Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-07

she is to be propelled by paddles in the stern.-
Some improvements have been projected in the
machinery tobe used which will do away the OBJ
jections found in Steamboats, which have here
tofore been constructed for canal havigation-a
desideratum of the utmost consequence.
This improvement will be most desirable one.
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. We hope our
neighbors of Baltimore will not become alarmed
at the idea, that even their locomotive cars may
be supplanted in the way of fast sailing.
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The Charleston Patriot of the 2sth ult. says,
that Tat city has been resorted to, this season,
by country dealers to greater extent than has
been known for number of years past.
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RICHMOND, May 2. 1880.
DEAR SIR: thank you for the complimentary
notice you were pleased to take Of my new ed-
ton of the Letters of Algernon Sidney, as | also
do for the transmission of the several copies of
the same
Your article is no. only bold and spirited, but
it takes the bull DIV the horns. Pursue the chase,
and We will yet come of victorious.
Yours, respectfully,
T. w. WHITE.
To the Editor Of The GazeHe.
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"He is drunk. or else he ,catks in his sleep"
SLEEP WALKING.-A singular case of SOM
nambulism was mentioned to US by friend from
Hudson, on Saturday. 1t appears that Captain
Q. Y. of that city, is in the habit of getting
up in his sleep. One night last winter, soon az
ter the ice formed upon the river, and while its
surface was as bright as polished mirror, Mr..
X. was discovered in the course of the night to
have left his bed and board, with nothing but his
shirt, drawers and stockings for a covering
Pursuit was made, and he was found saunterng
along the streets. But he fled from all who ap-
preached with amazing s~iftness, dodging corners
and threading streets and alleys like police Of
6cer, or a rogue running away from one. At
length, finding his pursuers to gain upon
him, he took to the river, and ran out upon the
ice, where he put them at defiance, for he sport
ed upon its glazed surface, like skater cutting
the name of his mistress with his heels upon the
ice, and they dared not follow him, expecting ev-
cry moment that he would sink through the treach-
erous bridge. But he finally awoke and came On
shore in great terror and exhaustion. Lately
this nocturnal adventurer has had another frOic
in his slumbers. He went to bed quite early
in the evening, and sailed forth at about eleven
o'clock-taking the Columbia turnpike, leading
to Shefheld-having the same scanty apparel as
before. Several people met him on the
road between Hudson and Claverack, footing.it
along at prodigious rate, but not knowing the
cause, and some doubling his meterialty, his pro-
gress was not opposed until he had clean passed
the village of Claverack, crossing the bridge at
Van Reanssalear's Mills, and was ascending the
gentle hill beyond. Here, steet negro man of
some sense. returning rather late from a blissful
visit to his dingy Amaryllis, perceiving that the
man must either be crazy or,asleep, sprang before
and grasped him in his arms. The white rover
struggled with him for moment, but Jugurtha
threw him to the ground, and he awoke by the
shock of the tumble in wild affright-beievins
himself in the hands of the devil, and uttering
wild note of alarm accordingly-to which Sambo
very phosophically Replied You berry hard
to wake massa." After the hypno-patetic had
picked himself up, and found out by the light
of the moon, and the protestations of SyphaX.
that he was no nearer Gehenna than the border
between Ciaverack and Spencer town, and that
his companion was as honest fellow as though
his skin was white, he went TO farmhouse, much
exhausted, and was kindly taken in, after the in
mates had become satisfied that ghosts do not
walk abroad in such muscular and substantial
frames. Next morning he returned homein Dor
rowed suit. much to the relief of his friends, who
were greatly distressedby the superstition that in
attempting to 90 on board his vessel in his sleep,
he had fallen into the river from the wharf. The
Aeetness and energy of Mr.. X. were remarkably
displayed on this occasion; for by calculation of
the time, he must have travelled above six miles
in the space of an hour-N. 7. Com. Ado.