TERT . -
7 0D NG WRIIDAR rors it from returning. An ar
3, dy . -— 1" a rangement of magnets Is fixed be-
{tween the screen and the workman,
Not for himself, but for his country.”
WEDNESDAY, August 14.
es Se I eet
We have received several commu
ications ; they wil be attended to
Dex Week.
Prom the Baltimore Federal Gazette
Extract from St. Barts, July 8.
& « A few davs ago [ had the pleas-
i' ure to visit one of our United States
[4 yecsels, the schooner Po: poise, com-
manded by that excellent officer heu-
tenant commandant Ramage, whose
politeness and urbauity io the nomer-
ous persons who visited bis vessel
“are much spoken of as also those: of
his officers. We bad two privateers
fitting out in the port at the time for
the avowed purposes of cruising and
capturing Guineamen to dispose of at
this island and elsewhere !| One of
these vessels some time ago, with an-
other, brought here six hundred and
sever. of those unfortunate beings !
The other is a cruiser belonging to
the celebrated Jolly, lately arrived from
“the United States, where she had been
to repair under Dutch colours. She
took in all her provisions, water and
men in this place, but goes to St Eus-
tetia to receive her guns on board
having previous to her departure for
the Upited States deposited them
there, This notorious character is a
great favorite with the governor, and |
was present when bis excellency In
troduced him to captain Ramage at
government house ; aud I leel confi
dent that the whole plan was premed
itated on the part of the governor, for
the purpose of circulating throughout
the community here, that this individ-
val with all his sins about him, bad
been recognised as a proper associate
bv an American officer | The officers
and the greatest part of the crews of
those two vessels are Americans, and
I hope and trust that they may fallin
with captain Ramage, on their return
from the coast, as he is well acquaint-
ed with the circumstance. This ini-
quitovs trade in the human species
will not be kept under, unless a few sels will be admitted at Quebec, New
examples ave made by hanging some
of sur countrymen engaced in it, un.
der the Colombian flag, apparently pri-
vateering, but in reality slave-dealing.
which arrests the very fine particles
of steel that, m passing off from the
stone in an ignited state, frequently
“ise, from their levity, perpendicularly
before the pointer. Without such
guard, these almost imperceptible par-
ticles would be mhaled at every inspir-
ation.
a
steel that may approach the latter,
while the pointer 1s regulating any part
of the machinery in the wheel. The
result of Mr. Abrabam’s humane ex-
¢ritions, not only as they have been
employed in alleviating the sufferings
of the needle pointers, but as they
have tended to diminish the risk of
those who, in Sheffic d, are engaged
in what is called dry grinding. Nu.
merous testimonials have been pre-
sented to the Society of Arts ; Manu
factures and commerce, from the
manufacturers of Redditch and Hath-
ersage, as well as from a oumber of
respectable individuals in Shefheld
who had witnessed the surprisirg effi-|
I'he consequence has been, that the
oclety, after maturely considering the
importance of this Invention, have
awarded their large gold medal to
Mr. Abraham, thereby testifying their
high approbation of his very ingeni-
ous and humane contrivance.
—— § Ee
SUMMARY --The English intel.
iigence of the 23d of June, confirms
the previous continuance of peace be-
tween Russia and Turkey, A conspi-
racy against the government, of a char-
acter however by no means formida-
ble, has been discovered and sup
pressed at Lisbon. The distresses in
Ireland are worse than heretofore —
The Liverpool market for cotten con-
tinued stationary : Orleans was at 8
to 111 ; boweds at 71 to 93; sea isl-
and at 13 to 2s. There was a fair de-
mand for tobacco; Virginia leaf at 3d.
and Kentuckey at 2 3-8. By the new
commercial laws of England, our ves-
Foundland, the ports of Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick, & those of the West
India Islands ; and British vessels from
the above ports and places will be ad-
I forbear for the moment to name these missible at all the ports of the United
wretches, but it is my intention to do States.
I find the at-|
tention of the B ish government has dopian
so at some future day.
The United States frigate Mace-
arrived at Havanna Ju
and afflicting character. ; ; 915
cubscrived in England for their relief, formed to sustain the loose earth and| There is now exhibiting on a sheet
exceed 90,000 pounds sterling.
king has issued a circular letter to the) :
To render the pointer more jciergy of the realm, urging them to|great exertions it was completed by
secure, Mr. Abraham has invented plead with, and to collect from, their|three o’clock on Saturday morning
other magoetical arrangements, tojrespective congregations, donations when the labour of removing the rub
wear round the neck & mouth, which lio their fellow subjects in Ireland.—bish was recommenced with strong| .
are calculated to arrest every particle of | The accounts ofthe sufferings of thisihopes of success. About six © clock|construction of steam vessels, and ren-
people, heretolore published, ough! the bedy of Barlow was found, aboulljers them as free from external in-
not to be ramed with the awful detallsiten o’clock
now before us
The iron steam boat arrived at Paris)
74
7
The disiresses in Ireland seem
rather (0 increase tran otherwis: —|Mr. Barlow was instantly killed, the
The papers are filled with accounts
f suffering of the most melancholy]
The sums]
on the 11th ol June, in 55 hours from
London, with a cargo of clover-sced
and cast iron. This boat is spoken of
in high terms terms of praise.
The papers contain many confused
accounts of the unsettled state of Spain.
The royalists are said to be in arms,
and in great force in many parts of
the kingdom. In the mean time, in-
telligence from both France and Spain
leaves little doubt of the fact of strong
‘military movements on both sides thelw
Pyrenees. Those who believe a re-
muskets without a belligerent 1nten
tion, are getting up a war between the
two nations. We know not what may
take place; but if the holy albhance
have prevented the Czar from march-
ing upon the Mussulmen, they will
not allow the French and Spanish
Bourboos to come to loggerheads.—
The liberals, howeyer, say that the
royalists of France| ce preparing to as-
sist the insurgent Yoyalists in Spain.
From what we can tollect this even-
ing, the internal affairs of Spain are
much worse than we have supposed
them to be for the last six months.
A London paper of June 23 states
that Madrid papers to the 13th had ar-
rived. On the 4th the Coites were
the disturbances of Valencia ond Cata
lonia, and the remonstrances made: to
the French government on the sub-
ject of Spanish emigrants in France
plotting against the peace of the coun
try, were communicated. A favorabic
answer appears to have been returned
by the French government.
From the Paris papers it appears
that the French government has al
length issued orders for Spanish refu-
gees to quit the: frontier towns, and
proceed into the interior towns.
The]
{who was very much, cut about the
informed by the minister of state of
Of the eight persons tried at Lyons
at length Sen drawn to the circum-ly 21 ; the same day the United States
stances of the ficilities and encour ge-|ship Hornet sailed with a fleet of mer-
ment afforded in the outfits of slave/chantmen, bound to the northward.—
vessels from St. Barts, St. Eustatiaj The governor and captain general of
and St. Thomas ; and I hope our gov-
ernment will find it to their interest to
py some attention also to the business.
The pirate that attacked the schooner
American in the entrance of the port
and killed the second mate, remains in
prison awaiiing the pleasure of his
Swedish majesty: but as the hur:
the island of Cuba and its dependen-
cies died on the 19th of July.
On Thursday last, io the State
Prison at Boston, an attempt was
made by the convicts at a general in
surrection., The workshops were set
on fire; and several of the convicts
collected, and threatened the officers
ricane months have commehced, and
the jail liable to suffer as well as any
other building at this season, these
desperadoes during some of the awful
visitations might escape, to prevent
which they should immediately be ex-
ecuted.”
Needle Pointers.
From the Sheffield (Eng. ) Iris.
It is a fact, perhaps not generally
known, that needle-pointers; and all
wha are employed in grinding upon
and proceeded to acts of violence.—
The alarm bells were rung ; the fire
was extinguished ; the mutinous lead-
| Hrrr, was mortally wounded, and
order dnally restored.
The special court for trying the
blacks concerned in the conspiracy at
Charleston adjourned on Friday week,
baving no further business betore
them. It is believed that they con-
¥icted about fifty of the conspirators.
F. Gaz,
tl § Wiens.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
dry stone, arc sitbject to a serious New York, Aug. 4.
complaint which has hitherto baffled] By the arrival of the ship Cortes,
the skill of the medical profession.— captainde Cost, in 39 days from Liv-
Surrounded by an almost impalpable erpool, the Editors of the Commer-
steel and grit dust, they are con-{cial Advertiser have recerved London
stantly inhaling it into their lungs, land Liverpool papers, the former to
which gives rise to a fatal asthma,'the 23d of June, and the latter to the
that generally terminate the sufferer’s 25th, We have only time this even
carder at the early period of from 25 ing to make a few extracts.
to 35 ycarsof age. It has bean stated] Rumour with her hundred tongues
by a medical gentleman at Redditch. was as busy as ever relative to the ne-
where the principal manufactory of gociations between Russia and Tur-
needles in the kingdom is carried on.|key. Meanwhile, all the accounts
that during his practice of thirty vears,'trom Greece concur in representing
he has scarcely known a solitary in-ithe peopleof that oppressed country,
stance of one needle- pointer having ai- as being now threatened with exter-|
rived at the age of forty ; sixteen or;mination. Turkey, if released from
eighteen years generally producing alapprehenslon of att
new race of nezdle pointers.
from an assiduous attention which direct an overwhelming force against
Mr. Abraham had paid to the proper- the Giecks, beneath which they must!
ties of magnetic power, that he was'eventually succumb, ur
first induced to believe that he could some miracu
construct an apparatus which would idence.
obviate the danger attendant upen nee-{ M. Tatischef is now said to. have]
dle pointing, The apparatus is what left St. Petersburgh for Vienna, with!
every inventor ought to have in view, the emperor’s unqualified acquiesc-|
extremely cheap and simple in its con- ence in the terms of pacification, |
struction. A screen of canvass divides which the mediating powers hav
the room where the pointers are atso long engaged at Constantinople.
work, coming directly across the] The plag
grindstone, and extending from thelry in Algiers.
top of the room to the bottom, and]
made very close round the tram and: the Cape of Good Ho
the stone. An opening is cut in the
ing 2 space between the face of thelseason at Florence, but doubted wheth- |
stone and the canvass of about ab inchler either Turkish or Greek represen
and a half, through which the streamitatives will be admitted.
of steel and dust is passed off behind] Tt will be seen that Mr. Cannin
for being concerned in the election ri-
ots, only one was convicted. All those
arrested at Nantz were acquitted.
The West India and American
trade bill, and the navigation bili, were
read a third time in the house of lords,
and on the 20th passed. ‘The nonim-
portation bill was read a first time the
same day.
In the commons, on the 20th, My
Wilmot introduced a bill to regulate
the trade between Upper and Lower
Canada.
———
A father shot his son, in the neigh-
bourhood of Williamsport, Washing-
ton county, a few days ago.
said that the old man had seperated
ifrom his wife for some cause, and the
son had protected her, which is as-
signed as the cause of the foul decd
being perpetrated. The gun was
loaded with old nails. The murder
er is confined in jail, and will no
doubt meet with the punishment due
to the crime.
From the Lancaster Gazette.
DISTRESSING.
An unfortunate circumstance hap-
pened on Friday last at the Distillery
of Mr. Alexander Patterson, in Rapho
township. Mr. Patterson being de-
to the well.
ing eut the loose stones and dirty, com:
bappened about ten o'clock on
morning of Friday.
ed into the well, and upon calling]
aloud was answered by the two men|
below who begged assistance. Jo-|
seph Simpson immediately commenc- yesterday witnessed at Kip’s Bay, tie
on ed filiing the bucket with loose stones. lexhbition of the life preserving dress,
e been! James Long went cown to assist him jor cork jacket improved.
, {but observed it was not s:fe and |ventor, with one of these dresses on,
ue 18 raging with great fu- made his way out of the well, which threw himself
J the bad scarcely effected when the re- by old Brom, the Ventrilognist and day the 3d inst. a dark
[here has been little or no rain at!'mainder of the wall fell in and buried Baliancer,
¢ pe for two years Simpson about thirty feet deep. The [mearly an hour, in the presence of 2
: It is repeated that a congress of people above immediately commenced large number of spectators, perform
canvass, directly over the stone, leav-isovereigns will be held the present{removing the mass of earth and stone ing various feats, such as loading anc
that covered their unfortanate neigh- [firing a gun, and ballanciog a sworc
bours, and persevered until ten o'clock lon the forehead and tip of the nose
at night, when they got so far as to{The exhibition fully satisfied those
: g ¢ g’sibe able to converse with Joseph{who saw ii, and the dress is capabi:
ghe screen, and the current of air pro-bill for the relief of the Roman Cath Simpson ; at this time the earth andjof sustaining a man i i
> a a
rT ag (i Lf 4 up
&
RYN ad
EY
mmm Juced by the revolation of the stonelolics has been negatived in the house loose ground from above caved I ¥eitton Io" thie water, with. is Sn
of lords, by a m jority otf 42 ; last year jon George Earl, Geo. Keffer, a
the majority against it was 39 only.
Mr out two feet above the surface, and
Grider anda Mr. Barlow who werelin neifect use of all his limbs,
engaged in removing the rubbish liq nature will hold out.
A. Y. Eve. Pose,
as long
other three were extricated without]
much difficulty, but considerably : on :
bruised. A orto of wood was then IMPORTANT DISCOVERY,
Z : vine i i I rea-| .
stones from Caving In again and Yea| ¢ woier ip London a new method of
dering their work abortive. With] i hud
‘propelling vessels of every description
which entirely supersedes the use of
-1 :
‘the paddie-wheels used in the present
they reached Simpson,
cumbrance as the
most convenient
‘head and bruised about the shoulders|sailing packet.
‘and greatly exhausted by loss of blood.
- From the Prankiin Gazette,
‘He is, however, considered out of
danger. About 5 o’clock in the af- Dr Franklin
iternoon, William Woods was discov- SL i
‘ered standing upright on the bottom 1 he following is the conclusion of a
of the well, wedged in with the Will made by. Dr. Franklin as early as
‘stones that had fallen around and up- the year 1757, on the eve of siiing to
on him, Conway was dead. Woods England : It has, we believe, never
jsay + that Gonway lived about twelve been before in pring and is now pub-
lhours, that he conversed with him un- lished as an additional proof of the
tit about that time, when poor Cono- pure scotiments and virtuous prinei~
ay toid him he was gone, that the ples of that truly great man :
« And pow humbly returning sin-
1
|
|
water was rising upon bim and he
cacy of Mr. Abraham’s invention. —— giment of troops cannotshoulder their jhe drowned. He felt bis hand press. cere thanks to God for producing me
ing his leg several timss ater his into being, and conducting we hither-
speech had failed, as if in token that to through life so happily, so freely
he was still living. When the wal) from sickness, pain and trouble, and
first caved in Conoway was sitting in With such a competency of this world’s
ihe act of boring, Woods was standing goods as might make a reusonuble
by his side. Woods was much cu: mind 2 asy; that he was pleased to give
and bruised but no bones broken, he me such a mind, with moderate pas-
is likely to recover. Woods was|Sions, or so much of his gracious ase.
buried thirty hours, forty-five feet/Sistance in governing them, and to
from the surface; under a mass of free it carly rom ambition, avarice
stone and earth which in caviug in theland superstition, comunon causes of
he thiré ime filled the well to the much uncasiness 10 men; that he gave
top. ft is an extraordinary fact that me to live so long in a land of liberty,
though these men were buried under With 2 people that T love, and raised
such a depth of stone and earth they me, though a stranger, so many friends
experienced no difficulty in breathing. among them ; bestowing on me more-
madi jovery a loving and prudent wife and
DISTRESSING.
On Wednesday last, a lady while'other innumerable mercies dnd favors,
in the act of going into the surf to I bless that Being of Beings who docs
bathe, at Cape May Beach was sud. not disdain to care for the meanest of
denly seized with convulsions, and his creatures. And 1 reflect on those
and was brought to shere by her ai-benefits received with greater satis-
tendants—a corpse! So melancholyifiction, as they give me such a con-
wd sudden an event shed a gloom onlfidence in his goodness as will, I hope;
‘his, otherewise,avena of gaicty. enable me always in all thines to
Phil. Gaz. submit freely to his will, and resign my
spirit cheerfully into his hands, when-
ever he shall please to call for it ; ce-
posing myself securcly in the lap of
God and nature, as a child in the arms
of an affectionate parent.
B FRANKLIN.”
ip——
Irom the Hurri burgh Chronicle.
DYSENTERY
This diseasa prevails in many
neighborhoods of this state, east of
the 22nd inst. the ceremony of inter-ithe mountains, and is attended with
wg the bones of the brave men thatjunusval mortality, Situations, the
fell at the Minsink battle, in Orange most healthy during other seasors, ap”
county, during the revolutionary war, pear to be most, afflicted the present
took place. The line of procession one. Adams county, part of Dauphin,
was preceeded by the Cadets from !Berks and Lancaster wre especially
West Point, and extended a mile in afflicted ; and the country generally 1a
ane
—
Oa the 18th instant, a young lady,
by the name of Betsey Rookicliow, of
Montgomery, bad her leg so shatter
zd by the discharge ofa loaded gun
which was snapped without examina-
ton, by a careiess lad, that It was
necessary to take it off jusc above the
ankle.
sce—
Funeral Procession.—On Monday
‘dutiful children : for these and all hig -
It is
tength. Major Poppin, who bore a
conspicuous part in that battle, now
mnety-six years old, walked with the
procession, and was one of the pall
bearers. The number of persons us-
sembled on this interesting occasion,
says the (Goshen Patriot, has been va
riously estimated, but the best found
ed calculaiion we have heard, makes
out 2000 carriages of all descriptions,
averaging five persons each and this
Is perhaps not too high, for the most
ol them were two horse waggons,
crowded full, some with eight or ten
la less degree. We are happy, how-
lever, to be enabled to state, that the
ithsease is by no means so fatal in the
country near this place as it was a few
weeks ago. This we presume is ow-
ing to the application of remedies on
its first appearance, and perhaps to
the moderate weather.
erat bp
Ftom the Boston Patriot,
If we may rely upon the accounts
we receive from our friends in the
country ; the present season promis-
¢s the labour of the farmer a rich re-
ward. The recent and bounteous
rains have dissipated the apprehensions
which were experienced a month
since. The crops in Massachusetts
of erain, of the various vegetables, and
of fruit are said to be in the finest con«
Hay, which it was supposed
in—besides these, there were great
numbers on horseback and on foot so
that the whole number could not have
fallen much short of twelve thousand.
ANOTHER HORRID PIRACY.
Cajtain Fitz,ofthe schooner Oliv: dition.
sirous of deepening the well at his arrived at this port from the Bahamas,
distillery for the purpose of obtaining informs,
a more plentitul supply of water, em-{June, the wreckers had fallen in with
ployed John Conoway and William ly ship ashore to windward of Rum
Woods, and with them descended in- [Key, THE CREW: OF WHICH
Mr. Patterson teft the HAD BEEN CUT TO PIECES, a. oh
well, and the workmen after cleans-fand WERE FOUND HANGING Jo ML, PEHRITRIKINS
IN THE RIGGING!
menced boring the rock at the bot- |ers had also picked up a brig at sea
tom ; while at work, about eight feet [near the same place, entirely deseried-
: ttack on the side of of the lower part of the wall gave way [supposed to have been robbed by the
It was|Russia and Austria, will be enabled tojand fell in upon the workmen. This|pirates. The next gang of pirates
the {who may be condemned to be cxecut
A number of the ed in this country for their ficnd-like
x less saved by neighbours immediately collected at cruclties, we presume will not be
lous interposition of Prov-|the spot, and Joseph Simpson ventur-|pardoned.—
would fall short, has since the recent
rains much improved, and it is now
believed that the deficiency in the
crop will not be great.
that about the middle of
The wreck-
Attorney at Law,
May be consulted at his
office (formerly occupi-
ed by Esq: Moore) in
Bellefonte.
5 1 RAY : 2
Came 10 the plantation of the sube
Com Adv,
LIFE PRESERVING DRESS.
We were among the sumber who
The In
scriber living in Ferguson township, at
into the river, followed|the end of Nittany mountain on Satur=
where they remained fo
Roan Mare,
about 11 years of age. She has no
mark except a small mixed black and
white top in her forehead. Shod be-
fore, bat. not behind. She had on a
ne “i “he
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