Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1813-03-26
MEDIATION OF RUSSIA.

and Great Britain, his mediation, with
view to promote peace between them,
and that communication TO this effect
has just been made to our government
by Air. Daschkof This proposition is
believed to have originated in motives no
less honorable to His Imperial Majesty,
than friendly to both the parties. It is
to be presumed, that our government,
steadily adhering to its principles, will
not hesitate TO accede to measure,
which, having peace solely and simply
for its object, may be beneficial. and
cannot be injurious, to the II. States.
National InseAgencer, March 9.
Proposed Armisfce.-Letters receiv-
ed last evening from the south, assert
confidently, that the proposition of the
emperor of Russia for an armistice, is
accompanied by an offer to guarantee the
whole of the claims of the United States,
and offers his mediation on this express
condition the guarantee is understood
to extend to the exclusion of American
seamen from the British navy, and the
British from the American the same
overture, it is minated, is to come di.
rectly from the British government,
through an authorised agent Supposed
to be Mr.. Barclay, now at Bermuda)-
Should these circumstances turn out to
be true, our war will terminate before the
summer campaign opeus.-Aurora.
From the European Magazine, for fully
1896.
NeuU discovery respecting the Variation
offhe Magnetic Needle.
We feel great satisfaction in having
in our power to announce to the public,
that gentleman has discovered the
cause of the variation of a magnetic
needle and that, through his theory,
he has constructed a compass, which
stands invariable due north and south, on
all parts of the globe. The navigator,
by his wonderful discovery, can always
steer a true course aud the engineer
or surveyor will always measure correct
angles to the true meridian.
The inventor has termed it azim ufal
By being compared with the com mon
needle, it indicates the true variation.
What is most extraordinary in it is, that
any quantity of iron, placed at one yard
distance, does not in the least affect it.
From the Portland Gazette.
The minor son of democratic doctor
in the county of Lincoln, having heard
of Gen. Dearborne's famous laced coat,
had such an itch for gathering laureis,
that it is said he actually gained the con.
sent of his father to enlist as a private
soldier. But his mother, not reIishing
the scheme very well, undertook to pre-
scribe in this case. As a preliminary TO
her giving her consent, she directed him
to be furnished with soldiers allow.
ance of bread and beef, then passed
non.intercourse between him and the
cupboard, gave him single blanket, and
ordered him to pitch his tent in the porch
every night. Chandeliers revelee was
to be the signal for him to mount guard
in the morning. II is said the patient
had not followed her prescription twenty
hours before he was in state of conva-
lescence-the next day he petitioned his
mother to repeal her obnoxious law and
as preliminary, agreed to let the laurels
grow another year before he attempted
to gather them.
What man, who has the feelings of HUI
manity, will not, in these gloomy days,
readily exclaim with the Poet p
Oh, for lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumor of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war.
Mis- never reach me more. My ear is
pain'd,
My soul is sick with every days report,
Of wrong and outrage with which earth Is