The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1831-11-22
Etom the Boston Transcript.


Is now good wife and affectionate mo-
ther, found her progress arrested as she
passed down Court street by food which
her passage to the opposite
walk. She paused to consider her situa-.
ton, and anxioasIy looking towards the
haven, when an honest Tar, with
a canvass hat and bite ribbon, inscribed
-'U. 8. Frigate Constitution, bore up
and reconnoitred her position. Without
any apology or land-lubberly ceremony,
he encircled her waist with his arm, and
wading knee deep through the water.
landed lady Sensitive g. the opposite
shore. More vexed than grateful, our
belle curIed her pretty lip and said, you
are animpudent fellow, SIR 'Belay that
my DEAR said Jack, by the powers III.
make all fast again.'-Suiting the action
to the word, he lifted her the second time,'
and refording the stream, placed her safe
ly again where he first fonnd her, observ---
ing with good natured laugh, And you
love your moorings so wen hearty, smoke,
my pinnacle but you may lay at anchor
there as long as you please /.
The above is true bill. The lady has
grown wiser and less sensitive since this
lecture on squeamishness was readtO her;
and she frequently an,uses her friendSby
relating the anecdotc. 49, :.
. Capt. Howes, of the brig Hebe, at Bos-
ton from Smyrna, Sept 9th, states that
Z or 8 persons on board the u. s. ship
John Adams had diedof Cholera MOrbus,
and tba, she was then at vourla, under
going a process of publication. Later
accounts, which left her still at Vourla,
say, "all on board were WE'LL"
Mr.. Berrien, late Attorney General of
the United States, has been nominated
to succeed Mr.. Lumpkin, of Georgia, in
Congress-, from that State.
Col. Gadsden, recently appointed Brig
adler General Of Engineers, to succeed
Gen. Bernard, has arrived in this city
to undertake the duties ofthat station.
Nat. Int.
AN ANCIENT BELL.-The perseverance,
Hose ca. in Philadelphia. have bell on
their carriage, which is the oldest in that
city. 1t was cast in London in 1927; it
is 204 years old.
According to the New-Orleans papars,
there were imported into that port dur
ing the week commencing on 18th ult.
from various parts Of the United States,
;s7l slaves, principally from Virginia.
William Slade the anti-masonic can
didate, is said to have been elected Rep
rssentative to Congress from the second
district in Vermont, on the third trial.
The SHOE BUsINEss.-According To
the Lynn, Massachusetts Mirror, the
price Of sOal leather has risen from 25 to
81 cts. per ID. ; and the price of labor a
mong jOurneyman shoemakers has ad-
vanced recently Is to 20 per cent.
SUICIDE BY FIRE.-Tiere have been
only three instances Of selfdestructiOn
by ire-thst Of the philosopher Empe-
docles, who threw himself into the crater
Of Mount Etna; that of Frcnchman,
who, in imitation Of the former, precipi-
tated himself in 1920, into the crater Of
Vesuvi,is F; and that Of an Enghshman,
who, about twenty years back, jumped
into the furnace of forge.
Gen. Santander, late Vice President
Of Columbia, having been for some
months past in Europe, arrived IN New
York on Thursday last from Havre.
He proposes after visit of some time
in this country to return to Colombia.
We have seen an extract of letter
from Major Dougherty. agent Of the
Pawnees, to his brother. which says, TINT
the Small Pox has been committing
dreadful ravages among the Pawnee In
dians. Nearly the whole Of one tribe,
0he Pawnee Republic Of about $4,000
souls have been swept off-the number
dying daily being SO great that they had
not been able to bury them. The cause
of the disease being SO fatal among them,
is, that they Immediately plunge into the
water as soon as the fever makes its APP
pearance--that driving the disease in
wardly. Scarcely All ins ance is known
of recovery, when they arc attacked
with Ibis terrible malady.
The Barnstable Journal says-There
is a report, which appears to be pretty
we'll founded, that Mrs. Chapman, the
sccompIice Of the Spaniard Nina, in the
murder Of her husband, landed at Dem
mis-, in mans apparel, a week or two
since, from small vessel from N. York.
.s -. 4. o.
= a bookseller in New-Yofk, has just
published now edition Of Wirt's Life
of Patrick Henry. revised by the author
and embellished with his portrait.