Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-01

Court of Washington county, in the District of
Columbia, in quarterly payments, out OF any un-
anpropriated money in the Treasury, the sum OF
- dollars per annum, in lieu of all other COM
pensation for his services Judge OF said Court.
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I'm Editor.-We find the following portrait
If wbat an editor should be, in Boston print
We recommend it to the attention of the fra
ternity:
..Two or three things are requisite for an ed
;tor. of natures best0wment, and beyond the pow
er of discipline to gainra ready apprehension, self
confidence, firmness s. the most expansive benevo-
lence. To these must be added by culture,
knowledge, industry and tact. Deficient IN eltl-
er of these attributes, man is unfit to direct an
engine which is to operate upon the minds OF ms
brethren, of his countrymen, and it may be said,
of his whole age. Whatever periodical pubilca.ec
tons NAV now be, it will not be denied, that II
they pretend to rise above the character OF an
advertising newspaper-one grade only above a
handful, or placard-they pretend to direct
the ignorant, and to advise mankind.
..Honor belongs to him who performs this task
well. and the higher the stand he takes the more
honor is due if he sustains his position thereon.
Every editor should rememberhis responsibility
he is occupying place in the world. which should
he well filled III he does it not well he is not merely
pestient moth himself, but, by absorbing some
thing of the aid of the ignorant, and gentle. he
nlaces it out of their power to aid others and bet
ters: thus doing double injury, committing evil
and preventing good"
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A .orr,snondont ,t the South 'amOnr other
matters and things, gives US the following.
Drien, Apri ls-Whle at Brunswick |
had conversation with Captain Delano, whose
account of the Sea Serpent was published in
Charleston. He repeated the same particulars
precisely, describing the animal he saw as being
about 20 feet long. and its circumference about
that of a sugar hogshead, moving with its head
shaped like an Alligator's) about g. feet out OF
the water. Capt. ID. is regular trader from
Charleston to Brunswick, and its vicinity, and
bears the character of steady, industrious man.
different description however, of strange fish,
with a similar one in company, that have lately
visited these waters is given by several respecta-
BILE planters St Simons' Island. but whether it
is Capt. Delano's serpent is vet to be determined.
IT has been seen for two or three weeks past at
different times in st. Simon's Sound. and last
believe on Tuesday. The gentleman from whom
| received nv information has seen it several
times with and without telescope, but never hav-
ing seen whale cannot pronounce II such. though
in nv opinion it can be nothing else. He saws
it rolls over in the water like porpoise, shew-
ing dark coored mass of about 40 feet in length
with a breadth pronortonate for lare fish,
leaving considerable ripple or wake behind.
and guesses its whole length may be 6n feet.
while it spouts water at intervals to the height Of
90 feet. One of the gentlemen, who was for
merly sea captain. is positive it is nothing more
than Grampus Whale. None of these gentle
men saw any thing resembling punches on the
back or an Allirator's head. Now the question
is, whether this and Capt. Deano's serpent are
the same. but be that as it NAV, | suspect the
latter will turn out very much like whale
The negroes describe it to be about the length of
a task, which is los feet.
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Cure for the Botle.-The following singular
notice appeared sometime since in Connect
cut paper, State bv the wav. where it is SAID.
that ardent shirts are so impregnated with river
water as to produce no effect.
"Whereas at particular times NAV impor.
tune nv friends and others, to let me have liquor,
which is hurtfnl to me and detrimental to society
this is therefore, to forbid them selling or let
ting me have liquor. of anv description. on any
Account, or pretence whatever; for if they do.
will positively prosecute them. notwithstand-
ing any promise | may make to them, to the con-
trary, at the time they let me have it,
WIN. SPENCE.
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NEWSPAPER SPONGERS.