Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-11-11
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The steam ship Savannah, capt. Rogers,
has arrived at St. Petersburg.
The boat Com. Perry has arrived at Utica,
N. Y. on The canal, with salt, from Salna.
A machine is mentioned in Italy used by
paper makers. which separates with wonder
full facility, cotton from linen rags There is
a power in this machine which operates like
loadstone.
The grand jury of Pittsburg, Penn. has
presented as nuisances bad women lot whom
they estimate the number in that town So.
A resolution has been proposed IN the le-
gislature of Vermont, providing that when a
ny convict is pardoned, i, shall be on condi-
e, ton Of his leaving the state.
An act has recently passed the legislature
of Rhode Island, providing that the wearing
apparel excepting jewelry and watchcs) OF
any deceased person, if not exceeding fifty
dollars in value, shall not hereafter be consl-
dered as assets in the hands OF executors or
administrators but that the same, II not be-
oueathed, my 20 to the legal heirs OF the
deceased.
d. B. Warden, esq. formerly consul from
the l.. States to Paris, has recently published
at Edinburg, three octave volumes, purport-
ing to be Political, Statistical and Hlstorl-
cal Account of the United States, from their
first settlement to the present day.
The warm baths OF Julian, the sole relic OF
Roman architecture in Paris, have lately be-
come an object oil 50 much interest there thal
a considerable part of a street is to be pulled
down to give fuller view OF them. This
structure was erected by julian the Apos-
tate) in the year 357, in imitation Of the baths
of Doclesian at Rome.
Mr.. John Clarke, OF Cornish, Maine, has
raised from one white bean, GIL beans, each
of which is considered superior to The orlgI-
nal seed.
A western paper has the following fact
, A woman was taken from the Ohio river,
with her arms and legs cut off, and the whole
sewed up in bag. 1t was Instantly recol-
iected that one OF the ishbors had avertIsed
his wife for eiCpenehi. and nc was The man
who had perpe(rated this deed. l he man
was spprehended, and witnesses were found
to declare the body looked like the mans
! wife. The man ciared ms innocence But
,,,h,lo ,,o -, an in biS tr,utin ab0Ut his
. wife and himself too, it was discovered that
this was a woman taken from her grave by
doctor and his students, aud then disposed
of i'm this shameful manner. Tie people QlG
not know what to do, whether most to con-
graduate the honest man upon his escape, or
execrale such shameful conduct. However
the man was suffered TO 60 home, and after
some time the town was put TO the expense
of the Refinement Of the woman, or rather
some good citizens undertook 1t. MIR. Dart
is still looking for his rife in the land ct the
living. -
ON THE DISTURBANCES AND PUBLIC MEETINGS
IL SCOTLAND.
The following observations from Bells Lon
dom Messenger of,he 18th Sept received
at this office by the ship Pearl, betray con-
siderable uneasiness on the extension OF the
spirit of reform in Scotland
1t is very much TO be regretted, but per-
haps was necessarily to be expected, that the
present running spirit Of discomfort has reach
ed the hitherto passive and obedient regions
of Scotland, and that on the other side OF the
Tweed, rs we'll as south Of it, there are re-
formers and reform meetings amongst the
lowest order of tie community. This, for
many peculiar reasons, is bad omen Tor
the public tranquility. Partly by their early
education, and partly by system Of dexte-
rous political management, the Scotch have
usually been neutral and quiet in all our poll
teal agiations. They have resembled Ha-
mover, and Hanoverans, rather than that of
component part of the British empire. The
counties and sheriffs are all entirely in the
hands of government. They are all in the
same stale in which the Act of Union found
them and confirmed it. This, indeed, is one
of the ill effects, which, amidst thousand
good consequences, has almost necessarily
risen from the union of the two countries, and
the consequent discontinuance of their local
legislature. Together with their ancient
laws and rights, the Act of Union has con-