Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-07-22
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SATURDAY MORNING. JULY. %, 1926.

SATURDAY MORNING. JULY %, 1926
The National Gazette acknowledges the re-
ceipt of late Mexican advices, from which the
Editor deduces that Mr.. PopsETr would sue
coed in making good treaty with the govern
ment of Mexico, without the invidious excep-
ton which that government had so pertlnaci-
ously urged.
II was suggested some days since, in Phila-
Aelphia paper, that Robert Walsh, ESQ. might
do Justice 10 the Life Of Mr. Jefferson il his du-
ties did not interfere. To this the editor of the
Boston Statesman req les that, "RoberI Walsh,
Esq is not capable of doing justice to the life
Of JeEerson-and besides, man Of his political
conduct and principles, is the last person in the
world TO whom this trust should be committed
MIR. Jefferson, it is said, has guarded his own
fame, so dear to his coun,rymen, fro..l being
injured by either imbeciliIy or prejudice, by
leaving behind him memoir of his own life"
II is stated in the Baltimore Gazette, that the
well known defence and supper. OF Col Aaron
Burr, by Luther Martin, were gracefully re-
warded by affording him an asylum in his old
age, when enfseblcd in body, and more enfeeoed
in mind, by paralysis, with which he was az
aicted during several years at the close Of his
life.
At grand ball lately given in the city of
Paris for the benefit Of the Greeks, =" the venc-
rable General LA FAYETrE," says letter, "was
received BY the company, as father would be
amidst his children"
Jacob j. Astor, Esq. Of New York, has con-
tracted for the Ohio Canal Loan of a million Of
dollars, and gave premium on 6 per cent stock.
The Mercantile Advertiser saws that the amount
Of money offered to the Commissioners for
Stock, exceeded TWO and half millions OF dol
lars.
A Rev Nlr. Edes read the Declaration of In
dependence at Providence on the last anniver-
sary. but declared that, "as minister of the gos-
pei, be could not yield unqualified appreciation
20 all the doctrines contained in IL" The Edi-
,or of the New-York Advocate remarks, that
he parsou had certainly more sincerity than
good sense.
The following letter Fl ON respected friend
at Lexington, Ky. announces the horrible catas,
trophe which preceded the execution of the mi
serable wretch who committed the cold-blood-
ed and atrocious crime of assassinating Solo
MON p. SHARP, under the influence Of haze and
yindictiveness merely, OF which, being judged
to death by man, he has gone 10 render an &C
count 10 his God. Nat. LateH
Harrington, sh July, lS26.-Pursuant TO his
sentence, BEAucHAaP was hanged yesterday at
Frankfort, after killing his wife and attempting
to kill himself About the Time oil day at which
he was 10 be executed, he asked the guard to
allow him 10 converse with his wife alone.
The men left the room and soon heard scream
from Mrs. b. They ran back, and found her
expirinr, with two stabs in her breast, and her
husband attempting to kill himself. lie had
inflicted on himself one wound, but not NOR
tai one, when his arm was stopped by the guard,
As one knife only vas found in the Jail, il is not
certain whether Mrs b. was killed by her nus
band or by her own hand. Both Of them had
taken large portion of poison, which failed IN
is purpose, aud the knife was the last resort
"Mrs B. had been urging her husband 10 this
corrse, and promised TO accompany him IN
death, but he refused for long time. A more
desperate pair can seldom be found in any coun-
try Neither Of them believed in the Christian
religion, MOI had the least respect for religion.
Gentlemen Of great legal attainment had given
opinions that no law existed to punish murder.
and presume the prisoner expected pardon
When that failed, he returned TO hi, natural
desperate feelings write an the information
of persons arriving from Frankfort, be levins the
result of this most distressing case will be inter
esting 10 you. The circumstances may not be
correctly givcn-lhat both Btauchamp and his
wife are dead there Can be no doubt.
ANOTHER FIRE IN PETERSBURG!
We learned by passenger in the stage las.
evening from Petersburg, that another hire was
discovered Yesterday, between and II O'Clock
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