Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-03-30
SELECTED ITEMS.

Chief Justice .MdrShaH.-The National Jour-
nal says, there is reason to believe the report cor
rect, that Chief Justice Marshall is about to resign
Il will be an event universally regretted by tho
country.
The chief Justice.-It is with heartfelt pleas
ure says the National Intclligencer that we state,
from authority on which wo place entire reliance,
that there not the smallest ground for the report
now CURRENT Of the intention Of Judge Marshall to
resign the trust Of Chief Justice Of the United
States. TO our readers generally we are satisfied
that the information which we are this enabled 10
communicate, will be more acceptable than any
thing we havo announced to them for the last six
teen years.
1t is stated in the N. Y. Albion that the report
of the appointment of Sir James Macintosh as Brit
lsh Minister to the United States, does not rest up
on any official or positive information.
Baron Vandersmissen has been promoted TO the
rank of General, in Belgium and is at present the
military commandant at Antwerp. This gentle
man is son-in-law of Admiral Graves, and few
years since passed winter in this State Charles
ton Courier.
The N. Y. Canal Commissioners have ordered
the canals to be prepared through the whole line.
so as to bo navigable, April Is, five days earlier
than last year.
FRIGATE Constitution. We learn that
the Secretary Of the Navy has determined to post
ponc repairing the Constitution Frigate, until tho
completion of the Dry Dock at Charlestown M
Wy Yard, which will be early next season, in Or
der that she may be put i'll a more perfect condition
than she otherwise could be-thus will old IRON
sides, the yortc Of the nation and pride and boast
of Boston, have the honor Of being the first ship
repaired in the first national Dry Dock built in tho
United States.-BostOn Pat.
The United States and Great Britain are the on
ly countries in which Imprisonment for debt is tol-
Grated.
CHOICE OF GEEsE.-In choosing your geese
for the table, should be tren that the feet and
legs be yellow which is indicative Of the birds be-
ing young; the legs of old geese are red. If re-
Gently killed, the legs will bs pliabe, but If stale.
they will be generally dry and stif.-.N E. Far
mer.
Mr. Middleton, late minister to Russia, has aniv-
cd at Norfolk.
A young man has been sentenced to three months
in the New Bedford House Of Correction, for dis
turbing the Society Of Nethodsts at different times
by gross indecency.
DIR. Smith, Of Oneida County, N. Y. lately ro-
gaed his friends on some fresh Holsters which he
had purchased four years and ftDo months be-
fore which had been put up and hermetcally seal
Ell in New York city sirteen months before he
bought them. The company pronounced them as
hne Holsters as they ever tasted. (Afsh story.l
A lamp lately invented, which burns spirits of
tar, has been introduced at Lincoln, which claims
the commentator Of all who have inspected il, for
the brilllancy Of its blaze and its cheapness I'D
for eight hours light equal to six mould candles.
with little or no trouble in trimming Eng. paper. '
We learn by way Of Chagres, Kingston, Jam.
and Philadelphia, that so houses were lately burnt
at Guayaqui, with large amour, Of property, n
large proportion Of which was British Bos ddc.
A letter from Havana, dated the 4th inst, pub
lshed in the Charleston Courier, states that the U.
s. schooner Grampus, on the preceding evening,
in entering the harbor, run aground, outside Of the
Moro Castle. The U. s. ship Peacock had sent
down her boats, and brought up the cannon and
stores Of the Grampus, She remained on shore on
tho 9TH, and it feared that if il should come on
to blow she would 60 TO pieces.
The following singular annunciation appears in
the last BTockpor Recorder
Expects TO be MARRIED, this evening,
March 2d,) at the Baptist Church in this village,
Mr.. Doras,us Kellogg, OF Baldwinsville, Ononda-
60 Co. to Miss sylvia Coon, Of Marceps, Ouonda-
60 Co.
Having received our ZEE in ADVANCE, we
deem il no more than fair play to insert the above
notice in ADVANCE, uso-[Edl