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SOUTHERN RECORDER. VOL. IL MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1821. No. 30. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, (ON TUESDAYS) IF Sf. QRJLVTLAXD If R- M. ORME, tft THREE DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE, OR FOUR DOLLARS AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE tear. S3* Advertisements conspicuously inserted at the customary rates. STATE OF MISSOURI. Extract of a letter from a gentleman some time a resident in Missouri, to Ms friend in Salem. St Louis, April 4, 1821. “ The emigration te this elate has stop ped, and many have actually gone back, after being disappointed iu the quality ol the lands, which has been falsely cried op to be the richest in the world. The fact is this—the bottom land* on the mar gins of the rivers, which are annually overflowed, are very rich, but people cannot live on them without bqjng sub ject to bilious fever, dysentery’, ague and other complaints, the greater part of the year. A part of the other lands abound with minerals, lead and iron, and are un fit for cultivation. The prairies, which constitute no small part, are generally filled with scrub oaks, which cost $ 5 per acre to grub. There are a few small spots of ground which are excellent, hut far the greater proportion of what are called good lands, are only second and third rale, with a thin soil of not more than eight inches deep. The only real and substantial value of the State is the Lead Mines. The lands of Illinois are much superior. The prairies of that state are always fit for the plough, and the soil in 60tne places, is eight feet deep. | m St. Louis is the chief town, situaterMln the west bank of the Mississippi, in a barren spot, 20 miles below the junction of the Missouri, lat. 38, 36, N. long. 12, 14, W. of the city of Washington, and a- bout 1000 miles from it by stage route.— The view of the town, ascending the Mis sissippi, and from the opposite (Illinois) shore is pleasant, being a gradual ascent from the first to the second bank. The ancient buildings are of logs, and of stone, as ugly, inconvenient and rough as poesi ble, constructed after the manner of the French, with lots for gardens appurten- pu‘ # and mostly on the first bank, which j? a bed of lime stone. The place although it was settled as early as 1764, contains only 4000 inhabi tants, and now decreasing. They are of a mixed assemblage. The original French are from Canada ; some of them Hre white, and the different shades from that colour to Indian and black. A few of the white females are handsome, ex cessively fond of dress, (in a variety of gaudy colours) attending Cbuch, k. dune- ing. There are also Tenoesseans, Ken- tuckyana, Virginians, Pennsylvanians, k Some few Yankees, which term is ap plied to all coming from the Atlantic States, eastward of the mountains, and whom the people of the West have a Strange opinion of. But the greater pro portion are Irish who concentrate here, on account of a Catholic Church and Bishop. The people from each state •nd country, generally speaking, clan together without much intermixture Boarding is high ; living is miserable ; Society there is none. Nor is there any regularity in the weather here, being more changeable than in any place 1 e- rer visited. The roads, three months past, havo been in the worst condition, the mud being at times fourteen inches deep. The thermometer last winter was as low as 26 below zero. In 48 hours after, it was quite warm, and continued so for several days when it changed to extreme cold again, hut these sudden changes did not produce the same effect on the constitution as they would in Mas sachusetts. Last summer the thermome ter was no higher than 98 deg. in the shade, but the warmth ofthe climate, to gether with the continual showers of dust, which are frequent during the warm season, was extremely debilitating, and from the great degree of lassitude which almost every one experienced, but parti cularly strangers, it was a hard matter to keep awake during the day ; or from the troublesome bugs, fleas, cockroaches and musquetos, to sleep at night. There were many deaths between July and No vember, particularly among the low 1- rish, who would till themselves with whiskey and sleep in the open air. The mode of treatment for bilious fevers, was different from that in any warm climate I ever was in. They bleed freely, and afterwards give emetics and other strong doses of calomel and jalap ; they first re duced the patients so much, they bad not Strength to encounter the second and third, and of course too many fell victims to this strange mode of practice. I was knowing to a person’j^ping bled eighteen times in a bilious fefcr ; tejvas a man of regular habits, and ’ Lis fever w/s subduedN^^e died at the end of nine weeks aftftr theHttack. A- notHtb pgrsonwRf %a<mua.ntanoe was bled U*. iA> p eunsv, k die«y|Tdaysaner tie attack, without ggujicBQptt wpMJs, white, yel low, and ldack j and which are trequent and well attended. Billiards are fashi onable ; raffling very common; card playing universal—500 packs are sold to one Bible ! The catholic religion, consisting of potnp and show, carries the sway over every other. The Missionaries from Andover have produced little effect. In speaking of balls, there are here what is called King-Balls, for it is a hard matter even for tlje rustic democrats of the west to forsake and expunge the tin sel epithets of royalty. The first ball of the season is generally by subscription, early after the cold weather commences; and at this ball, some ladies, say 4 or 6, and generally the handsomest in the company, select as many gentlemen as Kings, which is performed by a lady’s pinning a bouquet, to a gentleman’s bo som and giving him a kiss. The next lie calls on his Queen, kisses her, and enquires what she most fancies to adorn her person, which he procures fSr her, generally a complete set of fineries ; and each time he calls on her gets a fresh kiss. When the Queens are all adorned, a ball is given by the Kings, who wait on and dance with their Queens. They are then, (after taking the parting kiss) all reduced to commoners, and the ex queens, or other ladies, kiss and crown other gentlemen as Kings. Several ladies the past winter got in this way sufficient apparel to last them the whole year.” INDIAN - JUSTICE. We were present at the Circuit Court he’d at Buffalo, in the county of Erie, on (lie 19th inst. where an Indian Chief of the Seneca nation, called Soonon-guire, or Tommy Jemmy, was arraigned for the murder of a Squaw of that nation, within the territory reserved by the Indians, and over which they claim exclusive jurisdiction and sovereignty. The no velty of the case created an unusual de gree of excitement, and the utmost soli citude was evinced for the fate of the prisoner, not only by his red brethren, but among the white people assembled at the trial. Judge Yates, who presided at the circuit, directed that a convenient part ofthe court room should be allotted to the Indians, and the principal war riors and sachems of the nation, were called as witnesses on the occasion. It appeared upon the inquest ofthe co roner, that the deceased had been accus ed of witchcraft before the assembly of chiefs, and that she was formally con demned to die for that offence ; and the prisoner, in confessing the murder, al- iedged in extenuation, that she was by their usages an out-law—that he acted as a minister of justice, in compliance with their custom from time immemorial, sanctified to them by the traditions of their ancestors, and in revenge of the death of various individuals of his tribe, who had perished by the sorceries of the defunct. The ridicule which this doctrine ex cited among those to whom it was pro mulgated, was warmly resented by the chiefs and warriors ; and the famous Red Jacket, upon being told of the absurdity of a belief in witchcraft, indignantly ex claimed, “ What! do you denounce us as fools and bigots, because we still conti nue to believe, that which, yon, your selves, sedulously inculcated centu ries ago ? Your divines have thunder ed this doctrine from the pulpit—your judges have pronounced it from the* bench—your courts of justice have sane tioned it with the formalities of law— and von would now punish our unfortu nate brother for adherence to the super stitions of his fathers !—Go to Salem ! Look at the records of your government, and you will find hundreds executed for the very crime which has called forth the sentence of condemnation upon this woman, anil drawn down the arm of ven geance upon her. What have our bro thers done more than the rulers of your people have done ? And what crime has this man committed by executing in a summary way, the laws of his country and the injunctions of his God ?” Exceptions were taken to the juris diction ofthe court,on the ground that the Seneca nation of Indians were an independent nation, and claimed by trea ty the exercise of jurisdiction ami sove reignty in the punishment of delinquents of their own nation, for offences com mitted within their reservations, upon their own people : and various witnes ses were called to prove the frequent ex ercise of this right, by the assembly of chiefs in the punishment of criminals, or in directing atonement to the relatives ofthe party destroyed. The evidence of Capt. Jones, the sworn interpreter, who had been in his infancy taken prisoner by that nation, who was brought up among them, and had imbibed a thorough knowledge of their manners and customs—of the testi- mnny*of the chiefs who were sworn as witnesses, discovered some singular practices, among them, which we do not recollect to have noticed before. Red Jacket, the orator, and principal ofthe pagan party, presented himself to take the oath ; and upon being question eil whether he believed iu a Supreme beir g, and in the doctrine of rewards and punishment hereafter, fixed the' 1 lurk ing devil of his eye”* upon the question er, and replied—” Yes l much more than the white^ men, if we are jo judge by their actions.” His testimony, and that of Capt. Bollard, the head of (he Christian* of the nation, corroborated by that of Capt. Jones, disclosed that it was the province of the chfefs to take cog nizance of capital offences, and to decree the extent of the punishment, or the modeofeommutntion or atonement—that frequently the parties aggrieved were sa tisfied without resort to sanguinary retri bution, and were willing to receive pe cuniary commutation ; other* were ap peased by the tender of a belt of wam pum, as an acknowledgment of guilt ami evidence of contrition. But frequently blood was required ; and one or more lives were taken to satisfy the revenge of the surviving relatives. That it was net unusual for the chiefs to decree that the murderers should be spared, and one or more innocent persons, he immolated iu his stead. These were generally se lected from the dearest and most respec table relatives and friends of the mur derer, who was thus made to feel the enormity of his crime, by bearing about a stigmatized existence, embittered by the reflection that his misdeeds had been instrumental in the destruction of all that was valuable to him in life. There is, at first, something horribly revolting to our feelings, in the idea of accountable beings, destroying the inno cent for the punishment of the guilty, At were these people conversant with true notions of theology, we should suppose it an impious attempt to imitate the sys tem of divine punishment; but of this they cannot he suspected. Their mode, however, is the most dreadful, and effec tual retribution, that, consistent with their habits and feelings, could he devis ed—and must have originated in a high- souled people, to whom the terrors of conscience and the agonising regrets, for departed relatives and friends, must have been known in their greatest extent.— An Indian is taught to despise death.— The taking of life is therefore no pun ishment ; and the doctrine of “ whoso kil- leth with tlic sword shall be slain by the sword;" which is inculcated among us, as it carries with it no terror for the guil ty, cannot operate as a preventative of crime among them ; it therefore be comes necessary to devise that, which fixes a stigma, like the mark of Cain, upon the criminal, and forces him to ex claim, in the language of the first mur derer—“My punishment is greater than I can bear.” Nor does this system, to them, appear cruel or unjust; accustom ed from infancy to look upon the transit from time to eternity with complancen- cy, they are often emulous of this spe cies of sacrifice, inasmuch as it is an e- vidence of their consideration in society; And that passion which lakes deep root in every noble mind, and which looks to the affection of surviving friends, and the approbation of posterity, for consolation, deprives death of its only remaining ter ror—the parting pang. This, with the hope of beatification in immortality, fre quently renders the death doom of the savage, immolated for his virtues, a fes tival of joy iustead of cause of mourning. [Albany Argus. ] * There is not perhaps, in nature, a more ex pressive eye than that of Red Junket ; when tired by indignation or revenue, it is terrible ; end when lie chooses to display liis unrivalled talent for irony, its keen sarcastic glance is ir resistible. FROST THR FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. The fallowing in a ropy of an original teller from the venerable Franlrlin, to a minister of a Church in llie south part of JYew-Jertcy wltirj. lias licen recently dUrovind lltcre among some old family papers. II is a com position perfertly in the manner and spirit of that gnat and wor thy mail. “ Philadelphia. June 6, 1758., “Dear Sir—I received your kind letter of the 2d inst. and am glad to hear I lint you increase in strength—1 hope you will conti nue mending until you"recover your former health and firmness. Let me know whether you still use the cold bath, and what effect it has. As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more serious ser vice to you—hut if it had, the only thanks I shpnld desire, are, that you would always bo ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance—and so let good offices' go round—for mankind are all of a family. For my own part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. In my travels arid since my settlement, 1 have received much kindness from men, to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct return—and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above be ing benefttted byonr services. These, kind nesses from men, I can, therefore, only re turn to their fellow men—and 1 eau only show my gratitude to God by a readiness to help his other children, ami my brethren, for 1 do not think that thanks end compli ments, though repented weekly, can dis charge our real obligations to each other, and much less, to our Creator. “ You will see. in this, my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to me rit heaven by them. By heaven,#wc under stand a state of happiness, infinite in degree and of eternal duration. I can do nothing to deservo such a reward, llothat, for giving a draughtof water to a thirsty person, should exp&l', to be paid with a good plantation, would bo modest in his demands compared with thosa who think they deserve heaven for the little good they do on earth. Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God’s goodness than our merit—Imw much more up the hap pincss of heaven ? for my part, I have not the vanity to think I deserve it, the folly to expect it, or the ambition to desire it, but content mysffif in submitting to the dis f iosal of that God who made me, who has litherto preserved and blessed me, and in whose fatherly goodness 1 .‘way well confide, tfiat he will never make me miserable, an that file affliction I may time suffei may tend to my benefit. “ The faith you mention has doubtless, its use in the world. I do not desire to see it lessened in any man, but 1 wish it were more productive of good works than I have gene rally seen it. I mean real good works, works of kindness, charity, mercy and pub lic spirit—not holy-day keeping, sermon- heanng, or reading—performing church ce remonies, or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments, despised oven by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity. “ The worship of God is a duty—the hearing and reading may be useful—but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too ma ny do, it is as if the tree should value itself on being watered and putting forth leaves though it qever produced any fruit. “ Your good master thought much less of these outward appearances than many of his modern desriples. He preferred the doers of the word to the hearers—the son that seem ingly refused to obey his father and yet per formed his commands, to him that professed his readiness but neglected the work—the heretical but charitable Samaritan to the un- rharitable hut oritiedox priest and the sanc tified Levite, and those who gavo food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, and raiment tb the naked, entertainment to the stranger, and never heard of his name, he declares shall, in the last day, he accepted—when those who cry, Lord, Lord, who value themselves on their faith, though great enough to per form miracles, hut have neglected good workS, shall he rejected. He professed that be came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance, which implied his modost o- pinion that there were some in his time so good, that they need not hear even him for improYcment, hut now-u-dS^I h’e have scarcely a little parson thi^djk not think it the duty of every man witbHFhis ibnch to sit under his petty ministralNfn,*and that whoeveromits this offends God—I wish to such more humility, and to you health and firmness. Being your friend and servant, “BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.” F 110)1 TRE MIDDLESEX GAZETTE* TRIBUTE OF NATIONAL RESPECT, To the memory of Lieut. Frederick Saury. This gallant and accomplished naval officer was born in the island of Hayti : and when an infant fled with his parents from the sanguinary storm, in which a favorite son fell a victim. Mr. Baury, with his family, selected Middletown, (Conn.) as his residence, ft was here that young Baury obtained the rudiments of an early education. In 1809, (it is believed) his influential friends obtained for him a Midshipman’s warrant. Lie sailed with that excellent officer Captain Hull, and was in the celebrated escape ofthe Constitution, soon after the decla ration of the late war. lie continued in that favorite ship until the auspicious day when the Guerrier was sent to the bottom. Hu remained in her until the veteran Bainbrirlge compelled the Java, to experience the same fate of the Guer rier. Having been in two actions which sent two of the finest British frigates to the bottom, and having distinguished himself for his gallantry, lie was pro moted to a Lieutonaacy. Soon after, he was ordered to the Wasp, under the command of that skilful, gallant, and la mented officer, Capt. Johnston Blakely. As if the Genius of Victory hung over young Baury, and as if lie was designed to go on “ conquering and to conquer,” lie was in the action ofthe Wasp with the Reindeer, which addsd the latter ship to the American navy.—Another wreath was soon after added to the laurel that entwined the brow of the heroic Baury in sinking the British ship Avon. But as if death forever “ loves a shining mark,” the gallant Lieutenant was to end his career of gl^ry in early life and in the fullness of fame. The sloop of war Wasp wns attacked by an heavy British frigate, from the best accounts that can be obtained, with the dastardly intention of sending her and her noble crew to the bottom. The gallant spirit that in spired the bosoms of Blakely, Baury, ic. strangers to fear, and prepared for the worst, entered into the unequal com bat, shattered their powerful antagonist, and compelled her to haul off to repair damages. The Wasp and her gallant crew were never again seen ! Thus liv ed and thus died the gallant, the accom plished, the lamented Baury, without enjoying the admiration of his friends, and the gratitude of his country. The Congress of the U. States, as they could not reward the decried Lieuten ant, voted a sword* to the Rev. Alfred L. Baury, brother of the deceased hero It wa* delivered on the 3d iost. by Hen ry Lyman, Esq of this city. It was one of the most interesting scenes that ima giriation can conceive. It called up re collections of an agonising yet cousoling * The inscription upon the sword is “ Mips ibunt yui ad sumina nituntur,"—[Those high cat tour, who loftiest spinouts dare j nature. The surviving mother and sis ter, (the brother being absent) shed teura of grief for u son and a brother dead—of joy, that his memory was so highly honored by the exalted govern ment of the American republic. BURNS’S AtONUMENT. Extract from Mrs. Grant's Letter to a Lady near Boston, dated Edinburgh, Jan. 2. “ The monument to Burns, which is lately finished, filled tne with pleasure und surprise, both by the design and ex ecution. 1 have seen nothing in West minster that seeins to me at all so ap propriate, or indeed better finished.— You would suppose they would have chosen a scene in tho Vision, or some such poem, to furnish an inscription and a hint for the sculpture : not at nil-— with matchless good taeto they selected a period from his dedication of his works to the Caledonian Hunt—“ The genius of my Country found me ns Elijah found Elisha, at the plough, and threw her in spiring mantle over me.” Could there be a happier thought, or one more cal culated to afford a fine image to the stR- tuary ? In the first place, this Mauso leum consists of a dome, open, but sup ported by pillars and railed round. It is in tho manner ofthe Templfe at Bam- ardsyvcll, but far more elegant, and fi nished within. In the back part is a very large table of white marble, where, in alto relievo, appears the figure of the young rustic, as large as life, and very like the best portraits of him. There is nothing fine or Grecian about him. It is a true Scotch plough, on which he has his hand (a toil worm hand) and his is the true costume of a Scotch peasant, improved only, and rendered more clas sical, by the neck being thrown open, ns a ploughman is apt to do when over-hea ted. Pleasure, mixed with surprise, an imates his countenance, while, with his bonnet in hand, lie looks up to the de' scending figure, which seems flonting to wards him in the air. It is the Muse of Caledonia, all terial elegance and super human grace, finely contrasting rvitb the manly rusticity ofthe entranced plough- mau. She spreads out the ample verge of her mantle us if to infold him. This mantle has a border of thistles, to give it character. Instead of an inscription, the emphatic name of Burris is engraved, thus—Burns—on the base of the monu ment. The exquisite grace and perfect simplicty of the wholes is beyond all praise.” Moderate Wishes the true source of Hap piness. There would be a fur greater propor tion of happiness in this world, if man kind, instead of continually grasping for mope than they can obtain, would set reasonable bounds to their desires.— There must necessarily be misfortune and distress in the world ; but the com forts and pleasures of life can always be made greatly to counterbalance those calamities, and their attendant evils.'— Contentment renders a mess of pottage more savory to the palate of the cottager than the richest viands are to those who are rolling in wealth but whose insatia ble thirst for gain will not allow them to think (hey have enough. Our country men are constantly murmuring. Turn which way we will, we are sure to have our ears saluted with the cry of Ifard Times. And many paragraphs in our country newspapers, particularly those from tho western states, are of such a desponding and gloomy nature, that if they should chance to find their way to Europe, they would believe Us to be lit tle, if any better off, than the peasantry ofthe Emerald Isle, or the half-starved manufacturers of Manchester. And what cause have we thus to murmur and com plain ? It is our happy lot to live under an excellent government, administered by men of our own choice. We have a fruitful country, with a varied, yet healthful climate, that enables us to pro duce an abundance of the necessaries, k many of the luxuries of life, True, our country ha* suffered for two or three years past, from a change in the com mercial world, and in consequence of our own extravagance. But have we not enough to cat, to drink and to wear ? Our fields wave with the golden corn, our meadows with luxuriant burdens, and our orchards yield a rich variety of deli cious fruits. And, if for the want of a market for our surplus produce, we are not able, as formerly, to amass fortunes in a day, we have still abundant cause for gratitude to that Almighty Being who causes so many blessings to “ cluster a- round ourdwellings.” Wo have only to curtail our expenses, to affix reasonable bounds to onr desires, to be industrious, economical, and contented—to be happy. Nor riches, nor fame, nor what the world calls pleasure, will give us happiness ; and if we search the world around, we shall find at last that moderate wishes are the source of what generation after ge neration hare labored in vain to find.— The following story is a beautiful illus tration of what we have here advanced “ The youthful shepherd, Menalcns, being in sewcjt of a stray lamb from his flock, discovered in the recesses of the forest a hunter, stretched at ty footgl a trek, exhausted with fatigue and wrtb hunger. Alas ! shepherd, he exclaim* ed, 1 came here yesterday in puffcuit of game ; and nave been unable to retrac* the path by which 1 entered this fright- , , ful solitude, or discorer a single vesting •" of a human footstep. I faint Sn/ hunger—give me relief, or I die 1 Me) nalcus, supporting the stranger in hie arms, fed him with bread from his scrip, and afterwards conducted him through the intricate maxes ef the forest in safe ty ‘ Menalcns being about to take leave the hunter Eschinns, tvqs detained by Thou hast preserved my life. shepherd, he said—I will make thine . happy. Follow me to the city, Tboh shall no longer dwell in a miserable cot*, tage, but inhabit a superb palace, sur rounded with lofty columns of marble. Thou sbalt drink high-flavored wine* out of golden goblets; und eat the mast costly viands from plates of silver. Me- nalcus replied—why should i go to the rity ? My little cottage shelters me from the rain and the wind. It is not surrounded by marble columns, but with delicious fruit trees, from which f gath er my repast; and nothing can be more pure than the water which I draw in ray earthen pitcher from the stream that runs by my door. Then on holidays K gather roses and lilies to ornament inf little table ; and those roses and liliet are more beautiful, and smell sweeter, than vases of gold and silver. " Eschinus.—Come with me, shep herd, 1 will lead thee through sumptu ous gardens, embellished with fountain* and statues : thou sbalt behold women, whose dazzling beauty the rays of tha sun have never tarnished, habited in silk* of the richest hues, and sparkling with jewels ; and theu shaft hear concert* of musicians, whose transcendant skill will at once astonish and dnehant thee. “ Mcnulcus.—Our sun-burnt shep herdesses afe very handsome. Host beautiful they look on holidays, whett they put on garlands of fresh dowers, & we dance under the shade of our trees* or retire to the woods to listen te thw song of birds I Can your musiciand •ing more melodiously than our nightin gale, blackbird, or linnet 1 No, I will not go to the city. Eschinus.—Take then this gold, ani with it supply all thy wants. “ Menalcns.—Gold is useless to me. My fruit trees, my little garden, and the milk of my .goats, supply all my want?. “ Eschinus.—How shall I recompense thy kindness, happy shepherd ? Whft wilt thou accept from me ? '* Menalcus.—($\\u me only the horn that hangs to thy belt. Horn is uot easi ly broken, therefore it will be more use ful to me than my earthen pitcher.” The hunter, with a smile, took the horn from his belt, and presented it tts the shepherd, who hastened back to hi* cottage, the abode of contentment «uA happiness.—Gessntr. Copy of a letter addressed to the Editor of the American Daily Advertiser, dated " Washington, (Penn.) Aug. 4,1*21. “ Mr. Poulson.—There has recently appeared in this place an extraordinary natural phenomenon, which has attracted the attention of the curious ofthe whole neighbouring country. On the margin of a small branch of Chartier’s Creek, a few miles distant froni| this place, a gen tleman has been boring for salt, in the manner usual in this country, which is by perforating the rock, than which there is little else met with below the surface, perpendicularly with an auger of about three inches diameter, and had bored to the distance of about 500 feet ; through this hole a saline water, mixed with and propelled by a gaseous air, rushes violently, and if a pipe be inserted into the hole, will spout perpendicularly, 30 or 40 feet, like to a fountain. By accident the hole has become partially choked a distance below the surface of the earth, and the gaseous air has found itself numerous small vents in the earth adjacent, from 10 to 100 feet distant from the well ; gome of these are from thes bottom of a creek, and show themselves by a continual rising or boiling ef air- bubbles. By the application of fire to a- ny of the vents, whether on the earth or in the water, it will barn with a lively, brilliant flume, npparantly without smoke, and I have seeg more than a dozen burn ing at one time—some from the surface of the earth—others among the stones and gruvel, and some from the surface ef the creek, where the water is two feet deep ; and by placing a hollow tube 0- ver the spot from which the gaseous air arise,*, and applying a lighted paper to the top, it will flame like to a candle or flambeau. The proprietor of thi* well suggested the practicability of concentra ting the gaseous fluid, and making it not only useful, as it now is, ibr inumieatiom at night, but also to boil the water forth* manufacture of salt, an expei|itW petf of the work in the boiling ef the .Mine water, heretofore perfotmtd tar *tOB9