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LIST OF LETTERS


MARcE
Persons calling for Letter
neatlon it.
a
William Alrich 3
Parker Askew
Capt Charles Allen
B
William Baxter
Ezekiel Bailey
Caleb Brenton
Henry Brackin jr
Bishop Bratlen
john Bricket
MIR Bennett
Ann Bowles
Jacob P Broom
DIR. John Barber
t S Bowers
Robert Battersby
John Blggs
Harrison s. Bullen
William Bracken
David Bries
Ebenezer w. BohonoD
Deborah Barnes
James Bird
Norman Beckley
John Boweler
John Ball
John Burne
Thomas Babb
Mrs--formerly Miss Baker
Capt Stephen Brown
William Bcarard
Ann E. Byrnes
William Bowers
Capt James Bennett
Jacob Brown
C.
William Crothers
Ann Clark
Mary Close or Kunckle
McCalvln Cowan
Rachel Cummins
William A Cochran
J ,seph Carr
James Cislow
Hugh Crea
William Clarke
Jonathan Colwell
John b Cannon
Ann Colwell
Jesse Chandler
James Cam
rick Callaghan
joan Carroll
sarah Chandler
Alexs der Campbell
BenjamiA. Chandler
Rufus Carr
! sl,ua Chandler
Sam q! Carpneil
Margaret Carter
| aroline Nj Chandler
J ] -iah Cooper
.ienry Crilly
James Cloud
George Downing
Benjamin Day
Mathew Draper
Judey Davis
Sarah Dickinson
Thomas Dixon Jr
Alexander Dirken
Joseph Dehler
Henrietta Day
Jos or Rob't Dennesson-
j. hn Donaldson
John Dunn 9
Henry Dobson
z
William Elliott
Lewis C England
Joseph R EsslbuTr
Capt Chas ID Ellis
J Eglee
r
Thomas Fry
Mary Foster
Cochran Forbes
Daniel Fox
William Ford
Thomas Finley
Thomas Fox
Charles Ferguson
C.
Ephraim Green
James Green
Joseph Garrett
Misses Galway
Vincent Gilpin
Robert Galbreath
Jesse Cause 9
Susannab Griffing
Mary Grave
Il II
|. James Haddock
Thomas Hawkins
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10

for the future greater caution will be used and
sounder principles be acted upon than those by
which much Of the business Of late years has
been distinguished We are informed that the
stock of Cotton Twist and goods on the Cont.
nent are moderate; but as the commercial en-
barrassments are there also general, some de-
lay must necessarily take place in furnishing
funds and making arrangements for future bu-
siness, and for the remainder OF this year much
Of what is done will be either for ready money
or upon very short credit.
There Is very moderate demand for turpen.
tine, low as the prices are the distiers are an-
willing to dispose oft atss to los per cwt. The
stockof tar is not large but the prices oft are re.
duced to lsalls cd per bbl for Carolina, and
las a IS for Virginia. The stock of Carolina
rice in this market is still small, and it now
sells at 6s Dis per cwt Tobaccos are in IL
mited request, and now sell at Cd I'd per ID.
according to quality, and here and in London
the stocks amount to 347S5 hhds. There has
been Jess decline in the value of grain in this
country in the last four months than of.any 9th
er article, and as the principal corn markets
have been rather under than over supplied, it
is inferred the stocks in this country are barely
sufficient for the consumption. Wheat for
home use now sells at IS los per 20 ID. Ca
madam Is Cd a SIS 4d. Wheat in bond at IS Cd
As per 70 Id. Superiine -four in bond 2ls
24s, and sour IS Us per bbI. The average
price of wheat for the week ending the 18th iu
slant was SOS I'D per Or.
Dyewoods are still in very limited request,
and the stocks arc large; Campeachy loewood
Is los II; Jamaica Is l5s Is IS; Cuba fuslic
Is to Is los; Nicaragua Wood 81 b2 per ton.
Indigo has still further declined, and now sells
at IS cd a IS per Id. according to quality. Bue-
nos Ayres hides "a loa per lb. Horse hides
IS Cd to As Cd each. North American sailed
hides 81 per ID. The premium o. insurance
from and to the United States, in American and
British ships, is lis cd 3os per cent. Bank
shares are quoted in London at 10 IS rs
each; United States skies SO 10 go. Foreign
gold, in bars reduced to standard, us cd. Dol
lars AS Gid per ounce.
With much resl"ct, we remain your very
-obedient servants,
BOLTON, OGDEN * co.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10
METEOR.

Mw.Y York. June 6.-Last evening, at MI
nutss past II ocOck an ezhaa'lGn o. il ua'I I;ne
mon splendor passed over h. ' ,ur;,s. ~ this was
sssr. si' BY to the sudden glare the
pavement like broad sunshine, and u the s,ngu
lar motion of his shadow in II, and looking up p.
, m~ saw the CLEAN Of its course fading
in = northern direction. The night was re-
IN m,rkaSIv cool, the thermometer having fallen
from 81 to II the day preceding, the n1d ~ auG
- .;ons If heat or lightning in the atmosphere
No Nearly sfg. minute after fash in the northwest est
Illuminating the clouds beneath them, and iol-
lowed by report, was perceived BY the wHm,
If the meteor. or "great red streak" as 1t was
termed by an affrigbted woman who ran across
the street to enquire what it was-of which we
shall probably hear some further account IN
its descent or disappearance whether as al
sroi.e or less substantial yapour. n
Statesman.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10
Prices of Produce in alexandria yesterday:
Tobacco and Snuff Store.
John w LOGAN.

ID RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and custom.
IL generally, that he has hand at his Store,
FIRST QH4LI7'Y CHEWING TOBACCO
warranted to be superior any in the District Also,
Superior ladies' twist lst quality small do, Gray Pan.
keys celebrated brand. Also-SuperGne yellow and
brown SEGARS, manufactured from the best Havana
tobacco in whole, half and quarter boxcs-2d quality
do do do-lst and I'd quait, half Spanish do-do do
common do, made of perior tobacco.
.qlso-A general assortment of LIST quality SNUFFS Of
Martinique
Natchtoches
Loillard's Maccaboy, in bottles and jars
Coarse and fine Rappee
CARROTS Scotch, in bottles and bladders
Leiper's do do do
Also, a complete assortment Of SNUFF BOXES
which he offers, at wholesale retail low can be
had at any other establishment in the District Coun
try dealers and others wishing articles in his line, will
find it to their advantage to favor him with call at his
store next door to Tylers Lottery Office, King street,
Alexandria
n u. Tickets in the various lotteries will be kept
constantly for SALE June lO-3m
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10
From Coleridge's Six months in the West Indies
MODE OF DRESSING A TURTLE.

1t is commonly, but | appprehend, hastily
said, that turtle is eaten in greater perfection in
England than in the West Indies The cookery,
| confess, is more studied aud elaborate, more
science is shown i'll the anatomy, and superior
elegance in the dishing. Besides, il is great
er rarity, and its visits, few and far between,
leave something of an angelic smack upon the
palate of a worthy recipient in England. But
setting aside this last advantage or rather just
" esteeming plenty blessing, man of unpre-
JUDGED appetite will have no difficulty IN decid-
ing in favor of the consumption OF turtle on
the SPOT of its birth. The nature OF this line
animal is not understood by European cooks;
they distrust the genuine SAVIOUR, and all but an
nihllate il BY bilious additamen,s Of their own
composition. The punch too, though pleasure
able per SC, is drunk so largely to wash out all
remembrance, all rumina,ion Of the past, and
have seen some persons so grossly ignorant as
to drink once or twice before they have finished
their soup. This should not be. A single lime
is sufficient; squeeze it and cut it in slices after
wards over the various regions OF your plate.
The soup should be served up in capacious
tin shell, and should always be well lined inside
with thin crust of pastry; the worst conse-
Quences NAV follow upon the neglect OF this
IdlleT pdru"uidr, lot tuc ii"o' oSSH"'SS i"nN
warm, tenuous and watery, by immediate con-
tact with ware or metal. In England have al
WAYS found crassitude, pinguednous gravi-
ty in the meat, which makes one repent the
having eaten it: il enervates the body with sort
Of dry drunkenness.
Atque afaigt huma divins Particular a"rs.
In the West Indies turtle is generous food
certainly, bu, honest and unsophisIicated; it adj
ministers in short space that nourlshmen'
which the greater exhaustion OF the system re-
euires, and there is a freshness and regency IN
it, which quickens the palate aid invisorates The
organs of TASTE A, a dinner in England, II
must be, as they say and do in the city, turtle
once and turtle throughout; man indeed has
no heart or appetite for any thing else after so
much acid punch and morbio soup as IS ao-
sorbed there. In the West Indies turtle Is
gentle alarum, as from silver trumpet blown:
it is the proparasceve Of Our manducatory ener-
gies, the regretted prophagomenon OF Apiei"s'
glass Of Madeira (it should be .SercIal, II pos
sibe) is the bes, thing after this soup; the wine
flows in kindly stream ofcoalesence win wat
has been eaten before, and harmon'ses with
what is @ follow; lime punch creates DIS
countenance. as the lawyers say, md IN effect
spoils your dinner.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10
ANTIQUITIES OF OHIO.

One of the Ohio Journals contains the ioi-
lowing description, in letter from acorrespoh'
dent, Of curious relic of antiquity IN that sta,e'
AS mentioned in my last, descended the
Ohio, with an intention &c visit large groupe
of antiquities, concerning which, had heard
and read MANY things. found them situated
on the eastern side OF the river, and nearly hall
a mile from its bank. The valley which con-
tains them is about two miles square, shut In
above and below, by high hills, projecting close
TO the river. Two considerable creeks dis
charge their streams into The river, in this val
lev. They are both called Craze Creek. They
were SO named from the great number Of graves
which the valley contains.
The Notifications, as they are called in this
place, extend over considerable space Of
ground, and are Of different dimensions and n
cures. Among these are several small mounds
or graves, from eight 10 twelve feet high. The
walls of the forts, are but few feet in height,
and in some places so far demolished as to be
scarcely visible. By opening these lesser
mounds, it confirmed the opinion that they con-
tain vast numbers Of human skeletons 10
whatever other purposes they may have been
applied, by those who made them, they were
common repositories Of their dead.
But the greatest curiosity here, ana that
which, in most instances, exclusively attracts
the notice Of travellers, is what is called the
"Great Grave" This is solitary pyramid
standing some distance from the lesser mounds
and forts. Its dimensions are really great and
imposing. The circumference of its base is
three hundred yards, the diameter, OF course,
one hundred Its altitude about seventy feet,
some say more. The diameter, at the top, is
forty-five feet! The side and top OF this pyra.
mid are covered, like the surrounding woods,
with trees of all ages and sizes. do not recol-
lect that any Of the Russian mounds, are near
so large as this. AS approached this august
tomb, and saw its vast size; through the forest
trees, felt reverence for the memory OF those
by whose hands it was erected, and who have
left it, as one Of the greatest monuments OF
their existence.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10
CLIMAX OF BLUNDERS.

In the debate on the leather tax, in 1895, in
the Irish House Of Commons, the Chancellor
of the Excheque,, (Sir John Parnell,) observed,
with great emphasis-"that in the prosecution
of the present war, every man ought 10 give his
last guinea to protect the remainder.
Mr.. vandelure said, that "however that might
be, the tax on leather would be severely Jet by
the 6arsfoOted peasantry OF Ireland
To which Sir Roach Boyle replied, that this
could be easily remedied-by making the under
feathers of rood"
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10
GEO. s. HOUGH

HAs received from Philadelphia and is opening.
4 in addition to his early spring supply, very
Handsome assortment of Desirable Goods, riz -
A few pieces super black and ctron brown cloth
Single drab and blue cassmeres
Extra super drab and mixed vigonia for coats
Striped and plain unbleached and white drilling
Regent and Russia ditto
Black twPd circassan, (some fne)
Best and common blue and yellow nankns
Super fancy and white Marseilles vestng
Irish linens, long lawns, and linen cambria
Brown Irish linens, stout and fine
Gnghams, Grecian stripes and jackonet cambrcs
Striped and twill'd stuffs for boys
An excellent assortment of mems plain and ribbed
long and short hose, womens and girls do
Swiss mlslins, jackonet do
Tainboured Swiss hdks, book do
Swiss tamboured cap patterns for ladies
large assortment of mems and women's gloves
White and colored silk and gauze fancy hdkfs
Plain white merno shawls Cheap
Colored lustrng & Denmark satteens for pantaioons
Best and common black Italian lustrng
Colorcd horences and striped silks for dresses
case silk umbrellas
do parasols, fashionable brown and green
Black drab and orange rattinet for coach makers
Green silk for umbrellas, children's kid gloves
Oil cloth, SCHOOLGIRLS real gauze hannels
Floss and sewing cotton on spools
Superior knitting cotton, No 10 to, So
Printed bed spreads, suitable for taverns or steam
boats
Ccored patent threads
A few superior style suspenders
Bleached and brown Russia sheetings
Best and common ticklenburgs
Is pieces "a and A. real NANKIN STRAW MAT
TING, of 5. Archer's importation
Which with his stock on hand, renders his assortment
of Dry Goods complete 6moS
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10
SIEGE OF vALENCiA,-Br Mus. HrxAss.

SIEGE OF VALENCiA,-Br Mns. HENASs
Hho dies in vain
Upon his country war-felds, and within
The shadow of her affairs! Feeble heart!
I tell thee that the voice of noble blood,
Thus pour'd for faith and freedom, hath tone
Which from the night of ages, from the gulf
Of death, shall burst, and make its high appeal
Sound unto earth and heaven! Aye, let the land
Whose sons, thro' centuries of woe, have striven
And perish'd by her temples. sink while
Borne downin conflict But immortal seed,
Deep, by heroic suffering. hath been sown
On all her ancient hills, and generous hope
Knows that the soil, in its good time, shall yet
Bring forth glorious harvest! Earth receives
Not one red drop, from faithful hearts, in vain"
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10
Augustine J Smith. Jr.

ID EING about 10 locate himself in Clarksburg, Har
Id rison County, Va. for the purpose Of practising
Law, takes this method of informing his friends, that
he will attend to any business which may be entrusted
to his Management, in the United States Court held at
Clarksburg, and the Superior Court of Chancery and
that he means TO attend the Superior and Inferior
Courts of the Counties Of HARRISON Randolph, Pendle
ton Preston and Wood. June y-2aw2w
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10
TEMPLE OF DIANA.

The temple OF Diana al Ephesus, alter nav
ine risen with increasing splendour from seven
repeated misfortunes, was finally burnt by the
Cloths in their third naval invasion. The arts
Of Greece, and the wealth Of Asia, had conspir-
ed to erect that sacred and magnificent struc-
tue 1T was supported by an hundred and 81
marble columns of The Ionic order. They were
the gifts Of devout monarchs, and each was Six
~ feet high The altar was adorned with the
mastery sculptures Of Praxitelcs, who had, per-
haps, selected from the favorite legends of the
place the birth Of the divine children Of Latona,
the concealmenl Of Apollo after the slaughter
Of the Cyclops, and the clemency OF Racchus to
the vanquished Amazons. Yet the length Of
the temple Of Ephesus was only four hundred s
twenty-five feet, about twothirds Of the mea-
sure Of the churchof ST. Peters at Rome. In
The other dimensions, il was still more inferior
to that sublime production of modern architec-
ture. The spreading arms Of christian cross
require a much greater breadth than the oblong
temples of the Pagans; and the boldest artists
Of antiquity would have been startled at the pro-
posal ofraising in the air dome of the size *
proportions of the Pantheon. The Temple of
Diana was, however, admired as one Of the
wonders Of The World. Successive empires,
the Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman,
had revered its sanctity, and enriched its SPLEEN
dour.
THE LIONS PROVIDER,
TWAS Generally supposed that Thurlow in
early life was idle, but l always found him close
at study in a morning, when ! have called al
the Temple; and he frequently went no further
in an evening than Nando's and then only in his
dishabiIle When Chancellor, he made great
use Of the services OF Mr.. Hargrave, and had
occasion 10 give himselfless trouble than any
man that ever filled that high station. An old
frees speaking companion of his, we'll known at
Lncoln's Inn, would sometimes say to me, 81
met the great law-lon this morning going to
Westminster, and bowed to him, but he was so
busily reading in the coach, what his provider
supplied him with, that he took no notice OF
me-" Cradock's Memoirs.
I'm old fashioned Marriage Portion.
John Hull, who was one of the first founders Of
the Old South Church, capt, Of Anc. and Hon.
Artillery, a Representative Of The town. and in
| $3.50 an Assistant, was a man of wealth. A
daughter of his was married 10 Major Samuel
Sewail. AS usual in those days, the father was
expected to give his daughter marriage por-
ton $50 father Hull, after his daughter was
completely, and richly too, dressed and pre-
pared for the ceremony, caused her TO be put In
to one side of large pair Of scales, in the pre-
sence of her friends, and then piled on dollars
and crowns, silver money, until they weighed
her down" Report says she was plump; hear
tv girl.-This must have been fat marriage
portion in those days Boston Ne,cs Letter.
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-10
POETRY.
SUICIDE.

Mr.. THOMAS SMITH, Printer, aged %, drown
ed himself in the river Don, U. L. on the 27th
uk. The York Advocate gives very affecting
detail ofthe circumstances attending this unior-
tunate affair, from which we make the following
extract:-
"Mrs. Sparks, the mother of the boys who
first gave the alarm, noticed as ne passed their
boa, on the beach, that he was weeping; ne Ire
quently put his hands to his head, stopped Int
tie while, and again went on, looking earnestly
at the water The boys, who were farther down
the bay, also observed that he cried aloud, as it
in deep distress, and that his eyes were liked
Upon the water in the bay. When he came to
the largest bridge over the river Don, the boys
saw that he took out his handkerchief and wiped
his face. He passed the bridge, continued his
walk towards the margin of the great lake, re-
turned and continued 10 weep and lament, stand
ing OH the bridge: the boys did not like to look
up, o. else they were otherwise employed Tor
little while, and il was only when they heard the
plunge and observed his head in the water, that
they ran and alarmed their father. The Don at
the bridge, is perhaps or 10 feet deep, and the
boys say that he sunk and rose several times In
the water, but never cried for assistance, nor
tried to save himself. He rubbed his face with
his hands, while visible; tried to slacken his
handkerchief, and then sunk to the bottom.
IMPRoMPTU.
"who may understand
Thy many woes, poor suicide unknown
He who thy being gave shall judge ofthee alone"
Campbell.
Scarce did the look Of manhood rest
Upon his youthful eye,
(That season when the human breast
Is aptto beat most high,)
When a dark gloom o'erspread his cheek,
And grief dwelt on his brow;
But of his pain he could not speak,
Though it should lay him low:
But oft he sought the tranquil shade,
And wept the change which time had made;
And often was he seen to rove.
Alone in some sequester'd grove.
He rambled BY the silver Don,
And gaz'd upon its tranquil wave;
And then he wept to look upon
The spot, so soon to be his grave.
He wept; and gazing on the stream
Which mov'd in sadness past the shore,
As one bewilder'd in dream,
He sprang-and sunk-and all was DER!
Some, near the spot, beheld the wave
Form for his corse an early grave;
They saw gloom the tide o'ercast,
And heard groan-it was his last!
All! who can tell the griefwhch dwelt
Within his aching troubled breast
Or tell the deep distress he felt,
When thus he sought to be at rest
All! who can tell the tears he shed'-
The pangs of sorrow which he knew
Ortell why thus his bosom bled,
To bid lfe's troubling scenes adieu'
All! there are none on earth can tell
Why thus he babe the world farewell;
But all, as they beheld his bier,
Yielded the tribute of tear
Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-10-07

unfortunate ycung nan. | shah 20 to
the municipality snd declare Mat ne
has committed suicide ;and as he will
not be allowed 20 be inferred in conse-
Grated gronnd, I shah have grave
made for him 10 the Park. This was
accordingly done, NJ. Bruand 6rsx taxi
ing care to pat 4uant;ty cfSuick lime
ints The conn with the body, in order
to obii,erate an traces u the crime
Whes 10 consequence Of the public4
rumour, tire coffin was afterwards Ia
ken UP and opened, 1t was found that
the kme had consumed all but the heart
Aftec an ex ansiuation Of this, the ply
sicians we're Of opinion that from the
depth Of the wound, and its direction
Il was impossible 1t could have been
the result Of a suicide. On M Brsand
learning this opinion. he wrote a letter
in which he avowed the crime bat with
out expressing any remorse for it, and
then blew his brains ont with pistol,
into which he had put three balls.