Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-08
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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1926.

from highly respectable gentleman IN Nooue, lo
his friend in Washipgton-doubtles to Mr..
Calhoun himself
r.sWe have considerable talk
here about the fight OF Clay and
Randolph Randolph is CALL
ed John the Great, and cpl
thets the MOST aBUSIN Fare
heapea upon the head OF Clay"
We have reason to believe that The letter is
genuine, for we have just seen letter from the
Western part Of Tennessee that is dead match
for it. The writer says" The people in this
section Of the country are all for JACKSON;
and the rery best men among them are unanl-
NOUS in the wish, that Randolph had killed Clay"
Who doubts il? We marvel, however, that
MIR. Calhoun should suffer his agent 10 expose
the wickedness and stupidity of,his friends.
Colonel STONE, ofthe Commercial Advertiser,
forgets his grade when he presumes to speak
disrespectfuy to General DUFF GREEN OF the
Telegraph, who, besides his high R,aeal rank, is
contingent aid-de-camp, on half pay, to the Vice
President of the United States. The Colonel
says
"The hnifhorSe hajfalhsatOr editor Of the
Washington Telegraph, appears 10 be again ann
bilious OF notice from us-but these five lines
mustsufice for the present. We have no time to
devote 10 unimportant objects this evening"
HalfhOrse half alligator, is misapplied cpl
thet TO General Green. He is as slow as an
OK, and as harmless as bull-frog.
The Franklin Gazette Of Philadelphia, states
,ba, Col. DuAYE's account Of the Colombian
Republic will soon appear in volume OF more
than 500 pages 1t is already in the hands OF
the book binder. The great intelligence of the
author, and his fine style of writing, are p!edg-
es that the Work will be worthy Of public at
tcntion.
The vast importance of Gales and Seaton's
CoyGREssIoNaL REGISTER, the ability with
which it is conducted and the very moderate
price at which it is furnished to the public,
must inevitably insure it wide, and, we hope,
a profitable circulation There are few active
politicians we imagine, TO whom the work has
not recommended itself; but ii is not into the
hands Of these that it should exclusively fall.
Every intelligent citizen in Republic should
be familiar with the operations Of his govern
ment, and have the sources Of accurate intor-
nation always a, hand The great difficulties
attending the preservation OF Newspapers will
forever confne such information to few, where
as at trifing expense the Register places it
in the power of every gentleman to examine at
leisure, the course Of public men, and fern
correct Judgment as TO their fitness for the sta
ton they aspire to. We are much pleased to
find that the useful labors of Messrs. Gales *
Seaton are to become still more useful by re-
tracing the History Of Congress from the adop-
ton Of the Federal Constitution to the time
when their contemporary Register commences;
thus forming perfect REGISTER from the very
foundation Of the Government, Abiding to
this subject in yesterdays Intelligencer, they
say
"If the project receive such encouragement
as will Justify the undertaking, 1t is the inten-
ton of the Editors to retrace the History oil
Congress, aud take up the work literally qbw6e
condito, using the phrase in reference TO the pre-
scnr Constitution. The enterprise is great one:
so, indeed, is the contemporaneous Register.
The magnitude oft, however, will not discour-
age us, if the public smile upon our labors. For
the present year, other duties will prevent the
commencement Of this work But it is our full
determination 10 publish Volume |, Of the re-
mote (and almost forgotten, though rost in
strnctire and Interestingly debates, as soon as
will be consistent with other engagements-of
which, at the time, more formal and particular
notice shall be given to the pGslic."
a proposition has been submitted IN the Lee
gisature Of Massachusetts for an inquiry touch
ing the expedency of passing an act to en-
power the sclectmen and civil authority Of the
several towns in the state, to deliver the bodies
Of those who commit suicide, and those whose
deaths were caused by intemperance in the use
of spirituous liquors, into The hands of surgeons
for dissection" The Editors Of the New-York
Commercial Advertiser question the policy
Of such law, on the ground that a man who
had made up his mind TO cut his own throat,