Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-06-21

! an lew WcekS Tue Oanai tEuEu we
Raritan river to Washington, in New
Jersey, will be completed, when the
steam boat New York will move onthat
route. The distance between the two
cities, New York and Philadelphia, will
be lessened Ia or 10 miles. II is said
that persons leaving philadelphia in the
morning, viii reach New. York ia time
to take the O'clock boats for Albany.
New YoRK, JUNE 8.-Emancipc-
t'on.-One OF the morning papers
publishes an extract from the laws re
iaiive to slaves and servants, by which
It appears that all coIoured persons
Whatever, born in this State precious
ty 10 The fourth day of July, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety
niue, viii, from aud after the fourth
day OF July ensuing, I've entirely free.
Other persons, children of slaves,
born subsequently to the day fist men,
TONED, arc to remain ss servants TO
the owners OF heir.parents. until they
arrive at SPECIFIED age, namely TWEEN
y eight years Tor men, and twenty
hive Tor women, after which they too
are TO be exempted from subservience.
These individuals, however, areeo be
considered only as domestics for a
stated period, (pret,y nearly 10 the
same light as apprentices hound out by
The oyerseers OF the poor and not as
slaves to DC sold a, pleasure: SO that
we shail he entitled in our rtioicings
on the fourth, to mingIe with nur re.
collections of our birth as a separate
nation, the proud boast of having sill
entity eradlcaied the strain of private
bondage which was smongs, ms. Ev.
en- those feeble traces, just referred to,
which the wisely gradual policy OF the
law Will YET permit 10 remain. mus,
IN but very few years disappear, aud
there will be nothing but ungracious
history 10 tel!to the future. that such
things have been - Statesman
Il June Frost - Ga the night Of The
Isl inst. the neIghOrhood of Greens
burg, (Pa was visited by very Sc
we're frost, which totally destroyed the
beans aud corn in the gardens and
helds In some instances, it will be
necessary to re plant whole fields Of
The latter grain, and this frost chrome.
logers will not fail to note as one of
The many and severe changes to which
our climate is subject.
The singulAr Phenomenon describ
ed in the following article from The
Lexington, Kentucky, Gazette, of the
25th nlt was witnessed 10 other parts
'oi Kentucky, and also in Washington
City.
Corona mr. Uaio The most 10
r3inous phenomena OF this kind we
reco''ect ever TO have seen, was visi
BILE yesterday morning Three circles
appeared, the first was noticed about
s O'Clock, and convinced several hours.
1t ~as The smallest and most brilliant
and more than twenty degrees in di
ameter. 1t exhibited most of the pris.
matte colors, nearly as bl chr as the
rainbow, IN which red and yellow
we're predominant. The outer or larg
est circle was about sixty degrees in
diameter, the colors in which were not
so bright as those 10 the Smaller one.
and resembled the pale fame OF can
die. TIE third or middle on. was
barely visible. The Uncommon bril-
liancy OF those CorOuas, together with
the appearance of three at the same
time, a circumstance not recoilected by
many to have happened before, alarm
ed several who had never read or
thought much on the causes which FRO
duce the rainbow, or on the various
phenoEna produced by the reflection
and refraction Of light. Many were
of opinion that il was ominous OF some
extraordinary event about to happen.
consequently inquiries were made OF
the aged and learned, the probahle
cause OF this uncommon appearance"
We learn that detachment OF three
companies of the Fifth Ligh. Infantry
Of this city, under command OF Lieut.
Col Cooke, will proceed 10 Annapo
lis on the ensuing Anniversary of A.
perican Independence, with the in.
iention of celebrating the day at the
capital os the State - american