Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-12-18
ALEXANDWA, y. {.
.s.UURD.iY noRHIyG, DEC. IS. 1880
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:. To sho,v lie gery age and body ottAc fines"

:. To show lie cery age and body Of nc fines"
Mir. and Mrs. WEBSTER arrived al Washing
ton on Wednesday evening, and Mr.. W ebster
appeared in his place in the Senate on Thursday.
Judge TEST has also arrived, having recover
ed. in great degree. from the injury he received
by the upsetting of the stage.
From Harrisburg. we learn that, on the l4,h
inst. seven unsuccessful ballotings took place IN
the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania for
a Senator, to succeed Mr.. MARKS.
Mr. Brown. Charge d'Afaires from the Unitct!
States to Brazil, sailed from Baltimore on We'd
nesday, in the ship Talma, bound to Rio Janeiro.
We learn from the Annapolis Republican that
Gov. Carroll has committed the punishment OF
Ca,harne .Hindman, co!ored girl, sentenced to
be hung at the last county court Oi Anne Arundel
county, for numbering the colored child ct TEL
low-servant to five years hard labor IN the Pcni-
Tertiary. This act Of clemency. IT Is stated III
that paper. had been recommended by the court
and jury. before whom the conviction was had.
The Missouri Jeffersonian says" Mr.. Isabel
Lomax has discovered 4 quarry OF burr stone
about IS miles from Boonv!ie, on one OF the tn
buta,Ies to the Usage River. The quality of the
stone is said to be superior TO the French burr
stone"
The publishers of tie Portland (Sle.) Adyer-
tiser, a valuable scmi-rcehiv i;aprr, sive nollce
that they have in view the commencement of a
daily paper about the l,t Of January. There is
already one dairy paper in 70: and. We trust
there will be found room for another, which we
haze no doubt will b. valuable one, without
crowdlng the honest and industrious Courier
off the stage.
Mr.. James Lawson has become associate
editor of the New York Mercantile Advertiser
This gentleman has hitherto been the assiduous
and intelligent conductor of the commercial de-
partment of the Courier, and is one OF the besl
writer's connected with the American newspapc,
press.
( The Practical Politician, and the WORKING
Mems Advocate. two weekly papers published
in Boston. have been united, and placed under
tic editorial direction Of Samuel II. jerks, Esq.
gentleman of distinguished talents.
! We observe with regret that the last Whining
ton Recorder contains circular OF Gen. Edward
B. Dudley, the Representative in Congress from
that District. addressed to his constituents, il
which he announces his intention to decline be
inc candidate at the next Congressional cleo
ton.
LeghOrns. has become a considerable business IN
Boston. One manufacturer has made 60,0n0 The
past year The impressions are made on the pa
per by copperplatcs. and passed through the
press without ink. The Hat is an elegant and
convenient article. and ought not to be neglected
because it costs little.
The Opelousas, Lou. Gazette of the 9Th ult.
states that the weather had proved very fayora
c,., ,,t n m nC
want of rain, the cane was of small growth, but
the quality of the sugar made from it proved to
be very fine. In the neishboring district of the
Rapdes, the crops of sugar cane and cotton had
been YER, abundant, 50 much SO in the case OF
the latter article that it is stated ''the planters
were unable to pick it all"
A Savannah paper of the third instant mentions
that BAG of Peaches was brought TO market that
morning. from the orchard of Mr. Moore, OF Fin
anuc county, aud retailed at twelve and a hall
cents per dozen. They were plucked from the
tree on the Wednesday previous
= There are 1O1 newspapers and ) monthly journ,
ais now published in-the State of Ohio.
| Two of the shilings coined in Massachusetts
IN 1869. were lately found in scul bone. while
removing earth next the burying ground in Con-
cord, Massachusetts.
/ 1t is stated in one of the New-York pape, 5
that the revenue of the canals of that State. for the
present wear, will exceed the amount Of tic last
by two hundred thousand dollars.
Mr.. VIM. G.. Houghton, who, some time since,
figured in Philadelphia as the inventor Of the Am
erican Chess Player, has been found guilty of for
gery.in New-York.
So great Is the competition between Liverpool
and the Isle of Man, by steamboats,, that two
steamboats,, ready to start for the Isle of Man,
offered to take passengers at Mree-pence each.
French lady of quality, seeing the funeral
procession of her husband, exclaimed, "Ah, how
happy would my poor husband be if he could see
this sight, as he was remarkably fond of ccremo-
MES"
From experiments recently made at Livermorc,
Maine, it would seem that the growth and manu-
facture of Hemp may he advantageousIy prose-
cuted there.
Tie following is an extract from the Washing
ton correspondence Of the Boston Advertiser of
Saturday last:
Gen. Green took much pains to show him self
in the Hall. and in the Senate chamber, and his