Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-11-15
Extract 6fa letter received at the Boston
Readiug Room, dated

.'Produce is scarce and very high"
An extract from letter from Buepos
| Ayres. August 2jth published in the Boston
| Courier SAYS: 1--WE hear that MIR Bayliss
intends demanding his passports as soon as
the Warren arrives from NJ. Video. This
Government appairs anxious TO insult him
! m every way possible Teachers have been
| forbid to attend his family, under threat OF
! IMPRISONMENT; aud we herd to day, that the
| Government despatcbse from Washington.
per Geo Washington, (arr'd 24th) which
were landed in the letter bag, have not been
delivered to him.
| Mavdsr.-A murder of most atrocious ma
ttire was perpetrated OH Saturday night last,
! on The person Of an unfortunate man, named
Joseph Wiehand, the keeper Of a house call
ed the Neptune Hotel. at the lower end of
Vendue Range. The particulars, as far as
we can learn, are these. AT about O'Clock
Yesterday morning, d black woman, servant
OF the deceased, raped at the door, accord
ing TO custom. to arouse the inmate, but re
ceiviug no answer To her repeated calls, be
came alarmed, and stated 10 an individual
passing by, her fears that something must
have occurred TO Mr.. w. as he usually heard
| her calls and arose.
Clttf
of the house was inlastened, and the person
entered, assembled the ladder which led up 10
the little loft where Mr.. w usually slept, and
discovered him extended upon the floor, be
re(t of life, and weitering in his blood A
coroner's inaues, was held upon the body.
and from the evidence given in, it appeared
that the fatal deed was COMMITTED by twist
ing his handkerchief closely around his neck,
and striking him on the head with stone,
which was laying Eear the body IN such a
manner as 10 fracture The skull IN several
places
The general opinion appears to be that
more than one inuvidual was concerned IN
the nerat,ous Transaction. Suspicion has as
yet, fixed upun no particbl.r person Mr.
Wenand, it is 5aid wa. in possession oil two
or three Hundred dollar. IN moley-and his
was, most probably, the cause Of the horrld
catastrophe - Chntyaton Courier.
On Monday eeening, the 22d inst the
schooner Caroline, OF Great Egg Harbor,
was destroyed ty FIRE in the mouth of Mau,
rice River The fire was communicated by
by a cask of hme, and shortly after ITS dis
coveIy il iguifed severa, kegs of gunPowder,
rhich instanlt blew Gp the decks, and pro
| duced a violent conclusion which was sensi
bly, pefceiyed Tor several miles lie crew
took to the boat on the first discovery OF the
fire, and returned alter the explosion and
succeeded in saving the sails end small
portion of the cargo The Caroline was own
ed Ivy John Midnight, EcI Of Bordentown,
and most Of her cargo belonged to Jesse
Bowen of Mays Landing, AMI Mr. Ihomp
son, Ct Egg arbor.-BridgetO', (M ~ o.
se,Ue''
Tie t7hllcu6f rIpginie i ffersoh county
land maintains at this time high value Not
hong since, farm Oh Bullskn, with diiapl
dated buildings, vgs sold al .net'oa for SIS
and "a cts. per acre. The worst land IN tie
county, Uhe mountain always eAcepted,)
would bring not less than rs dollars an acre,
| and if -four should continue at ITS present
! handsome price, we may even Calculate on
further advance n the value OF our choice
farms This is truly the garden spot"
- CLartestoiSn Free Press
Unbelievable any thing be more pro
voking than to have a bucket of water emp
tied upon your head, when you have dress
ed yourself on q Sunday morning. TO go to
church and happen to step on few spaces
along the side walk. " hile your wife Of you
have one) is adjusting h bonet at the
looking glass, to that every thihg Is a:
il should be? Such was the fate OF lflenc
of ours, last Sunday morning, who was real
~ drenched, and returned to bib paror al
wet as drowned rat. He bore the dispen
sation with more meekness than we coule
have done In like case, and reminded III
tarci5iy Of the saying OF Socrates, wher
, Xantippe in a rage pc urel apall CT wa
, on his head, which was thought, my dear
, after so much thunder, we should have lat
: tie rain. "-BOston Alias,
We are sorry 10 have TO state that the bris
E Charles, which sailed Gom Boston on thu
Goth ult with a crago of provisions, contribut
2 ed by the benevolent inhahitance of that CT
D ty, for the suffering people of the Cape d,
: Verd Islands, was much injured ID the late
{ gale. She put into New York on Thursday
evening 10 repair. The brig Hyperion, from
; Portland ior New Orleans, also put into tina
port, on the same evening, having lost the
master, Cap McNlanus, overheard, Oh The
; 9th ult- during heavy gale.
: in aged Clergyman. Rev Doctor Perkins
Of West Hartford, Con. recently preached
bis siXtieth anniversary sermon. We learn
: from Hartford print, that he informed a
listening auditory, nearly all of whom could
date their birth since the commencement o
his ministry, that in his church there hac
been one thousand deaths and one thousand
) baptism-that he had delivered four thousand
t written sermohs, and three thousand extern
porraneous ones, on other occasions OF svor-