Savannah republican. (Savannah, Ga.) 1824-1829, October 03, 1829, Image 1

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Notice, nrillE Subscriber having qualified on T ho will of H>o late ftiliarlv County, request* all porsons against tlx* estate to pro- ?“, n?«niUulv attested, and all persons in- 5sbtod'to tlio saniq. to oomo forward and paltepayment.' J0 HN S. LAW. July *8 W. H. Mackerel. - zv Barrel* and <8 half ditto no S, /ISf Mackerel, and 150 ditto no 8 do. "• :\v Brought to Jail. N Savannah, on the 10th inst. a negro , man who says bit name 1* JERRY, and tha( lie belongs to tno State of Ueor- gin, that he runaway from the Chutalroo- oboe river about 4 months ago—ho is 5 feet flinches high, and about 88 yonrs of ugetho Is of a yellow complexion and suit* tors when speaking. JOHN I DEWS, j.c.c. aug IS ISO niihain County f U COURT, Ji’lv Tersj, t8i0. etitlon of William Morel, sta- xillcnce & bus and praying nt of n cortiiin promissory severally made and signed bv Wffllnm J. .uulryne. and William G rorter. Loth Into of said county deceased, dated Effingham county, lSth I- ehmary, tfSt navable to the said'Wihlain Morel, or order, o'h ur before tlto 1st day of January next, for the sun) of twenty live dollars,lor valuo■received, a copy whereof, whit the affidavit of the said J\ (lliam Morel, is tiled |n the' Clerk> p(Hoe,—It 1* ordered that William King, of the County of EfflJjig. dam, the acting and qualified adniinistratnr of the said William 0. roller, deceased, and dro hairs'and representative* of the said AVilli.im J. Mulryiie, decjWscd. do shew bause on or liefnre the first day of the noxt terinol this Court, why tlj.e prayor of the potilio ,er shmdilnot lie granted, and it is further ordered that this yiilche published in one of the public G»*elt»s of the tlitv at Snvanpali, once a month until the time flppointed-for shriving'eonso thereof. Extract from the wihiittos. /NO. CUAHI.TON, Clk July 18 IflTji Brought, to Jail, I N Savannah on the lOtli inst. h negro man wliomy* Iris name is SIMON, and that he belongs to the State of Geor gia, that he ranatvay from tho Chatahoo- clicc River about 4 months ago—ho is 5 feet 5 8-4 inches high and about 45 years of age—he has lost otte of his front teeth. JOHN I. DEWS, i. c. c. nitg 18' Brought to Jail. rfN Savannah, an the 10th Inst, a negro JL mart who say's his name IfNKD. and that lro belongs tn tho State of Ocoigia, that Itn runaway front the Clratalioorhee river arirpit 4 mniillrs ago, ho is 5 feet 8 inches high and about 88 years t '' ‘ JOHN 1. PEWS ..q.p. aug IB J80 ' tv* Brought to JaiJ. ¥N Savannah, pit the 2Qth ultima, a ne JL geo man, who says his name is TO- NT5Y.a«v' ' W i*l tltnt he belongs to William Beal of Kjclmiond County, Ga, that hr rattaway about two iverks'ago, he is 5 feel 8 I-2 in ches high & about 35 yearsofage—the top of his head is gray.'' : JOHN I DEWS, j.c. o. augfl 115 ■ a ne- .Chambers Superior Court, i JIT ( NE 25th. I Hitt Tho Marino*. Eire lo inranco B4ok .ol tho a,.,, nl Cinitlriim Sit prrior Coiirr J.inn.iry Term, 1880 In Equity. 3Ute of Georgia, ct at tw. Eleazer Eayly, it. nl. [ T being verified'o the Court that Elea zer Early pne nfihe defendants in the >rve cdiise resides out of Chatham coun ty—On, motion it is ordered that the said Rleazcr Early appear on or before tile first fifty of the next Term of this I 'nnrt and en ter his.tppoarance thereto and in-dilault thvtfof the sard complainant havjuteave to proceed on tberr said Bill in the same manner as if personal service of the Bill and subpoena had beep effected no the sai I Eleazer—And it is further ordered tlia this Rule Im published once a month in one of the Public Gazettes of Savannah unlit " Iralloti thereof. Extract from the minutes. HUBERT W. POOLER, Clk Juiie SO 1 fifl Brought to Jail, I N Savannah, on the Slit ultimo. gto nian Who sat * Iris name \ AC ml .that lie belongs to Devill Cook of El- ert t’ounly, Ga. that ,ho ranuway about three weeks ago—he |s 5 feet 2 3-4 inches high and about 15 tears of agb, Ire has a scar oo his chili. JOHN l PEWS, s. c. c. 175 Brought to Juil. i- ' ' negro r . S,and that Ire belongs (o Win Belli nf Monroe Jounly, Georgia, that lie ranaway about four weeks ago. lie Is 5 feel 0 1-2 Indies high and about 43 yews of age. ’ J. 1. HEWS, y. c. o sept 22 Post-Master General, United States, as leaser Early, and others. _ the Blh Circuit Court V. S. District oj 'Georgia, (q May Term, I82fl. 1 N action of debt on bond having been V instituted in the above case by the it-.lfuter General qf tiro United States, Igainsl Elsazer Early, Sheldon .C. Dun- Tag,'Samuel Nicholas, and F. H. Well- Jrin.and service having''been elfocted on ■II the defendants, except Samuel Niclm- '•», who, the Marshal returns, is not to lie fland in this District—Oh motion of the pislrict Attorney, It fs Ordered, that .the aid Samuel Nicholas be, and ho is hereby ral (0 a PP*ar at the office ot the Clerk of hid (,ourt on or before the first' Monday in (tovemher next, being the Rule;} day of Wid Court for said month, then and there , P***“8f answer to the said action—and Lu. iff Ordered, that this citation he Erl? the space of three mouths in - of the Gazettes of this state. S,.- CUVLER, District Judge. Jttractfrotn Rule Book, Gxo. GLKir, Clerk. [ 8th, 1829. ' T tl59 Chatham erior Court, jpjEAS William Gaston. jnmes Ionian Ul bo ' 0r|, °y and George summoned ..to attend /hit r l -, C P,“ r ‘ »* Grand Jurors and rah» f f U "' ll 0,d °r 01 * thht they be i1b« « - j no< * ln 'he sum of Forty Dollars I rla ° r excuse be filed with (*<*«%£?» ” * o ^ehn Dennis, Thomas S. Luther, Nicoll Turnbull, John n, Joseph Hitchcock, George Bon Person, Levi Hart, and VVil I tveston, wore sunimoped to attend min a«? Gouts’as Petit Jutors and ve n?Gf U ^7?' ” nr<ie( ed tiiat they be rs finesl ln , ) !l0 *nm of Twenty Doi- iu'i cause of excuse bo filed e fltirtd Co '" 1 on °r Wre yirst doy pf ,|io „ ext Term , i:;y, True i x 'r" c t from the minutes. [aug27 «0BEaTW.7ooS; Clerk. State Ar&ennl R tff A f ^ SSvbd until feet dam ? ,d ,n ". ,e " 60 front l ‘f SS'i'sJuJBBSS* ; yre cost ot « manner.^ . J?' ‘ ?V ?t b n 8 dpne in ,ho ' 1 day ot Mai l oan 11 ^^® finished hy,lhe ? rPehterVpropmai, Th ° ?ri°klayP* mtly—the Wev * 1)8 ,e P»r#'o or A UnnA rsm ^ Would bournferrml - 9QBaBB| The Hemaplioro de Marseilles states thut letter has been received in that city, con taining tho following aittclo. but tho editor does not giutrrantee its authenticity) "The brig of war Alerto, one of the ves sels forming the blockade of Algiers, being Very near tho coast, encountered a violent gale, which placed her Jn the disagreeable alternative, of either being run astiore, where the vessel would ho lost and the rrew massacred J>y the Bedouins, or to seek the port of Algiers and surrender to tiro enemy. "The commander of the vessel adapted the latter plan, with the firm resoluiion not to surrender until he had done the enemy •ill flsA llvllSall l«A mm.iIJ * « .1 ^ f. I. » all the injury he could, and, after having n alt Iris munitions and every exhausted means nf dofance, to finish at the brave Bison did. ' "This resolution w*s immediately exe cuted; the Alert entered the port of Algiers under full sail, received tiro fire nf all lire batteries, and kept up herself constant broad sides, hoih larboard and starboard and sunk several corsairs which were in. port. "lint a sudden hreege sprung up from the land, of which she took immediate ad vaiitncB, and still continued her fire, man «uvr»8 so well that she loft the harbor' »J- ost at rapidly at she entered it, having only experienced sbnre trifling dnmage.and Inst only 14 men, In an action in which the ■ *w sro exposed to a certain bn! g)orlom death.’’ ' augfl I NSnvamia.h on tins loth ills., n mail who says Iris name i; ,1JOS : Brought to Jail. N Savannah on tire 25th IMny n negro , inan who «ay« Iris name is JANUA RY, and that he belongs to Eduard Clris olnin, of South Carolina, that lie rarm»ay about one week ago, he is 5 leet 2 inches high and about 22 years of age. ire Iras Inst several nf his front teeth, apg D J. J. DEWS. s. c. c Brought to Jail, 'N Savannah, some time ago, a negro . man who says his name is JIM, and that he belongs to John Pitman but does not know where .his master lives,nor where he ranaway from. I am induced to be lieve that lie is owned by some one else, he is 4 feet 9 1-4 inches highnnd about 15 years of ago; ho stammers a little whon speaking. ' JNO.l.DEWS,j.c.c tno 14 142 Committed to Jail, A T Cooiawhatchie, on the 15th ofMav last, a negro man named GEOROF7 who says ho belongs to the Oakmulgce Navigation Company in Georgia, of whom Mr. Robert McCall is agent; he Is about 35 years of ace, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high jnlv 18 J. J. BBOKi JT.p.’p. Coihimtted to Jail, A T Coosawhatchie. on the 25th March last, a negro man who says his name is JOE, who first claimed Mr Richard El lis ns his master, bijt since says lie belong to a Mr. J rhn Thiercc, who lives about 4 miles from Savannah; he is about 5 feet 9 inches high, and about forty year* of age, ' J, J. BECK, J. p. r july 18 103 For Sale. « Y leavo of tho Inferior Cnur.t of this ’ County, will bo sold on tho First Tuesday of December, for the benefit ol lire creditors, that valuable and improved plantation, on Skidawaj Island, contain ing 880 acres, and known by the name of HIBERNIA. THOb. U.,P. CHARLTON, Adm’r. de bonis non, See, sept 15 103 Is added that this trait of extraordl riary.daring had excited such an astoniib incut, among the Algerines as tn arnoun to terror; and it is thus explained how the brig escaped fro,n such a desperate sltua From ihr Charleston Courier. One of oil laia Havana papers con tains tile following description nf a hurri cane in Mpain, which nehaye not beforp seen noticed. The horrible',icrount glveu. borders on (lie marvellous. [translated for Tint courier.] "Ciaorla, (Spain) 1U1A June, IB8fi. Oo the 18ih lost, at half past 2 o'clock, M tills town, with its suburb., was visit, ed by lire inn I terrible scourge recorded in the annals nl history. A tremendous sturnr ofstnnos'of various weights arid diihensions some of ilia sice of a nut, nnd others weigh ing four poiuids dr more, destroyed the, roofs of the'houses of this town, and en cumbered its streets in every dirertron.pre smiting to the eyes of its »retched inlinbi- tants to a horrible picture of n iiomharded citv. Some houses were entirely destroy rd, and others materially injured- The raging hurricane' that accudipa'n'ioi] this frightful meteor, carried along with it marly cottages, w hole Si tnlhe.io different quarters of the town, artd some die distan e of a grid shot further. Most of the In-auti fill rang" of trees in the vicinity!" now lay piosiiute on the grou.id, and such ns with stood i he storm aie bereft oj' their branches. The country Is flow bevonic entirely deso late. anil the laboreri anil workmen are lismaved t seeing how within tire short space of fen Reported fur the'PluUdelplUq Daily Chronicle. ' 1 MAYOR'S OFFICE, Sopt.41. Shocking attempt to KiO.—On Sunday morning, about nine u'clock, tl|e neighbor- lioud of Thirteenth and Broad streets was thrown into the utmost consternation by the rapnrl of a (woman, named Rebecca M'- Kinley. having attempted lo kill lier bus band with a knife Puc,|rhn constable of the district, ivas immediately applied to by the neighbors, and nn entering lire home o( al'Kinley, found the latter lying on the door, tho blood pouring in torrents from a wound of the most desperate description in his right side Just below tho arm. The prisoner,|iis wife, ivho'was standing, by in stantly confessed that she had done the. horrid deed, aa which the officer removed her to Arch street l'rison, though 'cautrurn lo the urgent requestor the husband, why begged that she might bo allowed to stay with him. IM'Kinley, aftei being examin ed by a surgeon, trim pronounced tire wound nffilre most dangerous character, was taken to the I fospital in a hopeless situ ation. When he reached the operating room of that .Institution, the bandages which had been hastily applied to the wound, were temoved, and tire blood spirt ed out upon Ihe floor a distance ol several feet, until immedi ite measures were adopt ed by tire skilful Simeons of the establish ment pi staunch the bleeding. It now np peared that onsufthe principal arteries uf tho body had been severed, and that ilia patient lay in a condition of" extreme dan ger. ' ' 1 ' This morning, Rebecca M'Klnley was brought before the Mayor, to undergo an examination on a charge of attempting to kill her husband. She appeared to boab- oqt five and thirty yoars pf age, of tolera bly good appearance, and seemed'to'hc but little affected at tire dreadful situation in which she found herself, Tl;e furegaing f icts'ln ovitletree haying heed obtained from Put, the olfi.er who committed her.lhepri sillier ivas called up to the stand. She •aid her husband had been Ip tire habit of beatffi’g her m (lie motf brutal manner,even when she iia's ill tile most delicate sirua- ihm, that her friends, when tlioii came to visit her, were violently abused by her bus- h mfi. wjr bn orje occasion, threw a shoe maker's hammer at two of fief female ac quaint uce* ns they were going up stairs, 'and with such force as to knock off a large splinter'from till) staircatr. lie Jpir} only last winter, been committed lo prison fur a brinal assault upon her. When asked how she came to stab her ilnibartd to severely, she stated that on Sunday'morning, just as they were sitting down to breakfast her husband beat her *i ilently in the face, on which >ho said to him, “jolm, if you goto hit me again, i'll stick you." Her husband then'approached he' in a menacing ntti tilde, on which she picket) up a case knife from the hreakfasl'Jable, add covering her eye* withjono band,held out the knife in 'tire fjarrihlt Transaction.—A rare occur rence in the city of fldstnn took 'placo a few days since.' A lady in Cainbridgeport sent into tho pity by a relation who resided in tier family, to obtain a slim of moneiy due to her; 140 dollars, or nearly that a- ninunt, ivo believo The girl, after having obtained tire money, pasted by tlifi old tire- atre, where she observed a man, apparently disguised, who watched * followed her. In lligli-stiect he Suddenly assaulted her, tied a handkerchief round tier inoutli, forced her down (o a neighboring wharf, where he shamefully abused her, rubbed her of her money, and finally threw her Into tho. wa ter. The silk trimming on her dress buoyed her up, and furtumtely her screams were he ird by a woman residing- on Furl Bill I who though night had set in, had the courage and humanity to go out with a little boy and dscertqiu the cause. They sitcceefied in dragging the poor girl fmm her perilous situation covere 1 will) mud fit slhno. A surgeon was sent for, and Ire rronQimcod her Very much bruited and In , “red ; but not dangerously. Bhe was at fint: bat slightly deranued at firsi: bat soonveeov crcd sufficiently to tell where she belong ed. Bhe was conveyed home as soon in she could hear it; and is now ill from Ihe effects of the treatment site hat received.— The villain has not yet been found oat. Mass. Journal. which pre.viouvlv gave joy In their henrJt, Men were prostrated, and some were carri ed into the air by this tremendous" whirl wind, while no assistance coilid lie given them. To the astonishment of tire peo ple, all kinds ol quadrupeds were' seen fly ing in the air, and carried jo n consideru Ida distance. All'tlio inhabitants of tills city have been reduced to tho greatest inis cry; and in their spacious and fertile fields they uinnot now even find feed for such oattle as have been spared to them. T n form some Idea of this, it tufli -ei to state that the hunting of turds, hares, rooks,*c. hut been retorted to for aiibsistence. Sev eral persons, of ail ages, have perished— and man. have been much injured, nnd are on the eve qf dying. On the faers of the inhabitants nothing but horror, /right diredt|on fn which hre was approaching — He came nn,l) and receiving the .knile In ills heart, immediately fell on the floor.— She said nothing Way farther from Iter ien iriimijpt, has disappeared, thmighty than dosfting to injute her hue- sight the' large'-fields At corn. Hand, nnd that she committed the deed an tirely in self-defence. There was no one in (lie room with them af the time. Her husbadtTs name was,John J M'Klnley, And is a native of the stale of Delaware.—Pri soner ivas born in Philadelphia, and [has a mother who lives at Darby. ' Hugh Fire,'the officer, again called and sworn. Prisoner and her husband' Were birth intoxicated. Tjiatit the'knife (point ing to otrtr held up"by the Clerk)-with widen he ivas stabbed, Tire wound was at .least three Inches long, and was very deep, M'Kinley did not reproach Iris wife John Harry, sworn. Was in ihe next room to the prisoner when she stabbed her husband- On receiving the wound, lie rushed into inv loom, wbcief was in bed, and exclaimed am very much injured " Witness did not say u hcilier he adciised Iris m«!A, — A d t„AM Ih (Ita seisin Iia.isa „ ill, The Hon, Caleb Atwater.—This gen tleman, who II ns one of the three Commit sioners for holding (lie late successful trea ties with the Indians; aj Prahic dn Chren, arrived hetc on Monday last on hr* way to Washington with the Treaties, After the successful termination of their Joint labors in securing t)tuLead Mine country lb ilia United Slates, Mr. Alwiter, who is'a All ueralogiit and Botanist, travelled over u considerable portion of the newly arquired territory, and Iras wit ■ngs ol the manerai of this li-nile peculiarly bappj to accompany III qunl to any we ai plant, at it Is called elegant draw animals. Ac. ' tivalcr was . , artist dranings are e- . The mineral (from tlie direntn ■ j i‘ * , ,• • ' • A French journal just received, centains a letter fromlVofessor Ilnnstetm to Pro fessor Shumadker, dated at likutzk in Si beria on (lie 1 Ith of April last, in which ho says tlirst ir is difficult lo find ri sky moro fa vorable to astronomical observations titan that of eastern Siberia,' The heavens ard constant)vsertne and d(audlesc'' from lire moment when tho river' A«gCrti (t„wi n g from the Hko Baikal is coverctf tilth ire, up tn tho mnqtlr of April, During 'all this season, in ihe midst of a coitVbf from '30 ttj 33 degrees (Reaumur) the sun rises "and sets altogether uiiobscurcd by those retji dish vapours with which in France during tho winter his disk is seen partially veiled when near the horizon. The action of tho solar beams In tho mean time is 16 strong, tn spite of the Intensity of the coldj that the snow on the roofs is melted and 'i nter trickles froin'.the i.iVds nt a tetpper" “52!*o* from 15 (o SO degree* below iero, ’ Hill hit riegre6 of cold U mor« Mijmtuta* •de io Siberia t .qri 15 degrees in France"; linco tlio nil U filttuMtnitliiS nml'rlvu li e#.ws since tlie air is ajivays eiilm and' dry. From the l ttli of December' when' tlie w'ientiflo traveller! lefi Tobolsk up to the date of the letter, th. y had constaiilly exporiehced irojn 40 to 84 degrees of culdi Great Blast—Among the tiseful inusemems on the Ohio Rail Roai oenashrnal cannonadiiigt bv 'grot Guns. A few evenings since, enterprising Contractors,- !M r, prepared fur a nREQlflConV Idi into a mass of- Rock pn ;he Patnpsco, which mass bad rhea of giving work for seme weeks: to nothin stratum olsnrid.' an ejcnvai was made suffieient tojecelve tjtree kegs powder, nath which quantity it was ttciu.it- v charged. The vent of tlie vein ran landevard to tlie mountain', and thus secu red the load. The effect was astonishing- y fine ; about 150 toils of rock were bro ken to piece* and removed s one mass of about four tuns entirely crossed Hie riveK, effecting soipo weeks work in a few liouvii Dali, Gaz, ’ stance that wherever It ii/ound, lead ore is to bo found under it) though small, Is a plant ol singular beauty. J|i addition lo DiuWings ofthe plants, animals arid birds. Mr. Atwater Iras collected materials for a mapofghe country, which, with tiro draw- ings, iVihtended to embellish a volume which he is about to prepare for the presi, and which cannot fail to prove highly in teresting —Cin. Commercial Daily Adver tiser,- ' . and sorrow .t" depicted, as the sign of rhei wife or riot. Lives in the same ItnuSe'«ills horrible hunger with which they are threa tened; arid in consequence of which, many' are expatriating themselves, With their families,'to seek in other countries the ‘till sistence which has been withdrawn from them by tlto Uiviue Majesty.” Committees of Council. Finance.—Aldermen Owens, Cuy- of ler, VVelman and Anderson On Dru Culture—Cuyler, Anderson and Bond. '• On Health and Cemetery—Clark, Shef- tall and Waring. On Public Sales anil City lots—Bond, Oivon3 and Cuylor. Oh.Uat Market.—Sheftjll, Shaffer and Bond, On pumps.—Shaffer, Clark and Brown. O/t 1 Accounts.—Shlck, Brown and Ow ens. On Streets and Lone*.—Waring, Wei man find Shiofc. Op Camps.—Gaudry, Shoftnll and Oil- don. On the Fire Department.-Drown, Slrick arid Shaffer. > On the Exchange.—Oildon, Clark and Gautlry. On Docks and Wharves.—Welman, Anderson and.Clark.' Extract Irom the Minutes, - »I.MYERS,c.c, sept 20 -- 167 1 Mr-.Cnnper's new work, the Wept ofthe Wish-ton-Wish, is announced for publica tion in Fiance, under th« title of Les Pu- ritains d'Amerique, ou Ln Vallee du li'ish- ion-lVish. We find the follou ing police of it in one of tlie Par is journals:— j " r. Cooper has not published anv nn vel since the Red Rover, which had such 'immense success about two years ego. Without pretending to give a complete o- pinion of Les Puritnins d’Amerique, the speedy jitiblicnlimi nf which is announced it is yet in the power of thosn who have scen'tlie first volumes to say. that ir will sustain tlio immense reputation of the A merican Walt-r Scott, and -nay be placed without much disadvantage by ;tlte side of the romance of Walter Scott," the title of which bears some analogy to that ofthe present (work, Les Puritains WEcosse (Old Mortality.") Bond of Tel b ®Proferrod pprored "thousand Dollars proved seettritu Do 'lnrs wi;b ltllful DerfarmlY c *11 be requi red. f ur tho, Vjr.^-f'be contract. Agtnf, Sjrup of Sassapari|.ra. PI.RHE Subscriber basjusl received a sup. JL ' ply of this celebrated Syrup A. PARSONS, Druggist, At the Eagle, no 8, Gibbons' Range, ,«pt *8 • m Turkish Becreatioi.s —I was at a Turkish feast a few days ago, given bv a patient of mine, where the enter! limnerit of the eve ning consisted in playing off the most ap- palltngpr.ictical lakes.I everwitnessed, on the person of a buffoon,who ivas well paid for suffering.them. It was the poor fel low’s trade, and ho hore tlio marks of its "dreadful nnturo on his cicatrised .v isago — Having sent him out ofthe room, a pipe was'charged with gunpowder, and over this a little tobacco was spread. He ivas then sent for, made to sit down, and was presen led with the pipe : lie had scarcely lighted it when it exploded at the first puff, and drove tho tube against tlto pnlato of Ins mouth whh great violence ; Iris tips wcie bloody in a few moments, and til# sight on ly excited a roar qf laughter. them. Twq females appeared as witnesses neighbors of M'Kinlev*. one of whom, a very respectable dressed "voting woman, suited tlie busbnnd lo be a miserably "drun ken character; constantly ■abusing and bea ting bis wife, who was frequently seen with marks of tils violence ou her face and other parts of Iter body; she had be.ento roughly mpillial its to be obliged to keep her bed tun d -ys at a time. - i lto had never seon the prisoner io liquor but once," af she not vrs « linking character. ' The prisoner was ordered to be commit te l to prison,to waiiihe event of tree hus band's lifo or death, and was at the sain,' time directed by tile Mayor to hava Her two young children provided for by some of Ifr friends. .One of them is seven years old, the iitltor an infant of about rwelye inorths. She was then conducted out of the office, to all appearance very little affected by the 'serionvnihargc perferred against* bar—pro hably owing to iler ignorance of hit real (linger. Tuesday, September Hi—John J. M'Kin- ley died last ttiglu at cloven o'clock, at tire Hospital, from tho cffocts of tire wound re- ved attire hands of.his wife on "Sunday morning- A Coronei’sinqiiost will be held over the body in tire course'of to-day. The wife still remains in prison. To add| to the horror of Iter situation, she is with in a few month? nf confinement. The Red Sea.—Mr. Majtjen, a late tra veller in Syria'and Egypt, says,—' One ol my flyst objects at Httea was to ascertain if-th'e sea was fordable opposite the town at ehb tide—all, whom 1 asked, assured me tjl lie tonlrary I inquired fur an Indian sailor, who wlshed'to irq a dollar crossing the gulf! At eight Ih'iJieevening'a in.ui came lo me. and offered to make the at tempt. I directed him to walk .straight a c/osf as far as it was possible to du so and to h' id liis hands over hisjieatl as lie walk ed along. I|e was in the water forth,iltli; he (Srohec'dcd slowly and steadily, -hit bar.,is above 'hi* head, and tn nine minutes ho u aton the oilier side uf Ihe Red Sea. On his return he tnlii me what I knew to be a fa'tlj, that he walked evriy step across —Ihe deepest part being about the mid He i'/ ihp gulf, where the water was Up to- Iris chiii. I proceeded now to follow Ilia course, and Rive liim 'another' dollar Id cross over before me, and as I was about eight incites taller tpati iny guide, where ins cniu was in Ihe water my long beard iias quite dry. The tide was pntv conttUx in front, and by Hie time we reached tlie middle of the sea, my Indian thouglil it imprudent lo proceed no further at I was not an expert swimmer. Had ne remain-, ed ten minotos longer, *e should inevita bly have shared’Pharaoh's fure; for the opposite bank was precept ably diminishing,- and at ten o'clock the sea, wlitcli, 2 hours before was hardly inore than tlie breath of th Tlr,tines at Lnndoli Bridge, was from two to three mites broad—tlie difference between the ebb and flow I ascertained to. six feet two inches.” Mr. Madden goes onto say that tie considers himself the on ly European who had yrulked across; in which lie is mistaken.—Napoleon jcsopie, French officers crossed the Red Seh high er, nnd very narrowly escaped drowuingon their return • '" • 1 AN AftKCTINO SCENE. Died at New Ottonus, Mrs. LOUISE ANGKLIQUE JOSEPHINE DEI.P1T. aged 21. Alter having endeavored, to as suage the pain of her husband, hey last words wero addressed to Iter parents : If l regrft lljo it is on your account dear fa ther, dear ir'orher! 1 wdiild wish-to lira longer in order to give you" proofs 'of iny graliludo for your tender care and affeo- t nn, J know that"my death wjjl be q dreadful hloiv to you, and that idea rmhitk tars my last moments. ’ Site could trifirR.V '” •• ■ " ! > I say atj Apothecaries' Blunders Good, in ids - 1 - " re! History of Medietlte, noticing' loine- egrt" cion* Irlunders made by upotbecnr.es.statcs, thut, at Croydon, a druggist, after spelling out the words, cUcurbi ta (ryentia, which stetj j for r ,"tupping glass," not knowipg then meaning, applied for information to another Esculapiiis, and was told that it was a direction for a "lightning" rod." A physician in Worcester, having prescribed so' many grains of a (Ireoetio,, of catcaril- la, and so many grains of ••tict rjusdem,’! or in plain English, tincture "of the same, was united upon by tlie ibuggtst, and very • earnestly requested, to substitute some d. tlier tincture, for that of ‘ejusdem.' as ho had none of it in his shop, and could ntt procure any in town—Sulem Observer. *' Why are the females of the present day, like the lilly in the scriptures 1 ‘•Because they toil ho/, neither do they spin ; yet Bolomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.” Two men died suddenly in a well at St. Clnirsville, Ohio, on the 8th inst. The well had been closed for some tinie, and one ofthe persons having descended about halfway, fell to the bottom. His com panion. not aware of the existence of ill".. • I —Jn>1 rilmi* lisni. ClUCi An act qf humanity, which is worthy of record, ivns performed on Sunday after-"' iioon, by a muh'n'amod Juhn Goner, oiie of the hands .on board tho steamboat Cliinf Justico Marshall. Wo learn from a gon- tloman who witnessed tho transaction, that an interesting lad, about 7 years of ago, ac cidentally fell jnto the river at the foot of Courtlandt street, when Goiver, who saw Iris perilous situation, immediately"jumped fromlho boiv of the steamboat, and with difficulty succeeded in rosetring him. Sev eral gentleman wero present, who raised a subscription on "tho spot, which was- hoard ed.to Gower ns a reward fir his disinterest' ed aud Irumano act—jV. F. Gaz. noxious vapour, descotrded utter him. also .fell lifeless to the bottom. Before they could b« txtticaud, lift wascutnpleie- A."Sooiely for the defection of thieves and robbers" deposited Olio tl.ay fast week twenty dollars' injlie Bank of Salem, N j. 'J'ho night of the same day tha Until, was broken open, and robbed ofthe identi cal thief* money. If was all they ioox— 1 As the son in all his splendor wa* peep ing over tire eastern hills, a newly manict) man exclaimed, “the glory ofthe world is rising!” His wife who happened tn If* getting up at lltkl moment, tukitig the compliment' tQ ' herself, simpered out," “What would you say, dear,' if I had my silk gown on."—Salem Gazette. Governor Cass communicated Ins an nual Message to the Legislative Council qf Michigan, at Detroit. pntheSth inst. lie recommends ho alterations in tlie cxistine system of laws, satisfied that they are such as meet the present exigencies of tlie ter ritory, whose condition is as prosperous as tha of perhaps an v portion of the Union. Ttiis'getier.il improvement will sotln rnn-, der'lt expedient to introduce "Michigan a mong the States of the Union.—The go. verhor adverts to tlto establishment of the, new territory ot Huron, west of Lake Mi chigan, as necessary from thecirc instance' ot its being too remote from the peninsulu ol Michigan The country on the StV Jo seplt has been offered for sale, and. this has caused a great influx'of population. The exact amount is not known, and a cen us is recommended, especially with a view tn the question <qf seeking admission into the Union as a state. ‘ QUEBEC, Sept. 12. On Tlmrsday last, Mr: Henry Ennis, Purser on board of H M's Sitip riiainpi . on, .comqtilled suicide. In the course nf the Ibrenoou he Went into" a public House at Mount Pleasant, and asked forborne milk, of which he drank two tumblers; He then walked about the room, und seemed to ud tniro tho' beauty ofthe s&enery, and after wards went to recline on the sofa. Upon going into tlio roonfsotae"hour* after, lie was found to.be' dead. ' Jn his pocket wbx found a small phial,' containing!! lew drops of laudanum in the bottom/ Upon'calling in medical aid, aud 'Opening the body, the stomach was.fouhd tti contain a quantity uf that liquid! Th'i' Cqfoner’s inquest brougln in a verdict of utfanlty. • A person in the .State. <>f New York, ad vertising a fugitive debtor, describes him as ‘‘is small man, Will a lank auti-masoulc mm ■* Experimental Apple Tree.—'Tho last Nctv Eng. Firmer .cdVi-ums an account of ail apple tree growing in Unellidlz, uhich is tin years old,, and bean 830 varieties of applet. BrummelTs Laif.—This worthy of tho oideti t-rne is, a* doubtle-s most of out I vn- derikhotv, how .•*, i di ar Calais, whdrp he isoccasioutilly vi.it.rl by some of his for mer subjects' ' A gentleman who called upon Mm ih In* wity from Paris (as; week, alter some general coiivcrsnuun, asked him if he Itatl ever tir-'en in London since Itis ab- dica't ,n of tlte.ihrdhe of fushitin. 'J his wasa»"r su'jaci for the ex emperor,' and the manner'iq which'lie rvatled it is well worth the attentioirof the tvro—"Lon‘- dotU” said he, “Liontjon! eh 1 n largo niannfaciuring town, is it not) Oh ! I re collect, ) travelled through the place once." r * : t.': / •< . . * Eggs.—A F'-ench paper, the'Journal de} ■ Conhaissances UsuelJ.es,Hires a recipe for this preservation of eiggs. They should bV placed in a vessel containing^some “watef, with 'as much bme as can be ItelJ in solu tion. and a little' salt. Experiments ale snid to have'been made, .by which it is shown that eggs may lie preserved in this manner for' almost incredible length 01 time, and when taken out will be as fresh and of as good flavor as if they had been only kept for two or three days. " Antediluvian bones—Two cayerns have' I t’tly been discovered itr the department iif Gard, in France, in exploring which, the remains qf human bones, intermixed with-ifioso of some supposed antediluvian animals,' were found A letter containing in account of the particulars has been laiff beftire .the French Academy. ’ Levasseur’s boqk, ehtitlgd."Lafayette in A oierioa” glvtdg an account of his late tra vel* here, is advertisedTei sale in Ptrtis, A Rail was given on Friday evening tlio 18th inst. by the srndpiit- qf thrvAcademy, which was nt-ended,by t lho ladies and, gen tlemen of the city and viciiiijyi Lemony ade was the only beverage introduced. • Tallahassle Aiv, *ia* ult.