and remove beyond the Mississippi, in the space of two years. Against this treaty, Ross and 15.000 of his people protested, in an able paper drawn up by this principal chief. It was in vain. The National Government took the part of the Georgians, and sent General Scott, with a military force, to compel the Cherokees to remove. They were then pursuing all the arts of civilized life. They had churches and schools; and Ross, who lived in what is yet known as Ross's Gap, about three miles from

in the Indian Territory. The less civilized Choctaws and Chickasaws readily yielded. The Cherokees were not so easily moved. Ross took early and firm ground against. the Secessionists, and in May, 1861, he issued a proclamation reminding his people of their treaty obligations to the United States, and enjoining them to be faithful. But the pressure became so great that they were compelled to acknowledge their allegiance to the Confederate Government in

August, 1861. Ross's feelings were outraged, and his young wife, a well educated Indian woman whom I met, with her husband, in Philadelphia, refused to allow a Confederate flag to be raised over the Council House. Ross's loyalty to his government was so obvious that the Confederates were about to arrest him, when he fled to the North with some National troops. During the remainder of the war he and his family resided in Philadelphia.

The RECORD is indebted to the Hon. Winslow C. Watson, of Port Kent, Essex County, N. Y. for the following Sketch :

When Champlain in July 1609, first floated on the waters of the lake which has perpetuated his name, he looked upon a wilderness of beauty and grandeur. There was then as now, the wide expanse of water, the verdant islands scattered in wild profusion and a magnificent frame work of dark and towering mountains that embraced all the gorgeous panorama, but he beheld an universal desolation. Countless game fed upon the shores; fishes in vast exuberance thronged the lake; salmon, the choice element of Indian sustenance, crowded the tributary streams; a generous soil was adapted to their rude culture. In a region thus abounding in all these allurements to savage tastes and habits, Champlain saw no indications of human life, until he met, near Ticonderoga, the hostile fleet of the Mohawks. Not a single canoe rippled the tranquil bosom of the lake; no fishing light gleamed upon the shores; no blue smoke ascending amid the forest betrayed the solitary wigwam. A strange silence and solitude brooded over the

their foes, and evidences have been every where detected, especially along the beautiful waters among the Adirondacks, of the former presence of a dense Indian population. The Hurons pointed out to Champlain, in the distance, a district where their enemies "had many villages," and which "embraced beautiful valleys and fields fertile in corn, with an infinitude of fruits." The lake, known in one of their sonorous dialects as "Caniaderi-guatante," the "Lake that is the gate of the country,' was the portal perpetually traversed by the fleets of the Mohawks and Algonquins in their hereditary warfare. Sir William Johnson mentions a trádition which prevailed among the Indians, that long before the advent of the white man, a treaty between their tribes had established the 'Great Rock Regiome or Reggio" with a line running from thence to the mouth of the Oswegatchie, as the boundary of their hunting grounds (N. Y. Doc. and Col. His. Vol. VII, 572). After the most diligent researches, the writer has no hesitation in identifying this Rock, so conspicuous in Colonial annals, with "Rock Dunder," a dark, picturesque rock that springs up amid the waters of the lake a short distance south of the harbor at Burlington. Fancy may readily clothe this romantic spot with a thousand wild imaginations.

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For a century and a half after the discovery, when barbarian warfare had ceased to depopulate the shores of Champlain,

similar causes, stimulated by the feuds of European cabinets and the passions of christian Princes arrested their occupation. The lake in summer formed an avenue for the passage of flotillas in their reciprocal missions of blood and rapine, which bore the sword, the torch and tomahawk in desolation upon the harvest fields of Canada and the unsuspecting villages of New England and New York. In winter its crystal pavement aided the transit of the same sanguinary hordes to horrors still more unlooked for and appalling. The wild and sequestered environs of Lake Champlain, for many years, was a terrible aceldama, encrimsoned by the noblest blood of Europe and the colonies, where the horrors of ordinary war were enhanced by the animosities of a border warfare and intensified by savage ferocity. Upon this bloody ground the pursuits of husbandry could find no safe or abiding home. 1731 the encroaching policy of France first established a foot-hold on the shores of the lake, at a point, that by some fanciful allusion now lost, they named "Point a la Chevelare, which has been since known as Chimney Point from the ruins of the structures they had abandoned. Immediately afterwards, their intrusion. was maintained by the erection of a fortress at Crown Point, which for many years was the citadel of their power and the source from which issued many desolating streams that rolled in blood over the English colonies.

The Vice Regal government of Canada, with a view of securing the permanent possession of the fertile and beautiful territory at an early period inaugurated the policy of issuing gratuitous grants for vast tracts on both sides of the lake. These concessions formed an aggregate area of about eight hundred square miles. A glance at a map exhibiting the location of these grants will show that they embraced nearly all the valuable arable lands on either shore. Repelled by the stern and rugged aspect of the mountains on the western side they failed to appropriate a district that bore in its teeming bosom incalculable riches of mineral wealth.

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