Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-04-27

lack knife out of his pocket, and cut his throat
His wind pipe was cut across; he expired
short time afterwards.
The captain of the city guard, had the body
of the negro deposited under the principal, and
sent for surgeon TO examine ii, and decide
whether the negro was positively dead or not
in order that he could be authorized to make
out his report. While the captain Of the
guard was waiting for the arrival ola surgeon
one of the profession passed by, and the cap.
tain politely requested of him to examine the
corpse, and let him know if the negro was dead;
but what was the humane answer Of the SUR
geon? 81 am not employed by the Mayor
should examine the body, who will pay me?
Bread.-There were about two hundred loave
of bread seized Yesterday, and sent TO the May
or's Office, for falling short Of the weight. At
time wher -four is so cheap as at present, it
is surprising that bakers are not always salts
fed with their legitimate gains.
Portsmouth March l6.-His Maiesty's ship
Blonde, which arrived yesterday, fell in with,
on the 9TH inst. in LAT a. 43 n. long 81 81 w,
the Frances Mary, of 1913 tons, Kendall, master,
Of and from New Brunswick, bound TO Liver
pool, timber laden, (being her first VOYAGE
water logged and perfect wreck; took of the
master, his wife, three seamen and one female
passenger out Of crew Of ION the LIST OF
February the Frances Mary experienced most
tremendous gale Of wind from the w. N. w.
during which she carried away her foremost,
the sea made complete brca ch over her, wash
ed four seamen off the deck, boats, &c. &c
For twenty two days, in this horrible condition
the unfortunate survivors supported their
wretched existence, by actually feeding on the
dead bodies Of those who died on the wreck,
when they were provdentiaIly fallen in with,
and rescued from their horrid state, by his Ma
iesty's shin Blonde. From her commander,
LORD Byron, and his officers, they received the
utmost possible sympathy. and ever thing vas
afforded for their comfort and accommodation
by his lordship, whose conduct towards them,
the captain says, no language, on his part, is
sufficient to express, for had they remained a
ew hours longer, they must inevitably have per-
ished, having been brought on board in COM
plete state of exhaust
The following report is attached to the arri-
val Of the brig John, Capt. Waite, at Portland,
from the Cape de Verds:-March LIST, lat. 80,
So, long. IS, "a, fell in with the Danish brig
Vigilante, Tidemann, of Altoona, cargo coffee,
days from Charleston for Hamburg, in distress,
having sprung leak the night before, and had
then six feet water in her hold-took off the
crew and passengers, l6 in number, among
them one woman with her six small children,
saving nothing but what they stood in. II was
blowing gale with a very heavy swell OF the
sea, when the John (undcr close reefed topsails)
fell in with this brig; and in running alongside,
both vessels became entangled, which injured
the stern OF the John considerably, and 1t was
with much difficulty, and at great hazard OF
his own safety, that Captain Waite succeeded
in rescuing from a watery grave so many OF
his fellow-beings.
A woman named Glass, considerably advanc-
ed in years, residing in Lamberton, New-Jer-
sey, was lately killed by her daughter, by beat
ing her on the head with an iron rod The
mother kept disorderly house, and the daugh-
ter is said to have been intoxicated when she
committed the crime. This is horrid picture
of human depravity.
4 forgery on the Life and Fire Insurance
Company, to the amount OF $4,000 was detect
cd yesterday morning, and the parties implica-
ted taken into custody. ". I. Ece. FoSf.
Captain Sever, of the ship Hamilton, at Bos
ton in l2l days from Calcutta, states that Off
ca intelli gence had been received previous to
his sailing, of a severe battle between the Bur
mese and English, in which the latter were de-
feated with great loss.
The steamboat CoDoRUs, when last heard
from, says the Harrisburg Chronicle, was at
Owego, upwards of 24o miles above Harris
burg There is now no difficulty in the way
of this boats passage into Otsego lake.
The Pittsburgh Gazette states that the steam
boat Reindeer which sailed on the 9th inst. for
Brownsville, continued her voyage on the Mon
ongahea up to Morganlown, Virginia, so miles
by the river beyond Brownsville, and that no
difficulty or impeachment to the navigation was
met with. She returned to Pittsburgh on the
nth full Of freight and passengers.
PIDGEoYs have lately been selling in Albany
at the rate Of eighteen cents per dozen, and were
sold in this market on Friday last, for f'centy-
fcs cents psr dozen. Phiiad pap.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
DIST and Port of Key West, March 10, 1926.
The United States Floating Light vessel, an
chored off Key Largo about two miles within the
Reef, will have her lamps lit up on the 18th April