Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-12-30

Rtt1UuSS - W va e~o p$}' W tbo ut~
pIomatic family of Mr.. Everett, our
Minister at Madrid, and we under. /
stand. has tho facilities necessary
Tor his undertaking,
M. Times.
The Militia. Tho Secretary Of
War, in his Report transmitted 10
Congress-. remarks, that 9 from our
happy position in regard to Europe,
and the no less fortunate relations
maintained with our neighbours and
their actual condition, would an-
pear that keeping up'a system of the
militia 50 extensive as the present.
aud burthonsomc, without any ad.
vantage, to a large class Of our sit.
zens, was altogether unnecessary.
A different organization. therefore,
| by which at least million and q
half of our most useful citizens
would he reIicvedJ rom tue unpro6t.
ablo pageantry. Of military parade,
| for five ar six days in the year, Con.
stituting 80 injurious draft on their
Industry, must be one which canaut
fail to be we'll received by the Amer.
can peoples"
| The London Quarterly Review
says--s. Wc have seen letter from
| Mr.. Hixten, the merchant who &C.
co,npanied Capt. CIapperton TO IA.
tuugo, Africa, and who had returned
Ito the coast, relating that before his
departure from that city, he had re.
ceived intelligence that Clappcrton,
on his approach to tho frontiers Of
Bsrghoo, which bordcrsi on Belize
dominions, had been met by the
sovereign OF that country, at The
head iof 500 horsemen. to conduct
him to lis capital. The letter states
that it was highly probable chat Mr..
7 Dickson, who had proceeded from
Dahomey, was already at Saccatoo
. We have now, therefore; every rea.
! son to hope that the interior Of Nor.
thcrn Africa, beyond the Great Des
art, will no longer remain terra
inccgnitia."
n A new machine for tho H. .nnfact
urc Of paper, which Works with
great rapidity, is in use by firm 10
: Edinburg- A letter states that a
u single machine will, in twelve hours,
5 produce IS reams large size news,
e 80 ream of denny orcrown, and 50
h rcams of foolscap. Of uniform thick.
: ness, and the edges exactly smOotls
and square.
The Russian provinces Of Kachs.
> tin, Csays Russian paper situated
in the Caucasus, when at the insti'
: CATION Of Abbas Mira, the fugitive
Georgian prince, Alexander. was in
duccd 10 revolt, is a FIRE tract o
: country, watcrcd by the Alason,an
0 certainly ono of the most fertile pro-
! vinces Of the Empire. The harves|
: yields fifty fold, and it abounds u
vino, silk, and fane fruits. Daghss;
: tan, which Abbas Mira also endeay.
ored, but in vain, to inducce to re.
VOLTS bounded by GeoEgia,thc Gas.
plan Sea, the Kais6I tho snowy
mountains Of Kl.aIsbar, and TO III,
south qy 6chirissn sit abounds in
Z ecmn, wine, cotton, saffron, silk, and
-naphta.. Tie district of Akouscbs,
J the inh habitants Of which, now shew
. themselves go attached {, Russia by
giving hp to Yermoloff the infama-
tory proclamations of Abbas Mira,
lies also in the territory of Cauca-
sas, and has $4,000 families, settled
in 81 villages; each village has its
= elder, who Is the chief Of all tho
= inhabitants Tie people Of Akous-
y cha do not follow agriculture in con
: siderable degree, bu, they have large
flncks Of sheep, the wool iof which
they themselves manufacture into
cloth.
DR.. Comstock. of this city, has
q found out chemical process by
9 which TO render leather, cloth, and
= divers other things, imperyious TO
!. water. We saw pair Of prunella
choCa which did nof. .d;ffnr at all in
n appearance from ordinary shoes OF
y that kind, that had been soaked in
!, water for days without the least
s damphcss on the inside. To What
;, purpose. or how extensively the DR.
I, means 10 iannlY his discovery, q