Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-09-30
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~ MORNING, SEPTEMBER 80, 1896

l,;ees to the lotn u'''
au don't writes us that short time before her
p0 sa new Tariff was received from Rio
'a'aa' vhich imposed double duties on near
!, ,' sverr article Of import. The market was
gs' =, dull and business depressed beyond
sSus an, Flour 5000 per bbl. (duty l6oo.)-
p' % per cent prem. and very few 10 be
,r;souers, consisting Of some OF the first
=. n the place, who had been confined on
PR he men of war at Maranham, on suspi-
Il conspiracy to assassinate the Presl-
~ had been liberated, nothing having been
a,o.cd against them.
T,u,Se guns on both forts had been dis
.n,,ct and the wheels and carriages placed
!. he Palace Square, every avenue TO which
:, cuarded BY field pieces and sailors from
q. men Of war. The Portuguese inhabitants
.,,oIed the streets nightly, and part the mil
e, was constantly under arms, still, however,
every thing was quiet.
The ship Majestic, Page, from Liverpool, ar
lived at Charleston 2lst inst Sept. s, in lat
90 70, long. $50 4e', spoke and was boarded
~ the u. S. frigate Braudywine, Commodore
Iones and soop ofwar Vincennes, Capt. Finch,
Ave DAYS from New-York, bound for the Pacific,
ayin fine health and spirits,-from whom Capt.
p received number of letters for their friends.
The Harper's Ferry Free Press Of the 9th
iustan! rei,erates the declaration that the dis
ease prevailing there is not malignant. Most
Of the sick Of the village are said to be conva-
lescent.
The same paper states that the boring for
water at that place will probably be resumed
rock has been penetrated 10 the depth of 26l
feel; and excellent water is within twenty feet
OF The surface.
A man named John Brewer, has been con-
demned TO death in the state of Missouri for
Perjury.
William Crafts, Esq. a member Of the senate
of the state Of South Carolina, and late editor OF
the Charleston Courier, died at Lebanon Springs
in the state Of New York on Friday last.
The New York Gazette of Wednesday last
states that our newly appointed Minister, Mr.
GALLATIN, was, at the last dates, negotiating
with the English government on the subject of
the late Order in Council relative 10 the West
India Ports; and letters received by the Leeds,
mentioned that there was strong probability
that such an arrangement would be effected, be-
fore the period ofinterdiction arrived, as would
render this measure unnecessary
The London Courier, of the 23d Of August,
contains the following article in justification OF
The British Governments:
The Order in Council, which appeared in
Friday nights Gazette, closing the potts of our
West India Colonies 10 vessels OF the United
states OF North America, will. of course, be
met by similar order on their part, shutting
Out our vessels, and thus all direc; intercourse
VIII again cease, to the mutual injury of both
parties. That it should be found necessary on
our part to revert back TO a system Of exclusion
IS certainly to be regretted, as it will add very
seriously TO the diffitties Of the West India
proprietors, by enhancing 10 them the price OF
slaves, flour and lumber-articles of the first
necessity, and which, from proximity, can most
adsantageously be procured from the United
States. In the present instance, however, the
Planters cannot blame their own Governments
and ii we mistake not, there exist in the Brit
lsh West India Islands feeling of loyalty and
national pride, that will cheerfully submit to a
ny sacrifices, when called for; not in support OF
monopoly, but to give effect 10 free lrade-not
10 seek advantages, but 10 procure as justice
The following extract from MIR Barclays work
recently published, will be read with interest,
as showing the view which the West Indians
themselves have taken Of the subject. In an ar
Neie on the Colony trade he observes:
":he clause IN our Act of 1872, requiring
mat vessels of the United States entering our
colony ports. and taking on board sugar, &c
should give bond, to return direct, and land The
same IN the United States, was never acled up
on oatitturnished an admirable excuse TO the
government Of the United States for retalia-
.orY regulation, not like ours, imprac'icable and
o"i'"ai but substantial, and 10 their shipping,
-"oS' advantageous 1t was enacted by Con-
s'IS'' mat any articles, the growth, produce,
S"u manufacture Of the United States, might
"V exported directlx, 10 GNU cf he euulOp Pu