Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 59, Richmond, Wayne County, 7 May 1825 — Page 2

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FOREIGN SUMMARY. Selected from Eastern Papers. ,,,. i . . i . i .I. Greece and Turkey. We have given an article from the Nuremberg Gazette, which details the plan adopting by the Turks for their next campaign. A pri

vate letter from Alexandria of the 6th of

February, says, that "A frigate, several armed brigs and some transports, in the worst slate possible, and encumbered with sick, had just arrived at the old harbour. It is said that they have been separated by a gnle, from Ibrahim Pacha's fleet. Ibrahim, it is rumoured notwithstanding the repeated checks he has experienced, persists in rallying his squadron to proceed against the Morea. In the interval he has taken refuge at Marmasisfa, having been unable to touch at Rhodes, where he intended to take troops on board. It is probable that he will not receive fresh reinforcements from Egypt, for Mehemet Ali, his father, is preparing to send 4000 men of infantrv troops and 3000 of cavalry, to put down an insurrection which has broken out in Mount Libanus aid Syria1 accounts from Constantinople of Jan. 25th, we learn, that Ibrahim Emini, Minister of the Treasury, has been deposed. Some apprehensions of a conspiracy were entertained. On the 17th, the Police disVx covered a conspiracy against the Ministers v in place. All the tavernsand coffee houses were closed for several days, and a tumult of the populace seemed to be apprehended. The Russian flag was insulted a few days before, and M. Mintziackv, the Russian Charge d'Atfairs, demanded a prompt reparation of the outrage which was promised to him. The government, in effect, gave orders for search to be made after the guilty persons, but they could not be fouud. Since the Reis Etfendi's evasive answer to M. Mintziarkv, nothing new has taken p! ic1 in diplomatic negotiations. The Turkish Minister contirues to declare, that the Sublime Porte will remain faithful to the ancient treaties. The government had put into circulation a considerable quantity of paper money, which is reg trdd as a remarkable circumstance. It seem Uif imperial Treasury is in a state of gre.it exhaustion. Letters from Aasgburgh mention that Sir Frederick Ad.uns is negociating with the Greek Government, and that satisfac

tory results are expected. It is also stated that theohjetof Mr. Stratford Canning mission to Ruia, is the independence of Gieere. The report of the reduction of P.itras is contradicted by letters from Trieste. The following is from the Nuremberg Gazette: A letter from Pera, contains the following details of the plan of campaign of 1825, which the Turks have formed against the Greeks. "The Porte is to have four armies to bring the Morea and Terra Firma into subjection. The first will be composed of troops which have been long assembling Upon the coasts of Asia; they will be embarked on board European transports, which will convey them to the Morea under the escort of the Turkish fleet. The capt. Pacha will not take command of this fleet in order to avoid all contention with Ibrahim Pacha, who, bv a firman of the Seigr.or, has been charged with the supreme direction of the expedition against the Greeks. The second army, under the direct conduct of Ibrahim, will consist of the troops of Egypt. The third, which Cvill be the most numerous, will be organized at Larissa by Rechid Pacha, and be composed of all the disposable troops in Rorneha, Bulgaria. Macedonia, and upon the borders of the Danube. A part of the garrison of Constantinople will join this army the nucleus of which will be formed by the troops of Thcssaly, which made the lat campaign under the command of Dcr-wi-h Pacha. The fourth army, which is to art in concert with the third, w ill consist solely of Albanese troops. To this elfect negotiations have been opened with the military chiefs of those troops. The latter army , which will be under the command of the Pacha of Scutari, will march upon Etolia, whilst Rechid Pacha will penetrate into Livadia. After the submission of these provinces and Acarnania, has been brought about the whole o these troops will be transported to the Morea." Marquis La Fayette has sent from America to the Committee in London, appointed to manage the subscription for the Foreigi. Refugees the fi llowit gsums; 200 dolls, for natives of France, 200 dolls, for Spaniards, and 200 for Italians. Ferdinand, who is said to be again sick. Was attacked in his carriage by an individual who cried out fc Death to the King;" ar d on being arrested he declared that he would not retract his words, nor give up his intention cf putting the monarch to death whenever he had at) opportunity. J.imaiea capers to the 19th of March,

contain advices from Carthagena, to the I

Oth. On the 8th of February, an extraordinary congress was held at Bogota, to take into consideration the resignation of gen. Bolivar, in conformity to his determination, after the destruction of the Spanish forces. Great interest was excited during the reading of the general's letter, and at the conclusion it was unanimouslyresolved, that he should be requested to continue to be President of the Republic. The election of the Vice-President, and Representatives to Congress, was to take place in April. An agent from Hayti had arrived in Colombia, to propose a treaty of commerce, as well as of definite alliance, between the two governments. At a magnificent public dinner given to Bolivar at Bogota, one of the company, when called uponfora toast, gave "Should at any time a monarchical government be established in Colombia, may the liberator, Simon Bolivar, be the Emperor." A high spirited public character, Senor Pepe Paris, then requested permission to give a toast, which being acceded to, he filled his glass, and exclaiming "Should Bolivar, at any future period, allow himself to be declared Emperor, may his blood flow from his heart in the. same manner as the wine docs from my glass," he poured the wine out of his glass upon the floor. Bolivar immediately sprang from his chair, ran to Senor Paris, and most warmly embracing him, exclaimed. "If such feelings as those declared bv this honorable man shall always animate the breasts of the sons of Colombia, her liberty and Independence can never be in danger." Earthquake. We this morning received a series of Italian papers, from which we learn, with much regret that the city of Santa Maura has been reduced to "a scene of desolation and ruin" by a violent shock of an earthquake. The particulars of this calamitous event are given in the following accounts from Corfu: Corfu, Jan. 22. On the 11th inst. one of the most violent shocks of an earthquake ever felt in that Island, plunged the unforunate inhabitants into the utmost distress. From the most authentic reports which have reached us up to the 21st, we announce to the public the tremenduoos calamitv. The whole city presents to the view only a vast scene of desolation and ruins; all the houses are either entirely overthrown or extremely damaged. All the churches except one are destroyed, and we say, without exaggeration, that the city of Santa Maura is

uninhabitable. This disaster having occurred in the midst of winter, and in extremely stormy weather, the consequences are, on that account, still more fatal. The mills and ovens being all destroyed, and the unhappy people having no shelter from the inclemency of the season, it is easy to conceive the difficulty of procuring bread, and the scene of horror which desolated the town, and the lamentations and cries of despair of the families, who saw the streets inundated with wine and oil, by the destruction of their magazines, and all

their provisions spoiled. Thousands of

persons are reduced to beggary. I he number of persons who perished up to the 21st, was 24 in the city, besides 13 who had received bodily injuries. Twenty-

three others are buried under the rums ot the village of Zuccalades. The earthquake happily spent its whole fury during the day, so that the inhabitants, both in the city and the country, did not suffer in their persons, what they would have suffered had it happened in the night. It is

worthy of particular notice, that in some

parts of the interior of the Island the shock was not at all felt. It seems that its whole force was spent on the parts nearest the sea. We know also that the city of Prevesa has suffered greatly, but we have not yet received the particulars. The earthquake was also felt here, in Corfu, on the same day, and at nearly the same hour. In England, the supply of oak bark is so inadequate to the demand, that the tanneries in the vicinity of London alone, use annually from 7000 to 8000 tons of foreign bark, at an expense of JC14 per ton. The hon. col. Stanhope, brother of the carl of Stanhope, committed suicide in one of the out houses in Caen Wood. He labored under temporary insanity from a wound he received in Spain. The Liverpool Advertiser, of the 15th March, says "It is with pleasure we announce that Mr. John Quincy Adams has been elected President of the United States of America." The Pope, it is said, has addressed an encyclical letter to all the archbishops and bishops of South America, commanding

them incessantly to preach the necessity of

submitting to the mother country.

The total of the water power within twenty miles of Baltimore, is stated in the North American Review, to be equal to one million six hundred and thirteen thousand spindles

POLIBSfllC SUS1EIARY. New-Hampshire. David L. Morrill has been re-elected governor without opPSMassachusetts. Levi Lincoln has been elected governor, and Marcus Morton lient. governor of this commonwealth, by an almost unanimous vote. It is stated in a Philadelphia paper, that the central committee of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal convention is shortly to meet, to taie definitive measures for obtaining sub:criptions to that work. The old Potomac company was to meet on the 2d of May, to accept or reject the new charter. . . ... In the Legislature of New-York a bill has passed the Senate, by 22 votes to 10, directing the survey of seventeen Canal routes! The state of New-York will take care not to be outdone in liberal enterprise. As extensively commercial, and destined to be as populous and wealthy as Holland, she seems disposed to emulate even the multitude of her Canals. No Government has ever before undertaken, by one act of legislation, to trace out the courses of seventeen Canals JVat. Intel. Rufus King has, since De Witt Clinton declined the oflice,been appointed American Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James. He has accepted the appointment. Humanity. In the public jail in Portland, Maine, a few weeks since,there was not a single prisoner in confinement. This is the first instance of the kind that has occurred since the year 1797. The Gazette mentions, that the humane jailor arose at one o'clock in the morning, and discharged the last person in his custody, whose term of punishment expired at that hour. Imprisonment for debt is now abolished in Maine; and the effect of so great a change in her loyal policy is happy in the extreme on the morals of her citizens. The rich and the unprincipled are disarmed of their power, while new incentives are afforded to industry, and punctuality. A letter from Huntsville, Alabama, of the 23d ult. states, that a number of flats, having on board 4000 bales of cotton, had been sunk, and it wa3 feared a great part of it would be lost or dam.iged. On the 24th ult. a company of enterprising citizens of Richmond county, Kentucky, started on a trading expedition to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. Other companies are expected to follow them in a few days. This trade, at present in its in-fan?-;', will be rendered of great and growing importance, upon the opening of the road from the Mexican frontier agreeably to the act of our last Congress. The cents of 1825 is a different com from any before issued from our mint. On each side is a head of '"Liberty;" on one side the head is raised and on the other sunk into the copper. A newspaper called "The Phacnix" has been commenced in Williamsburg, the early seat of government of the commonwealth of Virginia. It is nearly fifty years since a newspaper was published in that ancient metropolis, and it was thought that the sound of the press, with the sceptre of the state, had departed forever from the venerable walls. The actual manufacture of flannels in the U. States is now greater, in amount, than the whole importation ever was ; and the colors and quality are pronounced equal to the best European productions. We are glad that the consumption has so increased, and not at all displeased because that we arc supplied with it from

our manufactories. Jiles. A negro belonging to a neighbouring estate, set fire to the barn of Mr. George Sinclair, near Leesburgh, Va. The barn, and the principal part of its contents, was consumed: loss estimated at from 1500 to 2000. The negro has been committed to jail. Twothousaad Irish Emigrants were to

sail immediately from Cork for Canada. The Government was to bear all expenses. The New-York House of Assembly, have passed the Commercial Bank bijj, which gives to tho heirs of the late Robert Fulton the bonus of G0,000 dolls, as a compensation to his destitute children for the loss sustained by the late decision of the courts of law. Singular fact. A beggar was lately found in one of the streets of New York, in squalid and filthy apparel, and dead, without apparent cause. The coroner, upon examination of the body, found money to the amount of about two hundred and seventy dollars on it, a part of which he had no doubt was the cause of his death. Fourteen whole and one half joes, quilted together, were enclosed in the neckcloth, and formed a hard lump immediatly under the jugular vein, the man lying on his side, and occasioning a direct pressure on it, and probably stopping the circulation of the blood and occasioning appopkxy.

Cincinnati, Anrii ,

" a lEAn, .Tk building at the Woollen Mannf,..

this city, a machine for excavating py to be propelled by steam, the innn our ingenious townsman, m. lln of

French, Engineer. It is calculated !? the work of fiv hnndrnrl -i lQa

beinfr a 20 horse nnwr. ..

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expanded than the solid earth. If We

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and assume the dilation of the earth to b equal to that of glass, we find, that'-t!

icmperuiuiu ui iuu cenugr., me SenwuuM be 4000 feet higher than it is at nres,,

and that it would cover most of the seco'n! dary mountains. The melted masses shrirt-

uunng ineir coonng. u tins happens in large masses, cavities garnished vrithchrv-,. tals, must result, geodes, &x. The Provinical Parliament of Lower fmiiirlii u c nrnrnrriirH lit ilm 1 ',..1 r

ernor en the 2 2d ult. by a speech from the throne. A dispute between the two branches of the prov incial Parliament, which had lasted fifteen years, concerning the expenditures of the province, w as amicably terminated by the adoption of both houses, of a law granting the supplies of the year, which has received the sanction

of the Lieut. Governor. Several measures were adopted during the session for making important improvements in the intcrnal communications of the province, and of the neighbouring provinces. The republics of South America, in regard to their slaves, have generally acted up to the spirit of their principles, and the genius of their institutions. An article of the Chilean constitution, declares in broad and definitive terms, that, in Chile thrrs are no slaves! In the constitution of Colombia, there is no provision for the abolishment of slavery, but we believe it doc not exi?t in this republic. Through the politeness of the envoy from Guatemala, wc have been furnished with the enactments and provisions of that goven mcit, in relation to this subject. The preamble to the decree of the National Assembly contains sentiments worthy a free and enlightened legislature. It measures will L'ivc perpetuity to the liberal institutiori, and advance the prosperity of the state. The general emancipation of its slaves, by indemnifying their owners for the loss, was certainly the most direct means of reconciling all parties. But even this course could only be adopted in a state, such as that of the Confederation of Central America, of whose Donulation the Africans con-

stitute but a very small portion. Jour

A "Yajtke trick.v The following anecdote is strictly true; it is contained in a letter from a gentleman who lately went out in a vessel from the port of New-York, for St. Thomas: "We were chased by a

pirate off King's channel, on Sunday morn

ing last, March 13 the vilhan was w in under the land, a, small sloop, with about 25 men, when he discovered us we were nearly becalmed, he gave chase and came down on us very fast. I thought there was no chance to escape but by stratagem, and having on board a man who 1 could metamorphose into any thing, I observed to Capt. that we had better make a gun of Billy Luhj, and give them chase in our turn. We accordingly went u work, put a black cap on Billy's beau, stretched him fore and aft on the keel o the boat, with a rope made fast to heels so that we could slew him on t,,cceD" ter of gravity freely pointing his head the enemy. Having rigged up a "w'V torn," the next thing was" to fire it--an this we did by discharging a pistol into barrel, and raising a smoke by throwing, ashes into the air. The trick succeeded the sloop tacked and made off; wc hautf on a wind and pursued her close i '. j the land, then tacked ship and stood inw St. Thomas. Thus were 25 men de' by four. Norfolk Herald. , Clf.hical Law. There is a m0!? project of a law now before the ,r.c'j. Chambers, introduced through the m encc of the Catholic Clergv, w Inch autiu izes cutting off the hand and allcrwaii the head of a man, for a real or u?Kthe ii'sultciffered to a consecrated wafer. Ultra party in Frar.cc has attained su" fanatical delirium, that there is s',,,,c! the law will pass. It was last year u1 duced without this ferocious r"'0! and was rejected by tl c Ultra Peers, -cause its character was too mild!

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