The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-10-05

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Canal. IL was very respectfully attended.
The object Is 70 present memorial to the,
next New-Jersey Legislature.
IL is stated, that frcn series Of well
tested facts, It has been satisfactory ascer-
tanned; that the excessive use ofbcer, which
leads to plethora and apoplexy, is far more
pernicious than that of whiskey.
A quaint writer of sentences in the Ga
laxy says, have seen women so delicate
that they wore afraid to ride, for fear the
horse might run away; afraid to sail, for
fear the beat might overset afraid to walk,
for fear the dew might fall; but never
saw one afraid to be married"
When the Pennington canal shall be
finished, all the trade of the Connecticut
valley will DC brought TO New-llaven har.
bonr.
Abort 1000 fishing vessels from the Uni
- States arc employed in the Labrador
Il hing .--rhcy take 100000 tons of fish
snd employ nearly 10000 seamen.
Taking time b the J0rel0ck.-An English
paper says:
"Cok Fanshaw has been sent to Bermu-
da to examine the defences of that Island,
as it is TO be made great naval depot, tAflf
the event OF future war with the United
States."
Death for Peyury.-During the present
term of the Circuit Court, in the city Of ST.
Louis, says the Missouri Republican, came
on the trial of JOHN BREWER, indicted
for Perjury, committed in the case of the
State as. Patrick Soye, tried at the last
term.--Brewer was found guilty by the
jury, who were absent but few minutes
The sentence of the Court was" that he be
hanged by the neck until dead."-The
sentence is to be executed on the 2Sth Of
this month.
A writer in Western paper has di5cov-
cred in the venerable name of Thomas
JEFFERSON, the anagram Host Of man IS
free" He congratulates himself on the
application Of this anagram to Mr.. Us great
work: for, he says, the Declaration Of In
dependence sets ont with the great truth
contained in the above sentence, viz:" All
men are created equal" II is rather sin.
gular coincidence, as the writer says. II
must have cost him some time, we think, to
work out the riddle.
German Literature. A now rival of Wal
ter Scott, has appeared in the person of
Mr.. Vandervelde, a German writer. He
has already published three tales, turning
on the manners of the Germans in the mid
die ages. They are called the Anabap-
lists, the Patricians,' and Gyllenstier-
ma"
Drunknrds. a writer in the National
Philanthropist, calculates that there are at
least 5000 drunkards in New. England !;
and a writer in the Literary Gazette,
states that there are not less than 1000
paupers in Massachusetts,, supported at an
expense to the State of $3.50 600 annually,
and that at least one half these were re-
duced to want by Incorporate drinking
TO THE CHILDLESS.
rFJOHN FOSTER; of the Goth Light
Dragons, Eng. whose wife is .7nne Eos
ter, had nine children, oil of whom are
dead, except one, James Foster, who may
possibly be alive now. James was born
Doth Nov. 1902, in Guildford, Surry, En-
gland, and left his father, John Foster in
Spain, nst after the battle Of Wa arloo,
and went to Montreal, l.. c. as a servant to
Mr. Jenkins the commissary When the ia
ther heard last of James, he James, had
been living with Mr.. Jenkins, the chaplain,
at Montreal, l.. G.. and was on his way from
Montreal 10 New-York. At this period
James wrote three letters, all dated in
1918, from the county Of Clinton, N. Y.
with a postmaster of which county named
Hicks, James appeared to be living. On
further inquiry it appears that James left
the said Mr. Hicks, after living with him
four DAYS, and that since then he has new.
er been heard of.
There is yet hope for the father and
mother and that hope is in the humanity OF
the fathers and mothers of America. To
that he appeals, praying that If any thing
be known of the lad. now of course a man
grown, he may be apprsed Of it, by let
ter addressed to the Editor Of the Enquir.
er, New-York, or to John Foster, care Of
WIN Angdo. Esquires, 10 Bolton Row,
Berkley- square, London.
~ Editors who are liberal enough 10 in
sert the above, and trust to chance for their
pay, will, by doing so, especially oblige
not only the father above named, but a
native American, Who having como by
chance to knowledge ofthis bereavement
has undertaken to do what he may, in char
ity, for a worthy man, who does not des-
pair though his boy was lost an .3mfl1cr.
London, August 6, 1896.
..-eSs..-
SMALL Pox. The ship Franklin, Capt.
Hardie. from Liverpool, is detained at PHI
ladelp phia Quarantinc--crew SICK, II Is said,
with small pox.
NEw-YoRK Sent 90