Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1830-10-27
ITEMS.

As commander of the French Nation
al Guard, Gen. Lafayette will accept of
no salny; although Marshal Oudinot,
the former commander Of the National
Guard, had Il salary OF 100, 900 francs,
which he continued to receive to the last
moment,
Benjamin w. Richards, esq has been
elected Mayor of Philadelphia. by IA nu-
mcrous vote of the Select and Common
/ Councils.
Mr., Nichols, the Ncntriloquist, is III
| New Bedford
A meeting of the New-York editors is
proposed, to compliment the irmncss of
the Partisan editors during the late rcyo-
luton.
Josiah Uagar and Noah Pomcrroy,
counterieilcrs, have been sentenced at
I Newly ork to 10 years each in State
Prison; Nicholas Smith, burglary, do.
10; Joseph Williams, burglary, do. .;
Geo. b. Dcighton, cmbczzlement of
goods of his employers, II. Fitch s Co.
do. .; Caleb Griffin and Edw. johnson,
for killing II. Coumbc, do. years each.
70 deaths in Ncw-Orleans, week end
ing 22d ut. mostly of fever. In the hos
pitals were 238 persons.
The n. Y. Journal of Commerce re-
latcs that company of militia, better
drilled in the boiLle-Gcld than in the bat
q fol lot t,l, tl,, ~ rt.
ofthc Commandant, but before reaching
there all the privates dispersed, leaving
the officers alone. This must have been
Il uni-co'm'd company.
In Philadelphia 20, 40 francs were
collected for the sufferers at Paris.
The pedestrian Newsam has walked
8j3! miles in ID days.
At an election in Concord, Pa. luna
! tic fired into IL collection of persons,
woundlng five, one Of them dangerously.
A lady is said TO have tainted in Phi.
ladel phia theatre, whose checks bIazed
like cooks when they should have
been pale: so much for rouge.
The editor of the Nashville Banner
states that double headed snake was
recently caught in that vicinity. 1t is a
live and active, in the possession of DIR.
Pugslcy. The two heads are perfectly
distinct.
The Illinois Democrat mentions that
Gen. Harrison, and other officers and
soldiers who were engaged in the battle
Of Tippccanoc, Intended to assemble at
the battle-ground on the 2lst inst in or
der to rc-ntcr the remains of those who
fell there. cit is distinctly understood"
says the editor of the Democrat, "that
this act of vcncration for the patriotic
dead, is wholly unconncctcd with any
political purposes; and that it will be at
tended by many gentlemen of different
political views, without reference to par
ty." The real or supposed necessity of
such an explanation as this, IN relation
to such an act, curiously illustrates the
Ipcvading influence of party-politics in
this republic.
A gentleman lately had his pocket
book stolen at the Park Theatre, New
York, containing $1,000.
Several families have lately been ta-
ken sick in Newly ork from eating cheese
containing some dcletcrious matter.
DR.. VIM. - G.. Barton, of Philadcl-
phia, has published highly useful work,
entitled "iIints to Naval Officers cruis-
inu in tho WcSt Ind;cS -
The Philadelphia Chronicle puns thus:
-" Stect-yarn is spun in "a large guam
titles now as ever, by as pretty spinning
Jcnnies as distinguished the days of our
mothers, and our young men ,cci hricc as
mUch."
Snow fell in Quebec 3D. inst
4 boy 10 years old lately hung him
self in Lexington, y. Y. supposed from
curiosity.
The L. :. troops secured the gold
mines, in the Cherokee country, about
Oct. 6. They drove Off the Indians as
well as the whites, which leads the Che
rokcc Phcnx to rcmark-"lt now ap-
pears plainly that our "grcat Father"
considers us in the light of intrudcrs. \
The Bar of Nashville gave public
dinner to Judge M'Ican, ofthc Supreme
Court 2d INST