Niles' Weekly Register. (Baltimore, Md.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 6, 1836 Page: 5 of 16
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NILES’ REGISTER—AUG. 6, 1836—ITEMS.
381
ease which causes such appalling mortality, were small
pox, cholera, or the plague, what consternation would be
produced by its effects! From a table furnished by the
author, it appears that the proportion of deaths by con-
sumption to the whole number of deaths is, in Portland,
one in 3.53; in Portsmouth, one in 7.73; in Boston, one
in 5.79; in New York, one in 5.89; in Philadelphia, one
7.17; in Baltimore, one in 6.18; in Washington, one in
8.51; in Charleston, S. C. one in 7.08. It thus appears
that the mortality of this disease is greatest the farthest
north, and decreases as we advance to the south, or from
the seabord, consumption being most prevalent in large
maritime towns.
Post office LAW. The following section is from the
new post office law:
“Section 32. And be it further enacted, That if any
postmaster shall unlawfully detain in his office any let-
ter, package, pamphlet or newspaper, with intent to pre-
vent the arrival or delivery of the same to the person or
persons to whom such letter, package, pamphlet or
newspaper may be addressed or directed in the usual
course of the transportation of the mail along the route,
or if any postmaster shall with intent as aforesaid, give
preference to any letter, package, pamphlet or newspa-
per, over another, which may pass through his office, by
forwarding the one and retaining the other, he shall, on
conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not to exceed $500,
and imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months, and
shall, moreover, be forever thereafter, incapable of hold-
ing the office of postmaster in the United States”
It is hoped that an example will be made of the first
postmaster who violates this law.
Attempt to ROB the u. s. MAIL. On Tuesday morn-
ing about two hours before day light, according to the
Newark Daily Advertiser, an attempt was made to stop
the U. S. mail on the rail road about 4 miles this side of
East Brunswick. Three ruffians suddenly sprung from
the woods and demanded the driver (for the mail car in
the night is drawn by horses) to “stop the mail.” The
driver called to the guard in the car and put whip to his
horses. The guard promptly fired at the ruffians upon
which they disappeared as suddenly as they came, and
no trace of them has been discovered since. Several
obstructions had been placed on the track in different
places. A large stone was swept off by the broom in
front of the fore wheels, near where the attack was made.
Some distance further on, a plank was seen by the light
of the lamps across the whole railway, and at different
distances beyond two others, making altogether four ob-
structions, which might have produced serious and fatal
consequences if the train had been under steam power,
but for the lamps. The rail road company have offered
a reward of $500 for the perpetrators of this shameless
and unpardonable offence.
Cohen’S banking house. Among the beautiful
buildings recently erected in Baltimore, one of the most
worthy of notice is the new marble banking house built
by Messrs. J. I. Cohen, jr. & Brothers on the north east
corner of Baltimore and Calvert streets.. Its architec-
ture is chaste and handsome, and its interior arrange-
ments admirably adapted to the purposes for which it
was designed.
Sheep In Pennsylvania. According to the census
of 1810, the whole number of sheep in Pennsylvania
amounted to 61,823. Of this number 47,294 belonged
to Washington county. At the present time, the stock
in Washington county exceeds 700,000, nearly all of the
most approved breed, producing on an average 2, lbs.
wool each, or a total of 1,925,000 lbs.
Examination of southern HARBORS. The Army
and Navy Chronicle says—“Under a resolution of the
senate, passed on the 24th May last, requesting the exe-
cutive ‘to cause to be made the necessary examinations
and surveys of the several harbors south of the mouth of
Chesapeake bay, and a report of the comparative facili-
ties and advantages of the same for the establishment of
a navy yard, to the next session of congress;’ commodore
M. T. Woolsey, captains A. Claxton and E. R. Shu-
brick, have been appointed commissioners to make the
necessary examinations. They will proceed to Boston,
and take passage on board the new brig Porpoise, lieut.
com. Ramsay. This vessel will probably sail in the
course of next week on this service.”
—»e © ew-
ITEMS.
The French frigate L'Artemise, the chevalier de La Place
commander, sailed from New York for France on the 25th ult.
and received a salute from a detachment of volunteer artillery,
stationed at the battery.
Lawrence L. Van Kleeck, esq. of New York, has been, by the
authority of the president, appointed military storekeeper and
paymaster for the ordnance department; to be stationed at the
city of New York.
The president has appointed Robert Mills, esq. architect of
the public buildings.
The New York Commercial advertiser says—“Those who
have been weeping over the fate of the two men who were re-
cently seen taking the awful plunge off the Niagara cataract,
may dry their tears. The gentlemen who performed the feat
were prepared for the occasion—having been made and placed
in the boat for that identical purpose, by some ingenious young
artists who had nothing better to do. The adventurers were
not injured by the fall—although they fell to pieces.”
Smoker’s strike. The editor of the Kennebec Journal says
that his attention was directed, last week to the movements of
a number of French Canadians—who it seems, had been em-
ployed to work on the dam, and had quit in a body, because
they were not permitted to smoke their pipes when at work.
At the late celebration of the 4th of July, at Niles, Berrien
county, Michigan, the following was drunk as the last of the
set toasts:
“13. When Adam left Paradise,he took wilh him its sweet-
est flower.”
We omitted to state that Samuel L. Governeur was recent-
ly removed from the office of postmaster in the city of New
York, and that Jonathan I. Coddington was appointed in his
place. The clerks employed in the office held a meeting,
at which they passed resolutions returning thanks to Mr. Gover-
neur for his kindness to them, and expressing their regret at
the separation that had taken place between them.
Lieut. Wheelock, who was in the same battle in which col.
Heileman distinguished himself, died by his own hand, as we
learn from the St. Augustine Herald. His exposure brought on
a fever, and in a moment of delerium he shot himself with a
pistol.
Major Ransom was found dead in his bed, on the morning of
the 3d inst. having been apparently in the enjoyment of excel-
lent health the day previous.
Major Gates, lately stricken from the roll of the army, who
arrived in Washington a few days since, has proceeded on to
obtain an interview with the president at the Hermitage. His
object is, we understand, to solicit his restoration to his rank
for the purpose of standing a trial, for his alleged misconduct,
by a court martial. {.Metropolitan.
Giovanni Russo, ex-colonel in the Neapolitan army, who is
supposed to have emigrated to the U. States, after the revolu-
tion of 1832 is informed that he has been pardoned by the king,
and is permitted to return to his native country. This notice
is given agreeably to the desire of his friends, by Giuseppe Reg-
gio, officer of the Sicilian brig Attivo, now in Boston.
The New York Gazette of Thursday the 21st ult. says—“In
the ship Francis Depau, arrived last evening, came passengers,
bishop Brute, of Indiana, and nineteen Catholic ecclesiastics,
all for the western country.”
The New Orleans American states that Mr. Caldwell has au-
thorised bis agent in Europe to offer madame Malibran, the dis-
tinguished vocalist, ten thousand pounds sterling for one year,
to play in the Italian and English opera in the United States.
Gen. Rusk, the late commander of the Texian army, is a na-
tive of Habersham county, Georgia. The present commander
is also a native of the United States, and was formerly the edi-
tor of one of our political journals.
The Texian navy is composed of six schooners, two armed
steamers and a guard brig.
Battle of Bloody Brook. An effort is to be made to erect a
monument at Deerfield, Mass, to commemorate the bloody bat-
tle fought there in the time of the Indian war.
Five thousand cases of shoes were shipped from Boston, to
our southern cities between the 1st and 20th of July.
Col. Wm. P. Duvall, formerly governor of Florida, whose
son, capt. Duvall, was murdered at Goliad, by order of general
Santa Anna, has published a letter in the Louisville Journal, in
which he announces his determination to devote his life to the
task of avenging the blood of his son. He declares that he is
making more than ten thousand dollars by his profession, in
Florida, but that he will give up every thing for the command
of 1,200 or 1,600 mounted men from Kentucky.
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Niles, Hezekiah, 1777-1839. Niles' Weekly Register. (Baltimore, Md.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 6, 1836, periodical, August 6, 1836; Baltimore, Maryland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1694177/m1/5/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .