Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-06-20


nowan and Seraph on their discovery
voyage few years ago, in search o
Symzonia, and has not since returned
to this country.-Many have conjec,
tured that he has found his way by
hook or by crook into the internal ra.
gions, and having obtained some posi-
of honor and emolument, is unwilling
to return TO convince the unbelievers
of the existence of his new world.
Others admit the probability of his
having got into the hole, but differ from
the former, and maintain that ne finds
1t impossible to get out again; or else
that he is hell captive by the inhabit-
ants of that section of the globe, as a
natural curiosity, and is being exhibi.
ted to crafty the sight of the little
children. But we have recently re-
ceived information which settles this
point. lie has abandoned apparently
the thoughts of another Terrestrial
world and looking to tile affairs of this,
has entered service, or in other words
IS, or was at last accounts, acting as
Secretary to Commodore Downes, OF
the U. States fr.gate Potomac.
NeU Bedford DAILY Gazette.
There has been much talk in the
city for day or two past concerning
the death of lady, the wife of re.
spectacle physician of Baltimore. The
particulars are these. 1t appears she
was first taken i'll on the Isth--and
became much better on the Monday
following. On Wednesday she ate NUT
ton and rice soup for dinner, and was
immediately seized with severe spazms
and vomtlng-She died on Saturday
morning, 25th. The rice was after.
wards thrown to some chickens. they
ate OF 1t, and also died. A black wo-
man was consequently suspected of
having put poison in the food, and ar
rested. On Thursday morning last,
the body of the lady was at the order
OF the coroner, j. Wright, disinterred
and examined by number of physici.
ans. The result Of the examination is
not yet known. The soup was analiz.
ed and found to contain portion of
arsenlcs
he negro woman is now in Custody
waiting for examination. Ii is said she
served IN a family in this city last
summer, all of whom died, as reported,
of the Cholera.
Since the above was written we un.
derstand the physicians have, after
close examination of the intestines,
traced the effects of arsenic. We also
hear that the woman who stands accu.
| scd OF the murder-bears a very bad
character--and that other discoveries
are IN a fair way of being made.
Bat. Sat. Visiter.
We cannot give the information
which our friends solicits below. If
any who may chance to see this can
do so, we shall esteem it particular
favor to be enabled TO communicate il.
Rich. Wing.
To The Editors ofMe Whig.
Chapman intends to paint the House
OF Burgesses, of Virginia, at the mo-
ment when Patrick Henry introduced
his famous Resolutions on the Stamp
Act in 1865. Will you put a little
note into the Wing, for information
where list may be had of the names
ofthe then Delegates! Fruitless search
has been made in the public offices at
Richmond. An old Almanac of that
date would now be worth money. NJ.
| Fatal Accident.--On Sunday last. a
small boat containing nine persons.
started from Newburg for Cold Spring
Village, at about four O'Clock in the
afternoon. They had nearly arrived
opposite the village of New Windsor,
when the boat by some means sunk,
and SIX persons out Of the nine were
drowned. The names of the unfortu-
nate persons are:--Widow M'Erlane,
Patrick Dunn, Arthur Campbell, John
| O'Neal, Henry O'Neal and Patrick
Glennan. They had all been in en-
| ploy at the West Point Foundry.
/ The Norristown Sentinel states. that
on Sunday afternoon last, a storm a.
rose in that neighbourhood, which ec
| fected considerable damage. The roof
of the barn on the premises of Mr.. J.
Mather, in Whitemarsh township, was
blown entirely off, and carried several
hundred yards into field belonging
to neighbouring farm. Other build
ings in the vicinity were also injured,
and we have heard of several orchards
to which very great damage has been
done.
Steamboat Accident-We learn from
the Burlington papers. that on Satnr.