Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-02-02
ALEXANDRIA,:
MONDAY, FEBRU.aRF 2, 1873.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT AT WASH

nesty will rcjoioe to hear that bill! was
yesterday reported, read twice and CON-
mitted, Ter the relief, ESQ it is called) but
say Tor doing justice to major general
Arthur ST. Clair. / hear that the sum
adjudged to him by the committee is
$500 dollars. IT that sum were trebled
to him it could neither recall nor atone
fer the suaarings and domestic incc'nmo'
dations which the detention from him OF
his just rights for so many years brought
upon him aud his family, ner expunge
from the character Of our past councils
one shade of the black stain their treat
ment Of this veteran has dyed into them,
ia the very grain. If it be only justice
to pay him his money now, it was injus-
tiee to refuse it to him for so many years.
l hope that this congress will continue in
the honorable course in which it has set
out Of wiping out old shames.
A message from the president brought
before the house a correspondence which
took place between the secretary of state
and Don Lais De Onis on the subject Of
Mr.. Meade; full consideration OF which
will convince every man who knows the
systematic, artful duplicIty Of the Spa
nish cabinet, that there is little to be ex.
pected Of either justice or due respect to
our country from that qualter. lam de-
lighted at perceiving clearly, neverthe.
less, that our executive, though tempe
rate, seems to be peremptory upon the
occasion. and little disposed to be bam-
bOozled much longer by his LONG EARED
MAJESTY. That aE and bis creatures
will crafty their pious malignity some
months longer by the imprisonment OF
Mr.. Meade is eyident-Don Onis' letter
does in fact, whatever seeming it may rs.
sumo, make provision for that; and |
cannO, help thinking that it is going be-
yond the privilege Of insincerity allowed
even to Spanish diplomacy, to talk OF
just intentions aud high consideration for
the United States ON the part of Ferdi-
nand. Indeed l do not see how we
could well put up with such an insu!,
upon the understanding Of our govern
ment, if Don Luis had not balanced itby
| an equal sneer at his own. For, surely,
| a more bitter gibe could not be invented
| BY the demon Of satire than dressing up
| the Spanish masisiracy in the attribute
Of 6: immaculate !turity." Never did a
dovecot more tremble at the shadow of
lowering kite-never Partisan shud-
der at the name of Robespiere more than
Spanish family at the GOmiciliary
visit, with the terrible word justicia reared
at the entry door from the hoarse throat
| Of an a ,guazil, an escribano, corregidor
or an aicalde.
A long discussion arose upon an unta-
vorable report Of the sommittee on the
petition of the pew. holders in the Monu
mental Church of Richmond, who pray
ed to have the duties RENTED on an Or
gan imported for that church. Mr.. Ty-
Ter, in support Of motion to reverse
that report, displayed eloquence at once
forcible and affecting, and possessing that
without which oratory may be argumen-
.asive but cannot be truly eloquent-l
mean feeling. He dwelt with considera-
Bile effect upon the dreadful calamity
which gave rise to the building of that
church, and pointed out cases OF much
less impressive claim, in which the same
remission had been granted-but In vain.
Though Mr.. Hopkinson, Mr.. Mercer and
MIR. Holmes lent their logic to the melton,
the house took their stand upon the stif
clay Of frugality, and Mr.. Tyler's motion
was nega,ived. Mr.. Smith Of Md. OPEN
ed a sharp pipe on domestic manu'ae.
lures, which made shocking discord with
Mr.. Tyler's music-while Mr.. Lowndes
encountered the arguers with argument.
The debate was more interesting than
some we have heard on more important