The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-02-09
MILFORD. (Del.) Jan. %.

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inst. Our farmers adjoining this bay have
met with heavy losses of cattle, sheep, and
hogs-some have lost all, and others from
80 to 20 mead each, which added to the in
jury resulting from the OVERLOOKING of their
farms by the salt water. has rendered the
damage very great. The tavern house on
our beach, was principally blown down, but
the family which resided in it, consisting of
four or five persons, escaped any injury ex
cept what they suffered from cold The
tide extended mile above the tavern, and
of course inundated the house so much as
to make 1t necessary to repair to the second
story for shelter. Several other houses near
the bay were much in the same condition.
A poor black woman, and her two small
children, have been found drowned on
Slaughter beach; and the marsh is literally
strewed with dead cattle. We are out of
fuel, and of hay and oats for our horses,
and we are likely to remain so for some
time, as our farmers are unable, on account
of the high banks of snow, to reach the
place. Our poor class Of citizens are in
distressed state. There was poor fellow
near the beach, on the Kent side, VINO lost
all his cattle, hogs, poultry, and fencing !;
and he and his aged mother were near per-
ishlng, but saved themselves by repairing
to the second story OF the house, and there
covering themselves with blankets, &c.
The accounts from Milton, twelve miles be-
low Milford, represent the damage done in
and near the town to amount to near seven
or eight thousand dollars, produced by the
tide sweeping off an immense quantity of
cattle, wood, bark, &C., and by driving YES
sells on to the wharves, and two of them are
said to he high and dry in one of the streets.
At Millsborough, where the tide was never
before known to reach, the furnace is said
to have sustained damage to the amount Of
eight or nine thousand dollars.
THE CHERoKEEs. Extract from a state
ment given by The board of resident mis-
sionaries among the Cherokecs, Of the pre-
sent condition of that people:
It has been often represented that white
men and half breeds control the political
affairs of the nation. White men can, by
the consttutinn, Nave no part in the gov
ernment: and 10 US it is evident that the
influence of the white citizens of the nation
over its political concerns is of very little
consideration.
1t may not be amiss to state what proper
tlul lnC blOOil dCNudIlY USdTS 10 lHG
white in the principal departments of the
Cherokee government The present pfinci-
pal chief, Mr. John Ross, is, we believe, but
one eighth Cherokee. Mai Lowrey, the
second principal chief is one half Cnero-
kee. The Legislature consists of two bran
ches, styled the National Committee and
Council, the former numbering Is members
and the latter "a. The presiding officers
of both these branches are full Cherokees
Of the Committee two only, including the
President, are full Indians; of the rest sew
en- are half Indian, two more, and five less
than half. OF the Council Is are supposed
to be full lndians, seven half, and one only
one fourth. No measure can be adopted
without the concurrence Of both houses, and
consequently every public measure has the
sanction Of body of which two thirds of the
members are of Gamixed Indian blood
Each succeeding election may vary the pro-
portion. This is, as nearly as we can as
certain, the proportion as it now stands.
INFLUENCE OF TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES.
1t is made known from the official returns,
that the domestic distilled spirits" in
the city of New York, amounted in 1928
to III, 504 casks; in 1929 to 1913; being
81 ,59l casks less in 1929 than in 1928; say
near 40 per cent more in 1928 than in 1929.
From official returns, the inspection of
foreign spirits" in the city of New York
in 1928 amounted to 2,925,7O5 gallons in
1899 to 1865 being a falling off of
1,229,937 gallons-the importations of 1928
exceeded those of 1929 of rising IS per
cent.
1t is calculated from the returns, that in
1929 the diminution of foreign spirits, pass-
ing through the city of New York, for do
nestle consumption, amounted to I,47I us
gallons, costing at the wholesale price as
many dollars. Of domestic spirits, the
diminution has been about two millions of
gallons, worth at first cost at least S500,O0O
the whole making saving to the comnu-
nifty of about 100000 of dollars at the
wholesale price; but at the retail price, as
generally dealt out, who can estimate the
saving? When we look at this return, and
at the lessened use of this wretched stuff,
may we not he permitted to ascribe to this
change of habits in our State, the unexam-
pied prosperity which prevails throughout
every branch Of industry ALBANY Argus.
TIE END OF THE DRuNKARD. We are in
formed by gentleman from Brunswick, Vjr.
ginia, that man in that county, by the name
of Bishop, murdered his wife on Tuesday, the
18th ult., by shooting her He then put an
end to his own life, by cutting the large blood
vessel in his left arm, and bleeding himself to
death: He received handsome property by
his wife, which he had squandered for strong
drink. He has left four children to want-and
10 lament the Wretched end oftheir parents
Richmond Telegraph.
Twenty-Five members ofthe Senate of Geor
ga have publicly declared, under their respec.
be one and the same thing. They saw !" Mi
LITIGATION and Disunion zoe consider svnonvmon.
terms What American worthy of the biCh
distinction the appelation gives him-or VIVA,
friend OF Liberty and of man. can contemnIa,e
the spectacle which either would exhibit with.