Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-07-11

THOMAS kIrcHIE, Secretary.
From The National Journal
Navy DEPARTMENT, JULY
GENERAL ORDER.
The PRESIDENT Of the United States, with the
deepest solicitude and sympathy, directs that
the death of THOMAS JEFFERSON be an.
nounced to the Navy, and the Marine Corps;
and that they unite with their felow-citizens in
manifesting their sersibiliiy at the bereavement
sustained in the departure Of this venerable
Patriarch Of the Revoluton--who is rendered
so Illusions by his talents, his virtues, his
vices, and the honors which his country bestow
ed upon him.
He. died a, Monticello about one o'clock on
the Filtieth Anniversary Of the Declaration CT
our National Independence.
Funeral honors will be paid TO him a, each
of the Navy Yards, and all public vessels in
commission, by firing tweniy-one minute guns
at g o'clock Oh the day after, this order is re.
ceived; and by wearing their Gags half mas:
for one week; and by the officers of the Navy &
Marine Corps wearing Grape on the left arm
for six months.
SAMUEL L. SOUTHARD.
The Town Meeting held in the City Hall on
Saturday,th the proceedings of which is publish
ed below, was one of the most numerous and
most respectable ever held in this city. The
long residence Of Mr. JEFFERSON here, and his
palernal care and so.icitude for our prosperity
aud future welfare, called upon the citizens, in
peculiar manner, 10 do honor 10 his memory
The meeting was attendedby the Secretaries oil
the TREAsuRy, WAR; and NAVY, and PosrMAs.
TER GENERAL, and all the principal officers Of
the Government. On this occasion the city
acted in its truly national character; and, we
have no doubt, fairly expresses the sentiments
OF the nation.
TOWN MEETING-DEATH OF JEFFERSON
IN*rsuance Of the following notice, which
had1Ren published in the several papers Of the
city, Wis
MAYeR's OFFICE, July 6, 1926.
Information having reached the City, of the
decease, on the 4th inst Of our venerable feI-
low-citizen, Thomas JEFFERSON, late President
of the United States, notice is hereby given, at
the request Of number Of citizens, that a pub
lie meeting will be held at the City Hall on Sa-
turday the 9Th inst. at O'Clock p. NJ. 10 adopt
measures to testify our respect for the services
and memory Of the illustrIous patriot and
statesman. R.C. WEIGHTMAN, Mayor
A numerous meeting ofcitizens Of Washing.
ton, and others, convened at the time & place
therein mentioned, and was organized BY call.
ing
ROGER G. WEloHTMAy, Mayor Of the City,
to the chair, and the appointment Of
SAMuL BuRcH, Secretary.
The object of The meeting having been made
known, by the reading Of the Mayors call by
the Secretary, General Jones rose
MIR. JONES, in rising TO present himself to the
meeting, expressed his regret that the task OF
leading in this mournful duty had not fallen on
one more accustomed 10 address such on as
semblage of his fellow eitizens his sensibiIitv,
however, was such that he could not iorbear
taking this public, and probably the last occa-
sion which may present itself TO him, TO ex-
pressit. He then adverted to the illustriuus
character and services OF the deceased. and
spoke OF the singular circumstance Of the time
ofhis death, at the very moment ,when his fel-
low citizens Of this city were most zealously &
feelingly engaged in endeavoring to alley late his
situation, and to smooth his passage TO the
tomb. But the day has not arrived, said Gen.
Jones to pronounce the eulogy Of Thomas Jei.
ierson. All that the most ambitious ough.
now to aspire to, is to be among.thc foremost
in expressing that grief which every bosoms in
the nation must feel for the irreparable loss it
has sustained in the death ofThomas Jefferson.
With these feelings and these sentiments, he
submitted TO the meeting preamble and res.
olutions which he had hastily thrown together,
and trusted that after receiving the amendment,
Of which he acknowledged they stood in need,
they would receive the appreciation Of The meet
ing.
"lvhen, by the death Of an individual illus,
trious for wisdom and virtue, and for life
dedicated to the cause Of bis couptry and his
species, held up as a shining light to the world
and closing its long glories 10 a felci.ous and
rare conjuncture, equally calculated to add to
lis ustre, and to sanetify the lessons of patriot
ism, public spirit and beniGcenee, of which it
had ever been the speaking ptcdpt and exam
pie: When, BY the death Of man, whose life
and death have been thus illustrated by so many
Of the rarest gifts, and by such signal manifcs
tations Of the will and design of Providence,
great communities are consentaneous!y pene-
trated by the resistless impulse of an intense
sympathy; il is no less useful than becoming for
them TO unite in public demonstrations Of their
common feelings.
Suchhave been the life and death of THO
MAS JEFFERSCN-who lived 10 be cheered