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Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-29
1t now fifty-one years since the first

1t is now fifty-one years since the first
American general congress was held,
"to consult measures for the preserva-
ton of our liberties" What a glori-
Gus change has taken place in oul nap
py country since that day Of anxiety
and danger! Ofthree millions, we have
become nearly t,relce. Our Republican
Government is in the free tide Of sue
cessful experiment. We are as pow
erfula as We are free; and as prosperous
as we are powerful. The federal union
has been MI, and more than was ex-
pected. 1t is commensurate TO our
high destiny, If the officers Of the Ge-
neral Government will BIZ content with
the exercise Of their legitimate powers
and the States seyer lily yield harmo-
nio1s support TO the national admins
tration. Boston Palladium.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-29

The Shenandoah Herald is again to be con-
Quoted by Messrs. Began & smoot, the latter
gentleman experimenting the editorial de-
partment. The new paper, for which Mr.
Swoot issued proposals, and obtained many
subscribers, is abandoned, and the subscrip-
ton list added to that Of the Herald.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-29

The President ofthe United States arrived
at the seat Of government on Wednesday
morning. The necessity of his presence in
Washington would not permit him 70 SPEND a
day in Baltimore, as was equally the wish Of
himself and the hospitable citizens of that
place.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-29

In Albany there is said to be one of
the largest brcwcrics in the Union.-
The building is 222 feet inches by IS
feet inches, and $50 barrels of beer
per dav can be turned out. The sup
ply of water is drawn through leaden
pipe from the river, a distance Of l45o
feet, by means of pump worked by
steam engine of six horse power;
which engine also turns mill for
grinding the malt, and works the ma
chinery for meshing. This establish
ment, including the malt houses and
cooper's shop attached to it, keeps in
constant employ from eighty to a hun
dred workmen. The proprietors cal
culate on brewing $4,000 barrels tlhs
season.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-29

The miraculous story, which we published
a few days ago, of the great Precocity OF a
black child in South Carolina, turns out, as
we expected, to be stupid hoax.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-29

The Cheraw, Is, c. Intelligcncer of the
21st inst, says that returns from all but four
counties in Georgia have been received, and
that Troops majority was seven hundred
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-29
From the Potsdam 81. Laurence co. .2me1ca

From the Potsdam 81. Laurence co. .2merican.
Mr. PowELL-Sir, AS many of your
readers, and the public generally, may
not know the exact cause Of the present
state of the atmosphere, would re-
mark, that all the cedar and spruce
swamps, together with all the pralries
and marshes, from the Case. des in
Lower Canada, to Glengary in Upper
Canada, are on fire. The fire is said to
extend back nearly so miles from the
St. Lawrence, and about the same dis
lance up, making $500 square miles
of land on fire-ln swamps it burns
from 2 to feet. 1t affects both man
and beast-Catrle are said to be dying
off in droves, and it SO affects the eyes
and lungs of people, that business OF
all kind is nearly suspended.
Louisville, Oct IL, 1875.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-29

Reynolds, the murderer of Captain
West, who was convicted at the last
oyer and terminer, and sentenced to be
executed OF the 10Th Nov. but over
whose case some doubt had been
thrown, by testimony said TO have been
discovered subsequently to the trial,
has put the matter at rest by full con-
ftssion Of guilt! This fact was announ-
ced on Sunday evening from the pull
pit by the Rev. Mr.. Stanford, and will
of course or should arrest all efforts 10
persuade the executive to reprieve the
culprit. ~ T. american.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-11
Proclamation.
Corporation of alexandria

Corporation OF Alexandria, to tCit:
WHEREAS the season of the year has ar
rived, which renders it necessary that the
Quarantine Laws of this Corporation should
be carried into execution, do therefore, by
and with the advice of the Board of Health,
make known the same, and order, that all yes.
sells, coming from any foreign port or place,
or from any port of the United States where
malignant fever should prevail, and bound
to Alexandria, be brought to anchor at the
Quarantine Ground, opposite Joness Point,
and there to remain for the inspection and di.
rection of the Health Officer.
l furthermore enjoin the commanders Of
such vessels, not to suffer any of their crew OF
passengers, either before or during the quar-
antine term, to 60 on ashore, or on board any
other vessel than that to which they belong,
nor permit any person to come on board their
vessels, except such as are employed in the
execution of the quarantine laws, without the
especial permission Of the health officer in
writing. ~
DR.. Edmund Fitzhugh,. who has been APP
pointed health officer, is hereby required to
cause the laws upon the subject ofquarantine,
to be strictly enforced.
Given under my hand this 9th day Of Aug.
1926. JOHN ROBERTS, Mayor.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-11
M'COnaughey's Patent
Hoe Harrow.

TIME subscribers have received supply
i of this celebrated Harrow, now gene
rally used in the cultivation of corn, and
which has, in great measure, superseded
the use the hoe, through Pennsylvania and
parts of the adjoining states; and, it is be-
iieved, may be used with great advantage in
the cultivation of tobacco and cotton, as
well as corn. Planters can be supplied with
this Harrow at moderate price, on applica-
ton to A.C. CAZENOVE&C Co.
Copy ofa Certificate from the Pennsyloa-
nia agricultural Society.
Icertify that, at the late exhibition of the
Pennsylvania Agricultural Society, held at the
Paoli, William McConaughey produced q
"CULITIaIOR OR CORN HaRROV,"
for which the premium of the best Harrow
was awarded. The practical farmers who in
spected this implement, spoke very fayorably
Of its merits, as being well adapted to the
cultivation Of Indian corn, and as uniting to
evident utility, great simplicity and cheapness.
Signed, JOHN T, MINOR,
.A,,;ss. Reg Seey Penn. Agrieuaural' Society.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-11
Cohaeen & Whittle,

UAVE Just received by the Exchange from
i'll New.York, and offer for sale.
I S chests Y. H. tea of sup. quality
2 pipes old french brandy
1 puncheon old Jam. spirits
IL bags Java coffee
2 do pepper
2 tierces rice
; boxes starch
80 boxes Muscatel raisins
80 do bunch do
S bales Marseilles almonds
Is jars Spanish olives
boxes French do
do Capers
baskets salad oil
81 mats cassia
SO lbs, nutmegs
ii boxes cheese
so crates wine bottles
! ton shot, assorted sizes
, 100 boxes soap, 30doz brooms
464 Smithfeld bacon hams
find IN Store,
A hhds st. Croix sugar
so sacks Liverpool fine blown salt
hhds molasses
1000 lbs. bacon (cured by ourselves)
9 puncheons Jam. spirits
pipe Holland gin
kegs gun-powder
2 boxes mems lined and bound shoes
80 bbis of superior old whiskey
80 do oommond do
2 half pipes Peco wine,
Together with their usual RETAIL assert
ment of LIQUORS and GROCERIES,, all
of which will be sold low for cash, or approx.
ed credit.
aug 9 SW
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-11
Mahogany Veneers.

q ElHE subscriber has just received consign.
u ment of Mahogany Yeaeers, sawed in
superior style at the Philadelphia Patent
Steam Saw Mill. He expects to be constant.
" supplied with the various kinds, which will
be sold at the Philadelphia prices. He hopes
that the Cabinet Makers of the town and
country will find it to their advantage to call
and examine the wood and saving, and to
purchase of him. His present stock consists
Of wide and narrow veneers, sideboard door
fronts and bureau fronts, &c. Il
He has also just received a fresh supply Of
fancy baskets. THOMAS MOUNT.
aug s tt
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-11
James G. Barry
HAS Just received by the packet Express
III last evening, fresh supply of
Dt.1, GOODS,

CONSISTING, IN Put, "
London super, super blue and black cloths
and cassimeres
German ticklenburgs, burlaps aud dowlas
Grecian striped muslins and London striped
calicoes
A and "a super ginghams and fancy prints
Book, jaconet, cambria and null muslins
Barrage muslins, new article tor dresses
White and colored linen drillings
Drab everlasting worsted, for gentlemen's
costs
English and French Florentine
Very elegant vest patterns
Mems and women's thread and cotton full
and half hose
Irish linen. linen cambria & brown hollands
"A and Canton Grape shawls
Brown, red and yellow Bandanno hdkfs
White and colored cravats
BLACK silk and tabby velvets
Woodstock, beaver, buckskin, kid and silk
gloves :
Ahandsome assortment ofsilk & gauze hdkfs
White and green figured gauze wells
India bamboo fans Ices
Pink. blue, green, white & lead cold Aoren-
BLACK Italian lustring & black India sarsnet
BLACK twilled bombazett & striped circassian
Cotton ferreting, knitting cotton, spool and
bali wire cotton
RIeacbed. brown and colored domestics
And few cases of mems %, 80 and 50 inch
umbrellas
Ladies' % inch parasols
Do % do fringed, bordered and lined do
with ivory handles. Also, small lot Of
R3J.YYMORE
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-11
capabIeo OF

accommodating from 40 10 50 Horses.
1t is situated between the Market and the
Team-boat Ferry, which renders i decidedly
the most convenient stand for gentlemen CON-
ing from Maryland, as well as for Drovers,
who will always meet with purchasers at the
subscribers Hotel-most of the horses sold in
Alexandria being for the Maryland market.
The stable will be attended by ostlers OF
established sobriety and industry, and will al.
WAYS be provided with provender of the first
quality. The charges shall be as low as any
others in the District, and every exertion made
to please gentlemen who may think proper to
call. VIM. Is. STEWART.
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v0ao 10
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~ Is PUBLISHED ON
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BY SN0WDEN Z THoftNToN,
rr Office at the corner Of Fairfaz-street and
Priaiers' alley.
The SUPPLEMENT- is published on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
The price of the Gazette is five dollars pei
annum, payable in advance, or six dollars at
the end of the year.
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annum. ia adrance.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted three times for one
dollar per Square, and twenty-five centsPe
square for each insertion afterwards. Those
sent without specification of the NUMBER OF
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out, and charged accordingly.
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dering the paper or enclosing advertise
ments
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-11
Old, Cheap and Expedi-
tiOus Route.
AC,

URLaH JENKINS, MASTER,
On the above mentioned route, now running
as follows: Leaves Washington at O'Clock,
and Alexandra at S O'Clock on every Wednes-
day afternoon arrive at Old Point Comfort
and Norfolk the following afternoon leave
Norfolk the next morning at 6 o'clock, and
arrive AZ CITY Point and Richmond on the even
ing of the same day.
ETU RNIN G.,
Will leave Richmond at o'clock on Sunday
morning, touching at City Point, and arrive at
Norfolk the same evening leave Norfolk at
9 o'clock on Monday Morning, touching at
Old Point Comfort, and arrive at Alexandra
and Washington the ext morning, in time tor
passengers to proceed on to Baltimore.
F A r E.
From Washington or Alexandria to Richmond,
(mea,s ;ncluded) $40 90
From Washington or Alexandra to Old Point
or Norfolk, lido. do 80 w
From Washington to all intermediate places
between Alexandria and Old Point or Nor
folk, where passengers can be landed with
convenience. Sc 90
From Washington to Jamestown, 50 90
From Washington to City Point, SO 90
This arrangement cannot fail of giving sa-
tisfaction to the public from its cheapness and
expedition, as well as the great certainty OF
getting through the route, not being subject
to the risk always attendant on one boat wait
ing for, or depending upon, the arrival of ano-
ther belonging to the same line, as in this line
the passengers are conveyed through in the
same boat.
To persons having particular regard to their
own safety and comfort, this-ine has deci'
l. ed preference, as the passage in the Chesa-
peake Bay, the only place of risk, is perform
ed both ways in the day time, in superior
boat, particularly constructed for navigating
said Bay. n. WAIILES, Agent.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-11
COTTON YARN,

at the factory price for cash. Those goods.
with his former stock, renders his assortment
complete, and will certainly be sold low for
money. june 2-tf
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-11
Team-Boat Hotel.

TIME subscriber takes this method of in.
Il forming the public, that he has added to
his establishment
\ large.Xard and Stable,
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-11
Drah Hats

Can be had the fashionable Hat Factory of
EHEDS IN M4AA&9Ats
on King-street. opposite to Messrs. Patton &
Butchers-that are equal to any in the Dis
trict.
GJTwo boys win be taken apprentices to
the hating business. may IL
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26
ROBBERY OF THE MAIL.

Norfolk, July alive learn that a
young lad, employed in the Post Office
at Cabin Point, (Surry County in this
State, has been detected in taking letters
from the mail, between this place and
Petersburg, and purloining money from
them. This discovery and detection
has been effected through the vigil
lance and perseverance of THOMAS
SHORE, Esq. Post Master at Peters
burg. That active and Jealous officer
having been informed that several let
tiers containing money and evidences
thereof, committed to the mail between
Petersburg and this place had not come
to hand, left his Office last week, and
passing through the whole line to this
place, instituted most rigid examina-
ton at every post Office on the route
He arrived here on Sunday morning,
and by some judicious arrangements,
on his return home on Tuesday, fixed
the guilt on young lad at Cabin Point
and had him taken into custody.
We have heard some further parti-
culars, with the name of the boy, but
not being confident Of their correctness,
and expecting to receive by to-mor-
rows mail from Petersburg, a more
particular and accurate statement, we
forbear further notice at present.
Beacon.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26
Negroes for Sale.

QY virtue of an order of the Orphans Court
IL Of Charles County,I will sell at Public
Sale, in Port Tobacco, on Tuesday the 10th
day Of august nert, a valuable parcel of ne.
groes, of various ages and sexes, about thirty
in number, and late the property Of DR.. Saml.
Hanson, Senr. deceased and on the follow
ing day, the 18th of August next, will sell
at Public Sale, at Humphrey Coley's Black
smith Shop, in Nanjemoy, the residue of the
personal property ofthe said DR.. Samuel Han
son, Senr. consisting of
Household and Kitchen Furniture,
Books, Stock and Plantation Utensils. Terms
Of Sale, credit of six months, the purchaser
to give bond with approved security, bearing
interest from the day of sale.
WM. ID, MERRICK, Admr. I
iuly 26-ts
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26

Mr.. Barclay, and it is understood that
ne intends taking some astronomical
observations at that place.
FROM THE UPPER LAKES.
We learn from Major Baker, and the
officers OF this post, who returned in
the John Q. Adams, from attending a
court martial at the Sault, that seven
Chippeway Indians, who were concern
ed in the murder of our citizens on the
Lake Pepin last summer, have been de-
livered up to the commanding officer
Of the former place, by the chiefs of
that nation, and that they have been
sent to Mackinac for trial. The TAX
ing of the white fish, had commenced
at the Sault before the officers left there.
In speaking of this fishery, Henry the
traveller, observes that " the fish are
crowded together in the water in great
numbers, and a skilfu. fisherman in
autumn, will take five hundred in two
hours. This fishery is of great mo-
ment to the surrounding Indians, whom
it supplies with large proportion of
their winters provisions"
MIR. Schoolcraft, in his Narrative
Journal, says, these fish are prefer
red by many of our party to the Mack
mac trout.-Their abundance may
hereafter render them an important ar
ticle in the commerce OF the upper
lakes.
Arrived at Quebec on the 10th July
inst. ship Moffitt, burthen S2l tons,
with 900 chests tea, and on the It'll,
ship Juliana, 64s tons, with 1000 chests
tea. Both of these ships left Canton
on the 9th February last, and arrived
at Quebec within twelve hours of each
other, consigned by the East India
Company 10 Forsyth, Richardson &
Co. of Montreal. The above ships
being the first vessels which ever ar
rived at Quebec from Canton, and the
first tea ever imported into the Cana
das, caused considerable excitement at
Quebec.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26
BOUNDARY LINE.

Detroit, July l2.-Messrs. Ferguson
and Whistler, of the American Com
mission under the 9TH article OF the
treaty of Client, arrived in this city in
the John Q. Adams, from the Sault de
Ste. Marie, having finished the survey
of the unfinished section of St. Mary's
river. The British party have pro-
ceeded to the Fond du Lac, and will
examine the river St. Louis. MIR. Bar
clay the British Commissioner, will
proceed to the Lake of the Woods, for
purposes unconnected with his public
duties. DR.. Tiarks will accompany
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26

announced that the Court had decided
that it would be improper to allow the
protest to accompany the interrogato-
ries to MIR. Monroe, but that ii might
be annexed to the records.
The interrogatories were then copied
and despatched, we believe, by spe-
cial messenger, to Mr.. Monroe.
The Judge Advocate then proceeded
to read the following letters, in sup
port Of the first specification.
A letter from Commodore Porter to
the Secretary of the Navy, dated 3oth
January, 1925.
A letter from do. to do. dated 10th
March, 1925.
A letter from do. to do. dated 18th
April, 1925.
A letter from do. to do. dated 25th
June, 1925.
The Judge Advocate then proceeded
to read the following documents in
support of the second specification:
a pamphlet published by Commo-
dore Porter, containing the proceed
ings before the Court Of Inquiry, and
the defence which he had intended to
make before the Court. The publica-
ton of this pamphlet was admitted.
A letter from Commodore Porter to
the Secretary of the Navy, dated (by
mistake) May ., 1925, (instead Of June
2, 1925, the time when the letter was
actually written, as appeared by Com
modore Porter's Journal, which was
sent, together with a copy of the pam
phlet, to the Secretary Of the Navy.
The reading of the pamphlet occu-
pied the Court until O'clock.
The Court then adjourned until to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock.
National Journal.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26

NeW- York July 23-The Dutch cor
vette Eagle, 1t. Machielson, arrived at
this port yesterday from Amsterdam,
by way of Madeira, having on board
the Minister from Holland, his lady
and two daughters. The frigate an
chored off the Battery about o'clock
in the afternoon, and exchanged sa-
lule with the Fort at Governors Isl
and
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26
COURT MARTIAL.

SoOhI MAN AlhL.
fourteenth Day-Friday July %.
The Court met at 10 o'clock.
Mr.. Boyle, Clerk in the Navy De.
partment, appeared with the original
letters, and certified copies, which were
intended to be produced by the Judge
Advocate, in support of the prosecu'
ton.
Mr.. Boyle, being swoyR by the Pre-.
sident of the Court, madBAath, that he
had, with the aid of another Clerk in
the Navy Department, examined and
compared the copies certified, with the
original letters, by looking over the CO.
pies while the other Clerk read the o.
riginals, and that he had carefully cor
rected any deviations which he had no.
ticed.
The Counsel for the accused re-
quested lis, o. the letters, but it was
decided by the Court to be unnecessary,
as they would be read in evidence.
The Counsel for the accused pre-
sented his cross heterogeneous, to &C
company the interrogatories, Of the
Judge Advocate, to MIR. Monroe. Pre-
fixed to these cross-interrogatories was
a protest against the legality ofthe pro-
ceeding altogether, and the claim of a
right hereafter to object more formally
to the legality Of the commission.
The Court was then cleared to delibe-
rate whether the protest attached to
the interrogatories should be trans
mitted to Mr.. Monroe with the inter-
rogatories, or should be merely filed
with the records Of the Court.
The doors being re-opened, it was
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26

YNfIAT the subscriber hath obtained from the
l. orphans court of Charles county, in Mary
land, letters Of administration on the person.
al estate of Dr. Samuel Hanson, late of Charles
county deceased: All persons having claims
against the said deceased are hereby warned
to exhibit the same, with the vouchers there
of to the subscriber, on or before the 3lst day
OF January next, they may otherwise, by law,
be excluded from all benefit of the said es.
tate. Given under my hand this 22d day of
July, 1926. WIN. ID. MERRICK.
July 70 laW3t
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26

1t is with no common feeling Of re-
greet that we announce the death, by
drowning, of our esteemed and respect
ed fellow-citizen DAVID SHoEMAKAR,
who has for the last thirty years been
faithful public servant as Clerk in
the General Post Office; who was a
patriot and soldier Of the Revolution,
and had reached his Gath year. Sc
duced by the extreme heat OF the
weather, he went to battle in the Poto-
mac at S or o'clock on Thursday C.
vening, and had swan some forty yards
into the river, when persons bathing not
far from him discovered that he was
missing, and that his clothes were ly-
ing on the beach, guarded by his faith
full dog. The river was dragged in
vain search for the body that evening
and night. Yesterday morning, how
ever, it was discovered, and delivered
to his'disconsolale family. 1t is sup
posed he was seizedswith a species of
chill or paralysis to which he was oc-
casionally subject. ID.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26
SHIP NEWS.
Port Of Alexandria.

SAILED,
Miy23-Brig Washington, Jordan, Boston.
Brig Traveller, Smalley, Barbados.
Schnr. Celia, Fuller, Barbados.
Sloop Brothers, Moffitt, Baltimore.
ARRIVED,
JULY 24-Schr. Washington Packet, Shove,
Providence, 10 days; ballast to A. C. Gaze
move & Co.
sloop Flora, Briggs, Newbedford, 10 ds'
nails to J. w. Masse.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26

your great talents and high character.
Iremain with the highest respect and
consideration, your Excellency's most
obedient servant,
T.P. ANDREWS, Special Agent.
To His Elk. GEO. M. TRoup,
Governor of Georgia, Milledgeville.