Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-08-29
From The Rhode Island American.

he lhEO, Ao L ~ NEN -, exc.
The mails of this week from Boston and New
York, have brought accounts Of foreign arrivals,
in numbers sufficient TO make up for the search
ty which has been felt for some time past. The
papers are accordingly Profusely supplied from
foreign Journals.
Whether the editorial famine, which is so
prevalent through the country, will be perma-
nently alleviated.by these succorS, is unfortun-
ately TOO questionable, as they are poured so ST.
multaneously upon such a thirsty expanse, that
they must be rapidly exhausted.
There is, too, but little body in the materials
of the supply, nothing TO wire draw, TO dilate
upon, to hold up in this light and the other, and
nv point of view they are dull and interesting,
aud all their super6ees are Fat.
The arrivals, however, are happy for our i'm
mediate exigencies. Though they have brought
little news Of political or commercial import
ance, they furnish variety of interesting mis-
cellany And readers of newspapers, as we'll as
editors, may congratulate themselves that they
have something else besides domestic and local
incidents, on which, for the moment, 10 exert
their attention and calling.
The dearth OF news has been so great, and
has lasted so long, that, as in other dear,hs, ne
cessity has compelled a resort to substitutes
which would be disdained in times of plenty,
and, but for an occasional incident like the one
which in gratitude we are now commemorative,
it is not easy 10 conceive the distress which
would have ensued, or yet may, if casualty
should deprive US of such occasional benefits
hereafter.
Imitation news, anew article) has prospect
Of being as Indispensable as was imitation tea
In the revolution, or domestic coffee during the
late glorious war; or as any other limitations Of
indispensable articles are, where the genuine
are totally out of the question.
The secret OF the manufacture, however, it
will not be expected, should be disclosed 10 the
public; it is one ofthe arcana which can only be
known TO the initiated But things are now at
such pass, that nothing happens as il used to
when those were boys who are hardly yet men.
Cucumbers in Virginia are six feet long, and
still growing at the rate Of twenty-six inches
the week, and when next heard of will be tres
passers upon the territory of a neighboring
State. Turnips assume the similitude of men;
and wonders, we are informed by every mall as
astonishing as many which took place during
the siege and destruction Of Jerusalem, are dali
ly occurrences. among US. Raisyin Warren, al
most surpass rats even in Providence--one here.
it perhaps may be remembered, escaped, but
left his skin-there they KIOSK out the bungs OF
terces, Fill their skins with rnolasses, and trans
port the whole in safety. If the turnip has the
appearance, yetthe rats possess the sagacity Of
men, and no ordinary men either, bur official
men, who sometimes supply their own necessi,
ties out Of the superabun6ance OF Others, and
that without any other consideration than the
exercise Of their own cunning.
Droughts too, now, are not the droughts OF
modern days, they are the droughts OF the days
oil the prophets when it rained not for three
years and six months; in South Carolina, ira.
veiier iound no water for his horse in fourteen
miles, .nough he sought it diligently, no doubt
ana Win tears, unless those kind relieyers Of