Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-10-20

WILLIAM FISpLAY.of Pennsy
to be Treasurer Of the Mint Of the U.
States.
LEONARD NJ. PARSER. Of Charles.
town, Mass. has been appointed Naval
Officer for the District Of Boston aud
ChArlcstown, vice Gen. Boyd, deed.
PHiLip p. BARBOUR, OF Virginia. to
be Judge Of the United States for the
Eastern District Of Virginia, in Mace
Of George Hay, deceased.
NJ. p. p. BARBOUR, Of Virginia, mas
accepted the judgcship conferred On
him BY the President.
Mr.. GEORGE PorNDExrER, formerly
a Representative in Congress from the
State Of Mississippi. has been APPOINT.
ed by the Governor Of that State a Sc.
nator 10 Congress. in the place Of X.
ii. Adams, deceased.
An euiogiun,, on the late JuDaE
WAsniNoroS, was, by the request Of
the Philadelphia Bar, delivered BY
Judge lIOpkinsOn, on Thursday the
l4th instant, ut IL O'Clock, in Doctor
Chapman's Lecture Room, in the Med
icai Hall Of the University.
GEoRcIA.-Thc Governor Of this
State has called an extra session Of the
Legislature, to meet on the 18th Of
October, for the purpose Of devising
measures to repress the working Of
Gold Mines in the Cherokee country.
Ii is stated in the Executive Proclama-
ton, that thousands Of persons have
entered upon these lands. and are now,
and have for some time past been, en-
gagged in taking great quantities Of
Gold thcrefrom. Nat. Int.
OF sixty-four vessels advertised, one
day last week, in the Journal Of Com
merce, to sail from New York, but 4
are for ports not embraced within the
United States. The proportion Of our
domestic as compared with our foreign
navigation, may be judged Of from this
fact. The regular packets to Liver
pool, London, and Havre, are not,
however, included in the calculation.
Nat Ga=efs.
Christian Jubiiec.-A letter from
Stockholm mentions, that official or
ders have been given for general Ju-
bilee to be held throughout the Swe-
dish dominions, on the 2Sth of Novem-
Der next, in celebration of the first in
PRODUCTION Of Christianity into that
country.
We learn from the lie Courier des
Efais Cnis, that the subscription in
New York for the benefit Of the wound
ed in Paris, amounted to 2, l32 dollars
so cents. which sum has been RENTED
to M. jacques LATTE, at Paris.
Sickness at New Orleans. New
Orleans Mercantile Advertiser Of the
18th ult. says" Ii will be seen, from
the report OF the interments at the
Protestant Burial Ground, the number
Of which is Al, and at the Catholic 80,
that the bills Of mortality have increas
ed this week six more than last. New
cases Of fever are not as numerous, al
though the malignancy Of such as do
occur, are by no means Of an abated
nature, contrasted with last week. We
are Informed, that several cases Of re-
lapse have occurred during the past
week, and which have often proved IA.
tai. From Commissavy Henry, we
learn, the number Of sick in the hospi-
tails OF the city, up to yesterday, is
$50. The total number Of deaths, this
week, 1911. We trust, notwithstand-
ing, that by our next we shalt be able
to announce the health Of our city in
All improved state.
The Harrisburg Chronicle states
that the Pennsylvania Canal, from
Middletown to Clark's Ferry, has been
in navigable order for few days past,
and is expected TO remain so till closed
by frost. The JDliaia Canal Is also
navigable to Lewistown. The Union
Canal is not nayigable at the summit
level.
The U. S. frigafe Hudson, Com.
Cassin. and sloop Of war Vandaiia.
Capt. Gallagher, were left at Rio "a
metro lst Sept. by the ship Constitu-
ton, Capt. O'Grady, arrived at Nor
fOik--all we'll.
a duel was fought in August, be
tween Lieut.. Sands, Of the Vandalia,
and DR.. Henry w. Bassett, surgeon
Of the same ship. The Doctor fell on
the FIRST FIRE, aud died in about so mi.
mutes.
Sick Peach Trees. 1t was mention.
eel some time since, by a correspon.
dent, IN the papers Of this city, that
certain facts had lately come 20 his
know ledge. which were stated, Undue.
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