Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-08-16
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1e, 1926.

WEDNESDAY, MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1926.
Extract ofa letterfom Capt Erickson the schoone
Prompt, dated VIEWPOINT August IA.
"Dear Sir: am glad to have to inform yo,
that we have succeeded in saving the greater
part of the cargo, which is now on lis way W
in vessels. We have also succeeded in stopping
all the leaks on one side of the schr. and ex
pect to finish the other side to-day; and if no
thing happens more than expect, we shall bt
able to get her ahoat tomorrow
A letter to the Editors, from gentleman in
Union county, Indiana, under date Of the 3lsi
of July, says that Mr.. Adams is rapidly gain
ing friends in that state, and ii he pursues the
course he has taken, will certainly secure the
vote Of Indiana at the next election. Great
exerIons are said TO be making by the Jack
son party TO put down Mr.. TEST, one of the
Representatives in Congress, but it is the OPT
Mon of the writer; that the effort will be abor-
tive. Calhoun, he says, is politically dead and
buried. The Congressional election through
out the state, took place on the 9Th instant
A gentleman has informed the Editor Of the
Boston Courier that THOMAS PAINE, near the
close Of his life committed to the care Of Mr..
Jefferson, to be disposed Of as Mr.. ]. should
think proper, manuscript work entitled "The
Religion of the Sun"
SIS il KNOWN asks the Editor, "whether
such a manuscript was left by Mr.. Jefferson
among his papers? and if so, what disposition
is % be made Of il?
The Central Gazette mentions the receipt, in
Charlottesville, OF tickets in the Jefferson Lot
terry, three hundred Of which were sold within
few days, and those remaining are said TO be
sought after with great avidity.
Mesrs Editors:
Gentlemen---I have been frequently struck
with the singuar-were it not sacred word
| should say absurd substitution of the term
Erangelsts, for EvangeLs: and often, when act
ing under the inestimable privilege OF Juror,
and taking the customary oath, i'll that capaci-
ty, have felt strange on being told by the Clerk
that" swear on the Holy Evangelists Of Al
mighty God"- the sacred ,criterS, not on the
sacred writings, then handed TO kiss.
To refer 10 that most excellent and profound
letter Ct the late Thomas Jefferson TO Major
Cartwright, in the PheniX Of the 10th inst The
above missioner is a kin TO that Of" ancien scrip
tws' being translated Holy Scripture there
by constituting the essential principles of le-
vealed religion parts Of the Common Law
thus Gas the deep investigating mind Of Jcffer-
son expresses iO ngulphins Bible, Testament
and ALL into the Common Law, without citing
any authority"
What authority, may be permitted to ask,
can be cited for using EUangeists for EUangeLs'
Or has 1t become, to quote again from Mr.. JET
ferson, =" the lex iegum?"-lex non sciipta---l
might add.
The above fact becomes very prominent in
peraisgs " s Of Greece;
wherein il is stated, that each of the members
gave his adhesion by pronouncing "dmsn," al,
ter hayiag kissed The EUaageliSts.
A slender anachronism.!! II.
The duties the professor Of law in the U.
University of Nightmare in successful progress
under the superintendent of Mr.. JNo. +
LoMAx. A numerous class has been already
formed, to which acquisitions are constantly
making.
1t is computed that the blacks increase
about sixty thousand year in this country,
and that the Colonization Society remove a
thousand year
II is stated that two hundred Scotch High
lander troops have recently arrived at Amherst
burg, U. c. where it is understood they are to
be stationed, and will shortly commence repair
ing old Fort Maiden.
1t is reported this morning, says the New
York Evening Post of Saturday, that Bills OF
Indictment have been found against the Off
GERS and agents of some Of the Incorporated
Companies which have lately failed in New
York.