Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-02-08

, Watervlet predict a very uncommon dey,,s NJ
cold, after the eclipse of the sun on the 18th 81
February.
The Northern mail Of yesterday was in h,
nine o'clock to-day, so that We have the proCeaJ
ings OF the Legislature Of Tuesday and W.dnes
day, The election of Judge Marcy,-vho had
previously resigned his seat on the bench Of tho
Supreme Court,.as Senator of the ,In,ad
States in the place Of Mr.. Sanford. was made n
due continuity with the previous caucus nom;n,.
ton. Mr. Marcy, as times and parties 90. viii,
manifest tendency to depreciation in ali thinss
and in all stations, will make creditable Sens.
tor. He possesses industry, capacity, and as We
hear, fair share Of instruction; so that his Dt,
may in some degree compensate, and make an
average with. the minus of his senatorial col.
league, Mir. DudIey.-M T. .4m
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NEW YORK, Feb. Our whole harbor. and
the broad estuarIes of the two noble rivers with
flow into it, have for many days been choked u,
foes Of ice. struggling against tides and currents
and moving with every fux and refux. in their
vain attempts TO ''work their passage" to the
ocean. Amidst these floating islands, numerous
steamboats, are striving to shoot along in various
directions. now bearing away through this open.
ing, and now being themselves borne away by The
masses of ice rolling and tumbing and heaiyna
up, with heavy sound like the rushing of many
waters. -sas1sesn.
The Magee &orm.-One of the New Bedford
papers has compared the late storm on the 18th
Of this month to the Magce Storm. The latter
occurred on the Goth and eth December, l77s. |
Capt. James Magee sailed from Boston on the
Goth, remarkably mild and pleasant dav, in
the privatcer brig GeneralArnoll, and was wreck
ed the next day off Doten's Cliff in this harOOr
Nearly 80 of the crew persisted The peculiar.
ty of that storm. unlike the recent one, vas the
intense cold. We have heard frequent mention
of that storm by generations that have nov
passed away, as we'll as by the living. who re.
member it, and they all concur in this. that ney
er did snow fall in weather so intense as that
The vessel was on a fiat near the Shore and the
crew persisted one after another with the cold,
without any possibility of giving them relid-
The bodies, frozen in all possible attitudes, wr
the next day after the storm, brough tup tow y
and after being thawed in the brook. and PLACED
in rough collins, were buried in our burial ground
where stone ought to have been erected 10
mark the spot. The only survivors of that crew,
that we knew Of. are Capt. George PlIIsbur Of
Boston, and Cornelius Merchant, Esq. the res
pectable Clerk of the Courts in Dukes County
The latter lost the extremities OF both feet @'s
nearly to disable him from walking. The sur
vivors said, that all who drank spirit died. "hi'
they thought that they saved themselves by POI
ting it in their boots Plymouth Memorial
-sesaas-
II Eping Dead Mnn.-A Mr.. Crimes, aph
senger in the Hartford stage, the other day 'e''
paragraph ahoat in the papers. which fro1s
death Edward Greene, Mail Carrier. Pm
Greene has written letter to town, ins'suq!
that he is alive and kicking, but it is no use iM
newspapers will never bring him to lIle, ano D:
may as well give it up. We have seen his de'1
in some fifty papers, and if he has any e'ns
he may expect, upon this evidence, to see stsf
of administration taken out before bis face "ha
sad fate is poor Greene's. He is cOndemreosp
transport all over the country, positive n'sn
gence of his own DEATH aN0H
-sssa1aEa>
Great MEETING. A large and respectaben nee
ing was last evening held at FaneuiI Hall Tor
purpose of adopting measures for the Abolition
Of imprisonment for debt His Honor the Ma!
was called to the chair, and Messrs. ). Ell' a.
Il. Dauey "cIe apPutuleu Ooe'et"'''' IL.
tions were offered by Mr.. Ellis and suPp'rolsa:.
the mover and by Messrs. Dwight Of the f r
Discipline Society, John w. Whitman u. o.,
Lowell, X. Slack, and A. H. Everett, when ~
MIR. Pierpont moved that the meeting be aoln
ed to same place on Thursday (to-morro"J''
ing at Z o'clock.-Bosfon Cenfind.
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Death of DIR. Uats.-We have the me-
choly duty Of this evening adding to our o0'I,
notices, the name of DR.. JOHN WATTS
President Of the College Of Physicians anu
yeons of this city. Having heard nothing
illness Of this gentleman, we kno" nOuI,
the circumstances which have thus ; 'uO,
called from amongst US one of our aOe i.a]
most estimable citizens. lie was man w.
suished in private life for refinement OIL n .,s
and great purity Of neral department s
y attached to his profession. and enjo!phIs
highest degree the confidence Of the Pu lD..:
practice was extensive. and the klndpsn "A
1elicacy of his attentions to the SICK eAa
DC forgotten by those who have been tnes ,mi
If his skill. lie was, moreover, man. =. mi
or bis piety; and, blessed with a% 1Epv i M
lis benefactions to the leading Pno!sG lid
inns and charities Of the dav. were Ju"