Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-19

vacillatine. he is assuredly as firm and consist,
emf. in ali things as the major, whose pollucai
course has not been just that, which pure and
LOFTY shirt could look back upon with entire sat
isfactiOn.
ITnon the whole. cannot but think that, for
! GENERAL capacity, the proposed President anu
Cabinet would have well founded claims to mach
b;oher consideration than the incumbents. and.
in point of integrity, taken and compared IN the
anirepate. / am sure that the proper deduction
mon account of Toby, would not leave respecta-
| bic balance in their favour.
| By the bye, considering the Coryell case;
and some other matters which have been talked
of, this setting Toby against the Pennsylvania
Financier has sometihg curious about 1t. there
seems to be more than one malicious slant III 1t.
The two worthless of Columbus for instance,
cannot feel over pleasant. when Toby is brought
into the political arena. Official peculation IS
twittine subject to discourse upon direct or in
direct. before detected peculators. am by no
means sure that the Bulletin has not been hoaxed
! in this publication. The slang about federalism,
with which it was introduced, may have blinded
the Editors to the concealed sarcasms upon those
whom they thought would find compliments IN
the comparison.
-ssaaeseso-
| 4 FIRE which ..has been had'' in CORTLAND,
! Alabama. appears TO have Mimined the minds of
ITS inhabitants, and spread light abroad which
will long be remembered. 'fhe Mobile Register
saws the description of it done up in three
different modes, editorially, respondentaily,
and POLITICALLY, and fills up one side of the Her
aid. the paper published in the village. The
poetry is of the Puritanical School, and should
be preserved in Mr. kettel's "Specimens of A
merican Poetry We should mention that the
dreadful conhagration was occasioned by s. the
being burnt down. of tavern and two lawyers
offices. The editor, poet, and correspondent,
as well as the public; are much indebted to the
Mobile Register for rescuing from oblivion :. such
scintillatons of genius"
The poet, in opening his subject, begins
con Thursday night at three o'clock,
heard a monstrouS CIV,
Which gave me such sudden shock,
thought my end WAS nigh"
The Correspondent says, " this being about
the first time the appalling cry of fire was heard
in this place, the citizens promptly repaired to
the scene of coniagraion" The editor says.
''we were entirely unprepared to meet the de-
vourng element, confusion was depicted in near
ty every face" The sweet poet continues,
"rhs toling bells, the busting crowd,
Raised every feeling high,
find voices many. uttered loud,
Beneath the dGrhned sky"
The Correspondent says, ''the flames spread
with such great lapidity, that it would have been
difficult to have saved the tace if the citizens had
even been prepared for such IN, unexpected occur
renee" And the editor says, ''the bodies of the
kitchen and diary were saved by knocking off
their roofs; the smoke house was saved except a
few shingles, and the house of Messrs, A. & NJ.
smoked Oery much" Listen to the sweet poet
again:
calm hustle aud fright,
I hurried ont of door,
lad saw at otce awful sight,
And heard the fire roar.
The cry Of help, and waterloo,
Was heard al every hand,
Az were engaged except few,
Who could but only stand
"rhe gloom of night was driven back;
find siood all ga mase!ii
While on the scene both white and black,
Could but in terror gaze"
This catastrophe is supposed to be the act of an
lncendiary And the poet finally offers conso-
lation in the following strain
" But there's house not m ,dc with hands
Which none can Uverturn,
More solid than tie rock il stands
Where tire can never burn"
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