Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-06-18

MS late Seit-appOihtheNt as out N'u'otci =" ho"
don. The Ontario IN. York; Repository informs
US, that Mr.. Charles Butler, Ut Geneva. &C
companies him as Secretary of Legation.
Canal ToHs.-rhe total amount of tolls col
lected on the New York State Canals for the
month of May Is two hundred aud twenty thou
sand four hundred aud ninety lone dollars. THIS
is fftv-twO thousand two hundred and sixteen
dollars more than was collected in the same month
last year.-.4lbany .4rgus.
-saea5eees-
Daniel Lee. Esq, Clerk of the late District
Court of Chancery at this place, was, on Monday
last, appointed Clerk of the Circuit Superior
Court Of Law and Chanccry for this County
Until it is otherwise ordered, the papers pertain
ing to the Chancery Department of the Court.
will be kept at the late office Of the Chancety
Court; and that branch of the business of the new
Court will be personally attended to by Mr.. Lee.
The papers of the Common Law Department Of
the Court will be retained at the office OF the late
Superior Court of Law; and the business Of that
branch of the Court will be exclusively conduct
ed by Major Kean, who has been appointed the
Deputy Clerk of the new Court. So that per-
sons having business to transact on the Chancery
side Of the Court, vii! apply. as heretofore, to
Mr.. Lee; and those having business on the Com
mon Law side to Maj. Kean.-H anchesier tirg.
-srsesGas>
Steamboat Jackson learn from the Al
banv papers that the persons engaged IN raising
this wreck at Grassy Point, OH the day before
Yesterday, found the body Of a passenger who
had been drowned, not before accounted for
The name is not mentioned Two young la
dies. according to the Westchester Herald, went
on board at the Point, of whom nothing has been
heard.
Upon such subjects it is the bounden duty of
the press to speak carefully. but very plainly,
and severely, when circumstances call for 1t
We observe an advertisement signed by Capt
Vanderbilt has been published IN some OF the pa
pers. 1t contains request to other papers 10
copy 1t. Of course it may be inserted IN THIS on
the same terms. 1t swell written; but II proves
nothing. We youch for no facts, but cannot re-
frain, under our present impressions, from think
ing the following remarks from the Albany even
ing Journal, not i'll timed, though they may De
thought severe.
The conduct Of Vanderbilt, after the explo-
sion, was a reproach to our nature. Such an
utter destitutuon of all the ordinary sympathies
of humanity, could scarcely have occurred
among savages: where Is there another being
with the human form, who Immediately after so
terrible a calamity, could have left his passen-
gers, and his.crew, for the mercenary and heart
less purpose of obtaining another boat to keep
his line unbroken? The Indignation OF the clti-
ze.s Of Peekskil was so great. that when VAN
derbiIt, came there the following day, with the
Belona, they would not permit him to land. lie
has, we learn, been prosecuted.
The Westchester Herald contains an interest
iug article Oh the subject, too long for insertion
but disclosing several facts which either came
out on the INQUEST. or were within the knowledge
of the writer. One of these is, that Capt. Fan
Jpari repeatedly affirmed before ms death, mat
the accident was altogether The result Of coreless-
ness or negligence.
| He also urged lady. whom he was handing
on shore, to hurry, as the boat was under high
pressure of steam. Two gentlemen VINO were
sitting on a piazza, a few rods from the wharf
where the boat lay, observed that she did not let
off her steam, and were conversng on the impru-
explosion took place.
"Others again say that one or two pufs ri
steam were let of Just before the explosions; and
this appears not improbable, as there must have
| been a vast accumulation; nor is this inconsIst-
ent with the statement of the two gentleman last
mentioned. The explosion followed The attempt
Of the engineer to relieve the pressure soqnick'
thatit was no, so observed by the most OF those
around"
So saws the Herald. If the matter is to be in
vestigated in court OF law, 1t would be oe''e'
not to anticipate the evidence. But Capt. Van
derbilt has seen lit to set the example hihSe',
and q. h,s ausion to this paper is unequiVot al
we have said thus much in our own v,hdica"on'
! If he can clear himself Of the serious charges
Ill h, tflpI- ". ~