The Cholera.— This desolating scourge, we are sorry to say, appears to be augmenting its ravages in our county. Since our last publication, several valuable citizens of Shepherdstown have fallen victims to the malignant disease. Many […]
[COMMUNICATED.] Mr. Gallaher: — We have observed in the “Intelligencer and Alexandria Gazette,” of this week, a paragraph extracted from the “Argus,” printed in Easton, Pa., detailing a “remarkable circumstance,” based on the high authority of […]
HAGERSTOWN, July 4The cholera is again on the increase along the line of the canal, in the neighborhood of Williamsport. On Tuesday, we learn that three deaths occurred below, six above, and one in the town, […]
From the Hagerstown Torch Light of Thursday.A few cases of cholera have occurred during the last week, along the line of the canal, above and below Williamsport. We have head of three confirmed cases, which resulted […]
From the Baltimore American, June 14.The Fifth Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, occupies one entire page of the ample sheet of the National Intelligencer of yesterday. It […]
IRELAND.DUBLIN, May 8.– The indictment against the proprietor of the Pilot newspaper, for publishing Mr. O’Connell’s first letter to the Irish people, charges him with bringing the act of Legislative Union and the Irish Disturbance Bill […]
REDUCTION OF WAGES. We learn, with much regret, that peremptory orders have been received from the War Department, to reduce the wages of the artisans employed in the Armory at Harper’s Ferry 25 per ct. This […]
IRELAND.— The affairs of this unhappy and distracted country assume a more sombre appearance, if possible, by every fresh arrival. It will be seen by the following proclamation of the Marquis of Anglesey, that the enforcing […]
Our town, says the Georgetown Gazette, already begins to reap some of the advantages to be derived from that splendid and great undertaking, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. Last week there was received here in one […]
CONSECRATION.The new Catholic Church at Harpers-Ferry, was consecrated, on Sunday last, by Archbishop WRITEFIELD of Baltimore, aided by the Rev. Mr. GILDEA, and two other clergymen from Maryland. Indisposition prevented us from witnessing the ceremony, but […]
“Never” says a letter from Limerick of the 14th of March, “was there anything like the state of the surrounding country. The Cholera has spread all around. The Rev. Mr. Noonan, Curate of Knockany, was here […]
The distance of Williamsport above Harper’s Ferry, by the Canal line, is about forty miles.– Up to Harper’s Ferry, the Canal is expected to be made navigable within the month which begins this day, or, at […]
