Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-19

strumenta. music was given in the Masonic hall
in Newport, on Friday evening. I" Between
eight aud ten'' ladies and gentlemen attended in
side--some sixty or seventy well dressed per.
ons, Of both sexes, RECALLED themselves them
selves with the performances, gratis outside, un-
der the opened windows.-ll Providence Journal
How forcibly does this story exemplify our
own situation, condemned like these poor perlor--
mers to toll day after day for those who contri-
butte nothing towards the heavy expenses we have
to bear much less as a remuneration for the un-
ceasins health destroying labor which has fallen
to our lot. There is something SO unreasonable
and at the same time unjust in this treatment
something so selfish and illiberal, that We are
forced to believe it, in many cases, rather the re-
suit of thoughtlessness and habit than of inten-
tonal conscious wrong dong. any sum be ju.
diciously and economically expended, we take it
TO be that which is given in return for newspa-
per Of useful and amusing information. Placing
before YOU everv dav in the year the earliest do.
nestle and foreign intelligence, It makes ITS rea'
,lers live. as it were, at the same time IN every
nor,;,n of ,he earth. The east and the west, the
north anil the SOUTH the four quarters OF the globe
and the very oceans themselves are ransacSeu
for whatever may interest or instruct. ioe Pro
press of the arts and sciences, the advances OF
civilization intelligence, the history OF every
and revolutions Of State to the unimportant &C.
c;dsnts Of a private citizen, are but portion OF
ire da;lv contents Whatever information may
he profitable in business. whatever amasements
nav vary the dulness Of life, form part OF the
mass of information which the press Is ever busy
in nreparioc for the public. 1t is at once Church
I'D State. in every free and enlightened
communi,y Itexppses and disgraces the VI
c;ous: il is the best reward OF virtue, private OF
nublic; it is the true sovereign, teaching us SUP
;ects not alone what TO do. what to think
alike both Of the mind and OF the person. LII
,lespotism is not tyranny but freedom; u Is Tue
only church from which there are no o''se"'e' = =
We hone this augmentation may serve-ho
to convioce the public of the adSisability OF read
inc the news, but of the honesty and propr'ety O.
nay,nv subscription to those papers, which II u
fpIsas.d 10 honor with perusal.-Rieh Compiler
We learn that the Board Of Ordnance which
met in this city, according to previous arrange
mont. Yesterday, adjourned to future day, with
ou, proceeding to make its intended experiments
Sc for the purpose Of systematizing that branc
ofthe Military Service. 1t will re assemble som
I'm. in the autumn which season is better adapt
cd than the present for the proposed experiments
e' "'N T Nat. Int
The contempt which some OF me Jackson press
"a .ffsct for the letters Of Maj. Jack Downing,
liz that BETRAYED Of Black Hawk during the Ere
sident's Progress The Iadian rival could De sen
IN . d,ferent direction. and hurried away to IN
Land of his fathers; but Major Jack is master
his own movements and positions, and IN So"
sort ubioui,ary: he will be the Monsieur Ionso
Of the POLITICAL farce. Cried down he cannot be
read he will be. and admired too, by all the pee
Die. We are quite sure that when his resuia
narrative of the Progress, and his occasional eP's
ties supplementary, shalt appear in a volume EN-
bellished with cuts, he wilt be soon and long q
much in vogue as ever John Bunyan has been. =
Vive Major Jack!-Nai. Gas.
The Haverhili Iris, Of Friday, furnishes tn
fo,low,ne account Of. Sea Monster seen in on
bay. The Serpent, in this instance, appears t.
have assumed shape every like Whale, f" bu
the great horn is a poser:-
THE Sea. Serpent uifb jury mast. Capt
E,r, Smith, of the schr. Prospect. Of this place
;nforms us. that while out in the Bay on his lat
..;n from Bostop, he aud his men had a q cal
Clear and full view Of the Sea. SerPent'. SO cal
IsJ He saw. they -ere.of the Whale specie
,h., there we're one old and very large one
and two Young ones. He saw them as many as
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