The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-04-19

otdIe 1Iuaes-h letteT from an I>uSItSu Hd-
val officer on the African station gives no
very favorable notion of the efforts made by
England for the suppression Of tbs horrible
trafic.-He says, i" We have been SO fortu-
nate as to capture 895 slaves in less than a
month-and we have boarded La Jeune Car
oline, French brig, with $50, and another
with 202 slaves on board, both of which be-
ing French, zoe could not touch" Son the 10th
September continues he, the Maidstone
| boarded French ship with 700 on board, and
the Frenchmen had 300 more on board ten
der. You may Judge from these facts TO what
an extent this inhuman traffic is now carrying
| on.'
| A Street MorseI--.The Baltimore Patriot
states that Mr.. Randolph thus commenced
one of his TRADES few days since -" Mr..
| Speaker beg pardon, mean Mr.. President
OF the Senate, and a0ould be President of the
United States, Which God in his infinite mer-
cy auert''- and then went Cd his usual strain
of calumny and abuse, which Mr.. Calhoun
suffered without once noticing the indecorum
to himself or others.
A letter from Wasltington, Of the lst April,
mentions, that ON the Friday preceding, Mr.
RANDOLPH paraded into the Senate Chamber
with red flannel hunting shirt on his arm
and it being IS Good Friday" he moved that
the Senate adjourn. While the motion was
in debate, be said, "Well, believe will
put on my shrt,'' and did so, and wore it as
long as he continued ia the Chamber.
sHung be The Hearens in black ''-Mr. Ran
/. dolph has made the following declaration on
the floor of the Senate Of the United States.
&c IT," said he, &C at the end of three years, the
People shall re-elect Mr.. Adams, President,
H. Loro ell
The New-York National Advocate oil
, Thursday contains a report of an interesting
; breach Of promise case which was tried in that
. city on Wednesday, Mr. Crawford as. Mrs.
Benford. The plaintiff was a grey-headed
; gentleman OF "a, very lame, nearly blind, and
81 quite poor; the defendant, a widow of about
! IS, little paralytic, and the owner of a
good estate. The counsel for the defendant
asserted, among other things, that the plain
tiff saw the lady's charms in her rent-roll, and
? not 10 her face, while Mr.. Crawford, on his
[ side, protested that e has sole deSirs tcaS 10
bury Mrs. Benford along side Of has first
pife." Verdict for the plaintf-2OO dollars
and costs.
Wonders Of the Microscope. Anderso-
man Society Of Glasgow has purchased from
NJ. Dolland the largest solar microscope that
n optcian has ever constructed. The first trial
of this superb instrument disclosed some won
derful phenomena. Hundreds of insects were
; discovered devouring the body Of gnat, and
S scores had lived luxuriously for several months
on the leg of moth. These animalcules were
! magni6ad SO as to appear nine inches long,
their actual size being somewhat less than the
fourteen hundredth part of an inch. The mine
Q raj kingdom afforded another display of bril-
q liant objects: their capitalization, and the
splendor of their coloring, exceed any thing the
I, , most lively imagination can possibly conceive.
Vartues Of SaA.-The following extraordi-
nary fact has lately come TO our knowledge.
, A planter in this vicinity had been for some
years afflicted with wen on bis neck, which
grew SO large as to be very inconv enient aud
distressing. After trying number Of rene
t dies, he was advised by one of his ncighbors
to wash it two or three times day with
strong salt water (water in which salt had
been dissolved) He did so, and to his great
relief and comfort, the wen gradually decreas-
4 ed i'll size, and finally disappeared.
Raleigh Regisi~.
The Wduerly ,Nopes.--In conse quence OF
4 the failure of Constable & Co. the publishers
S of the Waverly Novels, Sir Walter Scott has
\ been obliged to testify that he is the proprie-
tor of those works, in order to establish his
rights as creditor TO the house, under a COM
a mission of bankruptcy. This, by many, is
considered as settling the question of author
ship.
: A woollen factory has been burnt in Mont
. pelier, Vt. Three men went into the factory
to save property-two Of them jumped out of
a high window. and were severely injured by
: the faIl-the other was consumed in the build
e ing.
y Land in Buffalo, N. Y. bordering on the
: canal, formerly a mere quagmire, has recent
!. y been let on lease Of ten years, for five and
six dollars per foot.
) In France, lately, widow voluntarily
/. paid TO the old Creditors of her late hus
i bands father, what they lost by receiving pay
4 of him in assignats national paper money!
which deprecated in value--and also the
interest on the same. The assignats were
not only legal tender, but persons were
: punishable for refusing them.
Surrender of CdLao.-By an arrival at Bal
: timore, from Colombia, official advces have
been received of the capitulatiou and surren-
der of the Spanish garrison of Caliao, on the
23d January last, to the Patriot forces under
Gen. Salon.
At late nomination Of Town Officers in
: Canajoharie, N. Y. all the candidates were
named Vsn Alstine. There were 10 grades
OF Office, and 90 officers.
$ The Fayetteville IN. CO. Observer states
a that a gentleman of Lawrenceville, Mont
2 gomery county, took during the last season, in
/, one net, fourteen hundred and sersniv- four
: partridges; fine sport this.
+ Accounts from Botany Bay 10 Sept. 49,,
states that tribe of natives have been dis
. covered at distance of four or five hundred
lnilea frnna the English cnttlnranrA IL -