Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-15

of the British frigste Hussar, which was sunk
during the revolutionary war, has succeeded
in getting chains under her bottom, and it is
expected win be enabled, with the aid of
powerful screws, to raise it to the waters
edge. 1t has been reported that when the fri
gate sunk, she had large quantity of gold
on board.
1t is now contemplated to form an establish
ment on the African coast on more extend
ed plan than that of Measurable, or more pro-
perry, if this can be done, to enlarge that set
tlemeut.
On Tuesday, the 9th ult. NJ. 7. Williams,
Esq. Acting Commissioner, attended at Gin
cinnat to let by contract "a miles ofthe Mia
mi Canal, extending from the head of Mill
Creek to the outskirts of Cincinnati. On this
occasion, so great was the number of compe-
titors, that the contracts were saken at sum
from $4,000 to $50, 900 below TIE original
estimates.
The amount of money Que in the United
States from France, for property confiscated
under the Berlin, Milan and Rambouillet de-
crees, is estimated by q correspondent of the
Philadelphia Gazette at more than thirty mil
lions Of dollars.
Florida, when ceded to the United States,
had population of $4,000 inhabitants. 1t
now contains $4,000.
The village of Rochester at present contains
5271 inhabitants, having increased more than
one thousand since February last.
The Navy Yard which is to be established
somewhere on the Florida coast, is intended
as substitute for Thompson's Island, which,
it is said. is TO be abandoned, in consequence
ofthe unhealthiness of the situation.
The Rochester Telegraph Of Tuesday last,
mentions the arrival at that place of a boat,
sloop rugged, with masts to unship, six tons
burthen, in fifteen days from Charleston, sc.
She had six passengers, and is bound for
Green BAY.
Yale College marks among her sons, one
Vice President of the United States, one Sec
retary of the Treasury, one Secretary of War,
one Postmaster General, eight Foreign Mi.
nisters, "a Governors of States, 20 U. s. Sc
majors, 80 Members of Congress, one Chan
cellor Of New-York, 40 Judges of Supreme
Courts, 10 Presidents of Colleges. is PROBES.
sors of Colleges, Is Professors of Theologi.
cal and Medical Schools, and long list o!
eminent Divines, Physicians, &c.
Stephen Girsrd, the enterprisins capitalist
of philadelphia, contemplates the improve
mcnt of his vacant lots, on Market and Ches
nut-streets, between eleventh and twelhh-sts
1t is said, 700, 900 dollars are to be appropri,
ated to this purpose, and the whole of the
buildings are to be completed the next season,
Ropid Trawiing. distance between
Detroit and New-York city, may now be ira.
yelled in FIVE days and twelve hours.-rhe
distance is at least nine hundred miles.
The Philadelphia Sentinel notices. newly
invented pump, called the Marine Hydraulion,
or safety box; it is calculated to throw out l5C
gallons per hour.
Steam Furnace. specimen of selfcrea
ting and selfsustsining power is to be seen in
an iron furnace in Worcester, the bellows Of
which is worked by steam generated in boil
or, which is heated by the same fire the bel
lows kindles.
La,c IN Poiand,-In the four years that have
elapsed since 1921, 155,640 law SUITS have
been terminated in the civil tribunals of that
kingdom. In the same time 120,022 senten,
ces have been passed in the courts ofcriminal
justice.
Among the curiosities of history, must be
ranked a late ordinance of the King of Sardi
MIA, which prohibits the education of all his
subjects who are not worth three hundred dol.
lars What an illustration of the foundation
and benefits of monarehical government.
The skeleton. now exhibiting in London,
was about to insure his D. f, at one of the pub
lie Offices there. He was told that they did
not insure bones, but if he was married they
would insure his NIB.
Sucre forwarded to Bolivar, as a testimony
of the attachment felt for him by the army,
FIVE standards belonging to the oldest of those
Spanish regiments which for IA years had
borne arms against the independence of Peru.
Among them was the individual standard with
which Pizaro, 500 years before, had entered
the capital of the mcas.
An elephant, which had been kept for some
time in shed near Chitpore in Bengal, got
loose, and being pussued by several strangers,
as well as his keeper, took fight, and, after
running for a mile or two, seized two men
with his trunk, whom, after dashing them on
the ground, he trampled to death. After that
he was fortunately secured, but not without
some difficulty.
A Natchez paper of 12;h Sept. saws, that
the few cases of malignant fever which occur
rcd in the early part of the month, have all
terminated either in death or convalescence;
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