Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-30
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Richmond on the morning OF Tue %ou '"', "
the carriage factory Of Mr.. bosher.: e.oses
in which the paints were usually KEEP, was ,,. .a
to emit smoke, and on a sudden a ne!ee :,u oiHAe
burst forth as If gunpowder had neen 'sn"su :.
Several barrels of water being 'S''u"a'''J ~
hand, the FIRE was soon exIngu'snea.
The constituted authorities at st. Jaso de Gu
ba have ordered quarantine OF !o1!! u''' '"
all vessels arriving from cholera districts.
On Monday 1864 Emigrants arrived 10 New
York from Europe-of which 4lo were ''o"
England, 1lS from ireland. 100 from Sco'anu'
sas from France, and lie from Holland
I'm ,nwelcome visitor. "A lady 10 Barnstable
recently found in her chamber living adder,
about three feet long. twas concealed oeh'nd
trunk near the chimney, through which u was
supposed to have entered. 1t was'caPtared AFTER
short chase vmn.f
Lorenzo Dow IS now engaged IN hIs minIste'
rial services at Brooklyn, Connecticut.
Erscution. the man who Killed
his wife and six children some time last winter,
in London township, Upper Canada, was exc
cuted at that place on the 18th instant.
The New Orleans Emporium mentions among
the deIeterious effects Of the Veto at that place.
that one of the State Banks has already com
menced dscounting four months paper at an IN
terest of eight per cent. The Albany money
changers will soon follow the example
Hackett, the American Comedian, has made
an engagement with the managers OF Drury Lane
TheatIe. He will sail for London early in De-
Cember.
In the State Of New York, it has been lately
recommended by the Commander in Chief, las
measure of precaution, in consequence OF the
extension of the prevailing epidemic, that the
meetings and exercises of the Militia. during the
present year, be dispensed with, excepting so far
as they may be absolutely necessary to fulfil the
positive requirements Of the law"
Young Kean has taken to himself partner tor
life IN the person Of Clara Fisher.
I'll. Salem Register states, as an instance OF
the march of improvement and reform, the New
York mail is FIVE hours longer in reaching that
place than five years ago, and requests the prop
er functonary to figure out, according to this
retrngade movement, what the length Ut time
will be for the New-York mail to reach Salem
century hence?
The question Of the adoption Of State Gov
ernment is to be submitted to the people OF Mi
chsan Territory, at their election in October
next.
When it was announced in The hall Of the four
courts, that O'Ccnnel and his family had been
carried Oft by the cholera, or apprehensions OF it,
one of the long robe declared that the news was
incredible, inasmuch as Dan was the last marin
ireland likely to turn his back on an intestine
coD,nlofion.
Aouel Cure for the Cholera. Professor Ger
tel, Of Germany, has published pamphlet dedi-
Gated to the King Of Prussia, in which he announ.
cfsi the most successful remedy for the Cholera
to be Cold Water, plentifulIy applied both in.
wardy and outwardly.
The last portion of the Esd number of the Ame.
rican Quarterly Review was put to press last
week, and the number will BE- soon ready for dis.
tribution. Tue subjects of Mysteries and Ma.
sonny, Mrs. Trolope's Travels, the Abolition of
Negro s avery IN Virginia, the British Reyolu-
ton of 1853, and others of general interest, are
treated in detail.
By a statement published in the Liverpool
of January to the 28th Of November, 1890, there
sailed from the port Of Liverpool for the coast Of
Africa, 1876 tons Of shipping, 100 ships) The
number OF slaves they were licensed to carry,
was 1901, averaging upwards Of 500 TO each
ship. The manuscript containing the statement,
was found among the papers Of gentleman en-.
gagged in the traffic, and contains the name, own
er, master, day Of sailing, and destination Of each
ship.
The Charleston papers speak of the execution
Of coIored man named William, the husband
and the property Of Mary Conner.
Mormonisn has broken out in Lynn, Mass.
and mas carried oft several persons.
A Posl-office has just been established at Green
Spring, Baltimore county, and the mail is car
RED upon the Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail
Road.
The editor Of :he Worcester Spy has " come
to the conclusion, in future, to advertise no AZ.
dent spirits in his paper"
School Books.-It is stated in the Journal of
Education that there are no less than forty-five
different kinds of Spelling Books and other first
books in use in the U. States; Dictionaries, from
Webster's down, ten; Books for reading and
defining. one hundred and two. Then we have
no less than ffty-three different kinds of Arith-
metics, torty.eight Observation-Disclosures Geos,
raphies and Atasscs-thirty- five Histories Of va
rous grades, sizes, prices and qualities and cle-
ven treatises on Astronomy.
Lace andF Fringe Eaclory.-We stepped IN yes,
fprday IN view fhe Gold aod GiIvor a., Cn,.b