Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-01-19
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which 1900 are well disciplined cavalry.
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Grenville Mellen, Esq. has been engaged as
editor Of the Portland Advertiser and Gazette
Of Maine.
Hon. Edward Livingston, arrived at New
Orleans, Dec. 8. A public dinner was to be
given 10 him.
The French Operate Company. who sang in
this city. last summer, were performing at New
Orleans Dec. l6.
On the 9Th ul,. FIRE big was launchrd at
the ward of Messrs. Wallen and Taber, in ST.
Augustine, E. Florida, the first vessel ever
launched there.
The N Orleans Mercantile Advertiser com.
plains that there are no U. S. troops to be sta
TONED there, as formerly. The editor thinks
there ough, 10 be some, on accoun, Of the great
number of trancieni persons there 8 months IN
the year, and the daily increasing black popu-
laion
Accompanying the bale Of cotton sen, toNew
York from Charleston, S. {. in oaken bagging
was lette. written on shingle. By and by
we may make rice buildings Of barley.
The mail Sag said to have been taken from
the Pos, Rider, between Geo e. town and Con-
wayborough, S. Z. has been found near the road
upinjured.
A large and very fine Organ, intends for The
First Presbyterian Church, was received al
Charlie ton, ). &. on the 29th ult from this ci-
ty, IN the brig Plato.
ThesEastport Sentinel relates that some in
human villain entered the barn OF VIA. Vance,
Esq Of Barring, Me- on Christmas evening and
dreadfully cut and manglrd six cows and four
oxen. Two Of the callle have been killed and
it is thought none can be saved.
The Courier states that man near North,
ampton has been recently fined ten dollars for
two violations OF the mail regulations, by writ
ing on newspapers or the like.
white headed Eagle, rara AUS, was caught
recently in lra2 Sc, for fox IN Norway, Me.
l. weighed ~ pounds and The breadth OF his
extended wings was fee, inches.
Capt. Stockton near the head Of Turtle Riv-
rr; commenced grinding his sugar cane and
making Sugar abou, the 10Th ul'. The Sava".
nah Georgian states that he turns out from Il
TO 3 bids per day, which is more than he has
boxes to pack il III or can find vessels to take it
away. This must be vexa,ious indeed.
The expenditures Of the current year upon
the public buildings al Washington amount 10
Ssl,sl6 O2, VIZ. on the capitol and grounds
$50, o2o 10: penitsnliary $4,000 50, engine
house S2,l9l 4s,
There are about l4o students in the Medi.
cal College Of S. Carolina, prime ipslly from that
STATE, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Flor
ida.
The tenor Of the last tax act of the S. Caro-.
lima Legislature appears to be "harmony mol
understood" The act imposes treble, duty
on the property Of persons residing out Of the
United Sra:es; but reduces the imposition on
the London Phoenix Insurance Company from
$4,000 TO $4,000.
Three boxes of furniture were recently re.
ceive1 from Portland, Me at Penn Yam, in
Yates county, N. Y. 1000 miles distant, by wa.
te., the freight Of which was Slo75
All the cisterns in the Park, N were filed
with water on the 9Th inst. from The Manhattan
Company's works
AT the FIRE in Broadway, these cisterns we're
found empty.
Two negro men were drowned in James Ri.
yer on the I'd inst. by the upsetting Of Canoe.
hey were attempting 10 board the steamer
Richmond, Of which one was Cd fireman.
Mr.. Christopher Adams, Of Warwick, NJ. Y.
recently had conf1icl with wild cat. He
was CT os,ing Long Pond in canoe, when two
OF his neighbours dogs drove the ca, into the
water, and Mr.. A. thinking i, rae Don, pursued
it and best it with his paddle, which was bro.
ken to spliners without effect. He had CAUGHT
a Tariar, Tor the animal boarded the canoe. and
made de mcnstrations ~ seize Mr.. a. who iun,.
ped ilom the canoe and by vigorous effort
pushed II several feet from him wherein IN.
ca, ieli in the water, short Of him. MIR. Adam,
Ioilrd vigorously Tor the shore. calling for the
dogs, who seized the cat before she reached
The shore, The cat would hay. conquered the
logs, had rot Mr.. A come up, and though he
was almost benun'bed with cold, he turned the
scale, and jefs bit she dust. II was of uncom.
non size. measuring nearly four feet in length
md one across The breast,
OF 1877 children admitted inlo the Gr.v
Huns Hospital, Montreal, within the year, ii