Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-03-31
WGo Has SAILED own S70,000i


Cap Bsnjamin Forth sailed from
this port in the year 1888, and has con.
tiHued in various maritime employments
till the year 1924, being Al years; seven
only of which he has passed at. home.
During this period, (S4 years. he has
made the following voyages:
One to London,
-Four to the coast or Guinea,
Five to the Brszils and Africa,
Eight TO the Pacific Ocean;
Que TO the West Indies,
Une TO the Grand Bank,
One to the Northwest Coast sad Canton.
in accomplishing which, be has sailed
by computation, $40 800 miles! He
has passed Cape Horn ie times; the
Cape ot Good Hope twice; circumna-
yigated the globe twice; visited all the
ports on the coast Of Chill and Peru;
the Northwest Coast of America. New
Holland, New Zealand, Canton. and
more than forty islands in the South At.
lanic and Pacific Oceans; obtained ff-
teen thousand barrels ofspermaceti oil.
and four thousand barrels whale oil
never having had a man killed on board
his vessel, nor a bene OF one Of his men
broken by a whale.
This veteran OF the sea, who is still
vigorous and active, has travelled at the
average rate Of three miles per hour.
night and day, for thirty-four yearsi
The following paragraph is copied
from the Norfolk Herald. When we
refer to the locality of the Herald, the
known discretion of its editor, and the
opportunity of obtaining Information
which is afforded by the passage Of
Southern Members ofCongress through
that place, on their return home, We
are induced TO believe thathe has throwa
the true light upon the motives of the
votes of more than one of the fourteen
Senators who opposed the nomination
of Dir. CLAY. We cannot conceive
however, in what maDner the letter Of
the Constitution could be supposed to
have been contravcned by the appoints
ment OF Mr.. CLAY. The trainers of,the
Constitution must have ~foreseen this
case, and, had they supposed it sdyisa-
BILE, would have expressly provided a.
galnst II. We are the more disposed
to give credit to the suggestion Of the
Editor of the He = ID from having our
selves heard an intelligent gentleman
remark, that he considered the appoint
ment Of Mr.. CLAY inconsistent With the
spirit, though not against the letter, Of
the Cor stitEtion:-1Gt Int.
None of the papers have informed
US upon what grounds the fourteen Sem
ators opposed the nomination Of Mr..
Clay to the Office of Secretary Of State:
and hence the impression has generally
prevailed, that the opposition was aI-
together OF a personal nature. referring
to The part which Mr.. Clay took in the
Presidential election. We have reason
believe, however, that it proceeded
from a more elevated motiye-and that
1t was upon const. tationoI grounds en-
llreiy, that the nomination was opposed
We presume the question arose upon
that provision of the Constitution which
declares a Member of Congress ineligi-
bic to any Office which he shall have
1ad an agency in creating. Mr.. Clay
1ad no agenry in creating the office OK
secretary of State but it might admit
a question, whether his agency in
making a vacancy in it, did not amount
o the.lsamething1 Butfor this question,
t is probable there wouldhot have been
dissenting voice TO his appointment"
Norfolk Herald
Bridgeport, (CL) .ifarch I'D gang
y Rogues Deteeied-During the last
numerous d~epredations and
hetts we're committed in the town Of
and its vicinity, among the far
ners, and several valuable horses were
also a gig and harness from Mr..
Raymond, at Saugatuck. Anditi is with