Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-08-07

6s4 we're for the Administration. About
$50 of the friends of the good cause
we're absent at the north, and about
like number unable to attend on &C
count of sickness and other causes.
When we consider that, three years
ago, scarcely an Adams man was known
ia this city, when even the party of MIR.
CLAW was but very small, this victory
must be considered one of the greatest
ever achieved. The good cause then, is
prospecting. and the friends of it must
not rest satisfied with what they have
done, but renew their exertion to gain
the great and most important battle in
November next- argas.
A Rattlesnake, four and a half feet
IoDg and seven inches 10 circumference,
was killed by Mr.. Benjamin Leverich,
of Peekskili, on the 10th inst. When
first discovered, il was about four feet
distant, in humping position; bot hav.
ing gun with him, it received the
contents, which almost severed it. On
raising il from the ground, rabbit,
almost full grown, which it had swal-
lowed, fell fIomit IL had ten lattles
The Convention at Utica, IN. " has
nominated the Hon. SMITH THOMPSON,
for governor, and, FRANCIS GRANGER,
for lieutenant governor, Of the state.
Mr. Thompson was taken from the
| office of chief Justice of the state Of New
York to preside over the department of
the navy al Washington, whence be
| was removed to the bench of Ire Su-
pseme Court of the United States.
We received yesterday morning,
through the post office, letter contain
ing sum of money, and the following
! laconie notice:
Hart and Chandler-enclosed you
will find seven dollars; the writer of this
once wronged you out OF that amount"
We have no means OF ascertsihing the
writer Of the above letter nor have we
the mos. remote idea as to who the per
son may be We however, most hear
| tiIy forgive tha intention of injuring US;
aud we should have done it upon his
confession ofth error, without a rest
tuition fthe amount. Atthe same time,
we commend him to the enjoyment OF
those feelings which result from con
seriousness of rsdseming the past, and
determining well for tue future.
u. S. Gazette.
IViIliamS's Printing Machine -
Yesterday. at the Methodist Printing
Office in Crosby street, twenty six TO
kens, equal to fifty two tokens on one
side, were printed by Williams S small
| wooden press, well done, and finished
at fom O'Clock IN the afternoon. Eight,
or say ten tokens, by hand, Ton the or
binary press,) is days work. The
workman says he can do forty on this
press, on Roth sides, equal to eighty in
the common way; and by Wl!Iiams's l.
ron press nearly finishediat the Sterling
Works, he says he can do eighty Oh
both sides, equal TO 90 days work, on
The old presses Seeing is believing
and twenty six tokens on both sides in
one day is an astonishing fact, not here.
tOf0re equaled or heard of 10 America
a few days will give further results Of
this important Invention, equally indis
! putable aud conclusive.
" 7. Statesman.
Turkish second sight 1t is Ger
tain fact, says Eton, that few years
ago learned man of the law, Turk,
having lost an eye, and being informed
that there was, then, at Constantinople,
"a European who made false eyes, not
to be distinguished from the natural, he
immediately procured one; but when
1t was placed in the socket, be few into
violent passion with the eye maker,
abusing him as an impostor, Because
he could not see with it. The man
fearing he should loose his pay, assured
him that in time he would see with that
eye as we'll as with The other. The Ef
iendI was appeased, and the artist lib
orally rewardcd--who having soon dis
posed of the remainder Of his eyes, left
the Turks in expectation of seeing with
them.