Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-07-19

| she can furnish q better excuse Tor those
who from the business pf their earle lives. o
the force Of continued bad example, strike sucI
I blow at svciety, then the misiudgine an,
bribed government who tolerate in auir,ues
such acis.-tolersie them SO far that the Cant
OF the Pirate Stod, with the almost effronter,
near me, few days since, at the most public
resort in the city.
The circumstances have been learnt from ,
fisherman, seized by the pirates TO serve as q
piIos. He was landed upon an uninhabi,,d kew
and from thence taken by one Of n: B. N
SC hooners He mentions thai there were Sc
yeraI females and children on board; who, like
the crew and males, were inhumanly butcher.
ed"
The Spy UNMAsKEb.-.A new work. said 10
be unc ommouly interesting in its character, has
been announced by the Messrs Harpe,s, as a,
bou, issuing from their press. II is entitled
"rhe Spy Unmasked, or Memoirs, OF Enoe h
Crosby. alias Harvey Birch, the real Spy of Mr..
Coooer's Tale Of the Neural G,ound." The
author is Capt. Barnum, Of the u S. Corps Of
Topographic al Engineers, and the facts and an.
ecdotes related IN this work were all repea ed
to him by Mr. Crosby himself, and taken down
in short hand from the aged veterans own lips.
Many Of the incidents are said TO bear s,rong
resemblance TO those recorded in The novel Of
the Spy. The work is neatly printed and
highly embellished with several elegant engra-
wings. AS soon as we are IA, cured with pe :.
rusal, it shall be more particularly noticed.
PAssAlc FALLS The insane gentleman who
does the Jump off the rocks at Paterson, says
the New York Commercial Advertiser, adver-
,ises that he is going to do ii again, for The last
time, to prove that he is in his righ wits The
writ de llnat CO inquireDdo should BE- issued
before he performs.
Saffey Of Steam Boats from Lighten-
iag-It IS mentioned in The New York States
man, as a remarkable fact, tha, a steam boat
while in motion has never been known to be
struck with tightening, Notwithstanding the
quantity Of iron about its machinery. The
hot vapor, ascending to the higher regions Of
The atmosphere, forms a conductor at some
distance behind The boat, which has advanced
without the sphere OF attraction, before the
electric fluid descends. |, is remarkable, that
the philosophic mind of ChancelIor Livingston
anticipated such resu! before the fact had
been asoerlained by an experience OF many
wears.
4 NEW CASE UNDER FIRE Policy new
and curious question has arisen under policy
of insurance against fire, upon some building
in the county of Essex, which was lately struck
by lightning, and very considerably damaged,
though it did not take fire, and The question is
whether the insurers, in common fire policy,
are liable for this damage. The case opens
very tempting field IF legal and philosophical
discussion, as whether electricity is fire, &C
cording 10 the common acceptation OF this
term; and if il be SO, whether The damage is
so directly The effect Of this cloud, as to render
question is 50 curious, thai ali, exec p,ing, per-
APPS the parties immc dia ely concerned, would
be almost inclined TO rcgrei thai the Case should
be settled without sufirirnt contest, at least 10
elicit discussion. Boston EOen'ng BuLe an.
Doc NAIL FAcToRY-In the upper part OF
this yillspe, on the road 20 Whitesborough,
there has been in operation, for some months
past, small mandatory Of wrought nails,
which is carried on solely by poor but indus
trious German lately arrived in this country,
together with his two dogs, who are equally III.
duslrious. The bellows is kep' cons aniiy III
bias, by the dogs running in wheel with Ut
tie coarse apparatus attached 10 il: they are IN
perfect training and relieve each other a. regu-
lar periods, ard both man and dogs arr IN al
most perpetual motion from early dawn til
night fall. The nails produced are os the most
finished and perfec, kind-and the es'ablIsh>
mcnt merits on every account the patronage OF
the public, and we learn receives it literally:
Utica Sentinel.
A boy, who is apprentice TO britklayer, had
a miraculous escape on Saturday afternoon. lie
was employed in finishing the chimney OF a
three story house oil Race street below SIKH,
and incauiously set has foot On board which
tilted under him. He fell through the stair.
way, from the roof TO the cellar, a distance Of
five stories. He was bruised by every Joist
with which he came 10 contact but as he touch
ed them all successfully, they broke the io'ce
OF the fall. Though he Was severely bruised,
uone Of his bones were broken; and ne was
able 10 81, up Oh Sund,y afternoon.
Philadelphia Gazette.
MARRIED.,
On Thursday evening last, by the Rev Mr. Cor
Moline ATwELL 10 Miss JULIA ANN