Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-02-07
A LOVER OF BOOKS.
ARRIVAL OF THE GRAMPUs.

The U. :. schooner Grampus, Lieut.. Com
mandant Joseph >moot. from Vera Cruz, Hava-
ma and Key West. niue DAYS from the latter
place. anchored in Hampton Roads on Saturday.
and Yesterday morning cane up aud proceeded
to the Navy Yard, where she fired a salute, which
was returned from the yard. The Grampus has
brought home the Midshlpmen of The West India
squadron, whose examinations take place this
ear, all the sick Of the squadron, and men whose
term nf service has expired. Left the o. States
ship Vandal!a, Com. Henley, at Havana, and
the U. S. ship St.Louis, Capt. Newton. al Key
West The officers and crews OF both vessels
were ~ excellent health, and both ships bound
OH a cruiZe.
Thu Grampns has returned for new crew,
and brings dispatches from Colonel Butler.
Charge d Affairs at Mexico, and also from Com
modore Henley, Commanding the West India
squadron.
We learn that there was cessation Of hostlli.
ties in MeNco between the oOntending parties,
owing TO arrangements being made by the lead.
ers Of the Factions to compromise differences.
General Pedraza had been elected President,
and was TO have made his entry INT" the city of
Mexico on the Sd ut. The armies had united.
and there was prospect Of speedy and per-
manen, peace.-Noyoh Beacon.
sruLrz-The celebrated London tailor Stul,z
lately died at Aires, IN the South of France, on
an estate lately bought BY him for RlOS. 900; his
property besides this exceeds P400.0G0.
1Stu'z was the very Prince e European tai
lors. He would not condrscend to cut cudt or
make pair Of breeches for any bu the nobility,
or those who brought letters Of introduction and
recommendation, from persons of distinction, as
individuals of decided fashion. 1t was rare
thing for any American citizen to be able to show
letters from sources high enough TO afford him n
oppurtunily to have his legs and shoulders mea.
sured 3, this famous knight of the thlmble.
Boston Cent.
The subjoined paragraph gives melancholy
(bu; not entirely unlooked.for) account OF the
over land expedition undertaken year ago to
the mouth of Columbia river. 1t always appear
ell TO US a perilous as well as an unpromlslng ad-
venture. Nat IlieL
From the taunton (Wass J Wing Of Januar, 80
The Oregon Project. have been antici.
patlng for some time the bursting of thi. bubble,
and our aniicipations are beginning to be realised
Some time since we noticed an advertisement
from a part oi the settlers who we're in New
York. stating, that any contributions IN money,
meat. clothes. &c. wand be gratefully received:
in plain English. asking charity If the comma.
nifty. Ii appears now that the land expedition
Of eighty men, accompanied by Capt Wyeih,
Of Cambridge, has been compelled to return.
with the exception OF thirteen men. including
the captain, vino are probably by th, time at resi-
among the ice cliffs of the Rocky Mountains
Never was there an enterprise more ra-hly plan.
ned, or likely TO be more fru,tless in its results:
vet how much abuse was lavished upon the phi
lanthropists who at the time lifted up their voices
against the mad waste Of lite and labor which
thev were certain it would involve