Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-01-03
MsEylEaE. q. .SSJsD2IAs
TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3. 1925

We enter to-day upon the second years ex.
istence Of the PHENIx GAZETTE, circumstance
which should have passed by without remark
but for an expensive improvement, necessarily
involving new contract with our town SUBJ
scribers. Those in the country will be benefit.
ted by the change, without mourning additional
expense; to them, therefore, we need not adj
dress ourselves, further than to assure them
that no efforts shall be wanting, on our part, to
render the connection between US mutually ad-
vantageous.
In the commencement Of our career, we an.
nounced the intention of publishing daily pa.
per as soon as prudence would authorize the
undertaking. We think the time has arrived
when we can do SO safely, and for the present
year shall try the experiment-pledging our.
selves, in any event, not to discontinue it dur
ingth period.
An increase Of labor and expense consequent
Iy requires an increase of compensation: this we
have made as light as the nature of the case
would admit OF, having determined on an addi-
ton Of three dollars ouIy to the former snbscrip-
ton, with proportionate advance upon yearly
advertisements.
We have assumed this arduous duty, under a
full conviction that the town stood in need of a
Daily Paper, and that our attempt TO establish
one would meet with general appropriations; We
trust we shall not be disappointed; but at the
same time, we neither solicit nor wish the pa.
tronage Of any, who do not think our services
equivalent to our pay.
If the following account, from the New York
Evening Post, Of the maltreatment of American
citizens at Havana, be founded on facts, there
must have been great culpability in some Of the
Executive branches of our Government. We
trust that immediate attention will be given to
tional character be forthwith wiped off, either
by proving its falsehood or calling the authori-
ties of Havana to an account for their inhuma-
nifty. Delay in such cases invites repetition
eve have been informed" says the Post,
by gentleman recently arrived from the Ha-
vana, and authorised and desired BY him to state
to the public, that there are now confined in the
Havana prison, four American seamen, the sur
vivors Of crew of nine, all the rest having per.
ished in the dungeon, and this is the third year
of their confinement. This American crew were
arrested and imprisoned on a charge of having
put to death Spanish sailor, but they have nei-
Their been brought to trial, or had an opportu-
nifty to make their defence. They have been
confined ever since in most abominable and
filthy place, in the same room, and it is SIM
gle one, with about $50 criminals Of all sorts
and compilations, without decent clothing or
wholesome or sufficient food Yes: these men
are American cilizens, and in their Infamous
treatment, the Spanish authorities openly insult
our country, and they do it with impunity. But
is there no American Consul in the Havana,
who has intelligence and spirit enough to in
terfere in their behalf? There is not. The au.
thorities there have acknowledged French
Consul, but have refused to acknowledge one
from the United States. The humiliatng truth
S"""o' w oShiSu, anu ulsSTaCc covers OUT uaIlc
abroad.
Itappears that there are balances in the Uni.
ted States Treasury in favor of different inii.
viduals, to upwards of 100000. Mr.. Liv-
lngston !" Congress lately moved TO have the
list published for the benefit OF the owners of
the mercy. TWAS opposed on the ground, that
by mar ing ii public, spectators would buy mp to
the mJu', Of the claimants This money has
been lying there four years-and we think il
much more likely that spectators at The south
have had an opportunity already to purchase
them in, and will have monopoly too-if the
list be not published. Thi, excuse is fallaeious
perfectly So We suspect that the balance is
in the hands of some Banking institution at
washington and that the idea of accounting
Tor 1t is very unpleasant. Mr. Livingston can
not do better than pursue the subject for the
sake OF the unfortunate individuals who are
kept in ignorance of their rights
The above hurting, we had almost said, stu.
pid article, is from the Albany Patriot. How
the editor will go about proving that southern
spectators any more than northern speculafoys
have already had an opportunity Of monopoiiz-
ing these unclaimed dividends, we are at loss
to imagine. Washington is as convenient to the
north as 10 the soufb and sna.,I.,.. r.. -.