Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-09-29

MARTTNsBURG. SEPTEMBER %. 1881.

,sns of Berkeley county. friendly to the
cause OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, are re-
onesied TO meet at the Court House. at o.
II Glock on Monday the I0hdag Of October merit.
& ~ being court day. to take INTO consideration
tbe propriety of sending Delegates to the
Il Iewisburg Convention.
q The Lewisburg Convention proposes to
meet on the 3lst day Of October neri, and is
81 70 be composed Of Delegates fron every coun-
Fl ~ West of the Blue Ridge, to take into con-
siderafion and to concentrate the Western
vote Of the next General Assembly on such
schemes Of Internal Improvement as may be
best calculated TO promote the interests and
prosperity Of Western Virginia.
MANY CITIZENS.
4 Maj EATON has published pamphlet. of
So pages.in reply to Messrs Ingham, Branch
and Berrien. Its great length will prevent
ear publishing the whole of it; we will give ex
tracts from it
The Editor of the Philadelphia National
Gazette has conversed with an intelligent A
4 nerican gentleman who is just returned from
/ the continent of Europe, through which he
passed as far as Berlin. He says that the
great suhjec of interest and anxiety at pre-
sent is the Cholera .Morbus. Ii has reached
81 the frontiers of Silesia and was making its
j way steadily but slowly into the heart of En-
b rope. The public authorities of the various
towns and cities were taking every precau
ton to guard against IT. and TO obvlate as
much as possible its fatal effects. In some
places it has been excluded by the extreme
care of the police, and the strietness with
which non intercourse has been enforced; in
others. notwithstanding every precautoa. il
has penetrated into the towns. In st. Peters
bprgh especially. this has occurred where the
most vigorous measures were adopted, but
where lis ravages have proved excessive -
Though the official reports endeavouT to les.
sen the number of cases, they have not been
\ fr,ver than fifteen thousand No remedies
( generally successful have been devised; those
which proved SO in some places failed total
4 " in others The sea air is said TO have pro
d1ced favorable Gets in several instances,
and this encourages the hope that the pesti
lence may not cross the Atlantic but its slow.
snen and fatal progress which is now viewed
with deep anxiety in Europe, should warn
| the public health officers along the whole of
eur coast.
Oar informant thinks that the cause Of
| the Poles is comparatively prosperous; and
/ the operations OF the Russians are not pushed
with the vigor, coed fortune, orreddy resource
F. that were at first expected TO attendtheir arms.
There does not appear, however, to be any
probability of the warike interference Of O.
| Their nations, or of a general war. The sit
ualion of the people east oil the Rhine, is
! surh. that their government would become
excessively unpopular by subjecting them to
/ the scourge Of war, while they are threaten
ed with the approaching pestilence. Alter
an absence OF ten years, no change Tor the
better is observed among them. Some OF the
4I,ot IF ha,,
Introduced partial reforms into the laws, but
hone into the national economy. Of reve-
|nle of about fifty millions of dollars raised
BIZ that kingdom, one halt is applied to the
maintenance of the army and is drawn from
L population little exceeding eleven millions.
| The poorer classes are all desitous to emf
CRATE, out they want the means to do so. In
| England, al present, every thing appears OUT
et but il is evident that there is great distress
among the poorer classes; while IN Ireland at
no period mas il been more dreadful
We give these, as the observation of an in
teent eye witness The picture OF distress
/ may seem to Inn more KY coloured, from
tie contrast ii presents 10 our country, butt
cannot be doubted that the situation oil Flu
1 rope is one offering many gloomy reflection
to plliianthropist as well as a republican -
\ I'VE do not ourselves apprehend that the Che
! lera Morbus will cross tse Atlantic; and we
think that IA general war is likely TO happen;
indeed, we cannot conceive how the great
strife of principles ana interests can be much
longer deferred There may be partial chan
ges. seeming favourable, IN the political hoTi-
ron Of Europe, but the common aspect por-
tends violent storms and COMMISSIONS"
HuDroerisg has been described as the fri
/ butte which wee pays TO virtue. 1t is also,
hoo often, the tribute which sellishness pays
aio circumstances; and in politics, the love OF
5popularity occasions it In fearful degree and
sexieut. Under a monarchy, let the sove- !
lregn be ever SO imbeclle or proflisate, he
viii still he proclaimed most intellectual and
Exemplary, by the great majority oil men IN
almost every rank and station. In repu0
lie, il the Chief Magistrate be widely popu
lar, however undeseTvedly, very many cih
Zens who are, or wish to be, prominent In
the political world, viii affect the utmost ad-
mlration and loyalty towards him, at the
same time that they are aware oil his inca
paclty and general dement's. Believing, as
we do, that Discrimination and stimulation are
practices which njure the whole moral cha
ractcr. anu are therefore dangerous for our
republican institutions, we heartily deplore
any state OF Things dat induces them parti
Cularly Now, the presence OF Chlel Ma
glstrate at Warrington, VIGOROUSLY unit Tor
his office, but supposed to be still the CHIEF
fayorie of the mass of the people, forms
such state of things; and this consideration
alone nuoht to excite TO opposition every true