The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-07-18

ers IS stated To be about niIb,, all
half We hope this wll learn job, \. n; -
MS future walls, II fight battles. ,oste,5 nr
dec'yns off our slaves aud robbing our hen
rouSts ''' "e"
Or late .'fnisier 10 Colombia. Richard
Andnrs"o, Esq AMI his family, have ar,iy-
ed al his resldente IN Kentucky.
Hr. Vsbsier'S 0rati0a.-This or,ri,, Ia.
already passed thrangh three editions. AN
ut which hare been rapidly sold ntF Tic
Is a Just compliment to genius and patriot.
ISM.
'1fsdnsas.-Gen. Georga Tzud, recent
y appointed 6osernor Of this territory, ar.
fivrd at It's seat of government on the 5Ist
ol May. The t~o Indians who had been
convicted of numbering some whites, and
sentenced 10 be hung, bnt who were par
doned by the President, have reached fb.ir
respective nations, and give, 1T is salAl a
lndlefoas description oftacir capture, trial
and confinement.
IobiccO. Mr. James Stewart. Of Nm
wlddle, sold his crop Of tobacco in Peers
borg, on the 9th inst. for SI2 per hundred
round.
Phenomenon. The New Orleans Mer.
camille Advertiser Of the 9TH June states
'hAl the waters ofthe Mississippi we're sud.
uPEly aSItated on the evening II the Ist of
June, and rose nearly seven feet THIS
phenomenon extended about ESQ yards a.
bove, and 3 or 400 below fort Pltqueminr,
and an lmmense tree, that had been en-
brdded in the sand, with others still anoat,
were borne up at once and thrown inside
of InVnn fHha tbaI LII Ii.
Inundated. and when the waters suhsi1pd
presetcd many fish that had BEEN left IN the
recession. Ga the opposite bank, where
the new fort 10 erecting, the waters rose,
bat not so high as to overflow the levep
Missouri Fur Trade. learn from
the Missouri Advocate, (says the Knoxville
Enqnlrer) that there has hren exported
from the town of ST. Louis, during the last
year, Furs To the amount of $40, 900. Al
thong, this is the principal market for the
produce of the forests, as high as the Nan
dan Nilldges, no doubt Considerable a.
mount is disposed ofat other places. Al this
time the whole of the Fur Trade through
ont the extensive region of the Rocky
Mountains, and to the confluence of the D.
regna, is engrnssed by the British and IS
estimated III be worth at least. a million Of
dollars, which rightfully belongs to, and
should be exclusively enJoyrd by the Unl.
ted States. Ii would seem then, we should
not longer delay the occup tton of this sec.
ton of country. This Circumstance, ex-
elusive Of Other reasons, furnishes strong
evidence, of the necessity and exprdiency,
Of promptly adopting Gen. FIoyd's pro-
Ject of establishing u terrific -ial form of 20
K..at M IL, Ill
preparatory step. erect Military posts at
the most eligible points, which would
not only be amply reimbursed, but would
be pnrsuslng a wise policy, IN securing at
tIvlal expense, the right and possession of
an Immensely important and valuable APP
pendage to the United States, which may
cost rs, if much longer procrastinatcd,
much blood aud treasure.
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FOR THE vTRGINIAH.
A singular production, entitled Repre-
sent,tion and Taxation & signed q" 4 Free
holder" appeared IN your paper of the 3oth
uIt. of which it is difficult to determine
it be most eKtravagant in its style
pr lis reasoning. From what can gather, II
seems to have been intended as an exanln
alton of the Virginia constitution aud an
appeal to the feelings aud irrationaIity of4
the people. Like bad painter, the au-
thor has entitled his essay, IN principle,
wisely jndging that his readers would not
So well discover his pirpasc from his essay
as from lis title. Ills piece is amusing br- 4
yond degree for the extravaganza of its
manner, & but for the difficulty Of respira-
ton IN wading through ,he depth Of his sen
fences, might he pernsed with no little
pleasure. -Scrophulas slonghs, sites, alb
sceSses, Craneums, limbs and miasms,
dance through his ines in all the ma2es Of
confuslon-sritnce IS made
To dash again at its "old enemy Is
no'ance, and its desolating concomllaats,
" blgotry and superstition, are dragged
from their dark abodeso to blush again IN
the blaze ofeioquencr and light, with .Ahlch
they are surrounded The nation IS hurried
np the hi'l, To the apex of glory for
what, ! know not, unless that its body may
hn purified by the four winds of heaven,
and It's king' evils aud sores may, with
mtre facility, b. cast away and scattered o.
yer the nations Of the earth. Against such
n production, it is difficult TO re1rson ; to
rlilrtilr, is useless, because Of the extreme
of folly which stamps every line u it. But
difficult as it may be, | win attempt the first,
and leave the last to itsef-Flrst, then, I've
author assumes as d fact, that LA constitu-
ton /, cminently defective, when it is the
very thing be ought to have proved. Most
writers usually prove or at least attempt To
prove those principles upon whlch@iheII
essays are basrd-hut this, most sagrly
builds his snperstracture, aud takInG II for
granted that the foundation IS a matter Of
m"onshine, polses it in the air, that like the
earth in every thing hut its stumina, 1t may
stand upon--nothiue.- good phi
losopher, he looks ur and dii"n tue world,
that in Our political experiment, we may
be aided by the best lights which can be