Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-27
GREECE.

liz Is q very long ume since we nave nedru from
our friend DIR. HOWE. when we last heard di.
rectly Of him, he was dangerously ill at Smyrna
The following letter, later in date than any we
have seen, has been published in some of the
eastern papers. We anticipate much pleasure
from learning the details and the result of the
Doctors experiment with the colony he has es-
tablished on portion of the Government lands
in Greece:
To the Ladies' Greek Committee of the u States.
LADIES' address you for the last time with
very different feelings from those which prompt
ed Inc on former occasions.
Greece is no longer in state to demand cha
rty as one nation from another; she owes hea-
W debt of gratitude to the Christian world for
ITS generous succors in her hours of peril and
agony, but to none more than the females of
America: nor do believe there is on the page
of history nobler or more disinterested act Of
charity, than theirs to Greece; it is an honor to
our country, TO your sex, and to human nature;
and every one who was employed in II deserves
her share of that hOnor-trom the atiluent city
lady to the poorest serving glrl, whose means
were smaller but whose motives were as pure.
Other agents have distributed many garments.
myself have given out about $4,000 pieces to
women and children: it would be easy for me to
procure hundreds of letters of thanks to YOU from
females in Greece, but 1t seems to Inc superfu-
Gus and a little too like show; most of the poor
creatures who have received the garments cannot
read or write, and it would never enter into their
simple minds to get up letter; but have read
their thanks IN their gushing eyes-heard their
blessings on Americans, and Heaven has recorded
their PRAYERS for their benefactors. Go where
Al IL
and cotton frocks made BY you; ask the poor WI
dow where she got her gown; and she will an
swer, s'The Americans gave it mes" demand
of any man, woman or child in Greece, what
nation has been the kindest and most charitable
to their country in the bitter hour of trial, and
the answer ever is 'sAmerica."
have the honor to be, Ladies, respectfully
yours, SAMUEL G. HOWE,
Lstkmus Of Corinth, FEB. 9Th, 1850.
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From Ike Boston Pallaiiun.
BoXFoRD Observation-Disclosures of fashionable
air and we'll adapted to the season, have recent
IL been made at Bedford, about twenty five miles
from Boston, from rye straw. The first edition
Of them was carried to New York and sold to
the most fashionable miliners as English Bonnets.
of recent manufacture and importation at an ex-
horbitant price. The New York mlliners fur
nished their Boston correspondents with the new
article, and many of them were sold in this city
at from S12 to sic. The new English straw
bonnets commanded such prices that the industri-
Gus Bedford manufacturers sent in large supplies
Of them, aud they can now be furnished at from
three to four dollars. The bonnets are, both in
respect to material and form, very elegant and
suited to the season. Success to their fair manu-
facturers.
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The beautiful article of plate intended as
mark OF respect aud esteem, by the merchants
and other citizens of New-Orleans, the friends of
Beverly Cher, ESQ. late collector at that port,
on the occasion of his removal from office, after
IA years faithful services, may be seen at the
store of Mr.. Fletcher. in Chestnut street bearing
the following inscription:
From, the Ciiisens Of Ne,o Orleans,
BEVERLY CHEW, ESQ.
IN TESTIMONY OF HIS PUBLIC SERVICES,
during fourteen years,
is Collector Of The District Of Mississippi,
A. ID. 1929.
This elegant and durable present, is honora-
bic TO him who receives, and they who gives
and the workmanship reflects great credit upon
the artist-Pha U. S. Gaz.
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MAYORS OFFICE, WASHINGTON
Nay 22d. 1850.
The Mayor respectfully invites the Members |
of the several Fire Companies of this City, and
citizens generally, who feel interest in the SUBJ
iect. to witness the exhibition of a Fire Engine
of a new and Improved construction, the invention
of Mr. Hubbard. of Vermont, who has come to
this City with it, expressly for the purpose of in
viting an examination of its principles and its .
operations, and has applied to the City authority
TOR permission for that purpose. |