“When the British minister visited Harper’s Ferry, the band (composed of young men belonging to the manufactories) serenaded him; he invited them into his lodgings, and entered into familiar conversation with some of them; he declared […]
DIEDOn Thursday last, Miss Elizabeth M’Clure, of this place. On Saturday, Mrs. Leannah Butts, wife of Mr. John Butts. On Thursday the 26th ult. at his residence in Shepherdstown, Captain JOHN PIERCE, in the 78th year […]
From the Baltimore Patriot, May, 9.Fire at Harper’s Ferry.– We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter dated Harper’s Ferry, May 8, 1824: “A dreadful calamity happened at this place this morning before […]
Fires. The workshop and machinery of the United States Armory, at Harper’s Ferry, were entirely consumed by fire on the morning of the 8th inst. Two hundred workmen were employed at this place, and their loss […]
THE LANDSCAPE.E’en here, at home, what scenes arrest the view! Scenese full of int’rest and of beauty too. We have thought that a brief sketch of the spot selected for the culture of “THE GARLAND,” might […]
Ireland.– The number of inhabitants in Ireland is estimated at 6,846,949, and the number of Irish acres at 6,809,709; so that there is more than one individual to an acre. In England, the number of English […]
From the National Intelligencer.Potomac Canal.– We have been favored with a copy of the following correspondence, which we publish with great pleasure, as it presents a view not hitherto taken, of the importance, of the proposed […]
DIED,On Sunday last, Mr. Peter Conlan, merchant, of this place. Mr. C. was a native of Ireland, but resided in this country for the last four or five years, and had taken the necessary steps to […]
From Shepherdstown, in Virginia, we are sorry to learn, through the medium of the newspaper printed there, that the sickness, at this late period of the season, in that town, and still more in the neighborhood, […]
SHEPHERDSTOWN, OCT. 3– The sickness in this Town, at the present time, exceeds any thing ever known in this place within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. There is scarcely a family that has not some […]
SHEPHERDSTOWN, VA. SEPT. 12– We understand by a gentleman directly from Harper’s Ferry, that the disease which has been so malignant at that place, continues to rage with unabating violence. Never was it known to have […]
