Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-09-26

Temperance. from recent
instructions sent by the Secretary of
the Treasury to the Collectors of the
Customs:
sit appears to me that officers whose
habits are not positively sober, cannot
be viglant; that they cannot exercise
their skill with effect, and that an in
diligence in one vice, mean, in itself,
too naturally removes rePugnance to
others.
81 consider it my duty, therefore, as
limitations have been given to me,
that some officers in the Revenue Ser
vice have permitted themselves TO IN
dulge in Incorporate habits, respect
fully and earnestly to ask your aid to
put an effectual termination to such
practices. | will thank you to use
fearlessly, the opportunities which your
position offers, for ascertaining and
making known any acts such as have
referred to, in order that may perform
my own duty in reporting cases of
such misconduct to the President, for
his information and decision"
| The health OF Nashville has been very
| good during the month Of August, the
number of interments having been only
Is. On the 7lh instant negro man died
Of cholera. Most of the sections Of Ten
nessee, where the cholera prevailed in
the Spring, are said TO enjoy remarka
Die exemption from disease.
There had been no appearance Of cho
lera at Jacksonville, Illinois, for a week
previous to the 4th instant, and the health
Of the surrounding country had also im
pr owed.
According 10 the last advices from Fla
vana, the cholera still prev allied in the 10
terror of Cuba.
Cotton markets The Charleston Patri
OF of the 18th instant says
Small lots of New Upland Cotton, are
now selling in King street at Is cents. this
being the highest price offered at present
for prime parcels.
The Augusta Courier ofthe 18th says
"ReceIpts of Cotton are large, and prl
ces declining. sales from wagons for new
crop this morning 3 l6 cts"
Ordination.-Mr. Robert Campbell,
(Iate minister of the Presby terrain de-
nomination) WIS admitted to Deacon's
Orders in st. Johns Church, Ithaca,
onFriday the Both ult.-Morning Pray
er was read by the Rev. John w.
Woodward ofHector, and the Lessons
by the Rev. Lucius Carter of Richford.
The candidate was presented by the
Rev. James D. Carder, the rector of
the parish, who assisted also in the no.
ly COMMUNICATIONS Gospel Ness.
The Columbus (Ohio) State Journal
of the 14th inst. mentions that the Che.
lera still fingers in that place, and that,
too, without much evident abatement.
During the week ending on that day,
there had been nineteen deaths from all
diseases, thirteen of which were from
cholera. 1t is worthy of remark, (says
the Journal) that the convcts in the
Penitentiary, about two hundred in
number, continue to be totally free
from the disease. The inmates are
said to be fed exclusively on tired and
salt meat.
The personal and political friends of
Mr.. George D. Prentice, editor of the
Louisville (Ky.) Journal, treated him
to public dinner, in that city, on Sa-
turdat, the 7th instant. w. Worslev,
Esq. one of the most estimable citi-
zens Of the place presided, and about
two hundred gentlemen partook of the
entertainment. The compliment was
paid to Mr.. P. we believe, in cease
quence of late attempt on his life by
a political adversary.-Nat. Int.
Misunderstanding to report,
Cumberland was, on Tuesday last, the
scene of a most melancholy event. 1t
is said that a DR.. Swearingen shot a
Mr.. B. Thistle, an attorney at law,
with pistol, and inflicted mortal
wound--a,ter which, with another pis.
toll, he destroyed his own life. The
parties were both young men and ofre-
spectacle standing Fred. Her.
From the Detroit Journal, August 90
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
On the 10th August, 1918, or lust
twenty years ago last Friday, took
| Dlacn tho combination of GaparoJ Hi