The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-04-22

istrates, party of Gendarmes were claced
IN ambush near the house marked out for
plumber, and in the night nine men, who
came to rob it, were seized, bound, and
conveyed to prison. The proprietor was
then awoke, and learned, to his astonish-
ment, that he had been saved from mmi-
nent peril of his life by the imprudence of a
WAGNER. Inspired by gratitude at this dis
covery he has settled a pension for life on
his unconscious deliverer.-PariS paper.
LOUISVILLE, (Ky.l March 28.
REMARKABLE PHENOMENON. We have
just conversed with gentleman from Cum
berland county, who informs US that in bor-
ing through a rock for salt water fountain
the depth of about 100 feet. When the
auger was withdrawn, the oil rushed up
IL or IA feet above the surface of the earth,
and it was believed that about rs gallons
were discharged per minute, forming quite
bold stream from the place to the Cum
berland River, into which it discharged
itself. The fountain or stream was struck
or days previous to the departure of
our informant, at which time, the quantity
of Petroleum discharged had not percepti-
bly, diminished. Falling into Cumberland
River, the volatile oil covered consdera-
BILE portion of the surface of the stream for
many miles below. If ignited, it would
present a magnificent, if not an appalling,
spectacle.
British oil, which is extensively used as a
medicine, is manufactured of Petroleum.
We have seen a specimen of this ol-it
ignites freely, and produces flame as bril-
liant as gas light.
Our informant states that in the same
neighborhood in which this immense foun-
tain of Petroleum has been discovered, DIR.
John Croghan has succeeded, by boring, in
obtaining an abundant supply of salt water,
at depth Of more than 200 feet, which
now rises about 25 feet above the ordinary
level of the Cumberland River. The works
we are assured, will prove highly beneficial
to the surrounding country. and profitable
to the enterprising proprietor.
SHOCKING DEPRAvITY. We have Just
received letter from friend in Sussex
county, which furnishes a detail of shock
ing case of murderous deeds which have
been carried on near the Delaware and
Maryland line, for some years past.
A person residing on farm belonging to
one Patty Cannon, having cleared off some
brush from low piece of ground, was en-
gagged in poughing it, when his horse sunk
into a grave, and upon removing the earth,
chest was found, in which was discovered
the bones of human body. The news
soon spread abroad, and some of those who
heard of the affair having recollected that
an individual who was in the neighhorhood
some years ago, had suddenly disappeared
IN mysterious manner, it was Immediately
suspected that he had been murdered, and
that the bones now discovered were his.
A suspicious individual who had formerly
Been an inmate in the family of Patty Can
non, and who for some time past has been
residing in Maryland, was soon after appre-
henhed in ON State, and underwent an ex-
animation before a ma glstrate It Seafori.
when he acknowledged that whila he resG-
ed with Patty Cannon, she and the famous
10. Johnson, the trader in negroes, aud his
brother Ehenezer, murdered the individual
IN question, and buried the body in the
chest ln the place where the late discovery
has been made He stated, moreover, that
the same individuals had committed various
other murders, and accompanied the officers
to the places where he said the bodies had
been inferred, and upon removing the earth,
human bodies were found buried in the
same manner he had described the bodies
to have been deposited. Patty Cannon has
been apprehended, and is now confined in
the Jail at Georgetown, but 10. Johnson is
said to be at this time, residing in the State
of Alabama, and his brother in Mississippi
The individual whose bones have been dis
covered, is said to have stated a few DAYS
before he was missed, that he had with him
S35,OCO, with which he designed to pur.
chase negroes; and it is supposed that the
murder was committed for the purpose of
obtaining the money.-Del. Watchman.
A few days ago two gentlemen. who
were on sporting excursion near Pierre.
fitte, perceived hare which fed with anoth
er hare on its back: one of them fired. and
killed that which was running. The ami
mails then changed characters, and the 9TH
err ran off with his dead companion. He
fired again, and having killed the other,
went up to take his prize, when, to his as
constituent, he found that the two hares
were joined back to back, so as TO form
only one animal with two heads, four ears
and eight feet. 1t has been preserved for
the study of the Zoologist.-French paper.
DECREASE OF SLAVES IN SoUTH CARo-
LIMA. It appears from the Reports of the
Comptroller of South Carolina. that the
number of slaves in that State decreased in
one year, from 1924 to 1926, 32,727; and