Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-06-30

tomae, on their way down the rivers having
completed The survey Of the contemplated ca
nal route as low as the mouth OF Conoeo'
cheague, at Williamsport.
We published last week, what we thought
an insane message of Governor Troup OF Geor-
gia to The legislature Of that state. Our paper
of this week contain, the report of commit.
tee 10 whom this message was referred, and
some remarks upon it from the Richmond En-
qurrery-As to the report-we have nothing to
say. Upon no hypothesis is it a fit subject for
newspaper animadversion or discussion. The
mere fact that it was permitted to lie on the
acknowledged Of at the close Of the session,
furnishes matter, in our judgment, of grave
consideration. The Enquirer does not look
uponit exactly in this light. Il censures TO be
sure-burthen this governor and his committee
are to be .excused-they have been Jren-.cd,
poor souls. by "Mr Rufus King" and "a few
pert, arrogant newspaper scrib5lers." II re-
minds us Of an anecdote which we wish we
could tell with the humour with which it was
related TO u.s.
Most persons have heard of Gabriel Jones'
a lawyer, who practised in the county courts
Of this valley. some half century ago, and bore.
in many of them, an almost unbounded infiu-
ence. On the trial Of a case before the court
of - county, in which he and the late Mr..
H.. then recently com to the BARI were OPP
posed to each other, be was wersted IN some
of the discussions became greatly irritated-
and outraged all decorum, ny cursing and
swearing aloud. Mr.. Il. after waiting some
time in tho expectation that the court would
take some step for the preservation of lis Dig
oity, ventured to suggest to the Justices taat
the respect which they owed TO themselves, re-
qured of them not to permit such conduct TO
went into solsmn council upon the matter, the
result of which was announced by the presiding
justice-"It is the opinion Of the court, Mr.. IL.
''that you mustn't plague and yex Mr. Jones
sand make him curse and swear soft you do
"sr, we'll put you in the stocks"
Human caprice is no where more strikingly
exernpiifed than in the names we bestow on
things around us. OF all the Names, perhaps
those of news pspers are most arbitrary aud
sometimes least appropriate. Heralds, patri-
OTIS, teisgraphs, wings, federalists, globes,
statesmen, stars, genli, chronicles and gazetes
are bundled together in one heterogeneous
prv,pe. and stuffed into the ssddle.bags OF a
maii.carrier. e"rhe World'' is created and re-
published every Saturday evening, with new
type, and SUPERFICIAL sheet-exhlaiting to The
astonished neighbours ga hebdomsdai miracle
wrought BY mere fingers and filthy ink. "a
Torch Light" is re-kindled at stated intervals
and cent blazing over the country, s~moklngi'ot
from the press, indifferent, whether it zyatms
The bosonls of men with the glow of animat'ng
,heerfulness, Or searches their pride with the
.inders Of despair. .'rhe Herald Of Zion flies
with a speed that never tires, to tel "glad I'D
ings of great ioy' to the afflicted and diseonso'
late, while the same voice procialms a birth. a
marriage and a death, Without ever paus,ng
once to breathe. The table OF an editor after
the arrival of the mail presents a spectacle.
which without a poets license. We might hken
10 the ark of Noah. 1t is loaded with "clean
beasts. and beasts that are not clean, with
fowls and with every thing that creepeth upon
the face of the GARTH Here is news Of fine
crops and better prices-of inhuslan massacres
Joyous festivals shipwrecks and funerals ON
one page-launchings and weddings on the o.
ther; while ablicated thrones, revolted 2rovh-
ses, volcanoes, earthquakes. bella! h"r'ida
beHa!tu auctions. l~arcenies and runaway ne
groes, are crowded all together peil-mel, he'll
tsr.skelter. like so many picked herrmgs III a
barrel. There is no class of persons who en-
Joy a better opportunity than Editors, OF view.
ing at one comprehensive glance the varied
scenes of human veal and woe-of looking up
OH the tragedy and farce of life at once-oi
admir.ng the minite wisdom and exact harmo'
nv Of providemial dispensation. and we may
add, of 6eploring the short. sighted faliacy and
fleeing ~vanities OF men. .
we acknowledge with sll becoming graft
4ude, the receipt tf III Rising Sun" which
one of tie western mails deposited on cur table
during the present week. This lum'nary
dawned on ne 28th day of May last upon the
extreme verge of the western horizon, and has
aoeea slowly jog .,ing over the mountains along
the dssty ecliptic Of a stage rosd, until IN de
fiance of natures la VS., and by q route which
battles astronomical calculation, 1t descended
in our Ietter.bsx the ot.Ner day at noon.
Central Gazette.
The papers received from GEORGIA,
Yesterday, communicate Tive unpleasant
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