Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-02-24

,onr.eeu feet above the river bank, and was with
in FIVE feet Of floating me. my house. and every
thing about me, "en masse" down its current. -
Finding il continued to rise, and not knowing how
far the inundation would extend, determined
:, leave the place, and make trip up the river,
with the double view Of witnessing personally the
;siury sustained by the Inhabitants OF the river
bank, and attending some business. as
cended the river about one hundred and thirty
miles, and in that distance. passed by the towns
of Petersburg in Virginia. and Marietta in OHIO.
On either bank of the river every thing movable,
was carried off and swept down the stream. Un-
ders,and me to speak literally, for Heaven knows
il is calamity sufficiently awful without resort
ing to any imagery to give the narrative color
o ing. Houses, fences, grain, and every cord of
woud on the bank went off.-and in many instances
the inmates Of houses, were rescued at midnight,
from becoming victims, BY being taken from the
tops Of houses, where many had passed hours.
Marietta was entirely inundated. Business
suspended, and the few citizens saw, were NOV
steamboat of about 200 tons, and drawing six feet
,sa,er could have ran all over the town. The
banking house is fine large brick dwelling, three
stories high, and when saw it, man might have
stood in boat, and walked into the second sto
ry. The people living on the bank. when CON-
PEELED to leave their houses, retreated to the hills
in their rear, and protected themselves from the
ineIemency of the weather. by building Temporal.
ry huts. into which they huddled themselves, with
the scraps of household furniture, they in the hur
ry Of the moment. could lay their hands on.
saw many good houses, floating down the ri
yer, and in one instance dwelling went of and
sarried woman in it; she was rescued, after hay.
ing been a considerable time on the water.
!Sguabbles-We published on Wednesday the
correspondence between Mr.. Poindexter and
Mr.. Hoffman. The Washington Globe contains
correspondence between MIR. Poindexter and
Mr. Bergen, Of New York. on the same subject
which terminates in Mr.. Moore's (Sanator) step.
ping in and demanding satisfaction from Mr..
Bergen, who negotiates through James Watson
Webb. to which parsonage exception is taken,
&c &c. We wash our hands of all thus stv.f.
We will have nothing to do with il. 1t is most
di,graceful and discreditabe.
A newspaper in Maine dominates the Hon.
Isaac Hill as a candidate for the Vice Presiden-
cy. THIS IS indeed the age Of wonders!
Cohhsft NJ oir last dates was still Delivering
lectures in Manchester, and he expects to be
elected to Parliament; but the London Courier
sa,s, There is just as much chance of Cobbett's
jumping over the moon as his being elected
Case of Joseph Nourse The Supreme Court
Of the United States decided on Saturday, that it
had no jurisdiction in this case, thus affirming the
decree of the District Court.
The report OF the Committee in Congress, to
whom the subject of the Cholera was referred,
suggests that I" Congress should, without delay,
constitute sanatory commission, whose duty it
should be, either to send some of their own men,
bers, or others. to the ports Of Europe and Asa,
where the disease now prevails. and to collect all
the facts relating To the means of preventing, and
remedies to be applied to it,"
Errors IN the Census, relating 10 slapes.-lu
obedience to a late resolution of the House of
Representatives, Of the United States, Mr. Lii
vingston has given an explanation Of the returns
of the Census which represent several slaves, as
living in some of the free states. OF the four IN
Massachusetts, is said to be 100 years old
or upwards, in the family of Joseph Cummings,
OF Andover, Essex County; and one of abuut the
same aye in the family oil Prince Walker. in Bar
re. Worcester County. The other two were
set down q, slaves by mistake The six return.
ed as slaves in Maine are al free lie few slaves
who still remain in the Eastern States and other
states, where slavery is not allowed, are those
who are unable. through age or in6rmi,y. to pro-