Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-11-09
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TIE --LATEST, ADv1oEs FROM LONDON
bear date June 18th to the 19th-cver two
months preceding the date of the Journal
and state that "the -four. men Of war that sailed
for the West Indies, are borrowed by the
King of Portugal;" '.Lord Chatham has
written a long and very able letter to Noble
Law Lord (Lord Cambden) on the 6rst sub
ject of East India affairs" Charger orders
have been given within this week, for goods
to be exported to America, than at any one
time for three years past" The House of
Commons "have resolved that the duty Of 80
shillings on every Negro imported in the
Island of Jamaica aud Dominica do cease,
aud in lieu of it duty of only Is. Cd. be.
laid on each head SO imported" .'The, King
will set out on Tuesday morning, a. three
o'clock, to review the grand feet at Spithead,
and proposes being at Portsmouth at about l2
o'clock, he is TO be escorted on tho road by.
Burgoyne's light,horse, and enter PORTS.
mouth with the life guards, all the ambassa-
doris will be there, and the moment the re-
view is over, bold Richard Spry, with 10
sail of the line, is to proceed to sea upon a
cruise in the channel" "Orders are given
for three frigates of war to be ready, with
all speed, for the Malabar coast, and 'sorders
are sent to ireland for all the regiments from,
which draught's have been made for foreign
service, to be Immediately completed to their
full establishment"
From NEW YORK
is derived the news that ''the sloop Missis-
sippi, Capt. Goodrich, with the Connecticut
Military Adventures, arrived here from the
Mississippi, but las. from Pensacola, the 18th
inst. The country they went to explore they
like well, having laid out % townships at tho
Natcherz." "The form of government of
the new Province on the Ohio is received at
Philadelphia and the whole business rela-
tive to it will be finished by the July Packet"
The settlement of lands on the Mississippi,
contiguous to the Natchez, was going on with
incredible rapidity, the arrival of "above four
hundred families, within six weeks, down the
Ohio, from Virginia aud the Carolinas," be-
sides emo less than four vessels from North
Carolina only, filled with inhabitants" being
announced.
The News FROM PHILADELPHIA
contains information Of the arrival at that port
of 1850 passengers from Londonderry, in
two ships and the sailing of tho ship Wal
worth, from Londonderry, for South Carolina,
with 800 passengers aud servants, who were
obliged to leave their native country, not for
their msbehavior, but on account of the great.
distress among the middling and lower class
of people"
MISCELLANEOUS News,
gathered at Baltimore, up to the date of the
"Journai," gives advices .sthat the Russians,
under the command of Count Orlow, have
taken the City of Corinth, and the Island of
Gambia, from the Turks; ''That there have
been several bloody conflicts between the
Russians and Turks in the neighborhood of
the Dannbe;" "That the Tarters of the
Crimea had revolted from the Russians )"
''That Field Marshal Count Romanzow had
crossed the Danube with the grand Russian
army, and that "the Divan at Coustantnople
had come to a final resolution to agree to no
terms of accommodation with Russia without
the mediation of France" An instruction
had broke out in Chilli. and the native Chilise
had 'party drove all the Europeans" from
the country, ''and destroyed several thousand
Spaniards and their allies '.That the EN-
peror of Germany, the King of Prussia, and
Empress of Rdssia, have. piundered Poland,
and divided the country amongst them."-
"That the King hath appointed Lord William
Campbell. Governor, &C., Of South Carolina
Francis Legge, Esq, to succeed him Gov.
ornor Of Nova Scotia, and Patrick Tonyor,
Esq, to succeed James Grant. Esq, as Gov
ernor Of West Florida" &C.. &c.
A LARGE RATrLEsNAKE
had been killed on a gentleman's plantation,
in the neighborhood Of Baltimore, ''in the
belly of which was found three middle sized
rabbits, and from Accomnck, in Virginia, it
is learned thst tthere lately died there one
Mrs. Eleanor Spicer,
AGED 121 YEARS,
who retained her senses and memory to the
last, and worked at her spinning wheel, with
great dexterity, till within six months of her
death. She never drank any kind ofspirisucus
liquors. She has left
GRANDSON, AGED UPWARDS OF 80,
who hath been equally abs.emious as his
grandmother" So much for temperance.
The marriage of Mr.. Euglehart Yeiser to
Miss Catharinc Keener, both of Baltimore,
is announced. followed by the item that 'l'y
a late marriage in St. Mary's, the lady is be-
come sisteriplaw to her Own mother. and the
gentleman son>in>law to his sistcr-in>law."
PRICES CURRENT AT BALTIMORE,
quote wheat at 6s. Ga per bushel corn. at
IS. Cd. flour, lis. to 21s. ship bread. los;
pipe, hogshead and barrel slaves from 81 los
to 81. per thousand : bar iron, 26k per ton
pig iron, 81. per ton West India rum, SIS
I'll. per gallon Continent do, Is. 4d. per
gallon fine salt 2s., and coarse Is 3d. per
bushel; Muscovado sugar, Ass to 55s. per