Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-06-07

afttcHts Caittu the great uccdhs ANU tast up
on the shores OF Braid, marked the event
by the erection of this monument. At all
events the fact is a subject OF great curiosity
for the Psychologists"
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Caution to Boatmea s. Oihers-Dea,h from
coal gas. The entire crew Of the canal boat
Sunbury Volunteers. consisting OF two men
and Que boy, was destroyed by the above
cause on the night of the 2ith to 25th inst.
This boat arrived on the evening OF the oath,
at Manayuuk. and the crew, having been ex-
posed 20 rain, and finding themselves chilled,
before retiring 10 sleep. made a fire of stone
coal in an open furnace, which they had
placed in the cabin, and carefully closed the
hatchway. On the following morning, one
Of the inhabitants Of the village, having CD
served that the boat appeared deserted,
pushed back the cabin door, and. to his con
sternation, saw the whole boats crew lying
dead in their hirths. Two OF these persons,
we understand. were from Reading. where
their families reside. The writer having had
frea.ent opportunities TO know, that many
persons are not aware that the fumes or
gas produced by stone coal, are as delete
rious and destructive of animaihtc as those
from charcoal, is induced TO publish this aw-
lt dCGtltUt. vi TIC DubC ma uiS NIii1stsfot-
cation may he the means Of saving some
lives. Let boatmen know that certain death
is the consequence of sleeping in a close
room, with either charcoal or stone coal
burning in an open furnace.
Remarkable Preservation "A few days
since a child Of Mr.. Clement Chass, Of Corn
ish. between two and three years oil age, was
discovered in a well in the back part oil the
house, by a sister. She Immediately called
to her mother, who lowered the bucket and
managed to get II beneath the child's bead,
who was apparently dead when she discov-
cred It, and thus kept its head oat Of the
water until the father, who was half a mile
from the house, could be sent for. he ar
rived, and was about descending into the
well with his boots ON but upon a sugges-
tion Of Mrs. G. that he had better take them
off. as he would he less liable TO fall, he did
it, and while doing ii, his wife turned her
eyes towards him for a moment. and when
she again looked into the well the child had
disappeared Mr. G. descended as soon as
possible, took the child from the bolton, Of
the web, and brought II up, apparently dead.
A physician was sent for. three miles, and no
signs OF life appeared until he arrived: when
he succeeded in resuscitating the child,
which is now perfectly recovered. 10y. III.
Spectator -
Mercantile Life.-The life Of a merchant
is necessarily a life Of peril. He can scarce
Nv move without danger. He is beset on all
sides with disappointment, with fluctuations
in the current Of businesses, which sometimes
leave him stranded on an unknown bar, and
sometimes sweep him helpless into the O.
cean. These ricissitules depend on causes
which no man can control; and are often 50
sudden that no calculation could anticipate,
or skill avoid them. To risk much, TO be
exposed 10 hazards, belongs 10 the vocation
of a merchant; his usefulness and success de-
pend, in many cases., on his enterprise. lie
must have courage to explore new regions
Of commerce, and encounter the difficulties
of uniried experiments. To be unfortunate
in such pursuits is no more disgraceluI to an
upright trader. ibas TO fall in the field Of
battle is dishonorable TO the soldier, or de-
feat to a General who has done all that va
Tor and skill could achieve to obtain the vic
tory. Very different is the case Of one who
with but little of his own TO leopard, com
mences business on a system OF commercial
gambling, and makes his desperate throws at
the risk of others; who embarks in rash and
senseless adventures, condemned by COM
mon sense as BY honesty; and when they
end In a total wreck, looks his abused credi-
tors cooily in the face, and offers them q
list of bad debts, and an inventory OF worth
less goods, provided they will release and
discharge him forever from their claims.
Our traders must consider themselves, or
allow others to consider for them. as petty
tra(fickers for petty gains by all advantages,
but as n.erchanls, 10 the fullest and most ho-
norable sense Of the term; as the men by
whom the great operations OF the world are
sustained, by whom the intercourse Of the
human family, however scattered and re-
mote, is kept up; as the instruments oil clsili-
cation and intellectual improvement; as the
agents to distribute the comforts and inxu-
| ries of life over the whole surface OF the
| globe. BY them the whole race OF man, OF
every variety of complexion and character,
| and wheresoever they may inhab't, are
, brought together, and taught TO know each
| other and TO aid each other. THESE are the
! peacemakers or the world, for they show II
to be the interest and happiness OF all to re-
main at peace, and they demonstrate hal y
Is easier to obtain the good things we may
desire by than by arms. They
soften national asperit,es and remove unJns'
preiudices. Such high functions cannot be
performed BY ordinary men; and those who
do perform them faithfully are the nobiesl
benefactors Of man~kind.--lagers0t.