The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-09-20

uoSc' dHu Ildu tnelr own books. 1t
: IS hoped that he will be able to pro-
cure more certain information respect
ing them in his present expedition from
Benin to Sackatoo.
Hampshire Gaz.
distress a's Barbary-April last the
British authorities in Gibraltar, sent a
medical officer to examine and reDort
me nature of the disease raging at that
time in Morocco. He was absent Oh
his duty nearly month. 90 his return
TO Gibraltar, he wrote as follows to his
| friends in England:
~ 10 give you some idea Of the ca
lamities under which they are now suf-
ierlng, IT will be enough 10 teilyou flat
within the last five months there hay.
died, IN the Emperor of Mororco's d.
minions, no less than two bundled
thousand souls, from famine, and d..
ease. IN Eek alone, there have bean
thirty eight thousand deaths Their
crops having failed for these last thtse
years, from drought, all the rivers ai.,i
springs being dried up, cattle died IF
course from want of heritage, and lie
miserable Arabs hocked down in thols =
ands TO the ports On the Barbary coas,.
IN hopes of obtaining sus,euance, brtg-
ing with them disease and starvation.
Ii has been my lot to see almost every
| horrible sight in nature, but all have
seen put together is nothing to what |
| have witnessed within Ibis last month.
Famine is of all other caiamities that
can afflici a people, the most deplorable
! and shocking. The Arnatomie Vivante
would be amongst these unfortunate
wretches passed by as no curiosity, for
saw thousands every day. Such is heir
extreme misery that | constantly wi
| messed men, women and children, dying
| in the streets; ard in the open fields the
| skeletons Of men are 10 be seen. You
see persons emaciated, lettering and
worn out, at length lying down and ex
piring. They are seen deyouring dead
animals, as horses, dogs, cas-, sc. an3I
even 10 pick up corr from the excre-
ment OF animals. Children are seen in
me STOPPING position gathering up siu-
gle grams OF cora; others turning over
a donghii 10 search of the stalks Ct
vegetables and bones, which last they
break between two stones, for the sake
of The marrow coniainined therein.
| Added to This, the towns OH The coast
are affected with dangerous feye!s!"
!
A correspondent OF the National Iu-
| teiigence of the 4th .ast relates the fol-
lowing almost incredible fe,e OF $ p-
der -" Two or three years ago, Jo!.a
Logan Published 10 The Metropolitan Of
| Georgetown an account of his seeing, ia
the slashes back of this city. spider
snare frog, and hoist hinl up several
inches 10 wig. This account was not
generally credited. now send you an
account Of spider and snake, which ap-
nears equally incredh:!1;::i;,, hnt can be al
tested by macy. Il yeu think II worth
publishing, you may aDuse some OF the
curious.
On Friday last, isi inst. spider was
discovered by the workmen in che Rock
Creek paper,mill, apparently in con-
tact with small black snake, about
nne inches long. When first discover
ed, the snake was sDapping at the spi-
der; and, at each snap or jump of the
snake, the spider tapped his web round
the head of the snake. and sill kept
looping him up to his fastening. The
combat continued all day on Friday, and
all Saturday until evening, when the
spider completely conquered, and had
killed the snake. On Sunday be had
him well dashed about the head, middle
and tail, and had him hoisted 10 inches
up in his web, where he is now hanging
and the spider feeding on him. What is
remarkable is, that the spider is not
larger than a fly. They can both be
seen 10 the wei at the paper-miIl, and
ali the above facts are attested by VIM.
Leish, foreman, Edward Lewis, George
Miller, aud Samuel Norwood; workmen
in the mill, and by all hands working
there"
Taking Time By the Forelock.-Cath-
arine Tudor, al the burial of her FIST
( husband. (John Salisbury was led to
church by Sir Richard Clough, and from
church by Morris Wynn, of Gwedlr, who
whispered 10 her his wish of being her
second. She refused him civilly, and
: informed him that she had acct pied the
proposals OF Richard Clough, in her way
, to church, but assured him that if she
! buried Sir Richard he might depend on
being her third, which really was the
case.
II A BrTE.-The Canal passage fare IS