Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-05-12


Senate, anc. will be passed to-day. No altera-
ton has been made. The Bill TO secure the
more eFectual collection Of the Clerks fees In
the County of Alexandra, was twice read and
referred TO the Judiciary Committee.
The Bill for the relief of JAMES MONROE, late
President of the United States, was yesterday
passed through Committee OF the Whole, IN
the House of Representatives, and will be ia
ken up in the House to-day. 1t will be remem-
bered that this bill allows Mr.. Monroe about
$4,000, withheld from him in the settlement
of his accounts with the Government. There
can be very little doubt that the allowance VIII
be made.
The New York Jsfsrson Committee has been
enlarged to about three hundred members, who,
in the respective Wards, will call on the citi-
zens and afford each one an opportunity OF con-
,ributing 10 The relief of the venerable author
of the greatest State Paper on record. The
means TO be raised in New-York and else
where, will be applied to the purchase of all the
tickets in the lottery authorized by the State of
Virginia. II will rest then with the holders of
the tickets, to claim or abandon the prizes as
they may think proper. To course like this,
Mr. Jefferson has no right to object. The tick
cts are in market; and he that will--may buy.
When the prizes are demanded, Mr.. Jefferson
must comply with the terms Of his Scheme; and
until then he cannot divest himself Of the pro-
perry in any manner whatever.
IL there be any who are not convinced OF the
unftness Of M DIFF Green to manage public
Journal, let them read the following articles
from the National Journal of yesterday His
unprircipled attacks upon the Editors and Re-
.porters of the Washington papers, as well as
upon the Editors of this Gazette, begin 10 re-
coil upon himself A few monthssnore, and if
his employers do not shake him of, we will
forfeit all pcetentions to knowledge of their
movements.
From the National Journal.
We do not feel ourselves called upon to add
much to the observations contained in the fol-
lowing Card Of four Reporter, which would have
appeared several days ago but for the press ct
Congressional matter, which has for some time
pas, excluded almost every thing else from our
columns We have no desire to be drawn into
a conflict with the Telegraph: its love Of Sian,
der, its contempt Of truth, and is tendency 10
abusiveness satisfy US Of the folly of anv effort
TO disarm It's editor by temperance, faer, and
ARGUMENT, and these are the only weapons We
can consent to use. The editor Of that paper.
therefore, is welcome to all the laurels which he
can gather in a field where no antagonist appears
10 dispute their possession We can smile at
his absurdities, we can feel surprise that the
blindness'of a fanatic zeal can be so perfect and
incurable, we can pity his constant alterations
from candour and decency, but he can inAict
no other pain upon US than that which naturally
arises from the contemplation of every extra
ordinary deforrnity, whether in the realm OF
mind or Of matter.
A CARD.
The Reporter for the National Journal owes
il to himself TO make brief remark on the man.
ner in which he has been, more than once,
brouch, before the few individuals who read the
Telegraph newspaper. by the Editor OF that
journal. Accident has thrown the person who
edits the Telegraph and the Reporter for the
Journal into the same boarding house, where,
at a common table, under the implied sanctity
which every gentleman acquainted with the
courtesies Of social life will admit protects the
conversation Of the House, free and friendly
interchange Of opinions and statements usually
takes place. The only authority which the
Editor Of the Telegraph could have obtained for
his assertions, that concert existed between the
Journal and the lntelligencer, must have been an
expression of the Reporter that he has compar-
ed his notes with those Of the Reporter of the
Intelligeucer, in order to guard against error:
and as for the suppression of the Report, it is
clear enough to all who read the debates, that
the Reports Of the debate on the Constitu-
tonal question have not yet reached the time at
which the remarks and rejoinders OF Mr.. rim
BILE and Mr.. McDuFFIE took place. 10 have
published these remarks and rejoinders om Of
Mace might have subjected the Journal to a
charge of design, or both papers to an imputa-
ton Of concert. The Reporter for the Joul-
nal will only add, that none but devoted parti-
san, ignorant Of the common courtesies OF life,
or conscious that only by desperate means can a
desperate cause be sustained, would CLEAN from
the breakfast table such parts of private con-
versation us he can disiort to subserve the pur-
poses Of his party, and make them the text
from which to discourse apt essays to his Gre
dulous readers. II is an offence contra 6onos
nlores, ii is heresy in morals, and cannot be