Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-09-28
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,,,,pspAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER %, 1926.

envy MORNING, SEPTEMBER %, 1926.
r. Secretary of the Navy arrived in New
- on Saturday last, the gath inst. On the
.o,h he was at Pittsburgh, whence he went to
~. Harbor, on the lake OF the same name, and
6srce 10 New-York.
I've learn, says the Newport Mercury, that
:. .,oop Of war, Lexington, w. B. SHuBRcK,
-. Commander, now lying at New York, has
Ken ordered to proceed to Trinidad, to bring
s.ne the remains Of Commodore PERRy.-
Can't D. Turner, of the Navy, (who was with
40 Commodore at the time of his decease)
will 90 out in the Lexington as Agent for the
government, to attend to the disbursement.
i've are much pleased to learn from the Nor
St Herald of Monday, that only three deaths,
from malignant fever, occurred in that city dur
;ng Friday, Saturday and Sunday last. The
editor confidently declares that strangers run
no risk in visiting Norfolk, if they do not go
into the diseased district; nor even in that case,
except in the night or in the early part of the
day. II is said that there are very few cases Of
the fever at present, and that t,co only have oc-
cured within the three days last preceding the
date above mentioned
The Board of Health for the City of New
York, has imposed rigid quarantine on all
vessels arriving from Norfolk.
The New-York Mercantile Advertiser gives
an extract of a letter from Maracaibo, under
date Of the 9th Aug. which says-"On the ar
rival Of President Bolivar from Bogota, who is
expected in faco days, we hope Tor favorable
change in, business, that confidence will be re-
established, and this Department placed in a
situation 10 meet its engagements.
Letters from Port au Prince state that all the
American establishments in ST. Domingo, are
about breaking up, 60ding it impossible to
compete with the trade now carried on under
the Haytien flag, which possesses great advan-
1age$ in respec: to duties,oyer other nations.
Asanevidence of the stagnation of Commerce,
the Boston Papers mention that the ship Bev-
eriy left that port in May last, for Havana but
not being able 10 procure freight, she proceed
ed to Mobile, and thence to Savannah, and be-
Ing unsuccessful at these places, has returned
in ballast, and some outward cargo.
Ii is said that Admiral COFFIN, OF the British
navy. during his recent visit to Nantucket. pur-
chased fine academy for the purpose of edu-
eating all The children who are named Coffin,
and che descendants Of Co6ns. The Admiral
has appropriated funds for the support of the
institution forever; and a gentleman Of Boston,
who is a descendant of some Of the Collins of
Nantucket, will take charge of The school,
However it may be with the Ndntgcket Collins,
there are other Co6fns, we believe, whose des-
'csndants will never ascend or descend to partici-
pate in the Admiral's bounty.
Nearly $4,000, Personal Property, belong
eng to the estate Of the late President Adams,
was sold at Auction on Monday the Sth inst.
oy order of the Executors Of the Will. 1t con-
sisted principally in Stocks, much of which sold
at An advance.
It is stated as fact by the Editors of the
Boston Patriot, that from the establishment of
The Waltham Factory down TO 1925, in a socie-
ty of four hundred girls, but a sill lie case Of
gross misconduct ever came to the knowledge
oithe managers of that establishment. This
Is creditable to the female character and shows
that our manufactures are not receptacles, nor
Their managers abettors, ofyice.
we published, on the 10th inst. number of
N'adles, recommended by Mrs BARBAULD as
wholesome exercise for the young mind. The
same Riddles were copied into the Richmond
compiler, from which paper we extract the fol-
towing solutions to the first and second of the
seriss:--
COMMUNICATED.
1, offer the following as the solution of Mrs.
Daroauid's first Riddle, published in last We'd.
hesday's Compiler:
tHe gentle stream with nsurmuring accents flows