Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-11-23


held on Monday at the Exchange, and was hume
rously attended. David MADDEN. Esq. President
of the ST. Andrews Society. was called to pre-
side, and the Hon. VIM. A Duer, President OF
Columbia College. and Cornelius w. Lawrence,
were selected as Vice. Presidents. James Law
son and Prosper NJ. Wetmore were appointed
Secretaries. A preamble and resolutions to the
following effect were passed:
| That the citizens of New York, reverting the
beautiful simplicity OF Sir Walter SCOTS charac-
ter; approaching the elegance and value Of his
writings, and deploring his death in common with
the friends Of literature throughout the world,
t desire to evince their admiration of his genius,
and their respect for his memory; and, therefore,
that it be resolved, that committee Of fifteen be
appointed, with power to increase the number,
whose duty It shall be to receive subscriptions
in aid of the fund proposed to be appropriated to
the memory of Sir W.Scott, and that 40 subscrip-
ton shall exceed ten dollars:-that the funds
raised be devoted, al the discretion OF the Com.
mittee, TO the erection Of monument TO Sir Wal
ter Scott in that city. or, 1t II be found advisable.
that they shall be paid over to the corresponding
committee for transmission to Edinburgh Re
solutions expressive Of sympathy with the family,
and that the proceedings of the meeting be for
warded TO them, SC. were passed.
A new Jersey paper mentions that the Lady
Relief, a celebrated runnlng mare, owned BY Dr.
Davey, died few days since at Bound Brook.
1t will be recolected that she the heats of 90
mites against Black Maria and Iriae, few
weeks since, on the Union Course, l.. l.
| The completion of the Ohio Canal has opened
an uninterrupted internal communication by wa.
ter, between New York and New Orleans
The channels are the Hudson River, the E.
canal. the Lake, the Ohio canal, the U 10
river, and the Mississippi-a distance OF a5' 20
mics less than the route By the A,lanc
and the Gulf Of Mexico. The Ohio canal IS
more than 500 miles long, and the Erie canal
nearly $50.
A sp!endid vessel. called the Poland, has just
been launched in New York. She is intended
for the Liverpool trade, and will be fitted up IN
the mnst superior style, for the accommodation
of passengers. She is to be cold water packet
inside aud outside M ardent spirits, nor Wines
to be fu ni,hed to the passengers; in consequence
Of which the Price OF passage will be forty dol.
lars less than demanded IN the other packets.
Crpe de Jerds-The New York Courier s.
Euuumer of Tuesday says
Capt. Brron, Of the brig Harp, arrived yester.
day from the Coast of Africa. touched on her
VOYAGE home at the Cape dr Verd Islands, from
. A l. a., ~
mrnt 10 state that Capt Briton corroborates, to
the tul,es, extent. the accounts which have al
ready reached US of the distressed situation OF
the inhabitants 1T these Islands; they were actu-
nlIy in state Of starvation. Capt Br'ton saw
,rrsons ,rop do Nn aud die in the streets from alb.
solute want: nor was there any appearance OF
relief near at hand Their crops for the present
J wear had entirely fa,led. Some small supplies
OF Rice had been obtained from the Coast OF Al
RIGA, bat these we're exhausted as well as their
means of obtaining more
Com'erteiefs. The two persons lately ap'
pretended at Huntington, Pa for passing coun-
terfeit $40 notes on the Harrisburg Bank, we're
tried last week, and convicted, They were sen
fenced to four years. imprisonment IN the West
ern Penitenliary, at P'ttsburg.
The New York Courier notices the arrival oi
two remarkably fine lions, from the Coast OF
Africa They are perfectly doce, and are now
running about the decks Of the brig Hope, in
which they were imported.
The Barnstabie Mass. Journal states that the
quantity Of salt made in that county during the
present year amounts to $50, 600 bushels.
Bot ninety seven deaths occurred in New York
during the week ending on Saturday, OF which
two were BY cholera.
Geld bioo,ied Murders A paper published in
Edento,., N G ates that on Thursday evening
previous. "a man in Bestie county having be-
come offended with another, resolved to take his
life: but on the prosecution OF his purpose met
With an unoffended person whom he mistook for
his victim. and whom he assaulted and beat SO
tina, he died. Upon learning the fact OF his mis-