The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1820-07-12


Jackson I; and intimales, that if he had
been there in person he would have been
treated in the same manner. Ii is not
very long since the inhabitants of York
have had the visit of American generals
among them with which they ought to
he contented; and it will not be their
lault, nor that oftheir typographical pufer,
il lmpoitic national exasperatioD should,
by being too often repeated and wheued,
gradually produce state of things re.
curing similar honors, and even intro
duce to their personal acquaintance the
very general they desire. ill then it
wiil rebound to their own credit and to
public decency, to restrain their cour.
age, and regulate the tervency of their
patriotism.
The reason assigned for their dreadful
ire, Is the merlied punishment inflicted
upon Anbrlster and Arbuthnot, by or
der Of Gen. Jackson. Ii they speak in
sincerity, we have only to say, thar
should they comprehend in the irvento-
ry OF their patriotism, the duty oi assas.
slnation, as the Montreal Editor, speak
lng for them, says they do, they may as
wei, get up new Ihistlewood plot. II
they have ierocity enough to assassinale
an American General, had they the
means, the same blind sense of pia,ua-
ted duty would instigate them against
Lord Liverpool, Lord Bathurst, and the
other members oil the British Minis
Try, who justified his conduct in open
parliament. In another point OF vIcw,
the association Of immoral sympathles,
and ,he coIumon standard oil lnEunan
sentiment would recommend them to
that particular class OF RaGieois. beir
two worthy countTymen, whom they la
ment, ins,igated and conducted insidu-
Gus hostiiities against our borders, to
which unprotected innocence, as well as
manly vigor, iciI victims, bcoie violence
assumed th, shape oi war; 10 which al
terWards were further sacrificed niaEy
lives in combat, and by vhlch misgu,.
ded nation OF our uucuitnIed fellow be.
ings were beguiied 10 their destruction
and ruin. Those who profess them
selves willing to commit assassination TO
appease the names of such men, have
not unlikely set the example nearer at
homr, and may be trembling, lest, lest
their future labors in the same way may
be interrupted by the like justice.
From the Shetherdsso,on, Va } T'vorner.
Mr.. Editor:-An incident occurred
at my house yesterday, which very much
astonishcd me and a number of others,
who Witnessed it, and l should like to
hear it accounted for by philosophers and
scientific men. My servant had been
Washing, and among other things had
washed muslin handkerchief, belonging
to my wife. being about the half OF
yard square; it was starched, but was
not ironed, and hung on line in the
yard to dry after becoming dry, it arose
from the line and assembled like a ballo n,
in rather sloping direction, until it en-
tirely disappeared; when last seen, 1t
looked like small star. There was
very little air stirring, and there were no
clouds. Whether its ascension was oc-
casioned by the peculiar dryness ard den-
sity of the atmosphere, or from particu-
lar form that it assumed on leaving the
line, leave to the learned to decide.
This extraordinary fact can be Attest
ed by, perhaps, fifty persons
JOHN BAKER.
S6ephsydsfosvn, ia. June 10.
The following paragraph, from the
Darien jGeo J Gaz. OF June le, is con-
sidered TO be a hurlesque upon the Sea-