Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-10-13

nave offlcIously offered tneir services 10
the Pacha of Egypt, to convey money
and other objects necessary to the pre-
sent expedition of this Satrap That
brig has made several voyages advanta-
geous to the enemies of Greece. as well
to Rhodes, when the Egyptian tieetlay
there, as to the Isle OF Gambia"
Fran CE and TIE ISLAND OF CUBA.
The Democratic Press received TINS
morning publishes the following para
graph. but we expect that it is merely
reiteration OF report which has been
in circulation for some months in many
of the southren states-the amount OF
the French squadron in the West Indies
has, for a long time. been the cause OF
suspecting il had other designs than
those of affordiDg protection to COM
merce, but we believe it has no troops
on board and that the principal object
of its visit was accomplished in the ar
rangement effected with the Hayden
government.
at is said that accounts have been
received at the City of Washington.
that the French squadron in the West
Indies, were about to land its troops at
the Havana, and take possession of the
Island of Cuba. Whether this move
ment was or was not, by virtue OF trea-
ty of session from Spain, we have not
heard; but presume, if possession shall
be taken by France, that it will be UNI
der the authority Of Spanish treaty.
1t is said that the information excited
some sensation at Washington, where
it was rumoured that the Franklin and
Ohio, seventy -fours, would immediate
ly be manned and equipped and sent to
sea on the West India station to protect
American commerce and properly
We do not wish to be understood to
vouch for the truth of any part of the
statement, but we would wish distinctly
to be understood, to be truly OBTAINING
what we heard from gentleman who
may have been misinformed, but who is
capable of misrepresentation
Iroa.--A very important discovery
has been made for the improvement OF
this leading article of our manufacture
ers and commerce, and the success
which has attended the various expert
ments which have taken place must be
highly gratifying to the ingenious inven-
tor, and in national point of view the
results can scarcely be contemplated.
1t is we'll known that in smelling iron
from the stone in its original state, a
great quantity OF carbon, and verify
ing or impure matter is found, which is
dissipated from the further process in
making or conyirting it in to bar from
The more it is purified by the present
process, the more it becomes soft and
flexible, and is thereby rendered COM
paratively useless for articles where
strength, toughness, and hardness are
required, and thus the manufactures is
compelledto use foreign iron in the con-
struction OF such articles.
An individual connected with the iron
trade, possessed of great practical and
scientific knowledge, has with praise.
worthy perseverance, devoted the grea-
ter part of his life TO numerou, and
incessant experiments on the subject
Success has crowned his efforts, by
the discovery of process by which lie
can recharge Bar IRON, or manufacture
articles, with a vineral carbon, so as to
give the softest iron considerable por-
ton of the steel quality making it as
hard as blister steel without destroying
any portion ofthe toughness it had be
fore acquired; and this can be accom-
plished at a trihing expense on large
scale. 1t may fairly be presumed that,
by bringing English iron nearer in quail
ity to the foreign, it will create a grea-
ter demand for our own production, and
supercele the necessity;of using the lat
ter. which is generally at much high.
er price in the market.--LOn. paper.
On the 18th OF July, an infant not
three years old, playing on the bank
of the river Charentonne, ut Bernay
by accident fell in, and would have
inevitably been drowned, but for the
intervention of another child, not sew
en- years old, named Etienne Lucas,
who perceiving the accident, imme.
diateiy screamed out for assistance;
butt nobody arriving, and consulting
only his own courage, he threw him
sell into the water, which was two
feet and half in depth, and succeed
ed in catching the infant by its clothes,
and dragged it to the edge ofthe wa,
ter, where he held himselfand the lit.
tie creature that he had rescued by his
courage. ill he could nrocura sSo;e,