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The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-07-10
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nj 0TICE is hereby given' That the
~ Snbscribers we're appointed IN legal
Town. Meeting, held the sd inst. to assess
a Tax of 81 $40 and IT cents, on the Ia
hnbitants and ratesble property Ia this
Town, to be collected and paid into the
Town. Treasury Oh or before Tire lst day Of
Dee. Next.
We therefore call on oil Persons inter.
ested theren. to give in to either Of Us,
List of their Rateablc Estates. on or before
the 2e,h instant--We particularly request
attention TO this duty, as there probably
will be greet alteration in the Valuation.
Verbal statements cannot be received,
and Lists handed in haust be according to
law, and attested TO-
THOMAS BUSH,
STEPHEN GOULD,
WILLIAM w. FREEBORN,
Newport, Jnne &, le2e.
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-07-10
Cloth Dressing---- Indigo
Blue Dying.

E'iIE subscriber informs bis friends ard
!. L the public generally. that he carries
on the CLOTH DRESSING BUSINESS
n al IT'S various branches, at the UNION
FACTOR \, Portsmouth R. where all per-
.ons my be. asssred thcis work will tc
dona ".t- a:5Patch and ia tlie neatest maa-
ner-or nopGy-as he has employed muH
competent TO The business, who has had u
long experience in Go!ori1g aud DRESSING
Cloth ci every description. Wool carded
into Rolls in the best. manTer, and with
promPlness, at the customary prices. Al
Goods entrusted to his care will be finigh,
ed os cheap 6s at any other estabishmei..
Goods inteuded for the. Factory may be
left with Edward sSranhope. Broad. street,
or Botert K. Carr. Ferry wharf Newport /;
George Eawton, Tivcrton, and Jeremiah
Clifford. Bristol Ferry, " here they will be
taken by the subscriber, finished and re.
turned. Carpets made to order, in a supc-
rior style from any pattern. and.at short
notice. MOSES JAWTOE.
Portsmouth, Oct. 25, 1927.
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-07-10
NeNry Y. EVANSTON.
Stone Cutting
pRXETP sWnYTyTs:: 4,

TRZETP sTRVETTG,
V'AKES this opportunity 10 inform his
A friends and the Publie. that he has
re.hoved from job Shcrman's Wharf to
the, north cnt' of Thames street, No. 222,
where he keeps constantly on hand, Grave
Stones of all descriptions, of the first quail.
ity, and as cheap as can be had i'll the
State.
.ALso--htrr;Is, fire places, and all 9th
er work in his line. done TO order and with
despatch All orders from the country
strictly attended 10.
mar 6, 1898. epGm.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06

Him " who but looked upon the earth, and it
trembleth"
The great shock was followed by five or six
slight tremblings in as many days, which excit-
ed great terror and must confess have been
more alarmed by these harmless shocks than by
the great commissions: and it is remarked gen
orally, that person who has never experienced
an earthquake, cannot, when the alarm of
Temblor," is given, enter at all into the feel
ings of him who has witnessed one-the first
has merely a vague idea of danger-the last
the full possession of extreme terror and dis
may.
The excitement has in a great measure abat-
ed; but for week or ten days after the shock,
you would see every night, hundreds stretched
upon mats in the squares, alameda, and wher
ever an open space could be found, almost afraid
to close their eyes, and starting upon their
knees at the least alarm to repeat their ayes.
Even now many are seen sleeping at the open
doors, and when the subject is mentioned, cross
themselves, adding, perhaps, their common ex
clamation, Jesus, Maria
At Callao the shock was felt after the dust
was seen to rise from Lima, 50 that it would
seem that it proceeded from the mountains to
the sea. Those persons who were on board
vessels in the harbor described the sensation to
be the same as when a ship thumps violently
against the bottom, and the noise like that pro-
duced by twenty chain cables running thro'
the hawser holes" The water was very turbid
and for considerable time afterwards large air
bubbles came up in every direction. Several
villages on the coast to the northward have
been destroyed 1t was not experienced at the
southwark but few miles.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06
From the Boston Advertiser.
EARTHQUAKE AT LIMA

EARTHQUAKE AT LIMA.
We are permitted to publish the following
extract of letter from Mr. S. w. Pomeroy, Jr.
to his father, giving an interesting description
OF violent earthquake at Lima, on the morn
ing of the Both of March. The letter is dated,
LIMA, April 81
This city has been visited by one of those
dreadful earthquakes which are looked for about
once IN century, ana had it continued feao
seconds longer the whole of Lima must ineVta-
bly, have been laid in ruins The calamity &C.
Cured on the morning of the Both March, at
about half past seven o'clock, and although only
81 or AZ seconds duration, was of such prodigous
violence as to PROSTATE many buildings and in
Jured all, including the stupendous churches,
some OF which are so much shattered that it is
contemplated to take them down, their massive
walls OF to y feet IN thickness, being literally
rent from the top to the Bottom. A great mum.
Der OF houses have been pulled down by order
OF the authorities, and several have, since the
SHOCK, fallen OF their own accord, in one instance
burying two or three persons in their ruins
The amount Of injury to the city is esiimat.
ed, by an official survey, at si1 millions of dot
lars, sum quite within bounds. The houses
occupied by Alsop, Wetmore & Co is consider
6aFs cost $960 Some Of tho roos u are
cracked perpendicularly in many places, and in
others the upper part of the house (Which is
composed of bamboo sticks and mud, of about 2
feet in thickness, separated itself from the
" adobes" or sun dried bricks, of which the
walls, to the heigh: of feet above the floor of
the second story are composed, and had the
shock continued three seconds longer the whole
top, with its brick roof, would have fallen in.
About 30 persons persisted that is the num-
Der OF bodies which have been dug out from the
rubbish, but others are supposed to be still un.
discovered. Had it been in tho nirht the loss
OF lives would, no doubt, have been greater. /
was awakened from a sound sleep by the most
terrific noise, and jumping up, saw the walls of
my room vibrating very violently. concluded
that no time was to be lost, and made the best
OF my way into the street, amidst falling Mas
ter, and stumbling along over the floors like
drunken man. In the street all was. dismav 4
the heart appalling noise which ushered in this
frightful phenomenon, and the sound of the
cracking walls, were still ringing in our ears.
The poor natives were upon their knees. (manv
Of them just as they had risen from their beds
beating their breasts, and calling upon God. the
virgin, and all the saints, to save them and ex-
pecting every instant another and an overwhelm-
ing shock. Indeed, when reflected that this
was danger against which no place afforded
security, las the earth was expected to omen as
it had done during the great earthquake of
1740) was very well disposed to Join the cry
Of nSsiricordis," and GEEK protection from,
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06

latter has actually decreed that when slave
has set his foot on Austrian soil, or even in an
Austrian vessel, from that moment he becomes
free. We shall conclude our extracts from
this interesting report, with the following dread
fu picture Of cruelty, on the one hand, and suf-
fering, on the other. In Spanish slave schoon-
er, boarded by H. M. S. Aurora, after diligent
search, $40 slaves were found concealed. They
were in the most dreadful state imaginable,
having their confined situation, disease and
starvation, to contend with at once. The yes
sci had been at sea forty-seven days, from the
Coast of Guinea, and when captured, had only
one days provisions on board. A yam being
thrown among the wretched negroes, they
fought for it like hungry dogs.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06
From the Salem Gazette.

By the ship Edward Bonaffc, arrived at New
York, we have received letters from an intelli
gent correspondent at Paris, from which we
make few extracts, to show the state of feeling
among the Americans in Europe respecting the
Presidential parties at home -
PARIS, May 81, 1923.
The United States Journals received during
the last three months furnish ample evidence
that the cause of the Administration-of the
people--is rapidly advancing in almost every
State of the Union; the military fever, which
has run so high within the last year, seems eve.
~ where to be subsiding. The reaction which
has thus commenced will not stop until the tri-
umphant recollection Of Mr.. Adams, which we
anticipate with unbounded pleasure. Jackson
,wlu net, csnros, eascced. The I" Hermitage"
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06

STYLE AND SENTmrxrALIrY. In Marian
County, Indiana, one VIM. D. Rocker, candi.
date for the office of Associate Judge. has nd.
dressed letter to the electors of that county
setting forth his claims to the Office. The
whole letter is SO much Of curiosity in politics
and literature, that we would publish it intire
were it not for its length. After an exordiur
in the fourth-ofJuy-o style, and declar.
ing that he feels proud when he contemnlatcs
himself free citizen of this great republic"
he goes on to speak of the ordeal through which
candidates for office are obliged to pass. This
disposed of, he thus pathetically breaks forth
And have escaped accusation No. lam
accused of doing like St. Paul said no done !;
when at Jerusalem Jew, and when at Rome
a Roman; that when am with the friends Of
Kinnard friend to Knnard or with the
friends of Russell Russell man, and that am
trying to ride those two hobbies at the same
line, and thereby possess myself of the fat of.
ice of Associate Judge" But this he says no
ienies twice in one BREATH He complains
hat he has warm friends on both sides of the
question, some the friends Of Kinnard, others Of
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06

QUAcKERY AND MURDER The Boston
Courier of Wednesday, states that man in
Walpole, who was recently sick with a
fever, had become so far convalescent that
his physician had left him, and was able to
go out and attend to his ordinary business.
Unfortunately at this time, he fell in with
one of the disciples of the famous Thomp-
son, who has rendered himself notorious
throughout New England, for numbering
nearly all his patients, by giving them doses
Of red-pepper and Indian Tobacco. By him
he was persuaded to swallow one of these
destructive nostrums, which, like all other
effective polsons, operates as an emetic, in
which operation, the credulous patient ex-
pired. The excitement, created by this
deed, has called together the Selectmen of
WaIpole, to take some measures to bring
the homicide to justice. He will probably
plead ignorance, as Thompson himself did
few years since, on an indictment for
murder, and escape. 1t is said that no rem
edy by law, can reach these wretches, and
that those who have the folly to entrust
themselves to their hands, must abide the
consequences.-Providence Cadet.
[Since the above was published, counter
statement has appeared inthe Courier, in which
the person accused says, that but one small
dose of Lobelia was administered, which ope.
rated as gentle emetic, and that the person
died apparently from debilityl
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06

EXETER BANK. We understand that the
President of this Bank, the recent robbery
of which will be recollected, returned to
Newport few days since, from an excur-
sion to New York, in pursuit of the stolen
money. The examination of the elder Briggs
and his associates, led to suspicion that
one of Briggs's sons, who had gone to New
York, had some of the money in his posses
sion. The President of the Bank, thor
oughly energetic and persevering man,
traced the younger Briggs in New York,
and succeeded in obtaining from him $4,000
of the identical money taken from the vault
of the Bank. The younger Briggs would
give no satisfactory account of the matter,
and was handed over for safe keeping. The
Bank has thus recovered upwards of $4,000
of the stolen property. The elder Briggs,
who, with his associates, is still confin-
ed in Jail at Newport, affects to treat the
recovery of the $4,000 In the hands of his
son, with perfect Indifference, and says they
can't prove he had any of the money.
Providence AMERICAN.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06
From the .Middlebury (Vt.) American.

STEAM DoCToRs. Public feeling has
been awakened, and public opinion is be-
coming more settled in this region, with
regard to the dangerous operations of this
description Of charlatans. The public will
perhaps recollect, that the father of these
Patent Steam Physicians, Samuel Thomp-
son, was tried some years since in Massa-
chusetts, for murder, in consequence Of his
outrageous and fatal prescription to pa
tent. He was acquitted, it is true, but it
was on the ground that no "malice pre-
pense" was shown the disastrous effects
of his potlons, WAS established beyond
question. Several cases which have occur
red in this region, where the red-pepper sys-
tenn had most deleterious effects, are doubt
less in the minds of our readers. We learn,
also, from a late st. Adams paper that the
death of worthy citizen of that place, has
been accelerated if not caused. by this sys-
TEN of guackery. But the case which has
more particularly excited the feelings of our
citizens, and the one which has mainly
prompted these remarks, occurred very
lately in this town. The unfortunate pa
tent was naturally a robust man, but for
some ailment, it is understood congestion
OF the lungs, had started on journey, and
stopped at the house Of an acquaintance
who vended, Secundem arten1, the red-pepper
and lobelia. He was here induced to sub
NIT to the prescriptions of his friend and
in six days, from situation apparently not
dangerous, was reduced to the lowest state
of debility, and evidently to the borders of
the grave. At this time, medical aid was
| called; but it was too late to arrest the
fatal termination of the disease, though the
sufierlngs Of the patient were Immediately
relieved After his new attendants arrived,
the dying man was able to converse scarce
( ly above whisper, but he frequently called
them to his side, and gave his belief of the
danger of his first treatment, and added in
reference to it, 81 have suffered more than
| tongue can tell"
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY, AUGSUT 6, 1928.

LOUISVILLE, (KY) Few of our readers, we
apprehend, are aware of the size and impor-
lance of many Of the towns which have grown
up within few years in the western country.
One of the most fourishing Of these is Louis
vile, situated in the state Of Kentucky, at the
falls of the Ohio, on the south side of the river
The first settlement of the place was by six
families in the autumn of 1878. The town was
laid out in 1870. The principal streets running
parallel, nearly east and west, are all paved,
and three of them are each so feet wide. They
are intersected by IL others 60 feet wide cross
ing them at right angles. The present popula-
ton, including the neighborng villages about the
an elegant court house, in which are kept
public library, and the several offices of the
County, a large Jail, six meeting houses, ma
rine hospital, an academy, twelve public school
houses, a theatre, and market house. There
are about one thousand dwelling houses, mostly
OF brick--about sixty stores, many of them very
large for the wholesale business-two printing
Offices on an extensive scale-several steam
sawmills and grist-mills-a steam engine fac
tory-seveIal breweries and distilleries-fye
tobacco manufactures, which manufacture an.
nually $4,000 dollars worth of chewing and
smoking tobacco and snufF-a soap and candle
factory, capable of producing 10 900 pounds of
soap weekly, and 1000 pounds of candles day
an extensive sugar refinery, and all other me.
chancs' shops usual in such place. There
] kovo lie. al.
Office
The trade Of this place, which is extensive,
now employs one hundred and fifty steam boats.
and the annual increase is considerable Tho
boats now in use on the Ohio river, measure
upwards of $4,000 tons. The principal export
Is tobacco, which amounted last year to 10000
hogsheads The facilities for manufacturing at
Louisville are said to be in some respects unri-
vailed. The Ohio river at this place is a milo
in width, and falls % feet When the canal
round the falls is completed, which will be this
fall, it will afford an immense water power, no.
only hero but for twenty miles down the river.
Labor, food, and clothing are cheap, iron ore is
abundant, the beds of marble, which may easily
pe conveyed mere, are lneXhauStlble. Very
beautiful sand stone is abundant in sight of the
town-lmestone is plcnty--the lead of Nilsson.
RI, the hemp and tobacco of Kentucky, and the
cherry, the black walnut and the curled maple
Of the adjacent forests are, and always will be,
within the reach of the enterprising manufac-
turer.
Such are some of the facts relating to THE
tiourishing transmontane city, as gathered from
an elaborate account of it, recently written by
Caleb Atwater, Esq, of Circleville, Ohio, and
| published in the Ohio State Journal. Making
all due allowances, it still must be evident that
it will become one of the great marts of the
west, and, before the lapse of many years, take
rank with some of our large Atlantic cities.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06

ANTI-MAsoNIc CONVENTION. A convention
of seeding masons was held at LIE Roy, IN. W
on the 4th ult., at which delegates appeared
from twenty counties, and, it is said, not less
than ten thousand persons were assembled
A declaration of independence from the Ma.
sonic institution was reported and accented
for the support Of which they pledge to each
other their lives. their fortunes, and their sa-
cred honor" A committee appointed for the
purpose reported the degrees from Masters to
the Royal Arch, including the Royal Arch,
which were read whereupon it was resolved
by the masons present who had received these
several degrees, that they were substantially
correct, 1t was then resolved by the conven-
ton, that the report of the committee be accent.
ed, and that the said degrees be published to
the world.
The committee then reported the degrees Of
Knighthood, to wit: Knight of the Red Cross,
knights Templar, Knights of Malta, Christ
ian's Mark and Guards ofthe Conclave, knights
of the Holy Sopulchre, and the Order of Illus.
trious, most Illustrious, and Thrice Illustrious
Council OF the knights of the Holy Cross.
They were then read and resolved by the
Knights present, numbers of whom had receiv.
ed these several degrees, to be substantially
correct. Whereupon it was resolved that the
reports of the committee be accepted, and the
degrees be published to the world Solomon
Southwick and others we're appointed to pre-.
pare preface and superintend the publication
1t was also resolved to keep their proceedings
entirely disconnected with the party politics of
the day.
This excitement, instead of diminishing, ap-
pears to be extending itself, and whero it will
eno' or what may be Its consequences, seems
difficult to predict
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06

.n~'rp- -.r,EAnyr Sy.v- W. ------
yesterday small snake, of the species of the
black snake, with two heads. One of our towns
men, on visit to Reading, observed large
black snake, which he killed, and which meas.
body, thirteen young snakes, six or eight inches
in length, were taken out and killed, and among
these was the snake with two heads The BODY
of this snake was formed like the common snake
up to the junction of the heads, which parted
from the body much as the limbs of a tree d.
verge from the trunk when two limbs only
spring from it. The head on the right side was
a little larger than ono on the left, though both
appeared to be perfectly formed and capable of
performing the same offices-Boston Patriot.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06

A letter from Amsterdam, states that the
daughter of the king of Netherlands is about to
DC married to the eldest son Of Gustavus Adolf
plus, the ex-king Of Sweden. This event was
the subject of much speculation, and it was gen.
orally taken for certain that this young Prince
IS to succeed TO the throne Of Sweden, after tho
death of the present Sovereign, as no one could
imagine that the King of the Netherlands would
bestow his daughter upon mere advenlurer,
as the young Prince may at present DO said to
DO, unless he conceived that all obstacles in the
way Of his succession to the throne were sure
to be removed. The marriage is considered as
the work Of the Russian Cabinet The Young
Prince is said to possess great merit, and to be
every way worthy Of tho destiny to which for.
tuno is likely 10 call him