Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-06-09
FROM La GUAYRA.-

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teen DAYS from La Guayra, bringing
Caracas papers to the 18th of May in
elusive. and letters of the 18th of this
last date, the Editors Of the American
have aletter which says:
@Business is extremely dull. There
are about seven sail OF American and
an equal number OF other vessels in
port. The flags displayed by the foreign
shipping now here are American, En-
glisf, French, Hamburg Bremen and
Portuguese. The rains have been more
heavy than FOR the last 10 years-the
interior is said to be literally inundated
no mails from Bogota since early in
March-the travelling is believed to be
impracticable."
Sits said the people of the plains are
becoming troublesome, and that several
connections have taken place in
the interior. The church ofPetare was
entered some weeks since by banditti,
and the Alcade and IA others murdered
a number of young women were taken
off by the robbers. Cisneros, the ia
nous robber in the vicinity OF Caracas,
is still troublesome, and keeps the coun-
try in continual alarm"
MEXICO.-Tampico papers to the
18th ofMay have been received by the
Editor of the Federal Gazette. They
are silent as to the reported expedition
under Santa Anna, against Cuba, but
we collect from them, that the country
is tranquil and prosperous.
We have a file of the Port al Prince
Feu;lle du Commerce, down to the sth
inst. The following article in the latest
paper, is all that we find worthy of no.
tice.
I'm the night of the 9Th and 9th ofthis
month, public tranquility was disturbed
atPort auPrince for a few hours. Some
good women under the influence of a
blind superstition, believed that the time
had arrived for the accomplishment
of various predictions of their astro-
logical counsellors, about the end of
the world, which theDevil and his
agents were to effect by tremendous
earthquakes The recent long dro 'ght
and some days of very hot weather
unusual in the spring, confirmed
their credulity. At midnight, Off
cious persons wentfrom door to door,
awakening every body and crying out,
"~arise; light your candle; lose no time;
every one is up.'' In an instant, this odd
invitation spread alarm throughout the
city, a real panic seemed to seize not
only the creduleus but the most incre-
dulous. Every body enquired what
was the matter; nobody could tell, but
all agreed that it would be extremely
i~mprudent to go|baek to bed. Our po-
lice always on the alert, soon perceived
what was passing, traversed the city
in every direction and urged the inha-
bitants to retire to rest. These who
were deaf to this request, were arrested
by the patrols. and led to prison.
The colored people of the United
States, who happened to be at Port All
Prince, must have thought it hard that
they were to be swallowed up SO soon
after the trouble ofemigration.
National Gazette.
Judicial Decision Al a late SEES.
sion OF the superior court for Nelson
county, in the state Of Virginia, il was
decided by Judge Stuart, on motion
made by a former high sheriff against
his deputy and securities, to recover
a sum of money which the high sheriff
had been compelled to pay on account
of the default Of his deputy, that a sale
ofthc Office of sheriff by the h'ghsherlff