Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-21

without opposition. !Mr. Maruis, Tue ""us
o,oo,ed by two candidates, r. E. B. Baylor
his PREDECESSOR, and Mr.. Young. In the two nes
d;s,ricts, the candidates are the late Governor
Murphy, opposed by James Diilst; and the late
u, 5. Senator, John M'Kinley, opposed BY
Nessrs Davis and Hatch.
The Hon. C. A. Wickliffe has been elected
member Of the Kentucky House OF Delegates
from Nelson County.
The editor Of the Philadelphia Commercial
Herald asserts, "on no slight authority" that
,be Deposites will not be removed whilst Mi.
Duane is Secretary Of the Treasury.
The williamsport (Md.) Banner Of Saturday
states that the Cholera has entirely disappeared
from the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
in Washington County.
we have not at any time had satisfactory in
formation to what extent it prevailed among the
operatives on this work in the neishborhood Of
Sbarpsburs, where considerable mortality among
them occurred two weeks ago. From what we
can Gather Of late the disease has disappeared in
that quarter. The line above that point cont.
nues exempt from it.
The New Testament, translated into the Chip
psra language, by DIR. Edwin James, OF the U.
States Army. has been published at Albany, by
Packard s. Van Benthysen. We have seen
CODY Of it. 1t is well printed, presenting the
Chippswa words in our ordinary type; its use,
therefore, is of course confined to missionaries,
or Indians conversant with our alphabet. As,
however, the instructions Of the Indians must in
any event be oral, so very few Of them being able
to read, this forms no objection to this mode Of
printing Moreover it was the oay practicable
one, as there is no Chippewa alphabet. The
language, however, is common to the Six Ma
TORS, and is, it is said, understood BY the South
western Indians. II so, this Testament may be
read to the greater part Of the Indian tribes OF
our borders.
From Bermuda BY the Brig Leo, below
from Bermuda, we have received papers from
that place Of a late date. They are mostly TAX
en- up in articles relative to the Emancipation
project:
HAMIlroN, jury l6 MIR. WingwOOd, Mate,
and part of the Crew Of the late Brig Douglas,
came passengers in the Schooner Jane, Capt.
Davis, which arrived at St. Georges, on Friday
last, from Alexandria. The Captain, Mate, aud
Crew, with the exception Of the Steward, who
il ia supposed was killed in the hold as the YES.
sci Tell over, and the cabin boy, Prudden, since
rescued,) we're taken of the wreck OF the Dou-
glas by the Jane, the day after she was capsized,
which unfortunate circumstance occurred during
thunder. storm on the night Of Saturday the 9th
June, the vessel being at the time under close.
reefed topsail. As we are given to understand
that a partic ular statement Of the circumstances
Of the abandonment Of the Douglas, is to be pre-
pared and published by her late owners, we re-
frain from entering into particulars, or comment.
ing on an act where criminal callousness is evil
IDENTIFY chargeable, in some quarter or other.
The Episte Of the Yearly Meeting of the
Friends in London, is spoken Of by the Philadel.
phia Gazette in the following terms;-
"The Epslle Of the Yearly Meeting Of Friends
held in London, breathes throughout such pure
spirit Of charity and genuine religious feelings,
that we transfer it to our columns with more than
ordinary pleasure. The cause of P'e'y is the
same with all denominations Of Christians in eve
ny country. Among true believers there is con-
geniality Of sentiment and sympathy OF action,
which no distance can weaken, nor any trihing
distance, in name. remove. Such will peruse
this document with grati6c ation-such will re.
ioice at the success Of Friends in England. and
s,.h Gill f.sI their hearts warm within them, as
thew read the advance Of Christianity throughout
the world The devotedness Of Friends TO the
cause Of religion aud philanthropy, cannot but
eliei. general admiration"
The Delaware, Ohio, Gazette says that the ar.
rival OF Bishop M'Ilvane was welcomed. by the
s,,ds,,s of eoxon College. BY splendid illu-