Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-05-20

as we may deem important TO our patrons.
SAMUEL B HARrER, Esq. Of this place, ar
rived at Salem the l4th inst. from Maranham.
The bill from the House Of Representatives,
authorizing the erection of Jail in the Coun-
ty of Alexandria, and Penilentiary for the
District Of Columbia, and making an appro-
priation for the same, passed the Senate OF the
United States on Thursday last.
We have received the subjoined ccrrespon-
dcnce Of the Hon. JAMES CLARKE and the Hon.
CHARLES A. WlcGLIFFE, and have the autho-
rity of the friends Of these gentlemen for say
ing, that the misunderstanding between them,
consequent on the republication Of an article
from the Western Herald, in this paper, on
the 18th instant, which drew from Mr., Wick
life his letter to US of Saturday last, has been
satisfactorily aud honorabiy explained between
the parties, as will appear by tho following let
tiers:
Representative Hall, l5M My, 1926.
SIR-In YOUR note to the editors If The Pie
nix Gazette, and published in their paper OF
this morning, you have, among other gratultous
assertions made the following the article IN
YOUR paper Of the 18th instant, taken from the
Western Herald, and the editorial comments
upon il, which YOU published a, the instance of
my colleague" sc. Will you be pleased to in
forrs me, distinctly, if you intend to assert, or
insinuate, that the editorial remarks were made
AZ nv instance or procurement
You also sav--"had not Mr. Clark thought
il necessary to his purpose" sc. wish TO
know how YOU are to be understood in using
the term " purpose. The precise meaning
Won NAV desire TO be attached 10 the word, is
somewhat ambiguous.
You have also been pleased to make the fol-
lowing remark-"l willnever forget the obliga-
lions Of private friendship, nor leave the affairs
of nv own district TO interfere with those OF
another, at the expense of the feelings OF my
colleagues" | request you TO say, 1t you IN
tend TO be understood as charging me with for
getting private friendship, or that have lett
the affairs Of my own district and have inter-
fered with those of my colleagues, at the ex-
pense Of their feelings.
In the last paragraph of your note you say
"whenever write for publication, or desire an
ar,icls 70 be published, which shall in the least
reflect upon the public or private character oil
friend or colleague, ii shall have the sanction
of my name" request YOU 10 say, distinctly,
il am to understand you as making the charge,
orinsinuating, that have ever written, or caus-
ed TO be published, that which reflected upon
the character of friend or colleague without
giving it the sanction of my name.
After the frank conversation which took
place between us few days since, it was with
unaffected surprise that read your note in the
Gazette Of this morning; nor has the surprise
been diminished in not having received from
YOU an explanation before This time, after the
promp; and candid declaration Of the editors
that the editorial comments were their own,
and made without my knowledge, and that the
paper from which The extract was taken was re-
taiued in the possession of The junior editor by
his request.
have the honor to be, Sc.
(Signed) JAMES CLARK.