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lilt: AMERICAN FARMER.
We notice, with much pleasure, the
extensive circulation which litis valua
ble work has obtained among the agri
cultural part of the community. But a
publication devoted so exclusively to
<- improvements in the practice of Agri
culture and Domestic Economy—and to
tbe developetnent* of the means of In
ternal Improvements generally and
conducted with that public spirit, ability
mil industry which have marked the
edi'orid career of Mr. Skinner, could
not have failed to achieve the success
Mid reputation it so justly enjoys. W'e
believe that this is the first putdic jour
nal in A nerica established no the same
principles. While periodical works for
the advancement of other sciences and
departments of human knowledge have
been so much encouraged, is it not
somewhat remarkable that so little should
have been done to make known the im
portant discoveries in Rural Economy ?
Mr. Skinner deserves great credit, as
well for the novelty and utility of his
plan, and for the handsome manner of its
execution. Such a work has been much
wanted in the Soother States, and par
ticularly in Virginia. The wretched
system of husbandry adopted upon the
first settlement of the country, has been
handed iluwn to us with but few altera
tions for the better. The size of our
farms and the species of labor employed
in their cultivation have operated as
powerful checks to the spirit of im
provement. But for a few years past
the public mind seems to have been ra
pidly awakening to a just sense of the
importance of the subject. The first
impulse was given by Col. John Taylor
of Caroline ; and the interest which
Jlrator excited has been happily sustain
ed by the Jlmercan Farmer.
Heretofore, ihe improvements in the
agriculture of Europe, and of particular
sections or neighborhoods in our own
country, were very little known, except
to a few who enjoyed peculiar advanta
ges. This inconvenience no longer,
exists. A common medium has at length
been established, through which intelli
gent farmers from all parts of the Union
seek for, and communicate information
on the various subjects connected with
their vocation—and through which are
promulgated the opinions, facts and ex- j
periments, so essential to the general
amelioration of our country and to the
advancement of individual and public
prosperity.
Besides the usefulness of its matter,
the classical taste and science which a-
bound in the American Farmer reflect
credit on the genius an! literature of the
country. We heartily wish it success,
and recommend it to the public. It i?
** published weekly at Baltimore, at $ I
per annum, on a sheet of tbe size of a
large newspaper, and folded ?o as to make
eight page?—and to admit of being con
veniently bound up and presen ed in vo
lumes. Each volume consists of fifty-
two Numbers, a title-page and an index
—and numerous engravings to represent
new implements and approved systems
of husbandry.”—Rich. Euq.
this a half pint of salt was occasionally
thrown while boiling ; when done it was
taken up in a large tub and git n them
the next day, and in one week from the
day this practice was adopted they look
ed much better, and from that time
increased in flesh. When the spring
opened, they were fed only three times
a week, in the same manner, and in the
month of May, reduced to twice a week,
and by the middle of June it was discon
tinued. Had I persisted in giving them
the six quarts of raw corn, I am satisfied
more than half would not have seen the
spring.
1 have also adopted the practice of
grinding all my horse corn into fine
meal, and 1 find that I save a third alter
paying the toll.
With much respect your ob’t. serv’t,
J. L>'. GA1LLARD.
J. T. Lewis.
FROM THE RICHMOND COMI'II I II.
INDIAN INGENUITY.
TIip following originated in no article, which
At the Agricultural Festival at F.xeter,
N. II. a pair of Morocco shoes were ex
hibited by Air. Wentworth, made from
the skin of a sheep which was living 10
hours and 13 minutes bol'ore— a neat
silk purse was exhibited, knit by a Mrs.
Brown, who h is bepn blind 77 years—•
(wo apples were exhibited of the 1st
and 2d growth of the same tree this sea
son—and apples of 11120 by Mr. Hurd —
a cow was exhibited liy Col. Fierce,
which girt over 7 leet—a pair of oxen
drew a loud of 03 cwt.—the premium
butter was sold for 42 to 47 cents per lb.
Toe Cattle Show and Fair in Hampshire,
! Mass, was a spl 'ndid Agricultural and Ma
nufacturing exhibition. Tile account of it
occupies nearly seven columns of the last
Northampton paper. 100 premiums were
awarded ; 70 of which were to ladies.
RHODE ISLAND SILK.
Isaac Barker, esq. of Middletown, Rode
Island, wears a very handsome silk vest,
which was wholly produced and manufac
tured on his own farm. He has made silk
for three or four years, commonly about
thirty pounds a year, when prepared for
sprinniiig, arid we are happy to learn, finds
it a very profitable business, which lie thinks
may he extended with ease and advantage.
We doubt not, the farmers of this stati
might easily make enough of this valuable
article to supply our own consumption.—
Thus, one after another, are the resources
of our country brought into view, and run
dered valuable. The time was when it was
thought hardly practicable to procure
woollen hat, of domestic manufacture. Th
time may he, when we shall export silk
stull's, as we now export cottons by bales and
cargoes!
FARMING —CHEMISTRY.
Lelaml, in Ins Memoirs of the cole
brated French Chemi?t Lavoisier, states
that be cultivated 240 acres of land in
La Vendee, on Chemical principles, in
order to set a good example to the Fur
tilers, unit his mode of culture was at
tended with so much success, that he oh
tained a third more of crop than was ob
tainnd by the nsuul method, and in nine
years his annual produce was doubled.
Rook Printing.—The following nine
teen occupations are engagcJ to produce
a single book : the author, the designer,
the rag-merchant, the paper-maker, the
stationer, the type-founder, the press-
maker, the* ink-maker, the pelt-maker,
the chase-maker, the compositor, the
nt first nppenred in Silliman s Jouniiil
allusion to it, we think it is the National In-
tulligHiicer, which suites that similar stone Is
to he found in the District of Columbia ;
stamped with the impression ol the Ilium a
foot, ltut we can entertain no doubt of these
statements, ns a similar pliciia.ninuou is to
be met with in our own neighborhood. At
Powhatan about two miles hdow the Capitol,
lliere is a stone, within u few feet of the man
sion, in its yard, which lias the appearance
ofthr print of a human foot upon it. From
the description of the seite of the place, as tell
to iis in “ Smith's History of Virginia," there
is very little doubt of its being the scite of the
palace of the great Powhatan, the Indian War
rior ; and father of Pacahontus. The palace,
by the bye, was nothing but a miserable Jlut.
However this may be, there is the small rock,
with the image of (he foot upon it. It is on a
small hill, elevated several teet above the
.tames Kiver—and near the bank of the river.
Every prominent part of the sole of the foot is
there distinctly charactered, t in; rock seetns
to be a hard granite.
It can, we think, scarcely admit of a ques
tion, that (his is a rude memorial of the senlp
lure of the Indians. The rock is too hard to
leave room lor the supposition that it was e
ver ductile enough to receive the mould of the
foot Iiy piTJllre; Si besides we must next suppose
that it retained the impression for a considera
ble time before it hardened. Now these sup
positions are far more strained, than to con
ceive that some rude Indian sculptore with Ins
hiscl carved the stone into the required form I
hut to the original article ‘
In the September of Silliinau's Journal of
Science anil the Arts, just publi died, are
two or three letters containing a description
of a rock found on the western shore of the
Mississippi, at St. Louis, in which are the
impressions of two human feet. They are
so exactly copied fl'om nature, as to make
it questionable whether they were formed
by some rmm standing in the spot while the
rock was very soft,or liaie been cut by art:
“ersons who have examined them, entertain
different opinions on the subject. The rock
is calcareous, and of such unusual hardness,
that it has been only slightly worn by the
sand and gravel washed over it during the
periodical fioods, though the date of the im
pression must he ancient, as they have been
known from the earliest settlement of that
part of the country. If it he the work of a
man, it must have been wrought with an
iron tool, and by some sculptor who had at
tained the perfection of his art, at a period,
no doubt, anterior to the first discovery of
America. “ On this supposition, how in
teresting does every thing become which is
connected with the ancient history of this
continent! -With What scrupulous care
Itould he recorded, every circumstance
which ran throw any light upon it.—Grant
ing that the impressions were made by hu
man feet, while it was yet soft, this rock
speaks more decisive language on the ge
• •logical history of the world, than all the
specimens which Werner and Hutton have
collected to form the foundations of their
respective theories of Water and Fire. Dr.
Hutton Ims aurconded in producing very
good rocks Ivy mixing and halting quantities
of earths, alkalies, Uc. but we think lie
would rather even renounce his theory than
attempt an imitation of this Mississippi lime
stone, by putting feet in melted marl.
[.Vat. Adv.]
Buffalo, Oct. la.
The facts contained in the folio,,in ■
article were furnished us by a gentle
man who recently visited the buttle
ground.—Patriot.
BATTLE OF NIAGARA.
During the late war with Great Bri
tain, no action with the enemy added
greater reputation to thu American arm
than this sanguinary conflict, ivilji some
of the best disciplined troops of Europe,
who were also superior in numbers to
tlie Americans engaged. This battle
was fought about half a mile b-'low the
Cataract of Niagara, on tbe Caiunt .
shore, at a place called Land ay’- i.ia
and about one mile belo.v ihe pi ice call
ed Bridgewater, by all whi- h allies it
bus been designated. The Chippewa-,
creek, near which another desperate
and blovdy battle was fought, is two
miles above the. Falls.
The British army occupied a position
in Lnndny's lane, with th or artillery on
an eminence commanding the ro id In
which the Americans advanced, and all
the adjacent country, within (lie range
of cannon shot. From this position they
were driven by the Americans, ami their
battery taken, at the point of the bayo
net, by the troops led on by the gallant
Colonel Miller. Their battery was se
veral times taken and retaken, during
the battle, which continues until near
live which the law does not provide for si
tnilar offenders.
AMERICAN TALENT.
In looking over stiluu works lately pub-
ii lied in London, >ve find that Dr. Rush’s
Medical Enquiries ; Dr. Winter’s Ainiiomy ;
Seaman on Vaccination ; Chapman’s The-
■apeutics ; and Bigelow’s Botany , have been
liiihli .h d Ihei e, But what pleases us most,
sill infoiillation we derive from the same
■outs e, that the celebrated work on Con
iHgion. ny our esteemed and scientific fellow
KENTUCKY.
On the Sd day of tbe se.-tun of the h gi '
tore, It) petitions were presented for ditto/
Oil Ihe sltth nit. a Report was laid lie,,
them by Air. (’lay, “ respecting Ihe ai i a>.,
incuts made between him and B. W. I.t .
Esq. for the appointment of Commission
to aetlle the disputes lit tween Kentm ,
and Virginia —Ordered to be referred
a joint committee of three from both Ho' •
The subject of Relitf and ol the lh
has already been opened. Mr. Daviissl
proposed a string of resolutions, the nbji
i/.eu l)r. Butter, lias not only gone through ! l 'l which is to enquire into t, e expedient
several editions in that country, but has s' of/mritiug"'one million ol dollars,of the p
S-* Iren IraiirLlcd into Flench, and pub- P* :1 ‘ *'l the Bank ot tbe Commonwealth, •
-a t Bans, and into German and s <K>n nslhesame can be called in’ --of enfm
,.uV led at Leipzig. The effect of this ln 6 “ hI1 contracts/nirerr/pr made for tbe dire,
le i, tied work lias been wonderful in Eu- j payment of specie without subjecting sin
rope, and must be highly gratifying to ) contracts to a longer replevin that 3 month- '■
Mo- accomplished author; whom >ve can as j —prohibiting the Bank of the Connie-
re, that in < u.us- qoi-nee of a perusal of it, | wealth bom making " further discounts n
the • rued Di Armstrong, of London, has I 1 '* '!»«* further order of the legislature''—,
ijouiici d bis opinion i hat the typhus fever I 01 lll0,p effectually suppressing the circul -
(a-ciiia, I lion of private notes. These resolute.
Ti.e ipu stion has been asked in Europe | "ere referred : But (his is not the ool
“ who read.-ail American hook ?” There 'plan which has been privately diseussi
vi,outs of that part of the world, have un-(^'” party is lor adopting the Govern"
- oerrd tile question
noth they have takei .
To our fri uds in New-Ymk, we recoin-1 the sutc 5 blaring she may gain
m. '.d an attentive perusal of Ihe valuable i specie standard loo soon for thu other, i-
work of Dr. Potter an contagion. It has | ‘hereby depreciate its paper—others ug
brought some Europeans to their senses, j "Ml not agree to receive all the state si<
and xv. hope it will have Ihe same effect in 1 Ihe notes of tbe C’s bank, without a p
a city vvHere (as regards this subject,) ilieo- '''' 11 ol specie with it, k-y toe --It appi
t ol me world, nave an-1 *•' ■ r—•/ ■ ’..... -....cn- .
themselves In the very j project throughoutanother is “ too jealo-
euol'A nuricaii works. J of the Commonwealth’s hands to let Inc
ry was consulted, amt common sensi
doijcii,—Fed Repub.
ahull-
fro,n the otlicial report of the C’s bank, tli
it lias the mighty sum, of i>2.ll.jd go Cm •
of specie in its vaults.—Rich. Enq.
midnight ; and in their charges the hay- T HE THEORY OF EARTHQUAKE
onels repeatedly met before the line M, Bint, after detailing the phemnne-
fired ; and a great number of men were| na of the earthquake on the 23d ol'Feb-
bajonetted at the field pieces ; vvhu h
finally remained undisputed tti ihe hands
MARQUIS LA FAYETTE.
Philadelphia, Nov. 7.
The following extracts from letters,
will be read with pleasure by all who
take an interest in onr revolutionary his
tory, nnd in the character and feelings
of such worthies of the Revolution as
Gen. Bloomfield and Colonel Ogden.—
It may well to mention in order to illus
trate the reverence in which the Mar
quis La Fayette continues to hold the
pressman, the gatherer, the folder, the j memory of Washington, (hat Ihe impres
ts N FATTENING HOGS.
As there is so little economy observed
in f.i11eninm hogs in this part of the coun-
trv, 1 beg leave to notice that aho, and
point out a better and a cheaper mode.
The common practice is to put (hem in a
large pen, and throw the corn on Ihe
ground ; in a wet season, they are soon
up to their knees in mire and not a dry
spot to lay on. In this situation there
mast he much corn wasted, and they
cannot possibly thrive hut very sloe Iv.
My practice has been In make two square
pens adjoining ; they are both floored
with rails, and one of them is so cover
ed as to turn the rain, and is well litter
ed with leaves or straw, and fresh li'ter
■idded at least nnce a week, In tho other
pen a trough is placed, in which they are
fed from twice to three times a day.—
One meal they are fed on pra«, nnd the
ether two on corn ; it is sometimes lioil-
titclier, tho leather seller, the binder ;
the copper-smith, the engraver, the cop
perplate printer, and the bookseller.
[/Jem. Press.]
Tobacco.—The “ American Farm
er” tells us that some tobacco made by
judge Dorsey, of Maryland, last year,
sold in Europe for $02 per hundred,
and somo which grew in Montgomery
county, and sold here for $37, brought
Holland the enormous sum of upwards
of $00 per hundred.
Buffalo, Oct. 22.
Emigration.—No season within the
last four years, has furnished such an
ingress of population to our western state
and territories as the present. In addi
tion to the thousands from Europe, who
have located there, the migrating mania
seems again to have seized upon our
New England brethren, in so ranch that
our streets are daily thronged with the
ponderous covered wagons of the east,
bearing not unfreqnently, three genera-
ed and well sailed and at other times j tjons within; and going as Mr. Irvine
raw. This has been mv practice for j would say, “ to Ohio, Kentucky, or the
three winters ; and inv hogs have always Lord knows where.” These wend
fattened very fast, and eat much less J ifieir way round the Lake shore by land,
of the Americans; who were, however
unable to remove them from the field, m
consequence of the loss of all the hoi - .
and the excessive fatigue of Ihe troop-.
On the morning after the baltlo the
American army retr ated tow irds line,
and having no carriages were obliged to
leave their wounded and dea l to the care
of the enemy. To the wounded we are
willing to believe the necessary atten
tion was paid, but in disposing of the
dead, a more expeditious method than
usual was adopted. The bodies were
stripped and dragged together into an
immense pile intermixed and covered;
with dry, fence-rails, and set on tire,
which soon reduced (hem to a heap of
ashes. To this mode of funeral no ob
jeclion is made, ns the hot weather and
situation of the, army woulJ not admit of
any other. But, will it be credited,
that among a Christian people this pile of
- human bones and ashes should remain
[ uncovered until the present tune ; and
such, wp are assured, is the fact. Col.
Robert Carr, of Philadelphia, passing
near that place a feiv days since, vi-iie-!
the field of battle, atu) observed a number
of hogs turning up tho loose ashes and
bones, on the spot where the field pieces
had so gallantly been won : on enquiry,
he learned from a person who keep?
school a few roils from the place, and
was himself wounded in the ha.lie, that
the dead bodies ot the : ddinrs wen*
burned on this very spot, and that they
had never been covered. II belonged
to the English array, and stated that their
own dead were collected and that the
Americans only were burnt, and that tt
was said at Ihe time, that it was i i r
talialion for similar conduct of the Ame
ricans at Chippewa. On being a km!
what became of tho bodies of ihe officers,
lie pointed to a place where they were
interred, but observed that a number of
them must have been burned, as they
had been stripped during the. night and
very early in the morning, and could
men.
Mw-Jerscy, Counsel General of the U. grhno , b , permission of the
,S. at Pans, dated Lt Grange, August tcnclicr, ,d collect a qnnulity of stones
lying near Ihe place, and covered the re
mains of his gallant fellow soldiers, at I mist
sufficient to protect them from the hogs.
sion upon tho seal of the letters, is a
beautiful and correct likeness of the A-
mcrican hero, surrendered by a glory.
to thetr ultimate destination ; while the
throng of young men, hale and hearty,
who have plodded their wav, “ with
knapsack slung,” from the sober scenes
of New-England, on foot, greet with
heart-felt satisfaction
“ — the sail,
That, idly waiting, flaps with every gale,”
and is ready to waft them over ihe bil
lows of Erie, to their imaginary Canaan.
Before such the lull forests are rapidly
disappearing, and tho wilds of Michigan
and Indiana, where, so recently,
“ Beast irith man divided empire claim'll,”
a-ide, and had four quarts of corn tneai jnre many of them already waving with
boiled every day in ten gallon? of water, j golden corps, or scattered with flocks
"ntil it boiled down to about eight ; in t ohd herds.
than those fed in the uncomfortable man
ner above described.
Last w inter after killing off half my
fattening lings (lie. others were fed alto
ember oil fine corn meal, and although
the weather had got much more severe,
iiiev fattened much fester than they had
done before, and’eat still less.
Last winter when my fields were eat
oat, 1 commenced, feeding niy little
stock of out lings on corn ; their allow
ance was six quarts, hot w lipn the wea
ther became severe, thev fell away fast
on this allowance. 1 then laid the corn
_ - s* j .. ■ • . . . I t t y v« nil* sib iii.. iijwi iiit* ,, i
Extract of a letter from the Marquis La. be ,| ii(inguishe( | ,' rom Ul(:ir
layette, to Isaac Lox liarne , Esq. of Colonel Carr employed a n
xr.... /•. m n. '- r theU.' '
lug list
23 lh, 1322.
“ You have reminded me of time, cir
cumstances and names, ever gratifying
to my recollection. Colonel Ogden ami
his regiment have my beloved compan
ions in war. particularly a picked com
pany of Light Infantry under Captain
Ogden, the Colonel’s brother, who have
shared with me the most interesting toils
of the Revolutionary war. 1 enclose a
letter to my old brother Officer General
Bloomfield.”
Copy of a letter frmn the Marquis La
Fayette, to General Joseph Bloomfield,
of Burlington, JVcw-Jerscij.
Lr. Grange, 23tli Aug. 1322.
My Dear Sir—1 avail myself of :lie
opportunity offered by Mr. Barnet, to I from which pi-we lie was recalled by Uni.
remind you of an old brother soldier. I " ashington. He published avindication”
who finds in his o.vn heart, a right j ''i* cunffuct, ami w.-s not long afterwards
c -r .• I fMt'cted coyrrnor ol \ irgunn. and rotUimn u
of reciprocity upon your affectionate M , ° g t)ie ;ll |„ w -
remembrance. Our patriotic toils and ( . d j n 18(l ., |„. , VB s sunt by Mr. Jefferson
friendly union in the army, have beenj , ( > France, on the negotiation for Louisiana,
to mo a happy time, the dear rccnllec- j In iao-2 Iy was appoint' d niiiiistcr in I,on-
linn of which, fills me with sentiments don, ^ in lafifi he went oil a special ini sion
President .Monroe.-—The following is giv
en as the true account of tint <1 ites al which
President Monroe appears i" the history of
our country. Born in Virginia in 17a9, and
was in (lie army in 17TO, and was wounded
at the battle oi' Trenton, Doc. 23, 1770.—
Gen. Washington lli'-n gave him a captain
cy, and he was ai<l to Gen, Lord Sterling,
and soon after a Colonel of a regiment.—In
17!t2 he was in the legislature of Virginia,
and in 1733 a member of tho old Congress.
In 1737 he was again in the legislature ol
Virginia, and in 1733, in the convention
which ratified the constitution. In 1790 lie
was a Senator of the United States. In 1700
he was i • Ulster of Ihe U. Slates in France.
rnary last, com hides an interesting pa
per with these observations :—
In the infancy of Chemistry and Natu
ral Philosophy, it was imagined that
earthquakes might be easily explained ;
in proportion as these sciences have be
come more correct and more profund,
tlii?, confidence has decreased. But by Cl ini! "L a '
a propensity for which the character of
(ho linmaii mind sufficiently accounts,
all Ihe physical agents which have suc
cessively been discovered, such as elas
ticity, magnatism, the inflammation of
gases, the decomposition arid recomposi
tion of water, have been maintained in
theories as the cause of this great phe
nomenon of nature. Now all these con
jectures seem to be insufficient to ex
plain convulsions so extensive, produced
at the same time over such large por
tions ofthe earth, as those which lake-
place during earthquakes. i lia mn-t
probable opinion, tlie only one which
seems to us to reconcile, in a certain
degree, the energy, the extent of the-e
phenomena, and often their frightful cor
respondence in the most distant coun
tries ofthe globe, would, be to suppose
conformably to many other physical in
dications, that the solid surface on which
we live is hut of inconsiderable thick
ness in comparison with the seini-diame-
ler ofthe terrestrial globe ; is in some
neiisure n recent shell, covering a li
quid nucleus, perhaps still in a state ol
ignition, in which great chemical or phy
sical phenomena operating at intervals,
cause those agitations whicl) are trans
mitted to us—The countries where the
superficial crust is less thick or less
strong, or more recently or mure im
perfectly consolidated, would, agreeably
to this hypothesis, be the most liable to
he convulsed and broken by the violence
of these internal explosions. Now if
we compare together the experiments
on the length of the pendulm, which
have been made for some years past with
great accuracy, from the North ofScot-
land to tho South of Spain, we readily
perceive that the intensity of gravitation
decreases oo this space, as we go from
the pole towards the equator, more ra
pidly thau it ought to do upon an ellip
soid, the concentric and -hnilai strata of
which should have equal densities at e-
qn tl dept* ; and the deviation i? especi
ally sensible about the middle of France,
where too there has been observed a
Inking irregularity in the length of (lie
degrees of the earth.—This local de
crease of gravity in lliese countries
should seem to indicate with some pro
bability, that the strata near tho surface |
Norfolk, Nov. 7,
The following extract from a note t.
the Editors dated yesterday, may be con?
si lered .is more authentic than any et.it.
inent before published by us or the sub
ject ofthe melancholly disease prorai
mg among the Peacock's crew. Wh ;
we have published heretofore, was de
rived from as good sources as we c ! i
the time. But we shall al
ways he ready to correct aoy error
that may unavoidably creep into our e
luinns.
“ The number of the Peacock's cro t
sick at Craoey Island at present, is th:. -
hj-seven—several of them are danger,' -
cases ; the greater part however, ai r
doing very will. The disease which
has aiilicted the crew of the Peacock is
yellow fever, accompanied, in very ma
ny ofthe cases, with a violent catarrh,. .
affection ; prostrating, as it were at one
the unfortunate subject which it at tael-.
,Vc are sorry that the disease which pi
vailed on hoard, should have been mad
so light of, for it is one which requit
very particular nnd guarded trealmen'.
Three deaths have taken place on lh
Island, and our Navy will long regret cr,
of them : Doctor Tkevett, who dm
on .Monday, of black vomet, would ha
done honor to any service ; he was?,
from the Peacock in a very low slate :
so were the seaman and hoy who died on
shore. Lieut. Searcy, whose deal 1
was noticed some days since, did not du
on the Island.—Beacon.
New York Nov. f,.
We have been favored with thu pern? i
of a letter from an officer on hoard the U
S. ship Cvr.-.E dated icjgtiira, October la.
“ Since wo left Porto Rico, we have been
cruising along the Spanish Main to wind-
ward of Cape Orders, where we fell in
with a small Spanish privateer ; hut have, g
no intelligence of her having committed
any depredations on our commerce, perir.l'-
ted her to depart. After cruising 25 day'-,
we arrived here on the 4lh inst. We found
here the U. S. schooner Alligator, having
n coni' y ol'American merchantmen for the.
Mona Passage. The Alligator was detain*
i d two or three days before our arrival, at
I lie request ofthe merchant's, to move their
property on hoard of her, a general panic
having struck them in consequence of Get:.
Morales having captured .Maracaibo, and an
expectation that he would have marched
immediately for Caraceas. lie, however,
(hough proper to remain where he was I'o ■
a fresh supply of troops, which he expected
from Porto Rico. Two days after our ar
rival, llie U. S. brig Spark reached here,
and is wailing for a convoy. We shall sad
ill a few days for Porto Cahello. Tin in
are a number of American merchants heir,
and many Americana in the Patriot service,
badly paid and generally disgusted with
their situations. It wat
■pol led vesterdii
must be less dense (hero than elsewiici e, I >»««* landed his tro-ps about
. . , . , . miles to leeward o! tin? luace, Sc was man
and perhaps have in their interior ■— 1
mouse cavities,
fur the. e>.i
s for (’araccas.
- j'ia
he take that
vties. i his w ould account; ] .aguii'ii falls, and an immense property w iii
irtenre of tiie numerous volca-1 lie lost.— Capt. Spc c- is now at Caraei
lines of which these strata show the tra
ces and explain ivltv they are men now
at intervals the focus of suhier.aneous
convulsions.
of love and regret for our departed com
panions and ofthe tenderest attachment
for those who survive. I atn sure, my
dear General, you will with affectin re
ceive these lines, and sympathize in
my feelings. Let me hear from you.
Remember me to your comrades, St be
lieve me forever, Your constant friend,
LA FAYETTE.
The Uapt. Ogden spoken of, i« Col
Aaron Ogden, ofElizabeth Town, Now-
Jersey, formerly governer of the stite
to Madrid. On his return In- was again in the
legislature of Virginia, £4 in LUO w :-.s govern
or. In l.ll I In was Swiclary "f Stale, ami
in 1814 fjrcrcfnry nf War. lie is now in his
second term ot President ofthe U. States.
with Col. Todd. Morales i? a smart folio
and lie is much feared. The whole of iii
Patriot squadron is lying here, having In i
chased in liy a Spanisii frigate and hi'.,
Several of our crow have symptoms ol li
fever.”
IjCiwin Ohio.—Two men were recently
tried in Huron county, (Ohio) lor the ol- tion acquired, the sitic- nf numerous an
fence id tarring and feathering a third per- r jp n { riiics ami stations have been acett-
son, and fined by the court seventy-five ends r . ( , ( , ,*. tl . rlllIS(0l i. „„i lUll () ,„ , in
oHch. Tin? man who sulii/H’U had abandon-1 , J ... . ,
dolled his family and betaken lom-.-lf to o-j r ’’ «* «ill throw, very important elm nla
th'-r women, and his two neighbors had ta tions on the writin: oi Herodotus, f ra
ken upon themselves to distribute '' at jus-' bo, Leo, uu-J EJnst,
A "urvey of the shores of the Medi
terranean, under the orders nf the Lords
ofthe British Adrniraiity, lias been pro
gressing fur some years past. Between
the month of March ami July last, Capt.
Smith, of II. B. M. ship Adventure, aid
ed by a land party, who explored the
shores and interior, completed a survey
ofthe African coast, between Tripoli and
Alexandria, including the harbors of
those two places. By this service, the *S5S=
hitherto unknown Gulph of Syplis ha? | Rhode Hand.— A committee, ccr.six*
been throughly explored, and in addition j ling ol E. R. hotter, A. Robbins, and the
to the valuable hydrographical informa-1 Attorney General of the state, lime
been appointed in the General As-'embiv
of Rhode Llaml, to bung in w lull
mendmeot of tho act relative to riim «
and punishments, substituting whippir ,
cropping, and lit ami,mr, fur Hie 11-• j
The encampment at Greenwich is entire
ly broken up—all have now returned to tin ir
old establishment, and the city exhibits i
former appearance of business and actix I: \.
Sc great 1? the influx of merchants from II •
interior, and neighboring slates, that e.xti"
slagi.-s '""I packets are employed, and tl .
Steam-bouts to Albany are now to rim 1 n -
ry day. A very great Imsinese is anticipat
ed this mouth.- - A*. \. Mlt. Adv.
puuishtntiipof fine aud iuiprisoumeu(.