Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-12-18
FROM THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE.
PUBLIC SALE.

Oh lilC DstllhS Vi tllC several WSSlGFIl WA
ters nave been laid off and offered for
sale rs town lots, it Is believed that the
supply of great fortunes, although I'M
precedented in number, has not been
equal to the demand and that many
persons are yet to be found who may be
prevailed on to become rich, provided
4 can be done without much trouble
Under these impressions, the undersigp-
ed have determined to offer to the pub
lie, here at home, at their own doors,
speculation, which, for ease in the pro-
cess, and splendor in the prospect,
throws in the shade that innumerable
multitude Of new towns and cities that
have heretofore solicited and impor-
tuned the public attention. The pro-
prictors will therefore offer at public
sale some of the lots comprising the
CITY OF SKUNKSBuRG.
This charming place, better known as
Ao9-Hall, heretofore the residence of
Fiddler Billy, situated in NVilks county,
not far from the junction of Pickett's
main spring branch and western fork
- called the Slough, which runs in rainy
seasons, and washes the confines of
Farnsworth's lower hog pens. This no.
bic stream, by the use of proper and suf-
ficient means, may be made navigable to
the sea. 1t abounds in delicate minnows,
a variety Of terrapins, and in frogs,
which, in size, voice, and movement, are
inferior to none. And it is said that in
its banks has lately been discovered
rich mine of valuable pipe clay, which
will be reserved for the common use of
the city.-A noble bluff of Is inches
commands the harbor, and affords a
most advantageous situation for militia
ny works. This bluff slopes off into
nearly a level, diversified only by such
gentle undulations of surface, as will
give sufficient elevation for the princi-
pal public edifces.n Commodious and
picturesque positions will therefore be
reserved for an Exchange and City Hall,
a Church, one Gymnastic and one Po-
iytechnic foundation, one Olympic and
two Dramatic Theatres, an Equestrian
Circus, an Observatory, two Marine and
two Founding Hospitals, and in the most
commercial part of the city will be re-
servation for seventeen Banks, to each
of which may be attached a Lunatic
Hospital.
The timber at and about the place is
excellent of its kind, particularly for
ships and carriages being principally
of black Jack, and so crooked that it will
not lie still. The soil is SO lively and
quick, that the corn shoots before it is
10 inches high, and comes to maturity
before it reaches 8 feet. Cow peas
grow with very little culture, and sedge
grass in such spontaneous abundance as
Of itself to ensure the commercial i'm
portance of the place whenever the price
Of brooms in foreign markets shall war;
rant their expectation.
This celebrated site is at the dividing
point of two main market roads, the one
leading down to Rocky Creek meeting
house, and the other to where the Wilkes
factory formerly stood. A short dis
lance above the town the road forks in
the other direction, one of the roads goes
by Daricott's grocery store, and the
other directly to Mrs. Moseley's, at the
old barracks. The future advantages of
this situation it is now impossible to cal
culate but already it is the emporium
of all the water-melons, ground peas,
and shuck collars, and all the brooms,
chickens, and baskets, that are bought
and sold among the before named places,
in the course of commerce. To mer-
camille men, however, mere statement
of its geographical position is deemed
sufficient, without comment. 1t stands
on about the middle ground between
Baltimore and Orleans, Charleston and
Nickajack, Savannah and Coweta,
Knoxville and St. Mary's, Salisbury and
!Gussetta, and between Little He'll on
the Altamaha, and Tellico Block house.
A line of Yelocipede Stages will be i'm
mediately established from Skunks-
burgh, straight through the O-ke-fn-o-
can Swamp, to the southernmost point
,ofthe Florida peninsula; and, as soon as
canal shall be cut through the Rocky
Mountains, there will be direct water
communication with the Columbia river,
and thence to the Pacific Ocean. Then
opens theatre of trade bounded only
by the Universe! Ships may sail with
equal facility to London and Lima; to
Montevideo and the Ivory Coast; to
Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope;
to Canton on the East, or Botany Bay on
the West. The world will present one
vast commercial system, with Skunks-