Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-10-18

H. however the increase should become s,ich as
to induce the government to establish Custom
House here, and exact the duty OF three cents per
pound, on imported cotton, the inhabitants of Texas
could no longer cultivate IL in competition with our
planters, and would have to ship il from their own
ports, which would be impracticable for many of
them, cause it to be carried through our terrific
~ exempt from. duty by means OF dratcbucs In
the latter case, 1t might less be object for
commercial operations.
According 10 the last news from Mr.. Avstin's
settlement the Brazos, this colony is in thriv-
ag condition. The OF their having been
distressed b. an nundalion, and reduced to great
want in consequence, seems to have had no foun-
daiion. The settlement is represented 10 consist OF
about 300 families, to be now exempt from cpl
demical disasters, and, as TO the crops, we have
been assured by gentleman now in this place. that
their corn surpassed any thing he had seen on the
richest Mississippi and Red River soils, and that
the cotton, equal in quality 10 the Red River, was
| totally exempt from rot.
Another new settlement, on the plan of Mr.
Austin's, is about TO be commenced in Texas under
the auspices of Mr. Haden Edwards, who has OBJ
tanned from the government an extensive grant in
that state.
II EstampiUa, or Estampido, has been Ameri-
canised into STAMPEDE.
! |, is a well known fact horses of travellers, of
iht most domestic habits will Immediately loin and
follow a drove of wild horses. In the immense
and urinhabited wilderness of Texas formerly there
were large droves of wild horses. They generally
move in large numbers, and sometimes very rapid
! ly, creating very loud noise. When they hap
pen pass in the neighborhood of domestic horses,
the latter either attracted by the noise the
smell, and they Immediately escape and join them,
and are forever afterwards irreclaimabe. Travel
ers traders, and those driving horses and mules to
market, in Louisiana, are obliged 10 guard them
IL ,la 10
and making their escape. But is probable that
! large drove would have attracted all the lesser
! droves with which they met on their way.
| 1t sometimes happens that large number oil pick
ed mules and horses coming within the influence of
wild horses, fly TO them and follow them, without
any possibility of being overaken reclaimed by
the drivers. This quality in horses is called by the
Americans STAMPEDE Nat. Int.
| 1t is stated to us as fact that the French Con-
sui at Washington refused TO sign bill of health
Tor the figate Brandy wine
I Lafayette and
suite will be sen, from the ship. Every obstacle
that the French Council could throw in the way of
the ship he did, " y. Com. .fdu.
l We have unquesionabe authority for the state
ment that all Of the above paragraph which relates
the French Consul Gen is incorrect. That gentle
MAJ, 30 far from refusing 10 sign bill of health,
furnished all necessary documents with the prompt
poltentss peculiar 10 MS nallOn. Among tnesc
documents bill of health, in relation to which,
as well as quarantine, a ship of is subject 10
the same regulations a private vessel
- Nat Jour.
A writer in the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser states the following facts relating to the late
sales of governmsnt property on the Northern
frontier:
:" The shipping aaSackett's Harbor was sold to
Capt. Huganan, for $4,000, and the purchaser is
now breaking them Up. The amount he gave was
considered large, the vessels were all sunk, and
1t was supposed were nearly destroyed by the
worms; but it was qui'e the reverse. Most ofthem
have been raised by he means of pumps, worked
by horse power, and proved to be perfectly sound,
and Mr.. II. informed me that he anticipated pro-
ftabe speculation. The four large vessels on Lake
Erie, viz the Detroit, Queen Charlotte, Lawrence,
and Niagara, sod at public auction, at Erie,
for the small sum of SS375.\ They also were all
sunk, but Mr.. Brown, the purchaser, expects to be
able 10 raise them at a small expense, and having
ascerained that they souna he intends to con-
vet two of them into steam bots"