Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-08-16


The village of Haverstraw, as We are informed
by the North River Times, has been thrown
INTO great commotion and excitement by the
sudden death of young man named Eli Phil
iips, who had been under the care OF steam
DOCTOR OF Thomsonian practitioner, named
JACOB Palmer An inquest was held on the
BODY, and 1t appeared in evidence that while
sitting on the portico Of his residence, viewing
the flre works, the vile empiric administered
to hun for an asthma three successive doses of
the tlncture OF Lobelia within the space of afev
hours, and that the last proving too herculean
poison for his enfeebled frame, he sunk back
in his chair and Immediately expired.
.Salmdgundi.
A gentleman in Shrewsbury, N. ]. viii it is
SAID, realize by his peach crop from 10 to
$4,000.
The New-York Erie and Champlain Canal,
which was completed in 1925 at cost of
S7,737,770, has ertinguished this de6t, and
hencetorth its immense revenue viii flow into
the State Treasury.
Msdical College of the7state Of S. Carolina.
-DR. WURDEMAN has been elected Demon
strator Of Anatomy, In the above Institution,
vice JOHN BELLISGER, M. D. resigned.
RICHARD K. CRALLE, formerly editor ofthe
JeferSonian and late Junior editor Of the
Richmond Wig, has taken the place of
DUFF GREEN, as editor of tie U. s.. 1sle.
graph, to be at his post on the 1stSept. :.
THE TREASURY cIRCULAR-rHE WAY TT
WORKS. ~
From the Albany Evening Journal
EMIGRATION OF, SPEcIB.-Three hun.
dred thousand dollars of specie passed through
this city this morning, on its way to Detroit.
This is no doubt intended to give to some of
the purchasers of the public lands the means
of complying with the recent order of Govern
ment.
Gen. Eaton, Minister to Spain has bought
in N. York, and had shipped to Cadiz a faini-
ly carriage.
The Mormons.-A meeting was recetly
held in Clay county, Missouri, in order to
adopt measures to avoid the evils likely. to
arise from the immense influx Of Mormons
into the country. The meeting came to the delib-
crate conclusion, that the only means to ayoid
a civil war, was speedy removal of tie Nor
mons from the State and recommended that
they should 60 to the Wisconsin Territory.
On this decision being made known to this
strange set offanatics, they resolved 10 move
their quarters. They are charged with keep
ing up a constant communication with tie In
dian tribes on the frontier, declaring even from
the pulpit, that the Indians are paft of Gods
chosen people. and destined to inh6fitt itthisland
in common with themselves.
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The Warren (R.- ~ Star says, that the
small pox has been making fearful ravages
within few milesef that town; and that IN
Newport and Providence It has spread to a
fearful extent. -
The Arch-street Prison lot, together With
the buildings, &C., Philadelphia, was sold lately
for 100000. .ssssss
Another great hotel is to be erected IN New
York, on the site of the former Pearl street.
and Ohio Hotel, in the burnt district Height
seven stories. The first story to consist of
FIVE large stores; the.dining room twenty -four
by one hundred and fifty; four hundred per-
sons viii be accommodated at once, with
boarding and lodging, tin his ample establish
ment.
The Aims House in Cambridge, near Bos-
ton, was destroyed by fire on the night of the
29th ult the work Of an incendiary. There
were between seventy and eighty inmates Of
the house, all ofwhom escaped except one
who was burned. 49,
Narroo Escape.-On Friday morning at 9
o'clock stage left Troy for Boston. When
about mile and half east-of the former
city, one Of the passengers sitting upon the
box with the driver, discovered that the stage
was out of the road and on the top Of an EN-
bankment, several feet in height and OF con-.
siderable width, designed as protection from
an abyss of over one hundred feet which
yawned below. After the passengers had
left the stage, and the driver had backed it
little farther, the hind-wheels ran of the bank
the king-bolt came out, and the body Of the
coach was precipitated down the bank and
rocks about 100 or $50 feet, and literally dash
ed to pieces on the dry rock by the side of the
water. The baggage was mostly lost, and
the proprietors, Messrs. Baker l. Walter,
have paid $500 to the passengers as re-
muneration.
FROM WISCONSIN PAPER.
Some of our eastern brethren suggest that
THE Frontier" would have been an appfo-
pirate title for our journal Not bad idea.
But then either our "local habitation, or our
"name," must have been changed even before
this time. The frontier Is already so far be-
yond us that we know not where to place it.
None of the fraternity viii be safe in arro-
eating any such title, til they set up their ban-
ner within reach of the tide-water OF the pa
cifc.
We understand (says the U. s. Telegraphl
that the sales Of public land in the monin OF
June amounted to very near FOuK NIL
LIONS!
The late John B. Yates Esq. Of Albany, n
Y. after bequests to his wife and family, iefe.
the remainder of his estate, estimated az nom
c., ,h-ao 70 s,,, hundred thousand dollars, for