Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-04-02
From the Richmond Co mp;rer.
THE SMALL POX

VIC ub'isistd1uJ sildb the StT0lling
Indians of whom we gave some &C.
counts in late number of this paper
have excited some terror az well a,
some mischief during their wanderincs
II is said that % cases of the small Dor
bad broken on, in the neighboshood Of
the Chesterfield Coal Pitts, where
they had remained several days. All
very vigilan. police, however, was ia /
motion, aud scarcely did case show
itself, before the patient was removed
to the Hospital, and thus all danger
OF farther infection was intercepted
Among the twenty five patients, we
understand was a father, and one o,|
two of his children, who had caugh. i
from The sick Indian.
The hospital, i. is said, is situate!
about IL miles from Manchester, and
about 8 from the main road leading 10
Powhatan Court House. There are
said to have been one or two deaths,
and the people 10 the neighborhood are
much alarmed. There were two ca.
ses taken to the Hospital last evening
and the car, containing them was
met by several persons travelling in
tho public foad-- 1t is also said thers|
was also a case very near the read:l
and that the pailen, had refused goingl
10 the Hospital. One of tha Lynch.
burg stage drivers stationed in that
BeighboShood, has also caught the small
pox, and been conveyed to the Hospi-
tai But sort of panic may have ex-
aggeratsd these reports multiplied
the cases, and 'sweiled the danger,
beyond the bounds Of reality. We
shall obtain more precise information
in few days
One woman has also died on thu
Turnpike Road, beyond the gait,
within two miles perhaps of this city II
AS there has been much contrariety oil
rumour abost this case, we have pro-.
cured from an obliging physicien whs
saw the woman, the following state
ment of il.
"The woman who died on Friday
lived in the house in which the indians
who had The small poz, slep. on laa
night three weeks; she has continued
to sleep there until her death From
the best information ,ha. could be OBJ
ssined on the subject, he eruption tod
place on Tuesday, IL days after sh
Indians had passed II was evidsntl
a case of continent small pox, and
terminated fatally sooner than usual,
from the very incorporate habits ofthe
patient. There are no other cases %
That neighborhood, nor in town, that
have heard oE"-Sunday EUenins
Coed Notion. A wriler in Phil
adelphia paper proposes to the pespa
of Virginia, to engraft on their new
Constitution, proviso, that no per'o!a
born after the year 1920, shall be al
lowed TO vote at any election who can
not read and write.
Fayettrile, February o.,
n hearty old mom-Thers is at tns
time, living upon The Pocket Greek,
in Moor county, an old man nance
Duncan Cambell, who was s'xteen
years of age al The battle at Cullode,n,'
and Of course is new 80 years Ola
He retains his faculties in an astonisn
ing degree. He can cut, split Fails
maul and grub, equal to most yoon.
men in the country. 0ne day 'as
week, he grubbed 10 rods OF roug'
new ground for his days work.
TTe con match him.--lp Mofs
county, in the state of Georgia, We
are informed, there lives an old gen
tlemsn, one hundred and four yea''
oIdi and who, Notwithstanding hf&
great age, oversees his farm and trans
acts all his business himself; he cav
also read without spectacles, has nos
of his teeth, and the sense OF heaf,us
nearly as perfect as ever. and IS ap ..
10 do pret., good days work on u
farm. He is now living with 6s 'p" N
wife, and is the father OF ~ on
children, the youngest of whom 's w.
yet fourteen years old!
Macon Telegraph
The Baltimore papers state thai Lsa,
GOodtoin has bsen appointed '5Ppr1MT~
for the port Of Baltimore, vice
HasIet ranaovad