Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-20
From En- el;Sh Papers.

newspapers lately, aHOTus SUM- S"'i' 49,
cations of the state of business during the last
months. Physic has been in fair demand, prob
ably from the GOODNESS of the weather; only three
apothecaries have Welded to the pressure OF the
times. The frost has dished one potato mer-
chant the shoemakers, brewers and bakers,
have given way in nearly equal proportions; tlf-
teen Of the first fourteen of the second, and
thirteen of the last; and what is really strange,
the season has DESTROYED no fewer than thirty
coal merchants This seems to ask for investi-
cation. Of merchants commonly so called, wool
merchants. of course, included, a hundred have
failed; ct Corn merchants thirty. We count lit
tie of these gentry; but the expiration OF dis
! tiller surprises us much, when we reflect on the
increase of gin drinkers. No fewer than forty
three builders have fallen; but they were accom-
panied by only four brickmakers, so the stable OF
our mansions is in small danger. Twenty-three
cotton manufacturers have become victims to
the STARVATION in the rag trade, in consequence
of the recall of the one pound notes. The idle
ness and gaddng of the mantua-makers have
put the eve out Of one needle-maker, and the
cautions which we gave the public some time
ago against ext0rtion and adulteraton, have
sent fifty wine merchants to the right about The
linen diapers have gone off like sheep, to the
tune of seventv-fve; but only one linen manufac-
turer has been foolish enough to follow them.-
The bar has sustained heavy loss of two solicit
ors, and literature loss still heavier OF 20 book
sellers, the binding, however, holds irm-only
two binders have given way. The devil has been
among the taiors-there are thirty three of them
in the Gazette, which contains also one scaven-
ger, who has. we suppose, gone there to look al
ter the sweepings. Whether under the head OF
Trades not mentioned" the gentlemen of the
! press are. included, we know not, but they do
not appear in any other part OF the enumeration.
Spectator.
EXTREME CoLp.-The fish caught by Capt.
Franklin's party, in Winter Lake, froze as they
were taken out of the nets, in short time be-
came solid mass Of ice, or by blow or two of
the hatchet were easily split open, when the in
testines might be removed in one lump. 1t in
this completely frozen state they were thawed
before the fire. they recovered their animation.
This was particularly the case with the carp,
which recovered SO far as to leap about with much
visor. after it had been frozen for thirty-six
hours!
see9Bs-
.4necdofe of the Ham ton.-Not hundred
wears ago, leader of the HaM ton, whose ia
Their and mother, as Goldsmith says, had made
great noise in the world-the first by beating a
drum, and the other by crying oysters, went to
Washington to see the fashions, take the size of
the Rotdnda, land taste Gadsby's canvass backs.
He had in early life been quite man Of polish,
at one of the taverns in distant town, having
been boot black of great skill and genius; ne
man of polish still, and gave out the card of
fashion for one of the most distinguished circles
One morning he wished to be introduced to the
Senate of the United States He wished to see
the place where Randolph had uttered his jokes
and sprinkled his sarcasms. He went-he made
his entrance at the side door of the Senate. At
that very moment, the full, rapid voice of the
Vice President was heard-in other words the
question was taking. The Senate in favor of
the motion will please to rise" Half the Sena-
ators rose just as the fashionable" was entering
s. Gentlemen" said our man of fashion, ''pray
don't rise-do be seated.' The voice of the
Vice President was again heard putting the neg
alive of the question. and the other portion of
the Senate rose. This mark of condescension
overwhelmed the '.leader of the ton" "Why,
really. gentlemen" said he, ''yOu do me too
much honor-let me beg you to be seated"
When our man of wealth and fashion return
ed to the banks of the Schuylkil, he told his
friends that the Senate of the United States was
composed Of the poitest gentlemen he had ever
seen. So they are. ~ T. Courier.
-seEE9ao-
Mr.. Woodbury. gave as toast at Washington,
the words of MIR. Jefferson:
"The palpable truth that the mass of mankind
has not been born with saddles on their backs,
nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to
ride them legitimately, by the Grace of God"
A Salem paper observes
':These last impressive words of the great
author of that Declaration not his words.
These words were saying of Runsboid to Char
les ii. See Burn. HIST. oDn Times, IL, 5l6."
There is striking coincidence, too, with the
following language Of Bolingbroke, taken from
his Remarks on the History Of England.
s'He who resolved never to believe that slave
~ was ofdivine institution till he behed subjects
borne with punches on their backs like cameIs,
and kings with combs on their heads like cocks;
from which marks it might be collected that the
former were designed to labor and to suffer, and
the former to strut and to crow"
National Gazette.