Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-05-23

after the books were opened, the peaceful citizens
on the ground, who had gone there to SUBSCRIBE
finding that they could not succeed against the
who had possession oi the windows,
held meeting in front OF the Masonic Hall, and
apo6inted committee to confer with the Com
missioners, IL see whether they could not ADOPT
some measures to restore an equality OF rishts,e'
Their by ope ming more books, or by calling on the
Mavor to require the aid of the police IN suppress
sing what was 50 manifestly riot. AZ suose,
quent hour, this committee reported tha' they hau
had conference with the Commissioners VINO
expressed their readiness, to cooperate win the
citizens IN any lawful measures to put an enc 10
the disorder.
One Of the committe, however, stated 10 the
meeting, that he had just seen the Mayor anu
that his honor had stated that the police could
not interfere, unless in those places where posi-
tive fighting took place. The meeting however,
resolved that the committee should call upon
him. which thew did at his Office, he having left
his seat as one of the Bank Commissioners, to
attend to his police duties. The result WAS,
that several of the braves were carried before
him, and We believe committed.
In our paper Yesterday we noticed the anoma'
Iy in ship building, the British barque HEcLA' 30
celebrated as the flag ship OF Capt. Parry, IN his
VOYAGES of discovery. We were mistaken In
the fact that she was originally intended as bomb
aud selected on account OF her great strength tor
the service in which she was SO audably engaged.
We Yesterday paid a visit to this extraordinary
vessel, and recommend to our nautical friends
not to let the opportunity pass OF giving her CRIT
teal inspection. her officers being gentlemen who
will kindly communicate any information which
the curious may require. Her bur:hen is 4OS
tons. and she differs in most respects from all
other vessels we have seen. Among her pecull
aritics are her decks, three in number, over eaci
Of which are confined two tiers of cork. and CO.
vered with pIanks running in an Angular dlrec
ton, making them in thickness nine inches. heI
sides, below the wales, are impenetrable, being
thirteen feet through. She is copper bottomed
and in her hull are no less than IS tons of cop
per bolts She has no wlndass, and the anchor
is raised with patent purchase capstan, the drum
head of which passes three times round. to thu
barrel's once; is light rugged, and fast sailer
The Hrcla was sold by the British government
last year to a company of Aberdeen merchants
and She sailed from Dundee for New York in DE
cember last. but having lost her rudder on tn
Banks OF newfoundland, proceeded to Sicily II
Great Britain, for repairs. and sailed thence with
full cargo of bale goods for this port, where sh'
arrived in 30 days. Her master is Capt. Jamson
who has previously made in her one voyage, since
her purchase, to st. Petersburg Capt. Parry
her former intrepid commander, our readers ma,
recollect. is now Governor of Van Nieman'
Land, in New South WaIes.-4N r. Gazette.
Nauigatingfhe fir The New York Evenln,
Journal states that gentleman of that city hal
: succeeded in overcoming the difficulty, or, as l
has generally been considered, the impossibllity
of navigating the air. and is about making some
public experiments to establish the CORRECTNESS
Of his thenry.
"Mr. verger. whn witnessed the first asceo
sim of MontgoI6er's balloon. nearly hfty year
ago. conceived the idea of giving it direction. tina
it might be applied to some useful purpose. Thu
belief IN this opinion prevailed extensively during
the French revolution; in 81 much that an aerus
tatic institution was established in town no
far Fl ON Paris. for the purpose Of iDstructing
CORPS Of aeronauts. The object was to introduc
balloons into the army, whereby the enemy nigh
be reconnoitered; but the supposed impossibilit!
of propelins these machines in any course othe
!, than immediately before the wind, at length caus
ed the project to be abandoned Mr.. Verger
however. we are told, has succeeded in bringing
about this long sought improvement, after hume
rous trials, and lapse of many years, durinn!
which he has been mostly engrossed in mercantile
pursuits-and this, too. against the predlctlun
Of Mon golfer himself, who, when Mr.. " asked
him itt we're possible to make the balloon navl
gable. answered thatit never could be effected.
s.The public, it is expected will shortly be ap
prised of the exhibition of the new apparatus. -
The inventor has made nearly one hundred sue
cessfnl experiments in private; and is now il
Brooklyn, with every thing in readiness for max
ing the trial in public. For his invention, he 90
tanned patent OF the French government some
fifteen years since; but the citizens OF New York
are to be honored with its first public exhibition
which will take place probably in the course oil
: next week"
Monument to- the M1ther of Washington. -
An engraved drawing of the monument erecting
at the grave Of Mrs. Washington, at the expense
of Mr.. 5. E. Burrows, has been published. IL
presents a neat obelisk of white marble from
West Stockbridge, on high 2ediment with two
small DOr,c columns on each face, and four eagles