The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-03-24
IMpoRTANr FROM CoLoMBIA.

At the Constituent Congress of Colombia,
which was opened on the 22d OF January,
at Borota, forty-seven deputies were pres
ent. They formed procession at the gov
eminent palace, and with the Liberator at
! their head went fist to the Cathedral to
attend mass, and then to the hall appointed
| So tho sittinas. Here in presence of
large number of the citizens, President Dol
ivar administered the oaths to the deputies,
who then proceeded to elect a President OF
their own body. General ALtonia Jose de
Sucre received 20 votes out of 81, and was
declared duly elected. A Vice-President
and Secretary were also elected. The Lib
orator then declared the Congress legally
! installed. Gen. Sucre then made a speech
complimentary to Bolivar, for his services
to the State, and in particular for convoking
the Convention. Bolivar replied by express
! ing his confidence in the wisdom of Con-
gress, and his hope that they would give
| the nation strong and free system of gov
eminent. An address has been issued by
Bolivar to the citizens of Colombia, from
which the following extracts are made:
! The Liberator TO the Colombians:
! Colomhians This day | cease to COM
mand you. | have served you as a soldier
and as a magistrate. In that long period
we have conquered the country, liberated
three republics, and suppressed many civil
wars; and four times have restored to the
people their omnipotence, by spontaneously
assembling four Constituent Congresses
| These services were due to your virtues,
valor and patriotism-the glory of having
directed them to me.
Fearing might be considered as an OH
stacle, in placing the republic on the basis
| of its happiness, have thrown myself from
| the lofty magistracy, to which your bounty
had raised me. Colombiansl | have been
the victim of ignominious suspicious, with
out having had the power to defend the
purity of my principles. The same persons
who have aspired to the supreme command
have endeavored to tear me from your
( hearts, by attributing their own sentiments
to me, by making me appear the author of
projects they have conceived and by
representing me as aspiring at a crown
which they have offered me more than once,
and which have rejected with the indig-
nation of the proudest republican. Never,
gfSifad 5Syssar uI tN YOU III has my mind been
my enemies have artfully forged to de-
stroy me IN your opinion.
/ Undeceive yourselves, Coombians, Nv
only wish has been, to contribute to your
liberty and the preservation of your repose !:
if for this have been blameworthy, l, more
than any one else, merit your indignation.
Do not listen, beseech you, to the vile cal
jimmy, and the base covetousness for which
discord is excited on every side
Countrymen! hear my last words, on ter
minating my political career. In the name
of Colombia, beg you, | beseech YOU to
continue united, lest You should become the
assasslns OF the country, and your own ex-
| ecutioners. BOLIVAR.
Bogota, Jan. 20, 1880.
Bolivar also addressed a message to the
Congress, in which he complains of having
been accused of aspiring to monarchy. He
says that liberals in Europe and America,
regard him with uneasiness, and it is neces-
sary to have n new magistrate, and he
pledges himself to obey his successor in
office, and expresses his fears of the fall OF
the Republic if he should continue in Office.
| The WEATHER IN FRANCE. From the
22d to the 24th of January, the cold was
SO intense, that many proprietors lost a
great part of their wines; in freezinp il
broke the barrels and the bottles in which
1t was contained. In the country the hocks
persisted for want of food, and also for want
of water; the trunks OF the greater part of
the oaks have broken with much noise
and the owners of cork trees, which until
the present time had no other scourpe tn
dread than the caterpillar or bombs disDar
tremble now at the frost, which to them ia
more fatal. The birds fall dead from inun-
dation and cold; in the Commune of 81.
Selndra, there were found forty corpses on
the walls where they had come to repose
on the terrible night from the 9th to the
18th of December.
The heaths are covered with an innumer
able quantity Of geese and wild ducks. who
allow any body easily to approach them
and the merchants are supplied with a
quantity of game, hares, rabbits, and birds
OF every kind, so abundantly that they sell
at low price. The game is so frozen that
it seems to have been prepared to ornament
cabinets of natural history. At the warren
of Nerac. a cascade of from 90 to 25 feet Is
remarked, whose stalactites have the finest
forms, and initiate the mostbrilliant CRYSTALS.
Letters from Paris of Is: Feb. state that
the thaw had occasioned MANY serious ACCT
dents in various parts of the Pyrenees. At
Soulom, barn containing great number
of sheep, was carried away by an avalanche
which descended from. a precipice. At
Saros, man became enveloped by drifts
of snow driven up by violent whirlwinds.
and remained buried for about twelve hours.
He had, however, the good fortune TO es-
cape with his life. At Sars, a child was
carried by curren. of air formed by the
fall Of an avalanche, from one side of a
rsyine to the other, but though thus borne
over torrent, it escaped with few bruises.
Canterets, so much admired in the summer
for its rich meadows and beautiful land
scapes, had become scene of perfect des-
olatlon an avalanche that fell from the
top OF the mountain opposite La Raillere,