Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-09-06
SUMMARY.

the cargo, and small advance by retail.
FIRE.-We learn from the Providence Anne
rcan, that the woollen establishment in the wills
lage Of U1bridge, Mass belonging TO the Tx
bridge Woollen Company, was wholly consum-
ed by fire, early on Thursday morning. The
particulars we have no; been able 10 obtain
We regret to add, that the agent Of the mill,
Mr.. Taft was seriously injured.
DE MINIMIs cURAr LEx-A petition, adver~
tised in Boston paper, sets forth that nine Pc
tilioners are seized Of forty-Eine thousand five
hundred and two parts Of seventy-f thousand
parts Of three qurlers Of an acre Of land in Ded.
ham, and pray division, SC.
New YoRK, Sept. Capt. Cooke, Of the
brig Danube, arrived this morning from Lima,
states that when he sailed, (May 24lh,) an at
tack was expected from Bolivar on the city of
Luna.
The Boston Columbian Centine says, that,
in the procession to the College Hail. at the
lale annual commencement of Harvard Univer-
sily, ;he President Of the United States and Mr..
Speaker Stevenson were side by side.
A NEw SEor.-The board Of Aldermen, on
application Of c. P. Francis, Minister of the
Snierrians, or Ant-Satanis,s, for a lease Of the
| Centre Hall Of the new Markr,-house, for
place Of public worship, resolved that il was
ine1pedient TO grant the same.-Boston Pat.
The second performance Of the French com-
pany Of Players, at 8os'o on, which took place on
Thursday last, was in every respect successful.
| The audience was large and fashionable; and
no disorder occurred. We could not doubt that
he respectable and accomplished society OF The
northern capital would relish music and come
dy so truly good.
SwIMMlNe.-On Thursday last, a, Boston,
/ Il 4 a. l.
bridge leading from Cambridge to Brighton,
to the wharf al the bottom Of Beacon-street
distance Of three miles and hall, in one hour
and twenty minutes, against head wind. A
boat accompan MED the p,r,y; bu: one pupil only
! gave out before the task was accomplished.
The Quebec Gazette states that Capt. Stew.
art, % the Mary Russell, the cause Of the shock
ing dea,h If six Of his seamen and passenger,
is known there, as having commanded the Sir
J,mes Kernpt, and Albion, engaged in The Irish
trade. He appears to have been insane.
We rave received letter, says the n. York
| Commrrcia Advertiser, from Port au Prince,
thankiAg US for The eSerti"ns we have made to
detect and expose The frauds committed in this
city upon ths government of that Republic, BY
coun,erieitiug its paper and coin Our papers
upon This subject had all seen received there,
! AID the iuforma ion generally circulated. The
President has offered reward Of 500 dollars
for Ramil on'o head.
! MopERN GREEK PoErRr.-A young Greek
Of the name al Panga Souizo, brother Of on
of tie heroic victims OF thr sacred baltaIi'n,
has published al Paris several odes in modern
Greek accompanied by 4 translation into
French, he 7oetical beauty OF which has been
highly extoled nv his compatrints we snail
r.inicc to STE specimens Of modern Greek lit
h. l,np
we are TO have present odes very shortly.
rHELaw RESPECTING IIu BAND AND WIFE,
A work has Just been published nv M"ssrs.
TreadwelI * Rogert, OF New fcw York, and
/ p. Borer, of this town, called Treatise OF
the Rights, Duties, and Liabilities OF Husband
and Wife, by james Claney. The subject is
me,hodic lv aud fully ,rea ed, embracing the
rights and liabilities Of the husband and wife
in respect 10 real and personal property, both
a: l.w and in equity This volume is publish
ed from the third London edition, which pur-
ports TO be a material irupro, ement upon the
preceding editions of he same work. II VIII
prob ablv form valuable addition 10 the libra
ry of thr lawyrr.-Bosfon Daily ado.
H. The life of the late Admiral Collingwood
the f. end and companion of Nelson, particu lar
" a, n, grear battle Of Trafalgar, IL l. stated
that he spent great part of his lille at sea, and
a, in owe Instance, HI was actually atloa, tn'
tweair f,co months, without ever dropping his
a,,hur. ", should hardly have supposed sucf
thing possible. Probably il is a case wlthou
a parallti in The history Of sea-iaring men.
LEAVING CARps.-Two gentlemen al Sara
toea Springs, having dispute. one went &c
the Others door early in the morning, and wrote
>coundre, upon it. The other called upon his
neichhor. and was answered by servant tina
r his master was no. at home; but ii he had any
thing to saw, he might leave it with him. mo
no." says he, 81 was only going to return yonl
masters visits, as he left his name at my doo
in the morning"
PoLIcE.- On Saturday evening, man call
ing himself Rogers, but whost name Is VIII
SON, convicted Of forgery, and who escapet
from Kings County Jail IN December. was OF
h Friday taken up in this city, by an officer who
) followed him from Newark. On this fellow
). were found Bank Bills to the amount OF abou