Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-15

"why, pow 'rfal villainy first set il up
For its own ease and safety: Honest men
Are the soft. easy cushions on which knares
Repose and fatten. 'Pwss invented first,
Tina, fools and towards might sit safe in POWER.
And lord il uncontrolled above their betters."
The Rail Road Journal, published weekly BY
Mr.. ID. X. Minor in New York, il q valuable
journal. in which much information relating not
onIy TO Rail Roads, but Internal Improvements
generally. is contained. We have already men
Toned il in terms Of praise, and we see occasion,
from a recent examination Of several Of the late
plumbers, to repeat our favorable opinion OF ITS
merits. -
We would earnestly hope that the comparative
exemption from disease which we now enjoy,
and the security necessarily felt in some degree
from that circumstance, will not induce the least
;mprudehce in any of our citizens, Or the slight
est relaxation, on their parts. 10 their Efforts to
preserve their health BY attention to general
cleanliness, publication Of cellars,i&c. SC. They
have reason, thankful for the mercies already ex-
,endsd to us, to be diligeat in this good work.
Military and Naval Magazine.-Messrs
Thompson and Romans, Of Washington city,
have issued proposals Tor publishing periodical
work under the above title, which is to be con-
Quoted in great measure on the plan OF the
United Service Journal, and which will contain
selections from that valuable English work.
A No - fnr
which competent assistance has been secured
Will consist Of essays, notes and problems, on
the mu6farious matters embraced in Military
and Naval science; narratives Of interesting
voyages. cruizes. marches. and campaigns; bio
graphical sketches Of deceased Military and Ma.
val officers; notices, analytical aud critical. Of
new publications on any Subject connected with
military or nautical studies; monthly chronicle
OF remarkable events ia the two services, chan.
ges Of stations, arrivals and departures, and
lastly register Of deaths. designations, courts
martial, dismis,ions, and promotions" The
copies for naval officers upon foreign stations
will be forwarded from the Navy Department
with the government dispatches. The first num-
Der will appear in January. The terms are 1--WE
dollars per year.
Tennessee extra Session Of the Legisa.
ture of Tennessee was begun on the Sd instant.
The main object Of its meeting is to District the
State for the choice Of Representatives to Con-
gress. Governor Carroll, however, in announ-
cling this object, recommends that tne mode of
electing Electors Of President and Vice-Presi.
dent Of the United States be changed from the
District mode, heretofore practised in that State,
to the General Ticket mode.
Steamboat .9ccidsat-The Missouri Times
states, that the WIN. Wallace was snagged on
Thursday night. 29th ut. on her passage from
St. Louis to Galena. The accident occurred at
so'ciotk. No lives were lost, although there
were many passengers on board, and the boat
sunk in very short time. 1t was thought BY
persons on board that the boat could be raised,
and the freight, tina, was not destructable by wa
ter, saved.
Emigration learn. that, between the
Is. Of April and the last Of August Of this year,
3S,ss5 passengers have arrived at New York
from foreign ports
The National Gazette, in reference 10 the lu-
dicrous application TO Mr. Cambrelng, &" the To-
cal fOrerunner Of Mr.. Van Buren," Of the phrase
sOw SO much in use, "premonitory symptom"
says, at is time for Mr.. v. B. to ask FOR me.
s'cal aid, the prognostic and diasnostic, as the
sectors say, are both extremely bad"
The following is copied from the Edinburgh
Scots man,
Friends Of the people" What news frae
ferth' Saunders!" said an old wife to her neigh
ooar' who had just returned from visit to that
fnr City, "Nae news. EIspet; but the bodies
"rerth area unco glad that Baltic Wright is
On to be Provost" What is he, this Baillie
wright that they're a. sac weel pleased wi'a"-
0a: he Isl brewer, and 4 great friend o. the
people" 80 Ave-" feio,ned Elspet "a brewer