Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-06-26
FROM GUATEMALA.
SAVANNAH. JUNE 1T.


dAGaires from the United States to Gu.
aten1ala, arrived here yesterday in the
schooner Albion, from Omoa, and viii
proceed by the first opportunity to
Washington City.
By this arrival, we collect the follow.
ing information:
The Government of Central America
is virtually dissolved. The President
has resigned, but the act was, in some
degree, compulsory. The civil war
continues, but the seat of it is changed
from Guatemala to St. Salvador. The
latter Power has increased its army 500
men, and has at present the ascenden
cy. 4 battle was lately fought at Chal-
chuapa. Both sides claimed the victo-
ry. The priests have originated the OPP
position to liberal principles. The only
functionary remaining in the country
was the Minister from Colombia, and
be would shortly remove.
Bolivar, with some troops, was with
in eighty miles Of Ocsna, where the
Convention was in session. This is the
constitutional distance prescribed. Al
though a! present it is supposed that
there are in the Convention majority
opposed to Boiivar"s views, still it is
thought that they will be brought over
to lis measures. His object is suppos'.
ed TO be not only appointed Dictator for
life, but to establish a hereditary sue
cession. The first might easily be OBJ
tanned: the success Of the latter is doubt
full
Heavy exactions have been made on
foreign merchants, by the Government
Of Guatemala, from which Americans
alone have been exempt, in the only
instance attempted, that is, upon Mr..
Richardson, of Il. Island. tie resisted
itauccessfully.
MIR. GRATrAN (son of the famous
Henry in his speech on the Catholic
question, on the 10th ult. made the fol-
lowing remarl:s;-
Time presses, for who can say how
soon we may be involved in new war,
aud how soon we may again have occa-
sion fer the services o. the brave and 10y
al Catholics Of Ireland? Have they not
met in America spirit Of sympathy I'M
| iii lately unknown; Let us take care
we do sot excite on our Transatlantic
Colonies Affecting that may lead to their
ultimate separation. Those lrishmen
who return from America exhibit de-
gree OF thoughtful stubbornness which
surprises by its contrast. He goes
where the spirit of Washington still sur.
wives and the genius of Washington still
animates; and when he revisits his ma
tive country, he is no longer the humble
| and subservient { athoiic, but the rehec-
ting and stubborn Irish. American"
The Indiana Journal mentions on the
authority of a gentleman from Illinois,
that between the 18th and c5th of May,
a rencontre took place at the mouth Of
Spoon river, on the Illinois, between 8
white men and Is or 90 Patawatamie
Indians-which resulted in the death Of
three of the latter. The Indians, it
seems had procured whiskey, got drunk
and broke open house in the neigh
borhood, and went to the mouth of
Spoon river where there is ferry kept,
and demanded more whiskey- on be.
ing refused, they drew their knives and
attacked the whites to take it by force,
who repelled them with clubs. After
the Indians had lost three OF their num-
Der, they ran to their camp for their
guns. No further difficulties occurred.
A London paper of the 18th, (the
Euglishman) speaking Of the affairs OF
the East, holds this language ut APP
peais to be beyond question, that the
Russian army, from its General to the
meanest drummerboy, is impelled by an
almost enthusiastic desire to come in
collision with the Turkish forces So
strong is this mania for Turkish war,
that it may be, almos. doubtful whether
the Russian autocrat, in his present
circumstance, could resist the current OF
opinion which acts SO strongly throughout
his forces, and almost throughout the
whole of his population"
A Peaceful Omen.--A London NOR
ming paper states that Sir John Macrae,
1 who received the honor of knighthood