Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-12-22
NEw YoRx, Dec rs

| :. NEw YoRR, Dec 10
~. .liarJs Church $500 were snbscrib
ed IN few minutes Last week at meeting
| held at 81 patriek's Cathedral, to rebuild ST.
/ Mays Church Rev DIR Dubois. the Ro
man Catholic Bishop Of the Diocese, sub
scrihed $500 Committees 10 call Tor sub
scrIptions for the same obiec, have been an
pointed for each ward
| The nnmher OF deaths N this city last week
was one hundred and rightly uuea; a number
very unusual for this season If the year -
he greatest number in any one week during
the last tive years was 204 The average
number through the year IS about I0o IL
we inquire for the cause of tllls untonln,on
! mortality. IT IS 10 be found in The prevailing
| influeezs.
| We have this morning received letter
| from TREND at Hudson. communicating The
following melancholy intelligence. Drown.
| ed in the Hudson River, on the 10Th inst at
| O'Clock 10 The morning, Captain George
| Maxwell, late Of the Il s. Army. IL his All
| year. Capt. Maxwell was a scientific scho-
| lar, and great student He was on an ex
cursion ct pleasure with number Of his
students. skating On the river. about three
| miles below the CitY oil Hudson, wren the
ice gave way and four fell IN the river. and
| by the exer.;ons of one Of bis students, >
| brave little English boy, IA years ole, who
| stuck to them 20 The last, three were saved:
hilt poor Maxwell sunk to rise no more lie
( was An exemplary. good man, AMI tue no
! llest work OF God -sn honest man"
Mortality The RichrnonaWhg annonnc-
ing the Iamentei death of Captain A. r.
! Rose, thus allades 10 deaths daags among
The members of the Virginia State Conven
| ton:
| The singular mortality among those who
were elected To and served on that Conven-
| ton. has struck All who have reflected upon
| it DR.. Calv II Read, Ellison Currie, lao
| Marrae, CalohiI aiennis. VIM b G,les VIM
! RI. Fitzhagh, Alfred II Powell, jaime. Mon
I, roe, Richard Morris Samuel ClaytoT, FIem-
| ing Bates. ami Alexander + Rose, have all
! fallen in thu space Of little more than two
/ years, and all except Messrs Read au,i Cur.
RE died before the, took their seats VERIFY
the survivors have some cause for odd fcai-
! inss"
| Wi on, OF Mopougaa, who died during
| the past summer--thus swelling The nulsDes
removed by death, TO thirteen.
Belgian national coio,s King Leopold ha,
issued his orders that the rational flag d
Belgium, shall consist OF colors- red, yellow
and black arranged in ver'ical stripes, il
the same way as the French Ia, coors
| n receipt for family peacs Ia emperor Of
| China discovered Il family, of which thu mas
! ter, wives, children, grand children, and ser
wants, amounting to a considerable number,
| all lived in harmony to a wonderful degree
On his expyessif his admiration of the cir
cumstance, and inquring what means were
| employ ed TO presEtse quiet among so May
persons, the old mar. taking pencil, wrote
only patience, patience, pasience.
| Influenza. troublesome fellow has
come down among US with vengeance. He
is in truth 10 respecto' of persons He shows
| bis ugly yisage IN the parlor. and take his
/ stand by the kitchen fire SETS The aged to
groaung, and the Young TO mnitering-and
| operates with as much Ii0patfaiy on the
bic daughters of Africa. those of our
own "guse land" Go into the Church, and
you recognize his presence by the soft and
| laboured cough, and wry face and in the
streets by the hoarse gibherish. and still boar
ser complainngs - Detroit Courier
This is in reality the season Of legislation
the legislatures of the following states be
ing now in session: Alabama, South Carroll
ma. North Carolina, Virginia, Penns ylvania,
Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi
"Free taden fsur The present British
duty on American flour is As l0d or only
about three dollars and sixty cents per barrel
including the rate Of exchange This Is fine
spccimen of ''free trade " We submit it to
the philosophers. il any there are among
the growers of wheat in the United States.
[.Nitss Register
"Praciice laughs al theoryn-The y. Yorb
Journal Of Commerce says three thousand
bags Brazil coffee were sold yesterday al l2a
cts mo. deliverable on the reduced duty o.
| ct Id.
That is-tbe duty will be only one cent pei
ID bn, last year, when il was fire cents, tht
average prize of coffee was only IA rents
SO a REDUCTION Of the "tax" has increased tbs
price This is sound FREE trade logic. tho
:,conaaon sense" rejects it-as IL does th'
whole doctrine bIoores Eutopia, or Sym
mes proposed joarney into the hole in 'h'
earth. are not less stfsstge than the Theory 0
, Stree trade"-nor less PRACTICABLE Ibid
81 Nothing OF importance has YET been
done In Congress.