Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-03-06
BosroN, February %.

BOSTON. FEBRUARY 70.
Important to Ship Owners.-In the Supreme
Judicial Court, now holden by Chief Justice
Shaw. IN this city, an important case, involving
The Ii biIities Of pilots to the owners of vessels
aud cargoes. was decided yesterday. so far as the
verdict Of the jury goes. The suit was brought
against a Deputy Branch Pilot, to recover the
damages resulting from the loss OF the Spanish
Ketch Isabella, alleged to have been negigently
run ashore on the Mnot rocks, off Cohasset.
some months since. said Deputy Branch Pilot
being then on board, There was thorough and
patient in estigation into all the facts in the
'rRe case wa, fully argued bv the counsel. and
the jury were very Iucihv and ably charged BY
Chief Justice Shaw. The verdict was tor S3.572
90 IN favor of the Plaintiff and sganst the Pilot.
Some questions of la" have been saved fur the
decision OF thr whole Court in March next, to
await which the case stands rnntInued.
1t is stated in the Alexandria Gazette. with a
natural and Just regret prefyed, that Mr.. Wut's
appearance during his recent argument before
the Supreme Court in the case of the Cherokee
Nation. indicated the ravage- that disease has
made upon his frame HIS intellectual powers
are sill as vigorous as ever. but sickues, has laid
it's bIyh. upoa his person. Notwithstanding
Writ, we have seen no expression of an intention
among the anti masonic journals, to withdraw
him from a race which must inevitably result In
the most deplorable discontinue. We did not
attach much importance to the on dir that his re.
cent illness arose in part from chagrln at having
been besuied into consent to serve as the hope
less candidate of divided minority; but we may
certainly infer with fairness. and with good feel
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pient ue limited political support in prospect,
must harrass his mind land disturb the quiet which
he so much needs. 1t would require the nerve
of Hercules to endure gratuitously the buffetiugs
and disappoin,ments. which we believe await
Mr.. Writ. We say these things more in sorrow
than exultaion for We feel assured thst the eDdu-
rance of physical pain and debility is itself an
evil sufficient for the day thereof A candidate
IN Mr.. Wirt's sitaa1ion-with positive certain
ty of ultimate defeat. allowing him an ordinary
share of sens,bility and ambition, should be en-
dued with vigorous bodily powers, aud nervous
carelessness of the event,-he should be I" ram.
pant with hearh,''-and even then. the race
would he wearisome both to the swift and strong.
We are sorry for Mr.. Wit in his present diem
ma:-and would much rather behold him using
his declining years in making such happy addi-
tions to the literature of his country as he made
in his early DAYS, than To see him harrassed wi tn
the turmoil Of political sects,-subject to nume-
rous impntations, which he must gainsay or be
suspected.-and passively yielding up to party,
the gifts which should minister to the intellec-
tual qualification Of his countrymen. and the &C.
neral Improvement of his kind Phil Gaz.
Tan,pico (lMerico) Gazete.-By last nights
mai! YVES received via New Orleans, the second
number Of the T'ampico Gazette, new paper,
printed in 1ampieo, twice week. in Spanish by
w. II. GRAY. The paper bears quite neat APP
pearanee The terms are twenty dollars per an
mum. payable half yearly in advance. The Tam.
pico Gazette is about half the size Of the Charles
ton Courier. -Charlestpn Cour.
fNr SAle.