Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-11-27

to deprive them entirely ofthe power Of
eating and drinking,
The health of the people is remarka-
bly, good.-FrankJort Argns.
| The Legislature Of Vermont conven-
ed at Montpelier on the l4th ult. Gov.
Galusha was elected by nearly majo-
rity OF 10000. In his speech at the
opening of the assembly, he announced
his intention of retiring from public life,
on the expiration of the year for which
he is now elected.-Nat. .Adv.
Extract ofa letter TO The editor ofthe
Orleans Gazette, from an officer in
the army, dated
| CAMP RIPLEY, (on the Sa-
bine) OCTOBER s.
Since | left you in Orleans, have
seen the papers filled with false reports
of a grand expedition under general
Long, in Texas. The improperly of
such publications suspect is severely
felt by those poor deluded men, who
have been induced to leave comforta-
BILE living in quest of enterprise and
conquest; but none feel its effects SO
severely as the inhabitants of Texas,
whose crops have been taken to supply
the army, and the only recompense,
they now have is general Longs due
bills, which are in no very great credit
have been encamped here for some
time past, and have watched the fall oil
this grand army: it has met the fate ]
anticipated. lean authorize you to sag
thai the whole are diShersed or broken
IN. General Long has gone to Calves.
town to Latte: his wife is bending hel
course towards the Sabine. The Off
GERS and men are every day passing in,
many without money or food. Nacog.
doches is evacuated by them; only four
or five sick men are left there. A par
ty OF twenty men some time ago went to-
wards the Brasus-they are in state oil
starvation and will soon be in.
| Thus has ended an expedition, which
was cried up by some persons as being
OF much importance, but never exceed
ed 70 men, officers and all. 1t has end
ed as wish all schemes may end, which
are in violation of the laws of our coun.
try, and the laws of nations.
| Money Pienty.-Yes, quite too plenty
on all sides. Thousands of one horse
Wagons are daily filled with it. AL
the store doors are crowded with it
Many bar rooms, BARRIERS shops, ane
other lounging places, have a great sur
plusage. Time is money!"
FRANKLIN.
] Threshing MacAine.-A very usefu
!; invention for threshing wheat, or Other
, grain, and cleaning it at the same opera
ton, has been made by Mr.. Ezra Good
ell, of Phelps, in this county. 1t is sim
ply an improvement on the Picking
: Machine, now in use by the wool carders
: A successful trial Of the machine ha.
been made before large company o
gentlemen, and gives universal satisfac
, tion--it promises to outdo any thing o
, the kind for simplicity and utility tha
ever has been invented in this country
1t has threshed and cleaned one bushe
of wheat in 4 ID minutes. Mr.. Good.
ell has applied for a patent.
Geneva Paiiad.
u There was lately challenge passed
between two of the sable race, attended
by the following extraordinary circum
. stances. A black man by the name o
: Cuffee and another by the name of Pert
, fell in love with the same sable Dulci
: nea. Cuffee was rewarded with hel
smiles, and was married-Pero indig
, nant at his rejection, declared that he
| was entirely reconciled to the match
since the sable beauty was equipped
with lips too thick for his delicate en-.
, ioyment. This report was conveyed to
; Cuffee, who declared it an utter false
hood and gave challenge, that was
promptly accepted. CuHee came or
the ground with a pair of loaded hors,
} pistols, and waited the appointed tin'
; for his antagonist, who did not appear
, Cuffee then discharged his pistol in thu
air, in token of triumph, and declared
, that che would post his antagonist for
coward as soon as he could find any on,
capable of writing such an article for
newspaper -Balt. Morn. Chron.
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