Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-10-11

ing the latest advices from that port and Rio
Grande:-
"R,o DE JAxEIRo, 10th August. 1851.
Since our respects of LIST instant, the following
vessels have arrived from The United States with
Flour:
Brig Thule, from New York, 1000 bbls.
ship Joseph Maxwell, from Bait. $500 bbis.
Shin Douglass, from New York 1000 bbls.
Brig Consul, from Alexandria. 1850 bbls.
Our consumption may be about 5000 barrels
per month. Little Is selling, aud our stock re-
mains at near So, 900 barrels. Some parcels have
within a few days been shipping to the LA Plate,
RIO Grande, St. GATHERINGS and Bahia, IN order
to get rid of It on any terms-tle continued ART
walls deriving US OF all hope OF an opportunity
10 get rid of that on hand. 1t is useless to give
quotations; prices are only nominal. ana the OBJ
iect is 20 make sales on the best terms We cam
Some has been sold at | 1900, and 1t cargoes con-
tinue TO arrive as they have done during inns year.
we fear the price will soon 90 TO 6Aa lOU: indeed
should large quantities III new be sent forward
we do not doubt sales Will be d!flcuit at ABOVE
Sa,1 Og in October or November. 1t is impossi-
Bile to force the article oA-there is no s~pecuia-
ton here in any thing--there is so much distrust
and scarcity of money-it Is SO very difficult to
collect dehis. and impossible in law to compel
payment-that business is hazardous IN the eX-
IRENE. and VIEW long detention OF vessels IS un-
ayoidaL.a. Indeed in such a state OF thingsit Is
impossible any import trade caa be prontaoie.-
Ii may sohappen that an occasional Proht may De
made. but the state Of things Is IN opposition TO
All sound principles of speculation, the chances
IL lcss being greater than these of profit.
ANY thing shipped on freight will almost GER
tainly leave a loss. 4
Oar political Situation contnuesvery unsettIA
and the weakness Of the government noY
party spirit.
C6of.e continues III demand, anu asl.oCsa
cones in Ii eeiv, 4 stock Is not allowed to acca-
mulate.
Hides are only in demand for Portugal.
In Sugars nothing is doing.
Advices from Buenos Ayres to Goth uitlno,
and Montevideo to Goth, are very unfav cradle
Tor Flour, and indeed almost every thing else.
Business in all neighbouring markets Is pretty
much in the same state as here.
Exchange on London, 24aa25d. per 1000 rs.
Dollars, 2FOOOa2HO2O each; Doublonns, 3SRa34U
each: Flour. lllal5n per bill. (nominal); Coffee,
LIST quality, Sl9O0a4l per ar: Hides, 2b5a27O RS.
per I'D.
Howard street Flour %latterly arrived is hard"
Rol Road Mania.-ltis not in a spirit Of i'll
will to our enterprizing neishbors of J Baltimore,
that we occasionally publish articles like the one
subj .ined, bat simply to spread facts before the
public.
The following article appears IN the Liverpool
Mercury of the 10Th ut. AS they have had some
experieuce there of the subject, OF whichlt treats,
it will not perhaps be unwise in us on this s'ue
of the water, C a..u.i, ourselves Of the fruits OF
their experience.
To te Editors fthe liverpool Mercury.
Geo,lemap:-Like many Of my neishbors. | was
caught in the railroad traps which were set so
~prciusely in this place last autumn: at That ume
Utmost every scheme Of the kind was at a premium
. snon as issued, and it was this delusiye pre-,
MUM which tempted me to subscribe to some oil
,bsm Uapuily for the subscribers the bubbles
haze almost all burst. 1t is true "we have paid
Jesr for our Whistles" but may we not make our
sxpe,;ence worth what 1t has cost US! i Tor one
shall be more guarded how | again commit my
selft to any Parliamentary enSagement,trom wh'eh'
n appears, there is no retraction, a sale, or trans
fer, being now nc release.
Those who are in a similar dilemma with my,
self will do well to consider whether we have not
been deceived in the estimated expense OF work
;oua railroad, whether the wear or tare hs not
been greatly moderated. l Understand that those
of the Liverpool ana Niahches'.' % III
what it was supposed they would nave oeen' anu
tbsy have been at work nearly twelve months;
thar the cost of the carriage of goods is enormous,
and that the proprietors are disappointed 10 every
respect except the carrying of passengers. IL THIS
then. be their experience, will be wise tor those
who are now freed from such responsibilities, IN
consequence of the applications to Parliament
having been neglected. again to commit them
selves. without the strongest grounds to expect a
profitable RESULT On this occasion shall use my
own Judgment. and not suffer myself to be again
LODI away by the Hatterins plausible prospectuses
of committees and solicitors: the latter are, OF
course. sure TO be paid. aud well too, whatever
be the folly of the scheme, and the former may
have the means Of prodigiously serving themselves,
nv the sale Of land near the docks OF the r,ver'
Sy improriug the value of their building land or
by easier access to their beds OF Goals.