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fce k. TJien, looking around among the crowd, observed weep not for but for wish you were all as happy as I Glory be to.God forever --ishall soon heaven, When the csbcutioner, had adjustedthe the unfortunate statiding under the gallows ready-to be ed ofly Shepherd, joined by.Ponter, sung with- 'a'firm voice; the following My soul's full of which inspires my Could I meet vrith angels' I'd sing, them; a song. And beg them to bear nit.to his 1 the hopes and-gfories of the gal- in following is Lpndop contractor, ecently an" attempt to to tne Coin after h'e Haid obtained 1 it, tbip leas? of Drury lahejheisf're. epigram refers to ctbose jQnwlatePartZaihentari) andThedtricSl transac-' his TomjBish had liict; -r -v nu which' will soon make This cranim'd'' for the one that he waits to be leabirigof the ishorder in Council son eame'to clairalt, and it remained in the bake house, until Tuesday night, when a mouse bored into it, and brought out a pota- toe, thus disclpsing a most diabolical plot for the destruction of this poor man, his family, and property--aixl which plot; bad it succeeded, wwuljJ involved Tfhe Whole neighborhood in great powder crust had become completely stiff, but nbt entirely dry, the potatoes, about.tali baked, and the upper crust handsomely browned, and was altogether that kihd of Pie, before it was broken, that would Jiave made the mouth of a hungry man water. Randolph hi following w.e fi-dni' the Columbian Register, a paper published at Newhaven, February 2d 1813.

rvRdndolpli, it is probable, has redeemed 1m character in Georgia by abusing the sent adnrijrtrstratiorii as he lost it by abusing that of iwr. 'times change and men change with "Some years ago. the legislature of Georr gia passed an act giving the Randolph to a cfiunty of that state, in-jionor of John Randolph of Virginia; The present legislature; it appears; have changed the tarue of that ceuntytb thut of ing infthe preamble to thiii rief, the reasons which led t6 the measure; they say that -a of educatn.g all tlie children who are naiij- ed Coffin, the deBcendtntu-of Coffins, Fire are to be appointed, all of the name, Coffin, to superintend: the of the institution. It is said that the Admiral has appropriated funds for the support of the Academy forever, and a a descendaht from sqme.of the will take of the school. A letter from a inonboanfthe frig- i' i forty bushels of which were Sjood winter ap-f i ar Ea ie.

The Delaware Bible Society, LAW ANn WATt old Annuri on Tiiesdayi the ttm.ii Aiyu 17th IMti fOct.Ykt 11 oV.lnriV in thm --JT" i 1" II Jit" ate Brandywine, irt Washington, ioof dated.Sept. 8, ship is a she Sails faster than the othersWpjtt hevjr tut in light winds the Cprt. Jones is like a fether ra'itfslupmefu to sleep inth'e makes us keep a Annual Meeting on Tuesday; the" I o'clock, ft the Jeepnd At a meeting of gentlemen under com- Wilmington, be open-' mission of bankruptcy, at Andover, in England, ed "ennon by the Bey. Josepq Wjlton of i some'disagreement arose between Mr. Fleet Mjflaletown, or'the Her.

Russejl, of New-' and Mr. Mann, both respectable SolicUors, which ark, bis alternate. produced a challenge from the! former. The of thi Bible Society, of alt latter returned the following, answer. The last mia stanza but one will be more perfectly understood, when it is known that Mr.

Mann has a wife atid children, while Mr. Fleet is a bachelor. KINGSTON are invited to attend, GILBERT, Octv Pricesl ularjournal. following- persons have beeto invited by the Secretary ofAVar to tlie Board is about assemplJngan Cily.fiSfc the purpose of the legislature observe in MrllRaniolph such A- desertion of correct.pniffip^es,' and such an. .1 'to the enemie's'of the States, 'a's to render his name odious, 'to the people of C7 7 I of preparing- at)d; reporting system of Gavalry and Artillery.

Etqrcise, for the use of the militia. vi yr.ti- Sumner, Massachusetts Gen. 3 Cadwallader, pf Psenns Gen. Br panjelj of N. QaroBnai- Geh.

I am honored this day, sJrj, with challenges The first from friend Langdon, second from yOQj As the one is and the otlifer to dine', I accept his "engagment," and your? must de- i Now, i.n giving this pWereftce, I trust you'll ad- superfine, per i. barrel. 4 Do, white, per buahel of 60lbs red, i 4 0 perbhBhel'or Do. Meal, per ki IN MARKET. 63 Butter, 20a25cts.r to the aboVe, Generals Scott anal Ma- coinbi Eustfe, Taylor? Maj.

Noiirse.and Tjlfllt A il -J I -vs --TM----- u.tmi CM4U' Xaeut. Tone, the will beicom- -v plete. to the! aboiiMon discriminating duties as to place the inter.course'on the-niose liberal footing pf 'If thjs-be the case 'there'is aa end to alKdoubt respeJcting thef repeal of order Council, n- Death qr; term 'the present uit Cifurt; in St on: the trial -fCffiN in- aicted Perjury c6nimittea ini ihe case of ilre State Vs. Patrick Soye, tried at last termi by the i 1 VklVlk' vDEifeigs; New Castle County, -tHe Was, "thathe bfe hanged by the ivecfc Untii dead," The.sepr tents fe 28th -of'this ELECTION. Froto the- returns iwTiich- halve been made, of the nuinber of polled the.

late general we. are to lay be- Tore our readers.a-^tabularabstract, shewing the result! POR GOVERNOR. fc worfcThas begii Tiiblighetl Paris called the "Dictionary ofJiMrehtions and M. It contains a great mass.of facts: illustrative of the; pro-, gress of human genius, and has been'com- piled wjth great labpu.r atid equal science. 1 2 0 0 carpenters, arid; oeo "bricklayers have othin AJE" a I have acted with prudence, and done what 0 8 Since encountering ii'm, arid hjy weapon? knife, There is ssme little chance of preserving Whilst a bullet from you, sjr, inight take ii a- 11 CHARLKS POLK.

1005 Monday, 10th tilt. Mr Da and.CoV. both of 5). -whom a quarrejl exist- iedy an8- bptit being armed in consequence, accidentally TO ft ia the street of doosawhat- chie, when the former drew a pistol New Castle 'County, Kent, bussex, 2105 1225; Total majority f6r Mr. Polk, -r-4238 .95 called to the io defend himself, who instantly drew anbJHer and both pulled near ly af tfte same -Beck'-s pistbj- miss- received three buck shotiin the: tiead- his death after, lingering in pain about 20 hou rs.

r. B. was about 22 years old, of and had. chosen the practice of law for a profession. He has left a mother, three sisters, and two brothers to lament Kis sudden (F.) New Qastle County, Ketit, 'Sussex, ARNOLp NAUDAIN.

New Castle County, (D.) Sussex, 2202 1443 1214 1274 3931 iva fir. Preston Brown brother of the Minis of the United States at Paris, was shot at a place a few; miles below Louisville, by a man engagednh-a 'dispute with another person. The Doctor was attempting to make peace between them. He died of the wound on Friday night the 22d ult. A most shocking occarrence took place on ultimo, below Eonh'viUe, on the O- river.

Two citizens of Bourbon by the name of Stone, and Mr. David Cobb, of Lexington, Kentucky, were descending the river, with about eighty negroes. A few of them rose and killed theirtnasters, and a Mr. pavis, a hired hand, and jds4 a passenger-returning home to the State of In-all, five persons were wardered. Fifty-six of the negroes remainea with the the Indiana shore, and those concerned in the murder, to the number of 18-or 20, fled into the country.

A part ot them had been taken. Sate of tfvJtfe and titn te'n thousand from the village of Oswego, on the 18th ult. by-virtue of a special Contract between one man sold, bargained and conveyed to another, for and in consideration of the sum of twenty five dollars, good and lawful money of the state of New Nprk, his wife and two children we are informed that the guarantee has taken actual possession-ei his The Missouri Republican says, the United States 5 Lead -Mines are now becoming a source-of considerable levenoe. The num- btr of diggers and meJters at'the upper mines, have greatly mcreased, and are still increasing; and the quantity of-lead made tbis year will exceed in a fourfold ratio that of former The, same paper states that the impediment to the working of these mines is occasioned by the Rapids in the Mississippi, near the mouths of the DCS N. CASTLE COUNTY.

Senator. Joseph Rtfiresentettivs. Josiah F. Ciemehtj- John Sam'lH. Black', Alexander Crawford, John Higgins, A.

Hamilton, Corbet, KENT. Senator. John Brineklos, Representatives, Thomas Martip Bates, Raymond, Register, M. Ridgely, Clark, Taylor, SUSSEX. Senator.

Robinson, Representatives. John Tennant, Joshua Burton, Brown, W'iltbank, Tindall, Riley, have nothing to dp Al" approach of winter it tfiece will be hna mechanics put of; ejoiplbyment in Leh- of Whit- stiire, cat Jiis 'crop this season, from 570 acres, in nipe days, Legal value ofu. the late Glou cester assizes, a-man sTiilling damages lor having hadUls nose pulleeli out he had to pay costs! A number of Blackburn, have -Others are late esq. of Brooke Hall, INofwich. directed -by, his one entire year's rent of their.

respective should be presented-, to each of his numerous An Irishman some chocolate, asked by the he did with it? answered, Father I made tea of it. 'We are sorry to learn that-the steamboats fitted ou in aid. of the Greek naval Warfare, have been detained'in tle river; by whose fnterterencej has not transpired. A strong and beautiful illustration of the efiects of skill and industry is found in the savings of a Chinese, who used to that by them "a mulberry Jeaf became a silk shawl." It appears fuooi stetements made at a re- 'Aiid the maxim, you know, is, to a IF, howevef, you still should I ill tteat By sternly rejecting this challenge to meet you, Bear with zne a moment and I will-adduce Three powerful reasons by way of excuse, Tn the first am deceived, I myself am the 'party aggrieved; And good sir, if a challenge ntiift be. Pray wait till tliat challenge be tendered by me.

Again, sir, I-think it by far the- itiost sinful, To stand and be shot thata to' sit fora skinfull. From whence you'll conclude, (as I'd have you inJTeed) That fighting composes no part of my- creed-- And'my courage, which though it was disputed, Is not, I imaginfe too, too deeply rooted) Would prefer that its Fruit sir, whate'er it may A boy of moral and. qr 16 years of age, will be apprentice to the Prinjting business, by allying fice. A lad from the country be A moral arid industnoua about 16 ofagja; to leam None buV such yield, Should appear at "the table," arid hot in "the field," And lastly, my life, be it never forgot; Possesses a valueithat-yours, sir, does not, So I mean to preserve it as long can, Being justly (entitled "a family With three or four children (I scarce know how many) While have not, havea- jiy; Besides, that the contest will he too unequal, I doubt not will plainly appear by the sequel; For e'en you must acknowledge it would not, be meet, 1015 1193 1167 1144 1620 1288 1019 995 .1222 1217 1213 -1213 1247 1236 1233 2089 1704 2165 2176 2182 2190 2186 2181 Moines Rock Rivers, but itispracticable to clear out a boat channel at the expense of not more than two years' rentof the Upper Mines. Kothing nppears to us reasonable than the suggestion that, out of the proceeds of these rents, this improvement ftf the great high-way should be made.

Congress will, no doufct, lend a favorable ear to an application to that effect. GUNPOWDER PIE, During the examination at the Public Office, Philadelphia, on yesterday week. Mr. a Master Baker, living at the N. corner of Seventh and Lombard streets, brought before the Mayor, and exhibited a Vic, the lower stratum of which was composed ot gunpowder, the filling of potatoes.

the whole being neatly and tastefully covered with a crust of wheat flour, sr that in all re- jpects it resembled a Peach Pie, made on a large tin patty pan; the foundation of wctt- cd powder, was in immediate contact with A writer in a has discovered in the venerated name of Thomas Jefferson the anagram "Host of man is congratulates himself on the application of Mr. J'sgreat work: for, says he, the Declaration of Independence sets out with the great truth contained in the above sentence, viz: "AH men are created equal." It is rather a singular coincidence as th'e witcrsays. It must have cost him some time, we think, to work out the riddle. 'iffnihg 8 London, that the affairs of that company are hot in the most flourishing condition. On the largest mine, 2,453,890 had been expended, whilst the scarcely exceeded half a In the Vice Chancellor's Court, Great Britain, a suit lately with the consent has lasted fifty years.

The crop of apples has been so abundant this year in Massachusetts and Connecticut, that new cider is as low as fifty cents a barrel. In tKe Baltimore market we are in- cider has-been sold at the same price. A letter from Green Bay, dated August IS, furnishes information, the 3d regiment of U. S. Infantry were about move directly from that, neighbourhood for Saint Louis.

A youttg man named Simon Goodwin, late of York, cut his throat on the 27th ult; so that he-died. It is said that he was in a state ol insanhy, proceeding from religious frenzy. On Sunday lart, says the Pittsburgh Mercury, the Rev. Mr. Joyce preached a sermon to the children of the assembled Sabbath Schools in this city.

There were upwards of 1500 children presefit. The whole services were affecting, and the spectacle very imposing. have seen a Sun Flower xf the common kind, says the Wilksbarre Democrat, that measured near twenty inches in diameter, and near five feet in circumference. This perhaps is the largest flower in this part of the world. A youth who had been confined in the Penitentiary at Petersburg, Va.

eighteen months, for petit larceny, lately shot himself--a sense ot his degradation, it is supposed, induced him to commit the act. None of our Presidents have had sons, except John Adams and his syi John Q. Ad- practical with "th.e uses of the instruments used 'ih Navigation seaey. dollars fer Alg-ebra, arid common Aritfunetn Students from distance will be with boarding at $2 ptar Week. TPat ticulars apply to JOHN Most sptendiij Sqhettei of ASseroblyj the, following BrMant Scheme ia( presentea "tq to bedrawn on the- ODDand EVEN SYgTEM, in consequence of its unrivalled fipp- ularity-rrthe whole lif QNE DAY, will take place in the GlfY OF: BALTIMORE, trn- dei- the superintendence of Ae Commissioners appointed by the Grand Stat6 Lottery of --The holder of two Tickets or two be certain of.obtakihigat least onePnze'-v and, may draw TIIGHESIT; DIED, On Thursday evening, the 5th inst, in the village of Christiana (where she had resided, universally bteloved, upwards of fifty years) Mrs- AMY LEWIS, relict of Joel Lewis, Esq.

in the 73 year-of fier age. She was scrupulous in the discharge of every domestic duty, and was always remarkable fbr the amiable qualities ef her heart, and cheerfulness of her tamper, as well as for the vigor of-her intellect, which she retained" unimpaired till her last moments. She was religious, without bigotry, Charitable- without ostentation. Her life was passed in the constant exercise of Christian virtues and her conduct, throughout the protracted illness which closed it, furnished a rare example of patient suffering, pious resigjia- tion, and unwavering hope. METEROJLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS For the Month of Seflt.

1826. BRILLIANT 1 prize of $50,000 1 prize of 30,000 1 prize of 20,000 1 prize of 10,000 1 prize of 6,000 1 prize of 4,000 10 prizes of 1,000 10 prizes of 500 50 prizes of 100 100 prizes of 50 125 prizes of 20 250 prizes of 12 17,500 prizes of 9 is dollars is 30,000 dollars" is 20,000 dollars 10,000 is 5,0,00 doUars, is 4,000 10,000 dollarar 19 5,000 5,000 dollars. is 2,500 donars. 3,000 dollars, is 18,051 Prizes amounting ta (Tj-The wbole ipf the Prizes payable i which, as'ustrxi, at COHfiNS' be Price $10 .00 I Quarters, Halves, ('Eighths, ...02 50. 1.25:, Kept and Prejared for the Wilmingtonian.

State of Weather. Of Wind To he had in the greatest variety of numbers (Oddi SL SL Even) at Baltimore, T6. A military and masonic funeral procession took place in this city last night, between 10 and 11 o'clock--the carriages and persons in the procesion displaying torches and other lights, had quite novel appearance. We learn the person interred was the late Hudwn Hayward, -who was accidentally drerwnei! a few days since, end had been broughttothe city io be deposited in the faintly vault. the bottom of tfoe tin; it was about balf an inch thick, ard may have weighed two pounds.

A little girl whom the people about the bake bouse thought -they could not recognize, brought the Pie on Sunday morning to be baked, it was put into the oven with a great number of pansatid dishes containing the Sunday of the neighborhood, and after being baked for an hour and a half, was drawn cmt the otljw dishes, but noper- It is mentioned in the Michigan Herald, that two contractors of the Ohio Canal on a section near Middletown, Butler County, had These men had large contracts and lately drew upwards of $10,000, a loped, Jeaving upwards of a hundred honest men, to buffet the billows of poverty, to whom this money was coming for the work done. Sir Isaaa Coffin, during his late visit to Nantucket, purchased a fine academy for the pur- ams. Neither Washington nor Madison, had any and Monroe only daughters. The Secretary of War has returned to Washington from bis late visit to his domicile in Virginia. The Attorney General returned from his excursion to the springs some day's ago.

i The citizens ot Pittsburg, at a meeting held on the 25th ult. agreed to form a society auxiliary to the American Colonization Sbciety. A respectable citizen of New York was instantaneously killed in Broadway, on Saturday night week, by a hack which ran over him. The New York papers assert that can races in the street are quite common. A company is about to be formed at Cin-, cinnati, Ohio, for the eitablishwentof a cot- ton manufactory, with a capital cf one hun- drcd thousand dollars.

Its success is declar- ed to be certain, and believed to be of great importance to that "section ot country," Governor Troup has actually ordered out the Hancock cavalry to support the surveys he has caused to be made under a treaty declared by the Senate to null and void. We have full confidence in the promptness of the United States' executive. The Jefferson (Ohio) Gazette states; with much exultation, thst the Licking snmmit deep cut in the Oh Canal, has been contracted for at $47,000 less than the estimate of the engineers. Mr. David Tichcnoref this town, has gathered this season, from one king apple tree, in orchard, seventy bushels cf 1 68 86 fairand warm.

2 70 92 foggy--very warm 3 72 90 cloudy do do 4 76 96 very warm--showery do 5 72 90 do do 6 60 76 cool in do 7 60 76 cool and cloudy 8 60 80 cool in morn--fair 9 58 80 do 10 60-80 do 11 62 90 fair and warm 12 72 90 rain 13 66 90 fair and warm. do 14 -66 86 foggy in morn--showry do 35 60 80 do do 16 60 70 'do do 17 60 70 do- do 18 60 70 rain do 19 66 70 cloudy--fair and warm do 20 60 70 do 21 56 76 do 22 60 80 do 23 64 80 cloudy and warm 24 60 62 cool, foggy and rain 25 54 64 cool in mOrn--rain 2o 54 60 rain in the night do 27 70 80 fair and 28 70 80 rain in reynand even. 46 70 cool, fair, pleAsant 50 46 70 do dn Lottery Exchange Office, No. 114, Market-st. "Baltimore; Where both the great -and magnificent Capital Prizes'of One iTundred Thousand Dollars, Each, were sold in late Grand State LcrHeries in Shares, ALL TO DISTANT AQPETU- -flS-ftSLand wbere both the Great Capittals of and drawn in the last Grand State Lottery, were also sold--and inhere more Capital Prizes have been sold than at any o- 1t "er Office in America.

Orders from part of the United States oc territories, cither by mail, post paid, or private conveyance, enclosing the cash or'priee tickets in any of the lotteries, will meet the same prompt and punctual attention as if on personal application. -iddres to 3. 1. COHEN, Jn. BROTHERS, Bamart.

CtrcOHRXS' "Gazette and Lottery Regigter." will be published immediately after the drawityr twill UvM UmVrUurV and will contain 'the official list of the Prized I if Vllfc it will be forwarded groiu to who their Tickets atCosKss' Orrici, do with to receive it- DISSOLUTION. Tempftture I ST. Greatest of cold, cleg, heat, 96. The partnortaip of MOORE JACK, it tftii clay diisolverl. All indebted io the eon- ccrn, are requested to pnytnentto KS collected, towmli the payment of the taid purtntrehip.

JACK, ilrrunglcm, Oct. 5, 1826. NOTICE. The subscriber, ktt of the Firm of Moore ok, tehders his tbinfcs to for patwnage to the iatt'firtn, Six Cents Reward. RAN aw ay from the on Sunday n'ight the 8th iTitt.

sat indented apprentice to the fr Piinling-, Glizing, arvd them that he named PHILIP CAVENDER, bctwwn 16 UK! 17 years of age, pile complexion black Buiftegu, in all btwcheit, at Ko He hsd on'vhen hr M-ent comeVof Second wfeercirtl zett roundabout, white linen pamnloons, and i ordert will be thtnkfully received. Kftt i i rvhat be be sud Or 4 but no char to TM? rerSOns ire for FREDD. Oct, 5. JACR. i Job Printing neatly at Office..

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