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V I NC2NNES GAZETTE, tiirf iitrj b'alxiidny, a 0 ii -y y .u a -ir -y Lit AIUCl'l.TtltAI,. JS'ntive Grape All New Englar.d abounds in the wild purple t a je. sime tine of which ate very prolific, and tome appear to hp hlwnv barren This grape It : seldom been ued for anv pirpne, f x "ept to be. pickled w hde gteen or enlen when ripe; hut we have the best eiidcnccj that it may he turned to account, in the ,- , - - mimnlarture of a tr nelicinns wine. U. I . t I U . ! . I i .1 o hai nrI t lirrhtel lirmlit llinli Hum tine m he cultivated to ns to yield a thousand fold more than now, of latger nd finer fiuif. and the product will he bnndent f almost any flavored wine the manufacture may choose. The pure juice lighllv expressed,, and somewhat sweetened with sugar, will lurnish a wine of molt delicate flnvor. similar in color and taste to a Froiitignac or Muscat; and the quality may he changed, by a stmngr ex predion of the antiingetit qualify ol the skim, until th.e w ine w ill . in that respect, run through all the vat iettf s of clar et and poi t. t ill retaining. hm ev ei , much of the Muscat tln or. --Lowell Journal. .Making Cojfte. In making coffee much care is requisite to extract the whole strength of the flivor of the berry, and moreover it is very erroneout and most eipeniive to sweeten it with raw or moit fugar. Manv person imajine that the inoit sugar tends more to sweeten; but it experiment he made, if will he found that one half the quantity in weight of lefined "gar. will add mot e sweetness, and the flavor of the coffee will he much more pure and delicate. In Holland, where coffee is the universal Leverage of the lower class, the njar cannot he to.- re6ned,anllhe boatmen on the canal ma) be cen mixing the most beautiful w Lite j refined sugar with their coflee, while on sticli cu'tom and taste they pride themelve highly. It requites but little thought to acquiesce in this departure, from our custom, and when economy if blended wilh such judgment it is only nececcssary to call the attention ef those whose means naturally excite them to seek for facte combining with what is j cheap and what is best The fust men - - tion of eoffee in the west of Curope ic by Ramolf a German Traveller, who re turned from Syr in 1C73 It wa first brought into Knglaod by Mr. Nathaniel Conopin, a Cietan, who made it hi com mon beverage, at Baliol College, in 1641. Coffee tree were conveyed from Mocha tn Holland in 1626, and carried to the West Indie in the year 1736; firt cultiTated at Surinam by the Dutch, 1718; it culture encouraged in the plantation, 1732. Mirror. From iht Beardtto-xn Chrcnicl. maple s re; A It. 'ln the northern and western section of thi State, particularly in the countie of Jeffiron f.nd Lewis, the inhabitani ore very laudably engagtd in transplanting those trees in orchards, and along the lane and road. In the town of Lowville, one farmer has an orchard of Six hundred trees. Those growing on low wet lands, are not as productive of sugar as those on uplands. The latter may he known by the roughness cf the Bark, and by growing to a larger sizo. "The trees are tapped when nbout eight or ten inches in diameter, and will, at this period, produce from three to six pounds of sugar each season. Very large trees have been known to produce fifteen pounds. The sap or juice of these trees may he converted either into u?ar or well fla voted molasses. The best mf tho-l of obtaining the sug ir is to have the bucket perfectly clean; and when sullicient quantity of the p i collected for boiling, it should he strained through a woollen vUth into the evaporator. The best evaporating vessel should be about four hy six feet long, and eight inches deep ; the bottom of sheet iron, and the sides of: wood, set in mason work, so as to protect the sides from injury by fire. The advantages of this construction are, rapid evaporation, by having the surface of the fluid very great in proportion to ils depth, consrquenlv a saving of fuel, and prei enting that blackness which is com tnnnicateil to the sugar when boiled in a veel entirely of iron. After the fluid i boiled to a consistence of West India molasses, it is allowed to cool, and then strained through fine tl mnel. It is again t.ntnvt-r a pintle tire in n clean ves-sel, with a qumtity of fresh blood well mixed with it The blood will coagulate, and rie with the impurities to the top, which are carefully skimmed off. After this, a alow evaporation i kept up, taki' g care not to burn the sugir, nn il it is suflicientlv done to granulate, which tiny he knoun t-v ! giamib'U effect on the tongue. " Mt people, however, have various and peculiar method of ascertaining its crystalline state. It should now r removed from ihe fire, and stirred un til rort!, nhm it t ill he compoeJ of large .. ' I" l ... v ! I ...

armikUnp grain?. i "is" "? - y , - - ,""" tin. tuocefs is found t be far superior occupied the place ofth present Cam-: Mr. Fickhn OtTeied a resolution, requitiik l""-r" i , - i 0 bridge, he nerceivrd that s-MTteltiins had ., ... - . , .

In that mine in tne Common way ot runping it into moulds or cakes, and cepuhSe h.gh rtfliieuieet." IS stlS -

Tin: si 3JMr.it is I'at. Vain nmn 1 h v fond pnrmii furbeur. Repent! thy end i nifdi! l)e:.ih at the f.utht (Hi'i't be far Oli! (IiiiiL befoie jou die! Reflect thou hast n on 1 to live : 'I'ltj fins bow high they mount! What Hie thy hopes beyond the grave? How stands Ihe dread account? The three ihmt months of summer

have pa?etd away, 'and the autumn with its yellow seared leaf is 1 efoie u. It! jseems but yesterday when the earth put ! forth its flowers and blossoms of spring. 'nnrt v I itm iriy tltt I . t r i a. . . . ....... J fiiii iiiis eiiuii riij.i, villlllllfl i. J , f ' , IU III! I, H ill I IIIY I - S U III ' &' mer. Day fallow day and year follow year in quirk and rapid ?uccetinn, and admidM the turmoil anil excitement, and bustle of life, we forget how rapidly we ate moTirgr on the journey ,lfrom whotc bourne no traveller Ieturn.,, The ummer i pal! What a ad and inp'rnciive lesson doe? the rapid charge 'd eason leave us of our de?liny ! in ihe fpring tide of life cur hearts have heat high with the hope and delightful anticipations of future years of promise. The summer' un may have rose upan us without a cloud, and it rays of light may ha ve been moie beautiful than the firt. .And when the autumn gathers around us, leeting the hopes of eailier )eais, and stamping upon all either diappoir.tment or success, acordidg as we have treasured up the talents bestowed upon us by OUT .I n U P r I lin r Amot I It n nintr r I 1

life, when the joyous hope of bo) hood j man's "(H,,e as r,f it indefatigable peieare looked upon as wild enthusiasm, andxeranre

wlien the judpment, tnatuted, by expeii ence, will unite with the wise man of of Israel in ) tug anity tf vanities all H vanity. The ummer i past, and perhaps with the writer and reader it is p.isred hot ever. To u the balmy breath of spring may never come again. e may never again ee the budding rose and splirging flower of that beautiful season. Charge is stnmpped upon all thing of thi world, "hete to-day and gone to morrow" and then all that remains f us is a little handful of earth, an affecting comment upon our variety ao'l folly. Ah! did we realii'.e and feel this important tiuth, how difieient how very diflrent would be the course of our live. Did we in our moment! of temptation, when we iiitd our hearts turning towards the things of this world, but then reflect that all its enjoy ments ate a fading as a dream, how littie should we care for it honor. What to us would be the homage of thousands; what to us the adulation and applause of this multitude? A few rapid rolling years, and our heads will lie as low in the dust as theirs, and "places that now know us, will then know ui no more foreverr' Tur KruTi-cK! kk'i Notion or Ijeijig is Company with Kisk I.adiks. ''Were you neter in the company of fine ladies?" aked ChcvilIere. "Yes! and tlummock ine if ever I want to be so again; for thera i sat wilh my feet drawn straight under my knees, head up, and my hands laid close along my logs, like, a new recruit on drill, or a horse in the stocks; nnd tvit me, if I didn't fval as if I was about to be nicked. The whole company stared at me as if I had come without an invite; and I swear I thought my arms hod grown a foot longer, lor I could tint get my hands in no kind of a comfortable fix first tried them on my lap, there they looked like goiutj to prayers, or as if I was tried that way: then I slung them down by my side, and they looked hke two weights to a clock: and then I wanted to close ray legs, and 1 tried that, but my lees stuck nut like a pump handle: then my head stuck up through a glazed shirt collar hke a pip in a yoke : then I wanted lo spit, hut the (Joor looked so fine that I would as soon have thought of spitting on the window: then to fix me out and out, they asked us all to sit down to dinner! Well, things went on smooth enough for a whil, 'till wa had rot through one whet at it. Then the imp of a nigger came tome first with a waiter of little howls full of something, and a parcel of towels hung over his arm: so I clapt one of the bowls to my head, and drank it dowli with a swallow. Now, stranger, what do you think was in it? " 'Punch, I suppose, or perhaps apple toddy," "So I thought, and so would any body as dry as I was, and that wanted something to wash down the dainty stulTs that I had been layin in! but no! it was warm water! Yes! you may laugh! hut it wa clean warm water. J he others dipped the-r finders into the how ls and w iped them 1 I. n.. .,1. n. ....II n. lli.t. ..Alllil r.irnl.wllllW. Oil nil i rn aa ' ' J Vi'-i-u n'l 5 1 1 1 3 . but il was all the fault of that pampered nigger, in bringing it to me first. As soon as I catched his ere, I giuhim a wink, a much n 3 to let him i know that if ever I caught Imn on my trail I1 would wipe him down with a hickory towel." Kentucky Roarer. A Tit I'M STORY. 4'Trnlh,M says Lord Byron, "is often stranger than fiction." This remark will be found strictly in point in the following' narrative. There resides at present in the vicinity of Boston, a venerable clergyman, whose character for learning, piety, and active usefulness, has seldom, it ever been surpassed. When voung, he was very poor, and entered Harvard t'l-lh-e with almost no means of sup,,.,rt, apart from the expended lit .eralily of the Cullesre-r acuity, who have considerable chan - tv fund at their disposals. " He was supplied with hM the sums from this resource, con-Hent with the justice du to other domains, nui sun ne remained in a condition ot hopeless in. ugence. , les lo- should he soon provided Villi a set of linen, ho could no longer remain in College, or obtain his education. noducci 'nos . to despair, ne one ny iook n Mtlll Mil's Hum vntuwi tMLf. S.VJ uuaif i 1. 1 Q .,........ r. Vf or rm oihor labor inn? emp!o mvnt. I I, ... ..r-ivod ntftr tli fVm w l s h of t fi:i t ItlH- It V. v-wmw i'tvv,iiv r oi ttl'lllim tl a :, ....u" t.r hu.mir r ii maJ-.-vera attempts to knock it off as a

nflps enrumbrance, but found that it would obstinately adhere to the point of the staff.

Curiosity at length impelled hini to examine it, when he- disrovrred that it was a gold liujj. set wit!-. v-ry briliint diamonds. He curried it itiimedt atel y to a jeweller, who wns a gentleman ofprent integrity and bttnvolence. On acquainting him wish his situation, tlift jeweller paid him down handsome sum on the spot, and req'iesled the young niun to call on him for assistance in future. The linen was purchased, the idiirts wr made up by the young tunn's sisters, and his . ,..,. -.1 C .. . . I. .1 . I. i. . i i . i . ('iLi-'ti.iiiuiu Him ubj gi ct unguicr ana oi igmer. The ring, which so sinenlarty forced itself into his hnd?, was probably dropped by a Iiriiifb orTiCfcr in the courre of our re volutionary war. We were, on Friday ihown to tahle cloth of needle work, made by Mr. John Monro, w hich shows, in a strong light, w hat patience and perseverence will ac complislu The one cloth is seven feel square, and contains 1.600 pierra of cloth, the materials of which cost G. and the labor expended on it 34. The large one which is eight feet square, contains 2 COO distinct pieces of cloth: the materials cost 10, end the work expended on 't 40. They contain agieat variety of historic! I character, ships, device. &c. all executed by the needle, and in a style which no one would think the needle ca pahle of accomplishing. They were be C'in about seven year ago, and have been made chiefly on extra time. They ! have an exceedingly beautiful appearance. ann i'iv as much in favor ot the vonnf in ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. HOUSE OF HEI'HESENTATIVES. Wt.ftilay. Dec. 17, 1U34. Mr. Dubois, from the select committee, to whom was referred a memorial, &c, concerr.ii g the road leadirg from Yincenne lo Chicago, teporled an amendment thereto. Air. I'nliian hoped the report of the committee would be concur red in. The object in vinw, wa to call the early attention of Congress to the importance of the measure, lie as auxicu for the resolutions repotted, to pass untrammelled, and hoped the amendment offered by the gentleman f rom Hamilton, (M r Carpenter,) would not be accepted, if again proposed. The road wa important to half the state, and it claim upon the liberality of the gsnsml governruaol, highly meritorious. The question was then put, and the report was coucurrcd in, and the resolu tion adopted. Thirsdat, Dee. 18. Mr. Manly presented the petition cf sundry citizen of Clark county, praying a removal of the county seat of sai l county. The reading was disper sed wilh, and the petition was referred lo a aelecl com mittee. Wednesday, Dec 24. Hill reeling to promissory notes, hood and dubills, &.C, read twice and on motion of Mr. Thomas, referred to the committee on the judiciary. Mill for an act to authorize William and Weed, to establish a Ferry across the litWabash Kiver, read Iwice. Mr. Duboii callad for the reasons of the gentlemen from While, concerning this measure. He raid the existing law gave full power, lo the county commissioners of each county to establish fer He in such case trs necessity demauded, and he could ee no good reason why we should legislate upon the subject. Messra. Webb and Mcllenry explained and exhibited the necessity, from peculiar diflicuty in thi cae of legislative action. The bill wai then ordered lo be engrossed for a third reading. Hill for no act to reimva the leat of justice for Clar k county ; read twice and ordered, to be engrossed and read a third lime. Bill for an act to regulate the mode of llicening clock pedlera; read twice and referred lo the committee on the judiciary. On motion of Mr. Hamlin, the hou'fe resolved itself into a committee ot the w hole, on the road bill M r. Cloud in the chair. After some time spent by the commit tee , the speaker resumed Ihe chair, and Mr. Cloud from the committee reported said bill with sundry amendments thereto. On motion of Mr. Cloud, said bill and amendments were refeired to a select committee of eleven. Adjourned until Friday morning. FnrDAY, Dec. 27. Mr. Rlockburger offered a resolution ff ;rj, )k, ,he committee on Finance, to i . . . ., i -" ., r,i .inquire into the -expediency of thro ing a .portion of the School fund into the stale , treasury , and paying six perceut interest ; (hereon. Adopted. Hill from the Senate relating to the limitation of actions, and for preventing , vexatious la w suits j On Motion of Mr. Gregory, the .rules of (,e ,)fiu?e were dispensed with, and the - . . , i - .'.i bill read a second time by its title. Il - . u then refer ted to a com ant tee ol Ih KvTi irii)g tne c.iii.ii...re or, uie judiciary 10 inquire into ine csptuiein y 01 ao altering

aw relating ta mill and millers, a to Justices of the'PeuCB jurisdiction in easel of adopted. forfeitures by such persons; On Motion of Mr. Heck Iff on, the house resolved itself into the couimiltee of ihe whole, on the hill from the Senate relating to the limitation of actions, and vexation lawsuits Mr. Grery in the chair Aftei some time spent.by the committee, the speaker resumed the chair, and the chairman of the committee iep-rted pro gress, asked leave lo kit again, which was granled. Mr. Frazier offered the follow ing resolution. Resolved. That the romtniile en thejndiciary.be instructed to inquired into the expediency of a lew ;.f the Stand-, urd book of attorneys and Physicians from execution; and also the Holy Scriptures and necessary School books. Mr. Dubwis moved to otnehd the resolution so as to exempt farming utensils alio, Mr. Gorden meved further to amend raid resolution, ao as to include mechanical tool in the exemption: Mr. Tunnel moved to lay said resnhi tion and amendments on the table ou'il the 4th day of July next, agreed to. Adjourned. " SENATE. Saturday, Dec 20, 1534. A message wa! received from the House of Representatives, asking the appointment of a committee of confer ence on the disagreeing vote between the two Houses relative to an act to provide for the election of County Recorder and County Surveyor. Whereupon on motion cf Mr. Ewing said committee wai appointed The senate then proceeded to the Hall of the House of Representatives, to unite in the election of a United State Senator, on the first vote, John M. Robinson was declared duly elected Untied States Senator for six year from the 4th of March next. The senate then returned to their chamber; and on motion, adjourned until Monday morning 10 o'clock. For the gratification of many of our subscribers, we publish Jame R. Gardner'' report of the examination of the Indiaua Land Offices; as our neighbor ays, vte publish them without comment. vo. r. Na Libakos, Ohio, 1ugutl$t 1833. Sir: I have the honor to transmit, herewith, a duplicate of my report to the Commissioner of the (ieneral Land Office relative to nn examination of the United Stiites' land offices at Fort Wayne, in the State of Indiana, made under the appointment of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 15th of May lat, and in conformity with the instructions of the Cominisioncr of the General LandOtTico of the lid of Juuo. I have the honor to be, Wilh very great respect. Your most obedient servant, JAMUS B UARDI.VF.lt, F.xamtrte r. Lion. Wa. J. Dvtsi, Secretary of the Treasury. WisRin CunnTr, August 8, 1633 Sin : In obedience to your instructions of the 3d of June last, I proceeded in the first place to Fort Wayne, in the State of Indiana, and entered upon the examination of the United States' land offices at that place on the 27th of the same month, and closed ou the 2d of July. The state of public funds 10 the hands of the Receiver was as follows: In bank bills 3,6X3 00 Specie 3,041 30 Revolutionary bounty land scrip 100 00 Certificate of deposite in the U. S. Branch Bank at Cinciunati, dated June 8th, 1633 10,710 00 Treasury warrant in favor of Gen. Tipton for claims under the fottuwatamie treaty, (counted as money; 2,490 00 Am't of sales of land from June 20,4.12 92 Istto'jyth, 1833 Leaving a balance in the Recaiver's 426" 62 hands ot ) To he applied to paying Register aud IUceiver's faes, &lc. The Treasury varrant in favor ot General Tipton had been presented lo the bank lor deposite, but was rejected lor want o the proper endorsement, which ras been since supplied. For a "particular description" of the funda in the hands of the Receiver, I beg leave to iefer to the accompanying document, marked a. The booki were found posted as fol low!: Register of receipts up to May 3 1 st I 33 Journal do do Jan. 1st ldjj Leger do do May 1st, 1833 The penmanship in the register and eger was, for the most part, very re spectable. That in the journal was nt so good, nor had, that register neen Kepi wilh as much care and accuracy. I be description! ol entries are abreviated in nearly ai many iiiitatici ai in the register of receipts. In a comparison of the register of receipts with the register of certificates for April, May, and June, I delected the errors and discrepancies noted in the paper marked b. I found that the officers were not in the habit of comparing these books at any time; nnd gave theui specially in charge, that the department strictly required it lo be done at least nmuthlv. I requested I hat all the. books might be. brought up duriug ihe examination, w Lich

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wa nearly Completed before I left Fort j Wayne; and I have good reafr.n to hope

that no future delinquencies will occur. 1 le uflice papeis were n.l goou ortier, but the contusion was partly attributable to the files having Ucnt iecenlly broken in order so restore copies of auch records aa h id been bun.l io the Treasury lv parlu.ett. ' The Receiver is much in want of a good desk, of the proper construction. The only public furniture he now i;ss consists of an old bureau., such as are ir.ade lor family use, atd a . very contracted book case,, badly pa rliti-t.ed. The two aiticles are worlu tbohl sijc or ight dollars each. , . The urchasej of lands made by this Receiver, as directed to l-e tscertaiued, will be found in the paper mniked e. I have no evidence, nor hnve I any reason lo believe, that, any of these purchase.! were made with the public funds. Ai far as my obser vutions arid inquiiiea ha? extended, I am inclined to boliev the. Receiver does not trafiic in scrip, nor assist iu facilitating its exchange with Ihe purchasers of the. public lands, although I think he is ninth too eager in rgagit.-g ia land speculations; still, his character stands fair, nnd he eppenrs ta be hu ao commoda'i;ig and gentlemanly cfiicer. - ii... . j in vf rv lie Irequently exthanges the j-nblic money with the citizen! t fhia vicinity , s ha himself informed me; but that ha docs this in detriment to the public service, or in contravention of ihe rulc9 of the tJeparlrnenl, I have know knowledge. Ha parlicnlaiiy exchanges all the specie ha can fcrtoch paper as willpacsin dep-osita at th e bank . I would take this occasion, however; respectfully to suggest that the rule, (which I atxi told has bsen abolished,) o. requiring the Receivers to note nn tha bar k oi their receipts (lie precitt kind of funds received, ivculd be Ihe surest safe guard agnir.st speculations in exchangi cf ihe public money, and more effectually lead to the detection of a fraud , which I fear is sometimes practised, of receiving scrip in payment cf an entry after tha r:ioney has been acttially.counted and received by the Receiver. The Receii er resides with his family at Fort Wayne, and atlenda personally to the duties of his ollice. REGISTER'S OFFICE. Jo comparing the tract booki with th township plats in tha office of the Regi.ter, I found much difficulty . The former are not numerically arranged, except here aod there a lew leaves together, and are much blotted and defaced. Without a glossary, or index, it is almost impossible to find a particular entry without much tronlle und long research. And what is worse, tha entries do ru t correspond with the plats, in a great many instances; so numerous indeed, that I considered it useless to note them, but made ihe correctiens as I examined. Many tract! marked '-sold,'1 on the plats are not to he found on the tract books; although J have sometimes found them, after a tedious scare;;, on the register eJ cer tijiccles, being con v inced, from their local situation, that they must have been long since sold. The omissions to make ua the entries on the plats are very numtrous, and may often occasion double sales. The sections are divided and subdivided on the tract books in the order of offering lands at public sale, so that the name of a person who puichasei a quarter gection mut be writ ten Uvici on tha trad books instead of once; ar;d, moreover, the space which might he saved by a larger entry than an eighth of a section, and appropriated to the ei.try of a quar-ter-quaiter section, is lost. The loiter description of entries aro now very fja qnent, and there being no 'niscellantuus tract book" kept, the interlineations render the tract book almost unintelligible lo a stranger. I think it my duty, therefore, to recommend that entire nezv tract books be procured, and the whole of the present entries rvied and transcribed. 1 am confident the Government would be a gainer by it no:', ai it tnust be done at some future time. It will preserve the identity of the entries, which may t, be ascertained , but which will in n few years become extremely uncei lain, if not entirely obliterated. Iu fuch a case additional space should be left fur the entry of quuittrquarter sections. To give you a aiore correct idea of the deranged und confuted state of the tract books, I enclose transcripts vf two croanalory notes found pasted in the books, without which it would be extremely difficult even fur the Register himtll to ascertain loiuiti entries, or io make new ones. I would net be understood as censuring Ihe present Registnr for the detar gement of the tract books; as I believe it may, for the moj.1 pai t, he attributed to theneglect cr incompetency ot the first iocum bent of the office, or raiher'his proxy, fi i utiderst-n l he never attended jtrshnaliy to (he duties of h:s office a dt in quer.ry t -o frequent and many other i.fhoe?, at w hich calls loudly for the efficient c.oi recI, on ol the department. The present Reifer, however, is cln'geable yytlh seveial of the otnissicus of entries on the plals, hi they occunad.