Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-02

massage, better suited Cor the purpose IN when
she is employed, than any other boat oil her
class in this country.
The intended meeting of the friends Of the
Administration in the City Of Baltimore is an
nounced for Saturday next, when 1t will be held
at the Exchange Building.
IL is mentioned, as an evidence OF the rapid
IL increasing prosperity CT the West, that Or
ders have been lately received in Pittsburgh for
the manufacture Of eight Steam Engines, de-
signed expressly for Woollen Factories.
MIR. Thomas J. Randolph, in expressing &C
acknowledgement for the amount OF money voted
by the Legislature of South Carolina, for the
bepefi, of his mother as daughter Of Mr.. Jeffer-
son, says,
at has been enhanced an hundred fold by
the fact of its enabling her TO preserve from
The hammer of the auctioneer the furniture OF
her fathers bed room, and some few articles,
in themselves of little value, but rendered OF in
tense interest from their intimate association
with her dearest recolleclions."
Extract ola Letter from Gentleman Steubenville
dated April sd, 1927.
"Our Jacksoasls have been laboring for
weeks to get up meeting as the voice OF JEFF
terson County for the Hero The place Of
meeting was fixed in the country, in the hope
of raising the farmers, as they knew they could
take out most Of their town forces. The meet
ing was held on Friday: with all their efforts
and drilling, they got fifty persons together,
mostly from town. We have four thousand
electors in the county! What an abortion
Ye, this will be published at the proceedings
of isrpe and respectable meetings. the
poies of the psop.e Of Jefferson County, The
Hero's sun is setting in Ohio, * in West Penn
sylyania."
The Postmaster at "Big Lick" in Virginia
has lately been arrested by an agent OF the Post
Office department, on charge OF stealing mo-
uey from the Mail On an investigation, he
was required TO enter into recognizance TO
appear and answer the charge, a, the nexlCourt.
An agent Of the Department has recently de-
tected the Assistant, Postmaster at Canandaigua,
New-Yo:k, in similar offence. Nat. Intel.
Mr. Caldwell, the manager Of the New-Or-
leans Theatre, was stabbed on the Solh ult, by
a Young man named Salande. His wounds
were not dangerous. A Captain Young was
wounded by a pistol fired at him by man
named Usher, on the night Of the 2sth IN New
Orleans The accounts Of the cause OF this al
tack are differently stated.
The following letter from Capt. HILL, who
81 h,i,.
to Havana, in her last voyage, communicates
the important fact Of the discovery OF Rock
and Breakers, in the progress Of that voyage,
not laid down in any Of the Charts:
To The Editor of the Southern Patriot.
IMPORTANT TO MARINERS.
| beg leave through the medium Of your pa
per TO communicate, for the good OF the pub
lie, an Interesting incident which happened on
my late voyage from hence to Havana, IN the
brig Katharine, under my command. sailed
on the 4th Of March last, and on the - was IN
latitude 20, with the wind al w. S. w. and
s,eered al \. w. during the afternoon with
J clear and moderate weather About past 5,
P. NJ the mate went aloh TO look to the
westward, l expected 10 make the land
shortly, and to my as,onishment he announ-
ced Rock and Breakers ahead, and no. far
off, i went Immediately on the foretopsail
yard and was confirmed in what the Mate had
related. The rock was as large as ships
bottom, and plainly 10 be seen whenever i, was
IN the hollow Of The sea, with breakers about
thirty or forty yards from it, over which there
appeared strong current setting. The colour
Of the warter was much darker than that Of the
ocean of soundings, and inferred from my
latitude a, Meridian and the course and dis
lance that made, It's situation TO be about +.
by n. for,y-five miles from the south Point Of
Absco, or what is commonly called the Hole in
the Wall; the same no doubt reported to have
been seen not long since by the captain OF the
brig Clio, and published in some OF the Ameri-
can newspapers. That so important fact
should be withheld would be criminal, as 1t
lays directly in the track Of vessels intending TO
make the Hole in the Wall. bound to the coast
Of Cuba and into the Bay of Mexico. The dan,
ger must therefore be great to all vessels oound
that way You are therefore at liberty to make
pc Of this information in any way you may
deem proper.
Charleston, April 2lst, 1897