The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-11-16

and pock.t full OF money, and told me TO be
brave and if wanted any thing to let him
know he bid me good night and | went home
Rn, cop,d nj sleep a wink all night l was
uu before daylight this morning, and Nv got |
two women 10 work for me 10 day fixing M |
INV clothes, and | shall be ready 10 start to
morrow morning ! want you to keep this
matter pretty still, Till get there, except that
yeu may let Cousin Ephraim know it and got
him to volunteer some of the Downingvie
boys for my company. | want to get them
pretty much all there if can, for know what
sort of stuff the Downmgville boys are made
OF, and shall know what I've got to depend
upon. In haste. your loving neffu
CAPT. JACK DOWNING.
TERRITORY OF HuRoN. A correspondent of
the Buffalo Journal gives an agreeable picture
of that portion Of this Territory which has
been lately cesed to the government by the
Menomonss Indians, and in which he had Just
made an excursion. The tract reserved to the
Indians, of 5O00 900 acres, is also fine body of
land, containing very extensive and fertile
meadows along the Fox river, with woodlands
Of good timber, in which there is no under.
brush. The writer proceeded thirty eight
miles from Green Bay up the Fox River 10
Winnebago Lake, passing rapids WHOSE whole
descent is about one hundred feet. The river
the banks from fifty 10 a hundred and fifty feet
high. Tho water is of course adequate to
meve any machinery. Dotys lslaEd, in the
outlet of the lake, contains 400 acres heavily
numbered. The bank of the lake itself is Gov
cred with trees of height and diameter indi
eating the nature of the soil, which Is black
loan, rich and deep. The Cliff. SO called. is
mountain three hundred feet above the level of
the lake, presenting q picturesque prospect
The main roads leading from Green Bay to
Chicago, Wisconsin Portage, the Lead Mines
and Galena, will probably pass this point. Be-
You'd this the mountain recedes three or four
miles from the shore, forming a valley fifteen
miles in length, of as fertile land as can be
found in the limited States terminating 10 the
South, in dry prairie called Cass Plains
These plains contain 1000 acres of rich land,
which are already cleared by nature for the
plough and they extend TO the Monitoovoc
river. Soon after begin the prairies, which
run, with scarcely any timber, TO the Missls.
sip2 10 the whole distance, near hundred
miles passed by the writer, the land seems 20
be Of :he kind and aspect just described, name
ly, rich prairie, with occasional growth OF fine
timber, equally indicative of fertility.
Baltimore american.
A CONVERTED INDIAN CHEF. Kakewa-
quonby peter Jnnes.) late Chief among the
visit to this city last week, and excited no lit
tie curiosity amongst the inhabitants. He is
about 30 years Of aye. in person above the mid
| die size, and very strong huilt and that stern
| ness and forocity of aspect Characteristic Of the
! native Indian have been succeeded by an ex
! preston OF countenance remarkably mild and
benevolent, and his manners are gentle and un
assuming He has made very extraordinary
proficiency in the knowledge of the English
language, which he speaks with tolerabls flu
ency and with considerable correctness. His
object in visiting England is ie obtain assist
ahce towards the establishment of schools, and
the translation of the Scriptures into his native
! language. On Wednesday evening he ad-
! dressed very Numerous audience at the Yves
eyan Chapel, in John street, and gave high
ly interesting account of the progress made
by the Missionaries in the conversion and civil
ization of his fellow countrymen, and the i'm
preston which he made upan his hearers will
doubtless prove benef fetal 10 the intere SITS OF the
missionary societies.
Chester, Eng, Conrant, Stpt.T
INVENTIONS We have before US a rec
ord Of all the improvements in the arts, me-
chanlcs, and manufactures invented in the
United States, and entered in the Patent
Office since the year l793 when the first
patent law was passed. 1t is contained in
document transmitted last winter TO Con-
gress by the Sect etary of State, and com
prises list of no less than 5000 inventions,
the product of American ingenuity in the
course of SO Yeas. During that period, the
plough has been made to undergo one hun
bred and trenty, four improvements. ll9
threshing machines have been invented
That great problem, the extraction of but
ter from cream without fatigue to the opera
tor, has been solved in eight ways by the
invention Of go churns and the laund,ess
has been allowed her choice out Of lbs
washing machines. 123 machines have
been invented for making nails; the num-
Der of new spinning machines exceeds 100
the number of improvements in the loom is
20, and in the manufacture of hats 40. The
number of steam engines exceeds 100, that
of stoves is nearly the same. There have
been AZ new ways contrived for manufac-
turing combs, in which we presume is in
cluded the late ingenious invention for cut
ting them hy single operation, into all
sorts of figures. -Four new machines for
pairing apples have been invented and three
gridirons. Pencil cases, ramrods, razors,
und suspenders, have each been subject to
various Improvements. An invention has
been patented under the name of "dog
power" another termed an elevator Of spots
and kettles;" and third destined for use
ful domestic purpose under the sonorous
Greek name of Hacmagalactophorus."
NJ Y. EUening Posi-.
MACHINERY ASD CAPITAL. We copy the
following extraordinary statement from the
Mechanics Magazine 1t speaks volumes
"hr. Crawshay's Iron Works. Number of
persons employed, 5000 Annual sum expend
ed for labor, f3O0,0O0, [sbout 81 100000 ]
Number Of horses employed, 450. Number Of
steam engines, 6; each so horse power, but
| going night and day, doing the work Of 81 900
horses Water wheels g. equal to the power Of
954 horses. Furnaces, "a each about so feet
| high and wide in proportion. FORCES, O.
Foundry, /. Rolling mills, g. Boring mill, /
| Annually used for mixing with the iron ore
iron stone go, 900 tons, lime 10000 tons. An.
nuay consumed, Goals 200 900 tons, gunpow.
der, 10000 lbs candies, 100000 lbs One hun
drsd nnd twenty miles of iran railway have
been laid down for The use of these works, be.
sides which there is a canal Of several miles
with aquedncts, bridges, &c. Oftram wagons.
made chiefly of iron, there are many thousand.
Mr.. Crawshay has lately built castle for his
own residence in the vicinity of the works