Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 7, Vincennes, Knox County, 22 March 1828 — Page 1

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BY EL1HU STOUT.

VICfciYNNES, (1ND.) SATURDAY, MAiiCll 22, ibgtf.

Vol. 19. No. 7.

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From Bclfs Weekly Messenger. "What is the existing negociation with Constantinople ? Upon this point we are much in the dark. The French papers affirm that there will be peace, whilst tjie j mrnals of this country consider war as inevitable Both are in opposition ; and perhaps both, being in extremes, are remote from the truth. The ambassadors, it is said, have not only been desired to leave the porte, and no linger supplicate at the doors of the divan for fresh audience, but have actually embarked. But they must be little acquainted with the condition of the Ottoman empire, and the dilapidated state of its finances, who, viewing from this distance, the sultan's struggle between offmded pride and the desire of revenge, consider it impossible that any other than a warlike issue should be the result of the present condition ot things in Turkey. The politics of the Reis Effondi are well known to be favorable to peace. He is too well a va e of that famine which the block ule ol the Dardanelles and the Archipiiago, would prep ire lor a starving capital. Ho can hear the neighing oi the Russian horses on the banks or the Pi nth, -and has received a due impression ot t estub born inflexibility of the allies, by what took

place at Navanno. The sultan, moreover, so long as he continues in possession of his faculties, will not declare war. "The imperious tone which he has assu med the language of haughty remonstrance, and his threats of opposing force by force, will deceive no one but the slave of the seraglio He may possibly dismiss the ambas sadors, Sc suffer them to sail : but peace vviii not even then be hopeless had the sultan been as able, as he certainly is willing to declare war, he would have done so upon that paroxism of fury into which the ne ws of the destruction of his fleet thrt-w lam. But the suitan sees further before him than we are inclined to give him credit for, am! will not act against the known wishes (if his people. He is not so unread in the history ol huropc, but that he has heard of the fate of the late king ol Sweden, and Charles VIII of Spdv. He is sufficiently apprised of the disalVection of that numerous portion of his subjects who were formerly Januissaries, and who, with a truly magnanimous spirit, Ur broke up and dismissed. He knows, also, the unpopularity which has attended his efforts again a the Greeks whicti has cut off his csmmcrcc and his tribute, and established an All Pacha, an inexorable enemy, in every province of thai fertile district. And lastly, he cannot but be aware of the immense folly of engaging in a contest with the three powers, against which the porte has nothing to 'none and every thing to fear. " It is a fact well known amongst the diplomatic circle of Europe, though it has never been publicly mentioned in this country, that the emperor Alexander had before his death resolved on a war with Tut key. His grievances against that refractory state were abundant, and the numerous provocations he had received would have justified him in the eyes of the world. Mr. Canning was well aware brahis unsteady state of things, and measured Iussia both with his eye and his mind. '1 he treaty of intervention was therefore proposed for te avowed purpose of extinguishing piracy, of giving independence to Greece, and putting an end to a protracted warof extermination but with the more immediate object of binding Russia to a line of policy calculated to suspend the system of encroachment so long pursued by that power on Turkey, and which circumstances were on the point of reviving in a manner likely to prove fatal to the existence of the Ottoman empire. " Russia was not blind to the nature and extent of the engagements to which she subscribed in the treaty of triple alliance, nor did she become the dupe of anUplomatic manoeuvre which the British rabipoc may be suspected to have cmplovcdon tnit occasion. Her consent to the alliance is, therefore, to be ascribed to the spirit of moderation of the new autocrat's government, and to a total absence of ambitious views of conquest. Assuming this to be the case, as it undoubtedly is, and with the treaty of July 6th before us it is

impossible for one moment to belicve&at any hostile determination ot the sultan wrUul ti nately involve this country in a more si ous war than was oiiginaliy contemplated because the triple treaty points out clearly the line of operations which is io be pursued in such a case, and nothing is lequired to be don; beyond this in the event of a formal declaration of war on the part of Turkey. " Russia having, under the ptesent ruler, given evident proofs ol disinterestedness and moderation, by consenting to become a party to the treaty of the 6tn of July, instead ot pursuing her habitual system of aggrandisement in a manner which no European coalitions against her could check ; will therefore, if driven by the Turks to the alternative of crossing the Pi uth,no doubt remain content with the permanent or temporary possession ot the two principalities bordered by the Danube, beyond which it is not at all likely, that she will extend for the ptesent, and where her armies will no doubt keep the irregular houles of Tinkish government at a respectful distance by her mere presence. For ourselves, we have not the doubt of a moment but that

the shot rolled ponderously aft, and bi ought up abreast the main hatchwa) , the city standing aghast at the singular spectacle. A few years ago, a party of English -midshipmen crawled into one of these guns on their hands and knees, to tne no small amusement of the luiks. SKETCH OF SCOTI-H CHARACTERS Skene of Skene i his singular character flourished in the counties ot Abeidten and Sincardine about halt a century go. He was as ignorant ot the world us a sucking chi.d, having never (it is believed) proceeded farther towards the regions of civilization than the good town of penh. A neighbor of the worthy laird was Sir John Ogilvic, of Invcr quhari y ; also a remaikuble personage, but in a very different way. Sir John was a fine

uable in feeding sheep, pig & other animals ; it pioduces a sinking effect in poultiy, occasioning ihem to lay moie eggs and it yields a large quantity ol excellent oil by prtssurt; the dry naiks burn well, the allies affording a cofisideiable quantity of alkali English, publication Some of the uses of sunflower as mentioned aboe aie new to us We have not known of the leaves being used as fodder foi caittc, nor the seeds lor let ding sheep or pigs, tho we have known them given to poultry We have no reason, however, to doub: but that they may be profita? ly applied to those purposes. And ii the leaves cl the sunflower will furnish lodder for rattle, we see no eason to doubt that the leaves ol the Jciusalcm artichoke, which has been frequently recom

mended lor field culture as well by American

gentleman, he made the grand tour, was apt

to fire at the smallest imagined insult offered ? as British writers on husbandly, may likewiso

to his honor, and, to crown all, he was the , be valuable food for neat stock, most skillul and expert swordsman of his j Fiom a paper on ihc subject of sunflower time. Don Quixiote and Sancho prestnted oil, in the fit st vol. of the Trans Amct Phi!, not a greater contrast than did these pair of o- ! Society, it appears that one bushel ol sunriginals ; and the comparison will hold good flower seed yields three quarts ol oil, and that even as to the personal appearance the laird j this quantity of seed is produced Horn an hun-

the importance attached by party-writers and j being shoit and squab, and the knight tall and ! drtd plants set about three fret apari, in tho stock-jobbers to any disastrous eftccts of the , gaunt. Duiing an election, Skene gave a 1 same manner that Indian com is planted

r;' and dinnci to several ol the country gentle j I he oil, is then, clear, and of an agreeablo

treaty of intervention, so far as it may bear upon the real interests of this country, is calcti lated to make dupes of none but themselves. Copy of a rcsctipt addressed to viceadmi ral Codrington, by his imperial majesty the emperor ot Russia : St Pete shut gh, Nov. S Viceadmiral Codrington You have a ehieved a victory for which civilized Europe ought to be doubly gratelul to you The memorable battle of Navarino, and the bold manoeuvres which preceded it, evince to the world not only the extent of the zeal ol he three great powers in favor of a cause, the no blc character of which is still more heightened by their own disinterestedness ; but also prove what can be effected by firmness, too'

opposed by nunibets ; and what a well direct

ed valor can

age, and with whatever huce that courage may be supported. Four name from this time

men, and among the rest, Sir John. In the 'taste. It is recommended to set the seed in course of the evening, the latter began, as li- the hole, and when the plant is a yard high, sual, to infli t on the company, a tedious de- ; to throw in the mould round the stalk, so that tail o the many wonderful adventures he had the surface of the ground may be even around met wi-h in his travels Now this was the ! it knight's weak side. His memory was so tin J The process for expressing the oil is tho fortunately defective, that he not only toi got I same as that for making linseed oil. how ot en lie had tortured the ears of his un-; It is suggested, that co d chawn oil is leva liwilling auditors with a repetition of the same ' able to turn rancid than wh.n heat is used; endless stones, but added to them new and i but the quantity is less If, however,caro glorious achievements, which might have put I can be taken to constantly stir the mash in an Hercu.es to the blush. This was extremely j iron pot, over a moderate fire, (or if pressed tantalizing; but no person cared to interrupt (not to heat plates too much, there will be no him, holding his warlike qualifications in due i danger of burning the oil. There can be no

fear and levcrcnce Sir John, at last, w as i doubt, that the sun-flower, on poor land would

describing a tremendous conflict he had in the

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acroinmisn against utino cour- soutnei r ranee, with about a score ol wolves

when out cries the iaiid: " I'm sure, Sr John, t!ia?'s a great lee." In an instant, statts

forward belongs to posterity. ISy

praise

I ! li'J'i' his chair the infuriated traveller, and

sh-mbl but weaken the glory which suirounds j dialing Ids rapier, called on Skene to come

it. Bit I must offer to you a hiitliant math j o: waul, and stand on his defence. Nothing of the gia'itudc and esteem which yon havcj oonhl be more c xquisitcly ludicrous than the inspired in Russia. With this view, I -end! looks of the poor laird when ciallenged by to you herewith the Military Order ol St j litis Hector. His head t a'ghi way sunk be George The Russian navy is proud of hav- j tween his shoulders, Ins eves assumed the ing obtained your commend. umn at Navarino:; hue o ; brae? of parboiled grosrrts (gooseand, on my o.vn p i;', I !W ! the most it vely ben v -md Im; puvs were extended to an al-

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u i - the t-.entt- ' nator wk i,-h 1 entertain I to give iPM-at NICHOLAS' rii;inal ex -m;.s

yield much more profit than many other

crops. Kd. Jv E. Farmer. Improvement in the Mrchanic jirtn Wo have had much pU asure in the examination of a specification of a patent obtained by Mr, D Embree. of New Richmond, Clermont co. Ohio, for applying the escape steam of a steam engine to the purpose of a distillery. From the description we hae had of it, as well vei bally as by an examination of the plate explanatoiy of the engine, and more particu

larly in learning that the plan has been in sue

phasmo jn inns t-ssunn.: incuts and consideration w

Ward vou. I'Sirned)

ss.

Turkish Cannon Ills singular that in our conflicts with hurtvirians, or with hai f disci p lined troops, we generally sustain a So avei loss than in our battles v. ii.h etes ans and well organized armies. Whel her this arises ti om our contempt of the enemy inducing us to attack them itt greater cds, or at closer quar ters, or that such foes are stimulated by the fiercer passions of untamed na'ane, we cannot determine, but 'he fact is v. el! worthy of consideration, in our battles with the Americans Ir.st war, our loss was heavy in the extreme. Our attack oii A.iers was attended with a loss of lile nearly equal to any thing we had ever sustained onboard of a fleet ; and, if we i etude the numbers killed on boaid the Russian ships at Navaiino, we shall find the

total number of killed t wounded to be nenrlv i

as g:eat as in any of our battles last war With respect to the Turks, this may arise from the extremely heavy cannon which they genet aliy use. In our ships, and, we believe, in our batteries, we seldom use a heavier gun than a thittv-two pounder. No man of war

cirrics anv cannon of a larger caliber, but the I l Tti ks make use of even 800 pounders. j

When Sir J Duckworth passed the Dardanelles to attack Constantinople, in 1.7, hi fleet was dreadfully shattered by these im men e shot. The Royul (Vecre, was nearly sunk by only one shot, which carried away her cut water; another cut the main mast of the H'iudsir Castle nearly in two ; a shot knocked two ports of the Thunderer into otic; the Jtcfiulse (seventy four) had her wheel shot away and twenty-four men killed :md

wounded by a single shot, nor was the ship!

saved but by the most wonderlul eet tiom One of these guns were cast in b- ass in the reign of Amurat; it was composed of t poparts joined by a screw at the chamber, ks breech resting against a massy stone work ; the difficulty of changing it would not adow its being fired more than once ; but as pacha once said, that shot would destroy almost a whole fleet of an enemy. The baron de Tott,

At lav, be made shift ccssful operation at Mr. Embree's steam

ic to lire following pithy and ' flower mill for six months we have no doubt ;da:ioo : Iv.t the deil, Sii ; but a distillery may be attached to any steam

John Ogicvie. cam you here to eat my meat, mill, and the whole operation of distilling carind to d;ink mv drink, and then to stick me tied on by it, without a single cent expense

for fuel, and without the smallest diminution of power as to the other works. Ptovided tho judicious bill on th tariff now before congress pass into a law, we think the distilling; business may be a prosperous one for the state oi Ohio. It may be fuithtr rematk' d that a further saving is made by this inipn-v. ri ntf ol the attention to keeping up tht fi -enquired for the distillery. We hope toee lids

bite a paddock This v. as irresistible ; ai d so tickled was the turn of war by the comic pathos, as v.eil as justice of the appeal, that he litctu'.ly toilet! ot the floor in perfect ec Stary.

Cowfi-irutivr Exjimsts cf Can air, Isf Pail7".7f.? The annual report of the car.al com missioncrs of the state of New York is just published, from which it appears that the a

mount of tolls on the Erie canal in 1827 w as j business extended throughout our sia't so is Si59.(J33 48. Ijf-inf an increase fiom the pre- I to give our farmers a belter ma k- tor tin ir

vious year f.f g98 243 18 That the tolls on Uurplus corn, ps well as to save ioMier rj.-r .jr tire Cl.amplain canal, inc'uding the Slnop genei aUv the evpense of inttoJucii.jj fo.e'ign Lock at T ivy, amount for to 72.833 84. ! spiiits. C. Adv. being a dimmuiiion from tlie pievi- us year o! j S I 337 35. The tolls on the Champlatn canai I From the packet ship H " mingham, captain seem net to amount to six per cent, on its cov, ! Harris, an ived at New Y.-ik.hom Liveipool,

I without anv allo wance f it renaits and other i m inir dates to the 8th u tiu o, incisive.

annual expenses, and with the advantages of

one hundred and fifty miles of lake na vigation.

anu employed between two and thtee huntked

vessels in transporting articles which pay

on the Chamniain canal

i Among the estimates of disbursements for ! 828 are the following : On the t". lie and Oi, am plain canal.-, for ordinary repairs, and improving leeks, seeming banks, fcc. " $220,000 l;v d" collectors, wcighmastct s and u.'tantv, ' 25,000

S 2 45 ,000 Ti e Yac and Champ'ain canals together aie about four hundred and twrntv-five miles

Departure of the Allied Ambassador frum

Constantinople Despatches had rescued London communicating the important, mo not unexpected, information of the departure of the allied ambassadors from Constantinople on the 8th December. Mr. Stratford Canning proceeded in t! 0 first instance, to Smyrna, and fiom thence ho nould go to Corfu. M.dc Rihcaupetre had one to Odessa. The destination of general Guilleminot was not known. Private letters from Constantinop'e state that the allied ambassadors leceived the kindest attention from the divan and all others in that city, who all expressed an earnest wish that thty would remain until they should receive furthei instructions fiom their cliff rem courts. alia

I it is even adciea that the gand stignor ex

872. S33, leaves &35, 969 as the net proceeds of the Champlatn canal, less than thiee per cent, on its costs. The cost of ' ceping a rail road in repair will be small, compared with a canal, and furnishes a very strong argument in favor of the

to the great terror of the Turks, resolved to; former. Add to this that the first cost of a

long, and the average expense lor the whole j at S'2-15,t:Oi) will he S-75 a mile. Taking the

Cliam; la.n canal at sixty-four miles long, its j pressed his willingness to grant -n armitico share cf tht annual expenses will be S36 86jiothe Greeks, but that Mr Canning declared

IT.is sum deducted from the amount ol tollsj thai unless the treaty of the 6'h t July vva3

fully adhered to. i was his hxeci determination, and that of his colleagues, to withdraw from the sublime porte.

fire this gun. The shot weight d 1 ,100 lb S he loaded it with three hundred and thirty pounds of powder ; he says, " I felt a shock like an earthquake, at the distance of eight hundred fathoms. I saw the ball divide into three pieces, and these fragments of a rock crossed the strait, Sc rebounded on the mountains." The heaviest shot which struck our ships was of granite, and weighed eight hundred pounds, and was two feet two inches in diameter. One of these huge shot, to the astonishment of our tars, stove in the whole larboard bow of the Active ; and having thus crushed tbis immense mass of solid timber,

railway is only from one third to one half as

much as the first on that of a canal that the railway may be used when the canal would be closed wi h the ice and it presents strong grounds for prefetring the former before the latter Post. Chron, Use of Sun Flovr - The cultivation of the common sunflower Helianthus annuus is recommended to the notice of the public, as possessing the advantages of furnishing abundance valuable fodder for cattle in their leaves When in flower, bees flock to them from all quarters to gather honey. The eed i val.

The London Courier of December 26, contains speculations oj) the piobaMe rouise of Russia in the affairs of the east After treating as idle chimeras the forebodings of the alarmists who predict her subjugation of Per sia, and penetrating to India, it avows that it docs not share the apprehrions of thoso more sober politicians, who think that Nicholas will hazird the execution of long cherished projects with regard to Turk v The AU gemeine Zci'ung asserts that Russia has promised its allies to strictly ulhe to ho treaty ot London, no I'jnt a V h i!l be falcn lated to brrig th question to a peedy 2 err rem decnizn ; but it does no ro c al h m them 'hat, if necessity h u'd c- n mand Pus sia fccU UtcU itrcng enough to fiut an end to