The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-01-28

NIAGARA FALLS. A letter from a gen.
tleman at that place, dated Dec. 30, 1928,
states, that on the Sunday evening preced-
ing, about o'clock, "two or three success
sive shocks or conclusions were felt, the
second of which was accompanied with an
unusual rushing sound of the waters" The
next morning it was discovered, "that a
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 is said to be much changed by
this CONFUSION. A course of high winds
for several days, previous to its occurrence,
producing, an accumulation of water in the
river, is supposed to have been the immedi-
ate cause. The west side of Goat Island is
rapidly wearing away by the action of the
stream on its shore, and il is estimated by
the writer of the letter, that "t,co thousand
tons Of soil, sand and grdUel haze disGp-
peared since he first ,oent there IN October"
This gradual crumhling away of the rock,
over which the Niagara is precipitated, adds
FEASIBILITY 10 the conjecture, that the falls
were once as low down as Lewiston, and
they have for centuries been travelling
up towards their present position.
CanGndaigua Repository.
ABDUCTION OF MORGAN. A special COM
missioner, under the act of the New York
Legislature of April Is, 1923, has made a
report to his Excellency Governor Van Blu
rem. The commissioner was Daniel Mos
ley, Esq, of Onondagua. The following
e l.
"From testimony thus disclosed, it ap-
pears, that William Morgan, citizen of
this state, was taken from the gaol of the
county of Ontario, into which he had been
committed under circumstances OF peculiar
aggravation and cruelty; and was from
thence transported, under duress of impris-
onment, a distance Of about one hundred
and twenty miles, TO the county of Niagara,
and was placed in confinement in the Mag
szne in Fort Niagara, situated at the con-
tiuence of the Niagara river with lake On
tario, on the morning of the fourteenth of
September aforesaid"
Here are the boundaries of the tes;imo-
ny. As to his fate subsequently there
unto,' it is not yet developed, nor can it be
| anticipated, with much confidence, to be ju-
dicially determined, by any tribunal over
which men have control.
| VICTIM OF INTEMPERANCE. A short
! time since, man of the name of Prentiss,
who was employed in a potash, in Franklin
county, IN. W came home late at night IN
toricated, and heing afraid to enter the
house of his employer, went and lay down
on the warm brick near potash kettle con-
tanning hot salts and I've, where he fell
asleep and rolled into the kettle. He got
out but his skin, wherever it was touched,
was entirely consumed, and much of his
flesh was deprived of vitality. He lived one
week afterwards, hideous and loathsome
object. Rum, whiskey and brandy slay
hundreds Of persons in the United States,
every week.-HampShire Gazette.
FARNINGToN CANAL. From statement
of the Board of Directors, recently made, it
appears that there has been expended on
I the Canal, the sum of $685. 100000
OF which has been subscribed and paid by
I the Mechanics Bank, agreeable TO its char
ter; and there is due for loans obtained by
the Company about 100000; for damage
assessed, $4,000: and that from 80 to DO
000 dollars will be required for misceIiane-
Gus expenses. The unfinished work of the
Canal is in the vicinity of New Haven. The
city of New Haven recently voted to loan
the Company 100000 to finish the Canal
| AFRICAN COLONY. From the December
| Number of the African Repository, Just pub
llshed, 1T appears that arrangements are
making to send vessel from Norfolk to Lii
IBERIA with from $50 to 300 emigrants in the
course of next month. That colony begins
to send ont the productions of its soil. In
Richmond paper there has appeared an adj
vertisement of SIR thousand pounds of 1.-The
ria Coffee for sale, shipped to this country
by the Rev. Lott Carey. Among the late
receipts of the Colonization Society, is a
legacy Of so dollars left by colored wo-
man in Genoa, Cayuga CO., IN. W who
was born n slave and purchased her free
dom,-.NY. Eue. Post.
From the Lebanon Ohiol Star.
| ADVENTURES OF Hoe. Mr. Gideon
Long, OF Butler county, raised hog which
he sold few weeks since to John Denman,
of his neighborhood, for SirtY-sir dollars.
He was shortly afterwards offered forty
dollars for his bargain; but determining to
to take 1T to Cincinnati, he put it on board
of canal boat for that place. On his route,
without his knowledge, the hands on board
exhibited 1t as show, charging Ct cents
Tor sight. When he arrived at the city,
an immense crowd visited it and paid for
the sight. After keeping it for some time,
he was offered $500 for the hog, agreed to
take it, and received $50 on the contract.
But it was not TO be delivered until the
whole was paid, and while waiting for the
balance it was secretly conveyed away. Mr..
Denman determining to pursue the noble
animal, embarked on board steam boat
and followed to Louisville, where he had
satisfaction hno n hoI