Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 31, Vincennes, Knox County, 8 July 1809 — Page 4

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POETICAL ASYLUM, SONG for Cy C7. Though the Mafons declare, They can tell to a hair, By the touch oi the finger each other ; And boau that they! own, Some fecret unknown, "Which none can e'er learn but a brother :

Yet no figns do they know. Half fo certain I trow, As that which diftinguifhes this, fir, For in each members face, There's fome d d ugly place, "Which no man with his eye Cght canmifsi This club all difowri, Every fecret but one, And this fecret you quickly may tell fir, For 'tis, I profefs, t No more and no lefs, Than juft to be ugly as- , fir, For the Prefident's felf, Is as ugly an elf, So (lender and gaunt, that you'd fwear, fir, He was fome troubled ghoft, From the Stygian coaft. Or Camelion fed upon air, fir, Then let us all jain, In a full glafsof wine, To the health of this uglitfl of men, fir. For I very much fear, "When death takes him from here, You'll n'tr fee as ugly agin, fir.

ANECDOTES.

What is the reafon, faid one Irifbman to another, that you and your wife are always difagrreing ? becaufe replied Pat, we are both of one mind, fiie wants to be mailer, and fo do I. The Portoguefe valued their filver hints in proportion to their pretended miracles ; but general Junot eflimates them according to their weight. Bomparte excufes him felf for hi conduct to the Pope, by faying that he proceeds according to cannon law.

From the National Intelligencer. REFACTIONS Arising out of the present condition of American politics and business respectfully submitted to t general and several goventnenrs V he United States, Leyl. . .;.vc' and Executive. ;tc recent fuuaiion of the U-

.ted States hab occalioned the government to I : ove the crcat im- ) nanee of our confumption of in mill cn' ecl jjoods. A t the fame time the comparative fafcty atul i mdo v oi t'ae manufacturers, in afcafou of commercial embarraifmcnt, was numill -fled. The piijr t.f'lniiis, ot cultivation, and of die natural productions of tin: v'arih, were maintained in pioporv;on us the llcudy coufumptiun by

otir manufacturers was great or fmall. Foreign manu fact tiers reniained here, and received additions from abroad. Foreign merchants and feanien departed from us. The body of mechanics received recruits from the body of merchants and their afibeiates, 8c of the navigating citizens. The manufacturers evinced a common caufc with the government againlt the illegitimate meafures of die

belligerants. Some at lead of.the !

merchants and of the commercial diftridls did not evince fuch feelings. A part of the belligerents dreaded the operation of our man. ufaclurers, and relied avowedly on thofe of the mercantile citizens 8c commercial fections of our country. Our military fupplies are rendered far more fure, cheap and abuhdant than in the revolutionary war by means of our manufacturers in many very important in. fiances. The actual and continual employment of every American production, called a raw material except cotton by our prefent manufacturers, has been afcertained. The increafe of cotton manufacture by labor faving mills and machinery has been very confiderable Cotton fubftitutes for flaxen, hempen, filk and woollen goods, have been very numerous and im

portant, and are increafing. The excitements of the planters in 1786 by the friends of manufacturers to cultivate cotton, and the fubfequent invention of the cotton gin, have led to us to afcertain, that we can produce more cotton than the confuming world can wear. While the diforders of Europe have rai fed the Merino wool to three prices, being more than 350 cents, in the country which has fupplied us with our fuperfine clothes, the fame troubles and the enterprise of our citizens has given us the breed ot ihcep. We have gained lead in profufion by

means of Louifiana, and can have no difficulty in making the whole of the fimple, eafy and ufeful manufactures of that raw material. It will be of peculiar importance in fubftitutes of copper and brafs. The immenfe extenlion of our frontier will enfure us the raw materials produced by the Indian trade. The great natural magazines of coal in Virginia, Pennfylvania, and other dates, will attract the arts and trades into their vicinity, and bv means of roads and canals, will be diflufed through other parts of our country. The manufactures dependant on bark, lime and potalh arc favoured in the U. States by the great abundance of thofe ncccflarv in liniments. The ufe of fleam as a moving power in manufactures will foon follow the

intimate acquaintance with fleam engines, which the times promife. Rapidly as book printing lias fpread we make all the neceilary types, and fome for exportation. Th' hatting bufmefs is eonitderably improwd by the manufacture of the trimmings, wiuch ufed to be imported, ;md by ttie accpiilition of the Marino and liakeweii wool ol Spain atul Kuglaud. The American pottery is improved by theaccpufiiion of artisans, and the difeo-

Very ofenrths for tlic wares of the Knglilh Staffordlhirc character. Great improvements have been introduced in the fawing and turning of mahogany and other woods, 8c of marble and other ftoncs, in turning metals, the calling of balls, of cannon, of floves and of other hollow wares, it is fuppofed that thefc and other metal manufactures demand three times the quantity our mines yet produce. If we conlider the fuel, forage, buildings, and ground required by the furnaces, forges, foundaries, fmith's hops, and other metal works, the importance of manufactures to the landed atul farming interefl will appear great. We have become deeply fenfiblc of the duty of inflructing women in fomething beyond the culinary art and the needle. They now more generally than ever, card, fpin and weave, bleach, dye, knit, gild, paint, draw, tampour, embroider, and attend to the manufactures ol the farm and dairy. They greatly aid the tailor, the fhoc-maker, the upholflerer, the hatter, the faddler and other artifts in their work. It confids entirely with the wifdom, and goodnefs of the American governments tonurfe the manufactures that increafe the honed refources of our female citizens the deprived orphan, the bereaved widow, and the wife encumbered by an unworthy hufband. Females do not fuffer by domeflic confinement, nor form unruly mobs. As a body of manufacturers, they are capable of giving us a quantity of piece goods equal to the whole we receive lor confumption from Iurope. We hear of 30,000 manufacturers thrown out

of employment, as an evidence of

the diflrefs produced in one country of Europe by our embargo. Let us remember, that the women of America, above 14 years of age, are more than fifty times G0,ooo,

and that they are our tendered connexions our mod loved relatives our bed and trued friends. Enable vour women to be independent, S: virtue flouri flies, moralitv bloflbrns like a rofr, and vice decays. All the arguments again !t the unheaithinefs and violence of manufacturing towns, vauilh before the argument of habitual domedicor houfehold manufactures, iinivcrfally punned ; and

the employment of woman in their own fhops dren'hens greatly this very flrong ground. The invention of Odiorn, to cut and fiend nails, enables us to make with cafe, at reduced price, our whole fupplies. This ar:ir:!e has fudained a complete revolution, and is f-tticd forever in our hands. The noife of an European mob of nail makers of the year 1775, is fubllituted by the r ittie of a (core of mills, in as many American

j country portions, tended each by

a dozen artiils and laborers, who can m ike without opportunities of mobbings, or chance (A licknefs

j ivom confinement our u liole quan

tity for t oiiiumption and ihipmcnt Tliis molt uleful mam: faet ore, whivdi cl;eapens the coi.druction

of every fhip, barn, and honle we

build, demands of tiie landholder

more iron. Our country ohtaitis a f'tircr and better paice for its raw materials at home, and the purchafer for foreign markets is actually outbid. The manufacturers have in this cafe, formed the pelcdal o;i which alone Hands the luulcc cololfus of the U. States. So of Ihx hemp, hides, (kins and wool, for wc import more of each, than we fend to the foreign world. Cotton alone demands confiderable aid. It is the intered of the planter and manufacturer toeherifh the home confumcrs of this raw material. Rhode llland has proved it poflible to conduit the Britilh rottoji manufacturing mills in the 0. S. She has fucceeded flie multiplies them flic extends them into the adjacent town! hips of Connecticut and Maflachufetts. Thctooms of Pcnnfylvania are employed on the? cotton yarn of the Rhode llland fpinning mills, Charledon f: Baltimore, and Ead Jerfcv and Connecticut have caught the fpirit. Pennfylvania manifeds the fame feeling. The cotton goods of tha Peninfula of India.are a confidcrablc injury to the confumption of American cotton wool in Enroot; and the U. States. I'hofe .goods greatly injure our planters. . They injure our manufacturers. Nay they injure our (hip owners, becaufe we fhould fend cotton anil wool to be manufactured in Europe, fo as to fill more veTels, if thofe India goods were not broty hither and carried to Europe by our (hips. We minider to Kail India agriculture and manufacture and proportionally 'differ ve our own. The great inferior claffes of Indiana cotton fhirtings, flieeting:; and linings might well be ftibjects of increaied duty as wc conceive. The home confumption of Indigo and other dye duds of the U. States is greatly increafed. This is a certain and manifed confequence of the increafe of manufactures in our country. Were the quality of our ciye (luffs Improved, (till more would he ufed ; Hill more would manufactures flourii'i and benefit agriculture. The F. and Spanilh planters in Eouilin.nn mud teach us to make Indigoe-, of fujierior qualifies, and thus afnd our. manufactures in their competition with thole of Europe. (To be concluded in cur n:xt.J

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