The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-07-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

.Or Lewis Cass, Governor of Michigan Ter
rnory, has been appointed Secretary Of War,
race }. H. Eaton, resigned
Washington Globe, Officially
MIR. lngham has written letter from his
residence, to the President, calling upon him
as The executive police magistrate to institute
legal inquiry into the charges made against
Major Eaton and his associates of a conspiracy
To assassinate Mr. Ingham and pedging him
self TO return to Washington to assist the pros
ecutlng officer, as soon as he shall receive no.
lice to that effect Boston Courier.
1t IS generally believed that Mr. Buchanan Of
Lancaster. has been appointed Minister TO ST.
Petersburg. to succeed Mr.. Randolph at Lon
don.-U 5. Gazette.
Serious damage was done to bridges and mill
dams in Maryland, by the sudden swelling of
the streams by the rain on the Sd inst. In 9TH
er parts of the middle States considerable dam
age has been sustained from violent rams The
crop OF wheat has sustained much injury.
Journal OF GEOLOGY, &c. We have receiv
ed from Philadelphia the first number of the
Monthly .7mtrican journal Of GeoIO6v and Nat
arGt Science, conducted by G w. Feather
stonehaugh. 1t contains several Original arti.
Giles OF considerable interest. on different sub.
Jects Connected with Natural History, a part of
which are illustrated by photographic plates
Boston .3d1ertiser.
The Cherokee Phoenix of the 25th ul, saws ::
. We stop the press To inform our readers, that
the Rev John Thompson. missionary of the
American Board, stationed at High Tower, has
been arrested by detachment of the Georgia
Guard"
John Markley, for the murder of Mr. Newey
and family, was hung at Frederick, Md. 24th
ult. He denied the murder, ar gave no marks
Of contrition: he has left memoir of his dis
solnte life.
RAIL ROADS. An extract of a letter from
gentleman in Liverpool to a correspondent in
Troy - Our rail road surprises more and
more every day. The trains go regularly
from Liverpool to Manchester in an hour
and a quarter. On Friday 2050 passengers
were booked for that place One thousand
bales OF New Orleans cotton arrived here one
oay by nom on the next the whole was deliver
ed IN Manchester. These are facts tina, prove
more every day the superiority of rail road
communication
WOOL. The quantity of this article putchas-
ed by our merchants this season, exceeds 100, :
ooo lbs, tor which cash and high prices have
been paid. A single load was brought in by a
farmer one day last week weighing 1919 lbs
for which he received S2l75
CaRandaigua az ~ Repository
The Ponghkeepsie Journal states, that up
wards of 100000 lbs Of wool have been pur-
chased in that county the present season. The
prices paid were so to IS cts for native wool,
" to IS for merino, and 50 to 80 for mixed and
fulled blood Saxony. These prices are high
To" high, we fear, for the interest of the manu-
facturer-Onondaga (.N " Register.
RELIEF OF FAYETTEVILLE. The collection
for this purpose exceed the most extravagant
anticipations. As nearly as can be estimated.
more than $4,000 have already been raised,
and from present appearances, as much more
NAV probably be calculated on
A HANDSOME PRESENT. Mr.. Tornel resent
ly Minister from Mexico to this country, has
given the University of Maryland, set of the
French Encycioptdia, being $50 vols fol-