The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1839-10-09
Items OF News.

ri. in the place Of the late Mr.. Earrisos. Fed
eralsn is at so low an ebb there ths, il. adyo-
Gates can hardly muster eorporsrs guard.
BY reports and letters from England, IL sp-
pears that American locomotives 60 ahead OF
those constructed in the former country. One
from Philadelphia, used on the North Midland
Railway, has given such satisfaction that the
Directors have ordered ten more of them.
The Pensacola Gazette states, that for the
last six months there have been but six deaths
IN that place; one of consumption, from Vir-
ginla; three of yellow fever, from the French
iieet; one colored man. from Alabama, who
reached there sick, and one stabbed.
! General Francis Gaennie fell in duel on
the 18th ultlmo. near Natchitoches, Florida
His antagonist was General Bossieur. The
combatanrs fought with rifles at forty PAGES
The first fire proved fatal. The cause Of the
quarrel is not ascerainsd.
! The New York Express says that Robbins
Reef Light house, which rises out Of the sea,
and is built entirely Of stone, is nearly in read
iness to be lighted up. Its situation is in New
York Bay, nearly down to Staten Island at
the mouth of the Kills.
! Col. William anderson, Revolutionary
soldier who entered the service at the age Of
10, and commanded a regiment stationed at
Norfolk during the war of 1912, and has since
filled various civic Offices, died near Fncastle,
Virginia, on the 18th ult. aged 76
c. Hon. Abbot Lawrence is the whig can
dldare for Congress for Boston, to ill the va
cancy occssoned by the resignation of Mr..
Fletcher; and Osmyn Baker. Esq, in the dis
trict vacated by the death Of James &. Alvord.
seaman on board the U. S. receiving ship
Columbus, at Boston, confined for improper
conduct, escaped on deck on Monday night,
and was severely stabbed before he could be
secured by the officers whom he assaulted
The African Luminary of August 9th says,
ave are happy to be able to state that the re-
cent war with the natives at Little Bassa has
entirely ended, with complete victory on the
part of the Colonists."
Treasury NOtts.--The Secretary of the
Treasury states officially that the aggregate a
mount Of outstanding Treasury notes, author
ised to be issued under the different Acts Of
Congress, was, on the lst instant, SO, ,7O7 1884.
So.
The front of the new Exchange in New
York will present a range of eighteen granite
columns, thirty two feet eight inches long. each
formed of single block and eighng several
ly thirty three tons.
The schr. New York. of Otswego, bound
from Lake Erie to the ST. Lawrence, was lost
on the Canada shore. off Long Point, Lake
Ontario, on the 10th. and all hands psrshed.
The Mulberry Cuiture-Messrs. Princes of
Flushing sold S58,OOO worth of Morns Multi
caus trees by auction at their Garden on
Thursday last. The prices were high.
another Ponder NIL Erplosion.-On Mon
day afternoon last, powder mill in Southwick,
Ms, belonging to Col. Foot, was blown up
1t is said that no lives were lost.
The British Queen sailed from New York on
the lst inst, taking out sixty passengers, and
about 100000 in Specie. The postage on
letters carried out by her amounted to S2,50O.
Anoher Factory Consumed-The Cotton
Factory on Union Rum. near the York road,
about miles from Baltimore, was DESTROYED
by fire on Saturday night, about IL o'clock.
Hon DirOn II. Lei0iS, NJ. G.. of Alabama,
is warmly recommended for Speaker of the
House in the Columbus (Ga.) SeutineI and
Herald.
There have been two trials at Syracuse n.
Y. lately for breaches of the marriage promise.
The jury returned verdict of $1,000 in one
case, and S45O in the other.
/ 1t is said that there is now man residing in
Indiana, who is 100 years of age, and has son
aged only l6, who is therefore l07 years youn-
ger than his father.
A young sculptor named Bracket, only
twenty years of age, has Just finished. at Gin
cinnati, statue large as life, of Nydia. the
Blind Girl in Bulwers Last Days of Pompeii
The Macedonian, and French frigate La
Gloire, at Pensacola. fired minute guns in hon
or of the memory Of Com. Patterson.
1t is said that upwards of million of dollars
have been invested in new buildings in Cincn-
natl since January last.
A number of deaths have taken place lately
ly from toad stools, being mistaken for mush-
rooms and eaten.
New -four was sold in Chicago, week ago
last Monday, for two dollars per hundred, a tn
fie less than four dollars per barrel
/ There are a greater number Of miles OF Rail
Road now LAID out in the State Of Pennsylva-
mia. than in all Europe.
Tiuder, thin rag, such as modern female
dresses. intended to catch sparks. raise fame.
and light up match.