Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-06-24
MJLLEDGEvILLE, June 10.

1t will be seen by thc Presidents Pro-
clamation in this days paper, that large
portion of the Territory lately acquired
by the national government from tie
Gre Indians, is 10 be sold at Milledgc-
vile on the first Monday in August next.
10 persons DESTROYS of procuring west
ern lands, this IS most important sale.
There are about seven hundred thousand
acres in the thlrty-one townships adver-
tTsed, each being six miles square and,
we understand, they contain some of the
best bottom land on the Alabama river,
and ITS tributary streams. The whole will
sell tor an immense sum-even at the
minimum price fixed by government. the
amount would he little short of two mil
lions of dollars.
The President, in selecting this place
for the sale of the above lands, has acted
wisely. From all accounts, they could
not have been sold on the spot to advan-
taSe, nor bought with safety by persons
al distance, In consequence of the eX-
tensive combinations entered into, and
the threats of personal injury which have
been made, by premature settlers against
all others Wishing TO purchase: Nor is it
unlikely, that III removing the appreilen-
sons of scarcity of food, which could
not have been done i'll any part of the
Alabama Territory, the sale will be more
numerouSly attended than it otherwise
would lave been, and the price of the
land consequently enhanced.
Ie the above gratifying intelligence it
gives us much pleasure TO add, that there
is probability of tine Indian title being
soon extinguished to the narrow but i'm
portant slip of land between the OcmuI-
gee river and the late cession OF territory
within the Limits OF Georgia, respecting
which a memorial was addressed by the
last Legislature TO the national govern
ment. We understand the Agent for In
diana Affairs is now i'll treaty Tor it, and
Is pretty sanguine of success. If obtain
ed, 1t will be a most va luable acquisition
to this state. 1T will give us perhaps half
a million Of acres of land, part of which
is very good, and will connect and rem
der compact our territory in that quar-
ter.
We learn by letter from a respecta-
bic gentleman at the Creek Agency, re-
ceiyed yesterday, that the Artillery com
pany from Charleston will probably pro-
coed no further than that place on its way
to Fort Scott till it is reinforced, the Flo
rida Indians being openly hostile, and
Captain DOnoho not considering his little
band match for them. Why there is
not Immediately detached a competent
regular, or militia force, TO chastise and
effectually subdue these savages, who
continue to infest our frontier, we cannot
conceive. If Spain is unable, or unwil-
ling, TO compel the Indians within her ter
rltOral limits to be at peace, the United
States should do il for her.
UNIVERSITY or GEORGIA.
The Reverend DR.. FINLEY, late "a pro-
fessor in The New-Jersey college, and re-
Gently appointed President of TIE Uni
versity Of Georgia, has arrived at A
tbens with his family. We hope this in
stitutlou, which has lsnguished so long,
will now flourish, and become, what il
has not been for many years, an ornament
to tie state.
LUPENELLA.
The following account Of this valuable
grass, is contained in late letter from
the Secretary of the Treasury Of the u
nited States, TO Inc acting Governor of
this State. From lis nuiritive and fer
tllizlHg qualities, IT will he valuable ac-
QUESTION TO our planters generally, aud
particularly TO such as have impoverished
land
have lately received from our Con-
sui at Leghorn in Italy a parcel of the
Lupenelld seed, which is represented as
the finest grass cultivated in that coun-
Try, for the quantity and richness Of the
hay the preference felt for it by all ami
mails, aud its fcrtlizing effects upon the
land in which it is cultivated. In Italy it
is sown in March and October-it is cut
with Sickle TO avoid shaking off the
blooms, bound up in bundles Of 7lbs.
and fed 10 working beasts without grain,
as II is sufficiently nutrltIye Of itself.
. Three years cultivation of this grass
eUiches the poorest taHd so much. that tOo
successive and abundant crops Of grain are