Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-08
Extract Of a letter from Ws officer on board one
of the Private Discovery pessels. dafed'
STATEN LAND, TERRA DEL FuEGo,

E,jyacf of % letter from at officer on board one
of the Private Discovery pessels, dated,
STATEN LAND, TERRA DEL F~uEGo,
JAN. Is, $780,
GIVE arrived here a few days since, and are
ONLY waiting for Capt Pendleton, In the Seraph,
to make a dash at the South Pole. We are at
preseut anchored in a little bay, on the northern
coast of this island, long known nj as Port Hatches
by our restless & enterprising ~sealers. This ISL
and is about 80 miles in extent, and covered with
extensive forests, chiefly Of evergreens. Our
naturalists are actively employed, and we are
all animated by the hope OF doing something ere
ditable to the country. We learn that captain
Foster, of the English discovery ship Chanticleer,
has been here, giving m to places Known, al
ready for years by various yankee appellatlons.
He mast have been pretty busy, for ne was en-
ragged nearly two months in lodging about this
island alone. Our dreary solitude was agreeably
relieved a few days ago by the appearance OF a
sail on the horizon. Every glass on board was
put in requisition, and speculations and bets
were freely yentured as to what the stranger
might be. As she drew nearer, her small size
induced many to think that she might be the
long boat of some foundered vessel, rugged up
with temporary sails. Imagine our surprise, as
well as pleasure, when the little schr. Penguin,
Of Sttnington, rounded to alongside OF US, and
| re ported a short passage from our dear country.
Our BRIG 1.-THE Annawan) is not large. but she
looks like a line of battle ship alongside OF the
little Penguin. She is to accompany US to the
South. / will endeavor to give you a full account
of all our dsings at the end of the present sea-
son. Al well."-NeW York Herald.
100
Internal mproUement.-Wea are sometimes sur
prised at hearing of Works of Internal Improve
ment, handsomely advanced or nearly completed.
! which had either escaped us in their earlier stages
or had avoided the glare of notorlety. Among
these we are happy to notice the Norris Canal.
| The Newark Intelligencer of the 29th instant
states, that the Company is industlously engaged
in prosecuting the Canal-and a high hope is en-
tertained, that 8. this new channel of iater-
nal Navigation will be completed, from the Del
aware to the Passa!c, in the course OF October en-
suing" 1t is said that a thousand mechanics
and laborers are employed upon the various un-
finished portions of the Canal, 'and that the whole
line presents the appearance of great activity"
Much credit is given to the President and direc-
tors of the company in general.
1.-THE indefatigable enterprise of the Hon.
| Cadwailader ID. Golden, seconded by the prompt
and %untiring ~exertions of Messrs. Charles L.
Shipman of this town. and Robert +. Bell of New
York, together with the unremitting assiduities
of Messrs. Beach and Scott. will, in a few months,
have brought this great work. through a sea of
difficulties ahd impediments, to a successful,
happy and promising termination.
CRichmond Compiler.
aNsA
The Duke of Clarence, who succeeds to the
Throne of England in the event of the death of
the present king, must be now in the esd year OF
his age. The Princess Victoria. daughter of the
late Duke of Kent, who, after the Duke of Cha
renee, is the heir presumptlve to the crown, Is in
the eleventh year of her age, and is already near
w as great a tavorite with the English people as
was the lamented wife of Prince Leopold. Her
acquisitions and accomplishments are said to be
quite uncommon for such a child, and her tenn
per and manners have been highly extolled. The
present heir apparent is represented as being OF a
naughty and morose disposition-'' neither seek
ing nor obtaining from those around him admi-
ration or respect" If so. he must differ very
much from the rest of his family, who, whatever
may be their personal character in other respects,
have never been charged with a want of urbanity
of manners. There are those in this city WHO re-
collect the Duke of Clarence when a midshipman
Of the British Navy, as a lively and frolicsome
bov. At the very time that his hirtations here
Wltn some Ol tWe OsiieS vi uldt uey Welc dSsuuh-
iug 50 grave a character, that the Admiral under
whom he sailed thought it necessary to inderdict
the aides of the city from dancing with his royal
h~ishness, the brother to :. lie first gentleman in
the world" was skating with the boys of the city
behind where the hospital is now situated. with a
sergeant's guard as an escort tagging at his heels.
NeW FORK american.
%N>
The City Elections.-The Election for Mayor,
and members of the Board of Aldermen and
board of Common Council, of the City of
Washington, takes place this day, and we shall
tomorrow be enabled to announce its results
There is much interest felt, and great division of
opinion among the voters as to the Mayorslity.
for which there are three leading candidates. the
others being understood to have declined. 1t is
supposed that there will be nine hundred votes
polled; a considerable number, when it is borne in
mind that no person is entitled to vote, who has
not been assessed in property to the amount of
one hundred dollars, and paid his personal tax
for the year. 1t is a curious fact, that some of
the leading merchants in the City, besides other
highly respectable residents. are not entitled to a
vote. not being househOlders. and their stock in