Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-10-16

yaI letters enclosing money between that place and
b'I,'ieoorouEh' VI W hin lac last five months took
WIN hn the TWO Posimasjcis from Windsor md
warehouse Point aud Went Ia BrsItleborough, 10 as
&C al" at what Post Office on ae rou hes, robbie
res had been com"hied. Two or Three letters with
money tone with ton $40 blS) wcro mailed nj R.nt
tleOorough for persons in tlnrts,rd Tn, two POST
masters west in the same stag" with the ma and ey-
ahmed after had been opened ut the Offices n, ~,
rSee Soon after the mail eft the Northfield POST
fhcc, It was examined aud the 500 letter asfound
m ssing. They returned and charged the theft upon
the ynng man who acted as assistant Postmaster
who thcreupon confessed it and drew from his mr.
net the letter and moneys and also confessed having
takch al Other timcs SO $40, and S25 The Post,
muster 'en Neve's, whose character IS above re.
P'oacn ana suspicion, was entirely ignorant OF the
.oo"e',,s' ana mas promptly paid oil losses and DANA
SeH. re nad treated the young man with the rene
rosity, kindness and confidence of n fatl., hut d;J
not attempt to screen HIM from the penalties of his
onence. It Is said that an unfortunate love affair
whlch compelled him to pay several hundre dollars,
was The 'nduccmcnto the theft, and that he hns an
sconded.-Spri"gjieid Republican.
From the Detroit Journal
Iadtan CcssiOn Qj Lead Mines in l819-We bavo
been favored by Lucius Lyon, Esq ". S Civil En-
glneer, with an account of the Boundary Line sur
veycd by him, the last Summer, of the count nv mr.,
G Ct IN 1879, OF the W'nnebngocs, Chippeways,
Pottawatoncs and Getaways, at Prairie du Chen
aud OF the country bordering upon it, which we trans
crioe with pleasure for our columns:
Inc boundary line between the ceded and unco
iuhuS' commence near GraSGe Point nm Inka
michigan, about twelve miles north of Cbicopo and
runs thence due west eighty four miles 10 ck D;
yer; thence mp Rock River forty ono milo. o., Il
mouth OF the Peck-a tan-oke; up the Peek-a,.poL.
seven miles To the mouth of Sugar Creek. ~, s.,
Creek sixty three miles, 20 the road Ioa,l;n Y 1uSar
Blue Mound tn Fort Winnebapo bv Tho -. ~, 'ie
cry OF the four Lakes; thence along TINT ro,d 60,
one miles to Duck Creek, four unes from RI. ~,
anu thence north 81 deg east twenty-one miles in ,
direct Inc To the most southery bend of Iato Punh
away, thro which Fox River of Green Bov Masses
Inc boundary OF the purchase runs from Lake Puct
away up Fox River to the Portage thence ncr,ss -,
'c ouiSconsin, and down that river to the Mssise;n
pi' The length of the Portage fron the LANDING On
FOX River to the Landing on the Ousconsin. is ono
mule aud one hundred and fifty rods - vac
Tins boundary IL the first connected survo, or,
ma de west of Lake Michigan and boe;Jos 49,; IL
tue hdian lands from those that have been purch,seS
VIII On OF some Importance to the geography of Tho
country as 1t fixes with certainty several ponts tb.t
have been variousy laid down on mans For, W.;
neoago, for example, at the Portage of tic Fox onJ
oulsconsln rivers, Is important point and Is f,unJ
90 or distant from Chicago l12 miles in verv reary n
nor'hwesterIy direction, aud IS miles from the Blue
Mound, IN a northeastetly direction.
The Indians, who have no wav of ev,,ss;, H.
catdlnal points, east and west but nv snvino ct
WARDS the suns rising and setting" knowing that tho
boundary was to run west from the Lake To Rocl,
h'Ver, were, at first, good deal dissatisfied ,h.t
their "Great Father" had chosen he season 70 -
the line when, they said, it would run so far north
a. to embrace halt their country; and their ansnt
vi "oCott' was al considerable pains 10 satisfy
them on this point S
! The country in the neighborhood of the boupd,r,
surveyed, and TO tho south and west of IT, il nImo:,
universally of that description USUALLY denom;na,S
open, except between Lake Michigan and Rock o.;
yer, where there is small n proportion of wood
iend that II may more properly be called a pra,r;e
| country The pralrlcs are covered with Grass ,n5
a grent variety IF wild flowers, constantly succeed
my each other with the change of the seasons so
that they resemble immensr flower gardens Tho
tmoer OF the wood land is principally burr, black
ana white oak-the first species however prodomi
mates. The surface of the Country ~ rollng ,nJ :,
some places hIly, but there are no mountains All
the principal streams seem TO have worn their beds
considerably into the calcareous sandrock which -
iar as observable, is the surface rock from IaLo
hichgan to the Mississippi, and contains the oroat
deposits OF lead ore, from which about forty nI;or
POUNDS OF lead have been made since 1928 while M
the mines III missouri, once thought to be preatest
III America, only about eight millions have been
made III the same time. How far this lead formo,ior
extends southwark IN Illinois is not known. IN ba
north 1t eXterfs beyond the Ouisconsip; and all or
nearly all, tho lead manufactured NJ the nni,o
on Inc upper Mississippi, comes from this Territory
The population OF the mining district in 1929 was
estimated at zen thousand; is not SO great now
The quantity of lead manufactu cd in the three 6rst
quarters OF the present, exceeds that made in cor
| responding time IN any former year."
To The Editor Of Tie ". y American.
In asserting that foreign vessels ire not nerm,od
tocXport Sugar and Coffee from the British Wost
! INDIA Colonies, your correspondent, Mercator dis
| plays degree OF ignorance on the subject which
shouid nave prevented his communication from oh.
tainng place IN your columns, particularly consid-
erIng that its object is evidently TO create ceilings of
| dc n uDtr hath tbo ~