Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1836-03-10
Sum llunlary.

ports Of entry aud delivery, custom houses
and tariff,
A fifth Baptist Church has been esiab-
lislied ut Liberia.
! In Liberia, SOB persons, in one month. sign
ed the total abstinence pledge from the use
and sale Of ardent spirits.
1 MAD. CELEsTE-Tt is stated in the New
Orleans True American, that The receipts OF
tins extraordinary actress in the theatres of
that city, have amounted to the sum Of S75,
000
Mrs. CoPLEY, formerly of Boston,) the
mother of Lord LYNDnURsT, died in Eng
land, on the Ilth OF January, at the advanced
age of ninety. This estimsbe lady has en-
joyed the pleasures of the society Of her dis
tinguisbed son, during his whole lite-tbisl
being their first separation.
FAST DAY.-Thursday, the 3lst day Of
March, has been appointed by the Governor
Of New Hampshire as a day of Fasting and
Prayer.
A letter from an officer in the Navy, pub
lished in the Philadelphia Inquirer, complains
of Com. Elliot tor causing midshipman Barton
to be removed from the Constitution to the
Shark, after he was wounded.
The Grard Pet Bank at Philadelphia is to
have a capital of five millions.
STEAM Power. There are in France
about 1000 stationary Steam Engines, and
about 80 Steamboats,.
The high prices Of West India produce
will enrich the West India Planters, notwith-
standing the emancipation of the slaves in
the British Islands, and diminished produc-
tion. Louisiana must renew her zeal in sup,
plying Sugar and Molasses, and Georgia,
Florida and Alabama must initiate her.
The lumber cars on the Camden and Am
boy Rail Road met the passenger cars near
Burlington, OH "Wednesday Of last, week and
before they could be stopped, they rushed to-
gether with great force, and the locomotives
of both trains completely destroyed. No
personal injury, however, of any consequence
occurred. It was the dcnseness Of the fog
which caused the accident.
The Governor and Council of the Common
wealth of Massachusetts have issued their
warrant for the execution of Crockett and
Russell, the two inccndlares lately senten-
ced to death in Boston for arson on the 10th
March. A man lately sentenced for the
same crime in that State, had his punishment
commuted TO confinement for life in the State
Prison, and we predict that similar course
will be taken with the present convicts.-l.N
y. Co~. g. Eng. i
The City Government of Boston, have ap-
propriated five hundred dollars to each of the
seven public grammar schools for girls, for
the purchase OF philosophical apparatus.
There was destructive fire, in Albany, on
the night Of the 22d, which destroyed prop
erty to the amount of 5000 or $4,000. The
stood at IL deg. below zero.
.Veapolitan Indemnify. The money for the
remaining nstalments of the Neapolitan debt,
is not shipped, as has been stated, but is to
be shipped, in gold, not by the Mcssrs Roths-
child, but by the Messrs. Welles, who are
the Government Agents tor the transaction,
ofthis business.
The United States Bank have chosen their
Directors, 20 in number. BY the new char
ter, one third are to go out ot ofhce every
year.
Spirited exertions arc making in New
York to erecta Merchant Exchange, between
Exchange Place, Wall, Hanover, and VIII
liam streets The stock is divided into 6OO
slares of 800 each. 1t is intended that
every room shall be vaulted, and rest upon
arches, and be made completely fire proof.
a sleghing party of 20 ladies and gentle
men, visited New York city last week in
ride from Hartford. A N. York paper says:
-"Flity four of the party came IN one vehl-
cle-and queer looking affair it was too
There were ten fine horses attached to It,"
The winter has been intensely severe in
Europe as well as in tins country.
The Globe says it was ''natural" that the
President should feel mortified at the passage
OF the bank charter in Pennsylvania. Quite
natural!
Three houses are said to have been burnt
in Lowell ON Thursday night, the inmates
escaping with difficulty.
MIR. Reesde, has Withdrawn from the u. S.
Mail Service, after thirty years of prosperous
toll. lie is one of the wealthiest stage pro-
prietors in the co,lntry.
Gen. Maconb has turned dramatist, and is
about to produce an American play. One OF
the best English dramatic writer's was Gen.
eral, well known in the region OF Saratoga!
Waslington's birth day was celebrated in
handsome style in Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington. A large Ok was roasted
on the Delaware.
Mr.. Adam p. Dennis, wife and child, of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. were found dead in their
beds on the morning Of the 18th inst. from
having placed furnace Of ignited charcoal
in their chamber when they retired to bed.
There are sixty seven houses being built
within the burnt district, New York.
The Boston and Providence Rail Road,
has at length been dug out OF the snow, ana