Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-11-05
OUR OWN COUNTRY.

OUR OWN COUNTRY.
The Rochester Daily Advertiser
says Our mills nav make over = 900
barrels OF flour pen day, and can make
o,uoO, containing, With two more now
building, 40 runs Of Stune-w heat a.
ourdant al "a to 81 cents, pouring in
from 10 to- ~ miles snGth and west !.
2OO,0O0 bushels lnIs year from Ono.
TAR quality. also much pot and pearl
ash, aud other produce. Within the
last ~ days. we have sent $50,UO0, IN
cash, into Ohio for produce. THIS
seems to be the natural market tor
cashIng 1t, from Southwestern New
York. and the Western Lakes, dest,n-
ed Tor New York and Montreal, and
1t must inevitably be done here almost
'ohofty, as this is the angle or turning
point oil waller conveyance to both, with
equal convenience OF transport to and
daily advices from each giving the
choice OF doneslic or foreign market
up to the moment IF Shipment.
Our wholesale trade has recently
grown to be very extensive and fast IN
creasing, reaching through our natural
wheat region, and all along The West
ern Lakes, quite up to Detroit; and
since the farmers of our Interior have.
oy the two last good crops, and the
lessons OF prudence taught by the prior
bad one, become freed from debt, and
consequent dependence upon their
neighbourlng retail shops, their cash
taken here Tor wheat, comes back to us
Ia due time, in support Of now rapid
y extending trade.
Mechanics and day laborers find full
employ; cash is plenty dwelling hou
SEES hlled, and more wanted. Some
Eastern families of responsibility re-
Gently arrived, and intending to settle,
have passed on West, or returned
back, tor want ofdwelling houses here
Tor their accommodation.
Curiosity. The Floridian saws =
Inns country abounds with lakes @,
ponds from IA Few yards TO a mile in
diameter-the banks are sometimes slo
ping, but generally abrupt. The waite,
Is often OF great depth. A circun
stance occurred few days since which
shows the manner in which they are
found. This country is based on ;
porous she'll rock of tile most recent nj
tertiary formation which is penetrated
10 every Direction by streams of variou.
nagnitudes, from the ii.ulet to The
naVigable rivers. The Wancissa which
rises IN Jefferson county, is supposed tc
discharge aIarg~r volume OF water thar
James River a, Richmond. The Wa
knlia Is also considerable River al il,
hrsl appearance. 1t is supposed to dis
charge the water Of Lake jackson and
the lamonia. Between the fountain o.
the Wakulla and these IL kes nuInbe,
OF smaller ones occur as indicating >
constant supply and discharge by sub
terraneons channels. About four mile.
South West from this place in their vi.
cinI,y, lake of about half an acre in
extent was formed last Friday night
We are TOLD that party were hun,ino
deer, and had passed the spot but few
moments previously. The earth which
was covered with large trees, Tell with
tremendous crash, and the frightened
huntsmen fled in Consideration. TIE
spot has since been visited hy some
gentlemen from this place they state
that IT'S from forty TO fifty feet from
the surface TO the water, the depth Of
which was not ascertaiDed The banks
are nearly perpendicular. The sink is
surrounded by high sand ridges.