American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1825-10-14

|
Issued from the American press during lhe lass
quarter. including rather than the usual
share OF pamphlets, as this period embraces the
touyth ct Juty. Fifty volumes have been reprinted
and published during the same time. The Whole
number oil new publications tor the quarter, there
fore, is one hundred and eighty six. We have
| spared no pains to make our list as complete as
1t was practicable TO make it /; but the difficulty of
collecting intelligence OF this kind renders it prob
able lha, some volumes have escaped Our notice.
U. >. Literary Gazette.
The IRISH Giant.-Al who visit the pretended Irish Gil
an unite in declaring the shoe imposition Instead of
being eight nine feet high, he is not seven We have
native BON citizens who nearly related Auak as
Pat Niece and it would be we'll if the imposition should
no longer be tolerated. ". York Com .ldp
A Belfast (lreland) paper mentions recent de-
cison OF an important suit in which, property To-
the probable amount Of 100000 sterling was in
volved. A MIR. O'Hara, protestant gentleman,
had been married to q French lady by a Catholic
clergyman In consequence OF this forbidden rite,
IT has been determined that neither the widow of
Mr.. O'Hara nor her issue by him, have any legal
claim to the O'Eiara estate and the sons of Mr..
Ottara have been deprived of their fathers pro-
per,y, BY due course of law, because Catholic
priest solemniaed the marriage of their parents.
sTAuNros, VA. Ocr. 7.-sut Of SANDER "A suit of this
character brought by Mr. Iiarwick and Wife vs.. Nor
rss for SANDER against the wife, decided the last
term OF the Superior Court OF Law for buckingham Cou.
V, III most exemplary manner The jury without argi-
ment, rendered verdict for the plaintiffs of S. O0O
which considered the full of all the defendant
was WORTH
Arrangements are making in Norfolk 10 despatch
vessel with all possible expedition, to the colony
on the Coast of Africa. About hundred per-
sons principally from North Carolina. have already
offered to embark, and more expected. The
emgrants are all required to produce testimonials
of freedom and unexceplionabe character.
WILLIAM w. WooLsEY, Treasurer OF the Ame-
rcan Bible Society. New York, received, on account
Of the Society, 85,059 Sc. in the month of August.
The issues from the Depository during the month
we're, Bibles, 057; Tesamenls, 2,290; total, 1886
value S2,695 90.
writer in the United States Gazette states, that
the debt due from France the citizens ot the Uni
ted States tor property seized and conscaed under
the Berlin, Milan, and Rambouillet DEGREES, has
been estimated at more than thirty millions of dol.
lars, one cent of which he asserts has been re-
turned to its real owners up to the present day.
France is able to pay, he asserts, and France must
pay.
A shoot from the willow that shades NapoleoD,s
grave at St. Helena, is preserved in of the ho,
houses Of the King Of England's gardens of Kew.
1t cut from the tree, and the slip put into earth,
where it took root. On reaching Englsnd il was
presented to his Majesty. It is about loot high
and thrves we'll. The foregoing is the substance of
is natural enough except that this slip rhoud have
been presented to the King and by him have been
preserved. Properly considered, this shrub can be
no other than reproach to the head Of the British
nation, living memeno OF the tyranny, oppression
and persecution experienced at the hands of the
British government by distinguished hero and
statesman, whose days unquestionably short
ened thereby. The page Of history will make that
government accountable to posery for their gross
violations of the ties OF humanity and philanthropy.
Boston Patriot.
The New-Jersey Bleaching, Printing, and Dye
ing Company, are erecting building at Belevile,
263 feet front, Of hewn stone, and three stories high
probably the largest building in that state. This
factory is designed for bleaching, printing and dye
ing cotton, wooden and silk goods on am extensive
scale.
Eas,port sand with permission, has given directions
for the graves Of the British officers buried there,
to be surrounded with permanent enclosure, and
the monuments to be preserved
Mr.. Queen, since his return to Britain, has pub
lished one of his American Lectures in the Glas-
gov Chronicle. He denies that the people of the
United States enjoy real liberty; and reverence for
Christianity he calls the despotism OF weak mnds'
This sort Of cant is much older than Mr.. Owen.
London paper.
Electric Eel.-The Editor of the Hartford Times,
mentions the arrival in that city of tiriag Electric
Eel, supposed to be the first ever brought 10 the
United States. 1t conveyed thither by Capt
Latmore, from Surrinam; is about three feet in
length, and resembles a Lamprey-Eel. 1t has
but one fin which runs nearly the whole length of
the body, and serves for rudder. In order to try
the effect Of a shock on fish, one put into the
tub which contained the Ee on its coming in con.
TACT it was thrown up about two feet, and when it
fell was perfectly hfeess. The Editor of the Times-
while examining this singular animal, says that he
received three or four shocks touching it.