Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-08-18
CONCoRD, II. Fl Aug 6.

ofder from The Navy Department"
CoNcoRD, r. II Aug 6
The boot on t'ether leg Messrs Downing
Nand Abbot, OF this town. coach and chaise
makers. have this year furnished two car
riages for stage proprietors in His Majesty S
Canadian provinces, and have orders Tor
furnishing two more. This, surely, is rever-
sing the old order of things, when tho peo-
pie Of the United States depended for all
manufactured goods, of more than ordinary
quality, upon Great Britain These CARR
ages were subject to an ad valorem duty Of
10 per cent, and yet did not cost the pur
chasers more than those manufactured in Ca
NADIA
Editors have so frequently vented com
plants of the hardships of their situation, the
constancy of their toll, and the i'll requted
remuneration for their services, that many
people are disposed TO look npon these things
as matter of course, and enc of the arts of
the profession used ad captafidum. Now, 10
our own certain mental and bodily know
ledge. the public are under most grievous
mistake when they suppose these repinings
are without foundation. Seriously, the har
RAISING duties Of the editor of daily paper
deserve TO be more literally paid Tor than the
iabsr OF any other man under the sun There
is constant wear and tear Of mind and
strength. He has not TO consult bis own
taste and incllnations---that would be some
slight allevlatlop-but he must cater fer the
taste and inclinatiops of the public! his
ghbors-strangers- friends and enemiesl
And unless each and all Of these are satisfi
ed, he meets with any thing but favor or en-
enlargement The most constant aplca
ten is necessary, aud the patience Of Job
absolutely requisite To all this. his duties
are various and multiform, and his time con
tinualy occupied with something relating to
bis profession. Surely the ''abouFer," in
this case, is worthy. at least, of the best feel
ings, if net Of "his hire" W look for both,
and hope TO obtain them --.4ler Gas.
A COW which had been missed by her sw-
ner, IN Boston. twenty five days, was found
last Monday, IN barn not in use, in that
nelghborhosd She had nothing to eat in all
that time. and was reduced to skeleton II
IS stated that when she strayed, she was sup
posed to weigh over 900 pounds, and when
recovered that she weighed only between
and 500.
-Four oxen were found dead in field near
WorrIck's hotel, at Nantasket, on Thursday
two oil which weis he'd between twelve and
thirteen hundred pounds each. They be-
lonSed to Capt Hersey. of bingham, and
are supposed to have been killed by lightning
on Wednesday morning.
A letter from Caen TO the editor Of the
Courier Francais, "a Paris Jsurnal) give.
the following description of the landing of ths
ex-imperial family of Brazil at Cherbourg:
ga considerable crowd, the same which
twelve months ago followed in curious silence
the retreatlng steps Of Charles x, again as
sembled, making thousand reflections upor
the extraordinary vicissitudes of royalty, il
consequence of which, after so short an in
terval, an American sovereign disembsrkeC
at the same port, whence an ex King o
France, exiled forever from bis naive land
| had embarked"
From the same paper we learn that tn,
various Masonic Lodges of France nave sen
considerable sums to assist the Poles ia thei
struggle for independence.
National Republican Convention The Ma
tional Republicans of Kent county, [Daa
waFel having lately held meeting, and ap
pointed Delegates to the Convention whicl
is to assemble 10 Baltimore 10 December next
the Delegation from Delaware is now com
Plete The following gentlemen will repre-
sent that State in the proposed Convention
Z l. dupont. kensey Johns, jr. Geu: Rich,
Mansfield, Isaac Davis, William Winde
Morris, James Wallace, John rennent, Wn
D. Napies, ana Henry F. Rod.ey.