Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-21


and let It at once be known that the draft OF an
au thorized Agent on the Navy Department Of
the United States, is as valueless as bit OF log
paper, unless the purchaser takes the precaution
to have it accompanied by bill of disbursements,
and the necessary vouchers. Oh! Mr.. Branch!
1t requires wiser head than fortune has deign-
ed to place on your shoulders, 70 conduct the
affairs Of the Department with credit to the cOun-
try, or honor to yourself.
-@NNN
From, the Neo York Commercial, Jan. II.
THE STORM.
The sun is now shining out upon US, after
snow storm, unequalled in its violence and dura-
ton. since the winter of l820-al. The storm
commenced about midnight on Friday evening"
accompanied by high wind from the northeast,
nor did it abate until the close of yesterday
Owing to the high wind, the snow has been very
uneuually distributed through the city, and pro-
badly over the country likewise-it having been
driven into embankments in the narrow streets,
and swept into huge heaps by the sides Of the
fences. The mean depth Of the snow, but for
this cause, would probably have been from eight
cen to twenty inches.
To those who were we'll housed and provided,
it was grand storm to look out upon. The roar
of the wind was much of the time like the heavy
rushing of the Niagara, it leaps from the plain
of Erie into the basin of Ontario, while the driv-
ing volumes of snow whirled in myriads of beau
tifn misty wreaths, like winding sheets in the
air. But we fear that there were many hundreds
of our population suffering too keenly from the
inclemency of the weather, to look upon the trou-
bled elements with an eye of fancy.
The Southern Mail did not arrive until between
5 and 4 O'Clock in the afternoon of Saturday.
We are requested to say that The Evening Post
is mistaken in stating that the New Jersey ferry
boats crossed the Hudson on Saturday. 1t was
not until O'Clock that Col. Dodd, the Agent for
carving the mail, could cross and that was III the
first boat. He offered in the morning $50 to
have the mail brought over; but the severity OF
the storm prevented any attempt until the alter
noon. Only two trips were made,a land these were
for the purpose of carving the mail across the
river. The only mail which arrived yesterday
was the northern. due on Saturday noon The
road between Newark and Elizabethtown is block
ed up, the snow having driited so much as to form
banks of at least twelve feet deep.& of course rem
dered the road impossible. and prevented the
mail due Yesterday. from arriving We have
received no account from the east Or north.
1t was reported on Saturday evening, that the
packet ship Ontario, Capt. Sebor, which sailed
from this port for London on the 10th inst. had
been run down by vessel and sunk. We are
happy to say that there Is not the least founda'
ton for rum0r-the news boat Thomas II. Smith,
came up Yesterday morning. She lett the Hook
on Friday evening at 8 O'clock, and at sun down
on that evening saw the Ontario make fine Of
fne The T. III. Smith was thrown on her beam
! ends bv sudden squall, but she soon righted.
The schooner President jackson, Somers, OF
Absecom. dragged from her anchorage in the North
River, aud went ashore at Bellows island
The steamboat Bolivar, Vanderbilt; came up
this morning from Staten Island. Capt V. III
| forms us that the ship Kentucky rode out the
gale at her anchorage of Quarantine. The brig
reported in the morning papers as ashore on Sta
ten Island. supposed to be the William Nv. proves
| to be hulk difted from some of the wharves'
A sloop ran foul of the canal boat Superior, VIII
cox, of Albany. while laying at the Quarantine
Dock, by which the boat received much INJURY.
The schr. Maine, of Bath. came in the Hook on
Friday eveninc-her situation unknown.
Oae o'clock.-Our News Collector has just
communicated the following
| The wall around Bellows Island is allwashed
down; the sea was so tremendously heavy that II
broke nearly over the island.
The ship Chancellor and brig William ~, are
at anchor at the S. w. Spit; also schooner un
kpown-a schooner ashore near the Elm Tree,
! Staten Island) has cargo of tlaxseed.
The lighter schooner Neptune broke adrh'
from State Prison wharf FRIDAY night, and has
not been heard of since.
! T. - chnro