Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-25
GENERAL SUMMARY.

T-Trgina.-A general meeting of delegates
from the several counties of the common
wealth, is called to consider the best mode OF
completing the union ofthe Eastern and Wes-
tern waters of the state by canals and roads -
The meetieg will take place at Fincastle on
the 10Th of November.
Surveys of the Louisville Canal have been
completed, and the cost is estimated at
$4,000. Several companies have offered
TO take the work at this estimate.
A proposition is made in Philadelphia, by
Messrs. John Haviland and p. A. Brown, to
build an Arcade on the ground occupied by
Chief Justice Tilghman, fronting on Chestnut
street, between Sixth and Seventh streets,
109 feet wide and $50 deep. The expense is
estimated at $4,000 to be divided into
shares of 500 each. The apartments it is
calculated, will yield an annual income $685.
600, being upwards of II per cent. The
books re to be opened tomorrow at 9o'clock
"Last, best gif."-A reprint of an old
work is spoken of, entitled paradox respect
ing women, or an attempt to prove that they
do not belong to the human species. Trans
lated from the Latin of Acidalins by Charles
Clapies, physician; Paris, 1867" Such work
would indeed be ga curiosity"
A porter, a colored man, in Gridley's Ho-
tel at Newburgh, New-York, in returning
from OH board the steamboat Constitution, at
8 O'Clock on Wednesday evening, with
trunk upon his shoulder, stepped oHthe plank,
was stunned BY the fall and sunk. The trunk
foated and was saved, but the porter was lost.
Application will be made to the next leSis-
lature of New-York to incorp. crate an associa-
ton with capital of $40, 900, for the purpose
of erecting an extensive house for public tn
tertainment or the summit of the mountain in
the Highlands, called Antonie's Nose, with
turnpike leading from the Hudson river to the
same.
1t is estimated that there are 100, 1000 sheep
in the single county of Washington, in Penn
sylvania, and that they last year yielded, AGO.
900 lbs of wool. Another rough estimate
makes the whole number ofsheep in that state
about 100000.
The citizens of Brooklyn, Long Island, have
held meeting to consult on the propriety OF
erecting Brooklyn into city, and Of apply
ing to the Legislature to grant an act ofincor-
poration. The place contains nine thousand
inhabitants.
The London and Portsmouth ship canal is
soon to be commenced. 1t is to be navigable
for ships of the line and the largest lndiamen,
to be towed by steamboats,, which are to go
from London to Spithead in IL hours. Lang
ston is to be deepened for their reception
The estimated expense is four millions OF
pounds, and is to be subscribedfor in 10000
shares ofl00 pounds each.
Flagg & Gould of Andover, have just pub
lished and offer for sale, a Greek and English
Lexicon of the New Testament, from the 'Cla-
Wis Pathological of c. A. VAIL, by Edward
Robinson, Assistant Instructor in the depart
ment of Sacred Literature, Theological Semi
nary, Andover.
The US. Commissioners have reported IA
yorably of a canal communication between the
head waters of the Connecticut and the river
St. Lawrence, near Quebec.
The Western Herald attributes the relln-
ouishment on the part of the Governor Of Geor-
gia, of his determination to complete the sur
vey of the Indian lands, to the patriotick and
perseyering exertions of the Hon. William I'll.
Crawford, to whom it gives the credit OF pre-