Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-10-29

from the time the preparations 10 take in vessel are COM
menced she may be admitted into, dock and safely
shoved up TO enable the carpenters work at the
bottom with perfect security aud comfort, and in ample
space
The whole cost of this dock did not amount to twelve
hundred dollars IL has been in aud successful
use at Pittsburgh Tor upwards OF two years aud doubt
OF It's competency for all the purposes repairing the
10 toms OF vessels and for all the ends Dry Docsege
as there enter tanned.
This DRY Dock" has been used on the Ohio for the
repairs OF steam boats of the largest class exceeding six
hundred tons IN burhcn, and, therefore. large
oil The shipping the seaboard OF the United States.
During the prevalence OF the Cholera the Ohio last
summer large steam boat Pittsburgh TO repair;
mat fatal disease was supposed prevail board Of
boat, aud objections TO her repairing Pittsburgh were
loudly expressed; she iowed the Dry Dock down the
Ohio, and having carried il proper place, she went
INTO IT, was completely repaired, aud then lowed it back
to Pittsburgh.
The inventor aud constructor OF this valuable work is
Mf. homas cunningham OF Pittsburgh now residing
hert; he Is an Ingenious, industrious aud
nc III this notice OF his work shall promote his fortune
highly graufed.
1t is understood ,hat Mr.. Cunningham has obtained
patent Tor his Portable Dry Dock.
From the Detroit Jou,naLl
CHiCAGo IREATY.-Ne lean by person y ho left
on Thursday morning the 10TH that council had
been held with tie Indians the Monday previous, in
whch they la expressed disinclination cede their
anus, nn uey had an opportunity to exomne those TO
which II was proposed they should .mgra e. They had
however promised to give mere decisive answer on
wednesday, the 18th, but did do it, either because
hey nal Tot sufficiently made up their minds or because
too much Whiskey had been cr culateJ anonyst them
There had heen a drunken broil in which some were
wounded and one two killed. The general npre son
seemed to be, that treaty was what improbablc-
n" an oil course, was mere conjecture The concourse
Oh Indians was very great that Of whites far
4 he place was crowded by the latter to excess
r. s. Doctor Temple has just arrived in tow from Chi
cago winch he eit on Saturday the 2ls He states tina,
e humans nave made arrangements treat and that no
doubt the objects oi the Commissioners s win be fulfilled
The health OF the place, he says, is uncommony good.
CHERoKEE, Oct 8.
to the removal Of the Cheioke with increasing Interest,"
nothing connected with this subject can be more dcsira
Die 10 them than they should leave limits Tor a place
more suited TO their mode OF lie.
The enrolling agents, Major Curry and Colonel Hardin
are actively engaged; the former how ever has for
lime been rendered unfit for the aruou. duties of HE Of
nee oy indspo>iiion; this circumstance has
thrown an undue weight Of toll OH the latter.
some facts that we published short time since relat.
ing TO The Cherokee have excited
siderable interest amongst tha class Upon further r
search il is discovered that TIVE thousand inivd
aso mat part oil this tribe now in Georgia. have hereto.
lore enrolled Tor the west, Wilde Governor NJ Mimi
AGENT aud under the stpuatons OF the Treaty of lsI7
hey received upwards of nine thousand dollars for their
improvements besides guns blankets kettles trans 6 =
ana yet thcy ncumber some OF the hes Land i'm this
ton OF the State and yet the drawers of these lands are
forbid their enjoyment Although see in this act OF
Georgia, the utmost Jorbearan and INDULGENCE
TINS numerous class OF Cherokees yet do these same nd
Vuua's JON the enemies OF Georgia. and loud in their
eproach Jeers and charges hope Georgia will no lon
ger do injustice to her white citizens for the qualification
oil her red enemies.
The incumbents to whom have reference besin 70
discover much uneasiness their situations the
pose, very reasonably that Georgia will authorise The
suing grants Tor the lands they occupy in which even,
their stay here will be short ~
! Ii will be the duty OF every member of tho ,.;
Legislature, TO be well informed upon this We nv
topic; we wish no injustice done TO solitary indiv, a y,
IN iDe oy an over-anHiety TO put the drawer
~ possession oil ms proPeHy on the other hand we be-
eve that grants should issue for all tracts of the Jecrn
ton we have been contemplating
There is another class of persons IN ,h;s ,;
We mean Whlte men having Indian I'M
CURE 10 be more particularly noticed by the Legislature
mas been adudged that ii person Idan for one
ne must be an Indian for al purposes il So white man
having an Indian wife cannot be witness in anv "a % in
"neh wte man Is party, herce he is ncorn tent 10
nou an ohee 10 serve on juries TO vote cleo IONS TO
pay axes OF 10 ne called upon TO perform Any durv or
reese any privilege common the citizens of Georgia
'hey are not to be considered Indians then
shouiu grants be issued for the lands upnp which ~,
have niruded; hitherto, believe they have onv han
considered as indians for The purpose OF holding land
ne en'oing goes Oh prosperously the oment Of a
large number oil persons aud families AMONGST whom mr..
some important individuals in the northern and eas,ern
parts oil the circuit is much beyond wha; was expected
GOOD NEws-D hue.-It is ru,nored that de put,tion
OF The Creek Indians, started tor Washington Civ few
nays since, Tor The purpose of treating with Government
LOT the disposal oil all their Reservations in the Creek
uon'-.hontgomery (.aia.) Gazette, oct. q
Extract oil letter TO gentleman in N. York dated
CHICAGO, 25ih September
me INDIANS agreed on Treaty this day. which will be
signed TO- morrow, by which they cede all the
North West OF Chicago and will migrate west ne xt sum-
pated-Daily .ddp. N
- celebrated for his bon n,otS, had brother
who was IN the Church One evening, while sitting in
company with some Of the most fashionable peonIn in
Paris Talleyrand thus addressed him "a beieve vo
have brother! eyes" ITO what profession does he
helong! 90 He is pries"-" How does he spend hs
"me! - In The morning he says mass.'-" A nd in ,e
evening! the cvening-he does not know what he
says" INV" ""A' nc
Ii is thought the usual supply of stock will be sent o
he eastern markets from Kentucky this fall. Hogs are
sdlu 10 DE very plenty there they sa,
~ ae owing TO the scarcity Of old corn-they will have
10 be iaened on the new crop.--.aIer. Gar.
STEAM PACKET LIvERPooL-The keel oe a
splendid steam packet with four engines to pIy between
this port and Liverpool will be laid this week She ,Y
De OF large sizes and the enterprise is undertaken nv
SeeInen OF CAPITAL no expense will be spared TO make
e experiment in the best possible manner so that
can be little doubt of its success
we VIII not indulge ourselves in the expression even
OF part OF The ideas which rush into the mind i'm con-
tempa'ing the accomplishment of this long thought Of
measure There Is enough before us every day or as.
omshmen IN the immense saving of time and oyercom
ing oil space, by steam naviga alton And vet there an
pears 10 DE no end TO the daring spirit of
when characteriZes the world Anne rio in particular
me Troy project OF steam boat upon floats to travel Al
INC rare OF from twenty TO twenty-five miles per hour is
perhaps as extraordinary thing on The tapis.
but would really appear il we should be
atho'hng; Tor we crediby informed though
somewhat difficult Of belief that the same distance which
now comfortably travelled in 30 or 40 hours viz be-
tween Boston and Philadelphia, was some sxiv mr. go
vehty years since, advertised i'm the Boston papers s fol-
lows" The Philadelphia Fly stage warranted tbronob
III fourteen ddys."-IN. Y. Mere. .Adu. of I'd inst
UNITED STATES REVENUE.
FORT OF PHILADELPHIA-The(,o Col c.t:.