Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-07-19

Ihe HussdT HrtSots-DE Mltchen
has made q report, which is published
in the New York Statesman. deserib;n.
the action of salt water on the yarions
articles taken from this frigate. after
being sunk near New-York, to The
depth OF seventy feet. for the period of
forty-seven years. 1t was supposed thai
this frigate contained a large sum Of
money, in specie. Various atteunt,
have been made to it withou,
success. late effort, made the present
season, has produced a variety of arti.
cles from the wreck, but no money
A tele scope found there had undergone
very little alteration. The wooden casa
was nearly entire, the brass work was 50
little rusted that the tube could be pushed
in and out, and the glasses were so little
corroded that objects could be distin-
guished tolerably well through it. The
brass work of a quadrant was much
more %corroded, owing, it was supposed.
to the greater abundance of copper in
the composition, and the smaller guam
tity olsznc. Iron and steel were most
ly destroyed, The blades of knives and
forks and swords, had entirely disap.
peared; but the torf handles were al.
mostunalterable. Articles of the medi.
cine chest, enclosed by glass shoppers,
were remarkably preserved. The mu.
Ratio acid was distinguishable, and the
volatile alkali retained-much OF its pun.
gency. Where corks had been used, in
most cases, it was difficult to determine
the qualities of the liquors. Cups, sau.
GERS, plates, SC. looked as if they had
not been immersed more than twenty.
four hours.
The U. s. Schooner Shark, Ohio
Norris, Esq. commander, arrived at
New-York on Friday last. The s. sails
ed from Norfolk, in November last, for
the coast of Africa, where she remained
n month. She has been seven months
absent, and has sailed 10000 miles, and
touched at the following places: Mont
serado, st. Thomas, St. Jago de Cuba,
Vera Cruz, Tampico, Pensacola, and
Havana. AT Pensacola, left the FLAG
ship Constellation, Commodore Ridgley,
and the sloop of war John Adams
The latter bad just arrived from Man
~tanzas, her crew sickly, 1t. John P.
futile died on board the John Adams
with the yellow fever, a few days pre-.
vious to her arrival at Pensacola. The
Shark sailed from Havana on the 25th
June. The officers and crew are all
healthy. During her absence, the sail.
ing master, Alexander Porter, died on
board, at Montsurado, of yellow fever,
on the 10th February last. Htremains
were inferred on the Cape. This is the
only death which occurred on board
from sickness. One of the Sharks
boats swung on the bar at Tampicn, on
the night of the 9Th of May last: Mid
shipman Charles E. Wadsworth and
Jose Antonio, were drowned The Sur
geon, with the remainder of the crew,
clung4o the bottom of the boat, which
drifted on shore the next day, Is miles
north of Tampico. The Shark has on
board about 100000 from Tampicos
for sundry merchants in New York.
ALBANY, July 2.-Marder at Schnss.
tady-On Sunday morning, about 2 o-
clock, a most atrocious murder was
committed about half a mile from
Schenectady, on the Troy road, by two
brothers named Van Allen, on q per-
son named Garrit Steers. The deed
was perpetrated at ahouse of ill-iame,
and, it is said, grew out of quarrel a.
bout a girl who lived there. The Van A.
lens beat Steers till he fell to the ground,
when he plead, in the most moving
terms, that they would ave bis life,
but the ufeeling mer paid no attention
to his prayers, and violently jumped on
bis breast, till life was destroyed. One
of the murderers surrendered himself,
and made confessions: the other at
tempted to escape, but he was arrested
on Sunday night. The girl is also in
Jail on suspicion of being an accessory.
ST.. LOUIS, (Mo) June 1--we are
informed by a gentleman recently arri-
we'd from st. Peters, Of a most bloody
affair that took place a few days before
he left. A party of Chippewa Indians
with their families, had encamped under
tba ruoIIs oc EO~f CnaIl;pU xvhorn thew