Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-07-28


Among the passengers in the Bri.
tannia, arrived st New York, IL Chan.
berlain Van ScHoLrxS, Governor &c
neral Of the Danish Wcst India Islapds.
~ho has been sent out by HE govern.
ment - . Special Ambassador 70 this
country. Ii - ceoiectured that the
mission relates to the trade between
this country and the Danish Islands.
During the week before last, 100
emigrants arrived % Pottsviile, Pa.
all !rom Doshatn, England. They we're
represented TO be steady and industri-
Gus, and tho Miners Journal antici-
pates that their enterprise will be well
rcwarded.-- Bali. Pa. I4fh insf.
Catharine Hay wood, the white wo-
man charged with the murder Of Lucy
Johnson, free mulatto girl, in Rich
mond, Va. was tried in the Super;or
Court at that place. on Saturday last.
The jury, after . short consultation.
brought in verdict Of voluntary man.
slaughter, and assessed her term Of
imprisonment IN the penitentiary to
2 years. Those who attended the tri.
al generally anticipated such verdict.
Ban. Gas.
The eight children aud grand chill.
dreu Of the Moorish Prince, have been
all redeemed. at the high price Of
$500. They arrived from Natchez
At Brooklyn, New York. The Colo
nization Society wiil give them q free
passage to Liberia il the vessel which
is to sail from Norfolk 10 October.
The Prince, IL may be recoilected, re-
turned 70 Mohamsda nism, and died
soou after bis arrival in Afriea.-lD.
From the Springfield (NIA.A) Republican.
The patent isverNya tch is elaine ed 40
an Engli.h invention, and Robert Roe.
cal, Resksll Of London, the vender
and patentee Of watches upon this con !.
struction, has made an immense for
tune by the business. He obtained
the invention in this manner: Mr..
Asa Spencer, when working Is jour.
neymsn matchmaker in Hartford, Coo.
made the first lever watch, and kent il
Tor his own use. He afterwards com.
menced engraving, and vent to Len.
don with Mr.. Perkins in that business.
He there showed his watch 10 Mr..
Roscal, who borrowed it long enough
to get che model, and immediately in.
treduced the invention TO the public
as his own, and obtained patent; thus
acquiring credit, celebrity and wealth
by the investion, while the actual in.
ventor as 10 often the case vith men
OF genius was thrown into obseurity
and poverty.
Sn,uf in the Wheat. "A discovery
has been made by Mr.. Adonijah Al.
den, a respectable Farmer Of this coun-
ty, which we think may be important
to farmers, ADD therefore give Il publ.
city. Mr.. Alden gives t as his OBJ.
mon from experiments he has made.
that Smut is produced from small shri
yelled kernels Of wheat. He made
the discovery BY washing one part and
screening the other part Of the wheat
he sowed in the same field, and by
sowing each part by itself. On that
Fe's W VIC uSiu soAu WIN washed
wheat. there was Smut, and on the
part sown with screened wheat there
was none. At the suggestion the same
experiment has been successfully tried
by others.-l Bradford, (Pa. Settler.
NEw EcHoTa. JusE Ca few DAYS
ago the United States' troops stationed
near the gold mines, arrested nine cit.
izens Of Georgia who had come over to
dig. after they had been once removed.
They were taken TO Savannah TO be
prosecuted according TO the intercourse
law OF the United States. We are very
glad to perceive that the National Ex-
ecutive intend to give us some protec.
ton. The energy exhibited by the com
manding officer in this instance, 10
highly commendable. and cannot fail
TO gain the appreciation Of all honest
and well-meaning persons.
Cherokee Phoenix.
HEsRY WHEATON, Esq. U. States
Charge d'Afiaires TO Denmark, arriy.
ed at Amsterdam on the l2th MAY.