Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-04-22
LANCASTER.
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL %, 1928.
UThe foreign news is very little later, and flu

There are conflicting opinions In relation to the PR
bable termination of the warlke preparations on ii
part of the Allied Powers and the Turks Som,
thing decisive will before long transpre; and II
prospect is altogether favourable to the Greeks
The two dreadful occurrences of which we give Il
particulars to-day, the overseeing of vessel
Manchester, and the falling in Of the roof of the
tire at London, excited deep and melancholy int
est in England.
07It is seldom that there is occasion to record
great number of fires as at this time. Noless tina
ten are detailed in our paper to-day, in which pr
perty to the amount of more than one hundre
thousand dollars has been destroyed. Five of thes
have occurred in this county within the last te
days. In this town, where there is no engine, to
much care cannot be exercised
FIRE IN FITcHBURG. A two-story dwelling
house, and barn, belonging to Mr.. Benjamin Snow
in Fitchburg, were burnt on Thursday morning las
Two horses and COW persisted in the flames.
HTA CARD. Beni amin Snow presents his siI
cere thanks to the engnemen and citizens OF Fltcf
burg for their spirited exertions in the preservato
of his property from destruction by fire on Thusda
morning last. April 81.
OUR SENATORS. All the returns are not yet re
ceived and it is matter of doubt whether Mr.. Bow
man is not elected. According to present intorma
ton he lacks but about 100 votes of having ma
jority.
DIVISION OF THE COUNTY. The aggregate o
the votes far as they have to our knowledge
is 70s yeas, and 9756 nays. In Mddlesex the vote
has been nearly unanimous against division.
CoNeREss. The bill for revision of the
Tariff has at length been ordered to third
reading, by vote of 100 to 81. Some of
the members hostile to it as whole, voted
in favour of it, on the principle that I" half a
loaf is better than no bread" This bill has
undergone tedious discussion, to the ex-
clusion of almost all other business. There
seems to be no prospect that the present
session of Congress will end before June.
Personal disputes continue to b. the "order
of the day." to which all other matters give
entire precedence. The papers contain
long report of very violent and indecent
alteration between Messrs. McDuffie and
Burgess, of which we shall give an account
as briefly as possible.
Mr.. McDufie stated that SANDERS had
been artfully and insidiously propagated res
pecting the report made by him as chairman
of the committee of Ways and Means. It
had been stated, he said, and the statement
had found its way from Washington to the
newspapers at distance, that the report in
question had never been submitted to the
committee as body, and adopted byit. The
statement, he said, was utterly false and un-
founded. He then alluded to another SLAM
der which he said was contained in PAM
phlet he then held in his hand This was
statement that the report was nothing
more than second edition of the celebrated
Boston report against the prohibitory sys-
tem." This imputation, Mr.. McDuffie said,
was equally destitute Of the truth and the
decorum which should characterize the Ian
guage of one gentleman in reference to
another, whether they be in or out of de-
Lucrative assembly" After some further
remarks in exculpation of himself from this
charge of plagiarism, Mr.. McDufie said he
would "leave it to the House and to the
country to determine what judgment ought
to be pronounced upon the author of an in.
situation as false as it was deliberate and
lnsidious." Mr.. Med. was proceeding tc
make further references to the report. and
to the constructions which had been put upon
1t by the author of the pamphlet, but the
Speaker decided that it was not in order to
refer to the report, it not having been refer
red to committee of the whole. The pam.
phlet above alluded to, the reader must be
informed, was speech (which, by the way
was never spoken of Mr.. Burgess, of Rhode.
island, on the Tariff. He began to SPEAK
1t, but from i'll health was obliged to stop
and as in these days speeches are yer,
scarce, ne forthwith put it into the hand O
the printer. Like man of true spirit. Mr.
Burgess was not to endure patiently the un
ceremonious treatment which his speech hac
received, feeling, as he undoubtedly did, the
same paternal affection for it as if it hat
actually and bona fide been speech. Net.
tied to the quick, he hastily accepted the
challenge, and seized on his part the weapon
which the "lutestring knight had chosen
for the combat.
- swift from his frame
Flies every twinge of fear and shame;
his courage comes, relumes his vigour,
And feels his touch the nice hair-trgger:
While near at hand his raging foe,
In LlLLestrirfz shaa4h1a Il. II