Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-01-16

was not known how the fire originated.
The New York Evening Post has received a
packet Of letters from the frigate Potomac-theu
at Canton. Having been long on their way. the
principal items Of news had been anticipated
One Of these letters gives = statement in detail
Of the whole length Of the voyage by the Poto-
mac, from New York to Canton, and the tims
occupied 10 making il. The result is thus sum-
med up:
Thus the total distance sailed by the Potomac,
from her leaving New York to her reaching Can
ton. is 81, go miles, which, divided BY the oum-
Der Of DAYS actually at sea, (one hundred and
nj nety-siI) gives upwards Of 225 miles as her
average daily run.
One Of the above letters also mentions the
death Of K. G. Oliver, Esq , of Boston, private
secretary to Commodore Downs. 1t took place
on the 1st of May. on board The Potomac; and
the letter records, in connection with it, an in
stance Of that ready ~liberality which distinguish.
es the character Of seamen. 1t is stated that.
..Mr. Oliver died of an ~affectian of the lungs,
from which he had suffered for a long time, and
in the hope Of recovery from which he had been
induced to come among us. His body was com
mitted to the deep on the second Of May; after
which a voluntary subscription, amounting to
nearly three thousand dollars. was immediately
raised among the officers and crew OF the Poto-
mac in behalf Of the family Of The deceased, re-
presented as having been dependent upon him
for support. The subscription is only remark
able from the fact, that, owing to the nature
of the situation occupied By Mr. Oliver on board
the ship, aud 10 the delicacy of his health, but
Tav, kpou thinn mnrp OT hin, than his name.
Fires m Boston m The past year-The Boston
Transcript states, that the number Of fires aud
alarms in that CITY between January 6 and De.
cember slst, 1882. inclusive, was as follows:
FIRES So; estimated loss $50, 562 "a; insur-
ance $50, 448 S4. False alarms 60, Fires and
alarms out Of the city, at which the FIRE De-
~partment were turned out, 10; estimated loss
SIS, $50; insurance $4,000; making in all ios
turns out.
1852, from January 81 to December 5lst in
elusive. there were 25 fires; estimated loss
$50, 0l5; insurance Sl7,570; false alarms 49,
oniv As turns out.
Salem Stean, Coach C~onapany.-We mention
ed a few DAYS since, a report that a line of steam
coaches was to be established between Boston
and Salem, 10 run on the turnpike. The Boston
Traveller confirms the report, and states that
there will be five or six carrIages;each to contain
from 90 to 80 passengers. The trip is intended
to be perforated in all hour, being one half OF the
time ia which the mail stages now run from city
to city. If successful, the line will be continued
to Portland.
FROM the latest information from the Seat of
government Of North Carolina, it seemed pro-
bable that a bill would pass the Legislature to in
corporate a State Bank with a capital Of Two
Millions of Dollars; one half of the capital thereof
TO be owned by the State. Such a Bank would
no more than supply the vacuum occasioned by
the wiudiog-up Of the present Bank of that State,
now in progress.
At the latest accounts a bill was depending in
the Legislature Of the State Of Ohio, for incorporat-
ing a State Bank with a capital OF Seven Mil.
lions OF Dollars.
Henry Ecktord The National lnteiIigencer
publishes an extract Of u letter to a Member OF
Congress, in which it is said of our enterprising
fellow-citizen, Henry Ecktord, Esq, that he is
still busy in the Sultan's Navy Yard; and that
- with his characteristic energy, he has
ed three seventy -fours. and one very large line
of.battie ship of the highest rate. The Sultan
has presented him with his own hand. Cashmere
ShawIs Of great price, and a gold snuffbo1 set
with diamonds"
Suicite Not less than forty females had
thrown yes into the London dock within
the three months preceding October last, IN con-
sequence of their suftrings brought on BY their
own laxity Of morals, and their desertiou by their
para,nours.
Dr.. David Ramsey, IN the second volume Of
his History. says
..The Act Of Independence did not hold out
to the world thirteen sovereign States, but a
common Sovereignty Of the whole, in their united
capacity"