Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-08-23

David Begges, John Mlivsin. Bazaleel Wells
VIM X. Dickinson, James Wilson, John :.
Wr ght.
Pennsyiuania. &C. ]. ingersoll, Mathew Ca.
rey, Chs. Huston, Walter Forward .Jonathan
Roberts, Daniel Montgomery, Joseph Ps,ter.
son. Joseph kitner, James Todd. VIM. Clark
David townsend, Samuel Baird. VIM r Mac
lay, Alexander Reed, Redwood Fisher. Abner
Lacock.
Rhode Island james Rhodes, David vii.
knson, John Farnum
Permoa-Wm. Jarvis, Rollin C Maborv.
Ellah Paine. William Hall, Heman Allen.
p"g1nda.-samuel Sprigg, Jesse Edgingtou.
NEw YORK, Aug IL.
From .Nsw Oyieans.-lhe ship Lou.
%isiana, arrived al the quarantine ground
on Thursday night from New Orleans.
bound TO Liverpool
There was an unusual mortality a.
board the Louisiana on her passage
I he deaths we're 7. b. Keeler. On the
26th; Dr,H Holley, late President Of
Trans.lvania University, Kentucky, on
the 3lst, and TWO sailors on the 2sth
and 29th. President Holley was a valu.
able man, and 1t Will be recollecfed that
he left the situation in the PENNSYLVANIA
University, with the design of gong out
to Europe as the travelling tutor OF Sc.
veral young gentlemen of New Orleans.
His untimely fate is the subject of much
lamentation.
The advices from New Orleans are to
the 22d ult. The, state that the city
was unusually healthy for the time of
year.
Com. Porter and suite, arrived az
New Orleans on the 18th. The Com.
modore had taken passage at Pensacola
on board the schooner Trimmer. for
Vera Cruz, bat she having sprung her
foremost, was obliged to put in at the
Ballze TO get another finer.
iNTEMPRRENCE, with all its shocking
consequences, seems to gam upon sori.
ely, notwithstanding the laudabIe efforts
made to arrest it> Obstructive march,
Domestic wretcbedness and rum are ito
general, il not invariabie, consequences;
but to those are not ~unirequently added
murder and suicide In fact, it is heat
sickenlng to read the accounts which al.
most every days mai! brings us, of in
stances of these dreadful fruits of the
vice. We do not often notice
occurrences in our paper, be.
cause If their exhibition ronses u bic
attention to the evil, it on no other hand
tends to deadep the public horror and
sensIbility to the most revolving crimes,
by rendering then familiar; but We re.
ally believe that there have been more
murders committed IN The United states
within the last two years, imost of them
the effect of intemperence) than took
place in all Great Britain during the
same period. The two following cases
have lately reached us, and we have
bee the impressed by then, as
we knew one of the victems formerly
as an ingenious, industrious, and useful
MANY NJ hieI
RALEIGH, n. C. Aug. 7-Suicide.-
Daniel Peck. SEN of this city, put an
end to bis existence on Friday last, by
swallowing a large portion of laudanum.
The deceased wa a most ingenious
workman as a gun and locksmlth, and
as a maker of all kinds of irons; but
was u%nhappily addicted 10 occasional
fits OF lntoxication, the frequency and
violence Of which, as it is usual. were
increased by indulgence. Under tie e-
feots OF n OF these he committed this
last sad act of his lie.
HrLLsBoRo', n. C. Aug, L-Frait y
Atsmpe. dnce.-An unfortunate occur
renee took place on the evening OF
thursday last, near Browns mill, IN
this county. A tax gathering had been
held there, and in the evening, two
ne ghbors, John Cheek and David
'obbS, much intoxicated, in company
with several others, set out on their re-
turn home. They had not proceeded
far, however. before a quarrel arose
het"ee Cheek and Hobbs, in ~hIcn
the former received a stab which almost
'aataEtly deprived him of life. Hobbs
7as been committed to Jail to answer
tor the offence.