The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1831-10-04

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ginning to revive, and mny hc expected ra'
pdly 10 increase until the close OF the navi'
cation. That paper adds" Ifit should O.
quail that which took place the last spring
(and it probably will)l number OF souls ~
this territory, on the first of January next.
will amount to at least fifty thousand. and in
another year to upwards Of sixty thousand.
II is therefore time that people OF Michigan
should direct their attention to the subject OF
forming State Constitution for their COVER
ment."
According to the editor of the N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser, who is au fat
to newspaper fashions, the next pattern
for newspaper will be the mainsail of
Of a 74.-The same editor, who scouts
all nine cornered words, calls Major Ea-
tons late effusion a Deomnibusre6usset
guibus Ddmaliis dissertation.
In 26 families of German and Swiss
emigrants lately arrived at Philadelphia
in a ship from Havre, nre l63 children,
ofwhom %, or Ia pair are twins. Five
pairs were males, five pairs were females,
and the other four male and female.
Three other vessels from the same place,
had each two pairs, and another four
pairs, - -.
FoR PoLAND.-At an adjourned meet
| ing of the friends of Poland, held lately
at Philadelphia, number of young gen.
tlemen came forward and inscribed them
selves as volunteers in the cause and II
was resolved, "that Mr.. F. G. Smith be
requested to meet the committee on
Wednesday, to lay before them his views
on the practicability of passing through
Europe to the seat of war" iH
NEw-ORIEANs.-Thc N. o. Mercan-
tile Advertiser of the 10th inst, states,
that the city has never been so healthy at
any previous season, as at present. There
had been tumors of few cases of yellow
fever, which proved to be only slight biz
ious cases, and few ofjaundice.
222 vessels from the east, put into
Gloucester last Friday, wind southerly,
fearing the cline gale" 25 were lumber
loaded, having about 100000 feet of
lumber for Providence, N. Bedford &c.
Il is stated that Arthur Tappan, Esq.
has agreed to give TEN THOUSAND DOL
LARS towards an African College at New
Haven, If the colored people themselves
will contribute an equal amount.
Fromhe Philadelphia Chronicle of fThursday.
Chief Justice Marshall arrived in this
city yesterday afternoon, and has taken
lodging at Mrs. Swords. As the health
of this distinguished man has lately been
the subject offrequent enquiry, his friends
will be gratifed to hear that he walked
up from the steam boat
The Edenton Gazette states, upon in
formation received from an undoubted
source, that there have been killed in
Southampton county, upwards of one
hundred negroes, consequent upon the
late instruction in that county.
The sickness, we understand, still con-
tinues to prevail in Downington, Pa. and
its neighborhood; numbers have fallen
victims.
The receipts of the American Coloniz-
alton Society from the 9th July to 3lst
August, amounted to 1885, ,537. Ofthis
sum, $2lI3 80 nearly one half, was from
Gerrit Smith, Esq. of Peterborough, N.
York. The Board Of Managers have
passed a resolution appropriating $4,000
for an expedition of free colored persons
to Liberia from the Western states.
An official description Of the Light
houses and Beacons established along
the coast of France is published yearly
in Paris.
There are now sixty-fve Lighthouses
nn the Coast of France, viz: on the
Manche ol English Channel, thirty two;
on the Atlantic, twenty-three; on the
Mediterranean ten ;-Gf which four were
established and five improved during the
year 1880.
"a TOUCH ABOVE THE vULGAR."--A |
learned young lady being asked at a tea
table if she used sugar, replied, Il have
diabolic invincible repugnance to sugar,
for according to my insensible cogitations
upon the subject, the fiavosity of the SUI
gar nulli6es the flavosity of the tea, and
renders it vastly obnoxious.
Three men of color named Johnson,
Jourden, and Gardner, accused of shoot
ing the sailor in Olneys Lane on the
night of the 2Ist Sept. were arrested last
week in New York, and have been
brought to this town for trial. They are
now IN our Jail, to be examined some
time this week. If bound over for trial,
it will not take place until the March
term 1882, of the Supreme Cour. for
this County. Prov. Jour.
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