Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-10-07
LATER FROM EUROPE.


ton papers. The rumored battle between the
forces of the con,endiug brothers, was rumor
only.
We annex the letter in question, received from
Lisbon, by an arrival at St. Johns, N. F. and
brought to Boston in HALIFAX papers to &c ult by
the Cordelia from that place. From the tenor
OF the letter we suspect the authenticity oil the
date, consequently that Of its news.
Extract of letter dated Lisbon, .7ugusf %.
During the last week the strong positions
around the City have been preparing aud fortify-
ing against any attack which the Msuelite forces
may attempt; at present little is known OF their
numbers or where they are-possiblv IN line
from San,arem to Leria, Figuelra and Col'nbra,
s.The force of Donna Maria now here. and
few leagues in advance, may be to 5000 regu-
lar troops, and l2to $4,000 others, national, CT.
ty and Volunteer corps) with about 400 cavalry,
and two parks of artillery, we are therefore not
in much apprehension Of the enemy entering the
city. Mercantile business is nearly at a stand,
without any intercourse With the Provinces or
Spain.
We have advices from Oporto of The destruc.
ton Of some IL, 600 pipes OF wine by the Miguel
lite army at Villa Nova, also Of the liberal army
having attacked the MIguelite lines-forc ed
them, and gained complete victory. so as to
leave the North side open. and report says
the south also, aud free navigation with the
Douro.
Ferdinand King of Spain is dead-Don Car
los, and his followers, are said to be on their
way from this country TO SPAIN
We find in the New York Mercantile AJver.
tiser the following annuncation of a new project
which has been started in that city
Steam Packet 10 Liverpool keel Of a
splendid steam packe, with four engines, to ply
between this port and Liverpool, will be laid tins
week. She will be OF large size; and as the
enterprise is undertaken by gentlemen OF capital.
no expense will be spared to make the experiment
in the best possible manner. SO that there can be
but little doubt Of It's success
We will not indulge ourselves in the expires.
son even of part of the ideas which rush int"
the mind in contemplating the accomplishing Mt
Of this long thought OF measure. There IS enough
before us Every day for asionishment IN the i'm
mense saving of time, and overcoming Of space
By steam navigation. Avid vet there appears to
be no end to the daring spirit Of advancement
which charaCterizes the world, and America in
particular. The Troy project of steam boat
to twenty. five miles per hour. is perhaps as ex.
traordnary as any thing now on the taps; but
it would really appear as if we should be aston.
shed at nothing; for we are credibly informed,
though it seems somewhat difficult Of belief, that
the same distance which is now comfortably ira
yelled in so or 40 hours, viz. between Boston and
Phiiade phla. was someRix,y or seventy years
since, advertised in the Boston papers as follows
-. The Philadelphia Fly.stsge, warranted
through in fourteen days"'
On Friday the Goth inst as Miss Van Buren,,
a Young lady of the Valatie was dressing her hair
10 the factory of Mr.. Baldwin, she accidentally
brought il in contact with one Of the horizontal
iron shafts which makes So revolutions the min.
ute. This shalt is square, two and half inches
in diameter, and IS placed about II inches from
the upper floor. The young lady was standing
nearly under II, facing from il, aud IN tossing
back her hair, which she had been comblng over
her face, probably without re1ectlng that the
shaft was In motion, it caught fast. aud she found
herself instantly drawn up towards it with the We
locity of lightning With an extraordinary pre-
sence of mind, she gra.ped the shaft with her
hands at the same time making violent effort to
place her feet upon it in order thai by revolving
with il she might escape dislocatiun If the neck.
ot three revolutions, but ITS velocity such as
at length to break her hold. aud she was project
ed or 10 feet from it, leaving her entire scalp
from the extremitles of the eye lids to the third
vertebrs Of the neck, fast To the shaft and revol
wing with It. She arose Immediately from the
floor and proceeded to stop one Of the looms
which she tended, while the overseer stopped the
wheel
Drs. Miller and Phillip were Immediately cal
ed, and with the assistance of such as had not
fed or tainted from fright, the scalp VAS replaced
upon the head and adjusted. and the patient con-
veyed to her room. The scene was truly fright
fui. The whole head, temple and forehead were
peeled to the bone, the blood streaming from the
small vein. and arteries her shoulders, and to
those who had seen the profusion OF beautiful
locks that formerly adorned her head, her first
appearance impressed the idea of a headless trunk.
Her presence Of mind seemed at no time to have
torsaken her. She was sitting in a chair when
her physicians arrived, and observed that the
e.ek Of her head was severely bruised, the only
inJufy which she was then, or is even now, con-
SclOuy OF hayinp receved She ia at nresent in a