Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-01-10

most important link in tf:e chain Of commun,.
cation have attempted hastily to describe; and
for more accurate knowledge OF which,
mus, refer to the Report Of The Committee Of
the Senate al the last Session.
The people Of Alabama have too much in.
teli.ence aud Iiberaiiy 10 make any objec tons
TO the communication between Mobile and Pen.
sacola Bays. They must be sensible that lie
flourishing city Of Mobile will command con.
siderable portion Of the trade Of the Mississp-
nj, in its transit to The eastward, and will enjoy
the benefits of a new traffic, in which hereto
fore they have never participated, the return
ing commerce from the Atlantic, intended for
The markets of the Western country, and par.
,icularly that which is destined for The upper
parts Of that rapidly increasing, enterprsing,
and respectable State.
IN the distribution OF the favors OF the Gov.
eminent, ] am sensible of the force and justice
of the sentiment, that wise and expanded pc.
Icy should be pursued, and that appropriations
should not have the appearance OF greater 10
cal benefits in one quarter OF the country than
another: but when works Of an exclusive NJ.
tional character are proposed, in which the
whole Union are interested, when not only the
facilities Of commerce, the augmentation ofthe
value Of the public domain, the improvement,
of an infant Territory belonging almost entire
" to the Government Of the United States; but
when also the Treasury itself will be increased,
rather than diminished, by the inconsiderabe
expenditure, il is confidently hoped, that cons;.
deralions Of local nature will not DC permit
ted TO have any influence on the present appli,
cation.
The small sums which have already been ap.
propria,ed in Florida for roads, have, at the
only public sale that has taken place in the
Territory, been returned to the public Treasury
IN the incrt ased price OF the lands contiguous
10 them. And The twenty thousand dollars &c.
uerousy given a, the last Session OF Congress
for survey Of the canal, will be returned three
fold a, the next sale, by the competition Of en-
terprising cilizsns who have been attracted 10
the country from a belief that such improve
ments were practicable, add would be under
taken.
The improvement Of the Territories is no.
thing more than an improvement Of the pro.
perry Of the nation and TO neglect any means
Of promoting their prosperity, would be as IN
wise as for parent 10 neglect the patrimony
Of his children during their minority.
1t has been a part Of the policy OF every IL
beral and enlightened government to promote
its provinces and colonies, and, we may hope,
that works comprising such singular and pre-.
eminent advantages will be executed by the
United States.
have the honor 10 be, with high consdera.
tons Of respect,
Your obedient servant,
JOS. NJ. WHITE.
Hon. CHARLES F.. MERCER, Chairman of
the Committee Of Roads & Canals.
Mr.. Brainerd, Of the Connecticut Mirror,
has whimsical way Of relating small affairs,
peculiarly his own, and admirably adapted 10
the purpose.-EE. or.
IoVand Court House.-Thursday night was
very cold one, particularly in Tolland. The
Court had been in session all day-the lawyers
had finished their bar neetlng'--the landlord
had raked up his fire and the landlady had
5oed her door, and the multitude, of counsel
lors, where is said to be safety, had gone to
sleep. The cry Of fire, alarming every where,
but especially in place where there is neither
engine to put it out, nor newspaper to chroni-
Gle the disaster, came upon their demurring
slumhers like surrebutter Where was it,
Not in a private dweling--not in the Jail, bur
in their workshop, the Court House.
80 'then and there was hurying 10 and fro;"-
descent in shirt tail male was made upon the
kitchen;--the learned brothers, well knowing the
true definition lhereofin G. A. Stevens on heads,
p 10, title Law, where kitchen is defined to be
camera necessaria pro usus cookare, cum saucepan.
is ste,0panis pahsqus burketaG5us, sc. proceeded
10 dip, fill, draw, exhaust, pump and drain from
a certain piece Of rock or land covered with
water, called well, and forthwith TO apply the
same 10 the use ard behoof Of the said Court
House frs, above mentioned. The fire, though
abated, entered for costs. We recollect but one
case on record where a court house ever got on
FIRE. II was in Middlesex IS. Middletown,
where the great anxiety was not so much to /.
put il out, as to stay the flames until a model
could be taken Of the building, there being none 1
other like il in the whole world. 1t is pity !
that Middletown, ornamented as it is with so
many beautiful public and private buildings, +
should not have better court house. The one I
in Tolland is new, handsome and elegant, and (,
long may it remain the resort Of justice and
the safeguard Of The injured.
70 Warmers and physicians.
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