Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-01-22

pass by. Ships have been known to 60 nun
dreds of miles out of their course, to visit this
receptacle Of intelligence. The fact strih'
inolv illustrates the Existence Of common
bond among civilized nations.
At Newburyport on Tuesday last, Mr..
Theodore Rounds Ind his two sons, one aged
l2 and the other IA, fell through the ice and
were drowned. One Of the sons was heard
to exclaim, 9" I can hold on no longer" and
disappeared, and the others also lost their
hold, before assistance could reach them.
The amount paid from the 1st of January
last, up to the 3lst September, for making
and repairing roads, improving harbors' clear
ing out rivers, and other internal improve
ments of a national character, by the United
States, is $s7l,457 92.
A resolution has been passed in the Geor.
gia Legislature, giving $1,000 for the educa-
ton of the deaf and dumb Of that state, and
appropriating $1,000, for the erection of u
Southern Asylum, ss soon as not less than
two other States, shall unite in the project.
COMMERCE OF PoRrLANp.-The number
of foreign arrivals in 1923, were 1877; 1884.
i6O. Clearances, 1888, 22S; 1884, 23l. I'm
ported in 1893, 3,944,557 gallons ofnolasses.
less 2 per cent, for leakage ; 2sO,l5s bushels
of salt. In 1884, 320l ,5s4 gallons nolasscs.
less 2 per cent, 224 ,469 bushels salt.
On the 10Th ult. the American Charge des
Affairs at the Court of st. James, visited tho
Duke of Wellington, at the Foreign Office.
The new Cabinet Council of England was
held on the 10th ul,., which was attended by
the new ministers.
The death of Major General James Ster.
ling, in his s0th year, whose Sc rvices in tho
United States we well recolect, took place
! in Scotland on the llth of last month.
The speculation in importing tea from the
United States, via the Cape Of Good Hope.
has not turned out to much profit. The Pos,
Boy, that took in cargo at NewYcik, had ar
rived in England, via the Cape, and her cargo
was put under the hammer.
The Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer,, has
been appointed Regent, Chancellor Of tho
University, in the place Of Simeon De Witt,
ESQ deceased.
CmoGERA.-Thc New-York Mercantile Of
January 10Th, on the authority of letter from
correspondent at Marseies, under date Of
! December 10th, says:--" The Cholera still
RACES on board the American men Of war at
Mahon. The Delaware had, on the 29th Of
November about $50 cases on board, and had
lost about thirty men, but no officers. Tho
authorities still keep them in quarantine, not
outstanding that several cases are daily de-
clared in the town."
A letter from an officer at Fort Gibson ,da-
ted on the 4th ult., states that since the frost
has fallen, the sickness of the post had aba-
ted, and.the troops were fast recovering. e
The President has officially recognized
John Crawford, Esq, as British Consul for
the port of New Orleans; and John Meta
wish, Esq, as British Consul for the port Of
Baltimore.
.Ntw York and Philadelphia almost one City.
It is stated in the New York Gazette that on
Thursday last, the passengers from Philadel-
phia, who came over the Camden and Amboy
Rail Road, reached there in sur hours and
t,centy minutes ~!
Effects Of ignited charcoal.---Four female
domestics were discovered at Shepherds ho-
iel in Bromfeld street, Boston, on Friday
morning last, nearly dead from sutfocation by
ignited charcoal in hand furnace. They
remained in state Of great distress during
the whole day.
Greenwood Lefiore, late Chief of the Choc-
taw Indians is chosen member of the LIE.
gislature of Mississippi.
The New York Evening Star, says-"No
less than 2C60 persons, who voted against the
wings at the last election, and joined in the
crusade of the Jackson leaders of',ich against
the poor it is supposed, have condescended to
accept aid from those very wings during the
late inclement weather"
The extraordinary circumstance of man
and boy, blacks, freezing to death at Savan-
nah, occurred on the Sth inst. They had been
exposed all the preceding night in an open
boat.
John Rugsles was elected by the Legisla-
ture Of Maine, on the 10th inst Senator to
Congress, to Gil the vacancy occasioncd by
the resignation Of Hon. Pcleg Sprague. EIo
was subsequently, elected for the term Of six
years after the 9TH Of March next.