The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-02-28

rare al Fort uh FT1nCe.-A nre broke
out at Port au Prince on the Cd inst in
The Government Arsenal, which was en-
tireIy destroyed. Four thousand pounds
of powder exploded, destroying every
thing around it, and killing thirty per-
IONS, including several officers of the
navy. The loss 10 the Government was
estimated at million and half.
Extract Of letter from DR.. Roue, dated
NAPoLI, OCT Is, 1896.
: cannot forbear to repeat what L
had stated in former letters, that the
worst foes with which the Greeks have
to contend, are starvation and nak edne So.
The crops in many parts of the country
are cut off by the operations of war,
and all the population in those parts of
the country occupied by the enemy is
driven TO the mountains.-The little
surplus produce which can be raised,
will barely be sufficient for the first
months of WATER, and nothing but the
succours of the friends of Greece, in
Europe, and may not add America,
will be able TO avert all the horrors of
famine the ensuing spring"
InsOlyent Laws.-The Judges of the Supreme
Court of the United States have delivered
their opinion on the great question of the
constitutional validity of the State Insolyent
| Laws. The National Intelligeacer gives
the following as the substance of their de-
cisioDs:
The subject was discussed by the
learned Judges in manner becoming
its interest and magnitude. Mr.. Justice
Trimble, Mr.. Justice Thompson, Mr..
Justice Johnson, Mr.. Justice Washing
ton, eachdelivered his own separate o.
piDion. Chief Justice Marshall deliver
ed the joint opinion of himself and Mr..
Justice Story, aud Mr.. Justice DuyaIl;
! the result is-that the Chief Justice.
and Judges, Story and Duvall are of o.
plrlons, that State insolvent laws, pur-
porting 10 discharge the contract, are
void, and imperative in all Courts. az
well when applied to contracts entered
into after the passage of such laws. as
10 those entered into before their pas
sage; that the four other Judges are OF
opinion that such laws, when So applied.
are not null and void to all iDtents and
purposes, but thar, 10 some purpose. and
in some cases, they are valid. As far
as we could collect, however one or
more of these four judges was of op,o.
ion that such laws could not discharge
contracts entered into out of the State
where the law existed, or where the
circumstances are such as to enable the
creditor to sue in the Courts of the II
States. We are not entirely certain.
that we have accurately described the
result of the whole case, OF that we
entirely comprehend it. If, however.
our conception of that result be right.
the Court has so left the question, that
State discharges, where the contract
was posterior to the law, are good a.
gainst creditors living in the State, but
not good as against other creditors.
ProUadentia! escdpe.-On the 9th inst.
the horse barn Of Mr.. John Dewey.
lnnkeeper in Chester, being heavily
loaded with snow, was thought to be in
danger of falling. Mr.. Dewey, his boy.
about IL years old. and four of bis
neighbors, Zone lad about ID years
old) undertook TO secure the building
by Propping the roof inside and clear,
log it of snow on the outside. One
man, with the lad and boy, assembled the
roof by ladder. The boy was on the
ridge-pole in the centre, the lad near
the caves, and the man between them /:
Mr.. Dewey was on the floor, the other
two men in the loft, and in the act of
propping the roof, when suddenly il
gave way. Mr.. Dewey was so near the
door as to clear himself. The lad
jumped and was precipilated headlong
into the snow--the depth Of which pre-
served him from injury. The rest
crawled from the ruins one after anoth-
er. And although the barn and shed
connected with it was SO feet by 20. and
II feet posts, and the whole completely
demolished, not bone of those emplov-
ed IN or about the building was broken.
nor any essential harm dope to them.
Hampden Journal.
From the Hampshire Gazette.1