Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-12-22

.eue!s nave been received from Mr..
Randolph since his arrival in England.
lie has not resigned, but iutends to
return TO Russia next spring. His
health Is improving; and he kreps Up
an official correspondence with the
Court Of 81. Petersburg.
A new paper az . very respectable
exterior has just issued from the press
IN Washington city, by the title Of
InE GLoBE. II is edited by Mr..
Francis Preston Blair, lately 1t Ken
lucky, and IS 70 be published, for the
present, twice week, and weekly
lie politics are strongly on the side Of
the Administration. Whether il 10 10
De rival or an aid to the present 90.
vernment paper, remains to be dcvel.
oped. AS lar ss we can infer from the
contents Of the frat number, its po,it.
ieai objects are the same, and il dis.
courses Of "the Aristocracy,'' and the
supreme Court. and the Tariff, the
Bank Of the United States, and Inter.
nal Improvement, much in the same
manner. TNaf. Inf
A most tremendous gale was expe.
rienced in the Chesapeake Bay, ON the
5th and 9th inst. which done consid-
cradle damage 10 the shipping.
Melancholy Disaster The Schoon.
er Monopoii.i. Johnson. from New
York for Philadeiphia, was lost in the
late gale. and the captain and crew
have all persisted.
The Late Gale. BY almost every
arrival, says the New York Daily Ad.
vertiser, we learn that the gale Of the
9Th and 9th inst. was very severe
As far 40 heard from, it reached from
lat. 50 TO 40, and Ion. - to 70. Al
ready we have accounts Of upwards
OF fifty vessels having received dam
age. and several totally Loaf. 1t is
reasonable Ia suppose that the gale has
extended still further.
The schooner Mary Travers, Of FIRE.
dericksburg. Virginia, was wrecked on
Squam Beach, on the 3Oth ult. and all
her, crew lost, consisting of the master,
Michael Magrath, Lewis Daingerfeld,
mate, the masters son. aged IA years,
William Faulkner. passenger, Peter
Jones, seaman, and the cook. The
vessel was SO much bilged that a man
could walk in at her starboard side.
-Four OF the dead bodies were still in
the cabin, when she was found. Capt.
Magrath was worthy citizen Of Ere
dericksburg, and has left widow and
five children to mourn his loss.
The steam boat .7ndreac Jackson. on
her way from Charleston to Augusta.
was destroyed by the explosion Of her
Steam Engine, on Saturday the 4tb
instant. Most Of the cargo was de-
stroyed. The Engineer, an Irish pas
seDger, and free mulatto, were kill
ed, and two others Of the hands were
INJURED. The boat is said to be entire
ly destroyed. MAI. Jour.
One OF the greatest professions ever
witnessed in this country took place
in the city Of New York on the Goth
nit. in honor Of the French Revolu.
ton, and also of the evacuation of
New York by the British at the close
Of the Revolution. The procession
was not less than three and a half
miles long--and the number Of per-
sons who joined aud witnessed it, was
estimated at 100000!
The New York papers announce the
marriage of Mrs. Lucinda Morgan, re.
lict Of the abducted Morgan, to Mr..
George Harris. The New York Cou-
rier says that Harris is a Mason!
The time occupied in conveying the
Message from Washington to Balii-
more, was only fpo hours and eight
minutes, or at the rate Of about seven
teen miles an hour! II was perform-
ed by four horses attached to q light
wagon.
Friday, the 3lst inst. is appointed
for the execution Of the sentence OF
death upon Joseph Jenkins Knapp, jr.
at Salem, between the hours Of and
10, before noon.
Census Of LoUdoun County. White
males, 1888; Females, 7779. Male
slaves, 274l; Females, 26I0. Male
free negroes, 1872; Females, $40. To-
tai, 2I,93s. Census Of 1920, %, 7O2.
Decrease in 10 years. 764.
Census Of Frederick County, Nd
Whites--males 1892, females 1905.
Blacks--slavcs 637O, free 27I6. Grand
total 1856. Increase since 1920,
5527.
Ssngamon County, Illinois, had q
population in 1925 &c only 500 souls
II is stated that IL now possesses TWEEN
~ thousand Here is a specimen
Of the growth Of the " mighty West"
The total number Of inhabitants Of
tie city and county Of Philadelphia,
according 60 the last census. is one
hundred and eighty-eight thousand
nine hundred anu eighty six.
The census returns Of the city nl