Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-08-09

! DtSt iaCc. Dut Tue ituIt8 warn than (
not or, should say, need u'e aJ Sarsh were t
! they do in this country,s or, as new g
quite old-fashioned here sun, ,.o oat
fashion comes out in Ii .. / ,hev soon :
them in our sea-portbwfihu '"e" ntry As for
spread all over this efe9f 'a' e ood MT snaar
Doctors in town or,9Wf you u. como are
long for their help;sfAe SS''ii' a 49,, waat IN
t n, - 80 onr of worship. am glad to
-, ,', H., I". T. Ia free country; we need
49,. '.i,Enless We please. but peo-
nI' p". ~ a"J 20 ,,,',;ng where they belong
PI !, ~ o,I, - ,ha 1--WE Won the names OF
III ~ t1o - ~n ritbink they are called by
more names thang are WIN :, nrr
tell you that there 10 less 'nan wv Tta
street. and four Of m good brick nOus ~ NV
Calvinist, Protest and Jew, aye al, a. VIZ
people here, and algree every OF u an,"
consciences. As hur houses, Yn wouiu say
they are as good as ours. and weI "sH ;1na s.
Here is rood land sale. only tio m'!es from
town, at IS dollalper acre. a', ntarrb;,I. h,ys
States pine well tipered anu %i'.' c"nts
good Earl Bank Cds. when se'l" g. ' NOR cord.
per bushel. Firewoi. 80 anu u.s." ~ ir,aJ
a cord is #. ong,k tt. hls'' "'ii n Co. IT,
Geese are ID cents ech; ana wv 1T nos. :,
key for dinner YESTERDAY, - u.s. nnl;nJ. IF
cents. Eggs Sets. per DOZEN M n.y.; =;
trades are good in this country, I ''le'e - nv not
enough dyeing in this town I" s!fo't t""'.;S'
but Cincinnati is our city Tor I'M
natl contains about 5000 mhaOi'fs) Is 'h"'i
larger than Brighton. and has no pa oyei' an"
at Pittsburgh the same. The fot, 10 "e9' VI
us down the river, and the latter l'he eas,' uie
steamboats, and stages run to anfoh JUN pa
ces here. Money is more iiusf N u'e '"W" ~
but, If YOU and mother come, Yn,us' i've WIN
Us, and YOU will not want for q ''l''s u''' VIC
can get YOU, and YOU will ney repent oo'"'''5 :,
There are older people tha you :or'" "''
the time from different parts III, u'I' '"''''''e''
and hope my dear motne'""' 'rN. Iu'' :,
for can make her and ~ e"h'o' any,
you could get passage TO "''''"' 90 - Wv
To vonr King. YOU could p"c ''' I"N%t' ~"
don't let them know youFo'n'hs \" u'e nv
States: YOU must beat feh' oo"', WI WV P'0
pie Of this country upets'ahu ui1'' pe SUI
to bring provisions toast you on ne seas an'
what YOU have left wi'serve you on Tie land
Canada is only l00miles from us aller yo'
cross the lake, and hen YOU could &c: 4 iarS
wagon, horses and n1u to bring you here. OF
must bring your bed and bedding that you haT
on the sea to serve w up the country: hop
YOU will bring somsed behring's. tor am long
luz for some very mich; and some Dutch cheese
and some currants that We may have good CAKE
We have good ra inns. but you would ind ra
sins very GOOD at ca, rice and -four, and an
sort of fresh thins but butter Brown can te
what is best. Saah tells me that long sha"
are very cheap il your country, IL they al
YOU m,cht make great deal b. bringing sue
things: they are i: fashion here; also yoor chea
stockings of all ,JIUrs and sizes, needles an
the cheapest giIghams and calicoes. Ii yo
were mind you sould make your passage, an
offer your goods FIR sale wherever YOU stop, b
fore you spent 70 r money, and put good pro-
on them. Scissors and knives, and elastic ga
tiers fetch fifty cents. and you can get the
cheap. Pack in your fire irons, if good, at the be
tom of your box, and other things Of value"
OF all these letter writers. Bessy is ''the OF
for our money!" Like true political economi:
she commences by stating the difference in t
currencies She indeed makes mistake
fcur-pencc, in the value of the dollar, from n
attending TO the rate of exchange; but this
| triing. Then she gives the prices OF all t
most important articles used in housekeeping
That there might be no mistake about the Tt
Key, sire nuts si;t, vi s,,ve the cost To fra
ton. The wages OF labor she WTsrry--.--..i
from specifying, for they differ in different pa
of the country, and according to the skill OF I
labnrer. She contents herself with saying. s.
kinds of trades are good in this country" mea
inc thereby when compared with England.
| Afterwards she adds some prudential advi'
and thinking it quite justifiable to despoll
Phiistines, she advises indirect emigration,
way Of Canada, but the Kings officers must I
know that the intention Of her friends is to set
in Ohio In The hint "you must beat them dow
for the people Of this country understand that
there is much implied, and by which no doul
her wary kinsfolk will profit. The suggestion
regard to the "red herrings" and the "Dut
cheese shew that Bessy, though enjoying
fat of our land,is not unmindful of the good thin
she left behind. She winds up by showing J
friends how they can "turn penny" even
crossing the water. and thus make the voyage
self conducive to profit.
There is narieie in these letters whichk We
amusing. They show the exact workings of
human mind, in situation in which it is higl
interesting to aman of contcmplative dispositl,
To writer of philosophical history, such famll
epistles would be of more value than heavy 5
tistic documents. If Mr.. Watson could TO
a collection of the letters which the ante-revo