Vincennes Gazette, Volume 3, Number 13, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 September 1833 — Page 2

VINCENNES. SATURDAY, SEPT. 7, 1833.

"Since our last, we have Lad a refreshing shower of rain, which our parched and withered earth gratefully received. We hope it will have the effect of checking the progress of billious complaints now prevalent in the town and country. Our only trust is in Providence to avert ?Uease, as our more immediate authorities, our corporation, consisting of two houses of nine members each, and a President, also a board of health, seem to have given us up to our destiny, and the river remains ae it has done for weeks part, preen as a horse pond in August, a fruitful source of health -impatriog, life destroying miasmi. We are at length able to state with cer tainty, that John Ewing is sleeted to Con gress from this district, by a majority o two votes. The names of the members elect in the other districts of the State nre Amos Lane, Jonathan M'Carty, John Carr, R. Noon, D. A Hannegan and Geo L. Kinnard. all thoroughgoing, dyed in the wool derviees, except our own mem hpr. so that old Knox has the honor of fending to Congress the only national re publican member from the State of Indi ana. On Thursday the 17th of October, en ?'iinj the Races will commence over the Vincennea Track. The purse will be a good oneworth contending for by good horses. The particulars will be made Known in an advertisement next week. We are in receipt of three numbers of the 2d volume of Greenbank's Periodical Library, and with great pleasure, we re commend it to the public as a cheap and useful work. The reader is requested to call and examine it, and judge fcr him himeelf. FOREIGN JmVS AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL. London, July 15 Evening.) YTe underttand from good authority that the Duke cf Palmella has received full power from Don Pedro to place himself at the head cf a regency at the Algarves.and in that capacity he may be expected to make a formafnpplication to the British and French governments fotvthe-rgnilion cf Donna Maria a Queen, de facto, of Por tngal. Indeed some surprise has been caused by his not having done so already . There is 6aid to be great disinclination cn the part of some of the members of our cabinet to take any step in favor of the Portuguese Constitutionalists on the direct application of Don Pedro, but it is highly probable that the Regency established in the Algarve, will not make a fruitless application, when it is consider. ' f?d that the only grounds of objection hitherto rtssigned by our government for the non-recognition of the regency ate removed, and that the capture of the Miguelite fleet by Admiral Napier has eniirely changed the complexion of the contest. We are able to state that the French government have warmly pressed the recoguition of Danna Maria as Queen Je facto of Portugal, upon our cabinet, and have again otTered to concur in and support any measures which Earl Grey may be pleased to adopt. We may add also, that the news which the Portuguese 'Atnbassador received yesterday which was immediately communicated to Lord Paloierston and his colleagues, has already had an effect upon the mind of the individuals ot the cabinet not opposed to an intervention jn favor of the legitimate .Sovereign of Portugal. Accounte from Madrid state that the landing of the Portuguese Constitutionalists in the Algarves produced great consternation in the Cabinet of Ferdinand. Troops were hurried off to the frontiers but when the news of Miguel's fleet being captured reaches Madrid, it will strike terror in the heart cf M Zea Iterruudez and his apostolic colleagues. Ferdinand may now prepare for a revolution with ai little delay as is convenient. The Cortes were dissolved on the 4t! of July, the day before the capture el Don Miguel's squadron. The capture cf Don Miguel's Fleet. itie editors ot the Journal of Commerce iu speaking of this important event, re mmk that the triumph of Don Pedro is tendered certain. Wt would not be strange if the very next arrival should ptorm U9 that the Constitutional flag js waving over i,isuon. "So mote it be!' That wretch Don Mtguel has -ilreidv reigned too long... If the government of onna Maria is not better, surelv it can not be worse. The news of this Wil liHnt victory, as it spreads through the ciikreot Providence of Portugal, will be electrical in its effects. It will encour age the timid, and strengthen the wavering. It will bring out the real ten timents of the people. It will oterluu She throne of D.m Miguel." PORTUGAL. .-The little fro piucc cf Atganr,-which

formerly constituted a part of the Moorish kingdom of that name, extended nearly over the whole of the southern coast ot Spain, and included a part of Africa though still denominated a kingdom, is very much curtailed. It is separated on the north from Alentrjo by the mountains of Moncheque and Caldeiro, and from Spain by the Guadiana; Hie southern part i? bounded by the Atlantic Ocean. Its situation is peculiarly favorable for com

merce, possessing a greater number of good harbors than any other portion of the country. Its greatest length is 70 miles from east to west, and from 17 to 30 broad, from north to South. It con tains four cities, 12 town?, sixty villages, and about 94,000 inhabitants. From the Je?p York Advocate, Aug. 26. LATEST FROM LIVERPOOL. The packet ship South America, capt. Marshall, arrived last evening from Liver pool. We have received papers of that place to the 1st instant, with our regular tiles of other papers, &c. The following Circular from one of the best bouses, em braces all the Commercial intelligence of interest. The sales of cotton, the last few days, has been limited, but prices remain firm . Liverpool, July 31. COTTON. The sales of the week ending 2Glh ultimo, were 40,070 bales, including 45,000 American. The sales for the four weeks have been 149,830 bales, of which 120,290 were American. The import during the same period was 06,272 bales, including G4.821 ot American cotton We have again experienced, during the present month, a very extensive demand for cotton, and with the exception of occasional but temporary re-actions, the

sales have been at continually improving is thus prepared and quite dry, it should prices, an advance having been establish- jreceive two coats of thin glue, or size ed during the month on the average ofjmade from the shieds of skins, such as is about ld per pound on American cotton : used by carvers and gilders This size more than half the quantity, however, ishould be put on as warm as possible, and has merely changed hands on speculation, 'care should be taken that no part of the the trade having purchased little beyond jcarpet should; be left untouched by it, oththeir wants for consumption, or about the lerwise the varnish to be afterwards laid

quantity imported, leaving our present estimated stock very nearly the same as on the 1st instant, and about equal to the conesponding period of last year. Trade in the interior may elm he said

to remain in a healthy state, although thejsolutely essential, as boiled oil has been

advance on goods is not equal to that onjiound to answer very well without it; bu

the raw material, and the exports begin to feel the effect of the rise in price, but there is a good demand for export yarns, at an advance corresponding with the vaoce on cotton, and the spinner contioues to have a good trade. Only three or four mills a9 yet have commenced working short time. The export of yarns for the six months ending the 1st instant, has been 20 millions of pounds, against 32 millions for the tirst six months of 1032, bemjr a decrease of 4 million pounds; but the ex port of plain and printed calicoes has been 139 million of vards against 122$ millions for the same period of 1832, being an in crease of nearly 17 million yards. The export of cotton from the kingdom is 50,100 bales, including 24,100 of Ame rican. An anticipation of the difficulty and embarrassment but too certain to ensue rom the expected resignation of the min isters, had its etlect on the Cotton Market during the mouth; and the failure of a banking house in this port, although one of a very moderate extent of business, had also its influence for a time on public con fidence. The apprehension, however, of the retirement of ministers eeems now to be removed, and money continues abun dant. For the last three days, however, the sales of Cotton have been on a com paratively limited scale, still the tone of the market is healthy, and there is almost a general confidence in its stability. During so great a speculative demand, prices are ot course irregular and the standard of quotations is continually de parted (rom. There has been a sale of 50 bags of Uplands, of not very choice quality, at I lid, and two lots have reached I2d per lb. But these sales must be considered rather as the result of an effort to have that price obtained during the month, than as any proof of the actual state of the market for the great bulk of the sales that are effected, as very little of the best Upland will yet command over Ud to lUd. We now quote fair Uplands at about 10 3 8d, and fair Orieans at 10d, with extremes of both from 9 3-8d to I2d. Total import of cotton into Liverpool since January, G 17,3 14 hales in the same period of last year, the import was 520,767 bales. Gross sales since January, 722,930 bales. In the same period cf 1032, the sales were 520,7G7. Estimated present .stock -of Cotton in Liverpool, 233,000 bales, against 253,307 bales on 31st of July, 1832. MILK SICKNESS. A writer in the Lebanon Star, in noticing the communication of T. S. Hinde, on the subject of iM ilk Sickness, as the result of extensive observation, attributes the sick ness to impure water, instead of the poisouous vine. He adduces numerous circumstances and tacts to sustain hie theory. It is geuerally conceded that the disease is local. It would therefore 6eem easy to trace it to its cause. ISut such is not the fact, for after many jears examination, some attribute it to one thing and some another. We notice the subject merely to elicit inquiry. The wntei says: "U will be found that water which issues out of, or is obtained in hot or dr) weather from what are termed bogs, in the west, will produce chills ami fever, oi it drank to excess, or its poisonous qualities taken iaio the etomach in the more

concentrated forms of milk and beefim1 pregnated with the poison, it will produce the sick stomach. The "water may be known by the fact that after being exposed a short time to the air, or standing in a vessel, it acquires a smell very much re sembling the black and stinking mud found in bogs. It is known that cattle by some strange taste are fondest of warm, muddy and stagnant water, and wherever this kind of bog xcater is found they prefer it. Hence, their rrilk and beef is strong!) impregnated with the poison which is held in solution by this water. Whether that poison be mineral ox vegetable is a question which I will not pretend to decide; but that such is the effect of that kind of water I cannot rationally doubt. Hence it will he found too true that wherever this disease prevails there are more or less bogs." PAPER CARPETS. Paper carpets are formed by cutting out and eeniog together, pieces of linen, cotton, Scotch gauze, canvass', or any sim

ilar material to the nze and form required; then stretching the prepared cloth on the floor of a large room, and carefully past in? it round the margins so as to keep it btrained tight. II cotton be the material, it will require to be previously wetted. When the cloth thus fixed is dry, lay on two or more coals ot strong paper, breaking joint and finish with hanging or col-

ored paper, according to fancy. Centrejhave been for hours ehouldering and put

or coiner pieces, cut out or remnants oi ' A A paper, which may be bought for a mere trifle, may be laid on the self-colored ground, and the whole surrounded by a jborder; or any other method adopted wnicn may guiitue taste or circumstances of the occupier, or accord with the other furniture of the room. When the carpet :n win sink into tne paper and spoil it. v nen itie size is perfectly dry, the carpet should have one or more coats of boiled oil; and when this is dry, a coat of copa or other varnish. 1 lie varnish is not ab where oil only is used, it requires severa more coats to be applied , and takes a much longer time to dry. I hese carpets are

ad-'portable, and will roll up with about the

same ease as on ciotn. I hey are very durable, are easily cleaned, and, if made of well chosen patterns, have a verv handsome appearance. Encyclopedia of Voltage Architecture . Black llaxvk and his Party at Home."-' The Editors of the New York Daily Ad vertiser have been favored with the fol lowing letter from an intelligent corres pondent, dated Foivt Armstroeg, (Upper Miss.) August 5th, 1833. The whole. uit arrived here a few days since loaded with assumed dignity and costly presents. rveokuck s band speedily followed to welcome thci brothers a grand council assembled, among whom was myself, to witness the deliverance of the Hawk to his nation. The couucil opened with the address of the President to Black Hawk, in which he is informed that in future he was to yield supremacy to his inferior Ke okuck, the white mau's friend. The old chief rose in violent agitation, denied that the President had told him so, and that he would not be advised by any body.that he wanted what he said to be told to the President, and that he in person would have said so in Washington, but that his interpreter could not sufficiently make known his views. The Colonel made to him a speech, stating that by his own treaty neither he nor his people could for the future head a band, and that by the treaty, Keokuck was placed head of the Sac Nution,&c. Keokuck wifh benevolent looks spoke awhile to the Hawk, then addressed the Council, begged nothing might be remembered of what the Hawk said that he was too old to say any thing good, and that he was answerable for his good behaviour; the poor old Chief recalled his words, and I do uot know that my sympathies were ever more imbibed than in witnessing his expiring struggle for freedom nothing but his advanced age and want of military power, will prevent him from muking another effort. Keokuck' band gave us a splendid dance; but the Hawk's party were either too dejected or too sullen to participate in the festivities You may tell the good citizens of New York, these Indians would willingly get up another war, in order to make another visit to the east, and -return loaded with prcseuts and almost satiated with attention. THE "FAR W EST." An intelligent correspondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser Geo. Catlin, E?q. the artist, who has spent a considerable time among the Western ludians, gives the following definition of the term "Far West," eo often applied in speaking of places beyond the Allega. nies: A journey of four thousand miles from the Atlantic shore, regularly receding from the centre of civilized society to the extreme wildness of nature's original works, and back again, opens a book for many an interesting tale to be sketched; and the mind which lives but to relish the works of natuje, reaps a reward of a much higher order, than can arise from the selfish expectations of pecuuiary employ racpt. Notwithstanding all that has been

writtea and said, there is scarcely any

subject en which the tenoning people of the East, are ycl less informed and instructed than on the character and amuse ments of the West; by this I mean the "Far IFesi" the country whose fascinations spread a charm over the mind almost dangerous to civilized pursuits. Few reonle even know the true definition of the "West" and where is its location? phantom like it flies before us as we travel, and our way is continually gilded, before us, as w e approach the setting sun. In the commencement of my tour, several of my travelling companions from the city ot New York found themselves at a frightful distance to the West, when we arrived at Niagara Falls, and hastened back to amuse their friends with scenes of the West at Duffalo a steamboat was landmg 400 passengers, and twelve days out "Where from?1' "From the West." In the rich state of Ohio hundreds were selling their farms and coin? to the West. In the beautiful city of Cincinnati people said to me "our town has seen it best days, it is not far enough West." In St. Louis my laudlady assured me that I would be pleased with her boarders, for the) were nearly all merchants from the "nest. I asked "whence come thoBe steamboats, laden with pork, honey, hides, tic.V1 from the "West." "Whence those ponderous bars of silver which those men . . - ting on boaid that boat they come from the West Where goes this steamooat so richly laden with dry goods, steam-engines, &c. She goes to Jefferson City 'Jefferson City! Where is that?" far to the West. "And where goes that boat laden down to her gunnels; the Yellow Stone?" She goes still farther to the West then said I, "Pll go to the West." Two thousand miles on her and we were at the mouth of the Yellow Stone at the West. "What invoices, bills of lading Lc. a wholesale establishment so far to the West! And those strange looking, loDg haired gentlemen who have just arrived and are relating the adventures of their long and tedious journey, who are they!" Oh, they are some of our merchants just arrived from the West. and that keel boat, that Machinaw boat; and that formidable caravan, all of which are richly laden with goods?" These, Sir, are outfits for the West. 4 'Going to the West ha?" Then said I, "I'll try it again." "What a Fort here too?" "Well, PI I lay my course hack again, and at some future period, endeavor to go to the JJr." AFPllENTICES. Mechanics in this country labor under many inconveocies on account of apprentices leaving their employers, or, in other words, running away, before the expira tion of their term of apprenticeship. In no part of the United States is the prac tice mote common, or the evil more seri ously felt, than in the Western States, where apprentices seem to think they are bound by no other obligation than their own will. Whether this is owning to the want of laws to enable the iaa6ter to com mand the services of his apprentice, or negligence in the enforcement of those al ready in existence, 'or to' the false no tions of liberty and independence which are inculcated trom early youth, or to oth er causes, ve are unable to determine. Let it be owing to what cause it may, it is an evil very seriously felt, and is equally injurious to trie interests ot the master and the apprentice: to the master in being deprived of those services to which le is justly and legally entitled, and to the apprentice, who by such con duct fails to acquire such knowledge ot his trade, as to benefit himself hereaf. ter, and whose character is sensibly affec ed. u is a misiortune to all concerned. that an apprentice who has acquired but 111 ft! St ' iaii a Knowledge ot his trade, often finds employment in the shops at half wages, and is protected by men who are influenced by the mere prospect of eaviner a few dollars in the employment of journeymen. maBter worKmen would consult their own interests, leaving out of view the interests of the runaway apprentice, they would discourage by every means in their H""vi Bum uuwuriny practices, it is completely in their power to correct the evil. To do 80 it is onlv necensarv to re. fuse employment to all who thus leave the service of 1hoso to whom they are bound, before the expiration of their apprenticeship, or without their indentures being cancelled; and by prosecuting to the extent of the law all who harbor, protect, or employ such runaway apprenti ces. These few remarks are called forth at the suggestion of one who has suffered much inconvenience from the evil here hinted at. EGGS OF INSECTS. Iosects1 eggs are not all of an oval form like those of birds, but some are like a pear, some like an orange, some like a pyramid, and some like a flask. The eggs of the gnat, for instance, may be compared, in shape, to that of a powder flask, and the mother gnat lays about three hundred at a time. Now each egg, by itself, would sink to the bottom of the whole three hundred together in the form of a litttle boat, and in such way, that they will all swim on the surface of the water; and a very curious way she has of managing this. Like other insects, the gnat has legs. Four of these (the lour fore legs) she fastens tb a floating leaf, or to the side of a bucket, if she is on the water contained iu one. Her body is thus held level with the water, except the last ring of her abdomen, which is a little raised. This be ing done, she begins to make use of iter other two leje, (or hind legi) and crosses

them io the shape of the letter X. The open part of this X, next to her tail, serve as a kind of scaffolding, to support the eegs she laye, until the boat is formed. Each egg, when laid, is covered with a kind of glue; and the gnat holds the fire: laid egg in an angle of the X until the second egg is laid by its other side. All theee stick together thuat making i kind of triangle, or figure of three, and this is the begiuning of the boat. Thus she goes on, piling egg upon egg, keeping the boat in proper shape by her useful hind legs . As the boat grows in size, sho pushes it from her by degrees, still adding to the unfinished end next to her body When the boat is half built, her hind legs are stretched out thus, the X or cross form I9 no longer wanted, and she holds up the boat as cleverly as if it was dona with two outstretched arms. The boat is at length completed, and nn excellent boat it is, quite water tight. For though it is very small and delicate, yet no tossing of the waves will sink it: and nothing can fill it with water or turn it upside down. In fact, the glue with which it covered prevents it from ever being wet. Even if the boat be pushed down to the bottom of the water, up it cmes again quite dry: so that it is better than the beet life boat that has ever yet been invented. The eggs of insects are not, like those of birds, always smooth, but are sometimes ribbed, and sometime ti'td or otherwise sculptured or carved cn the outside. The shell of an insect's egg i9 rarely or ever brittle, like that of a bird, but composed of a tough membrane which, in some instances, can be stretched out, as appears from the eggs of nnt? and some other insects growing considerably larger in the process of hatching. The mother inseefs, usually dying before their eggs are hatched, do not sit upon them like birds, except in the singular instance of the earwig, which, from the proceedings of one kept by me in a glass, in March, 1C32, appears to attend more to shifting the eggs about to places where they may receive moisture, than any thing like hatching by covering them. Ants shift their eggs according to tho changes of the day and night, and also of the weather, placing them near the surface of their nests when it is warm and dry, and deep down when it is cold or wet. Inconsequence of being exposed to the

same temperature, all the eggs of any par ticular species, in any given district, are hatched exactly at the same time, or at most within a few days; and when such eggs are numerous, an immense number of caterpillars make their appearance all at once on plants and bushes, and give rise to the notion that they are brought by winds, or generated by what is called blighting weather, though this is as absurd as to say the wind could bring a flock of cattle, or that the blight could generate a flight of sparrows or rooks without eggs to hatch them from. In a late London paper, we notice an account of a fellow, who in the villages near London, contrives to mike a very profitable and easy livelihood, by 'nanging himself. His method is, first, to sel ci some tree by the road side, near the foot of which he strews a few pieces of paper, which appear to be fragments ot a letter addressed to hi wife. He next suspends himself with a rotten cord, which breaking, leaves him prostrate beneath it: in this situation he remains till some passenger notices his apparently awful condrtion. He then counterfeits returning animation so naturally that the sympathy of the stranger is awakened, to whose inquiries he replies with a tale of distress; tells a long story of his wife and children, and says he is a reduced clerk on his way home. At Acton, a deception of this de eenption was practiced lately; the imposter succeeded in getting himself conveyed free to Birmingham with 7 or 8 ia his pocket, subscribed by the humane gentry of the neighborhood. Cure for the Consumption. A late number of the New England Farmer con tains a letter from James Walker of Frey burg, Me. and a certificate from his nephew who was last spring eo far overcome by the consumption as to be given over by the physician, which state byjnhaling tho fumes of the chlorate of lime, his health was so far improved in twelve days that he wur r,ble to rido a mile on horseback. Mr. Walker was induced to try the experiment, from having read of the successful experiments of Dr. Cottercu in Paris, with this medicine. Pa. Inq. Carrier Pigeons. A society of pigeon fanciers at Ghent give an annual prize for the best carrier Pigeon. This year it was decided on the 24th ult., when 24 birds were sent off from Rouen, where they had been conveyed from Ghent. They were started at 55 minutes after nine in the morning The first which arrived belonged to M Doleuw, and made the transit in an hour and a half, gained the prize ; I reached Ghent in two hours and a half, 3 arrived in the course of the day, and 4 were lost. The distance in a direct line is about 150 nules. Female Sailor. An Kng'irh paper mentions the death by a fall on board a vessel at Gravcsend, of a woman who had sailed for the last year or two as a seaman, dressed in male attire. She wa9 "fTrogrjyj" an,J in tempting to come down by the topgallant halyards, her hands fired, which obliged her to Jet go her hold, and she fell on the deck, about a height pj" twenty fe!, atj-i was killed cn the tpct.