Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-09-01
A Public Dinner was lately given at Magnoli;

A Public Dinner was lately given at Magnolia,
in Florida, to Col. JOSEPH VI. WHITE, Delegate
to Congress from that territory: tribute OF res
pect which he has we'll deserved, al the hands OF
his constituents, for the services which he has
rendered them in Congress. 1t is agreeable to
find that these services are properly appreciated
where due estimate OF them must be grateful I"
his feeling. In the language OF the toast gwen
on the occasion in connection With his name,
..hs euIogv is inscribed on the record OF his use
fulness. which envy cannot blot. nor malice ef-
face" Among the Volunteer Toasts less than
twenty in NUMBER are no fewer than four devot-
cd to the Fair Sex. With these foasts, the
following Toast an excellent one by itself, Is ra-
ther oddly found associated:
..Florida-as impatient to break into the I'M
ion. as South Carolina is to break ont: perhaps 1t
would be better for both to stay where they are
better acquainted"
The ladies'. it is said, are for ,u1ion-to a man.
The gentlemen of Magnolia do not appear to he
so unanimous or this point. Nat. Int
The Corvette Renaington went to sea on Sum-
day evening last. Among her passengers are the
Baron Krudener, Russian Minister; Capt. Alex
ander Ivanhof; Lieut.. John Amosof, and Mid
shipman Theodore Antorioff, of the Imperial Ma
w. Baron Krudener returns TO Russia on leave
of absence. and will be relieved by Baron Sacken.
as Charge d Affairs, who was TO sail from Liver
pool for the United States on the 9Th July.
The Kensington was built three or four years
ago, at Philadelphia, for the Mexican Govern
mcnt; but that Government falling to take the
ship, she was some months ago bought for the Rus
sian Government, and, after having been repair
ed. under the direction of Lieut.. Ramsay. of the
United States Navy, has departed for Russia un-
der the command of that officer. Nat Int.
-a08Gep-
Taking The Bull by The Horns.-A cores
pendent Of the Concord, n. II. Statesman
wrItes:-
As Young man was driving four year old
bull along the Banks of the Pemigewasset, at
New Hampton, last Monday. the animal turned
and attacked him. The man snatched stake
from the fence and stood maniully upon his de-
fence The bull pushed violently at him, now
recedlng, then renewing the attack with redoub-
led fury, endeavoring to dash his adversary to
the earth. In few minutes the battle became
so warm that the man beat retreat and plunged
into the river there three or four feet deep
The bull followed. but the man reached the OPP
posite shore before him. He had not time to es-
cape. however. before the bull was at his heels.
He again retreated; plunged into the stream. but
by this time he had become 50 much exhausted
that the animal overlook him in the middle of it..
Still the young man, fertile in expedients. eluded
the attack by constant turning in the water. As
the animal could not turn so rapidly as the youth.
the latter succeeded in seizine upon his tail
thence he eaped upon his neck and srappied him
bv the horns. By main strength lie forced his
head under water and drowned him"
A young man Of 90 years of age seized four
year old bull by the horns and drowned him.
Exactly SO. The moral of the above is this;
in time of danger be cool. firm. resolute, active,
and YOU will generally escape unhurt
Had the above come from less respectable
source than the Concord Statesman, we should
have inclined to the belief that it was ga Geek