Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-14
A1ls.HSsANDla8As
MONDAY MORNING, MAY IA, 1927.

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I, is mentioned in some of the Southern pa
pers, ,ha, the health Of Mr.. Crawford, late Sc
cre,ary Of the Treasury, is nearly restored; and
that Georgia will invite him to rcpresen, her in
the Senate Of the United States.
Governor Tomlinson states, in his message
to the Legislature Of Connecticut, that the fund
for the perpetual support and encouragement Of
public or common schools in tina, state amounts
TO more than one million seuen hundred thousand
dollars, from which an annual income is derived
Of more than sevcn,y-two thousand dollars.
The Wheeling Gazette, speaking Of the late
Congressional election in that District {. Vir.
ginia, says: "We viii not refrain from express
ing our qualification and congra,ula,ing the
distric, on the resul, Of this election. MIR. Left.
Ter will make a respectable and useful Repre-
sentative; he is a decided friend of the present
administration, and the common-sense con-
s~truction Of the Federal Constitution"
Mr.. Minor, an intelligent Member of Con-
gress, and Editor of the Village Record, pub
lished at West Chester, in Pennsylvania, calcu-
lates that Mr.. Adams will get a majority Of
5000 in that Stale. He states that The chan
ges IN Chester county, which gave a prodigious
majority for General Jackson, IN 1924, are so
numerous, as not to leave dou5t, that the ma
iority at the next election will be for MIR.
Adams.
A letter from New Orleans dated Eth ul,.
mentions that a FIRE occurred in that city on the
18th, commencing in a carpenters shop, next
the residence of Madam DEsFoReEs, in ST.
| Philip street, which consumed nearly half the
square opposite the Theatre. The theatre was
also considerably injured, before the flames
were finally extinguished.
A London paper mentions, that the King OF
| Persia had demanded ofthe British Government
the fulfilment of the Treaty engagements be-
tween the two nations, by which i, was stipulat-
ed, that if either Of the contracting Parties
should be engaged in a defensive war, that the o.
thcr should afford her certain succors; and that
the British Ministers had instituted an inquiry
TO ascertain Whether Russia or Persia was the
| a~ggressor in the existing war.
\ meeting was held in GAINESVILLE, on the2a,h
ult. for the purpose of taking into consideration
a communica alton received from a committee
appointed at Marietta, TO correspond with the
~cilizens of the adjoining counties, who NAV feel
interested in the great undertaking Of the es-
adjustment Of" The Baltimore and Ohio Rail
Road" Gen. Van Horne having been called
to The chair, a preamble and several resolutions
were Adopted. The purport Of the latter were
TO express concurrence in the policy Of cutting
a canal from the Ohio 10 Lake Erie, and of con-
Meeting the Ohio with the Rail Road by means
&C. the Muskingum; 10 appoint a committee OF
seven persons to correspond with The Board of
Directors of the Rail Road Company, and to
recommend to the inhabitants interested in the
project 10 hold meetings and cooperate with
the committee in advancing the object IN view
Flncasih, Ia May 4--SETH WARD, JR.-
The Court called to examine into the charges
| against this man, was held last Tuesday lie
had been Postmaster al Big Lick Post Office
in this county, and was arrested in Lynchburg,
| and brought to this place on a charge of hav-
ing broken and robbed letters, intended 10 be
/ conveyed by mail On his examination before
the committing magistrate, the evidence was
thought sufficient 10 authorize his commitments,
and be was accordingly ordered 10 Jail, but sub
sequently admitted to bail, and has forfeited
| his recognisance. II is understood that he has
made his escape, and will probably endeavor
to leave the United States.
Extract of a letter from a Senator of the United States
to gentleman in Delaware:
81 am gratiGed TO see that the friends of the
| Adminis,ratio in Delaware are adopting the
course necessary 10 counteract the effect Of the
misrepresentation and intrigucs Of the most
unprinoipled opposition that our country, or
perhaps any other, has ever seen. The friends
| &C Nr Adams who have hitherto been LOO In.