Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-05-31

view Jersey, 'i'S9oSPpp
Pennsylvania, % Alabama, 8
Delaware, Illinois, .
Maryland, 8 LOUISIANA, 8
Virginia, 81 Missouri, 2
Washington Irving, after a long absence.
during the latter part OF which he was Sc
rretary Of Legation 10 London, has returned
TO bis native city Of New York.
Mr. Van Buren,, it is said, was, owing to
the Cholera, about leaving Paris for the
Rhine. and descending that river 10 Elol
land, pass thence hho England, and embark
at Liverpool about the Ist OF June.
The Columbia Times, which arrived yes
terday, contains an Editorial Essay of two
columns on the 'tbree remedies proposed TO
the People of South Carolina for their griev
ances,n which it entities Submission, Disu
mon, and Notification. This Essay, which
is a tissue of erroneous assumption and in
yerted reasoning, concludes as follows:
qualification is the kind Of action we
should adopt It will be amply sufficient.
Estate after State will soon acknowledge
this beautiful principle Of confederate Re.
publicanism, which will supply the great
moral desideratum by which many repub
lies in a novel and happy league will be able
to combine the blessing of independent mt
nicipal governments, with the weight and
energy Of a powerful empire"
.AufuI Ueafh.-William Newman, aged
about ten years, son of Andrew Newman,
was directed. on Monday morning last,
about ! O'Clock, BY Mr.. John Wolf, Of Can
ton township, in whose family he lived, TO
take a sick horse from the stable to the pas.
turc. He was observed, with the horse, at a
watering trough, a short time afterwards.
About II o'clock, IN, Mr.. Wolf, fading that
the boy bad not returned, went to the liell
for the purpose OF getting a horse TO go TO a
military training 10 the n~eighboufhood. la
search of the boy, discovering n part Of the
batter on the horse, he became alarmed,
and, upon further discovery, found the dead
bedy OF the boy, about a hundred yards
from the bars. The boys coat and The lost
part OF the halter chain lay near him. On
examination it was found that the back part
OF his scuii was broken, and the brain isSn
ing ont, his thigh broken, and the print Of a
horses shoe on his face, and bis limbs and
body much bruised. The horses forciegs
were spotted With blood. From the tracks
between the bars and the dead body, it ap
peared that the horse had dragged him,
.trampting him in the course. 1t is supposed
that The boy put he halter chain round his
arm in order to put up the bars, and that
the horse was either frightened, or piayfnIly
ran of, after getting into the pasture field
Washington pa Reporter.
Lake Superior This magnificent lake.
besides being the largest, is the highest Of all
the Canadian lakes. The greatest length Of
it in the north and south direction, is 40,
while its length from east to west, is $50
geographic miles. lis coasts contain an ex
tent Of 1900 geographic miles. Tn surface
of the lake has been determined, by the A
merican engineers, TO be $50 feet above the
sea. The water is remarkable for lis purity,
as well as its GOODNESS, which latter is sup
posed TO be oecasioned by its great depth
The centre Of the lake has never yet been
sounded, but the depth is known TO vary
from so 10 $50 fathoms at a short distance
from the shore.
From The Raleigh Register Of May ~
Original Letter from General Washing
ton When our capital was destroyed last
June, it will he recoIlected that the papers Of
the various Offices Of the Government were
thrown into general confusion, to remedy
which disorder. however, provision was
made by the last Legislature. On locking
over this mass of documents, a few days
since, the subjoined letter was discovered,
being in the proper hand writing of General
Washington, and addressed "to the Govern
or and Council Of the State of North Carroll
ma" in reply, as ii would seem, 10 one from
them approving in the name OF the State, Of
the recently formed General Government,
and OF his Administration OF it. Like every
thing else, proceeding from he pen of that
incompatible man, IL is distinguished for its
chasteness of style and elevated patriotism.
The spirit of devotion of the Union which it
brcathes, and the high estimate entertained
ofits value by The writer. render fts p%ublica-
ton at this moment peculiarly interesting:
To the Governor and C0a,cil of the State
Of North Carolina.
GENTLEMEN:
| entreat you to be persuaded that no
thing could have been more agreeable to me,
than The proofs contained in your affection
ate address of the frien lily sentiments enter
tanned by you for my person, and for the
Government which | have been appointed by
my coantrymen to administer. And recip-
rocate with heartfelt satisfaction your con-
gFatulatlons on the completion OF the Ualon
Of all the States; an event, in my judgment,
pregnant with more salutary consequences
han can easily be expressed or conceived.
1t will ever be my first wish and most
endeavoar, to justify, so lar as may
De in my power, the confidence which my
ellow-citizeRs have thought proper to repose
q me-, by exertlng every power vested IN The
of the United States by the Con