Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-06-14


completely deceiyes France in the Dominion OF
monarchy"
The conclusion of his pamphlet is full Of
eloquence.
"fhe government has not promulgated a
single token Of the religion which thirty mll-
lions OF Frenchmen profess. Ii has neither
prayed nor bewailed at the affairs OF the pe0-
pie; never has it pronounced either in mo
ments Of prosperity or disaster TO the country,
the name of Providence. In England. the
land OF liberty, the government has ordered
fast days and prayers for a~verting the pest.
In France the theatres are opened on the
festival of Easter, as IL it were intended both
to defy the national scourge, aud to scott at
the most solemn OF Christian feasts. But let
us stop here-silence best comes US at a mo
meut when death commands silence every
where round us. The reply which | should
! have addressed to an adversary might have
reached its destination when that adversary,
perhaps, may be lying stretched al the thresh-
hold of his own door; and even were it to
reach him living, where could | count upon
HIN being when his answer would be trans
mitted to me? IL is not unlikely that | might
be consigned 10 that place OF repose OF which
IN these days no one can scarcely be afraid.
particular those who, Ike myself have per
formed a sad pilgrimage of years between
terror AMI plague-the first and last horizon
of our life -Bu a truce to these reflections =
let the collins pass"
South ,8meried The troubles in this coun-
try continue. The latest accounts represent
BRazII4 as still IN an unquiet state, and the
new government in a lettering condition.
New attempts have recently been made to
oPerfurn il.
GRENADA, is said TO be getting more set
tied. and the election Of Gen. Santander, as
PRESIDENT OF the Republic, is hailed as an au-
spicIous event. -
Mrs. Chapman The following very cnri-
Gus anecdote may be relied on as strictly true.
A few days since, a travelling bookseller took
a supply of the trial of Mrs. Chapman re-
Gently published by Mentz s. Son, started up
to BRISTOL, IN the steamboat, with a view 10
return to Philadelphia by the turnpike. On
his way back, he came to Andalusia, 1t so
happened that he was not aware Of Mrs.
Chapman's residing there. Accordingly, he
presented himself at the house Of that lndivid-
uai tosknow II she would like to buy a copy
OF Mrs. Chapmans's trial. The inmates of
the house Immediately set up a hooting and
Kissing, and compelled the astonished vender
to back out, without delay or remonstrance
lie posted across 10 a neighbour, to know
what II could mean. and soon learned that
he had brought his hooks to the wrong
market -Iatet. -
From The PHILADELPHIA Gazette.
.indatusta. the seat Of Mrs. Chapman, so
celebrated by her intercourse with the eonvic-
ted Nina, has been exposed for sale by pub
lie advertisement. A singular spell seems to
attach to a mansion Or farm which has been
the scene of supposed homicide. People at
the present day, generally, repudiate the idea
that the "sheefed dead" leave their places of
rest after they have been quietly Injured, aud
yet, who can point to an instance where a
dwelling IN which a murder is imagined TO
have been prepetratod aforetime. that there
does not linger about it a repu,sive influence
making ITS possession a residence unpleas
ant and revolving TO The general thought, a
place to be Stunned, The mansion ln Sa-
lem. Mass. where the unfortunate White, a
year or two since, met with such sudden ter
mlnation of his life-is. to this day, as we
have been informed. in a state bordering on
desolntion: Doubtless, the school boy. lf he
chances TO pass that dwelling after night fall
q~uickens his pace. and mayhap whistles We
hcnently to excite his courage. Nature is
made up of seeming OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
though few at the present day believe in
ghosts or COLLINS, yet there is something Of
that nature which fingers amidst the wreck
OF juvenile Impressions, potent IN its IN
~iiuence, and irremovable from, the imagin
alton. -
The Doylestown Republican, says:-"Mi
ma has made his viii, which has been taken
to Philadelphia, and properly authenticated
by The Spanish ambassador. Among other
| legacles, we learn that he bequeaths five hun
dred dollars to the Sheriff of this county. and
three hundred to each Of his lawyers, His
| real name as affixed TO this instrument, is
Caroline Estrada Entralgo."
We have seen a print of the monument "a
bout to be erected by Silas h. Burrows, of
N. YORK, over the grave Of the Mother of
Washington II is an obeli-k of beautiful
| design, and TO be constructed Of pure white
marble. Its height Will be a. feet. The in
scription will be
THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON.
We like this-but the date OF her birth
and death should, we think, be expressed on
another face of the pedestal. There is ano
Their part of the design, the propriety Of
which we do not clearly see. lit rs proposed
to snrmount the obelisk with a bust OF
| Washington-a feature TO which there could
be no objection. were the Monument intend
ed for him instead of his Mother We learn
The work will be flashed by the first OF DE.
cember next--s4Teqa.