The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-09-07

! FHI- bETA-kAPPA SocIETY-.Afpha of Massa
chIsetts. Special meetings of this Socie,v
have been recently called by advertjsemen, II
the public papers, which we understand were
iuily attended,-and that several of our mos,
istinguished scholars took part in the discus
s,1n u Ine SUBJECTS, Tor the consideration o.
which the society convened 1t is now known
that the Society has removed all ininno,;o, 81
secrecy, and thereby authorized nnhlic die.
ciosure OF It's design and character Patriot,
! Recent accounts from Europe state that the
generated Rammohun Roy was about IA visit
rance rom whence he would proceed TO It.
HS, whore ne proposes spending the winter
ana subsequently visit the United Stains 10.
! rome bonaparte, the Ex-K King of WestphaIia. is
/ ABOUT to leave Rome for Leehorn. where briu
Vi ms brother Joseph, the Ex- King of Spain. is
"al'ihg TO convey him TO the United States
~, boYLsToN PRIZES FOR DEFAMATION. On
thursday last, these prizes were awarded bv
,ne Judges selected for the purpose, to the fol.
, owing gentlemen. 10 Charles T. True and
george T. Summons, the first prizes. being goId
medals OF the value of fifteen dollars Tie se,..
ond prizes were ssigned to Joseph HARRINGTON.
Joseph b. Walker, and Edward Cruft. If. The
style oil defamation has been gradually I'M
proving tor lew years past, and is said TO have
been this year unusually good
The Treaty acith France is received by the
formosa, arrived last night. 1t is in charge of
ME- Draper, passenger. 1t was signed on the
Ain OF July, good day for a good deed. II is
IN substance what we have heretofore stated
adJusi ing all open questions with Franco. and
providing sum, that according to the opnion
0, several competent judges, will nearly, if not
altogether satisfy the principal of all 1cei found
ed claims on France.-Neao York Dnper'
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. The annual com.
lQencempnt
Wednesday last. The degree of A. B. was
conferred on twenty nine gentlemen of A. NJ
on thirteen; OF Nj d. on nineteen. An honor
airy NJ. D. on Robert Nelson Of Montreal and
LII. ID. on Judge Weston Of Augusta, Me.
We learn from the Mississippi, that on the
3lst OF July, two or three hours before day.
party OF from so to 100 Sacs and Fox Indians
surprised Menominee Camp, three or four
hundred yards above old Fort Crawford, on the
cast siGe Of the Mississippi, and killed twenty.
hVe OF the latter, and wounded many, who
may probably recover. There were about
thirty or forty Menominees, mon, women. and
children In the camp, most Of whom were
drunk, and the women had concealed their
guns and knives to prevent their hurting each
other. The Sacs and Foxes, though greatly
superior in numbers and attacking by surprise,
drunken and unarmed encampment lost sew.
eral men, who were seen to fall in the onset
and retreated in less than ten minutes with only
few scaps pursued by four or five Memo
minees, who fired upon them until they were
half mile below the village. The party killed
consisted of one war chief, three headmen, four
warriors, six women, and eleven children.
Washington Globe
A letter dated Barbados, July IL, says: "
have the pleasure to inform you that the free
colored black Inhabitants of the island, by an
act lately passed. emf all the rights and priyi-
leges ofhis majesty's white subjects it is like.
wise done in most of the other colonies, and
must tend to unite the different classes in bonds
OF harmony and peace"
VALUE OF Bones. The New York Advocate
states that about $4,000 have been paid within
year, at ono establishment, for [beef1 bones,
which have all been manufactured and sold in
that city. The refuse of the bones is used as
manure, for which purpose it is valuable.