Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-05-05

attending this investigation. Among
them are capt. Cassin, capt. Dallas, and
capt. Finch. MAJ. Intel.
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
Union, Pa. aprI26-The Officers and
Engineers of the United States, detail.
ed to survey the route of this canal
are already on the ground.
Capt. M'Neil, with Lieutenants Cook
and Delahunty, two of his officers, lei,
here yesterday, having been detained
| few days in making their arrangements,
collecting hands, sc. They commence
operations at Camp Calhoun.
| Mr.. Shriver's Brigade started from
this place on Monday last for Deep
Creek. They commence at Camp
Howard.
Col. Abert's Brigade are organized
and about commencing operations, We
understand, at Cumberland, and will
descend the Potomac to Washington
City.
Major Kearney, we are informed, is
ordered on to Pittsburg, to take COM
mand Of fourth Brigade of Engineers
to examine the western section of the
Canal from Pittsburg to Lake Erie
Thus the whole line of the canal, it is
believed, will be completed during the
present summer.
We have to-day, to record the loss Of
the steamboat TEcHE, Capt. Campbell,
OH her passage to New-Orleans, when
about ten miles below Matches her
boiler burst, three mem were killed and
several severely scalded. The boa,
was set on fire and with her cargo. a
bout 500 bales Of cotton, consumed
She had on board about SEVENTY pas.
sengers. The scene of confusion is
represented as being beyond descrip.
ton, most of the passengers got ashore
in the yawl in three trips, while Others
floated from the burning wreck on
bales of cotton and were thus saved
1t is with regret that we have to add,
that the calamity did not end here
the steamboat Washington was soon
after passing up, hove too, and boat
with from l2to Is of the survivors, at
tempting to board her, upset, and were
drowned.
Mr.. Mills, Of Kentucky, was among
the scalded, but had reached New.Or-
leans.
This is the fourth steamboat acct
dent, accounts of which have reached
us within the last ten days, and we trust
after this, that no more racing will be
heard of, or if it is, that we shall not
see the speed of the boats noticed, as
the desire Of celebrity, more frequent
ly incites vain men to acts, which,
were they not likely to be known,
would never be committed
Bait. Morn. Chron.
The steamboat Oliver Ellsworth,
captain Ravens, while on her passage
from Hartford to New York, OH Thurs
day night last, struck on a rock near
Huntington, but soon got of. The boat
proceeded on her course for about ono
hour, when it was found she made so
much water, that it became necessary,
for the safety of. the passengers, to run
the vessel ashore near Eaton's Neck
where she soon sunk. She had about
so passengers on board, who have ar.
rived in Newly York, and speak in the
highest terms Of the conduct Of capt. Fl.
A commission appointed by the king
of Sweden, has just presented report
containing the result Of its researches
respecting the increase Of the popula-
ton of the kingdom, Finland excluded,
since the year l748. The number Of
inhabitants at that date was l,736,4s2;
in l773, it was l,e5s,797; in 1898, it
was 3s3,2es; and in 1923, it was g.
6s7,4 57. The average annual increase
for the whole period of Is years, was
1850. In 1923, the number Of deaths
was 56,o57, and of births, SO, 259, max
ing an excess of 40, 1872 in a single year
The average increase Of the last fifteen
years was 1888. This accelerated
increase is attributed to the genera.
comfort produced by the progress VI
agriculture, and industry, and to the
propagation of vaccination. In h79,
there were $4,000 deaths by small pcz,
in 1922, there were but eleven in the
whole kingdom of Sweden.
An affecting anecdote was short
time since related in the French papers
A young man took a dog into boat,
rowed to the centre Of the Seine, and
threw the animal over, with intent to
drown him. The poor dog often tried
to climb up the side Of the boat, but
his master as often pushed him back
till overbalancing himself, he fell over
board. AS soon as the faithful Dog
saw his master in the stream he lei,
the boat and held him above water till
help arrived from the shore, and his
life was saved.