Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-05-22

Ice, and continued passing them til
next morning-counted 81 large ones,
and saw great number Of smaller boz
dies. Passing within cables length
of five of the largest To one of them
was attached fragments Of rocks, small
stones, and greyish earth. They APP
peared about so feet high, and about
half mile in length--some of them
with broken cragged tops, and others
level They quite becalmed the ship
numerous sea fowls, small kind of
duck, and several seals were seen "a
bout them.
THE SroSE.-M. Regnault, an able
physician at Greenoble, well known for
his success in many difficult cases, has
Just invented an instrument by, which
the operation for the stone may be COM
pleted in two minutes. Several expe-
riments have confirmed this astonishing
fact-U. s. GAZETTE.
HsALrH OF NEWPORT, II. There
are now living in this town, 3o7 per-
sons from 20 to 100 years of age; of
whom 81 are white males, 1879 white
females; IL colored males, and 30 col
ored females; and there has been but
one death here for the last three weeks,
of any description of persons. These
instances of longevity and health, we
believe, cannot be said of any other
seaport town in the United States, of
the same population. At the Census in
1920, Newport contained 1919 inhabi-
tants.--NEwPoRr MER.
We are sorry to learn, says the Ma
tional Intelligencer, from gentlemen
from that part of the country, that the
Hessian fly has made great impression
on the Wheat in the counties of Fred
erick, Shenandoah, Sc. in Virginia, in
which counties ordinarily is grown
great quantities of that grain.
Such we regret to state is also the
case in many parts of this county
The crops of small grain, which few
weeks since promised to be most a
bundant, have been much injured Of
late by the fly and small worm; and
if their ravages should be continued,
afford but a gloomy prospect to the
farmer.
DISTURBANCE AT HAZARD CoLLkoE.
The Boston Statesman says, that
very serious rebellion has broken out
among the students at Hazard College,
and that almost the whole senior class
have left the college. This affair is
stated to be so serious as to preclude
the possibility of a commencement the
next season.
On the authority of letter received
in this city, we learn, says the N. York
Statesman, that the rebellion arose
from the dissatisfaction at the appoint
ments for the commencement exercis-
es, and that all the students of the SEN
Tor class, with the exception of ten or
fifteen, have bound themselves by an
oath to take no part in the commence
ment.
A Philadelphia paper states, that cap
tain Smith of the schooner Amity, from
Angostura, has brought dried skin of
a snake, nearly 100 feet long!
The Providence American states,
that fisherman of that town, few
days since, took from the river, above
Central Bridge, 5000 pounds of Bass at
one haul. -
appointments By thu Erecative # Ma
ryinnd =.
Theodorick Bland, George Wincbes-
ter and John Patterson. Esquires, COM
missioners to lay out and survey a route
for canal which will connect the wa
tiers of the Susquehanna with the city of
Baltimore.
Athanaaus Fenwick, Doctor William
Howard and William Price, Esquires,
commissioners to survey, locate and lay
out the route Of canal from the city Of
Baltimore to the Potomac river.
The Democratic Press says, the man
ufactory at Patterson, N. J. consumes
a ton Of HEMP day: more than one
half of this hemp is imported because
our farmers will not grow it. The same
thing is true of our Linen and Woollen
Manufactures, because our farmers
will not raise FLAX and WOOL, and
every year we import some thousands
of bushels Of POTATOES. Is not this
strange state of things in an AGRI-
CULTURAL SOCIETY,"
VIRGINIA ELEcTIoN-At length we
have complete returns of the Election
in the Congressional District which has
been several years representedby Alex