Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-01-13

We had an alarm OF nre on WeuheSua! 49,
ing. dbout nine O'Clock. The kitchen attached
to the residence of Mi. Bryan. Post Master "
this place, accidentally. 1t is presumed eaos"'
FIRE Fortunately it was discovered in time 10
prevent any serious damage. +
We hear that a woman, crossing the Potomac
on the Ice at Georgetown on Wednesday, VAS
accidentally drowned.o Or killed by the masses Oh
ice descending the river at that time.
TIE harbor at Fredericksburg was opened by
the late thaw, and the steamboat Rappahannock.
detained BY the ice since early in December.
went down the river, bound to Baltimore.
The alteration in the weather must have sent
her Is book agen."
Give the Baltimoreans, and especially the Bal.
timore merchants. the credit OF being among the
most persevering, euterprising. and public SPIT
ri,e,l citizens of our country. This praise would
be ertorieI from those who might be unwilling to
Weld it. but it affords pleasure TO their nelshbors
to have So good an example before their eyes, and
to acknowledge the fact. The Efforts making to
open the harbor there have hitherto been com
plete failures, but we see. nothing daunted or
discouraged. they are determined to continue
their exer,ions.
Judge Clayton has been elected to Congress
from Georgia.
The Convention of Clerks of Courts was held
in Richmond last week. A memorial was sent
to the Legislature, signed by sixty Clerks. COM
planning of the reduction Of their fees.
A paper has lately headed. in capitals. the TO-
reign news received at New York, as follows:
tion-the rage of Radicalism and Revolution re-
cedinc. and Reason re-asserting her rightful
power.
SCOTLAND.-No news-good news
ELAND.-Agitation, bntheratl0n. COntia.
grafton, and devastation, spread desolatlon thro'
the nation.
The Norfolk papers announce the return to
that port of the Revenue Cutter Dexter. Captain
Coody, after an ardu9us cruize of IL DAYS. on
the coast, in search of vessels in distress. near
Ing the land, for the humane purpose of a%dording
relief, in such particulars as they might need.
The Eighth of January has been celebrated in
many places this year. Under the influence,
however, of those miserable party feelings which
now seem to contaminate society, the political
friends Of the present Administrator alone unit.
I'd in paying it respect. The time was, and The
time should be, When the days of our national
glory received the honor Of our people, not as
partizans, but as Americans.
A case of fraud upon the Revenue was tried
in New York on Tuesday, which was Of SO fla
grant a character that the defendant did not ap.
pear to claim his goods. The Advocate SAYS his
name is Joseph Roberts. and that he is an English
Agent. There were five packages Of cloths,
worth about $4,000, evidently invoiced for the
purpose Of delraudiug the government. Had the
importer succeeded, he would have passed the
cloths for about $1,000 less than the duties.
The Charleston aud Savannah papers contain an
account Of a machine on an entirely novel prin-
{ ipie, invented by Mr.. Prouty, Of Augusta
The po~ er of this ingenious and laborsaving ma.
chine, is produced by the alternate expansion and
condensation Of vapor, which propeIs a quantity
of water from one to the other of two recep'aclcs
at the extremity Of a tube, which passes along a
nicely balanced beam, and communicates with
the bottom of the two receptacles, or vessels
10 one Of these heat is applied, and vapor conse-
quentIy produced, which, having no other escape,
forces the water along the tube into the other re-
~ceptacle. This becoming heavier. the end of
the beam to which i, is attached. is depressed,
and the opposite end, OF course, elevated. The
other receptacle, from which the water had been
forced, now remains elevated and filled with va
por, this is speedily condensed by exposure to
the alr,anl avlccnum IS soon formed which is ILL
led by a rush of water from the opposite cx'rem-
i.y, and the beam returns to its former position
nvar ,ha fro uhen , similar ,rtion au,,n cum.