The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1827-09-27

For seve raj days past says = ..a,ional
Journal, we have received no New'Or-
leans papers. Probably, the Intelligence
given in the following paragraphs, which
we find in the New York Daily Adverti-
ser, of Monday, may account for the fail.
ure. 1t would give US great pleasure to
find some less mournful cause:
Private letters and verbal statements
from New Orleans, state that an epidemic
has broke out in that cty--their papers,
however, are silent on the subject The
only notice the papers OF the 2lst Of Aug.
take, is the following:
About forty persons have been buried
in this city, within the last seven days; a
mortality which is nearly double the gen.
eral average among this population"
One who is not an eye witness of the
fact can scarcely imagine the immense
number of persons who daily arrive at and
depart from this city in steamboats,, and the
vast quantity of produce that is shipped
from our wharyes, and conveyed TO market
by steam and wind. Last Sunday evening,
within one hour, there arrived six steam.
boats with passengers, and three of these
also having in tow two barges each, with
freight and passengers. Together they
must have landed some fourteen or sixteen
hundred persons. There were never more
sloops on the river. and they all 60 hence
fully freighted. Albany Daily .4dr.
Perpetual Notioa.--Mr Lewis Babcock
|.
has constructed machine of brass, of a
bout Ia inches high and 10 inches wide,
which has the power of winding itself up
once in five minutes, by means of spring
lever, that falls instantly, without retarding
the power of the machine. When put to-
gether it commences motion Immediately,
without any starting cause, and moves
pendulum at about the same rate of clock
pendulum. We are informed that it has
nov been running about five weeks inces.
sanity and several distinguished mechan-
les, who have seen it, say that they see no
reason TO hinder its running perpetually,
until it is worn out. The ingenious inven-
ter intends taking it to Washington the
approaching winIer.--SpringG field Rep.
The weather in Georgia had become
much cooler about the first Of September.
FIRES had become quite comfortable dur
ing the morning. The growing crops
were suffering from drought, aud the guam
tlty of cotton. it was thought, would fall
short of last years crop
British and Foreign Bible Society.--ltis is
stated, IN late English journal, that the
Scriptures. are now published, by this So
cetY. in one hundred and forty seven diff
ferent languages.--The Society has eX-
pended SIR millions, three hundred and
tte,aB teo thousand, fUe hundred and Sirty
dollars.
A surviving officer ofthe British frigate
Hussar, sunk at New York in 1850, has re
Gently asserted, in the Edlnburg Observer,
that he assisted in landing 20,00Ol from
her; but writer in a New York paper as
serts that I5O,UO0l. were carried on board,
and refers to several witnesses now alive
in New-York
The North American, new steam boat
run from Albany to New York, last Wed
nesday, in ten hours and thirty three min
utes, being about sixteen miles al. hour,
and stopped eight times on the way.
$3.50 ship letters were received at the
York Post Offices, on Thursday af-
tern0on.
The haians.-The Piqua Gazette ofthe
Doth ult. states, that almost every man, wo-
man and child belonging to the Shawnese
tribe of / indians. thirty miles north of that
place, have departed for Maiden, and &C
ccpted of presents from the British agents
to a very considerable amount; and also.
that Gov. Cass and his party have been at
tackled by the Winnebagocs, while on their
journey to Green Bay: that hostile dis
position is beginning to appear amongst
most of the tribes on the frontiers, and that
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