Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-17

Ann io;,es il, length. built with all the PERFECTION
of hydraulic architecture Of the present day,
formsd the communication between these two
n,I.cos R,t not satisfied with their open passage.
the queen wished to be able to pass unseen from
ono Shore to the other The plan OF su6terra-
nom gallery was soon formed; but Sem,ramls con-
strucfed an infinitely more expensive put mucn
more secure tunnel than Mr.. Brunei. one Vi
the low est parts of Babylon was chosen anu
reservoir excavated three hundred STADIUM (ln'r-
tv seven and half miles, square, and thirty hye
feet deem. INTO which the river was cohuucteo'
when the erection of the tunnel commenced OH
dry ground and in open day. The length OF
was something about four hundred tolses; ITS M
ner width. fifteen; and its height, not reckoning
the arch of the vault. twelve feet. Inc arch anu
side walls were formed of burnt bricks; which,
being twenty bricks thick, made at least Twelve
feet, as their bricks BY all accounts were larger
than ours After the completion OF me work,
the whole tunnel on either side was smeared WIN
boiled bitumen, till it acquired coating hive feet
feet in thickness, -four Babylon ellis. The RI
yer was then conducted into its former channel,
and the two outlets of the tunnel enclosed VIII,
brazen GATES, which still existed in the time OF
CYRUS, 55S years, b. G. or 15O6 years after their
erection. Diodorus concludes thus: ne
whole work was completed in seven days" NC
cordinp. therefore, to the simple calculation. at
least fifty thousand skilful workmen must have
been employed during these seven days. Bat AS
regards the excavation of the reservoir, the dis
no,itions must have been much more gigantic, 1t
be,ne EASY to calculate that with the employment
of two millions of workmen, it would not be com
pleted I'm less than ten years.
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There continues to be mutterlng OF the
thunder IN Mr.. John Barbour's district. The
editor of the Warrenton Gazette comes out as
noitical vitness-to what end we shall see
hereafter.
..Befnre the adjournment Of Congress, the
editor had several conversations with MIR. Bar
buur. after the appearance Of the Calhoun cores
pondence, and he regarded Mr.. b. as the politi-
cal and personal friend of the President, as well
as of Mr.. Calhoun At the close of the session,
as Mr. B. returned home, the editor was told OF
remarks said to have been made by him in War
renton that surprised him at March Court he
met Mr.. Barbour, ard as a political friend told
him report had obtained some currency that he
was opposed to the reelection of the President,
and he therefore thought it was duty he owed
to his political standing with the people, and the
republican party, to avail himself of the first op-
portunity to stop the circulation of the suspicious
aHoat. by publicly stating he would support the
re. election of the President. Mr.. Barbour re-
piled in substance that Gen. Jackson had never
doubted his friendly feeIings-that he had been
his first and uniform friend, and that he had not
changed; but as to his making his reelection a
theme for public address he felt much Difficult
tv. as he had heretofore objected to the re-elec-
ton of Mr.. Adams as impolitic and dangerous
from principle, and not then anticipating there
ever could be a necessity for the reelection OF
Gen. Jackson, he had in the canvass repeatedly
declared the Gen. would not desire office more
than four years, and therefore, were he now to
press his reelection On the people, his former de-
cIarations would be thrown in his teeth. The
conversation was interrupted by another person
speaking to Mr.. Barbour and we left him con-
vinced there was much force in his remarks, al
though the course they suggested would leave him
uncommitted on point we wished him to have
been more explicit. as doubts had been suggest
eds
We learn that the q. S. ship Fairfield, Capt.
Parker, recently from the Mediterranean, and
now living at Norfolk, has been ordered to New
York.
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The U. S. Circuit Court now sitting in Savan'
nah has been occupied principally with the I'M
portan eiectment case of Patterson (of Mary land)
vs. W,nn (of Franklin County, Geo. which IN
wolves claim to over eighteen thousand acres OF
land. ]. NJ. Berrien and j. w. Wide for plain
tiff. Seaborn Jones for defendant.
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All the contents of the 18th number OF the
American Quarterly Review have been given to
the press, and the number will be issued at the
regular period. The titles of the several articles
are. College Instruction and Discipline.
Croly's George the Fourth-S: Hierogl yrhlc
System-4. Iron. S. Samcse T"ins-6. Eu-
rope and Ameroa-7 Webstep's Speeches and
Forensic Arguments-8. Poland-9. History OF
Maryland-1O. Peale's Notes on Italy.
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The New York District Attorney will not, at
this term of the Court of Sessions, pray that juds
ment be passed upon Edward Smith. for robbing