Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-10-07

Pected TO be discovered 10 Ncwstiamp' 4
shire. IT ID consIdered an , excellent i
time 5er ! scolSde,l exani6ssioes eft,
the wsIte mountains. - A writer lp 4
Ne National lnteIltgepcer, who shoueht
|hAh had discovered an infalliblc mode
|of dhcoveripg how the winds we're to
blow, vas wrong ia his first prediction.
The VIM was North East at wasbing-
tn, whenSe said i would be North
West. lie should have asceitained
the qualify Of Ms theory before he ap'
! nouucsdi'.---Nast week. a woman BY
| the name Of Penn, resident in Mon
mouth county, New J Jersey, in a state
of dcrangement shot Aer husband while
he was in bed. She then reloaded her
gun and escaped to the Moods. s.--Sev-
| eral persons, in Massachusetts, hare
been very heavily and very justly fin
ed, for driving their horseset pace,
! alike dangerous to the rider and the
4 amin sl.--The Baltimore Gazette
mentions areEort that an IMMENSE a.
mount of Mexican and Colombian pro-
tested bills were returned from Eng
land by the packet ship Leeds, AND that
toe fact had produced great sensation
among persons resident at Philadelphia
and New York, interested in the trade
10 those countries. The New York
; Mercantile Advertiser, says, Mexican
bills to the amount Of thirty thousand
, pounds were returned. bat no one at
'N,w-York was interested in them, fur
tther t,an to obtain a commission Tor
transmitting them. The last ac-
counts from Ireland are dreadful. Not
merely faction, with IFS common place
attendants of noisy OF undcrhand agita'
:, ton, is to be watched by the govern
ment like mine, which every instan
may explode; but wide spreading SICK
= ness, from unaIlayed hunger, has fillet
. the hospitals with patients, for whom
the best physick would be one whole
:, somc meal! and the hovels of the poor
with crowded families, of, in some in
stances, three oe four generations dy
!, ing IN heaps, for want Of potatoes AM
water, anil unable, from utter weakness
even to cry out for help. This is no
an exaggerated picture Of the horribl
state of Ireland.
We are happy To learn, that our sea
faring young meu, have an opportuni
. Ity Of obtaining tllorongh knowledge Q
Navigation. in all lis parts, from cor
/. /. Eesea. priNA iNAByes. = he advantage which
a teacher Of Navigation, who unite
practice with theory, has, over one VIII,
is acquainted with the theory ou'y, i
not properly appreciated. To those
) who have followed the seas, particular
lily. he communicates his ideas with s,
much more ease, makes himself Sc
much more plain by the help Of tech.
nica' terms, and throws his views into
the mind Of the pupil, in manner, ant
with a facility, which sailor only
, could effect.
J, William Reynolds, Esq. has been ap-
ipointed Surveyor of The Port of Bri,.
tol, in place Of Samuel Bosworth, ESD.
4 deceased.
Il Several young gentlemen, Americans,
who some months since entered the
Colombian Navy, as midshipmcn, under
the promise.of good pay and rapid pro.
motion. have recently returned to New
York, disgusted with the treatment
they received from the Colombian gov.
ernment. They were not only treated
with gross neglect, but cheated Of their
wages. Eight Of the original number
died, III Colombia Of the yellow fever :
the Others have returned in an impov.
erished stale. having been assisted home
by their own countrymen.
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For all the grumbling, which our
farmers INDUCED themselves 10, some
month or two since, they now finds that
abundant rain, nor severe drought has