The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-09-18

Bodts,oain.-Edwsfd Croker. Va.
Cunntr--Samuel Allen, N. Y.
!StepGrd.--John II Preston, Mass.
Passengers.--LIeuts. VIM. Nj. Glendy,
Va; Jas. y. Homsns, Mass, nidshipnen
Charles II. nc Blair, Md; Walter L. Cuts,
ID. C.--to join U. s. ship Boston.
Mere. Adv.
FRoM New ORLEANS. BY the packet
ship Frances, arrived last evening, VIE bas e
received New-Oreans papers OF the 10th
ult.
The Price Current Of the 10Th, says
The usual depression Of business al this
season. together with the general prevs
lence of the Dengne Fever, has nearly put
o stop TO business. Many stores and count
ing houses have been closed dunBg the
present week, in consequence of all at.
tached to them being sick. With the ex-
ception Of the great number of new build
ings erecting in the commercial partOfthe
city, the place is as quiet as a country vii.
LACE.
At the time Of the explosion Of the boil.
ers Of the steam boat Grampus, she had in
tow brigs Thomas e. William--Ansstasia,
(Br.J Louisiana. and sloop Dos Amigos.
The topmass, rigging, and bulwarks OF the
Thomas g. William were carried away,
and her deck covered with pieces of, the
boiler, bricks, and ,ther rubbish, But no
person On board was injured. The Anas.
tasia was very slightly damaged--the 9th.
er vessels not at all. Capt. Morrison and
a passenger were standing near the wheel
house on the upper deck, conversing to-
gether. They were thrown with the deck
about 30 feet into the air, and fell upon the
forecaste Of the boat, the deck falling o.
yer them, but prevented from crushing
them by falling upon the capstcrn. They
were both much bruised. Among the kill
ed were Joseph Dryden, second engineer
George Brown, Balize pilot, and Robert
Watkins, carpenter Of the Anastasia. A..
mother hand belonging to that vessel was
badly scalded,
What does II mean 1--WE are Just inform.
ed that mr.. Adams, the president. passed
through this city this morning, not indeed
incog. but post haste. We thought il was
the arrangement that he should not arrive
till the first of October, in order that his
fellow. citizens might honor the occasion
with some suitable demonstration"
The foregoing is from the York
Evening Post To what madness will not
party drive men, when the Chief Magis.
trato Of the Union, summoned home under
peculiarly painful circumstances, and pur.
suing his journey as quietly and-humbly as
the humbleSt citizen Of the republic, must
have his feelings outraged by such para
graphs as the above Il Bos. Pat.
Governor Metcalf, of Kentucky, before
taking the oaths of office, replied, at some
length to very neat address. We sub
JOIN single paragraph from the Govern.
or's observations:
at is. true, sir, thdt have succeeded in
this election, over very distinguished and
popular competitors proof as consider
1t OF the great strength Of the question up.
on which, contrary to my individual views
Ut correct principle, the election has been
made to turn. ConcurriDg as | do, with
the SONS of Kentucky, in their estimation of
ctrh qualifications for c'uit Office, look with
increased confidence to the result of the
pending political contest, as well as tho
permanence Of our political Institutions,
"ENCKE" CoMET.--Tbis singular lumi
| nary, to which the name Of Encke" has
been given, will very shortly again become
visible to us, in situation extremely favor
able for observations; the last tune it was
seen here, was in the evening Of the I'LL,
OF Oct. 1925. This comets distinguished
from oil others by the shortness and regu
lsrity ofits period, (40 mon,hs) and'by lis
small distance from the sun, when greatest
being about that Of Jupiter; indeed, we're il
not Tor ITS eccen,ricity, it might, with great
er propriety, be styled aplanet.--[Pallad.
Curing Bindness.-The story in the A.
pocrypba, of Tobit's blindness being cur.
cd by the gall of fish, has been much ri
diculed. Prdeaux thought il not reconcil
able to rational credibillty. But ths
Richmond Family Visitor states, that DR.
Manlove, physician of extensive practice
IN DInwiddie county, Va. 80 or 40 wears a
20, left on record on the margin of Pri
deaux's Connections, the following note:
"That the gall Of an eel, laid on with
soft brush, with great care, and occasion
ally repeated, has successfully removed I
film from the eye, is most certain. The
writer Of this leaves IT on recordin thi.
place, with an intention that it may be use
tul to some fellow creature, after the wri
ter is no longer an inhabitant ofthis world
I most solemniy declare, have cxperienc
ed the good effects Of the sppica ton in the
course Of my practice. But it should bt
used when the disorder is recent"
| &c. MASLovE."