Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-01-27


state, that the Spanish Royalsts were in pos.
session of Lima on the 18th Of September.
Such is the laudable rage in the north fol-
internal improvement, that a proposition is
now under consideration in Boston to extend
the New-York Canal to the harbor of that city.
The bill which had passed the Senate OF
Kentucky, for making Canal at the falls OF
Ohio, out the state resources, has failed in
the lower house. IN act has been passed,
however, incorporating Company for the
same object, and it is thought that the stock
viii be the most valuable of its kind, in this or
any other country.
A clergyman of New York, who was
member ofthe Legislature, Prayedth e"Amigh-
ty that the government Of that state might be
delivered from the reproach of partially and
injustice by which the general government had
been degraded, and that recently, in making
large donation to a foreigner, whilst the claims
ofour countymen, who fought for indepen-
dence, vet cried from the ground"
II is almost unnecessary to state that the
worthy gentleman was ousted.
Mr.. Smith, of New.York, an active fireman,
has Invented Ffre-Mask upon the principle
of Sir Humphrey Davy's Safety Lamp. It's
made of wire ganze, and intended to enable
the 6remen to approach the fire without dan
ger of scorching the face.
The aLrscusuRs vIReINrAS" has passed
into New hands; but its present Editors assure
the public, that, its political aspect will UNI
dergo no change. In constitutional doc
trines, aud in itsfeeIngs towards 'fhe ten miles
square, 1" that aspect is the reflected image OF
the Rieamoad Enquirer. But IN another
light, we discover feature as different from
any in the "aspect" of the Enquirer, as the
political creed of the able Editor ofthat paper
is from the frank and liberal policy OF "the
last oforrevoutionary patriots" We aliude
to the respective sentiments Of the ES0uIRKa
and the vIasISIAS, on the late personal and
interesting message of our distinguished chief
magistrate. While Mr.. Ritchie's remarks are
calculated to wound the honor of his country;
to tarnish the hstre of one of Virginia's bright
est Jewels; and to add feather to the load OF
persecution which the relentless collector Of
vidow's pensions has sought to heap upon the
best of men-those of the virginian, which
we copy below, pour healing balm into the
wound; discover a magnanimity and pride
worthy of its State, and echo the applauding
voice of Just and grateful nation,
MIR. MONROE.
The proceedings Of Congress begin to as
sumo an interesting aspect. We have barely
room to-day to select from their proceedings,
the interesting message from the pen of Mr..
Monroe, in which he sohcits, at the close OF his
public labors, q rigid investigation OF his &C
counts with the government, and intmates
that on some occasions, pecuniary justice has
been withheld from him. II is well known
that Mr.. Monroe is poor-that he will retire
from Office with but few if any of its surplus
crumbs-loaded with nothing but honor, and
the benedictions of the country he has so long
and so faithfully served. Shall it be So
ought it to be so-if, for any services, he re
NAMED unpaid Even if the government be
not indebted to him, shall it be said, now, when
we are striving to overthrow by our extensive
Iberality to La Fayette, that ancient maxim
that "Repu6Kcs are ungratefuL" that one
who fought and bled with him in the same
glorious contest, had his old age rendered
miserable by the petty tyrannics which it is al
ways in the power of the merciless creditor to
infiict on the dehtorl Justice sense of
what Is due to our national character-every
consideration which can enlist our sympa-
thies or excite our feehngs-cal upon the
Congress of the United States to shield from
calamity and distress the declining years Of
one of our first, steadfast and noblest patriots.
let him not go down to the "house of the
dead" unrewarded for the great services
which he rendered his country in that event
full conflict, in which, like thousands Of other
noble spirits, he ssfeshed his maiden sword,
At the very moment we are profusely heaping
our S0OStduloS SfduluoC Vu tAS 1oS6hSA "AA~
fought by his side, and gathered IN the same
bloody fields. unfading garlands ofrenown.
The western country, We. are afraid, IS not
farther ahead of US in the natural fertility of
its soil, and its rapid progress in physical i'm
proyement, than its citizens are in their sound
and liberal views Of natilAalpoGcy. The pro-
position to subscribe 100000 dollars to the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal met but three
dissenting voices from the western delegation,
while less than half that sum had very nearly
been denied to the extension of She Cumber-
land Road, by the persevering, and almost uni
ted opposition Of the Atlantic States. For
that part of the opposition which sprung from
constitutional scruples, or from habitual radical
ism. we were prepared We knew its strength,
and felt no apprehension of its success. But
by the opposition from another quarter, we
confess we were at once surprised, alarmed
and mortified. We never expectedto have
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