Indiana Palladium, Volume 1, Number 41, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 14 October 1825 — Page 2

As some curiosity has been excited by the

appearance of a comet, for several evenings above the horizon, our readers will no doubi

be amused, if not instructed, by the following

essay on that subject. FROM THE DELAWARE GAZETTE. COMETS.

As a comet is to make its appearance in a

short time, for which our friends the Boston

ians are upon the lookout, it may be necessary to write a little concerning those bar-

Dingers of war, pestilence, lamine, ec. I nis

monster of superstition will probably be seen a few hours before day, but should it come

with its sweeping fiery tail in the evening,

it will render its visits more convenient to

the augurs, fortune tellers and knowing old

women. Of the whole catalogae of celes

tial bodies, none have excited so much spec

ulation, foreboding and wonder, as the com

ets. The vulgar have ever looked upon

them as objects of terror, which is heightened into supersition by the idea that they foretel direful scenes of blood and carnage. They were long looked upon as fiery meteors in the atmosphere until the mammoth mind of Tycho Brahe, arose and placed

them among the planetory worlds. Sir Isaac Newton examined the one which appeared in 1680, and from his observations

he concluded that comets are a species of

planets, whose motion is in very eccentric ellipses, and that they are opaque bodies receiving their light, like the moon, entirely from the sun. Mr. Locke calls them opaque bodies, but he says besides the light which they have from the sun, that they appear to shine with a light that is nothing else but an ascension which they receive from the sun, in their near approaches to it, in their respective revolutions. Sir Isaac corroborates this when he says that if a comet is seen in two parts of its orbit, when the distances are equal from the earth but unequal from the sun,that thatpartshinesbrightest which is nearest to the sun. Comets are of various magnitudes, and fly

with different degrees of velocity. Their

first of this month, which then , had some weevil in the grain, we found heated in a

few days. We spread and constantly stir

red it for about two weeks, those then in it ate their way out none have since bred in it it now lies in bulk without heating, and we consider it greatly preferable to that which wearedaily receiving from the thresh-

incr floor.

We have now several thousand bushels of

wheat on hand, which was threshed from the shock and from the stack before the weevil commenced their ravages. It has been lying in garners near sixty days, and has been kept cool by frequent stirring; the weevil lias not touched it and we have no hesitation in saving, let their ravages be what they may in the stack, wheat thu cleaned and kept cool, v. ill in all cases be free from the -flying weevil. fc WTe are now receiving a lot of a thousand

bushels, which was threshed in July and ear

ly in August, run through a fan and spread in a large bam. It is perfectly cool, and has not received the least damage. All

small lots threshed and cleaned at about that time, and kept cool, we find in the same good order. It is also said that some who threshed and penned their wheat in the chaff before the weevil were visible, have

preserved it; but of this we speak with some doubt.

We now hear many speak of threshing and

stowing away in chaff. But those we would

advise to be cautious ; there is scarce a stack

of wheat in the country entirely free from

the weevil, and that which contains but a

small portion, will heat if packed away in

the chali. We have heard some wild theo

rists recommend this mode to heat the wheat,

which they say 'will kill the weevil and de

stroy the egg from which they hatch.'

rhis reminds us of the story of the Dutch

man who set fire to his barn to divrst it of rats; for we know that wheat thus i.eatod

will never afterwards grow, nor will the

lour made from it reward the miller for his

labor of grinding.

It is not our design to enter into the natu

ral history of this insect. We are desirous that the farmers should preserve their pre

sent and future crops of wlheat from dest rue-

signing chiefs, whoj by their immediate intercourse with Europeans, and superior cunning, are enabled to protract the war for the sake of the vile gain which accrues to them; while the inhabitants of the whole country, together w ith its legitimate commerce are involved in one common ruin.

LATEST FROM EXGLAXD. It is stated in the Morning Chronicle, on "the most unquestionable authority, v that an arrangement has been concluded with Lord Cochrane, by the Greek Deputies and Committee, by w hich a large sum of mone is to be immediately placed at the disposal of his lordship, to be expended by him in whatever way he may think most advisable for the successful prosecution of the war with the Turks. His Lordship had left town for Scotland, whence he would return

and immediately proceed to Greece. It i? . 1 .1. i . r C c rr

runner said, mat a iniliiary iorce oi

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motion is much more irregular than that oftion: and bciiiff willing that thev should

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me pianeis, oecause ineir veiocuy is lar greater in their perihelion than in their aphelion, but in the planets there is very little

difference. The comet which appeared in 1531, 1607, 1G82, 1759, and I suppose will

appear again in 1835, goes in its aphelion

according to Mr. Wesley, more than four

times as far from the sun as Saturn does, and

Saturn according to Mr. Locke, is distant from the sun's centre about 777,000,000

statute miles, each 5280 Lnglish feet, and

4943 French. That extraordinary appear

ance which we call the tail of the comet, is

nothing more than an illumination of the at

mosphere, which is thrown off by its immense velocity, and it is always directed towards the sun. The tail of the comet, which

will soon appear, will be found to point to

wards the south, as the earth is leaving the

sun in that direction. The comet which ap

pears every seventy six years, or nearly, and which will appear in 1835, must be, at its greatest distance from the sun, an inconceiveable distance from us. The sun is supposed, or computed to be ninty-seven millions of miles from our earth, and it is said that a cannon ball, flying with the same velocity as from the mouth of a cannon, would require twenty-five years to reach our earth, but how are we lost in thought, when we are told that the great comet which appeared last, in 1680, goes fourteen times as far beyond the sun as Saturn, which is the most remote planet. Now according to the calculation which I have made, and which would occupy too much space to be inserted here, that comet of 1 680, in its aphelion dis

tance is about 140 times the mean distance

profit by our short experience, we freely tell

them 'that which we know.' This much,

however, we will add, as mere opinion: We

believe they are produced from an egg,

which, after being laid in the grain, requires a certain degree of heat to produce animation. That portion which is produced by the straw in the stack, during the summer and fall, appears to be nature's choice. It is against that portion of heat we would have the farmers to guard, when we advise them to thresh and keep their wheat cool. Whether the egg is deposited in the field or in the stack, we pretend not to say, but we have rather concluded in the latter: but we can with safety say, that the wheat now on hand, which never went through the sweat, or which never attained that heat to which nearly all wheat in the stack is subject, whether it contains the egg or not, iias produced no weevil; and that which we have recently received from the stack, ceases to hatch or in any wise produce them, so soon

as we can get it perfectly cool.

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men was to be procured and placed under

the command of Sir Robert ilson, to act in co-operation with his Lordship. His Lordship has left it to the committee to settle the amount of the recompense to be awarded to him for his services; but he expressly stipulates, that the auxiliary expedition shall be placed under his whole and sole control the trammels in which his Lordship repeatedly found himself while in South America, having tended greatly to impede, and even endanger the success of his naval operations. The above intelligence had occasioned great excitement in the stock market, and it is staled as certain, that one eminent banking house in the Strand had purchased through their broker, 59,000 pounds of Greck Scrip. Londox, August 20. In a supplementary sheet, the Journal des Defeats has published the address of the Provisional Government, and Ecclctiastu ul

Chiefs of Greece, to the Pope. The object

ot this address is to solicit his Holiness to

point out to the Greeks a Prince of Royal

olood.and belonging to the Catholic Churc!

When the kingdom shall be established.

Greece will be ready to adopt such laws as

may be judged useful and beneficial, both as

to her own internal weltare, and the general interests of European politics. The address afterwards beseeches the Pope to espouse thv. Greek Church, which, since the martyrdom of Patriarch Gregory, has been

in a state of widowhood. The Patriarch,

since appointed by the Sultan, is declared to be intrusive and illegitimate. The address predicts that the union of the Roman and Greek churches wilt be followed by the

adhesion of the filial churches of Bulgaria,

Survia, Moldavia, and even of Russia. The document is altogether of a very singular nature, and if authentic, as it purports to be. it may lead to important consequences in the Christian world. It was presented to Prince Barberian, the Papal Chamberlain, on the 24th of May, and on the 6th June an answer was returned to the Greek Commissary, that the Pope had received it on the day on which jt was delivered to his Minister.

Fr

ree Uasonrv amour?

Indians. 1 hose

the Xorth American

signs ol v ree Masonry,

which modern travellers have found, are

On these and other observations, too nu-jalso thought to be of Welsh origin. Trav-

two St. Regis, six Sonccas they are said to have secret signs, and pretend that the institution has existed from eternity. The.

period of their meetings is unknown; but they .assemble once in three years, as deputies, underpreter.ee of other business. Masonic Mirror.

merous for insertion, we advise those who would preserve their present crops, to thresh and clean them immediately; aid thoe who would hereafter etFectually guard against the flying weevil, to thresh from the shock,

or before the wheat takes the sweat.

N. HIXSON. The Ohio Steam Mill, )

Maysville, Sept. 20, 1825.

From the Doston Patriot. WAR IX AFRICA. Saiieuinarv and

ellcrs describe certain private societies among the Indians, which apparently resemble our lodges of Free Masons. Their rules of government and admission of members

jare to be nearly the same. No one can be

received as a member of the fraternity except by ballot, and a concurrence of the

whole is necessary to a choice. They have different degrees in the order. The ceremonies of initiation, and the mode of passing from one degree to another, would create astonishment in the mind of an enlightened

Natchitoches, Aug. 23. Trade with the Mexican States. The largest Muladc or drove of Mules perhaps ever driven through this place, arrived here a few weeks ago, and left here last Tuesday, part for New Orleans and part for Natchez. It is composed of twelve hundred Mules, all in prime order, and was brought in under the care of about CO men caporals. drivers or swimmers, commanded by A. A. de la Llata, one of the proprietors and a citizen of the State of Tamaupilas, from whence the 3Iules are imported. In performing the laborious task of driving that immense number of Mules through such an extensive wilderness, they had every night to erect a temporary enclosure to secure them from being carried ofif by the Estarnpilla, or gangs of wild horses and mules. In the swimming of the many rivers that intervene, the greatest hardships and dangers were encountered and completely overcome by this hardy band of adventurers. Of the number of twelve hundred, only about twenty five mules had been lost on their arrival at Natchitoches, either in the swimming of rivers or in consequence of fatigue. Besides this considerable branch of commerce w ith the Mexican states, of exchanging our goods for their mules and horses, bullion or dollars, which has long since been carried on by this town, another has lately opened. The inhabitants of the state of Texas, which has united its provincial or state government with that of Tamaupilas, have commenced the importation to NachU toches, of their cotton, of which they raised last year a considerable quantity, which will doubtless, from the rapid settlement of that country, increase at every crop in a double ratio for inanv years. If, however, the increase should become such as to induce the government to establish a Custom House here, and exact the duty of three per cent, per lb. on imported cotton, the inhabitants of Texas could no longer cultivate it in competition with our planters, and would have to ship it from their own ports, which would be impracticable formally of them, or cause it to be carried through our territory exempt from duty, by means of drawback. In the latter case it might no less be an object for our commercial operations. According to the last news from Mr. Austin's settlement on the Brazos, this colony is in a thriving condition. The news of their having been distressed by an inundation and reduced to great want in consequence, seems to have had no foundation. The set tlement is represented to consist of about three hundred families; to be now exempt from cpidemica'i disasters, and as to the crops, we hare been assured, by a gentleman now in this, place, that their corn surpassed any thing lie had seen on the richest Mississippi and lied River soils, and that the

cotton, equal in quality to the Red River,

was totally exempt from rot.

traders on the coast. We

the Sierra Leone G

v.. .j cjuiunujiij vmuiiiuu id me jl'muiijs; ana wales r. We find it stated in j was more fruitful of this description of men Gazette of the 25th June,, than any other part of Europe. Thev were

that an engagement had taken pi ace between

a considerable force of the Sherbro Bui lorn

almost the only men of learning in those

days: they executed the functions nfnrircj

1 i r rr i i i . " . " - . . . " .

anu a siroug pari) oi aussoos, who naa en- i,istorians,and legislators. Those in Wales,! favourable position on the unnnr llim,r?

trenched themselvps nn nn Island nn f i InmHimUr l.,- i, t L i , 4 . 1 .

a 7 j w v. v . v 4 i iiivui

to a noble defence of their liberties, and af

forded so

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V'm "Y5 S,U,n T1hen,mul-j,ile tribes ofAfrici' "aSeJ frc-iuemly (Vomjorigin? In the early periods ofKm'lU! hk tippy 97,000,000 ofm.lcs by 140, and we have! no other motive than to make captives,! torv. the knowledge of Frre Manrv

iT- u - , T-- T V16 sunwn,ch tne victorious party sell to the sdavelrnostly confined to the Druids: and Wal

n iiibu j uui iv-vn uiiiiun el ti ll live; llUlJlil tJli and eighty millions of miles. According to the same calculation, the comet which will appear in 1 835, is about 3G times as far from the sun as the earth, which when multiplied makes three billions and four hundred and

ninty-two millions of miles. The comet of

1680, cannot appear before the twenty-second or twenty-third century, but we may calculate with certainty, that the one which

appeared last, in 1759, will be along, about 1S35. The one which the Bostonians are now looking for is of inferior magnitude, and a mere meteor in comparison with the first

mentioned, which called out the telescopes

oi an me ceieuraiea pnuosophers then existing in Europe. MILFORD BARD. From the Maysville Eagle THE WEEVIL. The inquiry of almost every farmer is, 'How shall we preserve our wheat from the weevil?' We answer thresh it immediately, clean it from the chaff, spread it in a barn or open room, and if it acquires the. least warmth, stir it daily. The wheat which we received about the

Hciyii. From a conversation held with a gentleman recently arrived from Jeremic, we learn that great discontent existed throughout all Hayli in consequence of the terms of the treaty of independence negotiated with France. The dissatisfaction is said to have testified itself in various ways; and our informant adds that the late arrest of persons at cape Havti for an alleged conspiracy originated from the strong opposition evinced by individuals to the provisions of the treaty. The non-publication of the treaty in the papers of the island is attributed to the prevailing dissatisfaction in relation to it. Bait. Amcr.

General Atkinson has received discretionary oiders from the war department to continue the force under his command in some

Deong River, called Feyparra, near a small town of the same name. It appears that the Sherbro Chiefs, with the Caulkets at their head, have been a long time mustering their forces for this attack, while the Kussoos have lately contented themselves fortifying their post at Peyparra, with the determination of making a stand there during the rainy sea

son. The Bulloms, who were sanguine ofj vails among our Iroquois. These have nev

to protect the fur trade from the encroach-

; defence of their liberties, and af- meats of the British traders. It is sujrcsmuch trouble to the first Edward J ted by General R

that he ordered them to be barbarously mas- north'bend of the Missouri, approaching as sacred. This ferocious tyranny was carried it does most nearly to the British boundary into f iTori nKmif ihn IT1

.... j xyj.. i uiin ,iuu sfinuiucnis 1111x111 anoru ine most ia

Al I " 1 i jl I w

ui tut; uarus survived to weep over me miseries of their country.

But a similar institution, it is said, pre-

success, were repulsed with great slaughter,

having tailed in their attempt to break through the barricade, while the inhabitants of a town in their rear, upon whom they depended for assistance, turned against them, and cut oil a great number of their party. Some hundred of lives have been Iot, and a large supply of victims for the slave market have thus been obtained. The former is the natural consequence of such a saneuinarv war

fare, but the latter is the primary cause and

er been suspected to be of Welsh extrac

tion. Still they may have derived the signs Cny-N.-.-i K t ir .1 w.

Hum uiujL- -who were, n e receive ine in

formation from governor Clinton, to whom it was communicated by a respectable Indian preacher, who received the signs of the mystery from a Menonie chief the institution, therefore, must be prevalent among the Menonies, as well as other Indians. In this secret institution among the Indians, the

members are very select. Among the Iro-

grand stimulous to those avaricious and de-Jquois. the society consists of five Oneid

vourable position. lb.

A most extraordinary instance of preservation was discovered a few days since, in repairing some vaults of St. Martins church, in this city. On opening a lead cotlin, where

in were deposited, 85 years ago, the remains of the Rev. Mr. Heron, rector of the parish, the body was found as perfect as when it was deposited in the tomb, the flesh yielding to the touch, and recovered its smoothness when the finger was removed; a napkin wrapped round the head, and the shroud covering the corpse, were as white and uninjured as if they had just come from a draper's shop. Plymouth & Ezctsr Gaz