Democrat and Herald from Wilmington, Ohio • 1

4 Uah2 1 1 i tim delightful climate prevails in the lower Tn fv do nnof Poor Poland is always unfortunate 6 i EH INTEBNAlfkMPROVEMENTS DOMESTIC MANUACTURES AGRICULTURE AND THE ABTS vU 7 rom the Ohio Transcript 2 OSLEGOHT TERRITORY 1 111 1 1 report made by the Hon Linn to the Senate at the last session of Congress embodies much information re specting this interesting region Copious extracts' are given from the report of Mr Slacum who visited and explored the coun try about the Columbia River in 1836 from'the Journal of Mr Spalding a mis sionary who his wife' crossed the Rocky Mountains and thence to the Co lumbia in the summer of 1 836 from Lewis the En cyclopedia ofGeography These extracts the information digested in the report: fur nish the reader quite an account of the character 'of the country its geological features soil climate productions The Columbia river was discovered by Captain Robert Gray in the ship Colum bia from Boston in the year 1785 previ ous to which the existence of such" a river was unknown to the civilized world Capt Grhy 'named the river explored sev eral days ascertained its latitude named itctipes and on his return to the United States announced the important discovery Ldwis'and fitted out They were the first explorers of the Upper Missouri country of the Rocky Mpunta io region and of the Columbia riy er valley expedition waa earlier 'but his route was further north than that of Lewis and Clark The Bay Company bas it posts upotthe Columbia and ita branches and batteatfx'are sent up river 900 miles with' goods for the Indian trade The A merican traders buy their goods of British manufacture atz St Louis carry thefh a cross to theicrendezvpusqh the west side pcKyIountainsi and there sell them to their 4 and hunters in exchange for furs? But last year McLeod a'trader )of the (British) Bgy CotppijnyV brought his goods which 'were imported bvtlie Columbia duty free and was able to undersell the'American traders on American which "arir'lhe circulating medium" are worth jp the Columbia district about $2 eath m6oils Each skin averages one 'and aHalf pounds ''and at $5 the pound K(the value in New York) Wjvprth '7 nnd'Sents? The climate pf the region of the bilriver is far milderlhan 'the same lati tudes on the Atlantic Littlejor no snow falls and there is very little freezing wea ther Thd winters' are rainy from the middle 6f October tn the middle of March there ins are almost incessant accompa I nied' often by thunder 1 But thrbughlhe rest of the year the weath eris sdrene and delightful and there is I scarcely any rain Vegetation js sustaip I ed by the heavy dews and fogsj which do I notippear however to Yonder it unhealthy I since natives and whites sleep in the 'air I with impunity: 'The inhabitants can wear I thesamd dress throughout the year 'so I nearly' uniform is the temperature Veg I station commences and plants put forth I loaves earlv in March "Lewis and Amburgh who was instantly hurled with violence to the ground from the strength and weight ofhis incensed assailant Van Amburgh instantly saw the intention of the animal which was that of tearing him to pieces and with the courage and presence of mind which few men possess seized his foe by the lip of the lower jaw and thus pinioned him as a bulldog would an oxv A long and fearful struggle now ensued in the course of which both the man and the tiger rolled over several times At length Van Amburgh got the better of his foe by throwing him on his back at the same time kneeling on his stomach and with the other hand which was till now unengaged commenced striking the pros trate animal with his clenched fist the blows following in quick succession over the head faceand particularly the nose until the blood flowed from the subdued animal who here quivered under the grasp of hie conqueror At length Mr Van Amburgh perceiving that he had completely over come him feteased his bold and the ani mal finding himself at liberty retired a short distance from his master and crouch ed down as if severely suffering from the punishment he had received One of our London papers discredits the affair alto gether The London papers announce the death af Mrs Charles Kemble The London and Birmingham rail way is finally completed The distance was run in 4 hours and a quarter Continent of Europe The National Guard of Paris are preparing a petition which according to the rench Conserva tive ideas menaces the safety of the state It is neither more nor less than a petition for parliamentary reform and coming from such a source it is indeed most important They thus reason government has often called the National Guard the safe guard of society why thenyshould the law deny to its mem bers the right of electing deputies an well as4 of defending public order? We consequence require electoral reform and withoutentering into details demand that cverynational guard should be an There is a strong similarity in this move ment with thatofthe Bath (Eng)" radicals The merchants connected with the Mex ican trade appear to view with concern the oerseverance of the government ofrance in its measures of hostility towards Mexico as appearing in the sailing from Toulon of the first part of the reinforcements to the blockading squadron They fear that an attack on Vera Cruz would be the signal for a declaration of war on the part of Mex ico to be followed by swarms of Baltimore privateers under the Mexican flag and commission to commit depredations on the rench commerce The Spanish ministry has at last fallen to pieces in consequence of the de feat of the Christino forces by de teat and the taiiure to proeuce a new loan The Duke de rias was at the head of a new Cabinet and it was rumored late Governor of Cuba would be appointed to the war department 'Intelligence was received in London on tho 19th that Espartero had retreated from before Estella and that the Carlists were preparing to invest Bilboa The Swiss talk of defending their refu sal to give up young Bonaparte with arms Meanwhile the diet bad postponed their final decision to the first of October A new treaty of commerce has been ne gotiated between Great Britain and Tur key The Emperor of Austria has proclaimed a general amnesty for political offences on his coronation as king of Lombardy A letter from Posen of the 31st ult ep pear? in the Augsburg Gazette in which it is asserted that vast grangries of corn were establishing all along the frontiers by the government and that a continual movement of troops were observable but the Kingdom of Poland' whiUt nobody waswble to say what the meaning of this unusual stir was The Hollando Belgic question appears to remain in statu quo A letter from Warsaw contains some particulars of a secret association formed by young Polesof the age of12 to 18 years the object ofwbich wps to preserve thetr lan Hnonf tVipm announced plot VQV ernor of Warsaw who arrested them (con fined them in the dungeons ot tne citadel a there maltreated them and ultimately sent tho hole off to tho Modlin wnence they would most probably be sent to tbe Cau caucus and drafted in the army stationed there These proceedings are stated to have roused the lively though impotent indignation of the whole population of ar saw Poor Poland is always unfortunate rom Asia Letters from Egypt say that the long warfare between the Pacha and the rebellious Drusen in Syria baa been terminated by arrangements tba Druses submitting and giving hostages They state also that the Pacha has con seated to pay the arrears of tribute to the Sultan rom Circassia the news consists of vague rumors but they are unfavorable to The following 'communicatiba from Alexandria is that a flag oftructf traversed Circassia in the month of June last and had conferences with the princi pal Circassian chiefs They refused to conclude an armistice or even treaty o( commerce with Russia A letter of the 8th inst from Tonlten published in the Courier runcais states that the English Colonel Considine waa actively organizing a regular army of the Pacha of Tunis principally as supposed with a view to overawe the population and to enable him to double the taxes as the new force was not likely to be inacon ditidn to resist tho neighboring states rom the Romney Intelligencer Of 15th ult The ire In Jersey The4ew York Star says fire in tbe New Jersey woods we just learn from a gentlo man who left Bordentown yesterday has increased to amost alarming and frightful extent Millions of propoity have alrea dy been consumed A space of twenty miles in length by breadth through Burlington and Monmouth coun ties and consisting chiefly of pino Woods and cedar swamps is now in a state of con flagration The clouds of smoke are seen 20 miles off and at night the air Is filled with a blaze which dims the moon The grass and Woods are so parched from the drought that the names spread with light ning like rapidity presenting at night a scene of unparallelled sublimity A great many houses and thousands of cords of wood are destroyed and it is feared a num ber of persons hemmed in by the flames' have War with England The National' Intelligencer publishes a letter from a cor respondent in London from which wa takejhe following extract5 We believe" the writer is correct it would be the worst? job of work John Bull ever (bi commence a war with this countryEotn ney Intelligencer have been rumors of a 'war in circulation but the authors of them are persons who think it would bo to their ad vantage if such a disaster were tooccur The rank wealth and intelligence of the' English nation are one and almost anxious for the continuance of peace Indeed lf the opinion of the masses in this country upon the insignificant misunderstanding4' relative to the Northeastern boundary line were canvassed it would bo'found that I they would much prefer that the British kJUVUIULMCUt BUUUIU Bl UUUU gIVU Up lUV disputed territory rather than risk a war repeatit upon tolerably good authority that the English people are most averse to hostilities and further that the best in formed upon the subject laugh a the idea of even a chance of a THE SLIDE ALPNACH It is a fact that there is a railroad i(i Europe where the speed of two hundred and sixty miles and hour is ordinarily ob not indeed for passengers but for timbprl It is the celebrated Slide oL Alpnach in the Alps constructed for the purpose of conveying trees from the moun tains to the Lake of Lucerne The fol lowing is a description of this famous railroad which was completed in the year 1818 is formed entirely of a bout 250000 large pine trees deprived of their bar united together in aver ingenious manner without tbe aid of ironk It' occupied 160 workmen during 1 months and the cost 100000rapcs or £4250 It is about three leagues or forty four thousand English feet long It has trough about six feet broad and from three to six deep Its bottom is formed of trees the middle one of winch has a groovy cut ia the direction of its 1 length for re ceiving small rills of water which are con i ducted into it from various places Jjor the purpose of diminishing the frictionij j'Tbe whole ib sustained by about two inou eand supports and in aisoy places it is tachedma very ingenious manner to ho rugged precipices of The dtrec cinq of the slide is sometimes straight sometimes zig zag with ah inclination of from ten to eighteen degrees It is pften carried aiong tbe sides of bills andjjagkr of precipitous rocks n3 aometimciOTor their summits' Occasionally oes'un der ground and at other times'll ip con ducted over tho deep gorge? byscaffold Clarke in their Journal remark grass 10 this dry grass afforded by the plains during in the river bottoms on the the winter Whether the horse was ongi 30th of March But while this bland and nay a native of te country or not the WVlMv i a a kn narfnit I I country the mountains which torm its eai IerKboundaryare covered with perpetual ffpd shining at tinges like clouds the distance at others exhibiting the most varied and beautiftiLhues A detachment of the troops unuer I rvi rv a left ort Leavenworm in VU LVUgV) of former races civilized and eav a8eijhe remains of broken and almost ex tinguished tribes the descendants of wan dering hunters and trappers of fugitives from the Spanish and American frontiers of adventurers and desperadoes of every class and country yearly ejected from the bosom society into the wilderness We are contributing incessantly to swell this singular and heterogeneous cloud of wild population that is to bang about our frontier by the transfer of whole tribes of savages from the east of the Mississippi to the great wastes of the far West many of these bear tbe smart of real or fancied injuries many consider themselves as expatriated beings wrongfully exiled from their fiereditary homes and the sepulchres of their fathers and cherish a deep and abiding animosity againstthe race thathasdispossessed them Some may gradually become pastoral bord ers like those rude migratory people half shepherd half warrior who with their flocks and herds the plains of Upper Asia but others it ik to be apprehended will be come predatory bands mounted on the fleet steerlnnfthfi nrairies with the onen nlains I for their marauding ground and the moun tains lor meir reireaia auu luriwug piucva Recent explorations show the whole Columbia valley to be a region of wonder ful fertility admirably adapted for grazing superior in every respect to the plains of Mexico or the Pampas of South America Mr Spalding his journal gives the fojlowing account of one plantation on the Columbia farm is the largest on the Columbia river and produced last year 4500 bushels of wheat 4000 of peas 1700 of barley 1500 of oats potatoes not gathered corn but little His horqed cat tle 750 400 with from 2 300 horses lie has ft Saw Mill and louring Mill A large portion of the report is given to the question of the title of the US to tbe territory lying between the parallels 42 deg and 49 Ills of courseTmpbssible to cive ah abstract of the reasonings this subject and we have contented our partofhia 8peech which Mr 8 quoted KCIVU3 Him glGUitnLig) wnuvuMiuvw sv gard to order the information which is em bodied respecting this interesting region? 1 Two extracts from Lewis and Clarke respecting the Columbia' valley may in terestsome readers: i The: horse is confined principally to the nations inhabiting the Great Plains of the Columbia extending from latitude 49 to 60 degrees north' and occupyjngMie tract of territory lying betweewihe Rocky Moun tains and a rangeof mountains which pass the Columbiajriver about the great alls ree tribes possess them in immence numbers They appear to be of an excel lent race lofty elegantlformed active durable Many of them appear like fine English coursers and resemble in fleetness and bottom the best blooded horses of Vir ginia The natives suffer them to rim at large on tbe plains the grass of which af fords them their only winter subsistence their masters taking no trouble to lay in a Winter stores for them notwithstanding they will unless much exercised fatten on return My friends would laugh at me were I togo home and tell them 1 was rob bed with as much patience as a lamb you fire your two bull dogs right the crown of my hat it will look some thing like a show of resistance His request was acceded to but hardly had the smoke from the discharge of the weapons passed away when the tailor pul led out a rusty old horse pistol and in re turn politely requested the thunder struck highwayman to shell out every thing of value (his pistols not omitted) about him He did so and backed out wreathing his hands through bis hair in anger to think that he should thus shamefully be sewed up by a Tailor OREIGN NEWS 1 Sixteen days later The Steam ship I Royal William arrived at New York on i Tuesday morning London papers to tbe 17th ult and Liverpool to the 20tharo re ceived by her We abstract from the New York papers The Royal William had i been twenty days out run short of water i and fuel and had been burning spare i casks She brought 63 passengers England The first subjects to which attention is turned is the corn markets The price had reached that average 3s I at which corn is admitted at a duty of Is Large quantities of foreign wheat were thrown into the market and the London Sun stated that the duty would on Tuesday the 20th be 2s 8d Just after the time of the sailing of the Great Western it appears that storms for a few days interfered with the harvesting The crops were no all housed at the time of the sailing of the Roy al William but the weather was fine On the whole though not so decidedly encour aging as we could have wished the news is favorable to the interests of flour consu mers in this country The probability is almost to a certainty that the prices couldnot be kept up by speculators 1 has replied to Mr Ste publication of the correspon deace between them si He reiterates the I and points out lhe of the re? port which he admitted in his letter to Mr as the mere omission of the sentence following He says Mr apologized to and adds some remarks upon sla very and bis usual strain He is writing letters to Ireland The steam packet Liverpool was to leave Liverpool on the 20lh October for New York An awful explosion occured at Newton iothe willows at the foundry of Messrs Jones Turney Evans on the Manches ter and Liverpool line of railway on Mon day Sept 17 It was a new boiler ftnd steam was got up at six in the morn ing At that hour the men came to work and about ten or a dozen of them stood at the mouth of the furnace when all of a sud den the steam and water burst through the flun nf thp boiler and carried the contents of the furnace and part of its brick work forty yards front the building The ex plosion was terrific! The by standers were carried as if by a gun shot into a corn field on the opposite side of the fence Six were killed and three horribly muti lated In political news there is little from En gland except the meetings of the radicals in every city and the prosecution of in Ireland 4 the working classes was held in London on the 17th and on the 15th at What tbe people may be judged by the Bath resolutions to wKrch all others are similar in tenor They urge 'be fol lowing principles of Radical Universal Suffrage Vote by Ballot Annual Parliaments no Property Qualifications and Payment of Members Ata small hamlet near Preston called nirhnrata Mrs Sanderson and her five Ri A Iftl mH CUHUIVMJ agvu 2 died on the same day Sept a irom me fects of arsenic which the wretched woman mixed in pudding for the purpose of des troying her life and theirs because the i neighbors bad turned their backs on her The details of the awful tragedy as we find them in the Preston Chronicle are heart sickening i Van Amburgh narrowly escaped instant death from a furious attack by one of his tigers during a rehearsal at rom the statement of the affair given the John Bulk it appears that the conqueror of Pompeii he is called wishing one ofta tigers to perform a certaip feat which the animal waa utterly unableor unwilling toac comphshbad recourse to severe corporea whirh chastisement he inflic feVwZa large horse whip Smarting under the lash the animal became incens Cd and suddenly sprang upon Van NUMBER 44 A 73' and Proprietors CLINTON COUNTY OHIO RIDAY NOVEMBER 9 1838 adUCC $2 50 Within tub Year 2 nil soil and the climate appear to be perfectly well adapted to the nature of this animal Horses are said to be found wild in many parts of this extensive country An ele gant horse may oe purcuascu ui tivesforafew beads or other paltry trim a tremendous demonstration ot wh ph the United Slates wouiu nui nvw mt mnrn than one or two aonars 35 ascended the Missouririver Jo the Platte abundance and cheapness of horses will be toils south fork and that fork the Rocky extremely advantageous to those who may Mountains They discovered the moun hereafter attempt tbe fur trade to the hast tains at one hundred miles distance peep indies by way of Columbia river and the iaffWlikeiwhito conical cloudy above the Pacific tonzJn! They discovered on their ap Wild sheep are also found inthis region proach the Jliver Platte pouring itswat and on the coast Lewis and Ciarkesay tIWver a precipice on the highest terrace I rphe sheep are found in many places maanificent objects ip AatureThelfed Rocky Contains Th'ey live in greater children aged 12964aitf 2 year II la in thia AlAVAtCRl 1mm rhnin At mniintaiDB iOnuiuff I I region arid returned to ort Leaven worth the commencement of the woody country I hving lost but one man from the three om We saw only the akin of these animals I 1 nAA I i i Aoa with tka wnnL ana i tonies ia4bo nwen or luvv luucBs i which ine uauv tout Numerous tribes of Indiahs Wander over the blankets which they manufacture from the prairies' of Oregon as unsettled in their thevool? The anima! from this evidence life as tho of this deserter the herd? appear8 to be of the size of our common of buffaloes hunt The follow gbeep of white color The wool is fine ini extract frotig Astoria is given many parts of the body but its length in the report in this connection not equal to that of our domestic sheep tha wildernW filong nvr tvfr 1 the rivers mayrtially WxibMued by STAND AND DELIVER igucufture j' others may form vast pastoral Lr vvere the words addressed to a tai I traitsj lilie those of the eabt but itis to be I ve jog On foot by a highwayman I feared thaV a 'great part wflkformhl of pistols looked rather lUwIesi interval betweeft the abodes ofciv jaDgeroUB than otherwise I like of the ocean or kt d0 that with was the reply I 'abject to the depredations of the maraud: at he tbo ber a purse ap wHere may ring up ne and mon ton Bltol raceslike no wformations in geology 8uPP080 you do me a favor in Hhs ftmalnrnmnltAn ikn MAhriR1 lind I tlQUCd hC PP0 I I i 1.