Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-29

The Cotton Spec,.Laiions. We have been in
formed Of various large sums Of money suddenly
made, within the last ten days, by the great and
unexpected rise in this staple article. One in.
stance, as il did not occur here, we may be per-
mitted to relate. A New Orleans merchant,
largely concerned in the cotton trade, happen .
ing to be in New York, the notion took him to
make q trip to Liverpool, to which be was III re-.
atty induced more BY the superior accommoda.
tiuns Of the New York packets, than from any
call Of business. He had no sooner landed in
Liverpool, than he made himself, in few days,
perfectly familiar with the state OF the cotton mar
kel. This knowledge, united TO his full acqualnt.
ance with the market 10 this country, satisfied
him that rise was about to take place in Eng
land He proceeded to employ an agent. who
purchased, on his account, a very large amount
Of cotton. Before even The bills could be made
out and the cotton deliveied to him, the rise in
price which now agitates this market, suddenly
took place; and 50 great was the advance from
day to day, that in one week, the sagacious New
Orleans merchant resold his cotton, without hav-
ing been obliged even to pay porterage, for cash
advance o. TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
philadelphia Gazette.
Later from Trkey-A slip from the Boston
Daily Gazette, furnishes US, via Malta. with IN.
teIlisence frou. Constantinople to the 18th OF
June. A great portion Of the letter from which
the following paragraph is taken, relates to pc:
RODS OF which we have received previous and
better authe nticated accounts:
"By the arrival Of an English schooner at this
place, says the correspondent Of the Gazette,
which left COnstantinople on the 18th June. we
learn that the Emperor Of Russia had annulled the
peace which has been lately made between the
sultan and Pacha Of Egypt; that q body OF H.
teen thousand Russians were on their march 10
Constan,iaople; that transports we're daily arrlv-
ing with soldiers; that there was fleet OF thirty
three men Of war. and an army OF thirty .one
thousand men already encamped. This is the
latest information we have from the Capital, and
possibly may be correct y
| Although this is indeed week later than our
previous dates frou the Turkish capital, yet 1t IS
in the main so entirely at variance with the whole
scope Of our intelligence from every quarter, that
il is with some degree of hesitation that we can
90 so far as the writer in admitting even that It
{" possibly may be correct ~. 7. Com.
| The Cholera Our town still continues to be
visited by this pestilence; though the number OF
fatal cases, during the week ending at o'clock
Yesterday afternoon, is much smaller than that
Of the preceding, viz: Mrs. Carr, (widowl and
her son Andrew; Mr. Storrs. late from Utica,
New York; Mr.. Combs; Nj. Waters, and his
child; and female whose name we have not been
able to notwithstanding, with those previously re-
ported, including II convicts, total oil 5o--it
Is proper, however, 10 remark, that few ut those
whose deaths are announced in another part OF
this journal, had some Of the symptoms Of the
Cholera; but as is not certain that they died OF
that disease. they are not included in the above.
The Penitentiary continues healthy.
CColumbus (Ohio) Journal Gath.