Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-01-27
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIT FOR TAT.

AVA. VII uiGo VIII was uUIu a. ANCulCldts
ell in Switzerland, of parents who were in
very Indifferent circumstances, became by
his industry and good conduct, one of the
greatest merchants on the continent. Be-
fore the revolution, it was his usage to at
tend regularly the large commercial sales
at Amsterdam. When any event acci-
dentally retarded his arrival, it was GUS
tomary to wait day or two for him. On
one accession, however, it happened that
the entire produce of the herring fishery
thing of great importance in Holland, as
the behring's are sent from that country to
all parts of the world, was disposed of in
his absence. He came just as the bar
gain had been concluded, and received
the apologies Of the purchasers for his hav-
ing been left out of the transaction.
!" Oh it is of no consequence, gentlemen,
another time you will not do so I am
sure" Without losing moment he and
some Of his clerks went to all the coopers
and bought every barrel that could be
obtained. The behring's beginning to az
rive, the persons who had purchased the
fishery began to look for barrels to pack
them in, but were every where told that
M. Portales had secured and paid for
them all Boat afser boat entering the
harbour, and not knowing what to do with
the immense, quantity Of herrings that
were discharged upon the quays, they
were at length compelled to apply to the
monopolizer Of barrels. M. P. gained cent
per cent by his bargain, the particulars of
which he used afterwards to relate with
great glee, and he was never again forgot.
ten in any similar affair.
NIAGARA FALLS. A letter from a gen.
tleman at that place, dated Dec. 30, states
that on the Sunday evening preceding, about
8 o'clock, "two or three successive shocks
or conclusions were felt, the second of which
was accompanied with an unusual rushing
sound of the waters" The next morning Il
ryas discovered "that large portion of the
rock in the bed of the river, at the distance
of about two fifths from the Canada shore. to
the extreme angle of the Horseshoe, had
broken off and fallen into the abyss below"
The whole aspect of the falls il said to be
much changedby this CONFUSION. A course
OF high winds for several days, previous to
its occurrences, producing an accumulation
OF water in the river, is supposed to have
been the immediate cause. The west side
of Goat Island is rapidly wearing away by
the action of the stream on its shore. and It
is estimated by the writer of the letter, that
"t,co thousand tons r. tsoiI, sand, and gravel,
haze disappeared sance he first tcent there II,
October" This gradual crumbling away of
the rock over which the Niagara is precip-
itated, adds plausibihty to the conjecture,
that the falls were once as low down as
Lewiston, and that they have for centuries
been travelling up towards their present DO
sltlon,- Cdnandaigna Repository.
The person who sometime since was in
Ohio, representing himself to be the Re-
deemer of the World, is now in this city,
He was in Meeting house in Christian ST.
on Thursday evening last, and addressed the
Congregation, making known his assumed
Mission and character. This fact induces
US still more strongly to incline to the opin-
ion, that this is the same person who was
tried about year ago at the Mayors Court
in this city, for representing himself as the
Son OF God, and worthy to receive alteration
and praise. Several persons, male and fe-
male appeared at that time and gave evil
dence In Court in which they acknowledge
ed their belief that he was worthy to Be
worshipped as Divine Messenger and we
think his farther also. lsri'3r
Philadelphia Demo. Press.
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