Western Times, Volume 2, Number 2, Richmond, Wayne County, 12 September 1829 — Page 2

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ol i n t'ie s'ng b irk walnut ma-y be far the next. The heat cf the suu on s i ociMf'ill) engr ifed,aud that" engraft- the vessel was excessive. t!te company e I tr-rvi are unit h the surest bearers. t .t r.tngois to me, and not very agrceaV n-re th. is u A the case', the diaVr-j hie. Near the river side, I mw what cncin the q nitty of thee nuts would j I tok tube a pleasant green meadow, in i!; it a n'jv t engraft in ist of the ; in the middle cf which w a- a large shawal tut trees. S uv have a very than, Jy tree, where it sirmk my fancy I shell, aal a thi k I rce moat h 1 1 j t oul.l sit ml read, and pas tbe time a other hive thick iclU and but httlcj gree.ibly till the tide tinned. I there-in-Mt. 1 1 is pio!i ible tli t the hit kory j lore prevailed w ith the captain to put ui's'iibirk would da well engrifte J j m- ashore. Idng landed, I found the oa the pignut. If it sh ul I, the qu anti greatest part of my meadow was really tv riH .'d miii'it be greatly unreined, ni irsh, in crossing which, to come at and th? qu ihty much improved. The J my tree , was up to my knees in mud; M nd.-ir i nut, whidi i- :" ally dd at and I had not pi iced myself under it lV ;.mh under the nu:ne ot th Eauli-h liaje five minutes, before the mukeWalnut at I 2 to l' cent per pou-.d. toes in sw arns lound me out, attacked in iv he cultivated he'C without di!lt- my legs hand ami face, and raade my .ultv, and H very prolu tive. In the J reading and my rest iniposihI.-; so that vicinity cf Ne.v Yoik, there h a tree j I returned to the beach, and called for iv'iich h pro lu ed in a single r,a-; the boat to come and take me on board m m v ai ol I in the market, tVr JOn lol-' again, whore I was obliged to bear the

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ie eivr uie.i o i me ouuernut, ui mi. w ilout wit'i perfect success It is a tree i .

t lr.3 sun : U'jiihu, ana us cntracu-r i:an a ncuer resemMmce to the butt rant thmnimy other do to those on w-iiich t'lev are successfully engrafted. The experiment i worth trying, and if successlul, it would soon furnish u?, at a t .ieap r.ite, wita a u;ood upply ot that ex ' lleut nut, without waiting the more tardy process of rearing the tree.

PORUIGH.

We hiv j no d u it that it milit heat I had strove to quit, and also the

lauh of the company. Similar cases iu the alTair ol lite have often fell under my observation. ' spirit awl .Winners cf the gc.

1 1L L.U.VO US SE D UCTIOX.

From tr HtcU Mignzine.

use no violent exert inns to return, under the assurance that he would marry her

AS" account or the MERMAID. soon m they ariived in I hiladt Intiia.

In the mo.Uh of July, 18.2ti. a farmer ; Upon reachii ; the city, he placed her

ot I'.c p inh of Ll muwchb aern , about J at a houe of ill fame, iu Walnut street, tWee miles frin Abervstwth, luse , hel w Hruad, which he rcprci-ented to ilwcllior h-ue is within three hundred his victim as n r pci table hoardi'

went uowri ttie nou-e. lie liicr. jravo Ik r

s i) ing that Ik; ;nu be

Philadelphia August 10. In the beginning of this mouth, a fellow stole

from her parents, in the eastern shore, Aihalzich.

of Maryland, and against her ow n wiil,' et ( t in search of the enemy, at the

a young female, whom he persuaded to! head often companies of infantry, live

ANOrilKlt RUSSIAN VICTOKY. The Turca-I.ondon papers, received by the Wiliism Dyines, pave a rumour of a Turkish victory over flen. I'.iske vit?cli, comnar.din; the army on the Asiatic side, of the i'uxinn: And the rumour was published by the Courier and Ki rpiirer, ) esterday M3 a positivr fid. H hut S'irl of n xi tiry it n-o., will be seen bv the following Russian Bulletin. .V Y Corn. dii. russin nuLr.r.Tix. (lencral Count I tsk- itch, ofT'rivan. give? the following account of an aflair

which totV place on the lCth of May,

near the village cf 1 surtrkab, between tlie detachment f Major Geneial Rurzoll", and the numerous militia of Aclinic t Khan:

Major General Prince BcbutotT hav

ing ascertained that the enemy intended to attack the fortress of Achalzich, with a con-idcralde force which the Khan had assembled in the Sandshak of ltlhof, resolved on sending Major Geneial Bui z AY against him, in order, if possible, to dipeise his tioops, and

thereby delay the enterprise against

Gen. Ruizotl immediately

into offices, from which it had well n'gh

cost the country her existence as a Re-I tance of permanently llourishirg rr.ar.u

viction of the immerise national itr.pcr-

tuvlic to remove them states that u

salutary Reform ha been in progress, from the period of Guerrero1? elevelion to the Chief Magistracy and that the great body of the people are enthusiastically devoted to him. The Mexican Congress are engaged in revising their criminal laws, which are very inefficient as they now stand particularly as it regards rebellion and peculation: also in altering the slave laws, so .19 to render slave holders secure in their possession. New Mines, the most valuable ever known in the country, have been recently discovered, which will enable the Government to continue the operations of the mint. By this means, together with the system of rigid economy about to be introduced, the authori

ties calculate on a speedy redurtion of

the public debt. The rumor of a Span ish expedition against M- xico. was net credited, nor its result feared, if true. The writer concludes by referring to his long residence in.ard exclusive ue of the language of the country which

he otters as an apology for his detective

style. Alexandria Gazette.

inis " i o. sea hore.

r ck when the sun was rising, and de I'ghtf.i'.ly beaming on the ocean, and i uv a femile (as he thought) washing l r-ell iu the ca, within a stone throw ofrumsi:lf. At tirt. through m Jetv, l.e retired. 0,i reflection, he thought

5 dollar

sent a day or

two to make the neces ar preparations for their marriage. More than a week elapsed without her hearing any thing further from him, when the mutresa ot the house informed her that she should

no femal would have gone so f ar out ; receive visiters, and that a gentleman

I X T t RESTING CO R RES t'O NDENTE.

to a , se'jing it was then in flow. And i alo ceitain, th.it the water was s v feet deep at the place he aw her

() i so thinking he fell on his

would wait upon tier that evening. This announcement threw her into gieat ditrcss, but her remonstrances were not listened to. Agreeably to

l ire, and crept forward to the brink of appointment, the gentleman came;

w neu, after unavailing attempts to excite his compassion, she ul itnn d the

;t i idir.g

he precipice; from which place he had

a complete VI half ;.n hour.

a comnlete view of her fur more than

neighborhood by screams of in .rder.

Af er !uhViently lookinp at her him-1 A number of persons collected, who

nlf, fie went b jck a aiu, an J ran to call drove

his firmly to sec tin wonderful fciht. l ivmg told them w hat he had seen, he ilirrctcd them from the door stead whither to g , and t creep to the edge of the rock as he him-ell had done. h otv" d them went hut half dre- i, I r it w i eaih, :r.d they were ju-t rii. g; n-.d ) re.ichi"g ihe plac., th v saw her

nbvit ten minute, wliile the farmer h i- calling his wife and v ounger child . U ii- ii the wife came forward she did t f.!l down as the others had done, 1 it walk- d forward in the sight of the ;i .it-; r c. But a soon as the Mermaid 6. v h'jr, she sank into the water and swnai a-VMV, till lic w;i about the eanv

drove the "cntltman (who is the fathei

of a large lamih) from the house, ar.d finally succeeded in getting the unfortunate creature an anlum, at a wca ver's who lives next door, where she -till remaitii.

A subset iption is now collecting to tend her to her parents, w ho are poor.

hut iepectaHe. e hope the name.!of all parties concerned w ill be given tithe public, that the authors ah- Iter? may receive some poition f the pun ishmeutlhev merit. U. GuztUe,

MiwHcript Pcntatci'h. The literati are likely to be highly interested with an oneinal ancient manuscript of the

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fli-tmce trom tne land as she wa ui-i l'cntatuch , now in the possession of Mr

n eu ut; anu ttie wnon lamiiv, me nusb.md, ttie wife, and the children, the men and tne women a rvant, who in all were twelve in number, ran along ttie shore, for more than half a mile, and for lie. iily the whole of the time, saw her iu the sea, and sometimes her entile h -ad and shoulders were quite above

the ater. There was in the sea a great stone more than a yard high, on which she would itand when she was first seen. She stood out of the water from her waist upwards. And the whole family testify that she was exactly such an

one, in

young worn

teen years of age. lie r hair was pretty

khort, and in color daik; her fare extremely handsome, her neck and arms wore as usual, her breast moderate, and

Sams, of Darlington, Durham. It is ot goat skin leather, in two volumes, and measursc two feet wide and sixty nine

tect long. Lad i sheet of skin is divided into pages, five inches arid a half in width. The letters are very large, and not Of Jy most beautifully written, but

ornamented with a number of tngin or corounal. The antiquity of this manuscript may he inferred by its being writ ten ou leather a circumstance which would hardly have taken place after the invention of vellum was made. It is believed to be fifteen und red years

old, and has been above eight hundred

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respect ct shape and size, as a yCar, ,n onc Jc w is,t family on the con

oman wouiu ne oi aocui eigu-1 1 inc lit,

from whence it has recently

been procured under the most interesting circumrtances. During the calamitics which followed the train of Bona

parte ? wars, a Jewish family of opu

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her skin whiter limn tt.ai ol any person, itncc jiaj ,ccn rC(iucec lo ultcr rulI,

thty had ever seen before. Her face, nj t ompf.lled to emigrate. They cairn. wa towards the land. She often bent l( Holland in their exile, and were as if she were taking up watcr.and then lhcre fc0 vcry m(Jch rcjutt.j as lo be c. he held her hand before her face for a. hlicd to pledge, as their last resource, half a minute. U hen she so Lent hcr-lhjj precioUj ture of their laws, undf something black was seen, as U had dcr a iimitaliou of a congidCrablc time beer, shoi tta.l, lurnmg up bcl.il fur ita rciemplion. The time expired, l.er. She olten made a sort of noisc-j llj0 plc d,c wa3 not rC(Jcemc j aml the

l.uc sne z.mg, which iiiauc uic iuciv iefj0u;id. The firmer, who had an op-

property was sold in Holland by the per

sen who let his money on it. It has

becu preserved with the greatest care,

in a ricti cover inngcd with a fine eilk.

The rollers on which the MS. run9 are

composed of beautiful mahogany. It has been seen by a number of Hebrew scholars and Jews, and it is generally

thought to he the most ancient cony of

the iiycuooks ol mioses in existence. Liverpool Courier.

porturiity of beholding her for a long time, laid, that hi saw but very few women so fair to look ttpon as the Mcr maid. The whole family the youngest of whom is eleven years olo are now living. And we had this account, word for word as it is here given, from themschc?'. COMFORTS AND CAUKS. All situations,' says Franklin, 'have their inconveniences; we feel those that we find in the present, and we neither feel nor sec those that exist in another. Jlence, we nuke frequent and trouble

some changes without amendment, and I known, being 95 feet in length and 1C

lion for the worse. In my youiti I was! in thickness. It will be shown for some

a rasscntfer in a little sloop, descend-i time at Paris and afterwards he trans

ing the river Delaware; there being noj ported to Brussels", where a gallery is

light field pieces, and 200 Cossacks; on

the way he learned that Achmet Khan,

in expectation ot reinforcements, had thrown himself into the Christian vil

I ages of the S tndshak of Ardaghan, in

'search of plunder. This induced the

General to direct hi march towards the

village of Tsurtskab, through which it was necessary that the Turks should

return, and wheie on the following morning, lie found the whole of the enemy foices united. NotvvithstaLidii g the great superiority cf the force opposed to him, and the advantageous position

occupied by that force, the General

denied it more advisable to venturu an attack than to retreat upon Achalzich;

lie accordit gly advauccd, and drove the enemy, nt the point of the bayonet.

trom onc height to another, close up to

the village itself, which I eing defended: by a wooden fortification, our p'nty were obliged to make a halt at a dis tance of about 100 fathoms from the same. Hereupon Achmet Khan attacked us whith the whole of hi? forces, consisting of about 5,000 infantry, without re konmg cavalry, but was soon re pulsed, and forced, alter sutTeiing con sidciable loss, to seek shelter again be hind hU works. The following day, Mthout awiting a second attack, the

'Ktiati had fl-t in the utrnest cohIumoii.

I king advantage of this viclot v , Gen.

Buiz ll set tir? to those vill gci, the inhabitant of 'diich had huwi: themselves hostile, and laid waste the whole ueig: boiln oJ, from which the enemy had prtvioudv drawn the resources ne (CSsaiy to enable him to make incur -ions into ths Sandshak occupied by out troops.

Varna, April 1. The Tuiks do not

allow their dead to be buried, or even

removed, by persons not being Mahomedans, during the seige. When thi Russians entered Varna, 31 naked hu man bodies vcre found lying in a pod of rain water, at the corner of a cross

street. But they bury their fellow be lievers within the fortress, wherevei they can find room, by merely covering them with clay. On this account they place sentinels to prevent the dogs from devouring tl;cm. Many thousand hu man bodies, and a great number of cat tie have bern buried at Varna 6ince an umn, by being huddled under ground in any corner. These and other abom inations must inevitably produce die enses, especially as the climate is exceedingly variable and in.-alubrious a

mot gst the mountainous districts, and

carries oils number of men and cattle

during cu jnn and winter. Great at

prehension are therefore entertainer!

on account of the heat ire Teasing ii

spring. S' v ral Turkish physicians-

from the fortresses of Shumla, Silistria-

and Rudshuk,have fled to the Russians.

for the Pachas had threatened them

with decapitation, unless tt cv could

check the mortality after some months.

winch they magnanimously allow them. Amongst these physicians are several that have studied at German Univesi tics.

faetures, I yet am so unfortunate, as to

differ from you respectingthe mode best cab ulted to effect that desideratum. I will not tire you with the grounds and reasr ns cf my pinion, in a written 5pter,as, nolens volens.you have been, and probably will again be, rufficiently gratified in that way. In laboriously and ably advocating the interests of the manufacturer, according to your conviction of what will best promote them, I am satisfied that y ou are influenced by the purest motives; and however impressed you may be, thM I am in etror, in taking a view different from youis, ! feel asauied that you will acquit rnr of being intentionally wrong. With great respect and esteem, I am. dear sir, your faithful and obedient set .

vant. V31. Du A 1 TO:. Hon. Tristam Burgess.

Providence. Jttne 2G7i, 1C29. Hon. William Drayton:

sir: I havt taken the liberty to

send you a small sample of doth m mu t t i ii-j. it j i ,

laciureu in lvuoae iiai a oy jesr. Charles Jackson and Co. of this town. The wholesale price of such cloth i- 18 cent3 per y ard. It stll-, at retail, for 20 cents. At these prices I uinVrstanf

jthis manufacture can be t-ustahnd by a

fair profit . I do not believe ary nation cn this globe, other than the United State? c an at this time, furnish the n.a'erial ti e machinery, the skill and labor, for ait I. a fabric, at sudi a cost. Ii i? not recollected by me, that any other region pin duces the Sea I-land co'ton of a staph equal to that of the Mauds of yr.ui S"ite and Georgia. The material ol

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t on ct tlit depr nunt.

ttiis cloth is of that kind, though verv far from being the best of that kind ot cotton. We know you of the South procure that kind cf material ; but we of th North have not hitherto been enabled to put in operation ttie appropriate ma ( hincry ; or America might, at this time, exhibit to the world uch fabrics a r ei th r Europe nor A-ia ever produced Although I do not rank w avn r, evt i.

Ten immense wagons with six horses

each, have arrived at Paris from Ant

werp, with the famous whale taken at

Ostend, that was exhibited last vear in 9

the iSetherlands. It is the largest

ans and domestic Tc ries, many of whom.

wind, wc were otiligeil, when mo ehbj adding to the royol museum, expressly by means of their wealth and pecuhai

v as gpctit, to cast anchor, and lo trail! lo receive it. 4 ; faculty for intrigue, managed to g

Condition of Mexico. Wc received by mail on Thursday, a letter from "A Viiginia Traveller," in Mexico, post marked Crow's Ferry La, Aug. 1, detailing some of the most prominet occur

rencea of recent date in that Republic.

Much of the intelligence comprehended

in the letter, has been anticipated by newspaper account.

The author affirms, that the intestine

troubles of the country, since its em.ni

cipation from the yoke of Spain, are

mainly attributable to the insidious in fluencc cxeited by unfriendly Europe

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a practised by the fairest hand .f at tiqnity, among the fine arts, yet I n.u! be pcimitted to beiieve that such pro ducts nf that art, whether in tin ir own native whiten s. or when passed und i the operation-of th it skill which ran give such vaii us beauty to their Color, would form a drap i y, giving to anitn ated intelligent beu gs a moic int reel ing appearance than the happiest pencil of antiquity could have conferred or the fairest form of Muse or Goddes-. produced and adorned by the painter's

it agination ai d skill.

If the plantations, spindle?, nnd looms f our country could never have pro

duced, it will nevertheh ss be allowed

that they an mightily strengthen oui

political fabric. I hese physical do in

me degree resemble moral chords vi

union: they increase in strength as they progn ss in finenc ss.

So I ng as tin se feelings which in the

revolutionary war, united the median

i(S of R. Island with the planters t South Carolina, can be continued in fair operation, the pro.'uctuu of your plant at.ons and our loom- will be as usHu' and ornamental to the people of thi-

generation, as those "inn harvests cf

the field' were beneficial and illustriou to our fathers. I t ray of vou, Sir, to accept this lit

tie sample of our national skill. Il is,

I confess, but a very inadequate e xpres rion of the very hinh estimation enter

tail ed here by me and my friend?, of

the patriotism and candor of him to

whom it is presented.

I have the honor to be, Sir, with the

highest respe ct, y ur obedient servant.

TBI ST AM B URGES. Charleston, ft August, 1829. Pear Sir: In consequence of my

l aving left New York for Charleston.

be fore Mr. Hey waidhad received your letter and parcel, they did not re ach me until a day or two ago, or I should sooner have done my self the pleasure

of answering your friendly letter, an

of returning to you my thanks fo,r the specimen of the bkill of the Prov idc-LCe

looms, which you had the goodness to

end me. INot being a judge of any

species of cloth, I asked the opinion of

those who were conversant upon the subject, as lo your sample. They tell me, that for the price at which it is old in Providence, (20 cents the ynid) it is strong, fine and cheep; hut that cotton of the same quality, could not be purchased here, for less than from 25 to 30 cents the yard, a difference, as you will perceive, of frcm 20 to 33 1 3 percent. Entirely according with yen in the con-

THE GENERAL POST GFFICE. It has been more than once hinted that the- pecuniary aflairs of this department were le ft in an embarrassed sate by tbo late postmaster g nei al ; ir consequer.ee he addressed the following I ttei to the editor of tl United States Telegrbph. i.olumbus, July 18. 1829. Sir In y-ui i ; per d ttie 7ih inst. which 1 ha e just seen, i.n oi g c tht r ie no.i ks iespe tint tl t post fin e , y i u ob erve th.tii;t Lrry lounc the depart m- nt v nti h high c haracit r, lut involved in contracts beyond its ability to pay .": Thi- sta.t in 1 1, 1 presume, was

maue through inauvcrtance, and with

actual coiidi You will see

tioin n.y tir-t iep rt, that on the lit of July, ll.3, when 1 entered upon the duties el postniastti geneial. there was a laigerum due from pos matters. Bv my 1 .si m port, y ou w ill see, that dtiiirg tht t.n e 1 remained in the department, the leciij.s exieicJed the expenditures about two i.onnie-d thousand dollars. As 1 slat, iimi memory, I may Le ip.ucura e- a- to Uit t Xai t Siim. 'I bis sui i Iu-, legether with a rum equal,or 1. 1 ally etjuai, to the an.oui.t due to the etc pai imti.t, at the cernm nctinent (I my j resei t aelunnistrain. i , with ti e orient reve. ue cl ti.e yeai, coi.slit ute the n cat s in the hai di

t it portmasu r g neral. to ncet ti e ui ii nt t see nsts. I then submit to yea and the j uUiic, wleiher tie j rescLt pustui;isteT gii.eial und H e "department invoiveu in eentUiCts bevond it billl 10 ay . It is 1 i.wn that I was c.j p. sed to tha estat i i si u.t nt il aeloitirnal mail n u!es the t- -m n ol cei giess before the last, as a laige nuuiht r liad been . stabli.-l.ed ti.e previous fis5it.il. But, under the peiuh i ciicumstanre9 which at thnt tinn x i?-ted, th i e seemed to be a strong wibhau oi g the tncn.bi rs ofcoiigrtts, t. pas9 ll. e bill which the committee on post loads had icpirtd, and I sfited that the dcparln.eni woulu meet the expense, by ahsui tiing u part of its surj lus lunds. It I mistake not, a gre ater numhei of routes were established at this session, than at any previous session which, ect asionalyt greatly increased.

the t xpendi uies. La-t year the txperse of the department Xi tedt d lis receipts about twer.-

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ty five tl i usand dollars, and I calcula

ted t: at ti t t .e -s ot t xpendituies over ttie1 it it ii is 1 1 ti t pre.-c i.i year, w;uld piobably amobnl to I ( aily double tbe sum. But, il the an uiint shtuld le grtatt i,ti en- willle :rnple means ss ttie hrtn-1- m tt e p -s'masler generd, t? meet ah tbe lontiactJ of the dcpaitmcnt.M Doling i ext year, 1 entcrtaicd no doubi. that tf.c it venue would be moie ttian equal to the expenditure, ai d tl at a suiplusol between two ard three hundred thousand dollais would i main in hands, ai el in hands of postmaster, suhp ct to the order of the pes'.masti r g i cial. It the expenditures of the elcpr.rtmcnt for four years to come, should es

feed the annual receipts between liftj and seventy thousand dollars, there would be no inability to meet i 1 3 engagements. I had no fears of a d;B)inution of revenue, go as to produce atii mbarrassment to the department, if I could manage its concerns so as to retain the public confidence. If trj j should be withdrawn I was aware, thai its rece ipts ',v uld be serious ly alTtctciJ l.V it 'i he prosperity of the depart n.'..t ought not to be estimated by the

surplus ef receipts over expenditures A very bad administration of its atFaiimight (.bow a considerable surplus. H3 1 remained in it. I should have grada-i-ted the expenditure s, so na to absorb; within a given period, the whole of irevenue. By extending the operationof the department, the public inteies' is subserved, and tbe revenue encreos ed. The funds should be kept active and not sullcred to accumulate in bi hands of posmasters and banks, urJf they are to he appropriated to otter objects. The true test of a successful adm btralton of tbo department, 19 in ths ex