The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-07-31

90 between 60 and 20. OF 10 the weekly
board is paid to people with whom they
live. Forty fsmiies have their rents paid.
averaging about $50 year for each fam.
| iy. Most of these. also rec rive q weekly
lullowance. About 40 others receive no
stated allowance, but are supplied occa-
sionally as their wants require. There
are . deranged paupers, 3 males nd q ts
males, not confined in the Workhouse.
TO be added to the list Of p;auper are tt-
children OF so or 60 hends Of families who
ore supported and assisted by the to@h.
! There are l5 paupers who 10 not belong
I 10 the town, but whose places OF settlement.
cannot be asceriained. The applications
for relief from persons passing through
town, are constantly Increasing. They
are nearly all Irish, mostly women with
children. Where it is necessary, they are
sent to the workhouse Tor a short period or
assistance is given in some cases to send
them on their way.
Piracy and .Nurder! The Norfolk Bee
con of Tuesday, contains the following leS-
ter, dated
HAvA1A, June %.
I'VE have here the account Of piratex
having captured French ship from Vera
Cruz bound to Bordeaux, and after having.
murdered The passengers and creio. amourp
ing to eighty three souls, and piundered re
resset gE it IS said, $500, 600, they sunk hcw
off Cape Antonio. They afterwards CAP
tured an american schooner. from Yagu.
bound to New York, with several younr
lads on board; who were going there for
their education, and cut all their hroatS-
This latter vessel having been found, niaz
was apprehended IN Mannanllo, whs PROV
cd to have been the pilot of the pirate, ai,2
he has confessed the whole. This is the
story current here, and am much lnclnea
TO believe il is true"
Letters have subsequently been received
at New York, confirming The above horr:1
piracy. The persons murdered were prin-
cipally old Spaniards, who had with thea,
all their wealth.
The New-York State Convention, cg
Friends of the Administration, has nomn.-
ted the Hon. SMITH THOMPSON for Goy-
ernor, and FRANCIS GRANGER, ESQ fer
Lieutenant Governor Mr.. Thompson has
be Ell Secretary of the Navy, and is nov e.
Judge Of the Supreme Court Of the UgiteG
States.
Mr. Granger is a son of the late Gideaa
Granger Postmaster General under Nu q.
Jefferson
A writer in the New. York Gazette PIE
poses meetings in Baltimore, Philadel phias
N. York and Boston, for the purpose of ea.
gaging an agent to go out 10 Ireland fD,
the purpose of promoting emigration to ,as
United States, TO come directly to employ
ment, TO supply the dema ad for lsborers
He thinks 20 or 30, 900 more Enigrants car
be obtained every year.
Earthquake. A dreadful earthauak.
visited Lima, s. A. the Both of March. 1,
began at half past seyGn in the morning,
and continued 30 or 40 seconds. Man;
buildings were prostrated and all injured
some Of the churches so badly as Ia make
it necessary to take them down. a greae
number of the shattered houses had beer
pulled down. and others had fallen si,c-
the shock The city was injured to the
mount Of sir millions Of doiLors. The
house occupied by Alsop, Wetmore 81 Ito,
is considered one of the strongest in Lima
and is said to have cost ninety thousand
dollars. Some of the rooms were craclspi
perpendicuarly in many'places, and hap'
the shock continued three seconds longet
The whole top, with its brick roof wonlc
| have fallen in. About 80 lives were lost
Several slight shocks were felt for severa
| days ip succession after the catastrophv
The greatest alarm had prevailed, but ,is
excitement had abated when the letter civ.
ing these particulars, from DIR. S w
Pomeroy to his father in Boston was writ
ten, The 2lst ofApril. The shock extend
ed to Callao but did no damage there.
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