Indiana Republican, Volume 2, Number 87, Madison, Jefferson County, 8 August 1818 — Page 1

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MADISON, (INDIANA) -SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1818.

No 87.

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'ndous National Undertaking:

le Raleigh, N. C. Minerva,

announcing tne arrive ui Calhoun, secretary at war, te 15th inst. observes, "Of t it is not yet known which

le places the president may

visited will be selected as cite of our great naval depot;

-e understand that the secreof war sooke of one plan

Ld been suggested, which,

be ever accompnsneu, wm int to the world a most mag-

nt national work : this is

in? a chain of fortifications,

ussy and impregnable contion, from the horse shoe to Middle Ground of the Chesa-

: , by ' which that great bay ;1 be completely protected

invasion by any hostile na"orcc. If such a thing be icable, even at an enormous

!nse, it ou-rht to be accomt ' CJ . - .1.1

A retreat would tnus icured for our own squadrons

f overpowered. The means

reparing and uniting at any pent of war, a large naval

t would be rendered certain, all the citizens on the naviga-

Raters entering this inland sea

Id have secured to them the ns of extensive water coruscation with each other. Unsuch circumstances, even as m navigation now stands, pnges could be safely made, pter, between the Juniata in jnsylvania, and many Virgipd N. Carolina streams."

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last Flnrirfa nhmmds in inter-

advantages, sufficient to make ne of tlie most important di

ps of North America and Irk n. .1 . - VnC nrt

f-u mure so man many ai brlv To evf fare

f mild climate is not exceeded

wt of salubrity by any part

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oi either continents of America. Its extensive lands, fertile in the production of many valuable articles of agriculture, rich in spontaneous high growth and pasturage ; and abounding in native quadrupids, lie waste to the a-

mount of above ffty millions of acres. Its water courses are numerous, navigable and are profusely supplied with a variety of scale, skin, and shellfish, and there shores at certain seasons well supplied with wild fowl. Its store of lumber are immence ; and the qualities of many of them are preferred in all the countries where they have been u?ed to those of the same classes found elsewhere, particularly its pine, cedar, cypress and live oak, which are kinds of lumber more universally desired in terrestrial and marine structures and are the classes in which most abounds. Florida pine has been purchased in Savannah for ship building at fiftyper cent higher in price than the pine of Georgia, though but about two degrees difference in latitude ; and it is well known that the Florida pine has had a preferance in the Royal dock-yards of England to any other pine that has been used there. The exportations of Florida, v ' mounting at present to almost nothing, would be very great if it had a sufficient population. For twenty of the last years, there has not been exported one barrel of turpentine the produce of this province, whereas when it was an infant colony of Great Britain, one contractor shipped from St. John's river, in one season 20,000 barrels again, in Savannah river, Georgia, which is in no wise superior to the river St. John's are loaded hundreds of vessels per year, while the whole of this province does not load ten vessels in a year, notwithstanding Florida has many more advantages arising from its local' situation such as extensive fishing streams, super abundantly supplied ; large fields for wrecking in the peculiar situation of its coasts & keys a more Southern climate, more genial to the cultivation of some important articles of commerce and to many valuable spontaneous productions of nature, &c. Its exportations might consist of many a'rticles, viz : the four classes of lumber already'mentioned,. and many others ; cotton, wool, hemp, indigo, tobacco, pot and pearl ash, myrtle and bees, wax, turpentine, tar, rosin, pitch, Indian corn, rice, barley, oats, grape and orange wine, grape and pearl brandy, whiskey, malt, liquors, peas and beans, of many kinds, a long list of esculent and medicinal roots, culinary, medici-

nal and manutacrunng 011s, uccij pork, fish,butter, cheese, lard, pel, try, & &o- Sugar and flour

have not been fairly tried ; but in Georgia, lying more north, the former is made in great perfection, and the latter in Louisiana directly west there is no reason to doubt of the lucrative productions in Florida; and its southern parts will suit the growth of coffee for forming a long peninsula between the two gulphs, the Atlantic and Mexican, the climate becomes much more southern than the latitude warrants. These advantages lie dormant only from the want of hands to put them in motion. Savannah Rep

AMERICA THE NAVY. Dublin, March 19. We extract the subjoined paragraph from " The Courier," of Monday, received by this days mail ; " There continues to be larger sales of hemp. One extensive house in the city purchased from eight to nine hundred tons on Friday and Saturday, principally, we believe, on account of the demand for the American market.' This squares with the intelligence from America, inserted in our last. The Americans require hemp to equip the ships of war now in progress of building in the docks of the United States. " We recommend," says The Times, " to the attention- of government, the activity with which the Americans are laying down ships of war in their dock yards. We have no right to prevent this; but we have a right to improve our own navy, to husband its resources, and endear those engaged in it by kind treatment." This view of the matter is fair enough; but what can the British government do Can great Britain, with an overwhelming debt, proceed in the improvement of her navy in proportion to the rapid increase of the navy of the Americans, who, comparatively, have no debt at all ? (Their whole debt amounts to little more than twenty millions sterling, which they are liquidating every year : that of Great Britain amounts to eight hundred millions.) The answer to this is easy Let England reduce the interest on her debt let her reduce her unconstitutionally large standing army let her abolish her useless places and pensions, and apply a part of the capital that this would give her to the improvement of her navy. This would keep her naval establishment on a respectable and imposing footing. The course of many years could only then determine as to the mastery. At all events, the prospect of American greatness must occupy much of the attention of the statesmen of the Old World, and particularly those of the British empire.

POMP OF WAR IN INDIA. Extract of a letter from a British Officer, written on the Jumnap Oct. 27, 1 8 17. " The whole of the army now in the field consists of ten divisions, each of about ten thousand men. We are advancing from the three presidencies towards the same point with the finest army ever perhaps heard of in India. The governor general is with our division, which is about thirteen thousand strong, with sixty pieces of cannon. The camp followers . of this division alone amount to sixty-seven thousand. For the carriage of the baggage of ovr regiment, we have forty elephents and four hundred camels ; every elephent has two keepers, and every two camels one. Of us there are thirty-seven officers present, among whom there are 8 hundred and ten servants ; every horse in the regiment has two attendants, one as a groom, the other to provide grass ; these alone amount to fourteen hundred, besides one hundred and twenty for the mess, and nine hundred for the Bazaar to supply the provisions ; in all, for our regiment alone, about three thousand five hundred followers, besides their wives, children, &c. " The Marquis of Hastings travels in a most princely style; he has one hundred & fifty elephants, and four hundred camels, besides state elephants splendidly accoutred, having superb solid silver howders, or castles, on their backs. There are now actually thirty-six Rajahs and independent chieftains, of various ranks, on, their way to pay their respects to the marquis. Some of them indeed are already in camp. The governor general, in fact, is now as great a man as ever the great Mogul was."

Richmond, July 2. CURIOUS INCIDENT. A gentleman of great respectability informs us of a very singuevent which happened last week in Hanover county. On the plantation of a Mrs. Hawes within a few miles of this city, a negro woman left her sucking child asleep in her cabin to bring water from a spring. On returning to the door of her humble dwelling, what was her astonishment and horror at seeing a black snake coiled around the neck of her infant, with its mouth applied to and apparently introduced into that of the child ! Words are too faint to give an adequate idea of the feelings of the mother. With the wild shriek of horror ; she rushed from the cabin, crying aloud for assistance and flew m the presence of her mistress. There was not a man near them. They returned with the utmost precipitation to the cabin, whence they;