LOST CROSSING RIVER. Huge Cake of Ice Sinks Skiff in Potomac. Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., Jan. 24– Three men were drowned early yesterday morning below Knott’s Island while crossing the Potomac river to their work at […]
ATTACKED BY A NEGRO. Henry Brown, colored, was arrested in Martinsburg, W. Va. Friday night on information furnished by the officials of Page county, Va., for an alleged attempt to criminally assault Mrs. William Shiffler, a […]
THE DEVILISH DEED OF A COLORED GIRL.— About three years ago Mr. Jesse A. Engle, the teacher of the public school at Bakerton, W. Va., built himself a handsome dwelling house on a beautiful site overlooking […]
Public Notice.IS hereby given that the navigation through the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, from the head of the Harper’s Ferry Falls to the Shenandoah Lock, will be opened for the passage of boats, rafts, &c. on […]
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 […]
THE CHOLERA.Health of the City.– The deaths in this city last week were only SEVENTEEN, one of which was of malignant Cholera.– Boston Gaz.— In another column we publish the weekly report, which has been so […]
The Canal Contracts.– We are enabled to state (says the Williamsport Banner) that the letting of the canal contracts closed on Thursday last, and that the whole distance between Harper’s Ferry and Samuel Lynch’s farm, including […]
The Canal.– We are glad to see the work up on teh Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, progressing so rapidly.– There are now engaged, near Harpers Ferry, probably not less than 150 hands– the excavations are in […]
Office of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.WASHINGTON, January 9, 1832. Proposals will be received at this Office as follows. 1st For the construction of a Dam across the Potomac River near “Harper’s Ferry,” and for […]
From the Harper’s Ferry Free Press.CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL. Mr. Gallaher:– From present appearances, I am led to fear for the reputation of this great work Its enemies are busily engaged in circulating reports derogatory to […]
Female Education WM M. JONES respectfully informs his friends and the public generally, that he has concluded to open a School for Females in Alexandria, on the 1st Monday in September next. His course of instruction […]
