Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-02-03

c@ upiatormed, as q hey w,re paid by an officer
q The QSarter MdSter Generars Dcpartnent.
From Green Bay 10 Proirie du Chien lat the
carrying places and PORTAGE fire hundred doI,rs
From Prdirie du Chicr 10 this place Including
transportation ~ o:dRdnce, aud ordnance stores
ana provisions, tno hundred dollars. DlakiRg The
immense sum Of seven hundred dollars.
ihrH this post is ,ccH established the oniy
eaperse trih Be, az 1t is correctly manqged) "a.
pay and clothing OF the troops.
" Hestd net the employment OF The troops in
Hc manufacture Of Copper and Iron, be adrunia-
se9us 10 tie government -
Extract Of iettsr to the Editor oftke ,Sd
lem Register, dated Ciac,nnaii, Dteen.-
Ter 29th, 1919.
The frs, rain we had Was on The l7ih
OF November; and all that we lave had
since last wrote 10 yon, (2lst October, J
would NOT amount 10 more than SIX hours
steady rain. Both the farmers and per
sons interested in steam boats, suffer
much. Not less iliantbiriy sieam boats,
with their cargocs in, have been waiting
Tor wafer ever since the first of Nav !:
The few that did get away with The spriug
ireShet could not get back again, and
mos, OF them grounded soon alter they
entered the ONO river, and remain so 10
this time, with The goods IN that were PCT
on board at New Orleans in NAV: so
that not less than Two millions Of proper
ty have been locked up in the steam
boats ever since that time. Mos, of the
produce OH board the boats was bought
on credit, Tor the purpose Of paving Tor
the West India goods that had been
orcered and were SEM from New Orleans
by the boats that left that place in NAV,
but which are grounded as above men.
toned.
Thus the produce on the one side, and
The goods OIL the other, being embargoed
by an act of providence, neither party
has been able 10 derive from them the
expected benefit. In this state of things,
The farmer, according 10 The terms OF
credit, is calling for pay for his produce !;
and the New Orleans merchant is clamo-
rous al tiie same Time, for The pay of his
goods; but neither cash, goods or pro-
duce, can the debtor command. The
farmer looks forward TO the approaching
spring with fearful apprehension, as he
can have but little or no prospect for
snail grains.
In addition In the drought, &c have
uncommoniy cold weather: The iher,no-
meter, Tor lie last days, has ranged
from 10 10 % above zero and, unless
uhere sh ouid be great change IN the
Ne"'Hti, many w Vie Cdttie VIII CiP, anf
all suffer very much; for no farmer III
lhis! country reckons on toddering them
more than three or four eeks, bat now
they have had TO do il mere than tive
months already. Hay, in commons win
lers, sells a Is or dollars per Ton, bul al
tins time sells Tor %, and is scarce al
That. What lie end will be-, time only
can determine. still rcly ON the good.
ness of Providence"
CoRYDoN, Qnd.) Jan. I3.-Ihere uos
found about tie JIra Of thiS month, ia a care,
IN this county Gdout 1000 dollars cJunteyfeu
bank notes, on different Gan&s Hr Naihan
peatch and Isaac Mech entered the care, for
The purpose Of looking for salt pene, mhen
they came to Il bottle about half tn of Gaseed
oil, biOch nth tuo rollers, supposed to be
used for str'king bank notes ; and, searching
further, hroagha narrow passage of abomf
40 feet, INTO large apartment they found
the money. No plates hare as yet been dis
covered Cm 1t as orpected they Hkewise are
concealed therein. 1t did not appear that
tie place had been resorted TO very iateiy. or
thatthe materials hal been lately used.