American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-08-16

neBh,s cohtinue TWO cents Tor cotton to nor,h
Sl5 hid ior tobacco four vessels only in port and
they all loading, three days more we shall not bas
a single vessel.-The city is remarkably bea, b,e
some little sickness among the Creoes. ''
/ Prison Disciptine.--A regulation has been ;,,,.
duced into the Auburn prison, by which the con
vc,s are prohibited from receiving all shelters ~,
intelligence whatever, from, or concerning ,bs;.
friends, or any information on any subject m, 81
the prison, nor be permitted to write letters ,ban
selves; that 10 relation or friends shall be allow
ed to speak to convict except in some extraordi.
nary case, where the condition oil his Dronrr,v ~
family imperiously requires it and then, onlv n
the presence OF the agent deputy keeper bur ,ho,
ANY information concerning the conpicts will be
furnished to their friends on personal application
or by letter, post paid, directed to the agent"
Fiscal 1T appears from an abstract in London
paper now before US, that the total amount of ,bs
National debt oil England and ireland was on the 5b
| of January last, l,266.629,576 the amonn, Or
debt contracted in the year ending at the above dat
4 l735S 1871 the amount OF debt redeemed. 90
Cos 3lt.--total unredeem med debt, 795,Sl9767I,-
total ununded debt, Al .4777S9t total unredeem.d
and uniunded debt6S6,7 90557t. II it be true ,ha,
"a national debt is national blessng," England il
the most favored nation upon the globe for hon
blessings ave constantly multiplying Let the United
Estates take warning. and beware of treadinp in H.
same path w 7. Statesman. Wv
| Canal across New Jersey 1t is said thai nsr.
son has offered to construct canal to unite III. wat,
ers oil the Delaware and Rartan rivers upon dead
level for the sum OF 825000O, sufficiently LARGE tor
boats of the size used on the New York canal nro.
vided the land through which it would run. ran bs
obtained gratis. tits hoped that an object so dessr.
able will not be neglected by the powers that be in
| NAT state, when the scheme can be completed for
sum SO comparatively trining Some a c OF ooinon
hat the toll arising from the ransr"",@,ion business
would shortly pay the principal and interest.
LAUDANUM.
Hr' Jukes, sur geon, A. sstinhister, recommends
in cases where laudanum has been taken in DAM
Igerous quantity that copious draughts of warm
water should be given an anti-elhareic Should
ilt be impossible to the patient he recommend
he injection OF water OF the temperature of $50
degrees, into the stomach, by means of a tube
MADE oil elastic gum, heat being the most powerful
sumulus to rouse the suspended functions and the
action OF the poison being moreover weakened by
Idilution Iondon ,,cnon
a malignant fever has been very prevalent in
raris, ana great increase of burias during the
month OF June. Many English families in conse-
quence OF 1t have removed from the city
The city OF Paris was visited by violent thun
derstorm, on the night of Saturday, the 18th Of
June. hree houses were struck and entirely de-
moished But the most affecting occurrence hap.
Pehed at Hantot, IN the department of The Lower
oeihe' "here the father OF a numerous family, at
the moment he was returning wi h his son from
the laoours OF the field and entering his COTTAGE,
was surrounded by the electrical Game and fell dead
IN the presence of his family, composed of ten
children.
The town OF Sanss, in Bohemia was DESTROYED BY
hre on the 9Th OF May las-130 houses, the church,
and town hall were destroyed, and two persons los.
their lives.
In Sweden on the 9th of June last shipwriehts
wages did not exceed 90 cents per tlay-sailors
collars 90 cents per month. Provisions at that
place very low
During the early part of June the heat was very
in England. In London the thermome-
let was up 10 IS deg. and in Warwick on the 9Th
CT June, II was 50 in the shade Thirteen post hor-
ses died IN one Gay on Ascot race course and sever
a. me horses belonging to coach proprietors drop
pea lown and died on the road between the Heath
and London
by the Packet ship Columbia, Capt Rogers, arrived
at New York, Aug. 8, from Liverpool.
A destructive hail storm, was experienced in
France on the 18th and 18th of June. In some of
he districts, the harvest was 1tirely DESTROYED
"A mercantile house at Liverpool entered for ex-
BORT at the Custom house, in one day, parcel OF
FOODS, principally wooens, TO the value of i4O987.
! hey were shipped on board the Belyidera, for
Baltimore,
The valuable sversmilh establishment of Mr..
earn the Jew, in the Strand, London was burnt
m the night OF the 26th of June.-Loss 10000.
J., ne last quarters revenue OF England, was not
'kely to be so great as was expected
body oil Spanish insurgents, were defeated near
|ch' on the 10th june and 100 left dead on the
eld.
IN the parish OF Grue, in the district of Hedemark
Norway a church had been burnt, by which IFS