The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-01-10

seen,
Terrible --mark and trsmbls-.fold by fold
See round the writhing sire the enormous ser.
pents rolld;
Mark the stern pang clenched dispairing
clasp
Tho wild limbs struggling with that fatal grasp
The deep convulsion Of laboring breath
Ih intense and gathering agony Of death.
Yet mid the mortals sufferings still IL viewd
The naughty spirit shaken--but not subdued.
Though nature faint, though every fibre burst,
Scathed-- stiaed-crush diet veugence wreck
its worst,
Patc--terror--hsl let loose your powers ofill,
Wiring the wreck'd form--the soul can scorn
you STILL
The revenue cutter Wolcott, Capt.
Mather, returned to New London on
Friday, from cruise Of z days forthe
relief Of vessels in distress pursuant to
the orders of the Secretary ofthe Treas
ury. She boarded on the 25th, schr.
Nancy from Richmond for Salem, and
during her cruise, several vessels which
have since arrived.
CoFFEE.-We learn from the Boston
Post that there was about eleven million
pounds of coffee in the public stores in
that city, December 81, 1S3l.-Since
that time, one million pounds have been
bonded out, and the balance remains in
store.-Since Jan. l, one million, five
hundred thousand pounds have arrived in
the ships Hoogly and Forum frsm Ba-
tavia.
An editor in Westfied, N. Y, exclaims
-"Ginger and scissors! What snow !!
Two feet deep in the woods; two and
half on the hill, and nobody knows how
much deeper where it is drifted."
A CAsE.--The British brig Benjamin
Milliken was insured in New York from
the 4th November, 1880, to the 4th No
yember, 1881, .one year. Now it hap
pened that on the 4th of November, 1881,
on her passage from Liverpool to St. An
drews, she was totally lost on Cape Sa-
BILE. Will the loss in this case fall on
the insurers or on the insured? Amount
Of insurance $4,000.
Among the applications to the New
York Legislature, at its next session, will
be one to Incorporate the United States
coal and wood company Of the city of
New York, with capital Of SI50,OO0
with privilege of increasing it to $780,
900, and of appropriating part of its
capital to mining for coal, in that state
or elsewhere.
Miller Smell, the lad charged with poi
soning the family of Mr.. Noyes, appear
ed before the Police Court, Boston, by
his Counsel, on Friday, and being mi
nor, was ordered to find securities in the
sum of $1,000 for his appearance at the
next Municipa! Court. Being unable 10
find securities, he was remanded to prison.
From MExTco.--By an arrival at New
Orleans, from Vera Cruz, we learn that
the English packet Calypso, sailed for
England, on the I'd ult. having on board
100000 Of which sum $l25,000 were
destined for the payment Of dividends on
foreign loans. The Conducta which ar
rived at Vera Cruz, on the 25th of No
vember, brought Sl,l26,S34 62.
A meeting was held at the Coffee
house, Philadelphia, on Saturday after
noon, b. w. Richards, Esq. in the Chair
when it was unanimously agreed to apply
to the Legislature, for Bank Charter,
with Capital of three millions Of dol
lars, to supply the deficiency accustomed
by the close of Mr.. Girard's Bank, to be
called the Girard Bank of Philadelphia.
The Senate of Georgia have passed n
bill repeating all the laws of the State a
gainst duelling. 1t was deemed probable
that the other branch of the Legislature
would concur.
| Fires in Boston, The number Of fires in
Boston, from January ], to Dec. 81, 1881,
were l6 estimated damage Of property $751;
0i5; Insurance on do. $l5,450. There were
| 10 false alarms.
Emigration to Liberia.--Tbe Schr. Craw.
ford sailed from Now Orleans, Dec. 18th for
Liberia, with 81 emgrants from Kentucky.
The Crawford also took out large supply Of
merchandise, books, medicines, &c. for the
use Of tho colony.
Burking. cases Of that almost in.
credible crime, "Burking," occurred in Lon
don, in the first week Of last month. One Of
the victims was fine Italian boy, about four.
teen years Of age, and in perfect health, mur.
dered by professed body snatchor, for the
sake Of the nine guineas which he obtained
from the surgeons, who denounced the case
to the police, as itexcitcd suspicion in their
minds.
Washington Irving has at present a
work in hand, called the Legendary