Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-06-24

cept Eng land; y SoMe OetleVe even THAT >ie! "'aJ
20 to Englpnd as colonial, but We DO not thiak
50. Our late European alvices are about as bad
as they we'll could be for Ashes. Yet SO many
vessels being in, each requiring few, and the
supplies from wet weather and bad roads, having
thus far been moderate, prices have been well
supported; pots RANGING from $3.50 to f24. AMI
pearls Sls6 a14O. We think these prices can
not be supported much longer"
June l4th. The late news via Quebec 10
l4th ut. is so decidedly unfavorabe for grain and
-four, thata very sensible effect is produced here;
and considerable decline, without even being
able to effect sales, is the consequence. quo
tation is therefore Of very little or no use. Ash
es come in more freely, and droop little; pots
SOS Sis; pearls 34s. A few sales have been
made at Cd and Is per cwt higher.
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Contuctors.-By experiments made on board
the British ship Dryad, on the Coast OF Africa
the utility of lightning conductors, in general has
been sufficiently proved. There had been great
deal of lightning the coast and IN one instance
the Dryad encountered the fury ola tornado
heavy flash of lightning struck the foremost, and
was seen distinctly to pass down the conductor;
at the same time whiZzing noise was heard, re-
semblius the boiling of water. In snort time
after, second flash was seen by the officers Oh
the quarter deck, to stike.upou the 1nlzen mast,
which passed OF safely, but attended as before
with d similar WhiZZing noise. IL does not APP
near that the conductors sustained the slightest
dctiora,on or marks from the passage OF the e.
iec,rcal fluid This account from the Dryad
goes to prove. that the conductors do not draw
down upon ship any dangerous consequences,
or attract as some persons imagine, more e'ec-
trio fluid than they can transmit. VI course, IN
the tornado mentioned above, there must neces-
sarily have been plenty of electric iiuld present
to be attracted; so that either the conductors
discharged the whole of it, or otherwise only as
much as they attracted; it they discharged the
whole with 81 little effect, there surely can be
nothing to apprehend. There can he no ques-
ton but that Tie Dryad's masts were saved by
the rapidly eQuaizing power OF the conductors,
by which the dense and otherwise overwhelming
stroke was passed. We have unly to reflect on
the frishtful electrical action of tornado on the
coast Of Africa, TO conclude that the ship, envc'-
oped ias she must have been) in electric matter.
was entirely protected from damage, by the III
Auence of her lightning conductor.
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We learn from Capt. Moore Of. the packet
ship Cambria from London, that as late as the
5th alt. our Minister Mr.. McLane, had express
no intention of immediately returning, nor did
he seem to be at all aware that his presence here,
before autumn, was expected. Capt. NJ. passed
the evening OF the 9Th in Mr.. McLane's compa-
ny; and will take out with him, on his return to
London, some articles which the minister re-
auested hln to procure for him IN this country.
Judge Preble and family had taken passage tor
this country in the Corinthian packet OF the
lst inst. Mr.. Randolph, our extraordinary
Minister to Russia, was still in London.
a. 7. Gaz.
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1t was stated, bat not In way which salts
fled us that it was or could be so, that MIR. Don
nelson the nephew and late Private Secretary Of
President Jackson. refusing, he and his, to
associate in certain quarter at Washington,
had been dismissed by the President. The ru-
NOR farther went, that Nicholas T. Trist, Esq.
was the successor of Mr.. Donnelson's honors.
We now learn from source of CT edit. that Mr..
Donnelson has been dismissed; that he passed
through this city on Monday. bag and baggage
for Tennessee, whittier Mrs. Donnelson has pre-
coded him, not to return, and that the Cause
of this rupture between uncle and nephew, was
the positive refusal of the latter to bow to the
mandates of General Jackson, in associating
with-which is now, the sine qua non of the
Presidents favor
This intelligence, we repeat our conviction,
is implicitly 70 be depended upon. The refec-
tions which it must suggest in every bosom, alive
to the honor of the country and its government.
we leave to the workings of the readers own
mind, to the fathers, husbands and brothers of
the land. To Donnelson and his lady, if
such are the IS which coerce their depart
ure from lion, we tender, what this com
muniry " ia and ayouch, the homage
Of It's -rotoan4 respect and appreciation.
Richmond UhiS.
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PAGANINl.
A late number of the Foreign Quarterly Review
has a very interesting notice OF this wonderful al
tist. from which TIE foliowingIs an extract:
1--WE know no one who has been more cruelty
misrepresented than the subject Of this notice.
In reality person of the sentlest and most nof-
fensive habits, he is any thing rather than the des
perate ruflian he has been described. In his de.
meanor he is modest and unassuming, in his dis
position liberal aud generous to a fault. Like
most artists, ardent and enthusiastic in his GEM
permanent, and in his actions very much creature
of impulse; he sful of all that unaffected simpii.
,;,y ,vh;ch wp almoSt invariably find aSsOr ted