The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1851, Page 6

- Bewspapers Published in the State of U- | it is not doubted ORIGINAL AMTLOLBS. | lo he yepr rere, tot Nee at lade ti ne ater eee Peeitnate on von is. | Reakeieers rcs be rete Ths Calon SENATE 7 4th, at 6 A.M., and to arrive at | ly, Mr. Fulton obtai for machi oF ay 43% lee to consider this matter “fhe Steamboat Era on the Hudson River— iis pay reed ye O'elock in the alvarsoon: Sry connected with navigation and mecha- anaes are all published weekly, except when oth pre raliy attempt to org, the only hope of Reminiscence of Robert Fulton. "Prova good berths, and eccommedations nies. | The. ok of appears AS bere en- eae jot rh} ecncea” and the lawa oa this sub x hi - jided. The charge to each prsser as fol- | gaged much of at » Du “a residence ’ Name. Town. Charac. Circul’n. 2 ° gat @ Hudson | . $3 Time, 14 hours. | Throughout his course as @ mechanist and civil en- | want is some inducement to labor, on the coast of weekly, de. — the #6. Louis (1d) Besetolee nies River; the first successful experiment in the world 4 lees ineer, he derived advantage from his talent Africe, and for their attention to be directed to in- | Chicego Journsl, ape 0) A ) Republican, Oc:. 6 ] baring bee aaa bor, by Fao a Aagu 157 ts kag todplting’ estate| pcr biennial Repo. | a ee at) oar i ean 7 rr a ed; juestion but ” . » ‘The immense consequences which have followed id aa es ee 1 a 4 Permanente | slave t than anything else. xi De. wee, &. me self of the we) rs , | turn) on Monda, - | tested mainly to ie, bi y' Daily Argus, do ‘260 | | I avail m oppo f the mail which from that event, cannot easily be realized; antit | ibany (on return) on Monday, > m- | used his pencil as a painter, till a short time before | In the course of an interesting conversation on De ti a belongs to 7 Military Posts on this route, to send you ‘would ‘e idle to attempt to show its vast inflaeace | GA.M., and arrive in New York, on | }itacst — he mb inted some portraits of his | this part of the subject, Captain Swinton said th> | pity tribune, i" go A} bepeteh of the cOmmomosmens Of the Bulieen eaice ‘batiahe elvilined world. Wi canna, | P. ba. : own family. In 1797, he went to Paris, where he | natives also required to have their tastes and wants Do. rs 604 | bas brovght us here ‘The easly departure of the mail, on wi civilized world. e msy, » he first steamboat advertisemont for | ?¥ . Joel Barlow, | awakened for superior clothing and other comforts, | Mi. State Gazette, tri week; do. 1, and the many other demands on my time, prevent me bi i hat would now be the | r published, and is therefore curious lived seven yearsin the family of Joe! A upe H J of 4 tome brin, up my whole e. If the pesca soeagruppuncact importance of The boat started on the day a iver- Soring wales teay ager weber mae ma _ yen we Chay 4 Ln a a p nici yo ter, bar ail = 2.500 on mare dehy ~! thy ay ~ ~ yn, wealth, an: Do | J 8; ve. ister, y q an sometimes oc- on the North River in summer, and by stages in Peo ublished a card in the Theme pers, dated | hibited in He also made an experiment | fit up sort of council house he wasbuilding; their | pot, Herald,” do. do. 3,000 ‘THE DEPARTURE FROM FORT LARAMIE. i time? A few reflec- | September 5, 1807, aud stating that they let New | there in 1797, op the Seine, with « machine de- | ideas were becoming more extended on these tub- | Watoh'n of the Prairle,do. do. 1872 | On the morning of the 4th, about 10 o'clock, we bro winter, been contiaued to this time? A fow re! A ig mag HGS Ege 9 boat, on Friday, | signed to carcasses of gunpowder toa given | jects. The people were very apxious and willing | yw. Med. Journal, semi-monthly, do, ie \useurenememie ate cabamieaam, tions like this will give us.a faint idea of how much | York, im the Nortl ane ioe at, on Frijay, point, and there toexplode them. Although this | ‘to adept European customs and manners. He h. «Jour, of H’pathy, monthly, do, "200 | and went into the Fort. Here, repairs were to be made, qe are indebted to Fulton and steam navigation. | September Mth, at ae, A.M.» and arrived in Al- | Project fuiled, he continued to oumpl his attention | gone, for instance. into one of their “‘palaver | Prairie Freeman do. do, {6,000 | provisions to be laid in, and other attentions to be given ~ ider the completion of the Hudson | by in 28) hours. gondthgey Ry 8 ne sub- | on the subject until he perfect the plan for his | houses,” or courts for the trial of small cases, and AbAMs COUNTY. to the probable necessities of an encampment of somes Some may conside: co! ‘ ori peers pasrepgers on - of ah ve boat, “4 sub-marine boat, and torpedoos, as it was after- serene remarked that ‘‘ in our courts we make peo- | (Quine it i Quine, 1,200 | ten, and probably fifteen or more days. n thlsnountsy, River Railroad, and the astonishing performance og r first passage as a packet, it but justice wards executed. He returned to Awerisa in 1806, | ple take their hats off,” the chief immediately or- Herald and Argus, 0. 900 | where every thing must be obtained at depots . ‘i ate, that the accommodations and conveniense on “ i ~ d all hats " “ Wochenblate, do. 150 | military stations and the few trading posts, it requires Jocometives thereon, as foreshadowing the close of ; > after an absence ot about nineteen years. re to be taken off. This showed how ‘ prsagpron Pry a to a cutee at uae | board exceed their most sanguine expectations. It isimpossible to say what progress Mr. Fulton | desirous they were to adopt English fashions. They Reaplaig dorm, daily, & = ome Sceethought and consideration to select what is eee ; wf AS eee, 7 — had made in hia plaos for steamboat navigation, | were, however, under the im; that justice | western Legal Obsvr. Sey do. 600 | Inthis petition, Col. Mitchel! has been put to par- ‘half a century, during which period the people of | Thomas Wallace, pan, previous to 1601, when he and Chancellor Living- | was not dono to them by the a Leone govern- | Western Temp. Mag. do. 400 | plexing and unnoyirg vexations by the delay of ths two generations have enjoyed its conveniences, | John P. Anthony, Stephen N. Power, ston mot in Paris. His papers, however, render it | ment. Tr had entered into treaties for the sup- | Eclectic Review, do. do. — | trains which are bringing up the provisions and presenta 7 we " GO. Wetmore, yd steam nav! jon, Was amon; st ” a , supe © heiare thes pesagperad Ng = be dis | On a pn to New York the steamboat met | his rat conceptions | of the means by which they had never been paid ; and the expressed a wish to BOND CouNTY. bed by Peo bho | days in advance of ua; but, much to pensed with by travel'ers, either for business or | with an accident, which laid her up for a short time. | might be propelled. He had given instructions | ‘make their road open te the queen,” thinking they SeosueiBeTeareel, fear ~egs} y oe by ren bin ch lh hay started, Sor ald pleasure, on the noble Hudson, whatever may be | The following extract of a letter from one of the to M TB. Watts and Bolton, for construct the | wold pet coane ainalion, © Ee ne anne Fenner (6 > E contractors, the su mintendeut had pe Sd 3 i first e which was succeesfully used in a boat; | tion wi! government. yy are a «“ 1 % ‘5 their te. have been he Son aren ae velarss WE SEN aN Ee bee | Peet ish yal Apreimey tha ret he Sade no pretensions, as A inventor, with to cultivate a good feeling with the English. A ithe Dee ya), Rechetin of ‘hee oth elt. ‘and yo: intel hednyas gd ublished in | en, y P Primi Preacher, ( sent flosting palaces and convenient boats continued | Tespect to the engine. On the contrary, he was | piece of stout cotton cloth was exhibi which BROWN COUNTY. train is their crossing of the Kansas cm the 17th uit.— on the river for an indefinite period. Still, it must Hvvson, Sept. 10, 1807. often heard to declare that he did not pretend to was said to be parnen of the clothing worn by | Prairie Democrat, Mount Sterling, Our delay will be cbiefly caused by the failure of the be admitted, since the railroad has brought Albany You" must have been enned “Fe the neaea in which | bave made, and did not know of any improvement | theyeasantry. ‘The ate wore ke kind ae was Re BUREAU COUNTY, conten rs to bring the government stores up in the witbin four hours of New York, that the glery of | "r fded! tom the Shee oe F prey o inmate | that had been made by any other person, upon en- | not of a finer texture, but differently marked. | Miets tase cinminianene Gal We bonis temporary provision for meetin, Monday following our arrival. Ic is, ee which were constructed accoraing to Mr. | Mr. BazLky—Can you offer any suggestion to Yeoman of Prairie Land, do. a ited with the raj novelty of CASS COUNTY. steamboats, as the most rapid conveyance, has de | om board, all delighted pidity y | Beardstown Gazette, this new method of navigating. We had s charming ciples. A French writer in 1816, re- | erable us to take any steps to promote the cultiva- parted; and this is doubtless the last year when the | nine hours, in thirteen hours | marks, “it is a question, much less of an invention, _ tion of cotton? x on tay all Indians, that whenever they meet, es os U.S. mails, and busiress men requiring the quick | Saree poten bog We ee ee ‘on Satur. | than of the application of a power already known. | Captam Swixton—If any individual could go out yyinois State Democrat, Maraball, occasions of this charac‘er, they must have ane of i i day morning between 11 and 12 o’elock, making our | The application which Fulton made may be con igsaperintend 1 ho would have to take cloths and coLes COUNTY. come kind or other. Generally, they expect tobacco to est time of paseage, will be transported in steam- | yhije voyage in 20 hours. siameae ‘as ordinaryand common in its nature, be- | Manchester to make presents of to the chiefs; Ii1inois Globe, Charleston, smoke, provisiensto eat, and, at times, other presenta, boats on the Hudson. For six months of the year— The letter further states, that on her return pas- | cause it was pointed out by so many scientific | and I fare —r you would be able to pe grand to Charleston Courier, do. sack as sutge, Danka, ele knives, beads, ke, i il i 2 A eans ti eceasary, | any ext bagatelle. DU PAGE COUNTY. . 1c ‘ ene, > memely, from November to May—the railroad i: boyd Cy Mendes ae, » Aaceetee 7 Mages trey) ment ee she etre oi appl ication were a “ i. oh oe cs meee ® ageielie. J reeeare ail ss pean Genin BE ngs oe He. ne deactemaness, a aE, eee —would have any influence with them, nor couid he get them into council, or keep them together a day. Col. Mitchell understands the its of these wild tribes inti- mately, and knows well how much to give, and what to sure to be preferred by most passengers, and to be | ik. The malice of the captain, Mr. Colden says—* It was to the uncommon assistance; he is extremely desirous to promote the | Democratic Plain Dealer, do. without competition from them during the close of | cy! ae-.. ebvions to each a ae aieeal ities to invent, to calculate, and to benefit of his country. — Legs ee mo04p gocetr. navigation. board. After this accident the pilot of steam- caecste, that Mr. Fulton owed his success; and ‘Some further discussion took place, in which the | P##irle Beacon, ‘As we aro clearly, therefore, entering upon anew | boat ran her on a sand bank, which broke ¢ | those who attempted similar projects without pos- Captain stated that the chief was in the habit of y, “eo ithhold, ard be makes his distributions’i riya : Psee - axles of the wheels. This, says the writer, looked Fey | the poe qualities, might have exhausted visiting his territories at particular seasons, and it apes Feomne, Pa smelly aoe with hae ketene otriie wae roe inl @ra with regard ‘o communication with the inte- | 1 ore like design than azcident on the part of tho | their lives and fortunes and not have accomplished | was doubtful whether the natives would work in his | Benton Standard, Benton, Provisions are the great and most important item. [ ‘ rior, it seems appropriate to look back to thecom- captainand pilot ofthe steamboat; and ll nk their wishes. So greata ay gees C4 the i as Siete but there was no work for them te do till Fuitom Register FULTON COUNTY. here zee to ~~ ah ae satan, Mencerd chief a, ao * e 5 had no personal accidents; our ladies behav like | steamboat navigation, cot never have been at- e picking season came. ba rr. Lewistown, rave, that is mot hungry or wanting something to mancemeat of the seumlaaitess Pagrenn veers angels, Pigreting their being disappointed of an | tained till some Falton sppearea to achieve it.” Mr. Booruman said there was; the cotton Republican, do. eat, The time was, not many years sine, when all these 0, and to record the first oxperiment of Fulton, on ~ A A WwW. GALATIN COUNTY. Indians lived on the buffalo apd game of the plains and ae * * 5 ne , agreeable passage. We went on shore in the boats, Chancellor Livingston entertained very clear mnst be kept free from weeds. ould there beany & Jilieais biveenias Meee dusted selttag rear eet ioe ante Rene our own river of New York, which was also the ' and arrived here in four wagons. The axles of the | concepticas of what would be the great advantages _difliculty in getting any of the natives to come here ” GREENE COUNTY. and tke introduction of the manners apd customs. posai- scene of his first and subsequent triumphs, asa bold wheels are to be replaced, and the boat will be in of steamboats on the rivers of the United States. for instraction’ : é .. | Carrolton Gazette, Carrolton, bly I might say. the vices and dissipation of #0. called ci- ject \d public benetact motion again in eight or ten days. | He had applied himself with perseverance and In reply to this, Captain Swinton said that it Greene County Banner, do. vilized Ife. have changed their sppetites and desires im Qaggeeee, Ghd public benefactor. ., | Om the 24th September, the steamboat wasad- | great expense to constructing vesselsand machinery would very difficult, owing to their being so HANCOCK COUNTY. many particulars Coffee, sugar, und some few things of Ia the spring of 1507, the first steamboat built | yertised, as being thoroughly repaired, and precau- | for steam navigation, ard as early as 1793, believ- much afraid of the cold of Engl and; and as forthe | Warsaw Signal, Warsaw, this kind, are now more sought for and desired than al- under the direction of Fulton, was launchedfrom tion taken that injury should not be done to her | ing that he had le they would not be Hancock Patriot, ee most any thing else. The Colonel, foreseeing these ditfi- neormnaned his object, he applied United States, it was probab! ew the allowed to go into the cotton wing States. culties, made bis arrangements at the Suttier’s store. York, and obtaine: the ship yard of Charles Brown, on the last river. | wheels im future, and that it was intended to run | te the Legislature of ‘The engine, imported from England, was put on as a packet for the remainder of the season. of an act granting him the exclusive had brought over, however, and his wishes bave been seconded by the proprietors of eo | je son of the chief of Oquawka Spectator, = Oquawka that establishment. JERSEY COUNTY. paseage x, he was to leave New York and Albany on fixed | right of navigating the waters of the State b: Bompey to be educated in Englana, a little boy of 4 1 fi board of her in August, !807, when she was com- | days, at 6 o'clock, A. M., and “will aleays Gaye | steam for warty pS upon condition th: be five or six years old—a very interestip child, quick, Pusttle Biate, POT nig nom an dpephicte, mer ition Pag > $4 pleted, and she was moved by her machinery from | the advertisement,) perform her voyage in from 30 | should, within a year, build a steamboat whose clean, observant, and imitative. The great draw- NW. Western Gazette, , Galena, searcely know where to begin or where to stop. I now her bisth place to the Jersey shore. Chancellor | to%%6 hours.” After this the Clermont continued to progress should not be less than four miles back on the improvement of the n was, that do. do. tri-weekly, do. Propose to go back and give @ brief narration of the in- Le heagach 7 Se | run regularly as a packet between New York and | an hour. Immediately afver the passage of they had no etimulus to exertion. They lived sim- do. do. weekly, 0, cidents since our departure from the Fort, and the trans- Livingston and Mr. Fulton had invited manyof | Ajpany. A drawing of this first successful steam- | this act, Mr. Livingston built a boat of about ply’ on their cassava roots and rice, which they had Galena Jeffersonian, A do. — at i ‘Treaty ground. their friends to witness the first trial, among whom | boat was pomarvel, and has been eats Los- thirty tons, which was propelled by steam; but as little trouble in rage ‘The chief of Bompey. do. do. beep ae do. cine LSiaer ot opens en Ok eos, Pad wore the late Doctors Mitchill and Macneven. | #ing, in his “Field Book of the Revolution.” Inthe she was incompetent to fulfl the conditions of the however, loaded his (Captain Swinton’s) vessel ss. co. pemocrat, “St Chute, the command ct Captains Duncan and Ithett, togetiter ‘ a rm x course of the first season, the boat met with seve- law, she was abandoned, and he for a time re- with timber, of which 6,000 loads annually came Wittern Mercury, Geneva, with our own patty atarted, cad after waheet motel in Nothing could excced the surprise and admiration | 74) gccidents, and those who had been forced to be- | linquished the project. As he soon after was ap- from his district. The work of bringing thisdown, Aurora Beacon,” Aurora, «an excessively warm evening, we encamped about « mile of all who witnessed the experiment. The minds lieve that she would succeed began to returnto their | pointedMinister to France, he there, as we have which was extremely laborious, was done by a par- KNOX COUNTY. below Mr. Burdeau’s trading house, nine miles from the fort. Our whole military force is now under the com. mand of Brevet Maj, Chilton, and not Capt. Ketchum. At the fort, Capt Ketchum, as commander of the post, and sevior in lineal rank, commanded; bat here, on this detached service, Major Chilton takes command. The Mejor kept up the prompt movements of his outward trip, and we were all up and in the saddle, on the match, by six o'clock om the morning of the Sth. We hada sultry and dusty day's journey of it. Besides the troop of ecidiers, nag and wagons, there were severai lous we: in a few former incredulity. Batit was not onlytoaccidents stated, met Mr. Fulton in 1801, and they formed ticular race, the Timnere; they drew the trunks of kKxoxvilleJcurnal, Knoxville, = a ae trerere tae rae | arising from deferts inthe machinery thatthe boat that friendship and connection with force pov to trees by hand, a distance of five miles, over a sort ‘ialesbury News Letter, Galesbury, oe, scape ean acters 7 was exposed. |t was soon perceived that she would which a — pursuits geneeelty gives birth. of rude wooden tramway; they could only draw one Western Wazeteer, do. gained ber speed, the complacent smilesofsomegra- interfere with the interest of those who wereen- The Chancellor induced Mr. Fulton to resume his logat a time, and — took a day in drawing | Wout Chrent Pla, dually changed inte an expression of wonder. The gaged inthe ordinary navigation of the river by experiments in steam navigation. After some trials one five miles, each requiring from ten to fifty ‘eukegan Chronicle, jeers of the ignorant were silenced for awhile by a | sailing vessels. By many of these Mr. Fulton was ona small scale, they built boat, at their joint men; the value of sacl logs, when brought to the Constitutionalist, 5 A . spoken of and treated as ifhe had introduced some expense, upon the River Seine, which was com- country, would be £10 to £12 each. A European (Ottawa Free Trader, ‘ vulgar astonishment, which deprived them of the | Froieet baneful to society. The boat became aa pletely successful at a trial in 1403, and it was im- travelling 80 or 100 miles from the coast; would be | peru ‘Telegraph, Peru, power of utterance, till the triumph of genizsex. | object of their enmity. She was eeveral times | mediately determined to enrich their own country in danger of being robbed, if he were not under La Salle Democrat, rey ted ti i th reatly damaged by vessels running foul of her, in- by the valuable discovery as soon as they should the protection of the chief; though the natives all LAWRENCE COUNTY. hundred Indians in company. They were particularly = from the multitude cpr aie. E poe ag “rea oa erodls the letter wo havo re- | mest thare, and.in the maantime, to order au en- cariied Siberia’, have Waa he Unager of setaniha. |. Lanrenvevilie Ruboar Meeemearils, useful in kicking up the dust, as they kept galloping jores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation F041 “and other testimony which was published gine, to be made in I’ngland. tion; but they might detain a man for the sake of | MADISON COUNTY. about us ell day. Our march to day, by measurement, and applause. | in the newspapers of the time. In'1806, Mr Fulton married Harriet Livingston, ransom, and perhaps if he were not ransomed, Madieon Record, Edwardsville, was twenty-six miles; but as our encampment iss few This boat, which lied the Clermont, after “Jt isnot unimportant (says Colden in hismemoir) daughter of Walter Livingston, Esq., a relative of poison him. The chief, however, had always sent Alton Telegraph and Review, Alton, miles below the point where the road crosses Horse Chanceller -Dsip oe on the Hudson, to notice these tects; they "lustrate the character hi: i eociale, Chancellor Livingaicn. By that a personal convoy with’ bim (Capt. Swinton), ge- | rirois Gazette nao, eka miles. ee eee eee eee ae bi North River; * | of Mr. Fulton. They show what embarrassments lady he had one son and three daughters. nerally his nephew, who was @ sort ef deputy B0- | Tacon Herald, | &. During the trip, to avoid the durt created by the train, and was afterwards named the Nor iver; Was are to be expected by those who introduce improve- | se ie vernor, and who went every day or ten days all PO Mr. B and myself struek off through the bottom of the finally ready to sail for Albany on the 17th of Au- | ments in the arts h interfere with established ceeesraeres around the country to settle disputes; he levied | The Metropolitan Metropolis City, Platte, aud soon fell ia with a large party of Chayenama, gust, 1907. It was announced in Cheetham’s Ame. | interests or prejudi and they evince the perse- Cotton Cultivation in Western Africa. fines on those who Were guilty of any breach of the | Metropolis Register, do. do. moving their lodges down to the camping ground. We " “Mr. Fulton’s | Yerapce and resolu which were to Foor _ ew (Eng.) OS the el eckete law. The natives had uo coined money, except | MLEAN CoUNTY. travelled with the train some miles, and had a favorabls rican Citizen, of that date, that “ Mr. surmcunt the physical and moral difficulties which A meeting of the directors of the Manchester what they got from Iuropeans, but plenty of gold, | Wertern Whig, Bloomington, opportunity of observing the manner in which these ingenious steamboat, invented with a view to the Mr. Fulton encountered. os rhea gs was — atthe Le ihr a which came from the Hong mount further in- | Hlinois Reveillie, do. : wee oo gene. & pegie ome, Ly a Srudgery, <a . : jursda} % unica ’ 5 NOR COUNTY. a orme: woe navigation ot the Mississippi, from New Orleans | In February, 1509, Mr. Fulton took out his first pe Cap Edulp bs Ontaten, 9 geulienas ora land. The chief made him (Captain Swinton) a warerio patriot, wee” pinay ind vats Thad The — poe Pg ae i . zg tent for bis inventions in navigation by steam; - resent of a handsome bracelet of solid ld > ese m 6 " upwards, enlls to day, from the North river, nese pee in February, 1811, he obtained a second patent bas interested himself in promoting the cultivation Feighing an ounce anda half. There would no Morgan Journal, weekly, Jocksonvilie, ccdiestapebadidiiacieacagl Do, the State prison, to Albany The velocity of the for some improvements in his boats and machinery. of cotton onthe western coast of Africa, in a dis- difteulty. in get the cotton which might be | tai weekly, do. ‘The lodges are moved by means of what are here called steamboat is calculated at four miles an hour; it is | We are not aware that he ever derived any special | *tict subject to the dominion of the negro tribes yrown inland it to the seaboard by way of | : OuLe county, prairie buggies.”” These consist of their lodge poles, on+ ‘said that it will make a progress of «wo against the | benefits from these patents. He relied, however, | *0Joining to Sierra Leone. There were only eight the rivers. ‘The surface in this king’s territory, | Mount Norris Gasette, Mt. Morris, end of which is fastened on each side of the hors#'s vex, “sei A i for remuneration for his sacrifices and public ser- | °1,t¢" members of the board present. available for the growth of cotton, would be abou! Peomga COUNTY. apd the other end dragging on the ground. Oa thes: current of the Mississippi, and if so, itwillcer- | (ody principally on the exclusive ¢ whic! The President, Mr. Bazixy, observed that the 50) square miles, as it extended 150 miles from Democratic Press, Peoria, poles they put their loages, camp equipage, chilirea, aud sometimes their doge. Some have s kind of rude wicker work which they fasten to the lodge poles, forming soms- thing like @ canopy, over this they throw @ dressed akia, and form ‘et and cool shelter for themselves and chil- hb i n imeelf and Chancellor Livingston, Public were aware the question of obtaining a more north ‘to south, and 100 miles inland; all of which | Pecria Republican, | do ture of New York, te nav gate the pooner Bigg Ad the in Pinar veg Pry la he should say was capable, more or less, of growing | T¢ Motto, wemi-m'thly, do. tate by steam, whic! foge was . ‘ cotton. Pike Ce - > 4 decislon of the United States Su- —= pests vr inten: rae toe agg age ad- Mr. Lewis Wit.iams observed it seemed clear — aly i — years after the death of both pen mr ropa ° ptable; can ba cies Bon Banca that cotton could be grown there, but it was not ro RANDOLPR COUNTY. tainly be a very valuable acquisitiontothecom | was granted moroe of the Western States | by the Le; This notice of Fulton's experiment, by his friend | Cheetham, shows, in a striking light, the extreme nd mules. The odesty which usually attends genius ofa high or- | Livingston and Fulton. 7 clear that they could get any considerable quantity, — rte Freeman, Sparta, of the lodges have dogs, to which the: prospec sed ‘ satan by | The following is & Tist of the steam vessels built | Supplied him with some cotton seeds, which he With so many difficulties inthe way. It must tas apo.” Hegiater "40. the #ame manner as to thelr horves, aa een eatets enponiatine atte Y in the city of New York, under the direction and | t¢°k out to the coast of Africa, and which he had some time before the natives could be reconciled to Chester Herald, Cheater, lighter articles, The whole train that great man of the consequences and benefits | Sara i wt of Mr. Fulton, or according to his | distributed among the chiefs and other influential the confidence of white m and if they were so RICHLAND COUNTY orses aud dogs of each lodge ‘which were to fow from his enterprise. [t will be a: ” . " ne parties on the western coast, who were now dit sddicted te robbery, people would be afraid of Olney Republican. Olney, om ‘This cavaloade must have sxelleed that the beat was built with o view to the | Length—Jert. Tonnage. Whanbuilt, | Posed to cultivate cotton as an article to be sent to going there. ‘ Reck Inland Advertiser, Rock Inland,” Suh cans over the toughert gubeed ca clengt Sia otter pavigation ofthe Mississippi. Indeed, as a mean’ | actth Miver, o Clermont... 2 4 1806 | this country in exchange for our manufactures. Captain Swixrow answered that he thought, un- SANCAMON COUNTY. Sometimes we would ride bet ween a dog and the horse, o- lodge that preceded him; when we did ao the dog would iso7 | Captain Swinton being now present himself, he der the rule of the present king, the #ame escort Illinois Btate Register, dly, Springfiel Do. set Up am by which the three months voyage from New 180; would cail upon him to state such facts as had come would be given to any Icnglishman that had beon weekly, do. xs t piteous howl, which he continued until we = 1811 to his knowledge. fs “ rnal, t of the Line of success Orteans to Pittsburg could be shortened, against 1512 | “Captain Swinton then spoke; he anid that hefiret Siete bim:, that cllef wage man whobad extra: | Tilinoly Sournal, fly, 1): OP Oseur way tn cccame ep te Me, Williams’ trate, tor the current of the Mississippi and Obio rivers, 1518 | went to the coast of Africa in 1847, and in walking Shout So-years of age. ‘There were chealy bind Do.’ weekly, do. Salt Lake, about twenty-nine wagons, laden primoipaliz Fulton’s experiment was looked upon by himself try | alorg the coasi in the Si Leone colony, he saw ing map Yaesacies for colleeting timber aad palm Mlinois Organ, = do, do. with mercbandise, and the effects of a mumber of meu. end friends with eaxiety. It was not then com 1s13 | a quantity of cotton bushes. He collected some, nS many factorice ae a Liberia Advocate, monthly, do. omen and children, alle: rvute for the Mormon eity 7 and brought the cotton to this coun! At thar resident ageate, i waite men or scot county The train was halted and surrounded by at least five ceived that steamboats could be employed as Ulive Branel - a ae | Soee ke Waeet teow hee Ge eee Ha colored. He (Captain Swinton) had offered the Napies Observer Naples, hundred Indians, quiet!y looking on. Whilet I rematasd : " Connecticut sees 184 1816 - ‘ mere @ any de- natives 4jd. a pound in cash for all the cotton they ecnuveen covntr with the train a rabbit war started and a! the [odians pocket beats between New York and Albany 185 186 Gciency in American cotton; but he thought that should grow for him, not cleaned, but in the seed. | Prairie Telegraph Rushville Joined in the chase, ‘The suddemness of the movement if Mr. Fulton bad any expestations of the com- 78 1512 | at all events, the African might be made an article "Mr, Booruatax said that was too high a prise, as st. chain County ‘and ignorance of the object, mace the womem ana chil: plete success which reeulted from this mode of is ae M4 pol gemre yop veneer me gr in England, the cotton would have cost 14d. before it was ft Belerile Advocate, Belleville too | dren tcemper to their wagotsin double quick time aad : ’ . pois Republic, | ; navigation, he probably doubted the policy of in- : built by Charles Brown, | the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on the defi- a taid he had been informed by a | “«iture, do. | We reached our camp ground about three P.M. The terfering with the powerful interests then concerned | Adam and Noah Brown, and Henry Eckford. The ciency of the American crops, and thereupon he Page eg Illinois Advocate, Lebanon, Colonel pitched his tent ou the point formed by the , Lee " P | Raritan and Olive h were employed on the | wroté to the chairman. On his return to Africa gentleman who had traded on the Niger, that cot- sTrrHERsoN COUNTY. Junction of the creek andthe Platte, The military o> in the sloop navigation of the North river. Buthe | jaritan river—the others (except the ferry boats) be interested the king of Sherbro’ in the matter, °°", 784 there brought from the woods in baskets, Freeport Journal, Freeport, | cupy a bigher part of the plain, The Snake [ndisas are ihe Gustine henge Salad on ths aber ae, the Fulton andCon- | whe was his prineipal fiend there, and induced hin an an bath pau and sold at the rate of a E7ekie Demewes, u* 5 cee | con ot 4 Majer Fitegutrieh’e tent te, Certbes me “ > . . ny 5 } " 5 creek, with @ number of traders jamiliea. In Cheetham’s American Citizen we find Mr. Ful- So — to grow cotton, cflering him a stated for all he Cart. re AD ser ‘answered, there would be no | seawdenaig get ha Chayennes are up the river, bey: i af per 0 , é 5 ols eveliio’ 4 amped o1 f 3 sccount of his first steamboat voyage to and from 1m regres eh being | naturally indolent. If they once began it, there {ict ele grb ewe tecseean ae Cage an bon cou sty Arapahoss, Apaches, and other tribes, are seattered La ; ous dirt etions Albany. it is as follows :— s New Youn, August 20, 1807 On Saturday. a large band of Sioux chiefs, braves and men. pearly a thousand in number, well mounted, came Russia: | would be no difficulty ia inducing them togo on with 4 Jonesboro’ (iaette, Jonesboro’ ~ " advised them, then, to employ their children in 2 3 abandoned, and the Long Island the cultivation. beter he (Captain Swinton) Pick oeeay Py pl Kewl i ini Cabal Tennessee oot sty. boat Company (called, we thi the | had hi , ta — A ad gone up the country a hundred miles or so from | yet ° "TL arrived this afternoon, at four o'clock, in the steam- | paby,) was Pitablished, consisting ofthe the sea border, Le had generally taken with him a Feanble od ep anon ee aha nell toes Herald, | gown the 1 ring suey so ge sclid octamea, ebous host from Albany. As the success of my experiment | boats Fulton wombiper eg the first ho | bag of the reeds, and distributed them te the head O¢ wood. -_ | Wabech Register | over the bill inte the pisin they presented am imposing POO Ee Ea tt Lol soe “wham apt acd — sat Led ek men of the different towns there, whom he thought °'M>°Licas suggested that it would be worth | | apd interrstirg right. In the centre rode their princi- opusens, ‘abd give some satisfaction to the friends of wse- | Fulton, for a short time, running on the latter pon Bod coak qua Figs Meta Pesci + toned while to take them out a 1 of hoes, and show | Monmouth Atiss, pel chiefs, who carried ap old American flag, which a ‘ | | they eay was given them by General Ulark. in the ear! ful improvements, you will have the goodness to publish | pouty with it, in different districts, supposing that there ‘bem bow much more easily they might cultivate ath 4 eam. Leekport Telegraph, Leckport, | daye of his superintendency They marched into camp. the feliowing statement of facts — | Robert Fulton was born in Lancaster county. the land with t! The hoe was the only instra- 7 onda: o'clock. and arrived 5 : > | might bea difference in the texture and fibre.— Joliet Signal. Joliet, The chiefs and braves dismounted, and formed a cir- BB a ly LSocace ‘Sivingpeen, ‘at one | Pennsylvania, in 1765. His father, of the same Tis cotton (showing a sample on the table) had ment used to cultivate s in Jamaica. True Deteoetat do. cle—Col M. gave them some tebacco, and vermillion Sets On Tuseday— time twenty-four hours—distance, | name, was anative of Kilkenny, in [reland. His | been grown 8) miles from the sea coast, close to the Mr. Asutox—From the fact of the natives WINNERAGO COUNTY. | and informed them that he would expect them to meet Sue hundred and ten miles On Wednesday, I departed | mother was also of a respectable Irish family, by | horders of the Cooseeah territory, the limite of bey mie these cotton dresses, there must be acon- Rockford Forum, Roekford, hi uneil on Monday morning, at the firing ot the from the Ubancellor’s at nine in the morning, and arrived | the name of Smith, established in Pennsylvania. | which were the respective frontiers of the colony of “i d¢rable quantity of it grown among thei | RPC APITULATION. | carr 4 at Albany at five in the afternoon—distance, forty miles | At the time of his death, which took place in this | | jberia and of Sierra Leone. He had received the 4, c*Pt#in Swinton— a7 great quan- ally papers. Monthly ..... | _ Later im the day, several hundred Chayennes, also “me dah neue Tom ngewe toMy | ey. on the ith of February, Toy 'ormquence | faloning eter dace isthe went nian, rou Ca. {t7nmeng Uhemslven, Dut hare sovercauampted 37) ‘ | SeencassiaSenty: and ceaenes aa hcoses two > i nt Ww er, fr. ton was A. Yyemm © a . y of exposure in inclement weath raybah Caulker, the King of Sherbro’: ‘of this kad of cloth | Semi moni m te 1 ft | in the prime of life being about Afty years of age. | “Dear sit,—I have reecived your cask of cotton Sinone them: bal 5 Poy v On Sunday, the Blous aed (hayeane women erected, the Corporation 4 ‘Thureday, at nine o'clock in the The Legislature of eeds, and will nos fail them; but I bave seen some French manu- | — on tes cated ae _qnd arrived at the Chancellor's at six im the eve an cur exmens ihe: % | a , and will nos to have some of it planted ures of the same kind. The French have not | Welcome Kossuth. +y- ce their os Ga eat a _ of amphithea- started from, thence at seven, snd, srrived in aed cn an gn pe Benge gly | this season, and have already prepared three farms many residents in the district; but their goods | 4,\a™ mille foilthe to Louis Kesruth, te oat ef | pe an arbor ia the for it, besides giving a great deal to my le ; i From the Irieh Brigade, and all lovers of truth; through. indred lea—equal to iversally and sincerely lamented by his fel- | acon, f ses come out, as well as the Indian cloths, to thecolony Let us we'come the chief, with ® Celtic burra, Tt was a cu might to see the dexterity and rapidi an aig iy ‘ay taste a nee iow citizen a. 2 berperets that castes his p ireuh ee peels of MY rm “erp jut I mast oe — ay a ~ oy trade with them is | As he moves through battalions of green, blue, and gray’ | With which the squawe put up these tecgen, sl ‘and returning, the wind was abead no advantage | dea those marks of meurning which are | jeg you to bring man: § ould be derived from my sails: the whole has. therefore, | Usual in notices of the most distinguished public many’ extend ierouineson trea png iene wh ‘are exported to Mareeilles. tee Liow be li treasure the cheers of the Iriah Brignde. on pens Oe ee oe en ae characters. Probably but few of the intimate | whercver suitable; and I hope it wil be forthe bea. ,.",AmWer to other questions, Cai Man Geoccumm of cumin tet Geek te toew tomes (8, @ great quantity of When he’s told that no man in this army is paid, dilate ee er Fm ot front lashed three long poles together, ‘aa ce c 1 am, oir, your (Uedient servant survive; those f further said that he did not think the: me. tierce men of Munster, that dwell in New York— | hrve legged stool. | Notwithstanding the . ROBERT FULTON ye ma ~y yg is wo ieom ‘Maes riot he ore pee - ‘ ny personal danger to any one ting the cul- | Come, some of the high hill, | pero 5 my ye _— made s fine , ; may name ; ‘This letter was dated from Bumpey, the chief . | Let us welcome Kossuth to the land of the free; | ae Sag Orestes penetetty to the beseee. ‘Cheetham, in publishing the above letter, says: — noes on this subject, if given tothe public,would townand residence of the kingdom : { rit tivation of cotton. If this chamber chose to send This evening, in the Obayenne’s camp, for the first iste M 4 the country.on bi | doubtless be valuable rad’ inverting ‘We add, Hy, (an Englshanen ott large supplies of cotton seed, he was willing to | For nevet was chleftala mare loved or betrayed, time, I witnessed the loteresting process of killing and ye} fail of being very | for the present, a few words from Colden’s Me- i if rs unde: it, and to remaia a year ora couple of | preen \ dresing a dog fora feast. The victim wasa cur od thet not the salient | moire Pree Evglih, porto write, All the sambioe ur Tears, since the climate agreed with him Ture out im your strength, when the rignal guns boom, | quite fat. Two squaws lasoed him, and hung him the boat, either from heat or |" Mr Fulton was about six feet in beight. His Setton Boe exhibited bed Seen tow cuinples of “The Pexsivent offered the thanks of the board | if you howee the ashes in Weshiagtoa's tom Until be was dead, They t ft bim on a re, | was slender, but ‘voll proportioned, and well formed. Ne territories of this King of Sherbro within the to Captain Swinton, and said that his suggestions | 404s pias a ith the welcome America gives; Se eee ee ee Cpeeing ote Very little interest at first, however, appears to | ture hed mady him s gratiemen, ood atom ee oot pale, Bezier observed that Capt. Swinton hed cianiuanie iaaneomec cae | Paeasiat NurePe's slaves, there ee sone whe Reve | 04 W086 out Ik uo; end pat i iato 6 inege Sonpee Betdte, ie i i ’ rought two samples, om ¥ | here it was unt ¢ bones came out ave been taken by anil aan =f er Bs omg | the least affectation; end o mogest conStense ta Moown shot coal ts nies dig er a New Yors Vo. | Pet this long wish'd-for-day, like the Irish Brigade. witmessed the process of preparation. I coull not indulge aterprise and succes! eee A ompenies, His features were strong, and of cotton, and not very likely to be g: useful ung man named Tem thourand weleomes, then chieftain and sage ;® oe of eming any of it. During the evening The newepapers of the time were taken up with ac- large, dark eyes. and a project- | in this country; but the othe clean, S Moulton, one of the N. York Volun- | jou con smile ot the “Autesrat's'\ impotent com. | Deelios on4 AvalshisR beSes of tbe Sioux "ahs 7 kent ounte of Burr’s trial, then going on at Kichmond, of intelligence and | thought; his | white cotton, such as the quite teers, who arrived ia the city this morning from | “}2.107 cused oe | up in their villages a dence, drumining, music ead and other political matters oosupying the | frm per , seh be one Malivened by cheerful, | (dual in quality to fair Orleans cotton, and, ifthey otk, besame engaged in an altercation with the Shannon and Thames to the head of the Rhine— | whooping the entire night, all of which could be dia- nind at the time. cordial manners. and instructed or ' | could receive it in quantity, it would enter very another map, in Beaver street, near Broadwa, And. ete long. when the millions of E parade, tinetly beardin ourcamp Of these dances, I shall have nd, Joel Barlow, Mr. Fulton | vereation He expressed himself with energy, fluency, largely into our manufactures. The better quality He was considerably intoxicated, became very much | May a» Kossuth’ command ev'ry irish Brigade | More to say hereatter In a letter to his friend, von which we | sd coftecttiess, amd ne he owed more to his own experi- of eotton peculiarly free in staple, and seemed excited, and took a krife from bis pocket which he | RICHARD 0— THE Corscrt. gives an account of bis first voyage, from whic ence and reftections tham to book, his sentimente were | to be clean and exceedingly strong, and woull bea brandished about in the most threatening manner Naw Yorn, October 8, 1951. PP og pan te the cannon was fired, the va- tract « few words :— often interesting from their originslity. Inall his do great boon to them if they could bave large sup- At thistime, Mr. Daniel Boughton came oat of a | Se oemnenanneaiead tous bands and tribes commenced assembling im the . “tay cnombeet voghge 10 Albany and beck, has turned tie relations he was sealous, kind, generous, Mberal, | piles of it barber shop, in front of whieh the altersation took ‘The Baitimore Piatform. | piace prepared for the Council. The first difMeuity waa the order of precedence of the tribes About this there ‘Wes as much sticking atd conteariety of claim asate court dinner, or between the officers of the army ona fleet Ile knew of no use for money. but ns tary, M: a 1 o out eather more favorable than I had calculated. The io wen suberrviont to chartay, henpheatity, The secretary, Mr. Bootunay, asked whether place, and as he passed, Moulton struck bi ibany {#150 miles. Irenit | peiences. Mut what was mort conspleuous | Al T with The democratic party seems to have forgotten poe oom Swinton bad any idea of the amount of the knife im the back, cutting through his clothes 4 | the resolutions drawn by the late Silas Wright, stance from New Y ork t : d for labor? i | , ' hy boi poly ad recioomad Soot iy by SSits hime to overcome difficulties me °™ | colony of Sierra Leoue the highest wages given thered about. Moulton shouting acd brandishing | the democratic party at Baltimore. The seventh | quity, end otbers for their deeds of dating. This was tag peter of the shea engine His peculiar genius manifested itself at a vory | were @ shilling « dey. but more generally nine bis knife in such a manner as to kecp bask all pre: | of thore resolutions refers to the subject of slavery, | wmmarily rettied by the Commistoner peremptoriiy ‘The power cf prove carly ege. In his chiléhood, all his hours of re- | perce; and that up the country would be paid in sent, and py ony to doors and breaking the | 24 is as follows: — aseigning positions to each, wut rempect to that im- "The morning | oft thirty persons in the it would ever move one we were putting off from the 4 with spectators, | heard © ke This is the way in which it what they call phisosophere ; manufactured goods, and would not cost, he should windows of the barber shop. A horse attache portant term rank.” Thea, some of the tribes had inted portraite and landscapes in | in anewer taMr. Asnroy, the captain saidhe had terviiet, was standing in the street, and he made @ the constitution, to interfere with, or controlthe | of the reepective chiefs and ome . mp} rm ia, where he remained till he was about Pot yet had an opportanity of seeing any cotton rush at bim with the knife, with which he cut a domestic institutions of the several States, and that | b¢.it ia nevertheless true, thet the onion of r 14 went to England, where he produced from the seeds he had introduced ; but he ath in the horse’sthroat under tag jaw bone rs : P ’ quite ae important, and a» often leads by his distinguished coan- | had seen plants that had come out of the ground in | The horse bled profusely. At this juncture a maa | uch States, the sole and proper judges of every amcrg the Indiana, ae in our army or eavy, and ia pro oe pevjoctere ist, his family | f¢¥en, or even three days’ growth. In one of his made arash upon Moulton, and seized upon him, thitg appertaining to their own affairs, not prohi- bably about as important in the one case as the other, Hariog employed much time, money, ani | rea ence in London, he was an for several | letters he raid, after mentioning that Dr. Peyton but was soon obliged to let go jt nage T he aimed | bited by the constitution: that all efforts of th» — in sccomplishing this work. it gives mens it will you. | years after leaving the family of Weat, he spent | bad collected two thousand pounds of the native several blows at with the knife oulton th abolitioniste or others made to induce Congress t> City Intent great to see it fally anewer my Seeniens BS | tee yoars in Devonshire, where he formed an ac- | cotion Hie bas planted 14 acres; many of the ran up Beaver street, the crowdaft ands interfere with questions of slavery, or to take ine will # cheap and quick conveyance ° merchan- ke of Bridgewater, so fa- | plants | saw of only two to seven da ed down (ireen street, then up Hud sad dows pent steps in relation th , are calculated t iaeiaippi. Misewuri c vers, | qoaintance with the Dul ' tie oe the ie laying open, theit treanures co the vmisr. | mous for his eanal enterprise, and with Lord Stan- | bie garden, std they all appeased most Peorl, where be ran into « dey goods store and foi. Pleat eters in, re Pend Gpngurcan erate: umber of rarcestic ignorsat men couplit Five Parwrivoaeedsy reference to our 4 it will be seen by our readers thi though the prowect of le brated for his love of science \ in reply to a que U powerless on the floor. Here he waa arrested Guencee; and that all h efforte have an inevita prise of om reagent Sune tangles to we, | oak vant to the mechanic arts, In 1793, we | id Lt. Peston was the only missionary who had | conducted to the Police Ofhice When broug! Bie tendency to diminish the happiness of the pe (0 Broadway, corner of Walker re infinitely more plearure in reflecting on the im | fing Mr Fulton er & project to improve yet made any efforts to encourage the cultivation of | the offic appeared to be uncoracious of # ple and endanger the stability aud permanency are to be eoid om Wednesday, 15th inst mense advantage that my country will derive from the | injsnd navigation at that early period, he | cotton bad don more like an iasane man the Uniem, and ought not tobe countenanced i, | 07 seme of our friends, in whose judgment and teste we Althou Fulton, have boon fre | bad con irra the iden of propelling Yeusels by bo cotaland tel Caoeld tor con ntiguacee cotton yatta ony friend of our political institutions.” a {by of‘cpostal atsention, end tn is pores at asniets sees Although ene letters eh to recall | steam been asvertained that in 1798 4 | sptain Swinton), caly tox & s taeee one bis resolution, fairly interpreted, embraces the — cution and general beauty, entirely superior to any cot- quently republished sot they will be interesting at | a in whiten be bad great coat | iy apd there over the const whole daty of the country om the subject of slavery, lection ever before offered to the New York public. It ta (etn ad ye will now add some items from Cheet getcence of Ute te hie iotier to the | here 1 have been, Within o hundre i asd instead of forming new plattorms, i i | fine chance for gontiomen of taste and wealth to add pd aco ne aa soon reprinted in abepe, dated rnp. 188 adense | Legee, L bave attthie. pe yy uce much more to the public good to carry ou: | to their collect The opportunity may not occur | Y t ne faithfully. The democrati o iveq | Saein. and the gale should be gtiended by all lovers of tg? supplioa of cotton from money was found upon him —Allany Adis, Ort LL | ig do this ia thet late convention os rat Angle arts, eny notes of the history of steam navigation | avhope, and they communicated to Then to secure