Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-04-07

on Tuesday; Hampshire on MONDAY Tue Aot"i
and Jefferson on Monday the 18th.
ASSEMBLY.
Col, Robert Gustin 1872
Tam Sherrard 100
Capt Benjamin 0rrick 100
Joseph p Adams -
William Smith IL
FREDERICK COUNTY-CoNGRESS.
At the close Of the poll last evening, at Win
chester, the vote stood for
Alfred II Powell 697
Samuel kercbeval 100
Augustine c. Smith $50
Robert Allen .
William Steinbergen 10
Shenandoah county composes the other part
Of the Congressional district.
Messrs. James Ship and George w. kiger
are elected to the Assembly.
Fire On Thursday night last, the Merchant
Mill, belonging to the heirs OF Thonss Swear.
ingen. deed. situate near Hardscrabble, m THIS
county. was entirely consumed by fire. toge-
Their with all its contents. A free black wo-
man. charged with the offence of setting It On
fire. was committed 10 the jail in this place
Yesterday, 1t is said there were forty barrels
of -four in the Mill at the time.
we lament 10 state that our respected owns
van. the hon. Judge While. nov hes DANCE
rouslv III. at Suckers Ferry, OF paralysis. Tue
;udp. nrss on his way to attend the Loadoun
- -. L.. ,,,au a,.Ilsnly arPestp{ nv fnIS
mos, sfHicting dispensa,ion. From accounts
received. bi4 life may ne spared, but 1t Is be
iieyed tina, he vii. be incapacitsted froaa ever
attend,nr In the antifs OF his Office again, .
sjccumstance which our community wall have
cause never to cease drploring, as one OF me
most melancholy public events v 'nea has e'er
been experienced heIe-W;n. Gag.
The Vlce PRESIDENT leaves ibis VI
~ this morning with his Family, 'or
South Carolina. He will go by TIE way
of Fredericksburg, Cartersviile, Mil
ton. and Salisbury, to Pendleton, where
it is his intention to spend the summer.
We cannot permit this eminent citizen
TO leave this place, alter so long a resi-
dence amongst us, without expressing
the deep impressions Of esteem which
his urbanity and hospitalay(not to speak
OF any other claims to regard have left
on the feelings of the large circle With
which he has freely mixed.-Nat. INT
Don CARLos ALyEAR, late Minister
Pienipotentiary near the United States
of America, from Buenos Ayers, is ap-
pointed in the same capacity near the
Republic of Colombia.-Itid.
The Election for Representatives. to
!the Nineteenth Congress wiltake place,
in the State of VIRGINIA, in all the ap-
preaching month of April. In severa!
of the Districts there viii be no opposi-
ton to the re- election of the late Mem
|bers: in others, there will be close con-
tests. In the District lately represen-
ted by MIR. ARTHUR SMITH, MIR. ALEX
ASDsR SMYrH, Mr.. WILLIAMS, MIR.
Ticker. Mr.. j. STEPHENSON, and MIR.
II. p. BARBOUR. new Members must be
chosen, those gentlemen having de-
sGlined reelection.
The District adjacent, lately repre-
seated by Mr.. MERCER, to whose zeal
Gus and disinterested services the Peo-
|rle of this District, "a well as his W
constituents, are particularly indebted,
is one of those in which thsre is no op-
|position.--Ild.
The Election for Representatives to
Nthe Nineteenth Congress, takes place
6n CoNNEcTIcUr, also, in April; in
%NoRTH CAROLINA in August; and in
EIENNGssEE in the same month. These
with VIRGINIA and ALABAMA, are the
Dnly States, We believe. which have
bot already made their election OF ke-
presentatlves.-Ibid.
Mr.. JAMES BosLEY has left with Mr..
skinner, Editor of the American Far
,ner, OF Baltimore, a quantity OF Ma
<lelra Grape Seed, for gratuitious dis
4 iDution. 1t is said that vines raised
rom the seed, will last 90 or 100 years;
Nvhiist those from the slip, will endure
snly 10 Or II years.