Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 47, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 October 1809 — Page 2

Iiave fix manufactures brifkly carried on, which are fuppoiVd to manufacture waies to the value of 30,000 dollars annually. Copper Hills, a vny heavy article in this line are made in numbers Copper and tin wares are manufactured conliderably in Biownfville, Chrlc(hwn, Sec. and more or leis in Ohio and Kentucky. Wire weaving. This bufinrfs is carried on to a very confiiierable amount Selves, riddles, fi-reens, Uc. c ould be made we fuppofe in futVuieiit quantities to fupply the w Rern country. Was wire drawn here it would be attei ded with many advanta pes. There is a wire weaver at firownfville. Glass cutting. This bufinefs has been Tffently euiiliihid by an ingenius Geinian (T.i hh'um) fomurly glafs cutter to Louis ti e XVI. late king of France. Wc have a fix light chandelier, with prifms of his cutting, which does credit to the work man, and tr fh cfs hcr.or on our country.

for we have reainn to believe it is the fi;ft ever cut in the United States It is fuffended in the houfcof mr. Kerr, innkeeper of this town.

Increase of weavers, In the year 1800 there were but five looms in Pittfburg ; in J 07, there were eighteen, and at this time ( 1 SOD) wc have forty four. It is calculated they weave about 52,800 yards annually cf linfry woolfty and cotton and linen mixed, which is worth upon an average 66 cents per yard, amounting to 38,848 dollars. There are alfo confiderable quantities of rugs, table cloths, rug carpets, coverlets he, woven. Linen About 80,000 yards of flax linen, coaife and fine, brought to the Pittf burg market yearly, average from 25 to 40 and fome at from 75 to 100 cents per yard, (the two laft qualities are increafing in quantity) brfiJrs about 100,000 yards of cotton and linen mixed, and 5000 yards linfey wool fry ; all made in this, and the neighboring counties, by the induftrious families of farm houfes. We feel a pleafure in having feen a fine piece of linen made by a lady of this place, it fpun 6 dozen cuts to the pound, and is 3 COO in quality ; it fold for 150 cents per yard. Ve have feen another piece fpun by another lady of Allegheny county, and ivovrbyher ht-fbnd, beautiful in quality rr.d trzture If ve had a few fpinners, furh as thr-ft 1 .dies, our country would foon be relieved of the heavy expence of importing linens from Europe. There is no doubt but we have hundreds, nay, thoufands of excellent fpinrrrs, but they are as lights under a bufliel, hid fer want of encouragement to fhew themfelvrs ; now is the time let them throw off the mantle ; their country calls for their nobleft exertions. Let it no longer be foolilhly and proudly afiVrted, that the American 'flax will not nrke, nor can the American women fpin, fine linen. The alTcrtion is a libel on our country. Fine thread We ?re happy to find that fine and beautiful thread is now brought to cur market. We have feen fome of 12 dozrn ruts to the pound, about the quality of No. 28 imported. Woolen cloth. We have fren a beautiful piec e of fine black cloth made by mr, John I). Bfi, of Z-l"nopi, Butler county, a O-rmni jrentleman of rnterpnze. It was mn- from his Merino flirep, and will bear aromniln:. with imported cloths, fuch as vc buy from our merchants at from eight

to nine dollars per yard We have alfo lcen a piece mauc by colonel David Humphreys, which dots honor to the patriotic exertions of its worthy manufacturer ; a man whofe name will be engraved on the minds of his fellow citizens, for his noble labors in the encouragement of the domef. tic manufactures of his count" y, particularly his rapid improvement of the breed of lheep, by the introduction of the Merino breed. There is a good deal of the courier woollen cloths made by our farmers for tarn ily uic. Some flannel is alio manufacture. The Philadelphia domeftic fociety, we are informed, have for fale, very hancifome woollen clotl s, callkoes, and all kinds of cottons. Our wcttcrn merchants we Ihou'd Juppolc, ought to give this fociety, and ail others of the kind, every encouragement. Rope walks -We have but one, and this on a 1 in a 1 1 kale ; theie is one at Brownfville, and one at V heeling, on a tolerable large plan. In Lexington, and at Louifville, Falls of Ohio, there are fcveral on a very large fcale. At Cincinnati, Ohio, there is a rope walk whole proprietor advertiies for 00,000 lbs. ol hemp, at five dollars per hundred weight. Snuff and Segars. There are 5000 lbs. of K -pee and bcotih Snuff, i about 800 OOO.fegars, manutaclurcd here annually, principally of Kentucky tobacco. Flour and Whiskey, Of thcie articles, a vali & unknown quantity is made thio'out this countiy. There is, however, too little foreign demand for the former Sc too great a home coufumption of the latter, for the good of the inhabitants. A house full of mechanics. At the lower falls of Big bever treek, there are, an oil mill, fulling mill, a mill for coring and grinding gun barrels, a wool carding machine, a nail factory, and a mill for fwinc:

whetllones, all under one roof. At the fame place, are a cotton carding machine, and fpinning jnny, an ingenious machine for cutting and forming at one itroke, cotton card teeth, a machine for cutting large fcrews for tobacco prefles and fulling mills, and one for making fullers fhears. The greater part of the above arc nude by David Townfhend, an indefatigable and ingenious mechanic, and one of the firm. Boat and Ship building. KrvUnky and N. O'lf ansboats, kec Is, barges, fkiffs, Ecc. are made in great numbers on all out rivers. And there is now a veflVl of 150 tons building on the Allegheny river about ten miles above this place by mr. Robbins. Confiderable of (hip building has been carried on at Marietta and other places on the Ohio, but the bufinefs has been flacked hy the change of our commercial affairs with Europe, whofe fyflem of commerce feems to be that of war and plunder, ours peace and juftice. Thefe principles are now at ifl'ue, (and time they fliould be) and the great difpenfer of events only knows where it will terminate. Pipes and ticcns ware. We have a

pipe factory in town, and there is a good kind of queens-ware made at Charlellown Brook county, Va. together with flone wares ; tlone wares are alfo made at Wheeling and other places. Earthen potteries are numerous. Woolen and Cotton cards, There is a factory of thefe at Brownfville, and one for cotton cards is now erecting at Eddyville,

on the Cumberland river, Ky. by Mathevr Lyon. (To be concluded in cur next.) gM TITWi UTOWI IIWUllBW Mill LLL' 11 PROPOSALS BY GENERAL W. JOHNSTON L. D. ( of VincenncS) I. T.J For publilhing by fubfenption A ivorky to be entitled THE INDIANA JUSTICE AND CONSTABLES GUIDE. This work (hall embrare a legal de. fertation on the life and progrefs (under the laws of England) and prefent refpective powers and duty of Jullicts of the Peace and Conflables under the ilatute laws cf Indiana it Hull likewife contain all the necelTary forms for their refpecYive offices and be prefaced with the Conttitution of the United States and the ordinance of the Tcrriory. The utility and efientiality of fuch an undertaking and publication, efpeciallv

in Indiana, cannot indeed it ought not, for a moment, to he doubted it is therefore hoped that " what is generally good, will be liberally encouraged." CONDITIONS. 1. It will be comprifed of one volume.

octavo, oi oetween one hundred and one hundred and fifty pages. 2. It flial! be printed on good common paper and Hitched. 3. It will be put to prfsas foon as four hundred copies are fubferibed for (which amount, it is fuppofed will barely defray the exprnfes which mult ncceffarily be incurred for materials, a copiaft and printing.) 4. It will be delivered to funfetibcrsj in Vincennrs at one dollar per copy. 5. The number of copies fubftribtd forf mufi be paid upon the fubferibers being publicly notified that the work is reaay for delivery. lO3 Subscriptions for the above work will be received by thefeveralPoft. Mailers in the Territory, by ether Gentlemen to whom fubfription papers may be forwarded and by others who may feel favorably difpofed towards the undertaking. EDITOR.

NOTICE. THERE being now fix months rent due from me to col. !ohn Small, ail p-rfons indebted to me will be doing them; fcl vrs juflice, and me a kindnefs by conW

ing forward and fi-ttling their rt fpeive accoutsby the fird day of November next f by complying with the above tbry will fave me from the difagreeable alternative of bringing fuits. MARK BARNETT. October 18tb, 1809. NOTICE, ALL perfons are hereby cautioned againd trading for, or taking an afr - - i i . i - t i

iiiiincii'. tin a uuuu ivru uy me 10 Ji'iii

Hniton. to make him a title to a tratl a

land fprcified in faid bond, as we have recanted our bargain, and he refufes to giveup the bond, as I am drtermined not ta comply with it unlrfs compelled by law JOHN DOUGHERTY. Qftcbcr 6, 180. 3: