Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-10-29

A Western paper gives us a piece OF grave
news, that 8. Knapp the murderer has escaped. y
1t is fact Mr.. Editor. He absconded to "parts
on the 2Sth ult. with halter round
his neck.-Camden s. c. Journal
A Monte Video paper announces the death of
George w the very day it happened. This puts
On in mind of old Ames' Almanac, when he put
a snow storm into July, and it actually did snow
upon the day.-Ib.
There are said to be, at this time, living on one
farm. in Pitt county, North Carolina. hve per-
sons, the aggregate Of whose age is 4lo years
the oldest being 100. and the youngest 70 years
old. In the same family is Bible 2i7 yrs. old.
The Montreal Gazette states that the road fran
the Kennebec river leading to Quebec may be
considered completed, as several American gen.
tlemen from the State of Name have lately pas
sed through it with their carriages. one with
horses abreast. In passing about two miles
only, they experienced slight difficulty in max
ING their way. the rest being in such excellent
order that it may be travelled on IN general at
the rate of nine or ten miles an hour.
In the Circuit Court of the United States on
Tuesday morning. George II. Smith was SEN
fenced 10 seven wears imprisonment at hard labor,
and to pay fine of five hundred dollars, for pas
sing counterfeit note and committing forgery
on the Bank of the United States. Calvin j..
Carpenter was also sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment, and to pay a fine of three thousand
tlu4lsls. for passing a counterfeit note on the
same bank. Judge Baldwin forcibly expressed
the determination of the Court to exert all the
means within its power to suppress the commits
sion Of this crime, which had become 50 common
in the United Philadelphia Ing.
D. Inc
have declared sami-annual dividends-one of 90
mediately previous six months dividends were
10 per cent. and ls per cent.
The Mobile Register of October 9 says: " A
few bales of Cotton of the new crop have reached
this market from Blakely. and also from CIcka-
sha We understand portion of both lots was
sold at 10 cents"
7errible.-The British brig Matilda, lying at
Bonny, on the coast of Africa, exploded on the
18th May. How the accident happened never
can be known, for every one of the ships COM
pany, with upwards of one hundred blacks who
were on board, lost their lives, the Matilda being
riven into atoms.
Tapoury Lunguage.-Mr. birmingham, the
candidate for POmfret, when thanking the cleo
tors observed, :. If 1t possible to construct
machine on the principle of MIR. Perkins steam
gun (which fired a thousand shots an hour,) then
he would discharge them ten thousand thank
yes"
I'm eternal Separa'ion.-An English lady, late
ly divorced from her husband, went over to France
and turned Catholic. in order, she said, that she
might not again be iii his company, either in this
world or the mex.
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gister says-h j. fact, not generally known to
Americans, that the father OF this country held the
office of Marshal of France, under Louis XVI.
at the same time that he was performing here the
duties of Lieutenant General in the Revoutiona-
ry army. He was created Marshal, to enable
him to command Ruchambeau. who in rank was
very old general, and could only be command
ed by Marshal of France. On picture pre-
sented to him by the Earl of Ruchan, wa, written
ITO Marshal General Washington"
M,mifcen Donation.-Joseph Lee, heir to the
estate Of Francis Lee. of Boston. has presented TO
the " M'Lane Asylum for the Insane,'' the sum
of Tuenfy Thousand Dollars.
Hail Storm.-The Albany Daily Advertiser,
of Thursday last. says-Yesterday afternoon, "a
bout O'Clock. we had hard storm of rain. wind
and hail, which lasted with great violence for a.
out ten minutes, Wnen Sentie anu steady ram
succeeded, which continued till our paper went
to press. We fear that much damage has been
done in some parts of the country.
The Notae Pmriot-This is the title of tri-
weekly Journal published in Mobile. tits neatly
got up, and seems properly conducted. That
city is sufficiently large and prosperous for the
support OF two papers, the number which it now
contains.
J1niaia Canai.-We learn from the Mifflin Ea.
gle of Thursday. that the water was let into the
Lewistown and Huntingdon division of the JunA-
ia Canal, from the dam of Augwick Falls, about
twenty six miles from Lewistown, on Tuesday
last. The only barrier to letting in the water
from Huntingdon, is the unfinished state Of the
two aqueducts across the river. The canal be-
low Lewistown, is in good order and full opera
ton.
Vegetable Ertract-In the North of France an
excellent extract of the herbs used in soups and
broths Is made by boiling them very slowly with
a sufficient quantity salt, and afterwards evap-
Grating the fluid. little of this extract, dis
solved with gum arabic in hot water, is said to
make CAPITAL soup-N E. Farmer