Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-10

We briefly announced under the obituary head
i, Yesterdays paper, the death Of old Mr.. JET
f.,.oo, so long, so universally and 50 fayorably
Sun a. q comedian. He was formerly great
s..0r;,e in this town-atthat time-being the bss
.... If his Iife-his benefits, we are told, invaria.
80 drew crowded houses. But he has pass.
ii bis hour upon the stage Of life-and the
=. !. over with him--"Alas! poorYor.
~, a fellow Of infinite jest: Of most excellent
hrc,. Where be your gibes now? your gam
hoI., your songs: your flashes of merriment, that
won't TO sit the house in a roar: Alas. not
Que now"
dinner was gwen in Portland on Thursday
week to Messrs. Holmes and Sprague, the two Sc
r,,ors from the State Of Maine. Mr.. Evans OF
ysr,ebec, Gen. Dearborn Of Massachusetts,, and
vr Goodenow, the National Republican candidate
fr G,yernor, were among the invited guests.
The Physicians having charge OF the various
Hospitals established throughout the city OF Ph'la'
delphia, have addressed a letter to the Sanitary
Committee, in which, after recounting the vari'
GUS difficulties they have met with, and the ex err
lions they have used, state that the reports which
have for some DAYS past been prevalent, ''that
thew cause patients 10 be forced into the Hospitals,
are entirely destitute Of truth" They only re-
esiye such a. are voluntarily disposed to enter
-, Tbsir letter concludes with the following
paragraph:
1--WE have unanimously resolved, and DO now
distinctly declare, that if we are not hereafter
sustained and protected by our fellow citiLens IN
he discharge Of our most arduous aud painful du,
ties, we will wash our hands in innocency, anu
retire from the charge OF oar hospitals"
The Sanitary Committee, upon the receipt OF
the letter, passed he following resolutions:
..Pssolred, That the Mayor and Civil Masis-
traites Of this city be, and they are hereby ear.
nesrly requested. to exercise the powers granted
bs law. in protecting the different hospitals es-
tablished BY the authority Of the city, and more
especially in bringing to punishment all persons
who shall in any illegal way intimidate or modest
any medical practitioner. or any assistant, or
other person, connected with any hospital"
The Editor Of the Evening Post draws the fol.
lowing vivid picture Of the present appearance OF
New York. 1t will be observed he estimates
the decrease in the population at one hundred
thousand, being those who have left the city to
avoid the Cholera.
The appearance which New York presents to one
who views it at the present time from the midst OF
the Hudson or from the opposite shore OF New
Jersey. a spectacle scarce less unusual and So
Tenn than to one who visits what were two months
since its crowded and noisy placesOf business
The number Of persons who have left the city IS
estimated at upwards Of one hundred thousand
people, including persons Of all classes and &C.
equations. So many domestic fires have been
put out, and the furnaces Of so many manufac-
tories have been extinguished, that the dense
cloud Of smoke which always lay over the city,
incliniug in the direction Of the wind, is now SO
thin as often to be scarcely discernible, and the
buildings VI the great metropolis appear with
unusual clearness and distinctness. On a fair
afternoon, the corners of the houses, their caves
and roofs appear as sharply defined as 1t the spec
tatOr stood close by their side, aud from TIT
walks at Hoboken you may count the dorme'
windows in any given block Of buildings. The
various colors Of the edi6ces appear also with al
astonishing vividness, while the usual murmuI
from the streets is scarcely heard.