Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-20

rThe Alexandra Canal Bill passed the
Senate yesterday, by a yoteof "a to 1S.-It now
only waits the signature of the President to be-
come a law.
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.4nother Steamboat DisaSter.-We learn from
the st. Lawrence Gazette, that a new Steam
boat, owned by E. B. Dodd, and others, of
Brownsville, Jefferson county, New-York) call.
ed the "BrownsuMe," was burnt to the waters
edge on Sunday the 9th inst. about thirty miles
above Ogdensbargh, while making her first trip
on the river. She left Brownsville for the latter
place loaded principally with ashes, pork. beer
and whiskey, and when within few miles of
Alexandria Bay, the fire communicated to the
wooden materials under the furnace, and from
thence spread though the lining on both Sides
When the fire had made such progress as to pre-
clude the hope of saving the boat, she was run
into Alexandria Bay, and as much of the cargo
as 1t was practicable to o at was thrown over
board. We have not learned that any lives were
lost. The loss of the boat is a serious calamity
to individuals; some of the proprietors of which.
we understand, are men who had embarked their
whole property in the laudable but unfortunate
enterprise.
1t is stated in an Albany paper that John Tho
mas, of Buffalo, has invented 2 safety chamber
to prevent disaster in the bursting of steamboat
L,.lo.a T. =. ,,.ll ,f ,yo,I and ,,on IS lie
cient strength to resist any fragment that may es-
cape from the boiler, and is so formed as to en-
compass the boilers and allow room for the fire.
men to attend to their duty. There is a cistern
of cold water placed Immediately over the boil
ers, so that, in case of an explosion, the water is
discharged from the %cistern and descends upon
the steam and water in the chamber, and reduces
it below %scalding heat, andby means Of two pipes
which pass from the chamber to the outside of the
boat under the wheel-guards, the boat is cleared
of steam and hot water in about half a minute.
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From amsterdam. BY the arrival, at New
York, of the brig Louisa, Captain Brewer, from
Amsterdam, papers of that city have been re-
ceived to the 3Oth of March, inclusive.
A Frankfort date of the Goth mentions the re-
ceipt of a letter from St. Petersburgh, which states
that the proposition of the Porte to satisfy the in
demnity TO Russia by a cession of the Principali-
ties, is objected to by one of the great Powers, in
consequence of which a cersion would probably
be made in Asia. Many messengers we're pass
ing between the Russian Court and the Turkish
Ambassador.
Accounts from Constantinople to March ed,
state that the late Refs Efendi reformed out of
office has been succeeded by Mehmed- Hamid-
Bey. Two persons have died of the plague in
the Turkish Capital. Count OrlofL, the Russian
Ambassador, has received orders to remain there
for the present.
Baltimore, May 19.-The curiosity of our cit
liens was not a little excited Yesterday BY a report
that two expresses had passed through town on
Monday night from the eastward, for Washing
ton. Various rum0rs and surmises were set "a
float during the dav. in reference to the nature of
the intelligence which had called forth this extra
ordinary dispatch. but as no movement was made
in the market, & as nothing transplred which could
furnish the most distant clue to the supposed in
formation, no course was left but patiently to a.
wait the arrival of the mail in the evening. Not
a few were in attendance at the steamboat wharf
to gain the FIRST tidings of the important news,
but the passengers could give them none; and
when the mail was opened the inquiries were
attended with as little success, for the simple
reason that the papers contained no new All
our eastern papers. including the New-York jour
mails of Monday afternoon, came duly to hand
and were closely scrutinized, bat our search was
entirely unavailing, and we were left as much in
the dark as ever.
There is no doubt that two persons travelled er-
press to Washington on Monday night, one of
whom left at ten and the other at twelve O'Clock.
.4merican.