Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-12-01

landscape with the brillancy OF noon day. 4
,narins aud a cracking sound is heard like the
yashinr of hurricane. The flame, which IN
General rises to the height oftwenty Feet is seen
sinking and darling upward in spires, precisely
as the waves dish against each other, and-as the
.nray.,lies up into the air; and the whole appeas
sncc is that # a boiling and flaming sea, violently
ariiated. The progress of the fire is SO slow.
anil the heat 50 great, that every conbustible Oh
iect IA its course is consumed. Wo to the farm
rr. whose ripe cora fields extend into the pra-
,ie and who sniiers the tall grass to grow in con-
,,rt with his fences. The whole labor of the
year i, swept away in few hours. But such
accidents are comparatively unftequent. as the
preventive is simple, and easily applied"
This~iescriptiOa forcibly reminds US OF the
vivid account of burning prairie given by Coop
rr. and it will be seen that our national novelist
lost nothing il his sketch BY adhering strictly to
the reality.
IG the French Chamber of Deputies are forced
.to a condemnation OF the Ex-Ministers by the
violence or the threats OF the mob OF Paris, we
shall be willing to Weld up much of our faith IN
,he permaneucy Of the Government, and cease
q, indulge in any very sanoulne hopes OF the sta
biIity of rational liberty. Ii would be Z orlous
consummatiOn to glorious revolution, II the all
wee Of Jacqpeminot was taken. g
..Trast them said he) to the contempt of ma
tions which they have acQuired trust them. more
over 10 the gratitude OF sovereigns whose thrones
they have shaken. Let them then be ignomini-
ou,ly expelled from France, in which they are
neither worthy 10 live nor To die, and let them be
.hrown beyond our frontiers with this Label
.,Let ihe Justice Of the French peop!e pass oa.'
The sentiments Of another Deputy, on this
,nbiect. are worthy of consideration, and are
undoubtcdly correct:
:. After death shall have been inflicted, will not
people enquire whether the accused. had he lived
three months more, might not have had the honor
Of triumph: To-day, n the kennel who knows
MT that tomorrow, YOU NAV not see the same
,rmains in the Pantheons How many times
have not very slender individuals been viewed
by the people, merely account Of their san
culinary deaths, rs heroes! Let them live. say.
aud nothing will remain but the nullty vt the
individual. who. talentcss, without virtue, threw
almsef in the midst of political events he could
not command. Sentenced to detention, he Is
forgotten or despiscd; punished, he is iampooaed,
laughed at; but, rest assured, gentlemen, that
such IS never the fate of the captive or the deca-
plated. Silence is around the grave, and there
the guilty is to slumber, sheltered from insult
If France is wise, she cannot hesitate in the
course proper to be pursued.
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The Cincinnati Chronicle informs US, that
CaLEB ArwArER. Esq. proposes to publish the
results of tour from Circievile Ohio, I'd Prairie
du Chen, and from thence to W ashin@tOn City,
an 1899 Also. observations upon the Numbers,
Manners Language. Poetry. Eloquence. Music,
Dancing of the Indians, &c. also the antiquities
Of the present race, the antiquities OF the people
of Europeon origin. The antiquities OF the peo-
PIE who formerly inhabited the Western States,
and the antiquities Of the world generally: also an
account of Washington City during the session
OF Congress-the Presidential Levees, and the
Oice Seekers and their operations at the seat
OF the General Government!
The title of this work is complete antclimax,
and to descend from the Earthquakes of the
world generally to description of the ''0ifce
Seekers at the seat of the General Government"
i, somewhat on the order of the bathos. MIRA
wafer. 10 make his work complete. should have
added that his own likeness, would appear as a
ironIisplece.
Its stated. in the Pennsylvania Reporter, that
Major SrERREr RAMSEY. of Carlisle. (brother to
Congressman Ramscy,) has been appointed
Pur,cr in the Navy of the United States.
-aNS
,rcr,riRe S PGttiS0n, formerly Professor OF
tna,om> in the Medical University OF Mary
land has ben appointed professor OF An';omy and
Surgery in the University of London. in the
place Of Chas Bell resigned. MIR. Bell retains
he chair OF Physiology.
G~s>
I'm adjourned session Of the United States
Circuit Court, was held in Trenton last week,
b, Jrdses BALDWIN and RossELL. The Court
a,i,urned to meet again on the LIST of December,
v.,,n AN important question will be argued in re-
ga i 10 AN Injunction which has been moved tor,
ou 1,', uf Of Joseph Bonapartc, against the Gam
d.. aud Ambov Rail Road Company. to prevent
them from entering upon his lands, for the pur-
p.>., of their rail road, aud which involves the
cea,ti,uyioua,lty OF the law Incorporating that
company.
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lIrins.-We have received slip from the
Bl'h Inquirer Office. containing the returns OF
Votes from al the towns IN the Lincoln ConSres-
,hrns The following are