Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-21
ALEXANDRIA, D. c.
FRIDAY MORNING, NAY 81. 1850.

We yesterday stated, that the Alexandra Ca
nal Bill passed the Senate on Wednesday. We
should have said it passed to third reading
The bill, however, PASSED yesterday.
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Extract of letter from young officer on board
the U. S. ship HUDSON, dated 18th March, at Rio
de Janeiro, to his friend in this city Nat. Int.
''Our new yard being finished, we weighed an
Choir, on the 9TH ut. and stood to sea, expecting,
when next we let 90 our ground tackle, to be off
Montevideo, but the fates ordained it otherwise
After favorable weather the greater part of the
passage, we met with severe gale, which sprung
our main and main topsail yards, and split our
main topsail. Our Commodore not deeming it
prudent to enter the river with wounded spars,
stood into St Catharine's to procure spars, which
we were disappointed in, & gain returned here,
after long passage. On our arrival heard of
the death of Mr.. West, our Minister to Peru, who
was taken from on board the ship he was proceed
inc in, and brought in here by an English brig,
he being too sick to continue the voyage On
the 9th instant attended the funeral of our much
lamented countryman, William Tudor, of whom
it is said no man was more beloved and respected
by the people & Foreign Ministers, or more in the
confidence of the Emperor. On the 18th intelli-
gence was received of the assassination of the
Governor of Bahia, and on the same evening,
plavcards were stuck on many of the walls at Rio,
saying, the Tyrant had met his fate, and the
same awaited the remaining three of Don PedrO's
Ministers. The ship Peruvian and brig Marga-
ret arrived Yesterday from Baltimore, and brought
me no letters"
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Hayti.-The brig Onslow, arrived at New
York, brings intelligence that the Government of
Hayti does not mean to comply with the terms
of the treaty with France, in consequence of which
the French Consul, Baron Pechon, had sailed for
France IN the corvette Lapone on the 22d ult.-
After the extraordinary compliments which pass
ed between that ctionary and President Boyer,
which We published from the last Port-au-Prince
papers, this news is rather surprising. We are
without papers as yet, and can give no further
particulars. The Journal of Commerce says
Bv this arrival we learn, that the Bahamas have
been thrown open to Hayden vessels, and that
several had sailed laden with cattle, &c.
The British frigate Mersey, the Hon. Captain
on board the Brtish Consul, Mr.. Schenley.
N. z. Commercial .4drertiSer
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ChiRcothe (Ohio), May IL.
SALT WATER.-It affords US great pleasure to
state, that Salt Water,.of quality equal to
that at Kenhawa, has been procured within tour
miles Of this town, on the margin OF Paint Creek,
bv company of gentlemen recently formed here.
The water was obtained by boring forty-hve feet
in the rock, and only fifty-fve feet below the
common surface of the creek bank. Such ex-
periments have already been made to test its
quantity as to leave no doubt, but that there Is
an ample supply of water to run, at least, two
furnaces. Arrangements will be Immediately
made to 20 into the manufacture of salt; and it
is anticipated that a sufficient quantity will be-
made this season. to accommodate the wants OF
this market. We congratulate the country gen
orally and the citizens of this neighborhood es-
pecially, upon the opening of this new source OF
wealth to this section of Ohio