Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-12-19
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TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10. 1926.

UT. Mug, anu ~ VA. w drlny, tue Aitb NASS-
senger, is now we'll understood. Those by Mr..
King are from our Minister at London, and
relate to the pending negotiations touching our
trade with the British Colonies in America,
but give no promise of speedy adjustment
of the affair. Mr.. Warng, the Kings Mes
senger, brought with him a Convention ra-
tilted by the British Government, on the
subject of the claims of our citizens for
property taken away during the late War,
respecting which, differences of opinion
have existed between the Commissioners Sit
ting at Washington under the authority of the
two Governments. The Convention stipulates
that Great Britain shall pay specific sum, to
be distributed among the claimants at the dis
cretion Of our own Government. Should the
Convention be ratified at Washington, the Board
Of Commissioners will necessarily be dissolved;
and those who have lost their property will
soon receive an equivalent.
We published an article yesterday from
Delaware paper, giving very unfavorable ac-
count Of the condition and management OF the
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, calculated to
induce belief that work would be abandoned.
II turns out that the Directors and one OF the
contractors not being able, to settle disputed
point, an injunction was obtained by the con-
tractor, which injunction, the Philadelphia Ga
zette says is, by this time dissolved
It mas been asserted by the paper at Wash
ineton, of which Messrs Calhoun, McDuffe,
Ingham and Eaton are the editors, and Duh
Green the superintendent, that the circular OF
the Clay Committee of Correspondence, issued
in Kentucky, pending the presidential election,
was the joint production of Mr.. Clay and Mr.
Cri,tenden, and that two of The Committee.
(meaning MIR. Barry and Mr.. Rowan,) had dis
claimed any participation in the publication oil
the circular Mr. Criuenden refuted the SLAM
der against Mr.. Clay as soon as he read IT, and
has subsequently ascertained that the declara-
ton of Mes.rs. Barry and Rowan is as far from
the fact as the charge Of Mr.. Clay's having writ
Ten the circular address. Mr.. Crirenden says,
81 have received Information, OF the correct
9ness of which cannot doub:, that after the
"circular above alluded to was placed In the
Stands of the printsrs, Messrs. William T..
Barry and John Rowan, who happened casu-
"ally at Frankfort, called at the printing-ofice,
and affixed their own signatures to II before II
twas published. was before ignorant OF this
circumstance, and had supposed that :heir
anames had been affixed by my authority as a
"bove stated"
Mr.. Ineham's attempt TO get into the Senate
Of the United States will be productive OF one
good effect, at least; it will be the means OF de-
yeloping his real character, and thereby giving
the American people an opportunity of forming
a lust estimate of the views and principles OF
an opposition which owns SAMUEL d. lNeHAM
as an ornament, if not as leader. Scarcely
respectable paper reaches US from Pennsylva-
MIA, that this restless, and presumptuous asPi-
rant is not exhibited in his true colors: and the
good tendency of the exposure is manifested oy
the ever memorable fact that In the late election
for a Senator, he had but eleUen friends al the
second ballot, after having Aa,tered himself
with the hope of a unanimous vote. YeS-as
eeuen is to one hundred and tsoenty eight so is the
political integrity OF SAMUEL D. INGHAM to that
winch FennSyiHanid requires 'S"aNSA ~ -
sess. We cannot spare the room Tor all that
the papers Of his own State say about him, and
must therefore content ourselves with an, ex-
sract now and then. We take one for the pre-
sent from the Mercer Gazette, whose Editor
processes to be we'll acquainted with the polltl-
cal life of our hero, and declares that that ac-
ouaintance has created feeling no: much to
his advantage
sThe evidence respecting him, strongly en-
senforces belief that he IS chansea6!e and ua-
certain politician, evincing better title to the
shame Of an ambitious designing office hunter, than
*to that of very valuable officer.
"He has always been considered the head Of A
SLITTLE WORTHLESS FACTION, aohich
"has more than once succeeded so far, as TO do the
@peopls injury and defeat their 'cishes.
"It is no secre, in this state, thai Mr.. lngham
ais the tool, or cats pa,c in the hand OF the most