Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-06-07
COMMERCE. OF ALBANY.
From the Albany Advertiser, May 3


About the time that our canals went
into operation, a certain class of men,
who are always in trouble by anticipa-
ton, predicted that those great works
would ruin the commercial prosperity
of the city of Albany. We felt no dis
position then to interrupt the enjoy
ment (for some men do appear TO take
pleasure in awful forebodings, Of these
croakers, trusting with confidence that
time would satisfactorily test the mat
ter. II has done so, and we have the
satisfaction of witnessing the rapid
growth of the city and the great in
crease of business which has been pro-
duced by the facility with which our
fellow citizens of the west can bring
theirproducts TO market that were wont
to rot on their hands, or else did not
exist at all, for want of market at
which they could be made to yield
profit.
The whole western and northern
country now teens with enterprise, and
its genial effects are felt at no point so
much as in this city. Our merchants
have greatly extended their business.
Many of them import their goods di-
rect from the workshops of Europe,
and are thus enabled to supply their
country customers on as good terms as
they can make in the city of New York.
Indeed, it has become quite a common
thing for those country merchants who
formerly went to New-York to lay in
their supply of goods, to stop here to
make their purchases, and we have
seen not few, and heard gilmore, who,
after going down to the head of the
Market" have come, back to the be-
ginning of internal navigation to make
their bargains, and have saved snug
penny by so doing. We envy not the
mother of cities in America her pros
perity, but we rejoice that our enter
prising citizens also partake so largely
of the riches of commerce. We haz-
ard nothing in saving that more build.
ings are now under contract in this CT
ty than have been erected in any three
years since the late war.
From tile albany Daily .adrertiser, June 2.
We announce with pleasure the ar
rival of a schooner, captain Coles, from
Richmond, Va. with coal, which haul
ed into the basin on Tuesday and dis
charged her cargo at the foot OF State
street. There is no doubt iii our minds
that the foreign trade of Albany Will
become very considerable. We see no
earthly reason why this city should not
purchase its own West India produce,
as well as that Of our sou thern markets.
Prejudice and invcteratc habits will,
we trust, soon be lost in the convic-
lions of experience. We wish the
"southern stranger" good voyage and
a profitable retun.
Nantucket, May 2S.-At the present
time the inhabitants of Nantucket
NAV probably be computed at 1000.
.E-r..r--' '.of~ uurIru,r Of SHIPS UcivifS I'm
t. this port, is between 60 and 20
averaging more than 800 tons each. A
bout 60 sail, exclusive of briggs and
smaller craft, are now engaged in the
Whale Fishery; the residue are en-
pIoyed in the freighting business, chief
ly between Southern ports and Europe.
Altogether there are nearly 10000 tons
of shipping embarked in the Whale
Fisheries alone, from this place. Of
the ships, about 90 are now in port,
and upwards of4o absent, some of the
latter procuring oil at distance from
home equal to one half Of the earth's
circumference! Others may be found,
scattered along the entire coast of the
South American continent, from the
Gulf of Mexico to that of California
and even upon the inhospilable coast
of Japan. Almost the whole surface
of the great Pacific, on either side Of
the equator, is traversed by these adj
enthusiastically discovering Is.
lands and exploring regions, hitherto
unknown to navigators and geogra-
phers-and protracting their voyages
to the length of three years.
Inquirer.
Montreal, May 2S.-Yesterday, the
Niagara, from Greenock, came to
port. She had on board lis High
landers, as settlers for the township of
Macnab, on the Ottawa. These brave
sons of the mountains were marched
from the vessel TO the town headed by
their chief, Macnab of Macnab, who
kindly came TO town TO receive them,
and piper, dressed in the "garb of Old
Gaul," playing the national music of
the land where Fingal fought and Os-
sian sung.
Accounts from the interior in rela-
ton to the present cotton crop continue
very bad. In many places the seed
has refused to grow, and in some, it
sells as high as FIVE dollars bushel.-
A letter from Laurens to a friend of