Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-14

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building, repairing, or laying up ships of the larg-
est dimensions. On this facility a reasonable
hope may be grounded, that the Government of
the United States will, if necessary, aid, with
Its funds. the completion Of this canal; while a
doubt can scarcely be INDUCED, that the Com
monwealth of Virginia will extend her liberality
to the improvement of a market in which a large
portion of her population cannot but feel lively
interest. After all, it is incumbent upon the CT
tizens of Alexandra.to merit this aid by disco
vering both the disposition and the ability to as
sist themselves.
Norton againn!-The Boston Courier, in the
following paragraph Of 8 Reform" introduces
the public's old friend and servant. Mr.. NORTON,
again upon the carpet. 1t has been so long since
we heard Of him, that we were really afraid he
was dead, or, peradventure, sleeping. But he
mounts to office, once more, upon the wings of
Jacksonism.
"Reform-We understand that Mr.. John
Champney. of Roxbury, for MANY years a weigher
and guager in this Collection District. was re-
moved from his office on Monday, and the place
filed by the appointment of John w. James, ESQ.
We are informed, also, that 3. FL. Norton. ESQ.
the Nortonized Postmaster at Hartford, has been
appointed Inspector"
ANsS
Mr.. WEBSTER has arrived In Boston.
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The collector of the port of New-York, has
given public notice that the clearances from ports
whence vessels may arrive in that city, will be
demanded by the officers of the customs; and the
tonnage duties must be paid before permits for
landing can be granted; and before the entry all
papers belonging to the Observation-Disclosures
passes exc%epted-must be deposited in the Gus
tom house, where they will remain until clearance
is effected.
Among the resolutions passed by the New
England Methodist Conference. held at New
Bedford last week, was one resolving Itself into
a Temperance Soc etv--and another recommend
inc it to all the societies within the Conference
to refrain from the practice of quitting on mourn
ing for the dead"
The Niagara Herald of the Sd inst, mentions
that in consequence of a report circulated at Buff
falo. that the Montreal Bank and the Bank of
Upper Canada, at York had stopped payment,
a panic prevailed among the holders of small
bills, which brought the notes of those Banks at
a discount of 10 or 10 per cent. at Buffalo. The
false report was happily contradicted in time TO
prevent injury to those institutions-the credit of
which is as good a. ever.
ANS
From Porto Rico.-The schr. Arcadia, Capt.
Piper. arrived at Boston on Tuesday evening,
from Guavama, p. r. The crops OH the south
side of Porto Rico have suffered very much, from
the heavy & unreasonable rains. Whole planta-
tons have been swept By the flood, and IN sever
al instances, negroes and cattle washed to the
500 IAo DlIart inhabitaptc poyor kpoy cuch
devastation at any season. Several vessels, with
cargoes ready, were detained in consequence Of
the rain.
We perceive by the New York papers, that
Miss Frances WRIcHr is on the eve OF departure
for England.
The New York Courier says that more than
three thousand persons attended Miss Wright's
fareweH address. at the Bowery Theatre. one half
of whom were respectable females. The lecture
is to be repeated.
Our readers may have heard, as we did, some
months AFRO, that Colonel MILLER, of the Marine
Corps, was under trial before a Court Martial at
Philadelphia. 1t gives US pleasure to learn. from
the following paragraph, (afording the first Ger
tain information that we have had OF the result
Vi uldl u lliI ll1l IC Nao OSNu " ''' NV''
mand: Nm. mt.
1--WE are informed and requested to mention.
that the notice ofCol. Milier's restoration to his
post, published in this and other papers, was not
strictly accurate in all particulars. 1t appears,
from the printed general order, that that officer
was sentenced, by the Court Martial, to suspen-
| sion for three months; and that this sentence was
RENTED on account of his former good con-
duct and gallantry, his habitual kindness to those
under his command, the habitual enforce
ment of discipline according to navy regulations
by his immediate predecessors, the difference of
opinion that has prevailed on the question whe-
Their army or navy laws apply to detachments of
the Marine Corps at navy yards, and the lapse
of time between the alledged infraction of the law
and the period of the arrest. The notice in ques-
ton was correct in stating the fact that Colonel
Miller has been ordered j to resume his command"
Philadelphia Chronicle.
ANS
IF the clergy should be in want of a text, any
fine within a twelvemonth, they cannot do better