of the Columbia, in latitude 46, in the
great plain which lies on the borders oi
this river beiween the upper and lowe
range of mountains. His origin 1s traced
‘to Mexico, thence to Spain, thence tothe
North of Africa, where the Arabian barb
is found in ali the peifection of his spe-
cies. His fine form, his generous spirit,
and his noble qualities are preserved upon
“the Columbian river j and certainly IU 1s
worthy the experiment to endeavor to
transplant him inte other parts of the Uni-
ted States. Many citizens have attempt:
ed to do so, but have always been robbed
by the Indians of the Rocky mountains.—
Lewis and Clarke procured seventy three,
said by Gov. Clark to be the most beauul-
ful collection of horses that he cver seen
before or since; but the whole number
was stolen from them by the Indians who
follbwed their trail and never ceased then
operations until they bad carried off the
slast. * Itis to be hoped that the military
"establishments formed on the upper Mis-
gouri will facilitate the attempts which
will nn doubt be renewed to introduce this
ne breed into the settled paris of ou
‘continents '
@ St. Louis Enquirer.
“Bxiract of a letter from a gentleman m Uti-
ca to the Editors of the Aloany daily Ad-
vertiser, dated.
Utica Oct. 22, 1819. ]
« The last two days have presented Ib
this village a scenc of the liveliest interest ;
and ! consider it among the privileges of
my life to have been present to witness It.
On Friday afternoon I walked to the head o!
the grand Canal, whose eastern extremity
reaches within a very shot distance ot the
village, and trom one of the slight and airy
bridges which crossed it, I beheld a sight
that could not bu® exhilerate and elevate
the mind. The waters were rushing In
from the westward, and coming down their
untried channel towards the sea. Their
course owing to the absorption of the new
banks of the canal, and the distance they
had to run from where the stream entered
it, was much slower than I had anticipated,
they continued gradually to steal along from
ridge, to bridge and at first only spreading
over the bed of the canal, imperceptibly
rose and washed its sides with a gentle
wave. It was dark before they reached the
eastern extremity ; but at sunrise next
morning they weve on a level two feet and
a half deep throughout the whole distance
‘of {thirteen miles. The interest manifested
by the whole country, as this new internal
river rolled its first waves through the state
‘cannot be described. You might see the
people vunning across the fields, climbing
on trees and fences, and crowding the bank
of the canal to gaze upon the welcome sight
A boat had been prepared at Rome, and as
the ‘watets came down the canal, you might
ark their progress by that of this new
Argo, which Hoated triumphantly along
tbe Hellespont of thé west, accompanied
by the shouts of the peadanuy, and having
on her deck a military band. At niné the
next morning, the bells began a merry peal
and the commissioncis in carriages pro-
ceeded from Bagge’s hotel to the place of
embarkation. The governor accompanied
by Gen. Van Renssellaer, Rev. Mr. Stans.
bury, of Albany, Rev. Dr. Blatchford of
Lansingburgh, judge Miller, of Utica,
judge Weight, Col. Lansing, Messrs.
Holly, Seymour, Childs, Clark, Bunner,
and a large company of their friends, em-
barked at a quarter past nine, and were re-
ceived with the roll of drums and the shouts
of large multitudes of spectators, The
boat which received them is built for pas-
sengers--is 61 feet in length, and 7 1-2
feet in width—having two rising cabins of
14 feet each, with a flat deck between them.
In forty minutes the company reached
Whitesboroughy a distance of two miles and
three quarters-~the boat being drawn by a
single norse, which walked on the towing
path, attached to a tow rope of about sixty
feet long. The horse travelled, apparently
with the titmost ease, The boat, though
literally loaded with passengers, drew but
14 inches water. The Governor sat upon
deck contemplating the interesting and
j 'yous scene: The white flag ot peace,
decorated with appropriate inscriptions and
embiematical figures waved over his head.
and a military band played patriotic airs. 1
thought of the expedition of Xerxes—but
with conscious exultation at the contrast.
From biidge to bridge, from village to vil-
lige, the prucession was saluted with can-
non, and every bell whose sound could
reach the canal, swung as if with instine-
tive life as it passed by. At Whitesbor-
ough a pumber of ladies embarked,
andd heightened by their smiles a
scene which wanted butthis to make it com:
plete. A cold collation was provided on
boavd. maty (patriotic toasts were drank,
and after proceeding to the bridge in the
me; the little vessel turned
vicinity
her prow apfiretraced the line of her most
Interesting voyage.”
Rae
Hard times—hard times, is the general
¢'y, among atl classes and ia €very section
of our country, ¥What is (he foundation of
these complaints § Does it not rather con:
’
sist in the imprudence and unwatragtable
absolute incapacity of getting on through
life with ease? Is there any difficulty in
procuring the necessaries of life—its com-
forts, and all that the regulated desires of
prudent people ought to aim at ? We think
this cannot be the case. Why then in the
midst of a pleatful country, and at the
close of a more than commonly plentiful
season, do we hear so many complaints !
While old mother earth continues $0 aus-
picious to the wants and wishes ofber la-
soring sons, as she has been the passing
season it seems to be little less than Ingrat-
tude to mingle lamentation with these
bounteous gifis. To be sure, we do not
handle quite so much bank paper, as for-
merly, We do not so abound iW these
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desires for wealth, among men, than any]
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(he Patriot.
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*T0 speak his thoughts, is every freeman’sright:
SALURDAY, NovreEMBER 20.
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MARRIED —QOn Wednesday the 1Gth
inst. by Thomas Waddle Esq. Mr. Samuel
Paiton, to Miss Mary Norris.
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The present number (27) of the Bellefonte
Patriot, commences the fourth balf year.
To such of our subscribers as have com-
plied with the conditions, we return our
thanks : and such as are in arrears, we:
respectfully solicit their attention to the
beautiful little scraps of paper, as we did
when fifty manufacturing establishments of
them were in full and free tide.
then? The real weaith of this country
fixed ou a fav different basis ; the welfare |
of the people may probably be sccnred ny
the absence of those little things, and even]
their amusements may be provided forth-|
with without the intervention of¢ Murray,
Draper and Fairman’s PICTURES
York Recorder.
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The following ludicrous scene took
place a few days ago at Broughty Ferry
A letter was received at the Ferry, by the
wife of a fisherman employed at Wick, in
the end of which he mentioned, + I edd uo
more.” The wife being no great scholar,
pei
read it,“ [ am no more ;
band’s death. She became frantick and
inconsolable at the news, and bitterly be-
wailed her heavy bereavement, in which
she was jomed by many other fishermens
wives, about a score in number, who had
that instant heard the report of the Joss of
several fishing boats at Wick. It is im-
possible to describe their melancholy la-
mentations at their supposed loss, until a
gentleman, whose humanity prompted him
to request a perusal of the letter, gave
these forlorn widows, as they supposed)
themselves, the most unspeakable com-|
fort, by explaining that the alarming words
were nothing more than a term of fares
well. The mourning of these women was,
of course, instantly turned into rejoicing.
Inverness fiafer.
GRAND MENAN.
The New Brunswick Gazettes announce
But what,
and concely dj
the letter to be an intimation of her hus.
necessity of making payment of all; or ‘at
least part, of their subscription. Subscri-
bers living at a distance nay embrace the
opportunity of the approaching Court, to re-
mit what they may deem proper; and
those to whom such opportunity {nay not
off.r, are informed that they may pay to
the {ollowing persons, who are authorized
by the editor to receive subscriptions and
pass receipts
Howoerd-~Jzmes Crawford, Esq.
Haldeagle © Lamar—Joseph Richards.
Bigt. land —George Crane jr.
Jersey Shore—Matthew M’Reynolds.
Wiliiamspiort—Dr. J Wood.
Muncy---Brindie & Petrikin.
Halfmoon. «-Jeseph B. Shugert.
Warriorsmark-~-Heury Nearhoof.
Birmingham----Thomas Stewart, Esq.
Co/linsvilbe---Robert M’Namara, Esq.
dnvonsburae---Jacob Haller,
Lorguson—Chriswell Whitehill.
Potter's Mills—~William Kerr, Esq.
Spruce Creck—John Patton Esq.
Pike=--Wiiliam'L. Packer,
Pikeville—-Thomas M’Clure.
Reedsboro’--- Alexander Reed, Esq.
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PAINFUL INTELLIGENCE:
Milledgeville, (Geo.) Oct. 26.
We stop the press to announce the death
of His Excellency Governor RABUN.—
He died at his residence in Hancock coun-
ty, on Saturday night last with the
Fever.
Snel 4 Q—
From the National Register.
OFFICIAL NOTICES, &c.
The President of the U. States has arriv-
ed in Washington.
that Col. Arnold and two other British en-
gineers, have proceeded to the Island of
Grand Menan, for the purpose of survey-
ing its defensive points, and designating
scites for fortifications, This 'Island al-
most touches the American boundary, and
and must of course be of immense import-
ance in any future wars between the W
States and Great Britain Bost Pat.
Bonaparte’s adherants & companions in
St. Helena are gradually leaving him;
who accompanied himin his exile has ar-'
rived in England, and now Madame Ber-
trand is the only French female left with
him. Marshal Bertrand has been Napole-
on’s most faithful adheraot ; his fidelity
did not depend on the sunshine of Emperal
favour ; he followed him in his exile to Elba
assisted him in regaining Paris during the
reign of the 100 days, and still constant, fol-,
lowed his fortunes to the Belerophon and
to St. Helena, Himself and wile and chil-
dren are all that remain of the vast crowd
of sycophants and court favorites that once
bent the knee to the Emperor and King.
as
RYE COFFEE. ~=TRrY 1T.
A writer in the Plough Boy who signs
« Economy,” says that he has been assured
by a lady of the first respectability, that
she has used rye coffee in hier family for 1
month, and that the cost had been but 18
cents—that none in her family (except one
servant who was in the secret) knew but
that it was coffee of the best kind.
Directions--Put a quantity of rye into wa-
ter rub it well through the hands, then rinse
it well in clean cold water, dry it, then burn
and grind it in the usual method.
Nashville, Oct. 2.
Important —A gentleman immediately
from New Orleans states, that previous to
his leaving tat city, the agent of a com-
pany of Swiss merchants arrived there from
Europe, bearing the official transfer from
the Spanish monarch of the whole province
of Texas, to his employers. The Swiss
purchasers are required to settle the coun-
try immediately, to acknowledge fealiy to
his Catholic majesty ; but to be in every
other respect, at liberty to form their own
government, laws, &c.
The agent had expressed a wish to em-
ploy asmall force to occupy the country
until the settlers on the way arrived ; but]
Gen. Long would respect his transfer, un-
effectually comrhands the Bay of Fundy,!
Madame de Mostholon one of the ladies
Viscount QUABECK, the charge des-
affaires of the Netherlands is at present
in this city. is
The hon. John C. Calh
‘War, arrived at Pendleton,
8th inst. to join his famil
return to. Washington. SI
Jonathan Russell, lite minister at the
y previous to their
;court of Stockholm, has presented the U-
niversity of Cambridge, with a copy of
various fragments of Cicero’s orations,
undoubtedly genuine, which have been
discovered in Italy, M. S. and decyphered
with great accuracy.
The Prince Regent has nominated, Col
Washington, of the Bavarian service, an
honorary companion of the order of Bath.
NAL ang ———
Washington City, Nov. 6.
‘The Commissary General (Col. Jessup)
has returned to this city, from a tour of
near 4,000 miles, undertaken with the view
personally to superintend and facilitate
the transport of the important military ex-
peditions in the west,
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The Baron De StackeLsura, charge
des affaires of his majesty the king of Swe-
den and Norway, near the United States,
has arrived at the seat of Government.
The Hon. William Lowndes returned
home in the Courier, from Liverpool, and
has arrived in this city.
The latest Paris journals confirm the
statement that Mr. Bacor, late the Eng-
lish Minister to America, has been appoint-
ed Ambassador to the court of St. Peters-
burg. The London papers®say nothing
themselves on the subject, but merely ex-
tract the French paragraph.
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The emperor of Austria has appointed a
minister to this country. This determina-
ton was probably made after his visit to
the Franklin 74. The Austrian state have
but few commercial ports, but the Italian
possessions are of consequence. We
must reciprocate; and Vienna is a very
splendid Court.
— § Eee.
JOHN ADAMS, formerly President of
the United States, entered his 85th year,
in good health on the 30th ultirzo.
Letters from St. Eustatia per the Dove
state, that the Islands of $¢. Kitts, Mont-
serrat &c. were open for the admission of
Bread Stuffs, Lumber &ec, from the U.
States and in American vessels for six
months. Flour at St. Eustatia, $20~Corn
ro one seemed to think 1t probable that ‘meal $32.
— Ic
less he had the power to compel it.
pointed Thursday the 231 day of Decenyhap
to be observed as a day of Thaokngiyipg
and Prayer throughout that state, :
———) § Q—
The Governor of New York lias appoint.
ed, Wednesday the 22d day of December,
as a day of Prayer and Thanksgiving
throughout that state.
Commodore Shaw is appointed to the
command of the Independence ship of the
line now at Boston—The commodore is at
present in this city,
The Gibraltar correspondent of the Nor.
folk Herald writes under date of Sept. 5,
that the King of Spain had appointed the
t Dake San Fernando, Minister extraordina.
ry to the United Siates.
NEW BRITISH MINISTER.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in
Liverpool to his friend in Washington city
dated October 1.
“ You will hear by this ship, that a new
Minister, Mr. STRAFFORD CANNING
cousin of George Canning, is appointed
Minister to the United States—he wag
formerly Minister to Sweden.”
Detroit, Oct. 15—Lt. Charles Mellen of
the U. 8. corps of Artillery with about 0
hardy looking soldiers under his command
left this place yesterday morning to per-
form a tour of duty ‘on the military road
leading to Ohio. They will commencs
working in the vicinity of the Miami River,
We are informed that Maj. Stockton of
the Arullery is the ‘superintending officer,
Ihe sickness which has prevailed for a few
months past in the vicinity of the places
where the work is to be continued, has we
learn delayed its prosegution until this late
period.
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APPROACHING WINTER.
Who shall Decide? [Time J—Capt:
Symmes, of Ohioy—who has made so much
speculation on the passages at the Poles
into the inside of the earth,—has predict-
ed, that the ensuing winter will be mild,
from the influence which the conjunctive
situations of the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn,
will have on the electric fluid, during the
most part of it. But others as weather-
wise as he, assert, that all the autumnal
atmospheric symptoms, indicate that the
ensuing winter will be as inclement as the
last Summer was fervid.
Late official return, tothe house of
comions, state, that the total number of
prisoners, confined for debt in London, a-
mount to 1289 ; the total number of insols
vent debtors, for the year, ss given in the
above document; were 3,326 for all Great
Britain. : ; :
Counterfeit two dollar notes of the Bank
of New Brunswick, are in circulation—
date 25th Jan, 1818—Letter C. No. 149,
favor of S Dean~—the execution and pa-
per better than common for notes of so
small amount. The President, (John Bray)
and Cashier’s, (D. W. Desborough) names
appear to be fac similies, ink marked.
Am. D. Adv.
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We understand that his Danish Majes-
ty has been pleased to consent that an
American Consul shall be accredited at
the Island of St. Thomas. We further
learn, that Nathan Levy, Esq of Baltimore
will soon take his departure to resume the
functions of that Consulate. ib.
spans
From the Norfolk Herald Oct. 25:
Our correspondent at Gibraltar, under
date of September 3, writes——# Tle king
of Spain has appointed the Duke San Fer-
nando, minister extraordinary tothe U
States. A trick to gain time.
« With the plague on one side of us, and
the yellow fever on the other the gates of
the gairison are shut against all communi
cation.”
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From the Winchester Vir, Constellation.
Important. —We are informed from
Washington that there is a perfegt under
standing between our government and the
Court of Great Britain y and that the only’
cause for the non-ratification of the Florida
Treaty is owing to the time limited for the
Spanish grants. Our correspondent tells
us that the principles of the treaty are ac-
ceded to by Spain, and it rests with our gov=
ernment to say whether it will accede to
the extension that Ferdinand wishes. If
so the treaty will at once be settled—if not,
it will only be the subject of common dis
plomacy. : ; :
Don Oris is in Madrid and in very high
standing there.
—
Pittsburg, Nov, 2
On Saturday night tbe 22d ult the
watchmaker’s shop of John H. Wise, of
Greensburg, was entered by some villians
and about 300 watches stolen therefrom.’
Two men who had been loitering about tha@®
town, were suspected of having committed
The Governor of Gennecticut has ap.ithe robbery. They stopped at Mr. Gils