The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

at the Lafayette Hotel in Salem, on the 18th
instant, The hundredth anniversary from his
birth. He has accepted the invitation, and we
understand that all the physicians of Boston
unite IN this testimonial, to the professional
worm OF gentleman, who during his long life,
mas sustained the character of an eminent ply
siclan, who was the first President of the Mas
sachusetts Medical Society, incorporated in
lIol' and who has uniformly enjoyed the high
esteem OF his brethren in the profession. as well
ior his amia5le and excellent moral qualities, as
Ior his distinguished intellectual requirements.
ALBINos. The Savannah Georgian SAYS
there are In Savannah two Albinos (white ne
g6oes) natives of that city, one being about
~ years old, and the other 5 or 6. The parents
are perfectly black, and have four other children
OF as deep color as themselves one of whom
is intermediate, with respect to age, between
Ihe subjects of these remarks. They have light
mar resembling lambs wool,-bluish eyes,
and very delicate complexion, though the
Whlteness is rather of the cast that belongs to
oead body than living one. Their eyes are
! weaker than those of any other variety of man.
IN tins section of the country; but. by moon
light, they see as well as other persons com
I monty do in the brightest day light
| About the first of May Brazilian brig was
| run ashore on the island of Cadiz, and the crew
being suspected were imprisoned; they con-
tessed themselves pirates. When off Rio Jane
I iro (the captain sick shore) part of the crew
agreed to take possession of the vessel Dor
ton not agreeing, left her in a boat, and were
drowned the remainder murdered four, be-
fore they could agree upon captain. They
soon after tell IN with Boston ship, richly lad
en- from China, and murdered all on board
They did not know her name. GThe Topaz. of
Boston, is mssing1 They also confessed that
they had robbed eight more vessels, mostly
English, and murdered all on board. The brig
! then discharged her cargo, mostly composed Of
! specie ($l40,O0 and silks, at Corona The
brig was run ashore to avoid suspicion
Boston Courier
! AN EARTHQUAKE. The effects of this awful
visitation of Providence were severely felt about
III O'Clock, on the I'd inst by the inhabitants of
st. isflmael parish, a rumbling noise like dis
( tant thunder, and continued necessarily 70;
( about 20 minutes A solid body of gray rock.
adjacent to the Sandy Haven shore, and paral,
lei to the sea, opposite the Stack Rock in Mil
ford harbor, was entirely rent asunder, and sep
( arated by the shock into thousand pieces
( throwing large masses of it to considerable
distance; the adjacent rocks and part of the
! hill on which there was thriving plantation
| OF timber overhanging, were separated from the
main land by this dreadful CONFUSION of nature
and several OF the trees split and torn up by the
roots. The noise was terrific, and was heard
/ ioi many lIIilOs dIounu. n continued craCEling
noise Is still heard in the rocks as of the break
ing of dry sticks.-Bristot (Eng) Gazette.
Counterfeit twenty dollar bills of the u S.
Bank are in circulation, payable at Charles
ton, IS. CO. New Orleans, Hartford and Mid.
detown, so accurately executed as to REQUIRE
the strictest examination to detect them they
have been taken by the telers of two banks in
this city, within ten days; and but short time
since one was taken as good, at the Boston
Branch-BOSt0n Courier.
DISGUSTING. The Arkansas Gazette men
tons the execution of a man named Jacob
Strickland, found guilty of the murder of G GORGE
Deacon, and that he was carried to the gallows
( IN state of lntoxieation, in which situation he
was not only permitted TO harangue the crowd,
but to take two additional drinks Of grog
What disgusting spectacle.
On board the ship Samuel Robertson, Capt
Choate, arrived at New York from Havre, there
are Royal Lyon, Tiger, and White Beaver
with several other beasts of the forest
A great revival of religion has taken place at
Cincinnati, Ohio. Seven hundred persons have
been added to the Methodist, Baptist and Pres
byterlan churches, within three weeks
I STEAM Boar ON CONNECTICUT RIVER. We
learn from the Springfield Republican, that the
steam boat Blanchard, built at Springfield, was
tried tor the first time on Wednesday last, and
a second time on Saturday. On the first trial,
the machinery being in an imperfect state, the
boat assembled the Willamanset falls but about
half way. On the second trial she passed the
falls and proceeded to the foot of South Hadley
Canal. She returned distance of eleven miles,
in hour and twenty minutes. 1t is expected
that when some further improvements are
made, that she will move with an increased
power and speed. She is designed to pass be-
tween Springfield and Hartford, when the En-
field locks are completed and until that time to
be used between the Enfield and South Hadley
Falls.--BOstOn .AduertiSer
Posi- OFFICES The name of the Post Of
fee, on the turnpike in Uxbridge, has been
changed to " uxbridge North" and that in the
village near the meeting house and bank, has
been changed from " Uxbridge Centre" to
"Uxbridge." A Post Office has recently been
) established in the South part of Natick, called
South Natick Post Office, and Dexter Whit
ing, Esq, appointed Post Master.
IMPERIAL HARsHNEss A great sensation is
stated to have been produced at the Court of
Pekn, (China) by the degradation of His I'm
=, peral Malesty's youngest brother. The EN-
peror publishes to the world, that his brother
} had been all his life, an idle, dissipated, and
ruinous prohigate; he is dismissed from all
high offices, and ordered not to enter the pre-
cincts of the Imperial Palace.
TEMPERATURE OF THE EARTH. M L. Cor
der, in his essay read to the French Academy
of Sciences, deduces, from his own observation
and that of others, that the heat increases as we
penetrate from the surface toward the centre of
the earth, at about one degree Fahrenheit in
40 feet; that the heat of boiling water is found
in our ATTITUDES about mile and half below
the surface; that, at the depth of sixty miles,
the heat must be so intense as TO keep such
rocks as we see at the surface in a state of fu-
sion; that the interior of the globe, in Short
consists of a molten mass, encompassed by
solid crust or shell, about 60 miles in thickness
! LosSoF BRAINS. The present Duke of Man
chester met with an accident, by which piece
of his skull was kicked away by horse, with a
portion OF the brain also; and yet his Grace has
made a very excellent Goyernor of colony