Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-13

were in the small boat which put of from the
steamboat, aud approached within ten feet Of q
Sea Monster, which passed under our bow at Z
very rapid rate. As near as We can Judge from
the view We had Of him, his head resembled
that of a pickerel, His head only appeared ON
the surface; as to the length OF it, il is impossible
TO determine. The motion Vas Of c0mmon
snake.
Benz. H. Norton, Jas. w. Hale, VIM. Te~ks
bury. Jr. Sam'l. S. Williams, Geo. w. Proctor,
Passengers.
Thomas Purcell, James Gahagan, Oarsmen,
Boston Cenfinei.
The Whaie Eshery.-'rhis important branch
OF American commerce is principally prosecuted
from Nantucket and New Bedford. although other
eastern ports. including Hudson, on the North
River, likewise participate in. About two thou
sand seamen are constantly employed by the
Nantucket ships. In 1882. they produced ST..
900 barrels Of oil, those of New Bedford g., 1000
barrels, aud those Of Newport 4l20 barrels
The Boston Journal remarks that this is not
trade Of recent date in American and particular
ly in Massachusetts. From 177l to l775, Mas.
sachusetts employed annually 1873 vessels. Of
Is. $40 tons. in the southern fishery. Ihese
we're the first ~ prosecute the fishery IN the SUI
thern Atlantic, on the coasts Of Africa and Bra
zil, and led the way into the Pacific seas,
Look at the manner" says Burke ora
"in which the New England people carry on
the whale fishery. While we follow them among
the tunbliug mountains Of ice. and behold them
penetrating Into the deepest frozen recesses Of
Hud,on's Bay aud Davis's Straits;-while we
are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,
we hear that they have pierced into the opposite
region IF polar cold: that th'y o." ~t 'hs ."''Pes'
and engaged under the frozen Ser pent ct the south
at the Falkland islands; that which seemed too
remote and too romantic an object for the grasp
of rational ambition, Is but stage and resting
place for their victorious industry. Nor IS the
eauinoctiai heat more discOurasing to them than
the accumulated winter of both the poles. We
learn that, while some Of them draw the line or
strike the harpoon on the coast OF Africa, Others
run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game
along the coast Of Brazil"
The Legislature of Rhode Island adjourned on
Saturday last. A resolution, postponing to the
next session the consideration OF a proposal to
cite the several Masonic Lodges TO appear and
show cause why their charter should not be re-
pealed. was carried by vote Of 50 to IS.
resolution declaring the election OF Mr.. Robbins
10 the u 5. Senate, null, was also postponed.
instructions were given to the Attorney General
10 prepare bill for directing all capital sentences
to be hereafter executed in private.
Ertensire RObbery-Yesterdav afternoon. be-
tween three and four o'clock. a young man,
clerk in the employ Of Messrs John Ward & Co.,
was sent down to the Providence steamboat, to
deposit in the care Of the Captain, a package.
containing upwards of $4,000 dollars in Bank
notes; aud notes of hand amounting to between
80. 600 aud 10000 dollars. On arriving on
board he found the door Of the Captains Office
closed; but a window open, from which he con,
jectured he had not gone far. and determined to
wait until he came back. The Captain not ap-
bearing however, as soon as the clerk expected,
the latter took the package from silk handker-
chief in which he had brought it down. and put
it through window on desk. The young man
then went IN search Of the Captain, with whom
he returned in less than two minutes, but the
package was gone, and how or where no person
could give any information. Fork Standard.
The Ne,c Orleans Robbery The New York
Courier of w ednesday furnishes the following
additional particulars Of the robbery noticed yes.
terday:
HI uctduiHS 'hS w
tending the robbery Of the jewelry store of Mr..
Muh, at New Orleans. on the night of the 9th Of
June, and the recovery BY B. J. Hays, one Of
our police officers, Of the entire property stolen,
we adyerted to the fact, that valuable collec-
ton Of dry goods we're also found in the posses.
sion of Charles Collins. the supposed perpetrator
Of that robbery. which were probably the fruits
Of some similar depreciation in the same neigh
borhood. As it now turns out, we were right in
our conjecture. The dry goods we're Yesterday
identified by Mr.. Cotbeal. who is nov in this ci.
". and is one of the fem Of Jenkins, Taylor & |
Cutheal, Of NJ So Charles street. New Orleans.
As portion Of the property stolen from his store
in the month Of April last. which had been for
chilly entered by boring through shutter Of one
Of the windows Of the rear.
Although every effort was made at the time to
recover the property, or at least to obtain some
Information as to the disposition which had been
made Of it, they all proved Intellectual, and Mr. |