Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-01-26

An account Of Ghe Life, Writing Is, and |
Speeches, of the late VILLAS PINKNEF,
IS about to be published by HENRY
WHEATON, Esq. The work will include
some ofthe speeches OF Dir Pinkney IN
in Congress and at the Bar, which nave
never before been published.
BY the report of the Watering Com
mitiee of Philadelphia, it appears that
the extent OF iron pipes nov laid down
is upwards OF 10 miles, of tGis, 1884
feet was laid down .ast year, as well as
5S77 feet of wooden pipe. The dis
bursements made for iron pipe amount
to S22,7S9. The aggregate OF water
rents ioI the last year was S27,292 IS;
and that tor the present ear will be
S29,1 100 80. The expense of raising
the water into the Fair Mount Reser
voir, including wages, fuel, lights, tall
low, sc. is less than 4 dollars per day.
The report was accompanied by bill
authorizing loan of $4,000 for the
purchase OF iron pipes.
Il. 5. Pens ,0nerS. was decided i'm
Baltimore County Court, at the last ses-
sion. that. under the provisions OF the
act of Congress relative to this subject,
no pension due at the pension office,
can be affected by an attachment or in
junction laid Ia the hands of pension
agents.
An unfortunate accident took place
last week near Geop getown Gross Roads,
in Maryland. A boy in the act of shoot
ing rabbit, accidentally shot four boys
who were seated OH the ground at some
distance from, and unperceiyed by him.
Among the number were two black
boys, one Of whom died soon after. hay
ing received thirty shot in his person.
One of the white boys is also very much
injured CAestertoiyn Ieteg apA.
A ridiculous prediction has been cir
culated in New York, that the Islands,
to be sunk on the 10th of the present
month. As usual, angels and globes of
fire have appeared to foreteIl this awful
occurrence, and strange to say, the alb |
surd prophecy has seriously agitated |
the minds of thousands II is stated |
that more than one hundred families |
moved out of the city on Wednesday to |
avoid the impending destruction,
United States .Navg Ship of
the Line building AT the Navy Yard at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been |
uame4 TIE alabama, and the frigate
the Santes.
The following,s an extract Of letter
from an officer on board his Britannia
"ajesty's ship Maidstone, on the coast
of Africa, dated Princes island, Sept
IA. 1t gives an affecting account of the |
condition of several hundred wretched
human beings, found on board French
slave ship bound Cor artnique:
VI am glad to say the squadron con-
tinues healthy, and, with the exception
Of the clergyman and one man of this
ship, there have been no deaths. At
Sierra Leone and Cape Coast, they are,
and have been, very sickly; at the for
mer place they have lost upwards of one
hundred troops, and rather more at
Cape Coast, since the rain, season.
am also glad to say the squadron has
been fortunate in captures, so that we
are picking up a little. But the French
now engross all the trade in slaves A
few days ago we had long and ardu-
Gus chase after large Irigate built cor
vette ship, which we al last ran along
side of. She proved TO be the French
ship Orphee, with cargo of several
hundred slaves on board, and in state
that would have made your heart ache
to have seen. The rascals had nearly
all of them chained by The neck. or
most of them; the rest by the legs to the
deck; and 10 add to the horror of the
thing. the bolts were riveted, thereby
showing it was not the intention of the
monsters to let the innocent victims of
their cruelty loose, until the end of the
voyage. She was bound to Martinique.
The between deck was little more than
three feet high, and the groans of the
poor sufferers almost unnamed me-
When | desired them to be released. |