Indiana Republican, Volume 1, Number 9, Madison, Jefferson County, 27 February 1817 — Page 2

From the Petersburg Intelligencer, ICE HOUSES, And the freezing of Water, Wine, Spirits, csrV. One of the greatest luxuries, & preservers of health in this climate during the hot month of summer, is .Ice." It is therefore with pleasure wc observe the ice houses are multiplying in this, and indeed all our towns, and that there are few country gentlemen without them But the air pumps, constructed by professor Leslie, of Edinburg, for the freezing of wuer and other fluids, appears to us move convenient and cheaper, for family, purposes than an ice house. We understand that this, apparatus is sold in London for five guineas, sulliciently large for freezing a gallon of water in ten minutes. Mr. Leslie's apparatus has this advantage, that ice can be formed of any liquid whatever, besides that the ice formed from water by Mr. Leslie's pump is much purer than that or the ordinary ice house. At an entertainment given last summer. in Bath, it is said that the wine was handed round frozen in the shape , of small bunches of grapes. X t HOUSE OF RFPRliSEN TATIVES. fan. 24. Mr. M-Kee, of Ky. moved the following resolutions of inquiry ; Resnhed, 'That a comittcc be appointed to inquire whether any and if any, what offices ere tted during the war, have become useless by the return of peace. , ' lie solved, That the said committee be instructed to ir quire into the expediency of abolishing all useless and unnecessary offices.' Resolved, That the said committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of disqualifying any person from holding two offices at the same time. Resolved, That the said com. xnittce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of equaiizingrhe pay emoluments of the officers & persons employed in the civil, military and naval departments of the government. The resolutions were agreed to without a division, and a committee of, five were ordered to be appointed accordingly.

Concres by general Washington, recent date give the following by a Spaniard who informed him at Annapolis. The size of the details respecting Egypt : that the Royal Spaniards had ta. pictures is proposed to bo 12 feet " The. country' has greatly im. ken the part of Bonquelle & put by 18 the figures to be as large proved under the government of t death all the Patriots they got as life 5 Pacha Amoud Ali. The city of hold of. This mind you, being Judging from one or two of Alexandria has , been placed in a Spanish, news is doubtful but these paintings, on a small scale, state of defence ; the troops are something is wrong there. No now exhibited in the hall, of Re- well treated and regularly paid ; account has been received of sepresentatives, these great histori- and more volunteers offer them- veral vessels which sailed for that cal painting, when executed, ' selves than are wanted. Amoud port sometime ago. The patriots will do crecfit'to the artist and to Ali is in his 40th year. He was are fortifying Galvestown Biy his country. originally an adventurer, who ex- strongly- governor Aury has the ercised the trade of piracy in a command. small vessel; his success attracted The United States armed ves- ' From Russia, September 24. to him 00, with whose assistance, sels have positive orders not m As this empire has risen within he succeeded in domineering over cruise cast or west of the United the last ten vears to be one of the the chief cities of Lower Egypt ; States boundaries in the Gulf of first military powers by land in since which time his army has Mexico. These orders enme by the world, exertions are now greatly increased. He caresses the congress frigate which arrivmaking'to 'raise its navy to an e- - foreigners, particularly the French here some time ago. qual degree of eminence. The and English, and there is , every Latest news from South AmeRussian empire possesses so ex-' probability that, if he continue rica, states that the patriots arc tensive and various coasts from to govern Egypt, it will become driving all before them, the White to the Black sea, that a very flourishing country." The Spanish brig captured a it must be more easy for it than ' Nat. Intel. Jan. 20. short time since at the mouth of for any other 'state to create a , the Mississippi by the Venezuela considerable navy. Concerning Baltimore, Jan. 30. armed schooner Jupiter was taken the divisions of this navy in the Extract from a respectable house into Galvestown ; as soon as goEuxinc ami the sea of Asoph, as 'to a merchant in Baltimore, dai- vernor Aury was informed by an well as that of Cronstadt, wc ed Hew Orleans, Des. 26. American, who happened to be hive detailed accounts. " A privateer, commanded by there at the time, that the brig It is perhaps not so well known caprain Le Maison, rhad arrived had been captured in the waters that there are now extensive from Boquilia oe Piedras, at Gal- of the United States, he put, a dock-yards at Archangel also, ve.stown. She carried the news crew of his own men into her The timber for the ships built at that the royalists having made a and ordered her to New Orleans, this place is conveyed thither on landing at some little distance to be given up to the proper au ratts from the interior of the em- from boquiiia, the patriot gerer- thorities. She has not yet came pire; the ammunition, artillery,- al Vitiona Caudaloupe, warned to, but is hourly expected.

&c, come from Cronstadt. ,'iheie or their designs, placed on their -

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h,. hin mIi-m.-Iv hutlr at Aivh- route several ambuscades, thJt 111 French Settlement on t,:-4

angel two ships of the line, one a measure annihilated them. The Mississippi. of them of 120 guns, and six loss of the royalists was estimated MR. IRVINE. The notice of frigates; several large and small at 300 killed or wounded, and a colonial Society, lately published ships of war are on stocks, and 150 prisoners. by Mr. Lee deserves attention, were to be partly finished this Gen. Vittoria has taken, be- We have societies here :V r the supsuinmer. Two brigs with am- sides, a convoy of two millions of port of all emigrants except poor munition, artillery," and other dollars, despatched under a strong Frenchmen, who have to strugnaval stores, with which the escort from Mexico to Vera Cruz, gle alone, witli even the language ships that were ready could be 1 he brig that was taken by the against them. They are a vigrcompletely equipped, have arriv- Venezuelan privateer J upittr, k ous, amiable industrious people, ed this summer at Archangel from sent to Galvestown, is expected wha merit encouragement. If Cronstadt. here every moment. The court they have generally been unforEqual activity is shewn to build of admit ah y, having ascertained natc . in the colonial establisha fleet at the opposite end of the that she was taken m the waters ments, it has arisen not from a empire, viz. at. Oehatzk ; there, of the United'Siaies, determined want of talent, industry & enterhowever, besides numerous mer- to send her 'to New Orleans and prise, but mostlyfromhavingmadc chautmen, only surai! snips ot resto.e her to the proper owner, those attcmps where the ilespowar are built, pardy because no 1'hi ee ves .eis belonging to the tism of England could reach and good ship timber is to be round squadicn-of Gen. Mina, have crush them whenever their sucui that country, and partly dc- been spoken oif bequiha de Pie- Cess promised results which les-

cause me price ui iauui 10 vu j uia.- v a xnwncm uu , ""j stneu uie price ur ncr coionui. high there in comparison with the to Gaivestown. 'J "hey were c- product To this cause and this other parts of the Russian empire. - quipped, and worked in the com- alone, must we ascribe the failure

FROM POKT AU PRINCE.

Jan. i8. The subject which the larger part of the sitting of the house yesterday, was the joint resolution which has already passed the senate, for authorizing the President toemploy col. Trumbull, the distinguished American artist,to execute four paintings commemorative of the principal events of the Revolution. The debate was de.sui'ory, but pleasing, and occaionally animated by flashes of eb oquence. The resolution was passed by a very large majority, and no doubt will receive the ap. probation of the President. The subjects spoken of for these National Paintings, 'are, the Dec laration of Independence" by the Congress ; ths surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga: the surrender of Corn Wallis at Yorktown ; & the resignation of his sword to

However the ships ot war built plcte man ot war style.

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there are sulhcieut to protect ihe trade to the rilcmian bunds, and the Northwest Co;st of America. Of the vessels built at Archangel, two ships of lhc line and tour hi

cr;irr; have &ut to sea. and are ex-

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oft he French in all their colonies -

I'hcy flourished for a time until blighted by the blasts of England.

number of others whose names I

am not yet at liberty to mention, are at the head of this colony. The enterprising Du'four of Ve-

Captain Prentiss, ot the schr. Under our benign system of govSusan who sailed from Port au ernmcnt they will thrive beyond Prince, on the isi instant, informs all calculation and in my opinion tlr.if nrlvir.es were rereived there mifctrl ill ot,-rrrt: liith-fm

r..,A .it fVnns.Ht. If Russia fnur 1;VS nrcvioUS. that Chris- tm nn tlio tnrif-rr: rf t-7r ( DiiM.

has in a few years thus placed its tophe was on his march, and Gens. Lallemand, Lcfevre, external means ot defence on a whlmo miles of the place. In Dcsnouetts, the celebrated Piene-

very respectauic luunny, gv- tonscquciiLt i mo nnnucijcw, eres, ijrarnier 01 oainicv, unu

vernment is equally attentive to Petion immediately ordered out nun

promote internal and , external 7000 men, and had already ortrade. This is shewn by the tiei- ganized 6000, who were on the C nn-.mnrrt yuc RiKnin m-iirh (n tripr tm (TlPinv. It

has concluded with the United was expected the forces of the vay has. almost joined it and they -!. ,t 1 11 ..I i.

Otaies or IN on 11 nuituu) anu nit nvdi uuus wuuu mtti v,aui jifivu 111 an uu)ui iuy muni'" endeavors to form commercial er on the day captain P. sailed. Commissioners have been sent connections with China and Ja- on to choose a clime and spot, pan ; these have indeed been hith- Balize, Mouth Mississippi, Dec. and an agent has been named to erto fruitless in respect to the last N 29,1816. ncgociate with government at kingdom, but the relations may A great number of vessels con- Washington for the purchase oi be changed here very shortly, if a tinue to arrive at this port. Many ico,ogo acres. Circulars wiN be new form of government should inquiries are made about flour & sent into the profcestant districts be introduced into Japan. corn and all sorts of provisions. of France, and I have no doubt London paper. Lieut. Cunningham in the Fire- we shall have 6 or 800 families i brand, came in here a few days this settlement in the course of s From Egypt. Letters of a very ago from a cruise j was boarded ur 2 years. You knw the sue-